Trash Quizbowl Packet Archive

 1. Jeb Lund was among the many who were horrified that this guy ate peanut butter between slices of American cheese. In an oral history of the “go fuck yourself” tweet, Barry Petchesky claimed that Deadspin’s beefs with Donald Trump were that “he was an asshole in general” and that he “forgot” this guy, then a senior at Columbia. This guy tweeted a list of 16 baseball players he wrote down when he was 11, which inspired David Roth to start remembering guys. This guy joined Sports Illustrated shortly after he and Tim Burke reported on the Lennay Kekua story. For 10 points, remember this former Deadspin guy who co-authored the “Manti Te’o’s fake girlfriend” story?ANSWER: Jack Dickey 2. In 2015, this was the only guy on the Hall of Fame ballot with at least 50 bWAR who did not receive any votes. This guy was traded for Ricardo Rincón to end the first phase of his career, which, like the pre-breakout years of Jeromy Burnitz and Richie Sexson, involved languishing on the stacked mid-1990s Indians’ bench; he was later traded for Oliver Perez to his hometown team where he teamed up with his brother in 2007. This guy’s best year was 2002, when he finished second in baseball to Barry Bonds in walks and OBP. For 10 points, remember this guy, the brother of a second baseman named Marcus and underrated left fielder for the Pirates and Padres in the mid-2000s?ANSWER: Brian Giles [or Brian Stephen Giles] 3. This guy was flattered by “Ben-Dawg” and “Dustball’s” parody of Kris Kross’s “Jump” that referenced his name. This guy, and the guy he was most relevant as a backup to, were separately traded to Charlotte, where this guy had the lowest PPG on the historically awful 2011-2012 Bobcats. This guy, who was the fourth high school player taken in the Kwame Brown draft of 2001, made most of his career earnings on an absurd five-year contract with a team that previously traded him away as an expiring contract in the Jason Kidd deal. For 10 points, remember this guy, a center best known, if at all, for backing up Erick Dampier on the mid-2000s Mavericks and for being from Senegal?ANSWER: DeSagana Diop [or DeSagana N’gagne Diop] 4. In this guy’s best season, he threw for 299 yards and 4 TDs in a 37-36 comeback against the Cowboys after earning a starting job by coming on in relief to get a 26-26 comeback tie against the Vikings. After signing a big free agent deal, this guy was beaten out for the starting job by a rookie third rounder. After a Week 17 game against the Lions in 2012, the Seahawks signed this guy to a big contract and then decided to start Russell Wilson, meaning this guy made $19 million to start 5 career games. For 10 points, remember this guy who set franchise records in his best game with 480 yards and 6 touchdowns, and thus holds those Packers records over Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers? ANSWER: Matt Flynn [or Matthew Clayton Flynn] 5. Only Kris Dunn, Troy Bell, Chris Mullin, Patrick Ewing, Rip Hamilton, and this guy have been Big East Player of the Year twice. After eight NBA seasons in which he averaged 13 points and 9 rebounds in 31 minutes, this guy, then just 30, was traded to the Nets and never averaged more than 20 minutes again. Among the top 100 players on the all-time rebounding percentage list, only Kevin Love and this guy have made at least 600 threes. This guy was traded for Stephen Jackson and Al Harrington, splitting his years of being pretty good for the Pacers and Warriors. For 10 points, remember this oafish big white guy who, as his extremely Irish name suggests, went to Notre Dame?ANSWER: Troy Murphy [or Troy Brandon Murphy] 6. This guy’s dad was watching him play in MLB in person for the first time when a throw that skipped by Jarrod Saltalamacchia allowed this guy to score standing up on the first inside-the-park homer at Fenway by a member of his team. Eight days after hitting an 8th-inning, bases-clearing double, this guy hit a walk-off single on to give his team a 4-3 win on the season’s final day. Both of those clutch hits by this guy off Jonathan Papelbon ensured that an Evan Longoria walk-off clinched a playoff spot for the Rays. For 10 points, remember this utility guy for the Orioles who almost singlehandedly prevented the Red Sox from winning the Wild Card at the crazy end of the 2011 season?ANSWER: Robert Andino [or Robert Lazaro Andino] 7. This guy attended Miami Christian High School, where he was compared to alumnus J. J. Barea. This guy was named his conference’s defensive player of the year despite standing just 5’8” and being the lightest player in DI basketball. Under coach Ryan Odom, this backcourt mate of Jairus Lyles had his team’s only two steals and played tough defense on Kyle Guy in a victory that made his team just the fourth to notch a NCAA Tournament win out of the America East Conference. For 10 points, remember this tiny Puerto Rican point guard who helped UMBC get its 16-1 upset over UVa, known in quizbowl by reference to a former Cavs guard and everywhere else as “K. J.”?ANSWER: K. J. Maura [or Kevin Maura; accept Delonte East] 8. In 2013, this guy said he would’ve “cut off both [his] balls” to play with Jay Cutler after he was named his team’s worst-ever draft pick. In 2007, this guy’s final attempt at a comeback ended when the Chiefs signed and immediately cut Amani Toomer, who is also ahead of this guy on his alma mater’s all-time receptions list. This was the first guy taken at receiver in a draft in which other first rounders included Koren Robinson and Freddie Mitchell. After taking a $7.3 million bonus, this guy repeatedly failed to beat out Dez White and Marty Booker for playing time. For 10 points, remember this guy, a terrible wideout taken 8th overall in 2001 out of Michigan by the Bears?ANSWER: David Terrell 9. From 2001-10, only this guy and Nikolai Khabibulin kept a scoreless period in an NHL All Star Game. This guy made a historically good glove save on a Brad Richards shot in the 2008 Western Conference Finals. After replacing an injured Steve Shields, this guy won the Calder Trophy in 2001. In 2013, Martin Brodeur matched this guy’s 2002 feat of scoring on a power play from goal. In a