Dave M day 10

3/6 today

 

1 :( No idea. Guessed Magnusson as a common Danish name. D2

2 :( Guessed Beverly Hillbillies which of course was a TV show not a movie. D1

3 :( Guessed Cyndi Lauper. D1

4 :) Don’t know where I know this from. D0

5 :) This all seemed to align around Peron – the Spanish, the survival through to today, the personality cult. Risky D3

6 :) Gimme for map nerds who are also in the oil industry. D2

Ben Day 10

2/6.

1 :( Never heard of him. I couldn't think of a photojournalism award name so just guessed Pullitzer.

2 :( I got the context clue that the movie name would contain a state. If I'd also tried to think of a tool in the title maybe I would have gotten there.

3 :( I guessed Mariah Carey. Feels like a solid MCW option.

4 :) bathy. One of the few LL questions I would have gotten right as a kid.

5 :( Bad miss on Juan Peron here. Pretty gettable

6 :) Angola. A lay-up for those with African map knowledge.

Jesse Day 10

3/6

1. This montage contains photographs by what Danish-born social justice reformer and police reporter for the New York Tribune? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/23984y9n248y5.jpg
Correct Answer: JACOB RIIS
Your Answer: Sinclair
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. I knew Sinclair wasn't Danish, but couldn't come up with anything better.

2. Name the 1974 film loosely inspired by the real-life story of farmer and handyman Ed Gein (although Gein himself lived his entire life in Wisconsin).
Correct Answer: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
Your Answer: The Poseidon Adventure
Points Assigned: 2

Never saw the film. I knew a state was probably in the title, but I just couldn't figure it out. 

3. 1990's I'm Your Baby Tonight was what artist's first full-length album not to reach #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, as well as her first not to be titled eponymously?
Correct Answer: WHITNEY HOUSTON
Your Answer: Houston
Points Assigned: 0

I knew the song.

4. What prefix, which is derived from the Greek for "deep," precedes "-scaphe" and "-sphere" in terms for vessels used to explore the ocean depths?
Correct Answer: BATHY
Your Answer: Bathy
Points Assigned: 1

I have listened to an episode of 99%Iinvisible about a Bathysphere.

5. A particular political movement, formed between 1945 and 1946 and still strong today, and formally labeled justicialismo in 1949, has transformed and modified over the years but is a general amalgam of populist nationalism, social democracy, and economic independence. Perhaps mostly, it can be described as loyalty to what person (and his memory), after whom the movement is also commonly named?
Correct Answer: JUAN PERÓN
Your Answer: Guevera
Points Assigned: 3

Ugh, seems gettable. My brother was in Evita when he was in middle school. Guessing he will get this. 

6. Which African country has the continent's longest coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, running from the mouth of the Congo River in the north to the Namibian border on the Kunene River in the south (plus an exclave to the north)?
Correct Answer: ANGOLA
Your Answer: Angola
Points Assigned: 1

I've been to Namibia I knew that Angola bordered it to the North. 

Brad day 10

1/6

1) moses d2
Also considered peter parker.  Would have gone d3, but opponent from brooklyn.

2) field of dreams d1
Slightly different plot ...

3) whitney houston d0
The one and only!

4) helio d1
Felt good when i put this down and after submitting remembered helios was the sun god ...

5) trotsky d2
Should have got this one, got thrown off by the date and was thinking of europe and ww2.  Not happy with the d2 in retrospect.

6) zimbabwe d3
Nope

Steiny Day 10

A win yesterday! Not expecting that today

1. :( nope, made up the name Fleurgo

2. :( Nope, wrote astronaut farmer.  I knew this was a recent movie, but was hoping it was a remake

3. :) Just made sense

4. :( Nope, wrote Proto

5. :( Nope, wrote Lenin

6. :) I knew Angola was big and around the Namibia area so went with it

This seemed like a particularly hard day

M Mann - Day 9

4/6 today. Very nice for me! Still looking for my first win of the season.

1. That Sisqo quote was Psalm 24, not 23.
Correct Answer: THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
Your Answer: The Lord is my shepherd
Points Assigned: 0

2. Ah, makes sense in hindsight.
Correct Answer: PAMPLONA
Your Answer: Toledo
Points Assigned: 2

3. Impressed with those of you who got this.
Correct Answer: JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER
Your Answer: Degas
Points Assigned: 2

4. No Maggie Smith fans here?
Correct Answer: MISS JEAN BRODIE
Your Answer: Miss Jean Brodie
Points Assigned: 3

5. Phew! Changed to this at the last minute from I came, I saw, I conquered.
Correct Answer: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Your Answer: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Points Assigned: 1

6. The only synonym for cavities I know. 
Correct Answer: CARIES
Your Answer: caries
Points Assigned: 1

Dave M day 9

Just the 1/6 today. A couple of OKish days while away for thanksgiving mean I’m in my usual mid-lower table mediocrity.

 

1 :( I went with By the Rivers of Babylon. Interesting to see the range of answers here. D2

2 :) I nearly went one year. D1

3 :( Random guess of Klimt. D3

4 :( No idea. Went with Dr Doolittle. D1

5 :( Should have thought this one through a bit more. I also went with came, saw, conquered. D0

6 :( 50/50 between cavitation and caries, went the wrong way. D2

Steiny Day 9

1. :) I shall not want

2. :( I guessed Catalonia

3. :) The shoes gave it away for me, so pleased to get this

4. :( Guessed Ms. Flynn

5. :) I knew good and bad so ugly just made sense

6. :( Guessed Perioditis

Ben Day 9

3/6.  My first win of the season thanks to an opponent forfeit has me charging up the standings to 25th of 26.

1 :( In the Garden of Eden. "Bart Sells his soul" Simpsons S07E04 did not pay off.

2 :) Pamplona. The gift that keeps on giving if you like action photos of drunk tourists getting gored.

3 :) Whistler. I recognized his mother's feet. Loved this question.

4 :( I guessed McGregor. Never heard of this.

5 :) The good, the Bad and the Ugly. Got it from Il buono.

