TOURNAMENT STATISTICAL RECORDS 1989-90 SEASON

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• Tryout Test
• Southeastern Invitational - February 2-3, 1990 - Tennessee Wesleyan College

1989-90 Tryout Test

After completion of the 1989-90 Intramurals, the players on the winning team and the top players statistically were invited to take the tryout test. The test was diagnostic in nature, focusing on a player's ability to answer questions in eight arbitrary categories. Players were given 14 minutes to complete the test. After the test, we played a few questions with a buzzer system in order to refresh my memory of the player in the tournament. Players were selected for the team based on the following criteria, in order of importance: past performance with the team, performance in the intramural, areas of strength on the test, number of answers correct on the test, my gut instinct. A different test was used every year. Here's the 1989-90 test.

D. Past participle of "freeze."

F. Chinese dissident physicist currently "enjoying" sanctuary at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

E. His tone poems include "L'Apre`s-mide d'un Faune" and "La Mer."

C. Driver who won the 1989 Indianapolis 500.

B. Cathedral where Luther nailed 95 theses.

D. Number of syllables in a haiku.

D. Sylvia Plath's former husband and current Poet Laureate of England.

A. Director of Agricultural Research at the Tuskeegee Institute for 47 years.

F. This nuclear power plant became the first ever shut down by popular referendum.

C. Former bootlegger credited as being the first Black professional race car driver.

C. Horse who won the Belmont Stakes, ending Sunday Silence's Triple Crown bid.

H. Method of measurement in chemistry based on the response of spinning nuclei to a regularly variable electromagnetic field.

G. The Earth's crust is divided into two rock layers. Name one.

E. A form of Japanese drama: it deals with historical themes, has Buddhist overtones, and is highly stylized; requiring masks, elaborate costumes, music, and a chorus.

B. Hebrew prophet who lived during the reign of Ahab, he was carried up to Heaven in a whirlwind.

F. 1989 Nobel Laureate in Economics.

E. American dancer known for free movement, a Greek tunic, long scarves, and bare feet.

H. The most common lethal genetic disease of North American young people, the gene responsible for it was isolated in August.

H. Branch of mathematics called Geometria situs by Leibniz and Euler, and later called analysis situs.

G. Fault system in the Midwest named after the site of an 1811 earthquake.

F. Current Miss America, formerly Miss Missouri.

C. Doing this in the NHL will get you called for "icing."

B. First King of England of the House of Lancaster.

D. "Hoosier Poet," and author of: "Little Orphant Annie," "The Raggedy Man," and "When the Frost is on the Punkin."

F. Name of Space Shuttle OV-105, the Challenger replacement currently under construction.

G. Author of Principals of Political Economy and Taxation, he formulated the Law of Diminishing Returns.

A. Current United States Trade Representative.

A. Nicknamed "Bird Woman," she served as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

B. Angel who gave Joseph Smith instructions to found the Mormon Church.

G. The black part of soil formed from decayed leaves and other vegetable matter, containing valuable plant food.

D. Bald author of The Suppliant Women, allegedly killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head.

C. Home town of the SWC "Razorbacks."

H. In 1964 he suggested that any theory satisfying the concept that reality is a localized phenomenon and particles have determined properties, necessarily implies a relation among the results of a series of measurements.

A. Besides Truman, one of the Vice-Presidents who served under Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

B. In the Old Testament, the father of David.

E. Founder and director of the Ballets Russes.

G. Psychotherapist most associated with therapy involving Unconditional Positive Regard.

E. Inventor of the twelve tone method of composition, author of Style and Idea, and composer of Ode to Napoleon (based on the poem).

H. Part of the lungs where gas exchange takes place.

A. Site of the first women's rights convention, held in 1848.

Southeastern Invitational - February 2-3, 1990 - Tennessee Wesleyan College

Final Standing: 10-6

Players: Dennis Logue (Captain), Wes Russell, Tom Feeney, Will Kendrick, Jim Scott

Notes:

Tournament was for undergraduates only. First tournament we attended directed by Carol Guthrie. Prior to the N. C. State game, the team was looking sluggish - especially Jim. Some novel tactics were tried. When we couldn't get a window open to recreate the "apology scene" from A Fish Called Wanda, I just had Wes pick Jim up and hold him upside down until he promised to score more tossups. Jim got five the next match. Perhaps we should have done this before every game.

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