20 Questions - FINAL RESULTS IN!

PRIZES:

(keep in mind I'm just a lowly college student :-)

If you have answered a question correctly your name or e-mail address is listed under one or more of the questions below.


LEADERBOARD:

Maggie Hunnicutt - 13 correct
Georgia Deakin - 9 correct
Trey Grant - 7 correct
Gail Christian - 6 correct
Brian Miller - 6 correct
Yvette Mujica - 5 correct
Tom Heffernan - 4 correct
Craig Lunsford - 4correct
Adam Schlisser - 4 correct
Margie Smith - 4 correct
Bob Atwell - 3 correct
Kenny Chaney - 3 correct
Marc McKenney - 3 correct
Wes McKinney - 3 correct
Matt Preston - 3 correct
Jody Ferrell - 2 correct
Dave Hollenbach - 2 correct
David Jacobi - 2 correct
John Junkin - 2 correct
Ivan/Cathy Overton - 2 correct
Matt Payne - 2 correct
Josh Smith - 2 correct
David Steinfeld - 2 correct
Aaron Tonks - 2 correct
185 others - 1 correct


Question #21: What nickname (that obviously didn't stick) did Dale acquire in college?

Percentage of Responses:
Disco Dale = 45%
The Boy Scout Of Brigham Young = 36%
Batman = 15%
The Wild & Crazy Guy = 4%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #21. The correct answer was "Disco Dale".

B. Bauer                   Ben Bowers               Christopher Michael Brown
Brett Bush                 Dean Byrd                Kenny Chaney
Tommy Collins              Doug Corrigan            Pete Doumit
Dave Edmonds               Lane Gekeler             Trey Grant
John Henderson             Craig Lunsford           Matt Payne
Josh Porter                Brian Skerven

Question #20: Fill in the blanks of this Dale Murphy quote: "__________ taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight. __________ talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air. __________ helped me hit the ball on a line and not commit too early. And __________ would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate."

Percentage of Responses:
Luke Appling; Joe Torre; Tommie Aaron; Eddie Haas = 16%
Eddie Haas; Tommie Aaron; Joe Torre; Luke Appling = 20%
Joe Torre; Luke Appling; Eddie Haas; Tommie Aaron = 44%
Tommie Aaron; Eddie Haas; Luke Appling; Joe Torre = 20%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #20. The correct answer was "Tommie Aaron; Eddie Haas; Luke Appling; Joe Torre".

Casey Corbett
Ted Demos
Craig Lunsford
Joe Peeples
Micaiah Smoker
Tom Stokesberry
Aaron Tonks
jc123352@alltel.net


Question #19: Which Braves announcer will debate on behalf of Dale's election to the Hall of Fame on an upcoming television program?

Percentage of Responses:
Skip Caray = 32%
Don Sutton = 34%
Pete Van Wieren = 11%
Ernie Johnson = 53%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #19. The correct answer was "Ernie Johnson".

Tim Danchess               Georgia Deakin           Kevin DuBose
Jody Ferrell               Maggie Hunnicutt         Craig Lunsford
Jeff Maw                   Aaron Millman            Joseph Mouser
Yvette Mujica              Ragon Reusch             Kris Walker
chronicmatthews@juno.com   dorisu@brightok.net

Question #18: How did Dale fare in his major league debut?

Percentage of Responses:
0 for 1, 1 RBI = 29%
1 for 2, 1 RBI = 37%
2 for 4, 2 RBI = 25%
3 for 4, 3 RBI = 9%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #18. The correct answer was "2 for 4, 2 RBI".

Josh Belcher          Seth Berman               Georgia Deakin
Jace Farnsworth       Maggie Hunnicutt          Alan Martin
Brian Miller          Yvette Mujica             William Musgrove
Tabitha Owens         Margie Smith              David Steinfeld
SusieQ@olci.com

Question #17: Which of the following cars has Dale owned?

Percentage of Responses:
Porsche = 19%
Ferrari = 7%
Corvette = 52%
Jaguar = 22%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #17. The correct answer was "Corvette".

Brad Anderson         John Bowers               Lee Braswell
Gail Christian        W.C. Davis                Georgia Deakin
Steve Helton          Jon Hilbun                Maggie Hunnicutt
Richie Lankford       Dallin Leach              Brandon Lockhart
Tyler Manninen        Steve Megargee            Brian Miller
Yvette Mujica         Rex Norman                Charles Smalley
Josh Smith            Margie Smith              David Steinfeld
Clint Thurman         James Watson              craft@surfsouth.com
f3i3s3h3@aol.com

Question #16: Who did Dale nickname "Marmaduke" because he was young and always getting into trouble?

