Ben Day 1

donut for me. 

Im in cali and submitted 12 hours ago and can barely remember. quick post.

1 :( Wrote brine. I though bleach had nitrogen/ammonia in it.

2 :( Wrote Go, Dogs, Go rather than Go, Dog, Go because there are a shit ton of dogs in that book

3 :( I guessed Rolling Stones because it sounds kinda similar

4 :( No idea about these colleges

5 :( can't remember hwat I wrote, but i had never heard of roundheads. not sure why so many of you have. HS curriculum like Mirkin? 

6 :( Don't watch tv

Gideon Day 1 LL77 vs. Dave M

4/6 today. Welcome back everyone!

1 :( D2/1 Saline - I chose the popular answer, but I like the correct answer better.
2 :) D2/1 Go Dog Go! - Do you like my hat?
3 :) D0/2 Van Halen
4 :( D3/3 Ypsilanti
5 :) D1/0 Round Heads
6 :) D1/2 Colonel Sanders - I knew this one from Reba McEntire

M Mann - Day 1

Welcome to the new season. Starting off with a weak 2/6. Hopefully nowhere to go but up.

1. MCWA?
Correct Answer: (LIQUID/HOUSEHOLD) BLEACH
Your Answer: Saline
Points Assigned: 3

2. Argh. I knew it had dog in the title.
Correct Answer: GO, DOG. GO!
Your Answer: Big Dog Little Dog
Points Assigned: 1

3. No way.
Correct Answer: VAN HALEN
Your Answer: Rolling Stones
Points Assigned: 2

4. How would I ever know this?
Correct Answer: LAKE SUPERIOR STATE, MICHIGAN TECH
Your Answer: Uppsala
Points Assigned: 2

5. European history - hey!
Correct Answer: ROUNDHEADS
Your Answer: Roundheads
Points Assigned: 1

6. Reba's been all over the news.
Correct Answer: COLONEL SANDERS
Your Answer: Colonel Sanders
Points Assigned: 0

Will Day 1!

Tough day today against Andy Levinson, namesake of our private Longevity League! Perhaps he deserves a win

 

1. Not even close
Your Answer: chlorine
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

2. We have this book at home. Eastman is a poor man’s Seuss.
Your Answer: The Birthday Book
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

3. Didn’t know
Your Answer: Rolling Stones
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

4. Just didn’t know
Your Answer: Michigan State
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

5. Finally a gimme!
Your Answer: Roundheads
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

6. Def didn’t know that!
Your Answer: Spuds McKenzie
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Blog

Ok.  Add me to the blog please.  

Steiny Day 1

Welcome back to everyone and an exciting first day with our new private rundle!  Ironically, I actually play Dave Seif today in regular LL and I don;t know the person I am playing in our private rundle,.

1. :( Saline Solution

2. :( Nope, guessed Dog Day Afternoon

3. :( Nope, guessed Aerosmith

4. :) Lake Superior State...I am, after all, a college counselor, and I was in Michigan this past weekend

5. :( Nope, Buzzers

6. :) What I thought was the only gimme of the day.  

Not a great start to the new season at 2/6...not feeling good about picking up a W in either competition

Brian I LL77 and LLL1 Day 1

Welcome back everyone!   4/6 ain't bad to start the season.  Lets see what ya got, Ben!

1) Bleach.  Instinct said saline/salt water, but there was an extra O in NaOCL + H2O.  started thinking of acids and bases, hydrochloric and lye, and then hypochlorite reminded me of chlorine bleach.  Don't know if this was hard or I made it hard by overcomplicating it. D1 for both.  

2) Dogs.  Never heard of this.  I think PD Eastman wrote Are You My Mother?  I think I should have defended higher for Ben.  D2/ D1 Ben

3) Van Halen.  Huge gimme for me, they covered both songs for big hits on early albums.   Pop music weak for both opponents; D2/D2.

4) Western Michigan. Was so confident of this; Western Michigan has to be in the western-most part of the state, right?    D1 for my .706 sports opponent; D3 for the Aussie.

5) Roundheads.  If you asked me who the roundheads were, I wouldn't have a clue but that they were British. But phrase the question this way, and it's a rare history gimme for me.  D3/D0. If I know a world history question, Ben must know it.