tortured comparison based on this guy’s name, the New York Times asked him his thoughts on the purple prose of a former soccer goalkeeper at Cambridge. For 10 points, remember this guy, a Sharks goalie from Kazakhstan who is not to be confused with the author of Speak, Memory?ANSWER: Evgeni Nabokov [or Evgeni Viktorovich Nabokov] 10. This guy was cut from his first team despite a breakout 1,000-yard season in 1995 because that team had to pay top draft pick Simeon Rice. This guy’s career was interrupted by a horrible ankle break suffered against the Falcons in the 1999 playoffs. The PFWA named this guy Comeback Player of the Year twice, but the AP gave him that award just once, in 2001, after he missed two seasons and became the first NFL player to return from avascular necrosis. This guy broke a franchise single-season rushing record held by Roger Craig that was later broken by Frank Gore. For 10 points, remember this guy who was a good running back on the late Steve Young 49ers?ANSWER: Garrison Hearst [or Gerard Garrison Hearst] 11. In this guy’s breakout second season in 1996-97, he hit a leaning, double-pump buzzer beater to beat the Cavs 76-74 in the middle of his team’s 14-road-game winning streak to start the season. This guy, whose early success came in a timeshare with post-Suns Dan Majerle, was later the leading scorer over Melo in the latter’s first playoff series; that same year, this guy won the three-point contest. Counting games vacated in the Clem Haskins scandal, this guard tops his alma mater’s all-time scoring list over Mychal Thompson. For 10 points, remember this Heat and Nuggets scoring guard whose NBA career spanned 1995-2006 after he went to the University of Minnesota?ANSWER: Voshon Lenard [or Voshon Kelan Lenard] 12. On May 30, 2006, this guy dropped a routine popup against the Angels, and the blogosphere erupted with cries to end the exile in triple-A Rochester of this guy’s main roster competition, Jason Bartlett. This guy played exactly one game for the Dodgers in 2010; the year before, with the Phillies, he fielded the final out in Roy Halladay’s perfect game. This guy, who has the worst bWAR of any position player who played in the 2000s, was consistently rated the worst player of all time in Baseball Reference’s now-defunct ELO rankings. For 10 points, remember this worthless shortstop who played an inexplicable 16 years, mostly with the Dodgers and Reds?ANSWER: Juan Castro [or Juan Gabriel Castro] 13. This guy threw two 40+ yard touchdown passes to Kenny Jackson en route to winning a 1981 rivalry game 48-14. This guy’s NFL career ended with him serving for two years as guy-par-excellence Bubby Brister’s backup. Since 2006, this guy has worked with Mike Patrick, Brad Nessler, Joe Tessitore, and Sean McDonough as the primary color commentator for College Football Saturday Primetime. Before Patrick Mahomes, this guy was the most recent quarterback drafted by the Chiefs to throw a touchdown for the Chiefs. For 10 points, remember this guy who was a good Penn State quarterback in the early 1980s and is now an ESPN college football commentator?ANSWER: Todd Blackledge [or Todd Alan Blackledge] 14. This guy, whose last pro team was in Perth and shares its nickname with her most notable WNBA team, was drafted immediately after Nicole Powell. Before dating this guy, a man tweeted that “maybe I need a basketball playing girlfriend” and asked “where r u [her name],” which was surprisingly not a reference to this guy. This former National Defensive Player of the Year at UVa was traded for Renee Montgomery five years after going 2nd overall to Minnesota. For 10 points, remember this guy, a backup point guard on two Lynx championship teams who has the same first and last name as the protagonist of Love & Basketball and was briefly engaged to Kevin Durant?ANSWER: Monica Wright [or Monica Ashante Wright]15. This is by far the least famous guy on a list of the “100 funniest athletes,” apparently on the strength of his habit of making cross-eyed faces at the camera from the bench. In 2010, this guy was traded with Vince Carter and Marcin Gortat in the deal in which Orlando reacquired Hedo Turkoglu. This swingman, who was the Warriors’ lottery pick in the stacked 2003 draft, had his most relevant season mostly coming off the bench as one of the interchangeable three-point shooters on the 2008-09 finalist Magic team. For 10 points, remember this guy who, like his brother Florent, is one of the most notable basketball players from the French department of Guadeloupe?ANSWER: Micka?l Piétrus [or Micka?l Marvin Soriano Piétrus] 16. This guy was nicknamed “the Cockroach” for bouncing back from the five elbow surgeries he underwent. When Wilson Betemit, Matt Kemp, and this guy hit homers on three consecutive John Maine pitches, he became the first player from his country to hit a Major League homer and unleashed a righteous bat flip in the process. In 2010, this guy set a record by retiring 36 consecutive lefties, led MLB in relief ERA for the second time in three years, became the first player from his country to make the All Star team, and temporarily replaced Jonathan Broxton as his team’s closer. For 10 points, remember this guy, a flamethrowing lefty for the Dodgers who hailed from Taiwan?ANSWER: Hong-Chih Kuo 17. This guy caught on with the Cowboys because of their success with Alonzo Spellman and had a pretty good season in 2000 with 4 sacks and 14 pressures. The team that drafted this guy ignored warnings from his Michigan State coaches. Wiki claims that, during this guy’s short stint with the Dolphins, there were “multiple times during team meetings” when he “was found not taking notes, but instead writing about the apocalypse.” This guy was forced to repay his draft bonus when he almost immediately left the team that drafted him 29th overall in 1999. For 10 points, remember this guy, a defensive end drafted by the Vikings whose career was derailed by bipolar disorder?ANSWER: Dimitrius Underwood [or Dimitrius Paul Underwood] 18. At the 2002 FIBA World Championship, this guy was exiled for, as Wiki ambiguously puts it, “eating a banana while [his coach] was giving instructions,” which led his coach to order another player to wear this guy’s jersey and claim his gold medal. The New York Times reported that this guy was in the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s productions of The Nutcracker in 2004-05 while a sixth man on the Sonics. Adam Morrison owes his two NBA titles to the fact that this guy was traded to Charlotte after souring his relationship with the Lakers by lying about a snowboarding injury. For 10 points, remember this ethnic Serb who was 6’10”, shot a lot of threes, and was known as “Vlad Rad”?ANSWER: Vladimir Radmanovi? 