On Screen
Fallback Jobs
Translation, Please
AC-roymns
No Prize For Second
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The fictional 12-Metres Boomerang, Platypus, Radiance, and Geronimo all take center stage in this 1992 film-- alongside Jennifer Grey and Matthew Modine
What is Wind?
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If sailing doesn't work out, this Olympian from New Zealand's far north is also a trained electrician
Who is Blair Tuke?
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When Team New Zealand's fans are "Barracking", they aren't living on an army base, they're...
What is supporting?
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It's the "T" in OTUSA, ITUK, SBTJ, and ETNZ
What is Team?
1000
This red-hulled defender was famously defeated by Australia II in 1983-- and its name was almost as obviously-American
What is Liberty?
1200
A 1998 episode of this Aaron Sorkin dramedy begins with sailing fan Dan Rydell expressing his excitement over the coming 2000 America's Cup to his mostly-apathetic coworkers
What is Sports Night?
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While this British sailor says he'd be a race car driver if he couldn't sail, perhaps having a father who sailed in the first Whitbread race nudged him away from the track and towards the water
Who is Ben Ainslie?
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Chris Dickson in 1992, Peter Gilmour in 2000, and Dean Barker in 2017 were all gaijin skippers of Japanese challenges
What is foreigners?
1200
Since 2011, the Cup cycle has included the ACWS, or America's Cup _____ _____
What is World Series?
1200
Oracle Team USA's unsuccessful 2017 defender had the same two-digit numerical name as its winning predecessors
What is 17?
1400
This 2010 superhero sequel features a cameo from Team Oracle head Larry Ellison-- but, alas, no trimarans
What is Iron Man 2?
1400
As a teen, he was told by a coach he could have gone on to represent Australia in Olympic boxing, but chose to focus on sailing instead
Who is Jimmy Spithill?
1400
Tāmaki Makaurau, the Maori name for the Auckland area, translates romantically as "The Isthmus of a Thousand ____"
What are lovers?
1400
The protocol for an America's Cup competition is decided on by a defending champion and a COR, a ______ Of Record
What is Challenger?
1400
Thomas Lipton's series of challengers of this name didn't quite have the Luck of the Irish in their attempts between the 1890s and 1920s.
What is Shamrock?
1600
With the 1958 America's Cup as a backdrop, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry, and Mahalia Jackson all perform this style of music in Newport in the classic concert documentary, _____ On A Summer's Day
What is Jazz?
1600
Although he's appeared in their ads, this skipper says he has no desire to take over his father's clothing company
Who is Dean Barker
1600
To Team Alinghi, it might be a Voilier-- or perhaps a Segelboot or a Barca a vela
What is a sailboat?
1600
The much-debated basic AC rules, decided upon in 1857 and revised several times since, are explained in a document called the DoG, or ____ of Gift
What is Deed?
1600
In 1934 and 1937, the American J-Class boats Rainbow and Ranger defeated British challengers with this name-- shared with a Whitbread winner and a space shuttle
What is Endeavour?
1800
Most of this movie's action takes place on a non-sailing fishing boat, but Richard Dreyfus's character boasts that he's sailed "Three TransPacs and an America's Cup trial"
What is Jaws?
1800
This adminstrator was working as an accountant in Auckland when the exploits of future rival Peter Blake inspired him to get into pro sailing
Who is Grant Dalton?
1800
American Magic trained on a Rhode Island bay named for this local Native American community who call themselves "the people of the small point of land"
What is Narragansett?
1800
You'll find a "Y" for "Yacht" in the acronyms for five of the six clubs that have won the America's Cup-- except for the SNG, located in this "G"-named city
What is Geneva?
1800
Defeated by Black Magic 5-0, 1995 defender Young America's hull livery was one of the last works of this famous American artist, known for working in the Pop Art style
Who is Roy Lichtenstein?