Complete the movie quote by rearranging the seventeen letters you
will accumulate by correctly answering the following seventeen
questions. PLEASE don't send me the entire quiz back. Merely send
the 17 letters, the phrase and the bonus color alluded to after
question 17.
Example:
ERSTU BYNAR TULSI BA
BUY BLUESTAR TRAINS
BLUE
First prize is a book of Sam Loyd's Puzzles.
Consolations prizes will include back issues of the
JGNewsletter and threads from the infamous Dallas T-shirt.
Hey, whaddaya expect for nothin?
"..ask me to sign ... I'll sign it; put it to a vote, I'll vote for it; but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit, I got two words for that:" _________________ (17) (plus an apostrophe) 1) The last question on the CGP FAQ is number: +A) 15 +E) 21 +L) 29 +W) 33 2) If the American team for the World Scrabble Championship were to be selected today with all spots awarded by OPR, who would be the last player to qualify for a spot? +A) Paul Esptein +C) Randy Greenspan +F) Pat Barrett +P) Lester Schonbrun 3) If you see an expert at California Scrabble tournaments driving a black Mercedes, what is his most likely license plate: +G) I LUV JKM +L) MY RACKS +N) SAM I AM +P) MR 770 4) Add the third letter of this solved anagram to your pool: ADDRSSSTUY 5) Who sprang for the mammoth bar tab in Bally's lounge bar after Superstars? +N) JG +R) David Gibson +S) Stu Goldman +T) Mark Morris 6) When playing first, which direction of your opening play will lead to a more open board? +L) Horizontal +M) Vertical +N) It doesn't matter due to axial symmetry +O) You need more information to answer this question 7) Which of the following players at one time was weighing legal action against JG? +A) Sam Kantimathi +M) Charles Goldstein +O) Nick Ballard +V) Mary Lou Thurman 8) When the Scrabble version of "Rounders" is made, which of the following actors would not be cast to represent a reigning champion? +R) Steve Buscemi +K) J.T. Walsh +O) Ben Affleck +M) Eric Stoltz 9) The correct play with an opening rack of QUUVV?? is: +E) QUeUe 8d +O) sUQ 8g +I) exch UVV +U) exch QUUVV (non Scrabble interlude) 10) What city has the second highest Major League Baseball stadium? +A) Denver +B) Montreal +C) Phoenix +D) Cleveland (back to our regular programming) 11) Add the fifth letter of this solved anagram to your pool: AELLLMOSU 12) If Mike Baron were the emperor of Scrabble, +E) Everyone would qualify for the WSC. +E) No penalty for playing DA. +E) No need for closed-door AB meetings as no need for AB. +E) Rating floors for anyone who cracked 2000 if but for a moment. 13) Per the 9/1/98 list, the highest rated married couple in Scrabble lives in +D) Delaware +M) Minnesota +N) New York +O) Oregon 14) The odds of picking EE on your first two letters out of the bag are one out of: +J) 2 (either you do or you don't) +M) 48 +R) 75 +S) 132 +T) 144 15) The highest finishing Canadian at the 1998 NSC was +S) Boys +T) Kaufman +N) Logan +D) Wapnick 16) The highest finishing woman at the 1997 WSC represented: +A) Australia +E) Canada +O) Great Britain +U) Israel 17) Add the third letter of this solved anagram to your pool: AAFILORUW From the seventeen letters you've gathered, unjumble the mystery phrase. For tiebreak consideration, what color is associated with the speaker?END QUIZ
Answer Below:ANSWER
1) The last question on the CGP FAQ is number: +A) 15 +E) 21 +L) 29 +W) 33 L) Available at http://www.jimgeary.com/scrab/CGPFAQ.HTM 2) If the American team for the World Scrabble Championship were to be selected today with all spots awarded by OPR, who would be the last player to qualify for a spot? +A) Paul Esptein +C) Randy Greenspan +F) Pat Barrett +P) Lester Schonbrun F) Current rankings available at http://math.unm.edu/~rparker. 3) If you see an expert at California Scrabble tournaments driving a black Mercedes, what is his most likely license plate: +G) I LUV JKM +L) MY RACKS +N) SAM I AM +P) MR 770 P) I LUV JKM is Lester's license plate, but he drives a gray Ziv. MY RACKS would be Bob Felt's license plate but he doesn't own a car. SAM I AM well, we don't need to go there. 