19. This guy and Paul Dejongh were featured on America’s Most Wanted after fleeing an apartment covered in “satanic anti-police graffiti.” Murray Chass praised a team for “addition by subtraction” in a column arguing that this non-pitcher was a de facto part of a trade that netted Jorge Julio and John Maine. This guy, who made waves by dressing in a provocative Santa Claus costume at a team Christmas party and having sex in the stadium parking lot, also posed topless in Penthouse and went on Howard Stern to threaten to sleep with the entire Mets organization. For 10 points, remember this guy, a mid-2000s sex symbol incongruously married to the nerdy pitcher Kris?ANSWER: Anna Benson [accept Anna Adams or Anna Warren; accept Kris Benson’s wife or similar answers] 20. On Deadspin, this was the very first guy remembered in the very first “Let’s Remember Some Guys” post. After this guy was traded for Chris Snelling and Emiliano Fruto, he spent his last two seasons as a light-hitting DH for the Mariners. This guy had basically the exact same career numbers as, but is about six years younger than, fellow Puerto Rican Carlos Baerga, who was his primary backup on the 2005 Nationals. From 1999-2004, this guy slashed .313/.374/.489, made three All Star teams, and won a Silver Slugger while forming a middle-infield combo with pre-Angels Orlando Cabrera. For 10 points, remember this guy who was a good second baseman for the Expos?ANSWER: José Vidro [or José Angel Vidro] 21. In this guy’s last season, he didn’t play at all in the playoffs and was the lowest-scoring guard on the Cavs team that LeBron dragged to the 2007 Finals. This guy, the cousin of NBA player Michael Dickerson, is the second in career scoring among undrafted players behind Moses Malone. This Baylor alumnus, who is the current color analyst for the Pelicans, was acquitted of racing but convicted of reckless driving after the 2000 accident that killed his teammate Bobby Phills. This guy’s best seasons came alongside P. J. Brown, Jamal Mashburn, and backcourt mate Baron Davis. For 10 points, remember this guy, a pretty good shooting guard for the 2000s Hornets?ANSWER: David Wesley [or David Barakau Wesley] 22. This guy played a player known only as “Ruiz” as the most prominent MLBer to appear in For the Love of the Game, which came out exactly a month before his 9th-inning playoff grand slam off of Rod Beck. In the trade that brought Jake Westbrook to Cleveland, this guy was dealt for his much better replacement. Batting 9th twice and 7th once, this guy punished a World Series opponent that had tried and failed to get him in the Hideki Irabu deal. Before he was traded for David Justice, this guy reached base in 8 of 13 plate appearances in a World Series sweep. For 10 points, remember this guy, a mediocre Yankees outfielder who dominated the Padres in the 1998 World Series?ANSWER: Ricky Ledée [or Ricardo Alberto Ledée] 23. The list of receivers with a season of at least 1,100 yards and 2 or fewer receiving TDs is Art Monk, Keyshawn Johnson, Antonio Brown, and this guy. This guy’s last career game was Super Bowl 50, where he had three drops for the Panthers, who had signed him a year earlier to replace Steve Smith. After breaking school records set by Torry Holt, this NC State alum was drafted by a team where he got his first regular playing time because of an injury to Wayne Chrebet and often lined up alongside Laveranues Coles. For 10 points, remember this guy, a quintessential bye-week fantasy replacement for the Jets from 2004-10 whose name suggests a vulnerability to biblical trumpets?ANSWER: Jerricho Cotchery 24. This guy was wearing the #5 shirt and captaining his side when his goal in the first replay forced the League Cup final into a second replay for the only time. This center back, who scored that legendary 40-yard strike in the League Cup, had a cousin of the same last name, Jimmy, who was a longtime Manchester United fullback. In this guy’s longest coaching stint, from from 1985-1991, he presided over the rise of Matthew Le Tissier at Southampton. For 10 points, remember this Aston Villa, Southampton, and Northern Ireland center back who notoriously scored all four goals in a 1976 game against Leicester City that ended in a 2-2 draw?ANSWER: Chris Nicholl [or Christopher John Nicholl]25. This guy was traded to the Suns for Sebastian Telfair when immigration issues prevented him from reporting to Toronto after he was a part of the trade that sent Rudy Gay to the Raptors. This guy declared for the 2004 draft but was not signed in the NBA until he led the 2008 Olympics in blocks and rebounds per game. This guy was on his first team, the Grizzlies, when the beginning of a game with the Kings took on geopolitical implications because he shared a friendly handshake with Omri Casspi. For 10 points, remember this guy, surely the only NBA player ever to have starred in a TV epic based on the life of the Shia revolutionary al-Mukhtar, and the first Iranian NBA player?ANSWER: Hamed Haddadi [or Hamed Ehdadi Haddadi]26. This guy went to the Diamondbacks from the Red Sox with the third pick in the 1997 expansion draft. This guy was picked off after he stopped between third and home on a grounder he definitely should have scored on in Game 3 of the 2004 World Series, which he started and lost. After three solid years with the Cardinals, this guy signed a big four-year deal with the Brewers in 2007 and was terrible. This guy, who was MVP of the 2006 NLCS, is sandwiched chronologically between Kevin Appier and Gil Meche on the list of guys who have started three straight opening days for the Royals. For 