marcus LL110 Match Day 15 -- Confirmation

drunk on the train back from the cricket at lords but did the quiz sober 

1. Named for Alexander of Aphrodisias, who described it around 200 CE, "Alexander's band" is the noticeably dark strip that appears between a primary and secondary example of what phenomenon, such as viewed by a weeping and joyful Paul "Bear" Vasquez in a viral video from 2010?
Correct Answer: RAINBOW
Your Answer: rainbow
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

toyed with aurora , wasn’t confident 

2. A ratio approximately equal to 1:1.618 appears in certain natural growth patterns, has long been associated with harmonious proportion in art and architecture, and has been argued by scholars to appear in works ranging from the Parthenon to Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. This is best known as what "Ratio"?
Correct Answer: GOLDEN RATIO
Your Answer: golden
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

fibonacci gimme

3. In July 1917, in the midst of anti-German sentiment during World War I, "Saxe-Coburg and Gotha" was changed by official proclamation to what new name?
Correct Answer: WINDSOR
Your Answer: windsor
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

gimme for any brit 

4. In 2024, Sabrina Carpenter was named global ambassador for what premium professional hair-care brand, which is now owned by the L'Oréal Group and was founded in 1960 by hair-care pioneer Jheri Redding and business partner Paula Kent?
Correct Answer: REDKEN
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

hmm

5. What is the last name of the British naval officer and polar explorer who achieved the historic feat of locating the North Magnetic Pole in 1831? Thanks to his later missions, his name is all over Antarctica, including the world's largest ice shelf, one of the continent's major seas, an enormous Southern Ocean gyre, and an island that is home to the active volcano Mount Erebus.
Correct Answer: (JAMES CLARK) ROSS
Your Answer: ross
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

ross ice shelf 

6. What character was created in 1939 by Robert L. May, a copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store, which distributed millions of copies of a promotional children's booklet featuring the character before May's brother-in-law (songwriter Johnny Marks) wrote a song about him and Gene Autry made him a household name?
Correct Answer: RUDOLPH (THE RED-NOSED REINDEER)
Your Answer: rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

a guess 

David S Day 15

 4/6 today. 

1. Rainbow :), D12. Not sure how I knew this, but I was pretty certain. 
2. Golden :), D03. Math gimme. 
3. Windsor :), D12. Also a gimme. 
4. Kerastase :(, D30. Had no idea and hadn’t heard of Redken. But right after submitting and before writing this, I got into the shower and saw a tube of my wife’s Redken shampoo. That’s frustrating. 
5. Ross :), D21. Got it from the Antarctic clue. 
6. Puff the Magic Dragon :(, D21. Oh, very gettable. I was pretty sure this was a Peter, Paul, and Mary song, but I had nothing else. 

Dave M day 15

Another 5/6 dragging myself back into the middle of B slowly.

1 : ) Rainbow. This was a guess but I couldn’t think of anything else that fit. I figured it may be an astronomical event so happy it was a bit simpler. D22

2 : ) Golden. Simple-ish math question I reckon. D12

3 : ) Windsor. Does this play hard or easy? Knowledge of the British royals can be hit or miss in the US. D21

4 : ) Redken. Answer in the clue, gimme. D00

5 : ) Ross. Looms pretty large in NZ life - NZ’s Antarctica base in on Ross Island (next to the US base) and NZ’s worst aviation disaster was a sightseeing flight flying into the very same island. D33

6 : ( Popeye. I didn’t really know where to start. Figures it’s a Christmas character. D11

Jesse Day 14

5/6

1. "Signor Leone, I have just had the chance to see your film. It is a very fine film, but it is my film." This is a quote from a letter sent from Akira Kurosawa to Sergio Leone, in reference to the latter's unofficial spaghetti western remake of the former's 1961 samurai film. Name either of these two films.
Correct Answer: A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, YOJIMBO
Your Answer: A Fistful of Dollars
Points Assigned: 0

I studied this is film school, but could not quite remember the particulars. I knew it wasn't Seven Samurai, which was the Magnificent Seven, and not a Leone film. I figured A Fistful of Dollars was the best bet as it was the first in the trilogy. 

