Backyard Football (1999)
States of Germany
TIME 100 2021
Mythbuster's Myths Results
Backyard Basketball
200

He's the only Backyard Football quarterback whose career, mostly with the Packers, extended past 2005. 

Brett Favre

200

The nation's capital, this city, is also considered it's own "city-state."

Berlin

200

Carmen Maria Machado wrote in the "Artists" section that this singer-songwriter "didn't know the pandemic was coming. But you'd never know it from [her song], a chaotic song about our shared apocalypse..."

Phoebe Bridgers

200

People can easily recognize the back of their own hands.

Confirmed

200

He is the cover athlete of the original Backyard Basketball (2001), released while he was on the Timberwolves, and 7 years before winning an NBA championship with the Celtics.  

Kevin Garnett

400

He's the only pro wide receiver featured in Backyard Football, and the only player to start at the position at 40 years old or older in NFL history.

Jerry Rice

400

The second largest city in Germany is itself a city-state, and Europe's third largest port. It's where the Beatles got a lot of their early performing experience. 

Hamburg

400

Bernice King writes about these two Georgians in the "Leaders" section about how their senatorial election reflected the "Freedom Summer coming full circle," when in 1964 two Jewish men and one Black man were murdered by white supremacists.

Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff

400

Bullets can be curved around an obstacle by swinging or flicking the gun, as shown in the Angelina Jolie movie Wanted.

Busted

400

The most recent iteration of Backyard Basketball was released in 2015 as a mobile app with him as the cover athlete. He would break his own single-season three-pointers-scored record the following year.

Steph Curry
600

He's the cover quarterback of the original Backyard Football, who took over the San Francisco 49'ers dynasty from his legendary predecessor. 

Steve Young

600
Three states of Germany share in part the name of this larger region from which many medieval Germanic peoples hailed before settling in modern England.

Saxony

600

In the "Artists" section, Jamie Lee Curtis writes of the Cuban star actress of the movie in which she played a supporting roll, "Que seas tu la estrella que brilla alto y fuerte."

Ana de Armas

600

A scuba diver can wear a tuxedo underneath his dry suit, go underwater, resurface, strip off his scuba gear, and be able to present the tuxedo perfectly.

Confirmed

600

This 5 time NBA champion and 2020 HoF inductee was the cover athlete of the second edition of Backyard Basketball, released for GBA in 2004, though at that point he had only won twice. 

Tim Duncan

800

He's the only pro running back in Backyard Football, and after 10 seasons with Detroit, he was ranked by NFL.com as the greatest player to never play in a super bowl. 

Barry Sanders

800

German mercenaries hired by the British during the Revolutionary War hailed from this modern German state.

Hesse

800

Rachel Maddow writes of her colleague in the "Phenoms" section that he "was put on this earth to process political data, synthesize it in his head and explain it to the rest of us-- flawlessly, live, for hours on end and with next to no sleep..."

Steve Kornacki

800

The optical fingerprint reader the MythBusters installed can be fooled by a copy of an approved fingerprint etched in latex.

Confirmed.

800

DAILY DOUBLE

Backyard Basketball is made by Humongous Entertainment, which was acquired by this big name in video games 1996. The original company with this name published Pong in 1972.

1000

This two-time super bowl champion Quarterback is in the original Backyard Football and the current President of Football Operations for the Denver Broncos, his old team.

John Elway

1000

This German state is known for its blue-checkered flag, successful soccer team in Munich, and cultural distinctiveness from its Catholic plurality and alpine culture.

Bavaria

1000

Jennifer Lopez writes in the "Phenoms" section that "She's the biggest new teenage star right now, and it's not simply that she dances on TikTok."

Charli D'Amelio

1000

A strike-anywhere match can be lit by a bullet fired from a gun.

Confirmed.

1000

She is the only other pro player in the original Backyard Basketball, and the subject of a Secret Base "Beef History" between her and Australian player Lauren Jackson. 

Lisa Leslie