10 points, remember this guy, a mediocre righty who was nicknamed “Soup”?ANSWER: Jeff Suppan [or Jeffrey Scott Suppan]27. This guy was fitted with a heart monitor that demonstrated that his heart rate rose to 170 bpm near the end of a 1982 upset of Patrick Ewing’s Georgetown team. This guy, who coached American University for most of the 1980s, spent most of the 1990s as a front office architect of the Knicks. This guy, the 39th worst coach in NBA history by win percentage, was the namesake of a team that finished tied for last in the “Down” playoff bracket with a team named after Bob Staak. For 10 points, remember this guy, the namesake of Jay Misuk’s team at CO Trash 2018, who went 18-53 as interim Wizards coach in 2009 between the terms of Eddie Jordan and Flip Saunders?ANSWER: Ed Tapscott28. On the most notable play of this guy’s career, Cris Collinsworth said he got “forklifted” by a defensive lineman just like “Reggie White used to do.” This guy made his first and only Pro Bowl, ironically because Brian Waters was playing in the Super Bowl, in a season in which he earned notoriety during a Thanksgiving night game. This guy was getting manhandled by Vince Wilfork when, in the middle of a 53-second span that included an offensive, defensive, and special teams touchdown, Steve Gregory scooped and scored after a quarterback collided with this guy’s ass. For 10 points, remember this guy, a Jets guard whose butt is the butt of buttfumble fame?ANSWER: Brandon Moore [or Brandon Lamont Moore]29. This guy was the taller of the two defending champions who were upset by the Italian duo of Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai in 2012, four years after he was named tournament MVP for a career-defining performance. This Swiss-born guy known as “the Thin Beast” teamed up with defender Nick Lucera at the Rio Olympics. With Todd Rogers, this guy beat a team of Brazilians at the Beijing Olympics to become the only American men to win gold in beach volleyball. For 10 points, remember this guy, a 6’9” bald American blocker whose last name suggests that he ended his decorated beach volleyball career by slamming a door in the manner of Nora Helmer?ANSWER: Phil Dalhausser [or Philip Peter Dalhausser]30. Among players in the 2000s who shot at least 100 career free throws, only Joey Dorsey has a worse percentage than this guy. The very first “Shaqtin’ a Fool” includes a lowlight of this guy playing the Wolves in his first career game and badly airballing a free throw. The team that drafted this guy desperately tried to get people to call him “the Dunking Ninja.” This guy went to the Nuggets in a 2014 trade that brought Eric Maynor to the 76ers and Andre Miller to this guy’s original team. In 2011, when this guy was drafted immediately after Jonas Valan?iūnas, he lustily smooched his attractive girlfriend. For 10 points, remember this guy, a Wizards legend from the Czech Republic?ANSWER: Jan Vesel?31. This guy allowed both of Jeff Suppan’s career home runs, the second of which came in Game 3 of the 2006 NLCS, when this guy lasted just 1+ inning and gave up 5 runs before he was hit by a Preston Wilson grounder. This guy, who is tied for 2nd worst home runs per inning for pitchers who have at least 2,000 innings pitched, is the only Met to allow four home runs in an inning. This guy threw a low pitch that was lined barely over the left-field wall at Busch Stadium, after which the hitter celebrated too hard with a base coach and had to retouch first base. For 10 points, remember this guy, a mediocre Mets and Cubs righty who gave up Mark McGwire’s 62nd home run in 1998?ANSWER: Steve Trachsel32. In 2000-01, some sources claim that this guy had 224 tackles, but Pro Football References puts the number at 145, which is still more than any defensive back has had since. This guy’s younger brother, Kevin, was a minor leaguer in the Angels system. This guy, who was a high school soccer player, nearly succeeded on an onside kick against the Broncos when Bill Gramatica faked and this guy kicked it. Bob Kalsu is the most recent NFL player to share an unfortunate distinction with this Arizona State alumnus who played most his career alongside Aeneas Williams. For 10 points, remember this guy, a pretty good safety whose #40 jersey was retired by the Cardinals?ANSWER: Pat Tillman [or Patrick Daniel Tillman]33. In the 1990s, only Jack McDowell, Roger Clemens, Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, and this guy had a season with at least 13 complete games. This guy filed for divorce from comedian Tawny Kitaen after alleging that she repeatedly kicked him in the face while wearing stilettos. This guy, whose induction into a team hall of fame was delayed due to the death of Nick Adenhart, was the first MLB pitcher to have two four-strikeout innings and is still the only pitcher to have three. This guy’s name was used as an alias by Bruce Campbell’s character on Burn Notice. For 10 points, remember this guy, a power-throwing lefty and probably the best pitcher in the history of the Angels?ANSWER: Chuck Finley [or Charles Edward Finley]34. This guy’s last relevant play was probably in a 2016 game in which his only made basket was an off-balance three that lifted the Knicks over the Hornets 120-118 at the buzzer. This guy got the assist on the play where Blake Griffin Mozgov’d Timofey Mozgov. This New Jersey native purchased a home from Bruce Springsteen. This guy was traded for Oleksiy Pecherov, Etan Thomas, and Darius Songaila alongside Mike Miller, meaning that all of those guys have played for both the Wolves and Wizards. For 10 points, remember this guy with situs inversus, a journeyman shooting guard out of Villanova who was traded to the Wolves on draft night 2006 for Brandon Roy?ANSWER: Randy Foye35. This guy took a huge hit from Brian Dawkins at the end of a 31-yard catch in the 2004 NFC Championship Game. This guy fumbled away a divisional round game against the Ravens in 2009, ballooned to 300 pounds in the offseason, and blocked for Chris Johnson in his 2,000-yard season in a late-career stint with the Titans. This guy, who made four straight Pro Bowls from 2003-06, was fined for wearing #7 on his eyeblack in 