6 :( I guessed erosion. I had not heard of this word.

Jesse Day 9

1/6 and was lucky to get that. 

1. In most English versions of the Bible (including the King James version), the 23rd psalm of the Old Testament begins with what five words?
Correct Answer: THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
Your Answer: Let me see that thong
Points Assigned: 1

I had absolutely no idea. I was hoping Sisqo was somehow involved. 

2. A July festival honoring Saint Fermín is a popular event in what ancient Basque city and capital of the Spanish autonomous community of Navarre?
Correct Answer: PAMPLONA
Your Answer: Bilbao
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

3. Pictured here is exactly the left-most 1/3 of a painting by what artist? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/87345yc9854ny3.jpg
Correct Answer: JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER
Your Answer: Whistler
Points Assigned: 2

This was a total guess. Pretty shocked I was right. 

4. A popular 1961 novel by Scottish writer Muriel Spark tells of the "prime" (and the downfall) of what eccentric and revered Edinburgh schoolteacher?
Correct Answer: MISS JEAN BRODIE
Your Answer: Mcdoogal
Points Assigned: 1

Never heard of her.

5. Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo is most often seen translated into English as what?
Correct Answer: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Your Answer: I came, I saw, I conquered
Points Assigned: 0

Oh, yeah, I should have thought on that a bit more. Glad I scored it as a 0. 

6. What is the technical term, from the Latin for "decayed" or "rotten," used in dentistry for the gradual breakdown and disintegration of a tooth due to bacteria? Commonly known as cavities, it's an ailment believed to afflict the vast majority of the world's population.
Correct Answer: CARIES
Your Answer: Gingavitis
Points Assigned: 3

Never heard of Caries. I knew Gingavitis was wrong but couldn't think of anything better. 

Brad day 9

2/6 with another bad miss ... seems to be my mo

1) blessed art thou the lord. D1
No excuse, really should have got this

2) pomplona. D0
The bulls!

3) monet d2
Picture looked flowery and didnt have a better guess

4) meridien d2
No idea, wild guess based off the 'prime' prompt

5) the good the bad the ugly d1
Seemed pretty straightforward

6) gingivitis d3
Knew this was wrong but didnt have a better guess

Jesse Day 8

4/6 Easy day?

1. Although it was used by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels about the Soviet Union and was in use elsewhere, what term's popularity in its Cold War definition is credited to a March 1946 speech by Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Missouri?
Correct Answer: IRON CURTAIN
Your Answer: Iron Curtain
Points Assigned: 1

This may be a gimmie.

2. Only once in the history of tennis has a player (man or woman) achieved the Golden Slam—winning all four Grand Slam singles titles as well as an Olympic gold medal in singles in the same calendar year. Who accomplished this feat in 1988?
Correct Answer: STEFFI GRAF
Your Answer: Stefi Graf
Points Assigned: 1

I didn't think any man was dominating at that point besides maybe Lendl. Graf seemed about right as she was pretty amazing at that time. 

3. In a well-known centuries-old proverb, what comes first in a sequence that includes shoe, horse, rider, message, battle, and kingdom?
Correct Answer: NAIL
Your Answer: Battle
Points Assigned: 2

I have no idea what proverb this is. 

4. Magnesium sulfate, and specifically a heptahydrate sulfate mineral with the formula MgSO₄·7H₂O, is commonly associated with what town in Surrey, England, due to the mineral spring there that produced the bitter and colorless inorganic compound?
Correct Answer: EPSOM
Your Answer: Colchester
Points Assigned: 3

Ah. OK. I had no idea.

5. According to the press from the FX network of a television series created by and starring Donald Glover, "Two cousins work through the __________ music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families." What fills in this blank of this quote, and also serves as the series's title? 
Correct Answer: ATLANTA
Your Answer: Atlanta
Points Assigned: 0

Just watched the final episode of the first season yesterday. Great show. 

6. While there are other candidates, including Dongbei and Guandong, what is the name most often used for the region in northeast China that comprises the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang and forms the entirety of the Chinese border with North Korea?
Correct Answer: MANCHURIA
Your Answer: Manchuria
Points Assigned: 2

Not sure how hard this one is, but I just knew this from my month traveling in China and studying maps. 

Brad day 8

2/6 ... opponent is 4-3 whose losses are all forfeits, not winning this one on talent

1) realpolitik d2
Meh, should have got this one

2) graf d0
From the year knew was her or seles, and didnt think seles won all 4 same year.

3) hammer d2
Right idea, wrong tool

4) bath d1
Didnt realize epsom was a city

5) atlanta d1
Dont watch the show, but i know that 'fx has the movies'

6) shanghai
No idea

Nick S - MD8

4/6

1. yes

2. nope.  know nothing about this sport

3. yes

4. nope

5. yes

6. yes

Ben Day 8

3/6.  Keep hitting my head on the 3/6 ceiling this season. Opponent is >.700 career get-rate so I expect another crushing defeat. 3 on Manchuria probably won't help my defenses.

1 :) Iron Curtain. Speaking of Churchill, I am quite enjoying the Crown at the moment.

2 :) Graf. I think I'm now 7/8 for LL-career tennis questions, and I don't watch much tennis at all.

3 :) nail. I don't know what this "well-known" proverb is, but nail just fit the pattern of getting smaller and smaller.

4 :( I guessed Hepburn because there are mineral springs in Australia with that name, so I thought it may have been inherited from the motherland.

5 :( Atlanta. I thought "Indie" fit the clue very well, expect for the fact that it wasn't correct.

6 :( I guessed Canton. DOn't know my Chinese provinces.

Steiny Day 8

Not a good day for me

1. :(  I guessed detente...kicking myself for missing this one

2. :( I said Borg

3. :( I guessed blacksmith thinking it was possible

4. :( Well that makes sense, but never heard of epsom england

5. :) Knew this one

6. :( Guessed Eastern China...manchuria makes so much sense!!!!

1/6

Ben Day 7

3/6, with a bad miss on Billy Elliott.

1 :) sponge.

2 :) Iceland.

