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  • This Grand Prize of 8 boxes of cards will go to one lucky contest winner.

    If you are here for the first time and looking for information on how to enter our contest,use this link to find out how. One person will walk away with this entire prize package. Enter soon, time is running out.


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    Check out Ian's blog for a chance to win this great prize. Thanks for the contest.

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      New chances to get up to three bonus entries to win our Grand Prize in our contest.

      This is the Grand Prize in our current contest. One person will walk away with all these cards. If you haven't entered yet, use this link to find out how to get in on this contest, then come back here when you are done because we are about to reveal even more ways to earn bonus entries.

      You now have the chance to pick up to 3 bonus entries if you answer the follow questions that are based on the 2010 Panini Century Collection. We just did a box break and review of these cards, if you missed it, use this link to see what we pulled.


      To answer these questions you will probably need a checklist. If you don't have on I suggest you head on over to Sports Card Radio. We've talked about this site in the past, telling you how great their fan forum is, but they also have some of the most well done checklists on the net. It's a resource we use time and time again. Use this link to see all of their checklist. The Century Collection checklist should be the number 20 on the list.

      Leave a comment here with your answers. For every answer you get correct, you'll receive another bonus entry to win our Grand Prize. You have until Sunday Night, January 23, 2011 (1/23) at 11:00PM PST to leave you answer in the comments here on this blog only. Your comment will be hidden until after the deadline to prevent anyone from copying your answers.

      Here are the questions.


      1- Later this year, Stan Musial will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, making him the 16th person with that honor to be represented on a card in the 2010 Panini Century Collection. Musial isn’t the only sports figure to have a card in the Century Collection and be honored with the Medal of Freedom, 3 other athletes and a coach, Paul “Bear“ Bryant can claim the same. For a BONUS ENTRY, name the 3 professional athlete who have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom who also have a card in the 2010 Panini Century Collection.


      2 - Excluding Honorary Oscars, there are 17 people who have won Academy Awards that have a card in the 2010 Panini Century Collection. Of the group, there were 4 slightly unusual winners. One person known primarily for their long, successful TV career won an Oscar before ever being nominated for an Emmy. Two people known primarily as recording artists won Oscars for acting. One person known primarily for acting won their Oscar for music. For a BONUS ENTRY, name these four Academy Award Winners




      3 - Only 24 astronauts have ever flown to the moon. Of those astronauts, only 12 have walked on the moon’s surface. There are four of these Astronauts with cards and autos in the 2010 Panini Century Collection, Edgar Mitchell, Alan Bean, Charles Duke and Alan Shepard. They have they’re glory, but we are more concerned with the astronauts who made it to the moon, but not onto the moon, the ones who flew over 238,700 miles and missed landing on the moon by a little over 100 miles. So for a BONUS ENTRY, tell us the names of the astronauts that have a card in the 2010 Panini Century Collection who flew to the moon, but didn’t make it to the surface.





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        Here are a few more chances to get extra entries into Ian's contest. Visit his blog and answer the questions above on his blog.

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          This Grand Prize of 8 boxes of cards will go to one lucky contest winner.

          Hopefully folks that answered our questions based on cards from the 2010 Panini Century Collection had as much fun answering them as I had coming up with them.

          For the most part, everyone did pretty well, but only two of you got all three questions right, so congratulations to Mark A. and beardy on your perfect answers. For the rest of you, here are the correct answers to the questions.

          1 - The four professional athletes who have won the Presidential Medal of Freedom and are represented with cards in the 2010 Panini Century Collection are;

          Joe DiMaggio who received his in 1977

          Frank Robinson who received his in 2005

          Jackie Robinson who received his posthumously in 1984

          Ted Williams who received his in 1991


          2 - The four unusual Oscar winners, not including honorary Oscar recipients, who are represented with cards in the 2010 Panini Century Collection are;

          Bing Crosby, known primarily as a recording artist, was nominated three times, with one win for Best Actor in a Leading Role in "Going My Way" in 1945.

          Frank Sinatra, known primarily as a recording artist, was nominated twice, with one win for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in "From Here to Eternity" in 1954.

          Charles "Charlie" Chaplin, known primarily as an Actor, was nominated four times, with one win for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score for "Limelight" in 1973. It may seem weird that a film released in 1952 would win an Oscar 20 years later. Limelight was not released in Los Angeles until 1972 and by Academy Awards rules, this made it eligible for nominations in 1973.

          George Burns, known primarily for his long successful TV career, won his Oscar, the only time he was nominated, at the age of 80 after 9 successful seasons of the George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and 18 years on television. His role as Al Lewis in "The Sunshine Boys" won him the Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar in 1976. He wasn't nominated for an Emmy until the age of 82 and didn't win an Emmy until 1990 at the age of 94.


          3 - The question was tell us the names of the astronauts that have a card in the 2010 Panini Century Collection who flew to the moon, but didn't make it to the surface. There are only 2 astronauts that fit both the conditions of having a card and flying to the moon without making it to the surface and they are;

          Dick Gordan, who flew on Apollo 12, stayed behind as Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the moon. Gordan was slated to land on the moon aboard Apollo 18 before that mission was canceled.

