Co-lounger Kim Krawiec alerted me to this story in today's edition of The New York Times: No Casual Fans at World Series of Baseball Trivia. (Hey Kim — did you know that your initials — KK — represent "two strikeouts" by a pitcher in baseball lingo?) A related story — with trivia questions — can be found here.
I think I'll keep my day job. The article suggests that I'm not ready for the "big leagues" just yet with my trivial trivia knowledge.
Pictured: Nolan Ryan (2006 Fleer Greats of the Game #67). This sounds like the type of trivia question asked at the Trivia Tournament: name the players who made the last out in each of Ryan's seven no-hitters. Answer below the fold.
And if that's too challenging, try this: what are the nine requirements of a "negotiable instrument" under UCC Article 3?
Amos Otis, Norm Cash, Eric Soderholm, Bobby Grich, Dusty Baker, Willie Randolph, and Roberto Alomar.
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/features/experts.php?date=05_31_00#1
Because I just finished the Texas bar (and only because of that)…In writing, signed by the obligor, unconditional promise or order to pay, a fixed amount of money, payable on demand or at a fixed time, no other undertaking or instruction, and words of negotiability.
So if I ever decide to chuck this academic thing and follow my dreams of being a hip hop artist, I already have a stage name "Two Strikes"? If Fergie can do it I can do it (despite the fact that I don't look or sound or dance like her). And I guess that really counts as pop not hip hop anyway, but whatever . . .
Realized after re-reading that I put "two strikes" rather than "two strikeouts," but then decided "two strikes" is the much better stage name anyway.