3 :) Magnus! Sounds like there are some good games going on at the moment,

4 :( Guessed the Full Monty. If I hadn't thought of that I would have gotten to Billy Elliot.

5 :( Guessed Reynauld. Never heard of this.

6 :( Guessed Mahler.

Nick S day 7

1. X I guessed shortcake

2. X I guessed Finland

3. yes

4. X I guessed London Road and felt dumb

5. yes

6. X no idea, guessed Mozart

Dave M day 7

3/6 today but reading your answers I suspect defense will lose me today’s game.

 

1 :( Never had one, assumed it was Vanilla Cake. D1

2 :) Long surname ending in -ottir can only be Iceland. D0

3 :) The Financial Times of all papers did a profile on Carlsen’s home, of all things, for their weekend magazine a few weeks ago. Sexy chess players sell I guess. Very nice house it was too. D1

4 :) I too wavered to Full Monty but that was about steel workers in Sheffield in the early 1990s. So slightly different industry, county, and year. D2

5 :( D2ed this which seems foolish as most of you got it. I had no idea.

6 :( You either know this or you don’t – I went with my go to Austrian classical musician Haydn. D3

Jesse Day 7

3/6 I think. 

1. Per the information on its packaging and in its marketing, what type of cake is used to produce a Hostess Twinkie?
Correct Answer: (GOLDEN) SPONGE CAKE
Your Answer: Angel Food Cake
Points Assigned: 1

Darn, I had a feeling I was wrong. 

2. The world's first woman to be democratically elected as chief of state was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, who served as what nation's president beginning in August 1980?
Correct Answer: ICELAND
Your Answer: Iceland
Points Assigned: 1

Having lived in Scandinavia and Finland, I could tell this was most likely an Icelandic or Norwegian name. I thought I remembered Iceland having the first female president so that seemed the way to go. 

3. What Norwegian's last name comes next in this chronological list? Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov, Karpov, Khalifman, Anand, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov, Topalov, Kramnik, Anand, _________.
Correct Answer: (MAGNUS) CARLSEN
Your Answer: Hanson
Points Assigned: 2

I knew who he was and just recently watched a video of him playing chess against people in central park who had no idea who he was. I just couldn't recall his name.

4. A debilitating 1984-85 coal miners strike and its effects on a working-class community in County Durham in northeast England provide a crisis central to the story of what Broadway musical (and the movie on which it is based)?
Correct Answer: BILLY ELLIOT: THE MUSICAL
Your Answer: Billy Elliot
Points Assigned: 0

I hope I get credit for this. 

5. Sufferers of a particular hereditary degenerative disorder of connective tissue, bones, ligament, and muscles tend to be tall and thin with long limbs and digits, and have included Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman, Rent composer Jonathan Larson, actor Vincent Schiavelli, and possibly Akhenaten and Abe Lincoln (but, conspiracy theories aside, probably not Osama bin Laden). What is this syndrome, named after a late-19th/early-20th-century French pediatrician?
Correct Answer: MARFAN SYNDROME
Your Answer: Marfan
Points Assigned: 2

Somehow I knew this. 

6. With works that include the quartet "Death and the Maiden," the song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, and several symphonies (some completed; others unfinished), the output of this great Austrian melodist is vast—notably so, given his premature death at age 31.
Correct Answer: FRANZ SCHUBERT
Your Answer: Mahler
Points Assigned: 3

Nope. 

Steiny Day 7

ANOTHER TIE!!!  Topsy Turvy Day today where things I thought I was gonna get I didn't and vice versa

1. :) PLeasantly surprised to get this.  I figured it was wrong but had to write it in the chance that it was right i would kick myself for putting something stupid

2. :) Lucky guess based on name

3. :( Knew I wasn;t going to get this, I put Kramnik in the off chance there was another repeat

4. :( Thought I had this was the full monty, was so sure, I didn't spend tie thinking about it since it was both a play and a movie

5. :) 2 words: George Muresan

6. :) Miraculously I had written a paper on Schubert song cycles in college...was very pleased to get this

Brad day 7

1.5/6 ... made some dumb mistakes, but opponent 0-5-1 and got some of the tougher ones so hoping my defense will hold

1) pound d1
Dumb mistakes such as this

2) norway d1
Figured in that part of world, guessed wrong country

3) magnussen d0

#!&@  i knew this one and was even reading the recaps of the championships this week ... total brainfart

4) billy elliot d2
Saw this with wife 2-3 years ago

5) marfin d2
Hoping i get credit despite misspelling.  I am very tall, and a college friend randomly once asked me if i have this.

6) mozart d3
No idea

Steiny Day 6

4 ties so far (thank god for merkin who gave me my only win)

1. :) Have had state farm insurance forever, so this was easy

2. :( Guessed disco a-go go

3. :( guessed bavaria

4. :( guessed bats

5. :) what other ethnic group could it be?

6. :) I have been an absolute news junkie this year (although I would hardly call this channel news...zing!)

Gideon Day 6

4/6 today

1 :) D0 State Farm
2 :) D2 Faster Pussycat Kill Kill
3 :( D1 HRE - I need to learn about the Hanseatic League
4 :( D3 Jellyfish - I started off with starfish, but moved on from there.
5 :) D1 Kurds
6 :) D2 Megan Kelly - I even spelled her name correctly.

NYC Trivia

For those of you in NYC, we're going to go to trivia at 8PM tomorrow night at Long Hall on East 34th.  Put faces to the names!

Jesse Day 6

4/6

1. A portion of what company's logo is pictured here? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/984y5nx384y5n9.jpg
Correct Answer: STATE FARM
Your Answer: State farm
Points Assigned: 0

Seems like a gimmie for Americans.

2. Varla, Rosie, and Billie are three wild,' drag racing go-go dancers who are up to no good at all in what 1965 Russ Meyer cult classic?
Correct Answer: FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!
Your Answer: Faster Pussycat. Kill! Kill!
Points Assigned: 2

I never saw it, but it is such a famous film that I did not forget the name.

