5QF - 8/6/2010

[Virtual Jarmo]

1. What is the best movie that Matt Damon has been in? For reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000354/

2. What would you rather have the opportunity to do: Stare down a 12-foot birdie putt to win the Masters, be down 9 pins with one ball left at the PBA Open (bowling for those who don't know), need to throw the hammer rock right on the dot to win in the 10th end, or have a half second lead coming down the final straightaway at Daytona?

3. What's the longest flight you've ever taken?

4. Show us a picture: what's your favorite amusement park ride?

5. What is the best driving game, for any system, ever made?

[Virtual Jarmo]

1. What is the best movie that Matt Damon has been in? For reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000354/

So many awesome ones. Good Will Hunting, the Bourne trilogy, Rounders, Ocean's 11 and 13, his cameo in Eurotrip...but I have to go with The Bourne Ultimatum.

2. What would you rather have the opportunity to do: Stare down a 12-foot birdie putt to win the Masters, be down 9 pins with one ball left at the PBA Open (bowling for those who don't know), need to throw the hammer rock right on the dot to win in the 10th end, or have a half second lead coming down the final straightaway at Daytona?

Stare down a birdie putt to win the Masters. $810,000 for finishing 2nd if I miss.

3. What's the longest flight you've ever taken?

Houston, TX to Honolulu, HI, I believe it was 8.5 hours

4. Show us a picture: what's your favorite amusement park ride?

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5. What is the best driving game, for any system, ever made?

Super Mario Kart for SNES

[Parker]

1. What is the best movie that Matt Damon has been in?

Rounders, although Edward Norton really stole the show there.

2. What would you rather have the opportunity to do: Stare down a 12-foot birdie putt to win the Masters, be down 9 pins with one ball left at the PBA Open (bowling for those who don't know), need to throw the hammer rock right on the dot to win in the 10th end, or have a half second lead coming down the final straightaway at Daytona?

None of those are even sports, so I honestly don't really care. I guess I'd go with the 12-foot putt.

3. What's the longest flight you've ever taken?

Somewhere around eight hours for a single flight - Toronto to London Heathrow. If we're talking total trip, it'd be Winnipeg to Toronto, Toronto to London Heathrow, Heathrow to Gatwick. Total flight time was like 12 hours.

4. Show us a picture: what's your favorite amusement park ride?



The Bat at Canada's Wonderland. It goes forwards and backwards.

5. What is the best driving game, for any system, ever made?

Racing Destruction Set for Commodore 64, although Rage Racer and the first Gran Turismo (both for PS1) deserve honorable mentions.

[SharksGM]

1. Saving Private Ryan, I guess, since I didn't particularly care for most of the rest. I didn't watch all of the Ocean's movies though and the parts I saw were entertaining.

2. Whichever gives the most prize money. I'm going to guess the Masters, unless pro bowling is more popular than I think.

3. Just your standard transatlantic stuff. I think I was on a direct Bucharest-Toronto flight once.

4. Something at Canada's Wonderland? I don't know, it's been a while and the lineups are loooooong in the summer.

5. What is the best driving game, for any system, ever made?

For realism? Richard Burns Rally and the GTR series. For fun? Interstate '76, but anything with guns is going to have an advantage. I also have a soft spot for the original Need for Speed. That series went downhill with all of the street racing bullshit.

[Virtual Jarmo]

2. Whichever gives the most prize money. I'm going to guess the Masters, unless pro bowling is more popular than I think.

Second at the Daytona 500 paid nearly 1.1M this year. I'd just have a lot more fun golfing than being locked in a car for 500 miles.

[Jungle Cats]

1. What is the best movie that Matt Damon has been in?
- The Depahted.

2. What would you rather have the opportunity to do: Stare down a 12-foot birdie putt to win the Masters, be down 9 pins with one ball left at the PBA Open (bowling for those who don't know), need to throw the hammer rock right on the dot to win in the 10th end, or have a half second lead coming down the final straightaway at Daytona?
- I don't think I could do any of those, but the birdie putt's far and away the least daunting.

3. What's the longest flight you've ever taken?
- 55 minutes. Kelowna to Calgary. Not a big world traveler... or a flier.

4. Show us a picture: what's your favorite amusement park ride?
Hm.

5. What is the best driving game, for any system, ever made?
Mario Kart 64

[Commish Bub(NYR)]

1. What is the best movie that Matt Damon has been in? For reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000354/
Bourne Identity, followed closely by the Bourne Ultimatum. (And props to his appearance on Will and Grace years ago, lol.

2. What would you rather have the opportunity to do: Stare down a 12-foot birdie putt to win the Masters, be down 9 pins with one ball left at the PBA Open (bowling for those who don't know), need to throw the hammer rock right on the dot to win in the 10th end, or have a half second lead coming down the final straightaway at Daytona?
The Masters, no doubt.

3. What's the longest flight you've ever taken?
14 hours. Had to divert around huge weather systems coming back from Munich to Atlanta. Thought we'd never get home.

4. Show us a picture: what's your favorite amusement park ride?
Meh

5. What is the best driving game, for any system, ever made?
Microprose Grand Prix 2 for PC. Although I never played GP3, which may have been even better.