After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., has a do-it-yourself quiz game called `` Benefit Bafflers '', which it distributes to employees.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Saxton has made only one second-half appearance this season and that was in the Washington State game, for four plays: he returned the kickoff 30 yards, gained five yards through the line and then uncorked a 56-yard touchdown run before retiring to the bench.

Texas leads in per-game rushing averages, 355 yards, and passing 149 ( to Baylor's 126 ), but idle Baylor has the best defensive record ( 187.5 yards per game to Texas' 189 ).

A & M has the best defense against passes, 34.7 yards per game.

The game is over when the player has lost all of his / her lives.

The elephant ( though its range has become restricted through the attacks of hunters ) is found both in the savannas and forest regions, the latter being otherwise poor in large game, though the special habitat of the chimpanzee and gorilla.

Although game reports and social reactions are common parts of many A & E contributions, it has also, over the years, become a testing ground for new ideas on the development of the RPG as a genre and an art form.

At the end of the game, all players liquidate their stock in order to determine which player has the most money.

Any player may declare the game over at any time during his turn if either of two conditions is true: one chain has 41 or more tiles, or there is at least one chain on the board and every chain on the board has 11 or more tiles.

Because ending the game is optional, and a player may not realize that he can end it, it is unethical to say " good game ", or in any other way indicate that the game could be ended, until after a player actually has ended the game.

The team has also won four division titles (,,, and ) since their 1947 – 1948 NFL championship game appearances.

At the start of the game, it has survived over 10 years in complete isolation from the rest of the world and is an example of an arcology in cyberpunk genre.

*" Take Me Out to the Ball Game " is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.

An early demo of the game has been found, with crude graphics, no sound and poor collision detection.

Engineering Notes list Tempest as a game that was between 15 – 20 % completed for the Atari 7800 ; no code to date has been found.

No code to date has been found for that game either.

Of significant note is that it was the first new game for the system whose game card has an authentic " curved lip " plastic shell.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

( In the graveyard at Nairobi he had been shown the graves of thirty-four big game hunters killed hunting the animals he was attempting to lasso.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

Three of the four persons present, all foreign students in Tokyo, had been playing a game of judging popular Japanese foods by the In and Out system, an equation in which Zen philosophy was used as the modifier.

Atari had been in the process of manufacturing another vector game, Lunar Lander, but demand for Asteroids was so high " that several hundred Asteroids games were shipped in Lunar Lander cabinets.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

In particular, the tiles have been made from wood, plastic, and cardboard in various editions of the game.

In the second game of the Falcons 1999 season, running back Jamaal Anderson, who had been a key player in the Falcons ' 1998 success, suffered a season-ending knee injury.

MacIntyre, suspected of hunting more than just game, was dreaded by Bennelong and other Aborignals, and is believed to have been wounded in retribution for the Aboriginals he had killed.

The 7800 had originally been designed to replace Atari Inc .' s Atari 5200 in 1984, but was temporarily shelved due to the sale of the company after the video game crash.

If the game has been scored correctly, the total number of plate appearances for a team should equal the total of that team's runs, men left on base, and men put out.

The game was very close, and in the fourth quarter Walsh called a series of running plays as the 49ers marched down the field against the Cowboys prevent defense, which had been expecting the 49ers to mainly pass.

" It is commonly supposed that by jactus lapidum, Fitzstephen meant the game of bowls, but though it is possible that round stones may sometimes have been employed in an early variety of the game-and there is a record of iron bowls being used, though at a much later date, on festive occasions at Nairn ,-nevertheless the inference seems unwarranted.

If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.

The game has been strongly solved, meaning that exact equities are available for all 32 million possible positions .< ref name =" strato-variants ">

Every home game since May 15, 2003 has been sold out — a MLB record that has spanned almost nine years.

Isolated populations of these game birds have been introduced in Oregon and Washington.

Selig enjoys a high level of support from baseball owners, but has been widely decried by both the MLB Players ' Union for his policies and by the general public for presiding over the game during one of its most contentious periods.