3. The cities of Lübeck, Hamburg, Bremen, Riga, Königsberg, and Dortmund were among a confederation that was known collectively during the Late Middle Ages as what?
Correct Answer: HANSEATIC LEAGUE
Your Answer: Prussian League
Points Assigned: 2

This name I could not remember. I knew it was some league. 

4. Animals which are classified in the taxonomic class Asteroidea are most commonly known by what term?
Correct Answer: STARFISH/SEA STARS
Your Answer: Snails
Points Assigned: 3

Ah, I get it now. 

5. The Peshmerga are military forces which form a major part of the coalition in the offensive to retake the Iraq city of Mosul beginning in mid-October 2016. The Peshmerga are members of what Middle Eastern ethnic group?
Correct Answer: KURDS
Your Answer: Kurdish
Points Assigned: 1

Seems easy if you are following events in the middle east. 

6. During the weeknight primetime hours (8 to 11 pm ET), the Fox News Channel typically shows three hour-long news/talk programs. One is hosted by Bill O'Reilly; another is hosted by Sean Hannity. Who hosts the third?
Correct Answer: MEGYN KELLY
Your Answer: Megan Kelly
Points Assigned: 1

This was a guess, but she seemed to be one of their most well-known propagandists. 

Brad MD6

3/6 - my best day so far

1) state farm. D1
Song has been stuck in my head all day now

2) rocky horror picture show. D3
Pretty sure this was wrong, couldnt think of another 'cult' movie from anywhere close to that period

3) bavaria d2
No idea

4)  turtles. D2
Figured had something to do with shells, took a guess

5) kurd  D1
Current news

6) megyn kelly.  D0
Ty trump

Ben Day 6

3/6.  This week can't be worse than last.

1 :) Statefarm. Regretting my D2 here.

2 :( Never hard of this movie. I guess Rocky Horror Picture Show.

3 :( Hanseatic League.  I have heard of this, but didn't know what it was and guessed "Alsatian", which is probably very stupid.

4 :( Starfish.  I couldn't make the astronomical connection, though I was looking in the right direction.

5 :) Kurds. 

6 :) Megyn Kelly.  I only know this thanks to Trump. She has blood coming out of you-know-where.

Dave M day 6

A solid 4/6 today, with 1 lucky guess, should help erase the memory of the 0 on Friday.

 

1.      :) This was the lucky guess. They’ve just finished building their new HQ here and I vaguely recalled seeing that three dot thing on the building. D1

2.      :( Nope. Guessed Hair. D1

3.      :) I have visited a couple of Hanseatic League-dominated cities, where its history came up on tours, eg Tallinn. D2

4.      :( Total guess of Mites. D3

5.      :) A gimme I think but current events is my opponent’s worst topic with 0 correct answers so far (out of what I make to be 5 seasons playing), so D2

6.      :) Definitely the highlight of the Fox News evening by comparison with the others. D0

Gideon Day 5

4 or 5/6 today. 0-4-0 so far, but having fun.

1 :) D2 International Style
2 :) D3 Flannery O'Connor! It took a little while to remember her name.
3 :) D0 The Talented Mr Ripley
4 :| D2 Moons (With Shakespearean names?)
5 :( D1 Waverly Oaks
6 :) D1 Pompadour - I was going to make up something funny, but later I realized that I actually knew this.

Brad (rookie friend of Bens) MD5

0fer ... not a good effort

1) wrightist

No idea

2) angelou

Also no idea, im terrible at literature

3) clue

As in none ... hadnt seen it

4) muses

Figured greek mythology or astronomy, couldnt think of 27 of something in astronomy so went wrong way.

5) commodore

No idea

6) rothschild

Skipped versailles and went to giverny instead ... prefer french wine to french royals

Nick S Day 5

1/6

1. Thought it was Brutalism

2. Guessed Harper Lee but also thought maybe Carson McCullers.  I forgot about Flannery O'Connor

3. :)

4. Had no idea.  I thought maybe it was Shakespeare characters who committed suicide

5. Had no idea

6. Had no idea

Jesse Day 5

3/6 on a hard day.

1. What is the name used for the modernist architectural style, pioneered by Philip Johnson, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus school, and others, that is characterized by architecture as volume (vs. mass), emphasis on regularity in the façade (vs. symmetry), and zero applied ornamentation? Dominant in the mid-20th century, the style took its name from a 1932 exhibition curated by Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
Correct Answer: INTERNATIONAL STYLE
Your Answer: International Style
Points Assigned: 3

I took three architecture classes in college. They pay off occasionally. 

2. What Roman Catholic writer from (and of) the rural American South first achieved wide regard as a master of the short story form via her collection published in 1955 as A Good Man is Hard to Find?
Correct Answer: FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Your Answer: Lee
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. I went with Harper Lee because I could not think of Margaret Mitchel's name, which would have also been a wrong answer. 

3. Jude Law, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jack Davenport played characters who were murdered (while Gwyneth Paltrow's and Cate Blanchett's were almost murdered) in what 1999 film?
Correct Answer: THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
Your Answer: The Talented Mr Ripley
Points Assigned: 0

I saw this movie and was the only time I remember Law and Hoffman together in a film with lots of murder. 

4. Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda, Titania, Oberon, Puck, Miranda, Caliban, Prospero, Ophelia, Cressida, Desdemona, Portia, and Rosalind, along with exactly thirteen others, are all names of what?
Correct Answer: MOONS OF URANUS
Your Answer: Muses
Points Assigned: 2

Nope, I had no idea.

5. The largest privately owned house in the United States was commissioned by George W. Vanderbilt and erected on a vast estate of 125,000 acres near Asheville, NC. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in the 1890s, the estate is known by what name?
Correct Answer: BILTMORE
Your Answer: Biltmore
Points Assigned: 1

I've been there! Actually I've been to the entrance but not actually to the mansion. My wife and I were on a road trip in NC and only had a few hours to see it. When we got to the ticket office the price was super high so we decided to skip it. 

