Quiz Time, Kids!

by Oops Pow Surprise on Oct 22, 2009 11:32 AM CDT in Football Comment 31 comments

Here at BHGP, we like two things: the Hawkeyes, and self-distraction*. For the former, we come here, and for the latter, we waste an unholy amount of time on Sporcle, taking quizzes on important things like the most highly-paid members of each NBA team.

So we figured, let's combine the two, and spread the fun on with you readers. So we made our first quiz over there, which is every modern-era Hawkeye consensus All-American from Nile Kinnick on. Freebie, yes, but we figured you'd get that one on your own anyway. If you're up on your Hawkeye history, you'll run the table on this one. Don't worry; we'll make them harder from here on out. Scooter Lampkin will be making an appearance soon; we promise you that.

Oh, if you're wanting to take the quiz later, be forewarned that there's going to be *SPOILERS* in the comments. We empathize, but... c'mon.

*and also clown/horse porn, but that's neither here nor there.

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I missed Tippett, Roby, Steinbach, Jones, Duncan, Devries and Smith

It still disturbs me how much I know about past Iowa history tho.

"It's like a bad rave, only in place of the hypnotic effects of your grandfather's oxycontin, there's an actual octogenerian screaming gibberish over a thumping beat."

by ReadingRambler on Oct 22, 2009 11:41 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

10/17 for another school?

That IS scary.

by Cattlefeeder on Oct 22, 2009 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

15 – Missed Duncan and Staaaaaaaation.

by Buddy Light on Oct 22, 2009 11:50 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

poor performance by me

missed Jones and DeVries – dammit

by hdhawk on Oct 22, 2009 12:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

An oversight:

I noticed you forgot to put Dennis Green on the list. Please amend immediately.

11 out of 17. Should have been 14, but stupidity impeded my ability to remember Karras, Cook, and Smith. Know your enemy!…kinda.

Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.

by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Oct 22, 2009 12:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

15

Missed Duncan and Tippett.

by Assault & Slattery on Oct 22, 2009 12:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I missed two.

Station and Smith.

Feel really bad about Station since he was just in the news being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame and being honored at the Iowa-Michigan game.

by RossWB on Oct 22, 2009 12:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

16/17

I only missed Cal Jones. Giving the years and the positions kinda made it too easy IMO.

by DonnyDonovan on Oct 22, 2009 12:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

HOW DARE YOU MISS CAL JONES YOU RAT BASTARD.

(Disclaimer: he is my favorite old-timey Hawkeye whose name doesn’t rhyme with Schmile Schminnick.)

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Oct 22, 2009 12:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

17/17

you might not believe me, but I got them all right with 2:54 to spare. Hawkeye football is what I do.

"I'm not doing any good back here."

by Hawkaloogie on Oct 22, 2009 12:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Ha, 17/17 with 2:58 to spare!

by NorseHawk on Oct 22, 2009 12:48 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nice use of the slash

In clown/horse porn. There’s no way you’d want to leave either of those behind.

"For me the game wasn’t grounded in reality. It was about the uniform you put on that turned you into a warrior. It was about the mythology of the battle, the victory, the defeat, the struggle." - Mike Reid, PSU '69

by jtothep on Oct 22, 2009 12:50 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

17 out of 17

And had 1:27 to spare. Last 2 I got were Smith and Jones. Misspelled Tippett (2 t’s) and somehow Roby otherwise it would of been a better score.

by vahawk on Oct 22, 2009 1:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

17 out of 17 with 2:55 to spare

Blanked out on DeVries for 10 seconds.

by Cattlefeeder on Oct 22, 2009 1:50 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

16/17

Missed Cal Jones too. Grrr!

by Wegher Please! on Oct 22, 2009 2:15 PM CDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs

17/17

For some reason I blanked for a while on Smith and Tippett, so only had a little over a minute left. But I got the rest of them without looking at years and positions! I also missed “from Nile Kinnick on” so I spent precious seconds at first trying different spellings of Aubrey Devine until I realized what the problem was.

Brunettes not fighter jets

by rockyh on Oct 22, 2009 2:22 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

15

missed tippett because i could not spell tippett.Only used 1 t at end.Picky fuckin quiz.And totally blocked out on karras.

What if KOK spelled god????

by HerkyLerky on Oct 22, 2009 2:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

15 out of 17

As with most, I missed Leroy Smith. I’m frustrated that I couldn’t remember Tippett. I sat there for the final minute saying, “#99, recent HOFer, Patriot,” and couldn’t think of his name. I’m a dumbass.

by Kinnick Stadium is my Graceland on Oct 22, 2009 2:58 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

The Tippet/Tippett thing

I almost made “Tippet” acceptable, but I didn’t want people to spell it right and have that extra T sitting at the beginning of their next guess. I suppose if people are screwing that up and missing it, though, it’s worth editing. Will go change now.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Oct 22, 2009 3:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

How do you edit those things

I just posted something similar at BSD but cannot figure out how to edit.

"It's like a bad rave, only in place of the hypnotic effects of your grandfather's oxycontin, there's an actual octogenerian screaming gibberish over a thumping beat."

by ReadingRambler on Oct 22, 2009 4:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Go to the "create" tab.

I empathize; it took me like 5-10 minutes to figure that out.

I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks

by Oops Pow Surprise on Oct 22, 2009 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thanks

"It's like a bad rave, only in place of the hypnotic effects of your grandfather's oxycontin, there's an actual octogenerian screaming gibberish over a thumping beat."

by ReadingRambler on Oct 22, 2009 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I had no idea about Leroy Smith. I blanked on Marv Cook, but I’m a dumbass and froze. I tried Jonathan Hayes but he’s only an aa in my mind and I knew the years were wrong. One of my favorite Hawkeyes ever. Every game there would be 2-3 skirmishes, and he was ALWAYS in the middle of it. Awesome.

by txhawkeye on Oct 22, 2009 3:19 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs