Wipeout Round 1 Board 1 (Xalxe up)

[Prof. Guppy]

bump

[StrangerCoug]

It's called whacking me with a PM, not bumping the thread.

On it.

[StrangerCoug]

ROUND 1, BOARD 2

The year 2000—we thought computers weren't going to be able to display that year correctly! But we got the kinks worked out, and a number of other notable events happened then. Which 11 of the events below

happened in 2000?

I used a bunch of abbreviations, so here's everything written out in full:

• Dot-com bubble bursts
  
• Elián González given to his father
  
• Kaprun disaster kills 155
  
• Albania joins the World Trade Organization
  
• Vicente Fox elected President of Mexico
  
• Long Kesh prison closes
  
• Euro begins circulation
  
• Chernobyl shuts down completely
  
• Gang attempts theft of The Millenium Star diamond
  
• Air France Flight 4509 crashes in Gonesse
  
• Charles M. Schulz passes away
  
• India's billionth living person is born
  
• Timothy McVeigh executed
  
• Columbine High School massacre occurs
  
• Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France for the first time
  
• Tuvalu joins the United Nations

mallowgeno, you start.

[Kcdaspot]

at this point is my money safe from wipeouts?

[StrangerCoug]

No. I decided I didn't like that proposed rule.

[Kcdaspot]

*AIRHORN*

[StrangerCoug]

Prodding mallowgeno.

[Bowser]

mallowgeno is V/LA until Monday

[StrangerCoug]

I will allow it to slide, but next time, if you don't tell me about V/LA and I time you out and replace you, you have no recourse.

[Prof. Guppy]

It's Monday, already. Is mallow un-V/LA yet?

[Kcdaspot]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[mallowgeno]

I apologize profusely for my absence. I forgot to post it in this thread

My answers are Born Indian and Joins UN

then Pass

[StrangerCoug]

Now that we're doing something other than watching paint dry...

India's billionth living person was born on May 11, while Tuvalu jointed the United Nations on September 5.


Kcdaspot, you're up.

[Kcdaspot]

Charles Schulz passes away and Euro begins circulation

pass

[Prof. Guppy]

I'll go with

Gonzales and Armstrong

for starters.

[StrangerCoug]

Charles Schulz went to heaven on February 12 but the Euro didn't enter circulation until January 1, 2002. Kcdaspot loses $4,200.

As for Prof. Guppy, Elián González was returned to his father on April 22, but Lance Armstrong's first Tour de France win was on July 25, 1999, costing Prof. Guppy $3,100.


mallowgeno, you're the only one with money Let's try to keep it that way. There are seven right and three wrong answers left and the next correct answer is worth $500.

[animorpherv1]

HA.

HA.

HA.

[Kcdaspot]

shut up ani.

[animorpherv1]

shut up ani.

Nou.

[Prof. Guppy]

shut up ani.

Nou.

JESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

[mallowgeno]

Let's do the prison closing and the attempted theft

Then pass

[StrangerCoug]

Not much time for me, but both right. September 29, November 7, $1,400.

Kcdaspot, you're up.

[Kcdaspot]

Kaprun and albania

PASS

[StrangerCoug]

Acknowledged, results from those tonight.

[StrangerCoug]

The Kaprun disaster occurred on November 11 and Albania joined the WTO on September 8.


Prof. Guppy, it's half and half. What do you think happened in the last year of the 20th century?