Campbell voiced the pulp adventurer Lobster Johnson in Hellboy: The Science of Evil and has done voice-over work for the Codemaster's game Hei $ t, a game which was announced on the 28 January 2010 to have been " terminated ".

The poem is referenced in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game EarthBound, where a weapon is named the Casey Bat, which is the strongest weapon in the game, but will only hit 25 % of the time.

Video game developer Mastiff referenced the dog in promoting their video game Remington Great American Bird Hunt, stating that Rockford, a dog in the game, will never laugh at players for missing the ducks.

The station itself also runs other television shows referenced by Frontline staff, such as 6 o ' clock news program, a 3 hour news review show Sunday Forum, a sketch show The Komedy Bunch, a game show Jackpot, a teen soap opera Sunshine Cove which later changed to Rainbow Island, also lesser mentioned shows such as the football show Ball-to-Ball, Late-Night OZ, Cartoon Crazies and Vacation.

The stoning scene is referenced in the computer game Discworld II: Missing Presumed ...!?.

Pong has been referenced and parodied in multiple television shows and video games, and has been a part of several video game and cultural exhibitions.

A fictional version of the game, wherein the Dolphins lose by one point to the 49ers due to a missed field goal in the closing seconds, is also referenced in the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.

* The Norse Tree of Life, Yggdrasil, is either featured or referenced in many games, including those of the Tales RPG-series, the 2002 video game Wild Arms 3 and the 2008 video game Too Human.

Valhalla is referenced in the video game titles Valhalla ( 1983 ), Valhalla: Before the War ( 1995 ), Valkyrie Profile ( 2000 ), Max Payne ( 2001 ), Valhalla Knights ( 2006 ), Final Fantasy XI ( 2002 ), Halo 3 ( 2007 ), The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ( 2011 ), and Final Fantasy XIII-2 ( 2011 ).

* In Middlemarch by George Eliot, the game is referenced numerous times as an aristocratic pursuit played frequently at the Vincy residence.

Two of his hacker friends explain the concept of a backdoor password and suggest tracking down the Falken referenced in " Falken's Maze ", the first game listed.

* Half-Life ( 1998 ) – although the date is never explicitly referenced, 2009 is the last year that Half-Life could be set in, as calendars in the game display ' 200X.

* Leisure Suit Larry 4: The Missing Floppies ( This non-existent 4th game was skipped and is an often jokingly referenced in-game for the series.

Other works dealing with the Persian Empire or the Biblical story of Esther have also referenced Xerxes, such as the video game Assassin's Creed II and the film One Night with the King, in which Ahasuerus ( Xerxes ) was portrayed by British actor Luke Goss.

* In the game " Madness: Project Nexus " The Black Prince is referenced when clicking on the Iron Sword and reading it's Description.

Since their introduction, Koopa Troopas have become the iconic enemy of the Mario franchise, often referenced in popular culture relating to the series: in 2007's The Simpsons Game, a Koopa Troopa appears as the apparent bride of the eccentric geek Professor Frink after Bart and Lisa rescue him from Donkey Kong in a parody of the popular arcade game.

Space Invaders has been referenced and parodied in multiple television shows, and been a part of several video game and cultural exhibitions.

He has frequently been referenced as the main character of the game due to his prominence in it.

" Early in the book it is learned that Felix Hoenikker ( a fictional co-inventor of the atom bomb ) was playing cat's cradle when the bomb was dropped, and the game is later referenced by his son, Newton Hoenikker.

Although many Telchines are referenced in the game, only Megalesios, Aktaios and Ormenos are ever encountered ( and fought against ) by the player.

* The town is referenced incorrectly in the 2002 movie City by the Sea, when Long Beach is said to have defeated Cedarhurst in a football game ( instead of the actual high school, Lawrence ).

* In the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, The Boss is also known as Voyevoda by the Soviets, as referenced in the game by President Johnson.