2. What standard color of modern printing is named after a battlefield in northern Italy, from the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859? It was originally named fuchsine and is indeed similar to the color fuchsia.
Correct Answer: MAGENTA
Your Answer: Magenta
Points Assigned: 2

Lucky guess! I thought of purple shades, and Magenta didn't seem to be flower-based.

3. The Pyramid Stage, and also arguably vast quantities of mud, are trademarks of the music festival originally called the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival in 1970, and now named after what nearby market town in the southwest of England?
Correct Answer: GLASTONBURY
Your Answer: Glastonberry
Points Assigned: 1

I knew Isle of Wight was named after the whole Island, so Glastonbury was the next thing to come to my mind. 

4. Simone de Beauvoir's famous line "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" opens Volume II of her 1949 book on gender roles as a learned social construct rather than biological destiny. The book's title labels women as The [BLANK] Sex. What word fills the blank?
Correct Answer: SECOND
Your Answer: Second
Points Assigned: 2

I had heard of this somewhere, but this was still a guess.

5. What word, used for the SI unit of illuminance (defined as one lumen of luminous flux incident on one square meter), is coincidentally also the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for a European nation?
Correct Answer: LUX
Your Answer: Lux
Points Assigned: 1

Luxembourg came to me quickly. 

6. While its product line today spans handbags, leather goods, shoes, accessories, watches, jewelry, and fragrances, what eponymous luxury brand built its early reputation in the 1850s with its innovative flat-topped stackable trunks that revolutionized long-distance travel at the time?
Correct Answer: LOUIS VUITTON
Your Answer: Dior
Points Assigned: 3

I have not listened to any of the Acquired episodes on luxury brands such as LVMH and Hermes. Darn. Listening to the Formula 1 episode now. Amazing podcast if you don't listen already. 

Brian Day 14 vs Ben (CLL)

 4/6 but not the ones I thought

1) The Magnificent Seven 1/1 Gimme.. wait what?    Never heard of this fact

2) Magenta 0/0  Okay, this is a gimme

3) Glastonbury 2/2  This popped into my head as I was about to submit, did not think it was correct

4) Fairer 3/3  never heard of this

5) Lux 1/1  gimme once I went through every single country three times before finally remembering which one I left out

6) Louis Vutton  2/2  I walked by their building in Manhattan last month and the outside looks like luggage.   Very cool.

David S Day 14

 4/6. I was very confident on two and felt like I had solid guesses on the other four. 

1. Seven Samurai :(, D02. Really thought I might get this even though I know nothing about film from this era. Too bad. 
2. Magenta :), D21. Sounded Italian, and also the only other word for purple I could think of. 
3. Penzance :(, D23. For me, the question was just name a town in SW England and hope for the best. 
4. Second :), D32. I learned this in French class. Glad I hadn’t forgotten. 
5. Lux :), D10. Only thing it could be given the country clue. 
6. Louis Vuitton :), D11. Seemed like the best guess. I worried it would be YSL or something I didn’t think of, but a big one clearly named after a person seemed like the way to maximize the odds. 

Dave M day 14

Another 5/6 today

1 : ) A fistful of dollars. The only spaghetti western I’ve watched. I figured it would be wrong as I had misread the question and assumed the western was from 1961 when AFOD was a few years later. D21

2 : ) Magenta. Simple printing question. D00

3 : ) Glastonbury. Figure it plays tough in US, although in the news this week in the Dolly Parton obituaries as the most popular act ever at the Pyramid Stage. D23

4 : ( Weaker. Nope. D32

5 : ) Lux. In a different time in my career I would travel to LUX airport to visit the European Investment Bank. D12

6 : ) Louis Vuitton. I figure this plays easy. D11