2007 in honor of an imprisoned former teammate. This guy’s father, like his NFL brother, is named Carlester. For 10 points, remember this guy, certainly the best tight end to be named after the title mouse of Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon?ANSWER: Alge Crumpler [or Algernon Darius Crumpler]36. In 2018, many outlets reported on this guy’s “triumphant return” from spending 38 days in a Detroit hospital. When this guy was asked how it made him feel to hear that he was his father’s “personal hero,” he responded “well, what’s not to like?” In 2014, this guy’s usual role was filled by David Griffin, whose success was overshadowed when a bunch of sportswriters got horny for an 18 year old named Mallory Edens, who is famous for basically the same reason this guy is. For 10 points, remember this guy, a sufferer of neurofibromatosis and supposed “good luck charm” who has somehow won the draft lottery twice as the franchise representative for the Cavaliers?ANSWER: Nick Gilbert [accept Dan Gilbert’s son or similar answers]37. This guy was the losing Nats pitcher in the decisive Game 5 of the 2016 NLDS, which was the third of four times that the Nationals failed to advance out of the NLDS. In a guy-rich 2011 deadline deal, Colby Rasmus landed in Toronto in exchange for Octavio Dotel, Edwin Jackson, Corey Patterson, and this bullpen guy. Lance Lynn faced only one batter, who he intentionally walked, after a bullpen mix-up led this lefty and not Jason Motte to face the Rangers’ Mike Napoli in Game 5 of the 2011 World Series. For 10 points, remember this guy, a LOOGY for the Blue Jays, Cardinals, and many other teams, whose extremely Polish surname earned him the nickname “Scrabble”?ANSWER: Marc Rzepczynski [or Marc Walter Rzepczynski]38. With the picks that were dealt for the rights to select this guy, the Chiefs took cornerbacks KeiVarae Russell and Eric Russell. When this guy was drafted, GM Jason Licht claimed that he was the best player at his position in college football history. This guy was nicknamed “Mr. Perfect” for a notable streak in college, where he was succeeded at his alma mater in the position he played by his younger brother, Ricky. This college teammate of Jameis Winston was waived in the preseason of 2017 after his team signed Nick Folk. For 10 points, remember this guy, a horrible bust out of FSU who was taken by the Buccaneers in the 2nd round despite being a kicker?ANSWER: Roberto Aguayo [or Roberto Jose Aguayo]39. This guy played halfback at the University of Maryland, after which he focused on baseball, where he was believed to be faster than AL stolen bases leader Harry Bay. A few years after this guy’s most notable appearance, a substitution for Harry Browne made by manager John McGraw, he moved to the town of Chisholm. This guy’s appearance in right field in a 1905 game against the Brooklyn Superbas was noticed in the Baseball Encyclopedia by W. P. Kinsella, who created a ghostly version of this guy played on screen by Burt Lancaster. For 10 points, remember this guy whose single at-bat-less MLB appearance features in Field of Dreams, known as “Moonlight”?ANSWER: Moonlight Graham [or Archibald Wright Graham; or Archie Graham]40. The last relevant thing that happened in this guy’s NBA career was that he was traded from the Clippers to Washington in the deal that ended JaVale McGee and Nick Young’s Wizards careers. This guy’s best NBA season came in his third year, on the dire 2005-06 Lakers, where, while Kobe was scoring 35 PPG, this guy battled Chris Mihm for playing time and amassed 46 starts at power forward. This guy was the best big man coached by Bill Self at the school Self coached immediately before jumping to Kansas. For 10 points, remember this guy, a sweet-shooting big man who played 12 NBA seasons from 2003 to 2012 and went to UIUC?ANSWER: Brian Cook [or Brian Joshua Cook]41. In this guy’s breakout at the 2009 World Baseball Classic, he hit consecutive triples off of Elmer Dessens. SI reported that Tom Prince said only “it’s very blue” about this guy’s glove when he played for Class A Bradenton. This guy’s most singular accomplishment is similar to that of Al Cabrera, who, in 1913, was also the first Spanish- born MLB player. This guy got his first career hit, a single off Jon Lester, on his native country’s Freedom Day. This guy grew up the son of a clubhouse attendant for the Randburg Mets. For 10 points, remember this guy, a shortstop who, with the Pirates, became the first player born in Africa, and the first Sotho South African, to make it to MLB?ANSWER: Gift Ngoepe (en-GOH-pay or en-WEE-pay) [or Mpho’ Gift Ngoepe]42. This guy has the same first and last name as a Celtics 2nd rounder who, in 2015, became the first guy in 30 years drafted out of William & Mary. This guy and Andrew Nicholson went to the Nets in Ernie Grunfeld’s ill-conceived Bojan Bogdanovic deal. Behind only Steph Curry and Brandon Jennings, this guy was third in his rookie class with 117 threes. He was the salary ballast in the deal that brought his former teammate, Isaiah Thomas, to Boston. After this guy was traded for Carl Landry to leave his first team, New Orleans, he beat out DeMarcus Cousins and Tyreke Evans as the lead scorer on the 2011-12 Kings. For 10 points, remember this guy, a volume scorer out of LSU?ANSWER: Marcus Thornton [or Marcus Terrell Thornton]43. In 1997, this guy scored a 31-yard touchdown on a third-quarter run to put away an eventual 20-10 playoff victory over the Lions that was his team’s first playoff win since 1979. This guy, who was the cover athlete for 989 Studios’ NFL Xtreme, scored the winning TD and was the beefier of his team’s two 100-yard rushers in the only loss suffered by the 1998 Vikings. This guy scored his team’s first-ever Super Bowl TD on a two-yard run in Super Bowl 37, sharing a backfield with Michael Pittman after several years in a backfield tandem with Warrick Dunn. For 10 points, remember this guy who wore #40 and was nicknamed “A-Train” as a good fullback for the Buccaneers?ANSWER: Mike Alstott [or Michael Joseph Alstott]44. This guy played sporadically alongside Joel Ward for Crystal Palace after his more notable English club was relegated