Thursday Trivia

[micropolitan guy]

We're back on a normal schedule. Play or don't. Etc., etc.

College football questions today. Probably obscure.

1. Which current Division I team has gone the longest (as a Division I-A program) without playing in a bowl game?
ANSWER: NMSU is correct. Last bowl was the 1960 Sun Bowl.

2. VMI's last football victory over a program that has always played at the I-A level came against ...
ANSWER: VMI it is, 6-0 over Va. Tech (then VPI) on 11/21/81 in Blacksburg. The Keydets also defeated UVa twice in the late 1970s, back when Wahoo football was a real joke.


3. George Washington discontinued football after the 1966 season. Who did they defeat for their last victory?
ANSWER: Furman is correct, a 49-28 GWU victory over the Purple Paladins on 10/29/66 in Washington.

4. Which current Southeastern Conference team has the highest all-time winning percentage in bowl games? (minimum of 20 games).
ANSWER: Ole Miss is correct; 19-12-1 for a .613 percentage.

5. Which teams won the final Freedom, Micron P.C. and Bluebonnet bowls?
ANSWERS: Utah won the last Freedom Bowl in 1994. NC State won the last Micron PC Bowl in 2000. And (correct answer here) won the last Bluebonnet Bowl in 1987.


EASY MUSICAL BONUS QUESTION: Two accomplished rock musicians are buried in same cemetary as the namesake of one of their signature songs. Name the musicians, and the song.

HARDER MUSICAL BONUS QUESTION: Who was/is Walden Waldo Robert Cassotto?
ANSWER: Bobby Darin is correct.

 

[Webster]

The harder music one is Bobby Darin.

 

[Beef03]

I think 1) is Buffalo.

 

[Moderator1]

Is 2 Army?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Not Army.

 

[Dickens Cider]

3 is Furman.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Bumped with Dickens' correct answer. Paladins were easier to defeat before the David Whitehurst era.

 

[BYH]

1.) Rice

5.) Freedom: UCLA

 

[maumann]

4. Ole Miss Rebels?

 

[Flying Headbutt]

1. SMU?

 

[Steak Snabler]

1. Vanderbilt?


I'm guessing one of the musicians is Buddy Holly (Peggy Sue)

 

[Sam Mills 51]

1) New Mexico State. Even Hal Mumme couldn't rescue the bunch in Las Cruces.

5) N.C. State won the final MicronPC Bowl. (Someone in the athletic department is probably still using the comped PC ... )

 

[Moderator1]

VT. Won 6-3 in hell, I can't remember the year. Yes, from memory on the game. Cold, snowly. 1981 I think.

 

[BYH]

Hey Moddy I whupped your ass last week on the musical bonus.

Just wanted to say that...again.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Answers updated. Just missing the last Bluebonnet Bowl champion and the first trivia question.

 

[Birdscribe]

Your Bluebonnet Bowl final champion was those pesky Texas Longhorns.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Was Houston the last Bluebonnet bowl winner?

 

[BYH]

I loved the Bluebonnet Bowl. It was inevitably the only thing on when my sister and I were being babysat as our parents went out for one of their two dates a year.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Texas won the last Bluebonnet Bowl.

EASY MUSICAL BONUS QUESTION: Two accomplished rock musicians are buried in same cemetary as the namesake of one of their signature songs. Name the musicians, and the song.

Duane Allman and Berry Oakley are buried in the Rose Hill Cemetary in Macon, Ga., as is Elizabeth Reed Napier, the inspiration for "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed."

 

[Birdscribe]

Texas won the last Bluebonnet Bowl.

EASY MUSICAL BONUS QUESTION: Two accomplished rock musicians are buried in same cemetary as the namesake of one of their signature songs. Name the musicians, and the song.

Duane Allman and Berry Oakley are buried in the Rose Hill Cemetary in Macon, Ga., as is Elizabeth Reed Napier, the inspiration for "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed."

Got the Bluebonnet question right.

That was a great musical question, Micro. It drove me nuts trying to figure it out; the first thought was Lennon and Harrison and Rita from "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." But I knew Harrison was buried here in Hollywood and where Lennon is buried, only his family knows.

I never would have guessed that.