Quiz Bowl Upsets

• From: JDinan8271
• Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 06:30:36 -0800
• Message-ID: <000S20HOC.0004O726L.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Ah...a subject I can finally relate to :)


Let's see there was...

 Alfred def. Virginia

Alaska-Fairbanks def. Iowa State
 GW def. Illinois

 All
of these upsets occurred at the 1995 CBI NCT at the
University of Akron, on the SAME PACKET. GW's win is
mentioned, as it ended a teammate's losing streak against
the Fighting Illini (which was about 3-4 years
long).

 GW def. Maryland A

 This victory at Penn
Bowl 1994 marked (I believe) the only time GW
qualified for the PB playoffs, as well as the only time in
my career I beat UMD A in an academic tournament.


 If I remember correctly, a GW win over Maryland
A, as well as a Harvard A win against someone else,
gave GW the playoff berth and Harvard the #1 seed in
the bracket (we were #4, and lost to Swarthmore A in
the first round of the playoffs).

 Maryland A
in 1994 featured the juggernaut of Marc Swisdak,
Matt Baker and Sherman Lo. The GW team was me, Jon
Schmidt, Guy Jordan and Matt Kline. With about 30 seconds
left in the game, we were ahead by five points. We get
the tossup, and it's a 30-20-10 bonus, asking us to
name the famous person.

 30-point-clue: He was
the first "mystery guest" on TV's What's My
Line?

 I practically lose it - the question is taken
verbatim from the box of a Trivia Fact A Day calendar my
mother got me as a stocking stuffer for Christmas.


 ME: Jon...it's Phil Rizzuto. Trust me on
this.
 MODERATOR: Answer, captain?
 JON: Rizzuto

MODERATOR: 30 points, next question
 <BUZZ>


GW wins by 45 points.

 James