6. What prolific patron of art, literature, and architecture was installed at Versailles in 1745, and for her final 20 years influenced state policy while assuming virtual control of public affairs during the reign of Louis XV?
Correct Answer: MADAME DE POMPADOUR (JEAN ANTOINETTE POISSON)
Your Answer: Marie-Antoinette
Points Assigned: 1

Nope. I am terrible with all royalty questions. I just don't care about them. 

Nick Sedlet - MD 4

1. Yes

Points: 0

2. Nope

My answer: No idea

Points: 2

3. Nope

My answer: Ice Sheet

Points: 1

4. Nope

My answer: Mary Queen of Scots

Points: 2

5. Nope - f'ing lord of the rings

My answer: Is it secret?

Points: 1

6. Yes - I actually had to read this mofo in college

Points: 3

Dave M day 5

Surprisingly close against Steiny yesterday but a deserved win by him. The dreaded 0/6 today to round out the week.

 

1 – Went with brutalism, pretty sure it was wrong

2 – No idea

3 – The only one I could have guessed with hindsight. At least I D0ed

4 – Guessed angels

5 – Was confident with Monticello. Which it turns out was built by Jefferson in Virginia not Vanderbilt in NC.

6 – Random guess of Catherine.

Till next week.

Ben Day 5

0/6.

Well this was a bad week.

1 :( I guessed Art Deco, knowing that it didn't really fit the description but that it fit the time period.

2 :( Harper Lee. I don't know too many female American mid 20th century authors.

3 :( I guessed Shakespeare in Love, influenced by the following question. Never seen Talented Mr Ripley, and only knew that it had Matt Damon.

4 :( I guessed sections of the Globe Theatre. Didn't know the moons of Uranus were all named after Shakespeare characters

5 :( I guessed "The House That Vander Bilt".

6 :( Guessed Marie Antoinette.

Steiny Day 5

My first win and at the expense of Merkin, so even sweeter!  Today was a really hard day I thought!

1. :( No clue, I put art deco knowing it was wrongbut not knowing any other architecturl styles

2. :( Probably could have come up with this, but when I think short stories I think Shirley Jackson, so I put her

3. :) Jude Law did it for me to get this one

4. :I On a lark I put moons.  But not moons of uranus...doubt I get it

5. :( Nope..wild guess of moon river (influenced by previous question)

6. :( Nope put Marie Antoinette

Gideon Day 4

2/6 today should be enough to keep my streak alive :)

1 :) D0 Bolt - I was also considering Lewis and Spitz
2 :( D1 Lady Marmalade
3 :) D2 Ice Shelf
4 :( D3 Sophia the First - I like my answer better
5 :( D1 Who's your daddy?
6 :( D2 Dawn

M Mann - Day 4

2/6. Again!

1. Nope.
Correct Answer: BOLT, LATYNINA, LEWIS, NURMI, SPITZ
Your Answer: Louganis
Points Assigned: 1

2. Couldn't even come up with a guess.
Correct Answer: DIRTY DEEDS (DONE DIRT CHEAP)
Your Answer: No clue
Points Assigned: 3

3. Gimme. Bad D?
Correct Answer: ICE SHELF
Your Answer: Ice shelf
Points Assigned: 2

4. Gimme.
Correct Answer: LADY JANE GREY
Your Answer: Lady Jane Grey
Points Assigned: 0

5. Aargh.
Correct Answer: IS IT SAFE?
Your Answer: Where's the beef?
Points Assigned: 1

6. Bad day.
Correct Answer: CHAMBER
Your Answer: Horse
Points Assigned: 2

Brad (rookie friend of Ben) Day 4

2/6

1) spitz  
pretty straighforward

2) afternoon delight
didnt know the song, went for entertaining wrong answer

3) ice shelf
Also pretty straightforward

4) catherine
Was pretty sure this was wrong, but thought i remembered from the tudors that bloody mary followed henry viii so went with wife 6.

5) do you floss
Didnt see movie, took a wild guess based on the dental probe part of question

6) sky
No idea

Steiny Day 4 - Matchup with Merkin Results!

After my third consecutive tie yesterday, I am slipping down the rankings of the rundle...let's find out who won in my showdown with Merkin today

1. :) I said Lewis (though I was also thinking Bolt and Spitz) D1

Merkin 1(1) Steiny 0(1)

2. :) The cheap clue was the only way I could have gotten this...I said to myself, why are they saying at an affordable cost, and they must mean cheap, so that must be in the title if thorsten is avoiding using the word.  Liked this question

Merkin 1(1) Steiny 1(2)

3. :) My name is Shackleton (best explorer ever)

Merkin 2 (2) Steiny 3 (3)  (the defensive mistake of the match)

4. :( Guessed Elizabeth

Merkin 2(2) Steiny 3(3)

5. :( I have seen this movie but could not remember this line i wrote "had enough yet"

Merkin 2(2) Steiny 3(3)

6. :( No clue, I guessed state, but I suppose the red state came after the 19th century

Merkin 2(2) Steiny 3(3)

Steiny takes his first win of the season...boy those questions got hard at the bottom

Jesse Day 4

3/6

1. American swimmer Michael Phelps holds the record for most career Olympic gold medals, with 23. Give the last name of any one of the five athletes who are tied for second place, with nine.
Correct Answer: BOLT, LATYNINA, LEWIS, NURMI, SPITZ
Your Answer: Spitz
Points Assigned: 0

My second guess would have been Bolt. 

2. According to the lyrics of an international hit rock song from 1976, one can dial 36-24-36 to procure, at an affordable cost, what title service?
Correct Answer: DIRTY DEEDS (DONE DIRT CHEAP)
Your Answer: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Points Assigned: 2

Good song.

3. Ross, Filchner-Ronne, Amery, Larsen, Riiser-Larsen, Fimbul, Shackleton, and George VI are all geographical features associated with Antarctica. They are all a type of feature defined by what two-word term?
Correct Answer: ICE SHELF
Your Answer: Ice Shelf
Points Assigned: 1

I knew of the Ross and Larsen Ice Shelves. 

4. What great-granddaughter of Henry VII reigned as the Queen of England for nine days in 1553, before her forced abdication in favor of Mary I (and subsequent imprisonment in the Tower of London, and beheading)?
Correct Answer: LADY JANE GREY
Your Answer: Elizabeth
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. I am awful with British royal history. 

