Continuous Quiz: A twist...

by Chaos100 on Feb 13, 2011 3:32 PM EST

I've been tinkering recently with a few new ideas (or twists on previous themes) in order to entertain and delight, or maybe just alleviate some boredom for a minute or two. This is one of the ideas I had, which was a quiz which relies on getting the answer to any given question before being able to move on to the next.

Now, I stress this is a preliminary effort, a first attempt at something just to see if it works, and I also appreciate that maybe knocking together 5 or maybe even 10 would have been a better idea, or maybe even making it 100 questions long rather than 20...But anyway, for the whole 5 minutes it takes you to wade through it, I hope it's a bit of trivia fun, and I welcome any and all comments.

Could I just ask, please, that spoilers are kept to a minimum, at least in the first few comments, so as not to inadvertantly ruin the chain for others. Obviously those intrepid explorers who scroll down and read the comments risk finding out a tricky answer or two, but hell, it's a bit of fun. :)

Any question refers back to the answer to the previous one... hey, you'll work it out. :) I suppose the 'winner' is the person who first posts the date of birth of the man whose name is the answer to question 20 (I say DOB rather than name simply to prevent his name being the first post in the comments).

Quiz question #1 after the jump.......

1. Who handed the great Carlos Zarate his first ever defeat in a professional bout?

2. Who did this fighter list as his idol, even going so far as to state this at his IBHOF induction?

3. Whose record-breaking unbeaten streak did this man famously end?

4. This man is rated by Boxrec as the #1 P4P fighter of all time from his native country. Who is #3 on that list?

5. Who handed this fighter his first defeat, which came when he was 35-(34)-0?

6. Who did this man fight 3 times in his last seven fights?

7. Who did this man defeat to win Olympic Gold in 1992?

8. Which ‘World Title’ belt did this man win within three years of going pro?

9. Who is the head of this organization?

10. Who did this man describe as: “the greatest of all-time, without question”?

11. Who did this man fight in his second ever World title defence?

12. This man had one draw on his record. Who was his opponent?

13. Who did this man fight in the Ring Magazine’s Fight of the Year in 1969?

14. This man had two sons, both professional fighters. Name the elder of the two.

15. Who handed this man his first professional defeat?

16. Against whom was this man disqualified in his only attempt to qualify for the Olympics?

17. Which future champion knocked this man out in less than a minute in his 39th fight?

18. Who did this man fight and lose to in a World Title shot in 1974?

19. That was the ninth second-round stoppage in eleven fights for this man. Only one fighter took him past round 2 in that sequence. Name him.

20. This man fought 3 World Champions in his career. Who was the only one he went the distance with?

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So whats the deal here?

Do you want us to post all 20 answers or one at a time?

I’ll start with the first and we can continue from there:
Wilfredo Gomez

by cyke on Feb 14, 2011 6:03 PM EST reply actions

Nooooo! No spoilers!!

Question 2 refers to the guy who is the answer to question 1.

So therefore if you’re right (you are…), question 2 becomes:

Who did this fighter (Wilfredo Gomez) list as his idol, even going so far as to state this at his IBHOF induction?

And the answer to that question is the fighter that question 3 alludes to….

Please don’t post random answers….

Just post the date of birth of the guy who is the answer to question 20… :)

In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."

by Chaos100 on Feb 14, 2011 8:26 PM EST up reply actions

1939-04-04 ????

Great quiz. Honestly, I started somewhere in the middle because I couldn’t get the answers to some of the earlier ones.
What a great 20 degrees of separation.

by cyke on Feb 15, 2011 12:07 AM EST up reply actions

You are correct, sir. :)

Also, I think I might use the ‘degrees of seperation’ theme (or a variant of it) for the title if I do another.

I find it quite tough to switch between weight classes… it’s pretty tough not to just get stuck in the same division and reeling off the same names, which makes the whole thing a whole lot easier for people doing the quiz as one of the variables is already eliminated.

by Chaos100 on Feb 15, 2011 7:53 AM EST up reply actions

One way of making connections across weight classes could be using coaches and gyms.

by cyke on Feb 15, 2011 9:21 AM EST up reply actions

Good shout…. I would have done had I really wanted to research it and make it crazily hard, but this was more an experiment to see how the format worked.

by Chaos100 on Feb 15, 2011 9:31 AM EST up reply actions

And.... you started in the middle?

How exactly? Did you go for question 13 (because of the way the question is phrased, it could only be one of two guys)?

by Chaos100 on Feb 15, 2011 7:55 AM EST up reply actions

Yup, exactly how I did it :)

by cyke on Feb 15, 2011 9:08 AM EST up reply actions

The second question onwards stumped me.

by cyke on Feb 15, 2011 9:22 AM EST up reply actions

I'll post all the answers in about a week.

by Chaos100 on Feb 15, 2011 9:32 AM EST up reply actions

Man, I'm clueless on most of this

I would have thought that #2 would be Sixto Escobar or someone like that, but I don’t think he broke any major streaks. And when I think of people who had famous streaks from the right time period, all of them came from the US, so it doesn’t make much sense from the perspective of the next question. The answer that would make sense to me, based on the next several questions, is Frankie Randall, but he’s not exactly the right time period to have been Bazooka’s idol. Plus then I still end up at a dead end a couple questions later.

But if I work backwards from #7, I think I have a chunk of it. Only two prominent pros who won gold in 1992 – Oscar de la Hoya and Joel Casamayor. Hoya beat a nobody to win his gold, while Casa beat Wayne McCullough, so he makes more sense. Chico Corrales fought Casamayor in three of his last seven fights. Chico beat Popo Freitas when he was 35-0. If Freitas is #3 for Brazil, I have to assume that Eder Jofre is #1. Fighting Harada broke Jofre’s winning streak. So even though it makes absolutely no sense to me, I have to assume the answer to #2 is actually Fighting Harada. I can also go forward from McCullough to get to the WBC and Jose Sulaiman, but I have no idea from there (although knowing Sulaiman, the answer is probably something absurd like Julio Cesar Chavez).

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by Brickhaus on Feb 17, 2011 2:06 PM EST reply actions

Question:

Why doesn’t it make any sense to you that the answer to #2 would be Harada?

by Chaos100 on Feb 17, 2011 9:53 PM EST up reply actions

Different style, other side of the world

It’s not like Harada’s fights were televised in the US even, I doubt he was on TV much in Puerto Rico when he was growing up. And it’s not like video tapes even existed yet.

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by Brickhaus on Feb 18, 2011 1:02 PM EST up reply actions