Jeopardy! I can no longer boast that...

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without using google, who was the first basketball to score 1000 rebounds in a single season?

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Well that's like 12+/game and they shot a lot of bricks back in the day so it could be someone like George Mikan. But when Russell and Chamberlain came in they rewrote the record books and would each average something ridiculous like 18-20 rebounds/game. So my guess is Russell (he got to the NBA first) with some concern it will be Mikan or someone obscure.

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I say that I barely missed it, because I could picture the guy's face, and could come up with his first name.


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You can do it!

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They were looking for the name of the Romanian-born gymnastics coach who carried an injured Kerri Strug off the mat at the Olympics.

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Bela Karolyi (or some other spelling), without looking at the rest of you post.

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I can't believe that you missed the gymnastics one if your record is that solid.

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His face immediately came to me, along with the name "Bela". Then the image of him carrying Strug.

Unfortunately, I had just seen "Ed Wood" that week for the first time, and watched it more than once, so another Bela was firmly entrenched in the forefront of my mind, and I couldn't get past it. I could not name another Bela in the world at that moment besides "Lagosi".

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My blurted answer would have been Chip Beck, which apparently is correct as well.

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Again, I misread the question, trying to answer it before the entire question had been read. All I saw was "Golfer" and "59", and presumed they were looking for Geiberger.

They probably peppered the entire thing with clues that pointed to Sorenstam, such as "Swedish" and "female" and "2001", but I had already leaped to my Gieberger conclusion, and can't say.

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Belmont is the obvious guess.

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Not if you're familiar with the history of horseracing, as I am. My dad owned and trained horses when I was a kid; my sister's first husband was a jockey, and her second husband a trainer; and I spent most of the 90's booking horse races at a Las Vegas casino.

Me missing a question about the oldest racetrack on the New York circuit would be like a baseball card collector missing question about an old Topps card.

One last insult in injury: my wife got the Saratoga question right when I told her about it, and she never gets a sports question right. Now do you believe me when I say I should have gotten that one?

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i have a near perfect record for the "bible" category... lol.

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Yeah, me too--I miss almost every single question. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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How much Jeopardy do you watch? Is it more than 100 shows?

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I can't believe that you missed the gymnastics one if your record is that solid.

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His face immediately came to me, along with the name "Bela". Then the image of him carrying Strug.

Unfortunately, I had just seen "Ed Wood" that week for the first time, and watched it more than once, so another Bela was firmly entrenched in the forefront of my mind, and I couldn't get past it. I could not name another Bela in the world at that moment besides "Lagosi".

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And you even got that wrong! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Everybody knows that spelling doesn't count on Jeopardy.