It's time for a pop quiz! Don't worry, it doesn't count toward your final grade. One of my latest time-wasting obsessions is Sporcle, a site full of user-created timed quizzes on any and every subject under the sun: music, television, sports, geography, history, language...you name it. Naturally I gravitate toward the sports quizzes. There are a ton just pertaining to the Orioles, if you do a site search, but I also like to challenge myself with more general-knowledge stuff, like the 20-game winners of the 2000s or the members of the Hall of Fame. It was just a matter of time before I decided to throw my own hat into the ring. I present to the first quiz of my own creation: The Top Ten All-Time Maryland-Born Home Run Leaders. Billy Ripken just missed the cut, but his brother might be on there. I wouldn't want to give away my secrets. So go give it a whirl, and let me know what you think! I'd also appreciate it if you could rate the quiz. Have fun!
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Cal Ripken, Jr., 1996 Collector's Choice You Make the Play #33
It's time for a pop quiz! Don't worry, it doesn't count toward your final grade. One of my latest time-wasting obsessions is Sporcle, a site full of user-created timed quizzes on any and every subject under the sun: music, television, sports, geography, history, language...you name it. Naturally I gravitate toward the sports quizzes. There are a ton just pertaining to the Orioles, if you do a site search, but I also like to challenge myself with more general-knowledge stuff, like the 20-game winners of the 2000s or the members of the Hall of Fame. It was just a matter of time before I decided to throw my own hat into the ring. I present to the first quiz of my own creation: The Top Ten All-Time Maryland-Born Home Run Leaders. Billy Ripken just missed the cut, but his brother might be on there. I wouldn't want to give away my secrets. So go give it a whirl, and let me know what you think! I'd also appreciate it if you could rate the quiz. Have fun!
WHY is he outlined in pink neon? I'm fairly certain that Cal Ripken would never approve of being outlined in pink neon.
ReplyDeleteGood quiz, I got them all except Nicholson, Keller and Jordan.
ReplyDeleteWow, I did horrible. I don't remember much being said about Brady being a native Marylander, but maybe he was just born there. (Granted, I also wasn't living in MD the early part of his career, and the internet didn't exist like it does today, either).
ReplyDeleteYou took me to school, KB. I got 4/10 correct...and the only reason I got Teixeira was because of your one rant on this site. Good quiz either way, but it was a little geographically narrow (that last comment was a joke).
ReplyDeleteStacey - Such is the horror of the mid-90s.
ReplyDeleteFTB - Nicholson was a Chestertown native and is in my alma mater (Washington College)'s Hall of Fame.
Tim - Yeah, Brady was born in Silver Spring, but grew up in California.
William - Tell me you got Babe Ruth...
HAHA I only got 4 correct. Nice Quiz!
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