Percentage of Responses:
Ron Gant = 28%
Jeff Blauser = 36%
John Smoltz = 29%
Kent Mercker = 7%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #16. The correct answer was "John Smoltz".

Rod Blevins           Catherine Callahan        Kenny Chaney
Georgia Deakin        Jason Gully               Dave Hollenbach
Maggie Hunnicutt      Jason Karasick            Janette Kelley
Craig Lunsford        Yvette Mujica             Matt Preston
Adam Schlisser        John Seedorf              Chris Smith
Margie Smith          Charlie Thompkins         Jeff Wachter
John Yu               tonksg@srv.net

Question #15: Which of the following pitchers surrendered Dale's dramatic pinch-hit home run when his consecutive games streak was presumed to be over (on 4/30/86, the day after he caught his hand in the fence at AFC stadium)?

Percentage of Responses:
Dwight Gooden = 42%
Mike Scott = 30%
Randy Myers = 20%
Nolan Ryan = 8%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #15. The correct answer was "Dwight Gooden".

Joey Ball             Steven Brown              Rich Curry
Georgia Deakin        Russ DuRant               Chris Emerson
Mike Furey            Jon Gerondale             Patrick Gonzales
Trey Grant            Anthony Gross             Tom Heffernan
Huy Ho                Maggie Hunnicutt          Brad Jerome
Michael Lawson        Adam Marc Leonard         Angie Lipe
Joe Martens           Steve Marts               Brian Miller
Yvette Mujica         Matt Payne                Jeannette Reveron
Adam Schlisser        Michael Schnell           Aaron Schwab
Karim Shariff         Josh Smith                James Sullivan
Mark Weber            Kyle Whitney              John Young

Question #14: Which of the following pitchers surrendered Dale's 300th home run?

Percentage of Responses:
Jerry Reuss = 24%
Brian Fisher = 22%
Fernando Valenzuela = 37%
Mike Dunne = 17%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #14. The correct answer was "Brian Fisher".

Brian Bevins          Kevin Burt                Andrew Castorina
Jason Cherry          Ben Goodrich              Trey Grant
Lucas Griggs          Maggie Hunnicutt          John Junkin
Marc McKenney         Bill Shifflett            Jarrod Simmons
Keith Willingham      bresea@bellsouth.com

Question #13: Dale's 32 career multi-homer games ranks him higher than all of the following players EXCEPT who?

Percentage of Responses:
Billy Williams = 27%
Carl Yastrzemski = 28%
Gil Hodges = 5%
Stan Musial = 40%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #13. The correct answer was "Stan Musial".

Monty C. Bryant       Gail Christian            Anthony Coggins
Tony Giddens          Trey Grant                Dave Hollenbach
Maggie Hunnicutt      John Junkin               Robert Maltese
Brian Miller          Jim Miller                Adam Schlisser
Jeremy Vanicek        Calvin Ward               pac8568@acs.tamu.edu
Steveh10@ix.netcom.com

Question #12: Which of the following pitchers surrendered Dale's 200th home run?

Percentage of Responses:
Rick Rhoden = 24%
Dave Dravecky = 21%
Rick Reuschel = 34%
Danny Darwin = 21%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #12. The correct answer was "Dave Dravecky".

Gail Christian
Karen Caldwell
Georgia Deakin
Tom Heffernan
Maggie Hunnicutt
Adam Schlisser
Margie Smith


Question #11: Which of the following pitchers did NOT give up a grand slam to Dale?

Percentage of Responses:
Steve Bedrosian = 44%
Kent Tekulve = 10%
Les Lancaster = 13%
Vida Blue = 33%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #11. The correct answer was "Steve Bedrosian".

Bob Atwell          Greg Cargal          Kenny Chaney
Ron Davis           Brad English         Pat Gibson
Trey Grant          Tom Heffernan        Maggie Hunnicutt
David Jacobi        Walter Martin        Marc McKenney
Nathan Schroeder

Question #10: Who broke Dale's Atlanta record for most homers in the month of April?

Percentage of Responses:
Ron Gant = 14%
Ryan Klesko = 81%
Dave Justice = 0%
Fred McGriff = 5%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #10. The correct answer was "Ryan Klesko".

