A trivia question that carries – yes! – an invitation to blog
I’m going to cover the Hawks’ press conference — officially, we’re supposed to call it a “news conference,” but I delight in flouting regulations — this afternoon. It starts at 3 p.m. (or thereabouts — the Hawks always run late). I’m supposed to post something new by 3 p.m., but I need to go to the press/news conference to conjure up something for tomorrow’s print AJC.
Sooooo … here’s a little trivia question for you folks. (As anyone who has been following the extremely unedifying Melanie Griffith discussion today has doubtless realized, I know way too much trivia for my own good.) Someone posed this one to me a few years back, and I got it right. But I had to think hard for a few minutes. Maybe you will have less trouble.
Or maybe you just won’t care. I know trivia has that effect on some people. But there is, I should stipulate, a catch to this one. The first person to get this right will be extended the opportunity to write a Guest Blog in this space. You can pick the topic — it does have to be something regarding Atlanta/Georgia sports, as opposed, say, to Melanie Griffith — and I’ll edit it for style but not for content. (I might throw in my two cents’ worth at the end, but only briefly. I won’t do a point-by-point rebuttal. Promise.)
And if we — meaning me, but also meaning the higher-ups at AJC.com — are happy with initial results, we’ll see about making this a weekly feature. Trivia question on Monday, say, guest blog on, say, Friday. So, if you’d be interested in seeing your thoughts/opinion appear in a 300- to 500-word installment, have a go at this question:
What are the only two days of the year on which no major American sporting events are scheduled?
Ding, ding ding! We have a winner! First respondent out of the box, no less. Matthew H gets the opportunity to be this week’s Guest Blogger. (The answer, as pretty much everyone knew, is the day before and the day after the baseball All-Star Game. And tell me again why I thought that was such a stumper.)
If Matthew H chooses not to exercise his franchise, the first runner-up — Sting ‘Em Buzz — will be granted the opportunity. Thanks to all for playing this unbelievably hastily conceived contest (or whatever you want to call it). And I’ll try to make next week’s question a bit harder.
But here’s a warmup (meaning: this one doesn’t count): Who was on deck when Bobby Thomson hit the home run off Ralph Branca?
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108 comments Add your comment
Ted Striker
July 13th, 2009
3:38 pm
Forget this question and the answer. What matters is this: I’ll never be over Macho Grande.
Smartest man in the world...
July 13th, 2009
3:46 pm
February 30th and 31st!
Johnny
July 13th, 2009
3:49 pm
Easter sunday and MLK holiday
Ben
July 13th, 2009
3:50 pm
Seems kind of easy when the question is topical, don’t you think?
mario
July 13th, 2009
3:52 pm
Black Friday and Easter Sunday
Cuz
July 13th, 2009
3:53 pm
The day before and after Michael Jackson’s funeral.
Justin
July 13th, 2009
3:56 pm
The ALL STAR game is usually played on a Tuesday, with no regular season games scheduled on the day before or the day after. These are the only two calendar days in the year in which no regular or preseason games in any of the major professional sports leagues of the United States are scheduled.
Smack
July 13th, 2009
3:58 pm
As previously reported, the day before and the day following the MLB All-Star Game.
Malted Falcon
July 13th, 2009
4:00 pm
Mr. and Mrs. Grant are buried in Grant’s Tomb. It’s actually a trick question
NorthStarsDave
July 13th, 2009
4:06 pm
You were listening to “The Herd”….about noonish….that was the question today….
biz
July 13th, 2009
4:10 pm
Actually no-one is buried in Grants tomb…heh..its a trick…oh.
techronnie
July 13th, 2009
4:12 pm
Mother’s Day and Labor Day
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 13th, 2009
4:12 pm
The day of the NFL Pro Bowl and the day of the NBA All-Star Game
Sting 'em Buzz
July 13th, 2009
4:15 pm
there is no defense in either of those games BWTR
MD N8tv in GA
July 13th, 2009
4:16 pm
the day before and after the MLB All Star game
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 13th, 2009
4:17 pm
Now for some real trivia: who’s hotter, Melanie Griffith or Kirsti Alley?
Roekest
July 13th, 2009
4:27 pm
And this is why people refer to the AJC as a “rag”……..and rightly so.
Mike O
July 13th, 2009
4:27 pm
No on can be buried in a tomb because a tomb is above ground. Thus there is no one buried in grant’s tomb.
DirtyDawg
July 13th, 2009
4:33 pm
How about the answer to the question – What did Don Johnson’s surgeon say to the other doctors and nurses in attendance at some procedure or another, once he got a look at Don’s ‘johnson’?
All I'm Saying Is...
July 13th, 2009
4:33 pm
Kirstie Alley was hot in her first year on Cheers much to the delight of Ted Danson but shortly thereafter she quit smoking and started compensating with food enabling her to scale (pun intentional) a couple of weight classes on her way up to cruiser weight status which is still not a good look.
Melanie Griffith was particularly hot post-boob job much to the delight of Antonio Banderas such as in the movie “Milk Money” to the delight of co-star Ed Harris though she did look good in her pre-augmentation days especially in that teddy in “Working Girl” much to the delight of Alec Baldwin.
Damn, its scary how much I know about these two.