5. In the film Marathon Man, what precisely is the three-word question Dr. Szell (Laurence Olivier) asks Babe (Dustin Hoffman) during his torturous interrogation with a dental probe?
Correct Answer: IS IT SAFE?
Your Answer: Who did it?
Points Assigned: 3

I don't think I ever saw Marathon Man. 

6. Hong lou meng, a 19th-century work by Cao Xueqin that is considered China's greatest novel, is usually translated to English in part as Dream of the Red what?
Correct Answer: CHAMBER
Your Answer: Kite
Points Assigned: 1

I have heard of it, but could not recall the name. 

Ben Day 4

3/6. Very sloppy defense this season is not helping me overcome the fact that I'm 2 TCA off the next worst person in Rundle B.

1 :) Bolt. Can't believe he only asked for one.

2 :) Dirty Deeds. Does this count as an Australian question? The affordable cost got me there.

3 :) Ice shelf. I've debated global warming at work this week, and ice shelves were discussed.

4 :( I guessed Catherine. Really should learn my British monarchs. I say that every time.,

5 :( I've seen this movie, and I'm pretty sure I saw this scene parodied or referenced in the past few weeks, though I can't pinpoint where.  I had no idea of the answer though.

6 :( I guessed Egg, because of the CHinese restaurant "Red Egg". I was tossing up between that and the other chinese restaurant "Red Farm". Couldn't think of a better approach to this one.

Dave M day 4 v Steiny

Seems like a while since Steiny and I have been in the same rundle. I guess my 2/6 will be a loss.

 

1 :) I went with Bolt and was debating whether to go with Lewis or Spitz instead. D0, seems pretty straightforward Olympics question.

2 :( Guessed loving. Had suspected it would be AC/DC but couldn’t think of any appropriate titles. D1.

3 :) I know of the Ross Ice Shelf in the NZ Antarctic area. Risky D2

4 :( Guessed Anne. Should have known this. Hopefully Steiny burns a low defense score. D3

5 :( Guessed who did it? Never seen the movie. D1

6 :( Never really had a chance with this one. I went for the culturally clichéd Dragon. D2

Gideon Day 3

4/6 again today.

1 :) D0 Juniper
2 :( D1 Juno - I was originally thinking Poseidon/Neptune, but moved on from there.
3 :( D2 Joseph Haydn - Hey, I guessed/remembered papa Haydn's first name!
4 :) D1 Miss Saigon
5 :) D3 Pleurisy - I got from pleura to pleuritis, then remembered that pleurisy is a thing.
6 :) D2 Cruiser

M Mann - Day 3

2/6.

1. No clue.
Correct Answer: JUNIPER
Your Answer: rye
Points Assigned: 2

2. Makes sense. I went with large = Jupiter.
Correct Answer: NEPTUNE
Your Answer: Jupiter
Points Assigned: 1

3. Thought he gave his son his own first name as a middle name.
Correct Answer: LEOPOLD MOZART
Your Answer: Amadeus Mozart
Points Assigned: 3

4. Gimme.
Correct Answer: MISS SAIGON
Your Answer: Miss Saigon
Points Assigned: 2

5. I didn't think I was right but didn't have a better guess.
Correct Answer: PLEURISY/PLEURITIS
Your Answer: pneumonia
Points Assigned: 1

6. Took a while but I got it.
Correct Answer: CRUISER
Your Answer: cruiser
Points Assigned: 0

Dave M day 3

Looks like my 2/6 today will likely be a loss. A nice win yesterday owing to Shakespeare.

 

1 :) Pretty straightforward alcohol question I thought. D1

2 :( Went with Juno. Remembered later that’s a name of one of the beaches. Normandy landing beaches are a great weekend trip from Paris/London if you ever have the opportunity. D2

3 :( I went with Thomas Haydn. Risky D3

4 :) Think this is a gimme for my musical-loving opponent. D0

5 :( Also went with Pneumonia. D1

6 :( Had the same frigate/cruiser debate as Ben but went the wrong way. D2

Jesse Day 3

I realized after I submitted and looked at the blog that Steiny was my opponent. I also put up a 4/6, got the same questions wrong and marked them for the same amount of points. Looks like a tie. I'll take it. 

1. While sloe gin is a liqueur made by infusing gin with berries of the sloe bush, gin itself is a liquor flavored predominantly by the berries of what other, coniferous plant?
Correct Answer: JUNIPER
Your Answer: Juniper
Points Assigned: 2

I knew this, figured it might trip someone up. 

2. The landing operations (specifically) for the largest seaborne invasion in history—the June 1944 Allied assault of the French region of Normandy—were fittingly codenamed after what Roman deity?
Correct Answer: NEPTUNE
Your Answer: Neptune
Points Assigned: 1

Seems like a gimmie as long as you can keep your Greek and roman gods differentiated. 

3. Give the full name (given name and surname) of the composer and violin teacher who wrote several concertos and symphonies, including Die musikalische Schlittenfahrt (but perhaps not the "Toy Symphony" sometimes credited to him), and became court violinist at Salzburg in 1743, though he's surely most famous as a musical dad.
Correct Answer: LEOPOLD MOZART
Your Answer: Gary Mozart
Points Assigned: 3

Nope. Haven't seen Amadeus in a while. 

4. The transfer of what musical from London's West End to Broadway in 1991 proved difficult in part because few New York houses are large enough to accommodate a set that includes a life-size helicopter?
Correct Answer: MISS SAIGON
Your Answer: Miss Saigon
Points Assigned: 1

I remember ads for this while growing up and there was a helicopter in them. 

5. What is the medical term for the inflammation, caused most often by a viral infection, of the membrane that surrounds the lungs and lines the thoracic cavity?
Correct Answer: PLEURISY/PLEURITIS
Your Answer: Pneumonia
Points Assigned: 2

Got to be the MCW. Never heard of the answer. 

