NCAA Jumps Trivia

[gh]

I won an NCAA title in a jump as a junior. As a senior I won an NCAA title in a different jump. I'm the only one ever to win both of these events. (Not sure, but I might even be the only one ever to score in both these events) Both were outdoors. Who am I?

[hj197steve]

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I might know this w/o looking it up, is it Don Meyers, who won the LJ in '61 and tied for 1st in the PV a year later ?

[gh]

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new rule: hjsteve has to wait until at least 5 other people have had a chance to guess before providing the right answers.

[kuha]

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How BIG a head does it take to hold all those factoids?

[hj197steve]

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well thank you Garry, I thought you were mad at me !

[Realist]

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>I might know this w/o looking it up>>

There are no written rules for trivia games but where I come from looking it up is cheating at least until all the top of the head guesses are done.

[hj197steve]

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I agree with that completely. In this particular instance I was about 95 % sure, then looked it up, just to get the years exactly right.

I humbly propose a 2 hour limit before research of any type is allowed . And if someone thinks they know part of an answer, go ahead and post it to help others. This is supposed to be fun, not a serious contest. My "2 hours" is just off the top of my head... Garry, maybe you could set up some low-key "rules" for what should be no more than FUN for all of us.

[hj197steve]

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>I agree with that completely. In this particular instance I was about 95 %
>sure, then looked it up, just to get the years exactly right.

I humbly
>propose a 2 hour limit before research of any type is allowed . And if someone
>thinks they know part of an answer, go ahead and post it to help others. This
>is supposed to be fun, not a serious contest. My "2 hours" is just off the
>top of my head... Garry, maybe you could set up some low-key "rules" for what
>should be no more than FUN for all of us.


And if it's some weird-type question that truly requires research, it should be the sole prerogerative of the questioner to allow it.

Again, Garry, you tell us. "Here Comes Da Judge..."

[hj197steve]

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I actually went to school, so please change "prerogerative" to prerogative.

[tandfman]

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I think there are two kinds of "looking it up" and perhaps the informal rules should distinguish between the two. The first is the true "looking it up" where you have no idea of the answer but know how to look it up (as many of us do, given the plethora of useful compilations on the Web). The second is where you know the answer, but don't know, or aren't sure about, one or more of the details.

I agree that for most trivia questions, the first kind of "looking it up" is not the right way to play the game.

As for the second, I'll give you an example, and I'll let gh, Steve, and other regulars opine on what's right and wrong. Earlier today, I gave that John Mostyn answer off the top of my head--no research at all. In fact, I did a quick Google to confirm the details (which others later supplied) but found nothing. So here's the question--if I had found the details on Google (which I expected to) would it have been within the bounds of proper Board behavior to have posted more accurate answer, having more than my own incomplete recollection to rely on? To be honest, I probably would have replaced my inaccurate mentions of what kind of record it was and how short the track was with more accurate--or more fudged--information. I would not have felt comfortable including details like the exact performance, year, and place, which I would have known only by looking it up.

Not to make this even more complicated, suppose I knew the year was either '58 or '59 and I looked it up and found it was '58. Is it fair to say '58 when you aren't really sure of it without research?

Do we have an Ethics Dude among us?

Are we having fun yet?

[gh]

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Rules? We don need no steenkeen rules! (for extra points, what actor said the famous lines that imitates?)

Let your conscience be your guide.

[hj197steve]

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How about:

"That's up to the committee."


followed by

"We ARE the committee."

[morgan st /wsatch]

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Freddie PRINZE

[gh]

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Freddie Prinze was 3 years old when the actor who said it died at the age of 53

[hj197steve]

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tandfman, it appears we are all playing on the exact same page. Rules of Reason, Common Sense, and Fair Play apply. That's exactly what I did on Meyers... I KNEW he had won both, but before I posted it, I looked up the exact years. Seemed and seems ok to me to do this type of thing. But maybe it's even better to say something like...
"Don Meyers in the LJ and the PV... pretty sure it's early 60's but can't remember the exact years. "

Anyway it's all just innocent fun so we'll all keep it that way.