Humbugardy: Literary Baseball for 300
2005-08-11 12:19
This is Humbugardy. I’m your host, Alex Scorebard.
This poet was referring to men with brooms, not bats, when he innocently sang, “down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run”.
| Bravery | Haiku Trades | Same School | “Tools” of Ignorance | Literary Baseball | Ballpark Franks |
| 100 | Derek Smart | Jen | Baby Maddux | Humma Kavula | metfaninalaska |
| Baby Maddux | 200 | 200 | Cliff Corcoran | 200 | 200 |
| 300 | 300 | 300 | For The Turnstiles | … | 300 |
| 400 | 400 | 400 | Bob Timmerman | 400 | 400 |
| 500 | 500 | 500 | Shaun P | 500 | 500 |
Note: Using the web to search is cheating…you gotta know (or guess) off the top of your head.
1. Who is Robert Frost? (a shot in the dark?)
2. Dick van Dyke?
3. Sam took my answer.
4. Dick van Dyke. I love it! It's wrong, but I love it.
5. Frost is a better guess, but that's wrong, too.
6. Annie Savoy: "William Blake."
Crash Davis: "William Blake?"
Annie Savoy: "Yes, William Blake!"
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Ryan Wilkins: Who is William Blake?
7. If it is illegal to search the web, is using other reference sources okay?
(Who is Walt Whitman?)
8. Well presented Ryan!
9. Ryan Wilkins.
Ryan Wilkins?
Yes, Ryan Wilkins!
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Ryan Wilkins: The board is yours.
10. Oh goodie. Let's ride this one out, Alex. Gimme Literary Baseball for 400!
11. Graciebarn, no, you can't look it up, this is a quiz show, fercryinoutloud. As it says above "you gotta know (or guess) off the top of your head."