6. What word is obscured by the red box in this image? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/948y50nc9.jpg
Correct Answer: CRUISER
Your Answer: Cruiser
Points Assigned: 0

Pretty easy if you know ships or battleship. 

Steiny Day 3 MORE

Just realized my opponent today was Jesse. So I am including my defense so he can calculate who won

1. :) D1

2. :) D0

3. :( D3

4. :) D2

5. :( D2

6. :) D1

Steiny Day 3

Another day, another Tie...my defense was good but not perfect and that cost me that match

1. :) Fairly commong knowledge I think

2. :) Almost wrote poseidon and had to take a minute to remember neptune (thank you spongebob squarepants movie)

3. :( he said schlittenfahrt...

4. :) Pretty basic theater knowledge (also I always conflate Billy Joel's goodnight Saigon and miss saigon and the helicoptor is a common thread)

5. :( guessed pneumonia

6. :) Yay...this one took a while to remember.

Ben Day 3

3/6. The arithmetic progression continues. 

1 :) Juniper. Maybe D2 was too much. somehow food/drink is Opponent's worst category.

2 :) Neptune. Wasn't 100% sure, but it rings a bell and the context clue confirmed.

3 :( I guessed Joseph Mozart. I've never watched Amadeus. D3 for guessing the right Austrian first name.

4 :( South Pacific.This was gettable. My opponent is 100% in theatre so D0.

5 :( Guessed pneuomnia. Would never have guessed this.

6 :) Cruiser. Love me some battleship. I was tossing up between this and frigate, though Cruiser sounded right. I also thought patrol boat was another name for the 2 length. I can't find any corresponding online references though.

M Mann - Day 2

Tied yesterday. 4/6 today.

1) Nehru gimme.
2) Range. What do you know - a math gimme! More please.
3) No clue. I said "I'm sad."
4) Said joule.
5) Murphy Brown! Yes!
6) Yup, got Dinah Shore.

Gideon Day 2

4/6 today
1 :) D1 Nehru
2 :) D2 Range
3 :) D1 All the world's a stage - This was a guess, but it made sense
4 :( D3 Foucault - I was guessing between this, Galileo and Liebniz. Liebniz would have been a great answer, because it can be associated with the Newton.
5 :) D0 Murphy Brown
6 :( D2 Kathy Lee Gifford

Ben Day 2

A rocky start indeed. It didn't take me very long to find the bottom place in rundle B. 8 point MPD against already. Through dumb luck and the vagaries of the realignment process I have been promoted to a position far above my abilities, from where I will almost definitely fall quickly and gracelessly. On the bright side, I won't take a whole country with me.

2/6 today. 

1 :) Nehru. I think I heard of Nehru jackets from Weird Al.

2 :) range. mmm - delicious 0 pointer for me, no doubt.

3 :( I guessed What's done is done as I knew it was Shakspeare.

4 :( I wrote Newton, which of course is kgm/s2, so that was stupid. I have had stupid mistakes both days now. I've been pretty scattered this last week.

5 :( Should have also gotten this one. I used to watch this. Newsmagazine threw me off as I thought that meant print media. I guessed Veronia Mars. Pretty sure I guessed Murphy Brown for something a season or two ago.

6 :( I guessed Ellen. I knew nothing about the late Dinah Shore other than the fact that she lit the menorah.

As for the Sierra reminiscing, I remember playing Police Quest 1 on a pc at my mum's work when I was too young to know that you could move diagonally on a keypad, or how to change directories to navigate around the games. That, Scorched Earth and Catacomb 3-D were the games on the machine at her office. I also played at least one King's Quest, a Space Quest and Castle of Dr Brain. I think they also made Air Bucks.

Dave M day 2

3/6 today including a lucky guess on the Shakespeare one, leaving me optimistic.

 

Re Sierra Games, my favourites were Gold Rush, Kings Quest 5, and Leisure Suit Larry (although as an 11 year old to-be-gay guy I definitely wasn’t the target audience)

 

1.      :( Also went with Mao over Nehru. Was confident about it too. D0

2.      :) Range – will this be the most common right math answer? D1

3.      :) A very nice lucky guess. D3

4.      :( Also went with Newton, even though my understanding of what the Newton unit is differed substantially with what’s described. Bit of a trick question. D1

5.      :) A moderately lucky guess – I can’t remember any other newsmagazine related sitcoms with someone’s name in the title. D2

6.      :( No idea – went with (KD) Lang

Steiny Day 2

A ties yesterday on perfect defense against 3 right for my opponent and I only got 2 right

1. :) Gimme

2. :) One of the few math questions I know

3. :( I guessed Beyond the gilded cage

4. :( Guessed Newton

5. :) Knew this, used to watch the show

6. :( Guessed Cher

Jesse Day 2

2/6 again.

1. The style of tailored overcoat like the example seen here is colloquially named after what world leader? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/p4985y0cn439.jpg
Correct Answer: JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Your Answer: Mao
Points Assigned: 1

Oh darn, I knew that, but was blinded by the Mao suit in my mind. 

2. In mathematics, a function is a non-empty set of ordered pairs of which no two can have the same first element. The set of all first elements in a function's ordered pairs is the domain, while the set of all second elements is the what?
Correct Answer: RANGE/CODOMAIN
Your Answer: Range
Points Assigned: 3

I got a math question right! 

3. The title of a 1976 live album by the rock band Rush references the first line of a soliloquy by the melancholy traveler Jaques in Shakespeare's As You Like It. What is that line?
Correct Answer: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
Your Answer: Parting is such sweet sorrow
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. Was never into Rush. 

4. A unit of acceleration, used in geological surveying and elsewhere, which is defined as one centimeter per second squared (1 cm/s^2</sup>), is named (appropriately) after what mathematician and physicist?
Correct Answer: GALILEO GALILEI
Your Answer: Newton
Points Assigned: 2

Argh, I considered Galileo, but didn't go with him. 

5. What titular television character was employed as an investigative journalist for the fictional newsmagazine program FYI?
Correct Answer: MURPHY BROWN
Your Answer: Murphy Brown
Points Assigned: 1

I watched this when I was a kid and seemed right to me. 

