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| − | *Matt is the best known user of the phrase "[[things have names|that's a word]]", which he directed towards moderator [[Mike Sorice]] while playing a bonus part on "hapticity" in the NSC All-Star Round. | + | {{Sublist| |
| − | *The answerline of "zeppelins" was briefly a facetious benchmark of absurd difficulty after Matt insisted that a [[NASAT]] tossup on {{bu|zeppelin}}s written by [[Mike Cheyne]] was extremely difficult to answer. | + | * Matt is the best known user of the phrase "[[things have names|that's a word]]", which he directed towards moderator [[Mike Sorice]] while playing a bonus part on "hapticity" in the NSC All-Star Round. |
| − | *At one point [[Carsten Gehring]] and [[Mike Cheyne]] referred to the duo of Bollinger and [[Evan Adams]] as "Rizzoli and Isles" respectively in reference to the unpopular TNT program - an attempt to find other quizbowlers to fit the similarly-titled TNT show ''Franklin & Bash'' was inconclusive. | + | * The answerline of "zeppelins" was briefly a facetious benchmark of absurd difficulty after Matt insisted that a [[NASAT]] tossup on {{bu|zeppelin}}s written by [[Mike Cheyne]] was extremely difficult to answer. |
| − | *Matt's involvement in a long argument about a [[NASAT]] tossup on the {{bu|United States-Canada border}} spawned the parodic phrase "true knowledge of the Pig War" to describe the question's failure to reward [[Jacob Wasserman]]'s "real knowledge". | + | * At one point [[Carsten Gehring]] and [[Mike Cheyne]] referred to the duo of Bollinger and [[Evan Adams]] as "Rizzoli and Isles" respectively in reference to the unpopular TNT program - an attempt to find other quizbowlers to fit the similarly-titled TNT show ''Franklin & Bash'' was inconclusive. |
| − | *Matt has been noted for his tendency to blush, a fact he was unaware of until an IRC conversation in which he claimed not to know what his own face looks like. | + | * Matt's involvement in a long argument about a [[NASAT]] tossup on the {{bu|United States-Canada border}} spawned the parodic phrase "true knowledge of the Pig War" to describe the question's failure to reward [[Jacob Wasserman]]'s "real knowledge". |
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| + | * Matt has been noted for his tendency to blush, a fact he was unaware of until an IRC conversation in which he claimed not to know what his own face looks like. | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:13, 20 December 2025
- Matt is the best known user of the phrase "that's a word", which he directed towards moderator Mike Sorice while playing a bonus part on "hapticity" in the NSC All-Star Round.
- The answerline of "zeppelins" was briefly a facetious benchmark of absurd difficulty after Matt insisted that a NASAT tossup on zeppelins written by Mike Cheyne was extremely difficult to answer.
- At one point Carsten Gehring and Mike Cheyne referred to the duo of Bollinger and Evan Adams as "Rizzoli and Isles" respectively in reference to the unpopular TNT program - an attempt to find other quizbowlers to fit the similarly-titled TNT show Franklin & Bash was inconclusive.
- Matt's involvement in a long argument about a NASAT tossup on the United States-Canada border spawned the parodic phrase "true knowledge of the Pig War" to describe the question's failure to reward Jacob Wasserman's "real knowledge".
- Matt has been noted for his tendency to blush, a fact he was unaware of until an IRC conversation in which he claimed not to know what his own face looks like.