          Al Worden, who flew on Apollo 15, stayed behind as David Scott and James Irwin landed on the moon and were the first ones to ride around on the lunar rover.

          So those are the correct answers. I want you all to know, when I saw answer that were not what I had, I went ahead and rechecked the wording of the question to make sure there couldn't be another answer. So let me explain why the other answers were incorrect.

          Presidential Medal of Freedom

          Everyone got this one right, way to go!

          Academy Awards

          James Cagney and Judy Garland were primarily film actors that won Oscars for acting.

          Vivian Vance, Marilyn Monroe and Lucille Ball never won an Oscar.

          Jackie Gleason and Duke Ellington were nominated, but never won an Oscar.

          With Bette Davis, perhaps some of you thought she could be considered for the TV Star part of the question because she wasn't a recording artist and she didn't win an Oscar for music. She did have somewhat of a TV career later in life but I think the first 25 years of her career, when she created some of the most memorable movie roles like Margo in "All About Eve" make her primarily a film actress. Even after she started taking TV roles, she returned to film time and time again, performing in more great roles like Baby Jane Hudson in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"

          Astronauts

          Walt Cunningham (Apollo 7) and Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9) were on missions that did not leave low earth orbit which, at its highest is 1,240 miles from the earth's surface. They would have had to travel about another 237,500 miles towards the moon for these answers to be correct.

          Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders, Tom Stafford, Michael Collins, Jack Swigert, Fred Hais, Stuart Roosa, Ken Mattingly and Ronald Evans do not have cards in the 2010 Panini Century Collection.

          I hope you enjoyed these bonus questions and the challenge they presented. I promise the next time there is a chance for bonus contest entries the task will be easier.


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            Our contest is almost closed to new entries. You can pick up ten additional entries.

            Want a chance to pick up ten additional entries to our contest? Keep reading.


            Time is running out to get in on our contest where one person will win all the cards you see above. But this is just the beginning. We have lots more planned for this year, so make sure you stick around after the contest and check in often. Besides great stories, news and reviews, we will have more contests but the amount of time you'll have to get in on them will be much less.


            If you are here for the first time and don't have an entry,use this link to get in on our contest.


            By the way, if you haven't voted for our fan favorite awards to the right of this post, Sickest Card, Fan Favorite Set and Box with most Mojo, make sure you vote soon because the polls will be taken down sometime on Saturday. And speaking of voting on awards, if you like what we do here, head on over to Stale Gum's Gummie Awards site, using this link. Yes we are actually plugging another sites awards during our awards period. You'll notice many categories including Best Cardblog, Best New Cardblog, Best Hobby News Source and Best Video Box Breaker/YouTuber. All About Cards qualifies for all those categories and if you feel we've done a good job, how about nominating us? Just a thought that has no bearing on this contest at all. We won't know if you did or didn't nominate us, so thanks if you do.


            A NEW, BUT VERY LAST CHANCE AT BONUS ENTRIES

            If you look at out header it say we are The Home of the SPEED-break™. oIf you don't know what that is you can check out am explanation of it from our previous post using this link For a chance to get bonus entries you have to reference our YouTube Channel, found using this link.


            You'll get one bonus entry for each question you answer correctly. Answer all six correctly and your six correct answers will net you ten bonus entries. This is our last chance blowout. You'll have until 4:30 PM PST on Saturday, January 29, 2011 by leaving a comment on this post with your answers.


            Here are the questions.


            1 - In our 2010 Topps Baseball Update Series Jumbo HTA Box SPEED Break at All About Cards video we pulled two Turkey Reds from pack number two (2). Name the player on the second Turkey Red we pulled in that pack.


            2- In our breaks we show you every type of card you could pull from a box. In our 2010 Panini Gridiron Gear Hobby Box SPEED break at All About Cards Early Mojo video one of the inserts in this set is “NFL Gridiron Signatures.” Name the player that is on the “NFL Gridiron Signatures” card we used.


            3 - In our 2010 Topps NFL Football Trading Cards Jumbo HTA Box SPEED-break at All About Cards video, what percentage of the base card set did we get out of this box?


            4 -In our 2010 Topps Baseball Series 2 Hobby Box SPEED-break™ at All About Cards video, name the player on the card that we ranked the number eight hit of the box.


            5 - For the 2010 Topps Tribute Baseball card release, there are five cards per pack. In our 2010 Topps Tribute Baseball Box Break at All About Cards video name all five cards we pulled from the fourth (4) pack.


            6 - In our 2010 Panini Limited Football Box Break at All About Cards video we pulled a Legend Card. Name the player on that card.


            Good luck to all.



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              Your chance to enter our contest ends in four hours.

              Congrats to all of you that have entered our contest and picked up bonus entries along the way. Our YouTube exclusive chance to pick up entries as seen in this video is now closed, as are our Facebook and Twitter exclusives. All others are still open, but I'm not telling you where they are, you'll have to find them on your own.

              So... you have about 4 hours before we close it all. Good luck to all.


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