Charles Brantley    Georgia Deakin       Jody Ferrell
Trey Grant          Scott Harmon         Tom Heffernan
Maggie Hunnicutt    Jim McKay            Wes McKinney
Brian Miller        Patrick O'Keefe      Ivan/Cathy Overton
Jeff Nauful         Matt Preston         Pummi Sharma
JJMustang@aol.com   NTWK@POP.COM

Question #9: Which of the following "Jeffs" idolized Dale Murphy as a teenager?

Percentage of Responses:
Jeff Bagwell = 45%
Jeff Manto = 0%
Jeff Kent = 10%
Jeff Conine = 45%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #9. The correct answer was "Jeff Conine".

Bob Atwell
Trey Grant
Maggie Hunnicutt
Nathan Huser
Pete Kelly
Eric Morris
Lane Molen
Ivan/Cathy Overton
Matt Preston


Question #8: On which of the following TV networks has Dale announced a baseball game?

Percentage of Responses:
TBS = 25%
Sportsouth = 71%
NBC = 0%
ESPN = 4%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #8. The correct answer was "Sportsouth".

Bob Atwell        Matt Bilderback      Kevin Bourke
Gail Christian    Georgia Deakin       Michael Eichhorn
Michal Gierak     Maggie Hunnicutt     Jason Inzana
Marc McKenney     Wes McKinney         Brian Miller
Brian Perry       Jason W. Smith       Jean Smith
Moori Toosi       MCKLEEVE@aol.com

Question #7: Which of the people listed below characterized Dale as the following?

"The original Mr. Goody Two shoes. He makes Steve Garvey look evil. The man doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, doesn't even drink Coca-Cola. If God's coming back, he's coming back as Dale Murphy."

Percentage of Responses:
Ted Turner = 27%
Chuck Tanner = 27%
Bob Horner = 6%
Bruce Benedict = 40%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #7. The correct answer was "Ted Turner".

Georgia Deakin
Kaleo Enos
Stephan Tan
pilonr@total.net


Question #6: Which of the following up-and-coming shortstops idolizes Dale Murphy and said this?

"My mom always said 'I don't care if you turn out to be a terrible ballplayer. I just want you to be a good person.' That's the most important thing to me. Like Cal or Dale Murphy, I want people to look at me and say 'He's a good person.'"

Percentage of Responses:
Derek Jeter = 7%
Alex Rodriguez = 20%
Mark Grudzielanek = 20%
Chipper Jones = 53%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #6. The correct answer was "Alex Rodriguez".

David Jacobi
Wes McKinney
Tom Narang


Question #5: Which of the following pitchers made this analysis?

"If you could get Dale Murphy to miss one fastball, then you could throw him change-ups. The one danger with Murphy was that one fastball. If you could get away with it - maybe up and in for a foul ball - then you could even throw a mistake change-up."

Percentage of Responses:
Steve Carlton = 31%
Tom Seaver = 23%
Don Sutton = 41%
Greg Maddux = 5%

Congratulations to the following entrant who correctly answered question #5. The correct answer was "Greg Maddux".

Gail Christian


Question #4: During his senior year in high school, which of the following organizations was Dale a member of?

Percentage of Responses:
Letterman Club = 87%
Debate Team = 0%
Young Republicans = 13%
French Club = 0%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #4. The correct answer was "Letterman Club".

Bradley Barfield
Gail Christian
Joe Ferguson
Thomas Gabelman
David Morrison
lemaster@colorgfx.com
rose_el@catseq.catlin.edu


Question #3: Which prospect's "size and skills have been likened to such greats as Dale Murphy . . .", according to a minor league baseball card company?

Percentage of Responses:
Curtis Pride = 0%
Chad Mottola = 27%
Jim Edmonds = 18%
Jermaine Dye = 55%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #3. The correct answer was "Chad Mottola".

Jody Baldwin
George Bodiroga
Maggie Hunnicutt


Question #2: What outfielder did Dale tutor on fielding fly balls during the offseason?

Percentage of Responses:
Bernie Williams = 20%
Rondell White = 40%
Trot Nixon = 20%
Jacob Brumfield = 20%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #2. The correct answer was "Bernie Williams".

James Day
Shawn Turner


Question #1: Which of the following will Dale's new house possess?

Percentage of Responses:
A full-size sculpture of Dale on the front porch = 3%
A little-league size baseball diamond in the backyard = 83%
A basketball court in the basement = 11%
15 bedrooms (One for each year he played for the Braves) = 3%

Congratulations to the following entrants who correctly answered question #1. The correct answer was "a basketball court in the basement".

Brian Caskey
Judith Henry
John Hodgson
Shannon Rhoda

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