in 2014. When Felix Magath was sacked in 2014, rumors came out that he had told this guy to treat a thigh injury by rubbing it with cheese curds. This guy, who had his side’s only yellow card in an extra-time loss to Atletico Madrid in the 2010 Europa League final, formed a defensive partnership with Chris Hughes. In 2010-11, this guy scored 6 of his 10 career Premier League goals and was the #2 league scorer on his team behind Clint Dempsey. For 10 points, remember this guy, a big center back who often captained Fulham and Norway?ANSWER: Brede Hangeland [or Brede Paulsen Hangeland]45. This guy was the first draft pick of the Springfield Armor and holds top-50 spots in G League history in most point guard stats. With picks acquired in the trade that sent J. R. Smith to Denver, Aaron Gray and this guy were taken 49th and 51st overall in 2007 by the Bulls. In 2010, this guy signed a ten-day contract with the Clippers, who waived him when they acquired Bobby Brown after this guy played exactly 3.9 seconds, making his the shortest career in NBA history. This guy’s first name is a unique combination of his father’s and grandpa’s names, James and Leon. For 10 points, remember this guy whose full name sounds like it describes LeBron guarding Steph?ANSWER: JamesOn Curry46. In 2016, this guy revived his career by reaching the final at the Dubai Open, which he lost to Stan Wawrinka. From 2003 to 2017, this guy didn’t lose a Davis Cup match, and his streak of 36 consecutive wins broke a record set by Bjorn Borg. In a set break during a 2nd-round loss to Wawrinka at the 2012 Australian Open, this guy smashed four rackets. This guy, whose father is Lebanese, was rated #8 in the world in 2006, a season in which he lost to Rafael Nadal in the semifinals at Wimbledon and to Roger Federer in the finals at the Australian Open, the latter despite rowdy support from Greek Australians. For 10 points, remember this guy, a stocky Cypriot tennis player?ANSWER: Marcos Baghdatis47. This guy’s sister, a pro softball player, is married to Dartmouth place-kicking legend David Regula. Jay Bruce’s only inside-the-park homer happened in 2012 because this guy concussed himself crashing into the wall. In May 2006, this guy hit 10 home runs in 10 games a year after hitting zero home runs in the Home Run Derby. In 2009, his only full year in Boston as Manny Ramirez’s replacement, this guy won his third Tip O’Neill Award. After Larry Walker and Matt Stairs, this guy was the third from his country to hit 200 career homers. For 10 points, can you be like Carsten and remember this guy, a slugging left fielder who was 2004 NL ROY with the Pirates and is Canadian?ANSWER: Jason Bay [or Jason Raymond Bay]48. In this guy’s best game, he threw the passes that let one of his teammates break a franchise receiving record held by John Mackey and another of his teammates become the #2 all-time receptions holder. This guy is the second namesake of a doubly eponymous “incident” with its own Wikipedia page that involved a college game in which he got a collapsed trachea from being choked by Robert Reynolds. In 2010, this guy’s career ended because of a shoulder injury in training camp after he was ironically signed to compete to be the backup QB on the Giants. For 10 points, remember this guy, a QB drafted out of Wisconsin who, from 2004-09, backed up Peyton Manning?ANSWER: Jim Sorgi [or James Joseph Sorgi Jr.; accept Reynolds-Sorgi incident]49. Bearing in mind that Damjan Rudez is 6’10”, this guy’s nearly 4,300 career minutes and exactly 600 total rebounds make him the only guy in the three-point era who was 6’11” or taller with a career rebound percentage of 8.0% or lower who played more than 100 minutes. Before he suited up in the NBA, this guy was the common denominator in trades that brought Nicolas Batum to Portland and Metta World Peace to Houston. By height, this guy is between Carlos Boozer and Shawn Bradley on the list of American NBA players born on German military bases. For 10 points, remember this guy who was a bad, tall shooter for four years with the Kings out of Syracuse?ANSWER: Donté Greene [or Donté Dominic Greene]50. This guy was the Seahawks’ punt returner in the 2006 Super Bowl. This guy’s Wiki page has a section titled “Dillard’s department store incident,” which describes how he was busted for getting a huge discount on clothes, tanking his Heisman chances and also getting Laveranues Coles in hot water. In the 2000 Sugar Bowl against Virginia Tech, which was the BCS National Championship, this guy had a 59-yard punt return TD and 160 receiving yards. After this guy was drafted fourth overall, he was underwhelming and injured before he was supplanted by T. J. Houshmandzadeh. For 10 points, remember this guy, a crappy receiver for the Bengals and a great one for FSU?ANSWER: Peter Warrick [or Peter L. Warrick]51. This guy’s walk-off homer off of Chuck Porter ended the longest game in modern MLB history. This guy, whose #3 was retired while he was still active, had that number unretired twice upon rejoining his original and most notable team. This slugger left his original team in a trade that netted, among others, Wilson ?lvarez, who was dealt away eight years later in the “white flag trade.” This guy’s notable RBI feats include holding the most years between 100-RBI season, the last of which came in 1999 in his second Orioles stint. For 10 points, remember this guy, a good White Sox DH dubiously honored by the Today’s Game Era Committee with Hall of Fame induction in 2019?ANSWER: Harold Baines [or Harold Douglas Baines]52. As an alternate, this guy won the 1990 Grand Slam of Golf, which was more notable for the fact that Mike Ditka replaced Curtis Strange as another alternate. The fact that this guy had won a major title led the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel to name him, and not Steve Stricker, the best golfer ever to come out of Wisconsin. This guy’s bizarre career includes just three PGA Tour wins, two of which were at the 1978 and 1985 U.S. Opens. This guy, whose run-in with melanoma led tissue by his left nostril to be removed, often does whimsical segments on programs hosted by Scott Van Pelt. For 10 