Argh! nerdsholmferret 9/19 '26

In honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day, "Argh!"  We were in qualifying position at 2nd place before the final pair of questions, which ruined us.

Who was the pirate born Edward Teach?

With what unit of distance does Han Solo measure his success at the Kessel Run?

Which of these is not one of 6 mysterious numbers in the series "Lost"?  4, 8, 17, 42

What percentage of U.S. households use GLP medications?

Who is the patron saint of Armenia and hopeless causes?

What actress was jailed multiple times starting in 2007 due to a DUI, and in 2011 was arrested for shoplifting jewelry?

In The Shawshank Redemption, how much did Andy steal from the Warden?

From what city does a "scouser" hail?

For what NFL running back is the NCAA FCS (1-AA) most outstanding offensive player award named?

What luxury brand was originally the Swallow Sidecar Company and more recently used the slogan "Copy Nothing"?

What 5 U.S. states are in the Eastern Time Zone and also one other time zone?

What soda brand is named after a word for indigestion?

What plant, also called "thunderwood" is Toxicodendron vernix?

Which of these has never been awarded the FIFA "Golden Boot" for most goals in the World Cup?  Pélé, Ronaldo, Müller, Kane?

What is the NFL team record number for most sacks in a season?

What did John Logie Baird invent?

What 7,100-pound statue, expressing optimism, was mysteriously dropped outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989?

What is the only U.S. National Park centered on a manmade structure?

What are the Italian names for the following pastas?  "little worms", "ridged", "small wheels"?

What animals did the Australian Army fight in 1932?

What Tom Cruise movie had the tagline "Live. Die. Repeat." ?

What "baritenor" was born in 1979 in Mansfield, Missouri?

In what chronological order did the following occur?  Oxford University, Aztec Empire, Magna Carta?

What U.S. state was the home of the most losing presidential nominees?

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5. Saint Jude

6. Winona Ryder

8. Liverpool
Kate McDonnell
Winona was my first thought for shoplifting, but that was 2001, and we got the correct answer from another team member.
nerdsholmferret
According to Wikipedia, "The Armenian Apostolic Church honors [Jude] Thaddeus along with Saint Bartholomew as its patron saints. In the Catholic Church, he is the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes. According to Google AI, "The primary patron saints of Armenia are Saint Gregory the Illuminator and Saint Gregory of Narek."

I used to work for a small newspaper publishing company that did classified ads for a number of (now defunct) weekly papers. People often ran ads saying "Thanks to Saint Jude for prayers answered with promise to publish" or similar. No other saints got anything close to the same agate lines.
Kate McDonnell
“Edward Teach, sometimes known as Captain Blackbeard, when you come to die, may your body be wracked between this world, and the next, always to be alone. May this curse hold fast and true, may you be held forevermore in limbo, until such time as there be found in you, most wicked of all villains (maniacal laughter) some spark of human goodness.” -Blackbeard’s Ghost, 1968, starring Sir Peter Ustinov and Elsa Lanchester, directed by Robert Stevenson.
Lindsay Harris Friel
Soda: Pepsi

Golden Boot: trap question; not sure if it was called the Golden Boot back in Pelé's day, and not clear which Ronaldo (Brazil's Ronaldo Nazario or Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo) or which Müller (Gerd or Thomas)

Statue: bull

Aussie opponents: emus

Cruise movie: Edge of Tomorrow

Chronological order: MC, OU, AE
rone
They did clarify that "Golden Boots" are recognized retroactively, and named Thomas Müller. They did not give two names for Ronaldo, apparently referring to Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima.
nerdsholmferret
In that case, i think my answer will be Pelé.
rone
That was my wild guess based on the Surprising Fact Theory. Our German teammate narrowed it down to Pélé and his own incorrect guess of Kane.
nerdsholmferret
Kane earned his Golden Boot at the 2018 Cup when Germany was eliminated in the group stage by South Korea 😔
nerdsholmferret
We also submitted your guess for chronological order, and it killed us. I consistently gripe about "multiple choice" questions like this, ESPECIALLY on the "bet a ton of points" final question. It essentially randomizes the outcome of the entire game. I have less-defensible complaints about the losing nominees question, given that we are admittedly talking about trivia.
nerdsholmferret
I only saw the first few questions!

John Logie Baird invented TV, or at least an early attempt at it.

Little worms = vermicelli. Ridged is probably penne rigate. I think the wheels are rotelli? (My favourite one is eliche, Italian for helixes.)

Magna Carta, Oxford, Aztecs. The Aztecs are always later than you think.

Did the Aussies fight rabbits?
Kate McDonnell
They further explained that the "ridged" pasta is wide, which probably doesn't exclude penne, and maybe had some other descriptors which I don't recall. We did get that one right, though, with a single-word answer. The Australians do have a rabbit problem, but probably didn't attack them with machine guns in 1932.
nerdsholmferret
I'm sadly-comforted (commiserated?) that you and rone both concur with our wrong answer on chronology.
nerdsholmferret
I basically thought MC was a hundred years earlier and UO a hundred years later.
rone