4) Add the third letter of this solved anagram to your pool: ADDRSSSTUY Y) DRYASDUSTS 5) Who sprang for the mammoth bar tab in Bally's lounge bar after Superstars? +N) JG +R) David Gibson +S) Stu Goldman +T) Mark Morris T) JG was skint, having lost his last nickel in a big money game with Graham to Cree and Nyman. Gibson was on a plane to New York, but sent a contribution later anyway. Stu was driving back to San Francisco because only one of the contestants nearly dropped dead of heart problems. 6) When playing first, which direction of your opening play will lead to a more open board? +L) Horizontal +M) Vertical +N) It doesn't matter due to axial symmetry +O) You need more information to answer this question N) The proof is left as an exercise to the reader. 7) Which of the following players at one time was weighing legal action against JG? +A) Sam Kantimathi +M) Charles Goldstein +O) Nick Ballard +V) Mary Lou Thurman A) Tho the terms of the settlement prevent me from discussing further. 8) When the Scrabble version of "Rounders" is made, which of the following actors would not be cast to represent a reigning champion? +R) Steve Buscemi +K) J.T. Walsh +O) Ben Affleck +M) Eric Stoltz K) Steve Buscemi would play the World Champ. Ben Affleck would play the North American Champ. Eric Stoltz would play the Canadian Champ. The new(1998) Canadian champ would be played by Judd Hirsch. J.T. Walsh would play no one as he is dead. 9) The correct play with an opening rack of QUUVV?? is: +E) QUeUe 8d +O) sUQ 8g +I) exch UVV +U) exch QUUVV I) The QU enhances a double blank rack. (non Scrabble interlude) 10) What city has the second highest Major League Baseball stadium? +A) Denver +B) Montreal +C) Phoenix +D) Cleveland C) Think Rocky Mountain High. (back to our regular programming) 11) Add the fifth letter of this solved anagram to your pool: AELLLMOSU E) MALLEOLUS 12) If Mike Baron were the emperor of Scrabble, +E) Everyone would qualify for the WSC. +E) No penalty for playing DA. +E) No need for closed-door AB meetings as no need for AB. +E) Rating floors for anyone who cracked 2000 if but for a moment. E) All of the above. 13) Per the 9/1/98 list, the highest rated married couple in Scrabble lives in +D) Delaware +M) Minnesota +N) New York +O) Oregon N) Ed and Carol Halper live in New York. 14) The odds of picking EE on your first two letters out of the bag are one out of: +J) 2 (either you do or you don't) +M) 48 +R) 75 +S) 132 +T) 144 R) The odds of picking the first one are 12/100. Given that the odds of picking the second one are 11/99. Multiply and cancel gives 1/75. 15) The highest finishing Canadian at the 1998 NSC was +S) Boys +T) Kaufman +N) Logan +D) Wapnick T) See http://www.scrabble-assoc.com./tourneys/1998/nsc/thu/dat/1-31.htm Kaufman was the upset pick. No one bet him as part of the field at 8:1. The odds should be different in 2000. 16) The highest finishing woman at the 1997 WSC represented: +A) Australia +E) Canada +O) Great Britain +U) Israel O) Per, http://www.math.utoronto.ca/~jjchew/wsc97/news/report-049.txt #21) Penny Downer represents Great Britain. 17) Add the third letter of this solved anagram to your pool: AAFILORUW U) RAUWOLFIA From the seventeen letters you've gathered, unjumble the mystery phrase. For tiebreak consideration, what color is associated with the speaker? LFPYT NAKIC EENRT OU "..ask me to sign ... I'll sign it; put it to a vote, I'll vote for it; but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit, I got two words for that:" _________________ (17) (plus an apostrophe) LEARN TO FUCKIN' TYPE (MR.) PINK The complete quote can be found at http://www.jimgeary.com/faves/QUOTES.HTM The first completely correct solution was submitted by Lester Schonbrun. A close second goes to Jeffrey Kastner who got everything right but the colored attribution. Kind of ironic as he sat at the "Reservoir Dogs" table at my wedding.END ANSWER
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