points, remember this guy, an American golfing commentator for ESPN?ANSWER: Andy North [or Andrew Stewart North]53. In 2007, this guy reported his Lamborghini Murcielago stolen when, in fact, he had crashed it into a light pole. Also in 2007, this guy was nearly traded to Washington for the #6 overall pick and Rocky McIntosh. This guy made 7 Pro Bowl appearances, the most for an Arizona alumnus, and played most of his career opposite Hunter Hillenmeyer. Among players who played for only one team, this guy is ninth all time in combined tackles, four spots behind a longtime teammate who is now omnipresent on billboards hawking hair replacement surgery. For 10 points, remember this guy, the most notable Bears outside linebacker to play alongside Brian Urlacher?ANSWER: Lance Briggs [or Lance Marell Briggs]54. Wiki notes that this guy was nicknamed “Snacks” for “his apparent love of ‘inhaling’ junk food” right after mentioning that he set a team record with 43 consecutive innings without an earned run while being one of the “prime movers in the A’s historic run of 20 straight wins.” After this guy’s last career game, a bad relief appearance in the Yankees’ season-ending loss in Game 4 of the 2006 ALDS, he gave a contentious interview with Mike and the Mad Dog that was his last public appearance. George W. Bush was told of this guy’s 2006 death because of fear that it was another 9/11. For 10 points, remember this pitcher who died from crashing a plane into an NYC building?ANSWER: Cory Lidle [or Cory Fulton Lidle]55. The 1999 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, which was the debut of the Big Show, was rife with tension because this guy had stolen an allegedly sentient mannequin head and the Blue Meanie had adopted a persona mocking this guy. During a storyline in which Triple-H and this guy were feuding, Chyna was introduced to WWF as a ringside plant who choked this guy’s manager, Marlena. During his 1996 face turn, this guy gave an emphatic “no” and punched Jerry Lawler in the face after Lawler asked if this guy was “queer.” For 10 points, remember this guy, a wrestler and gay icon from the 1990s who is Dusty Rhodes’s son and had a persona centered on a precious metal?ANSWER: Goldust [or Dustin Patrick Runnels; accept Dustin Rhodes and prompt on “Rhodes” before “Rhodes”]56. This guy’s total points scored at his alma mater stood as a school record until Cosmo Iacavazzi broke it nearly 50 years later. Aside from former FBI director Robert Mueller, this guy is the most recognizable athlete from the tony St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire. He is the only guy in both the college football and hockey halls of fame and probably the only player for pioneering hockey coach Malcolm Gordon to be the inspiration for an F. Scott Fitzgerald character. This guy, the only American in the inaugural Hockey Hall of Fame class, died in World War I as a test pilot. For 10 points, remember this guy, the namesake of an “award” for the best college hockey player? ANSWER: Hobey Baker [or Hobart Amory Hale Baker]57. This guy was signed in 2011 by the Xinjiang Flying Tigers to fill the void left by Kenyon Martin’s return to the NBA. In the season after JamesOn Curry played 3.9 seconds, this Suns draftee played his only 2 NBA minutes, making his the fifth-shortest career of all time. In the 2010 draft, this guy was the third of three Misters Georgia Basketball taken, after high school teammate Al-Farouq Aminu and his collegiate frontcourt partner. In 2010, this guy was the second big man taken out of his collegiate alma mater, going 43 picks after college teammate Derrick Favors. For 10 points, remember this guy, a Nigerian-American power forward who went to Georgia Tech?ANSWER: Gani Lawal [or Gani Oladimeji Lawal Jr.]58. Wiki notes that it’s “a testament to his athleticism” that this is the most recent guy to win ABC’s Superstars thrice. This guy made a surprise marriage proposal on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to his second wife, the actress who played Rizzoli on Rizzoli & Isles. This avowed Republican and former husband of Angie Harmon had a tumbling pick-six against Donovan McNabb in the first round and blanketed Randy Moss in a 41-0 NFC Championship Game win in the 2001 playoffs, but he gave up a 38-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley in the Super Bowl and his Jim Fassel-coached team lost. For 10 points, remember this guy, a white cornerback for the Giants?ANSWER: Jason Sehorn [or Jason Heath Sehorn]59. This guy was the best and most decorated of the three starting forwards on the losing team in the 2016 Sweet Sixteen game at which Chris Christie was photographed pouring a bag of M&Ms into a box of M&Ms. During his team’s 2015 NCAA tournament run, this guy said “god, she’s beautiful” and “syzygy” at a press conference after professing amazement at how stenography works. This guy made the Sweet Sixteen in every year of his four-year career under coaches Greg Gard and Bo Ryan. For 10 points, remember this guy, a forward who was probably the third-best player on the Wisconsin team that lost to Duke in 2015 behind Sam Dekker and Frank Kaminsky?ANSWER: Nigel Hayes60. In 2006, this guy was traded for a rookie side-armed reliever out of VCU who subsequently led the NL in relief ERA. This guy, who was traded for Cla Meredith, had his finest offensive seasons after Scott Hatteberg signed with the A’s. After this guy signed in San Diego with the promise of being a starter, GM Kevin Towers almost instantly reneged by signing Mike Piazza, leading this guy to be traded back to his most notable team for Josh Bard. This guy was the starting catcher in Game 1 of the 2004 World Series because the starting pitcher was a knuckleballer. For 10 points, remember this guy, a backup for Jason Varitek who was Tim Wakefield’s personal catcher?ANSWER: Doug Mirabelli [or Douglas Anthony Mirabelli]61. In this guy’s freshman year, his team found midseason success plugging him in as the starting running back next to walk-on former Wisconsin River-Falls fullback Owen Schmitt. Like Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, Laurence Maroney, and Marion Barber, this guy was part