Reid Adair
July 13th, 2009
4:34 pm
“What are the only two days of the year on which no major American sporting events are scheduled?”
That was easy, Mark. But I can’t wait until some WNBA-crazed fan starts complaining that the WNBA is a “major” American sporting event.
Roswell Mike
July 13th, 2009
4:34 pm
Depends on whether you consider the NHL a major sport.
I’m just keeeeeddding!!
Curious George
July 13th, 2009
4:36 pm
Is anyone here really surprised the average AJC Reader is smarter than the average AJC Writer ?
Hillbilly Deluxe
July 13th, 2009
4:37 pm
Since there’s a connection between Sadie Hawkins day and your birthday, do I get some kind of partial credit toward a future purchase?
Roswell Mike
July 13th, 2009
4:38 pm
Once had a bar trivia final question like this:
Rank the following 4 sports in decreasing order by total annual attendance – NHL, jai-alai, women’s college basketball, and NBA.
Now that’s a more worthy question, but enough quick guesses and game over.
daniel
July 13th, 2009
4:41 pm
top answer on yahoo search got it right. I will do the dates July 14 and 16th 2009. to be technical about it
daniel
July 13th, 2009
4:42 pm
crap july13th and 15th 2009
Don Johnson
July 13th, 2009
4:52 pm
I’m sorry, but what does any of this have to do with Melanie?
Sting 'em Buzz
July 13th, 2009
4:56 pm
the WNBA trails park and rec hoops in average attendance, and on a similar note, it also trails the Women’s room line at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Bank Walker, Texas Ranger
July 13th, 2009
4:58 pm
all i’m saying…wan’t that Harrison Ford?
JSS
July 13th, 2009
4:58 pm
The day before and the day after Ian Curtis melted that block of ice… Oh my bad…
Bob
July 13th, 2009
4:59 pm
Xmas Eve and the day before the baseball all-star game.
RHR
July 13th, 2009
5:02 pm
Really Mark? There’s this thing called google…you should probably look into it now that you’re in the digital department. Anyway, what you do is type http://www.google.com into your browser and in the big white space at the top you type in any question (or in my case, I copied and pasted your question into the big white space) and in about .0003 seconds I got the answer. Almost everyone in the free world uses it. Check it out sometime.
RHR
July 13th, 2009
5:04 pm
Scoots
July 13th, 2009
5:09 pm
Hey Mark –
I have an idea. Instead of posing a trivia question that anyone with a computer can look up and find, why not pick a topic, and the best 300-500 word blog on that subject is featured the following Friday?
That way, you get the best quality guest blog, rather than the person with the most time on their hands. Or better yet, do want you want – it’s your column; I just wanted to throw out that idea since I’m not likely to ever be ‘first’ on a web blog.
whatever
July 13th, 2009
5:10 pm
you can be buried in a tomb.
audrey toombs
July 13th, 2009
5:11 pm
just remarried
Relationship Expert
July 13th, 2009
5:21 pm
Two smiles like those are either
1) a newly married couple or
2) a newly divorced couple
Sting 'em Buzz
July 13th, 2009
5:23 pm
I didn’t have to google the answer to the trivia question.
DW
July 13th, 2009
5:25 pm
The days before and after MLB’s All-Star Game.
Alex Trebek
July 13th, 2009
5:35 pm
So you’re flying a plane at 30,000 feet when you hit extreme downdrafts and start spinning out of control. Many of the passengers are bouncing off the ceiling, and the flight attendents are clueless. There are Mexicans, Russians, Canadians, and 7 Amercian Sailors on board. What is the name of the pilot?
GMan
July 13th, 2009
5:36 pm
The day before and after the MLB Allstar Game!
Matt
July 13th, 2009
5:37 pm
The day after the MLB All-Star game and Christmas Eve.
Mark Bradley
July 13th, 2009
5:41 pm
The correct answer is the day before and after the baseball All-Star Game. (I don’t count the Home Run Derby, and neither should you.) But the best answer comes, appropriately, from the Smartest Man in the World — Feb. 30 and 31.
And I have never in my life listened to the Herd. That’s not to disparage anyone who does; I just never have.
Mark Bradley
July 13th, 2009
5:44 pm
You know, Scoots, I thought about doing that. But then I thought: If I pick the best post from those already posted, where’s the fun in winning? And then I thought, if I make it an essay contest — you submit 300-500 words via email and I pick one … then I’m making a lot of runners-up go through a lot of work for nothing.
Literally, this idea came together — you can probably tell — in about two minutes. There might well be some tweaks coming soon. But let’s give it a whirl this way first.
jeffrey d
July 13th, 2009
5:45 pm
I like how some people are still guessing (and some incorectly…) about 3 hours late and after the answer has been posted 432590827 times.
This is the first time those guys that say “FIRST!” can actually have reason to do so without looking like an idiot.
jeffrey d
July 13th, 2009
5:47 pm
But my question is, based on some of the comments posted on these blogs, are we gonna want to read a whole article on their thoughts?
I guess so. It’ll either be really insightful or fun to make fun of.
Gen Neyland
July 13th, 2009
5:56 pm
Lane Kiffin…Oh, never mind
Mony
July 13th, 2009
6:03 pm
Willie Mays was behind Thompson
brooks
July 13th, 2009
6:06 pm
willie mays was on deck