6. The ANA Inspiration, an event of the LPGA Tour and one of the five major championships of women's professional golf, was for many years hosted by and named after what singer, talk-show personality, and Chevrolet pitchwoman?
Correct Answer: DINAH SHORE
Your Answer: Rosie O'Donnel
Points Assigned: 0

Nope. 

Gideon Day 1 - LL71

Hey everyone, nice to be back.

4/6 Today

1 :) D3 Coffee - lucky guess
2 :( D1 Green - I considered putting Mulder or Lovelace. I came up with Daniel Ellsberg, but knew it wasn't right.
3 :| D2 Vitamin B
4 :( D2 Aleppo
5 :) D1 Jackson - I wasn't sure how to spell "Mahalia"
6 :| D0 Pudding Head Wilson - Never read it, but the time and place fit Mark Twain. Probably bad defense.

M Mann - Day 1

Seem to have gotten the same 2/6 as some of the rest of you.

1. Nope.
Correct Answer: ESPRESSO/COFFEE
Your Answer: chocolate
Points Assigned: 2

2. Gimme.
Correct Answer: W. MARK FELT
Your Answer: Mark Felt
Points Assigned: 1

3. MCW?
Correct Answer: VITAMIN B COMPLEX
Your Answer: essential vitamins
Points Assigned: 0

4. What else could it be?
Correct Answer: BEIRUT
Your Answer: Beirut
Points Assigned: 1

5. Knew I was wrong but had no better guess.
Correct Answer: MAHALIA JACKSON
Your Answer: Ella Fitzgerald
Points Assigned: 3

6. No idea. Knew it wasn't Sherlock but had no better guess.
Correct Answer: PUDD'NHEAD
Your Answer: Sherlock
Points Assigned: 2

Dave M

Some of my favorite memories were waking up early on saturday morning and playing the various space quest adventures with my dad.  Loved those games.  (also did king quest, but never got into police quest for some reason)  And obviously leaisure suit larry was off-limits until I was able to guess the answers to the adult questions

Amelia Day 1

Joined via Jesse. Hi, all. :)

1. :) Espresso Coffee -- thank you, fancy coffee shops in my life (assigned 1 point)

2. :( Fox Mulder -- I knew I'd recognize the name later, but couldn't remember it (assigned 2 points)

3. :) B Vitamins -- I didn't include the word complex but I think this is okay (assigned 0 points)

4. :) Beirut -- same thinking as others, French/Arabic was the clue (assigned 1 point)

5. :( Marian Anderson -- oops, got my groundbreaking divas mixed up (assigned 2 points)

6. :( Sparky -- no clue on this one (assigned 3 points)

Dave M day 1

Hi folks

Already time for another LL, they come around so fast. Our new rundle name has me reminiscing about late 1980s and early 1990s quest games. Hopefully we get a couple of questions along those lines one day.

A poor 2/6 to start.

1 :) I wrote both Coffee and Espresso. D1
2 :( No idea. Never heard of Felt so don't feel so bad about it. D1 becuase this is reasonably common US knowledge right?
3 :( Was confident on Amino Acids (which is a reasonably common wrong answer for me as it happens. D2
4 :) Could only be Beirut with the location and the French. Risky D3 as opponent's worst category is Geography.
5 :( Nope. D2
6 :( This seems really obscure to me. D2

Ben Day 1

@$%#%^&

1/6

1 :) Coffee.  This I knew.

2 :( I knew I would never remember the name, so I just guessed Woodward

3 :( I wrote Vitamins (Essential).  CLose but no cigar

4 :( Argh. I went back and forther in my head a few times before deciding this was Beirut. For some reason I wrote Lebanon. A real kick in the guts.

5 :( I guessed gladys Knight

6 :( I guessed Gumshoe. Never heard of this. Should have D3ed.

Jesse day 1, LL 71

Hello All, good to be back. Starting off with a 2/6.

1. The culinary term "affogato" normally refers to a dessert topped (or "drowned") with what?
Correct Answer: ESPRESSO/COFFEE
Your Answer: liquor
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

2. What was the real name of the FBI Special Agent and one-time Deputy Director of the Bureau who was revealed in 2005 to be the secret Watergate informant "Deep Throat"?
Correct Answer: W. MARK FELT
Your Answer: Felt
Points Assigned: 1

I just knew this one.

3. Thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, biotin, folic acid, and cobalamin form a dietary group of eight that is known collectively as what?
Correct Answer: VITAMIN B COMPLEX
Your Answer: Amino Acids
Points Assigned: 0

Nope, I was wrong, had no idea and scored it too low I think. 

4. Badaro, Raouché, Gemmayzeh, Saifi Village, Centre Ville (The Central District) and Wadi Abu Jamil are all neighborhoods or districts within what city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea?
Correct Answer: BEIRUT
Your Answer: Beirut
Points Assigned: 1

This was a guess, but there aren't too many major cities on the East Coast of the Med. Mixture of french and arabic helped of course. 

5. What New Orleans-born (and jazz and blues-influenced) singer and civil rights activist, who died in 1972, was dubbed the "Queen of Gospel"? In fact, her 1955 album was titled The World's Greatest Gospel Singer.
Correct Answer: MAHALIA JACKSON
Your Answer: Nina Simone
Points Assigned: 3

Never heard of her. 

6. What was the nickname of the fictional literary character David Wilson, a young lawyer in pre-Civil War Dawson's Landing, Missouri, whose eccentric hobby of collecting fingerprints eventually helps him solve his novel's central murder?
Correct Answer: PUDD'NHEAD
Your Answer: Slouth
Points Assigned: 2

I did not read this book so  had no idea. 

Steiny Day 1

Not a good start to LL71

Back down in C...let's C what I can do!

1. :( Guessed Caramel...this makes sense though, italians love coffee

2. :) Knew this one

3. :( Guessed Amino Acids

4. :) Obviously it was nothing in Israel and east coast of mediterannean only really left one other option

5. :( Nope, guessed James

6. :( Nope, guessed Thumb Detective