of a collegiate 1,000-yard rushing duo in consecutive seasons, although unlike those guys, the other rusher in this guy’s backfield duo was a quarterback. This guy had over 1,200 yards rushing as an NFL rookie in 2008, but in subsequent seasons, he was phased out in favor of Arian Foster. For 10 points, remember this Texans running back who was a teammate of Pat White at West Virginia?ANSWER: Steve Slaton62. The subsection of this guy’s Wiki page titled “multiple short stints (2010-2013) is embarrassingly preceded by a subsection titled “Minnesota Timberwolves (2009-2010).” This guy and Ben Wallace left Phoenix in the deal that sent Shaq to the Suns. Immediately after LeBron’s buzzer-beating three to beat the Magic in Game 2 of the 2009 Eastern Conference Finals, this guy hug-tackled LeBron. This guy’s finest season was 2006-07, when he started at shooting guard for every game of the surprising Cavs Finals run. For 10 points, remember this guy who will soon be passed by Nikola Mirotic for the coveted honor of “most NBA minutes played by a Montenegrin”?ANSWER: Sasha Pavlovic [or Aleksandr Pavlovi?]63. The misspelling of this guy’s surname on the Stanley Cup in the mid-1990s was the first such error ever to be corrected. Despite being born in Jason Bay’s hometown of Trail, British Columbia, this guy played for the U.S. at the 1998 and 2002 Olympics; with Mike Modano, Brett Hull, and Brian Leetch, this forward was one of four Americans to score a goal in both. After he was traded for Rob Blake, this guy had a late-career renaissance with the Kings, scoring 62 points in 2002-03, after consistently putting up about 25 goals and 25 assists a year with the Avalanche from 1995-2000. For 10 points, remember this guy, a good right winger with a swampy surname?ANSWER: Adam Deadmarsh [or Adam Richard Deadmarsh]64. This guy’s 2010 season, which began with him as a starting third baseman, ended with him putting up the only season of at least 200 at bats and an OPS+ of 6 or worse in modern MLB history. This guy, who was moved off of his first position to accommodate Erick Aybar, was the presumptive heir to Chone Figgins. This guy was probably the first minor leaguer ever to have 100+ extra-base hits, which occurred in 2005 with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and inspired visions of a future MLB middle infield pairing with Howie Kendrick. For 10 points, remember this guy who became a cautionary tale for believing California League stats, a prospect bust in the Angels system?ANSWER: Brandon Wood [or Richard Brandon Wood]65. In 2001, this guy broke Jason Sehorn’s three-season reign of terror by winning ABC’s Superstars, ushering in a new three-season reign of terror with three different champions from his broad athletic discipline. This guy was the cover athlete on a 1998 SI issue headlined “Thrills and Spills.” His single-season haul of exactly 2,000 points in the 2000 season was then a World Cup record. A 2001 motorcycle injury, which left his super-G and giant slalom gold medals undefended at Salt Lake City, led to this guy’s stunning 2004 comeback spawning headlines quoting the phrase “I’ll be back.” For 10 points, remember this guy, an Austrian rival of Bode Miller called “the Herminator”?ANSWER: Hermann Maier66. In the fourth quarter of the Bucs/Raiders Super Bowl, this guy fumbled and was on the wrong end of an Eric Johnson play, leading to the Raiders’ last two scores. During his stint with the Browns, this guy ran a fake extra point attempt for the first two-point conversion in NFL history. This guy, the Phoenix Cardinals’ starting quarterback in 1991, memorably came on in relief in a 1999 game after Vinny Testaverde ruptured an Achilles. After flaming out as a quarterback, this Ohio State alumnus had a lengthy second career, mostly with the Patriots and Jets, on special teams. For 10 points, remember this guy, the most recent quarterback/punter in the NFL?ANSWER: Tom Tupa [or Thomas Joseph Tupa Jr.]67. This guy is one of the very few to have been traded for LeBron, although in his case it was because, in 1998, he was traded back to his original and most notable team from the Mets for Juan LeBron. After being taken from the Pirates by the D-Backs in the expansion draft, this guy was traded to the Tigers for Travis Fryman, who was another AL Central legend at this guy’s position. This guy, who was nicknamed for looking like he was always smirking, had his best season in 2004, when he out-WAR’d the rest of the Royals combined. For 10 points, remember this guy, a perfectly adequate third baseman, most notably for the 1999-2004 Royals, who was nicknamed “the Joker”?ANSWER: Joe Randa [or Joseph Gregory Randa]68. In a 2009 hsqb thread comparing quizbowlers to NBA players, Brendan Byrne noted that both Evan Nagler and this guy do “dirty work,” this guy by “rebounding” and Nagler by editing the trash tournament GARBAGE. Jerry Vinokurov asked “who gets excited at that” to express bewilderment at the idea that his appreciation for this guy had grown since the arrival of Aaron. Speculation that a person returning from Bangladesh would, within hours, suggest that the Warriors should re-sign this guy was the starting point for lots of discussion in the basketball chat. For 10 points, remember this guy, a hard-nosed white power forward beloved by dads everywhere?ANSWER: David Lee69. A “catchphrase” invoking this guy is “nonsensical, out-of-context, and almost surreal” and “can be used for athletes eluding cops, highlight packages, or even Keggy.” Comments directed at this guy for losing to a child were described as hilarious because they occurred in Utah, “where you don’t hear words stronger than ‘heck’ in public.” This guy, who was called “terrifying” and “green” by Jen P., was urged to go faster during a mascot race at a Pioneer League ballpark that is home to the Ogden Raptors. For 10 points, remember this guy, a mascot named Oggie who was an inaugural honoree in the Deadspin Hall of Fame for being told “run, you stupid fucking [this guy]!”?ANSWER: stupid fucking dinosaur [accept Oggie before “Oggie”; prompt on “Raptor” before “Raptors”] ................
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