6) Colonel Sanders.  KFC ads with McDonald and Riggle have been ubiquitous the last year. D0/D2

Brad day 1

vs WeiszJ

1/6

1) salt d0(reg)/0 (lll)

guess this wasnt the gimme i thought

2) happy birthday spot d1/2

a book to add to the kids collection

3) aerosmith d1/2

figured the songs were relevant but had no idea

4) michigan tech d3/3

university of michigan + decent at sports on profile will likely take away the auto 3 points this would otherwise get

5) musketeers d2/1

no idea

6) ronald mcdonald d2/1

hadnt seen the commercials, but thought this was right

FYI, David S is David Seif

FYI, David S is David Seif, so that's Seif's scoring methodology, Mirkin! If I don't nip this in the bud, the wrong name is going to stick! (And nobody puts baby in the corner.)

Dave M day 1 vs WeiszG

Excited to try out the private rundle! I’m going to follow Steiny’s scoring methodology, seems simplest.

 

A terrible 1/6 to start.

 

1 : ( Also went with Saline. D1/1

2 : ( I never heard of this story growing up in NZ – is it recent? D2/2

3 : ( I was strangely confident this was Rolling Stones for some reason, couldn’t work out the ‘coincidental’ part of the clue. D2/1 (swapped defense with Q5 for Weisz)

4 : ( I also guessed Marquette hoping the town = college, but the college is in Milwaukee it turns out. D3/3

5 : ) English Civil War was part of my high school history curriculum. D1/2 (Weisz relatively worse at world history than pop music)

6 : ( Knew this would be a gimme for most but I had no idea, though I was surprisingly close with Ronald McDonald. D0/0

Pelc Day 1 Vs. Friedland MJ

Hi everyone,

Really excited to be in this private rundle and back participating in this blog - it's been too long. Thanks for including me.

I assume for the purposes of this blog we'll post our defense for the private rundle. 

3/6 to start, annoyed about the music one. 

1) :) (we still doing smiles and frowns?) - Just knew this one. D2

2) :( - I am a new parent - my daughter is 3 months old - something tells me I would have gotten this one if it was asked in a year. D1

3) :( - A little Day 1 rust here. I misread the clues and overthought. I answered The Traveling Wilburys, mostly because any time I see Roy Orbison's name, that's the band I think about. I just decided to rewrite music history and assume that a member of Kinks joined at some point. If I looked a little closer at the songs and not the artists, I would've gotten there. Typing out my thought process makes me feel even dumber. I've really missed this blog. D2

4) :) - Lake Superior State - Tough sports YEKIOYD. D3

5) :( - I had no clue. D1 

6) :) - Today's gimme. This should be tough to beat for easiest overall question of the season (apologies if you got this wrong). D0

Jesse day 1

4/6 to start things off.

1. When dissolved in water, the chemical compound sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) forms a solution commonly known as what?
Correct Answer: (LIQUID/HOUSEHOLD) BLEACH
Your Answer: Bleach
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

This was a guess, but I just thought of cleaning products and bleach seemed to be a pretty common one. Lucky I went  down the path of cleaning products. 

2. A popular children's book by P.D. Eastman details the activities of a set of anthropomorphic canines—big, little, red, blue, yellow, etc.—who operate various means of transport, some while wearing hats, as they go about the day, ultimately ending up at a big party. What is the title of this book?
Correct Answer: GO, DOG. GO!
Your Answer: Go Dog Go!
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I read this to my daughter often.

3. A predecessor to what still-active rock band was formed by its pre-teen founders as "The Broken Combs" way back in 1964? Coincidentally, this is the same year that Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" and The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" were released as singles.
Correct Answer: VAN HALEN
Your Answer: Van Halen
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I know their covers of those songs. I had no idea they went back to 1964 and had never heard of the broken combs. 

4. There are three NCAA Division I hockey teams whose universities are located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. One is Northern Michigan; name either of the other two.
Correct Answer: LAKE SUPERIOR STATE, MICHIGAN TECH
Your Answer: University of Michigan
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I had no idea. 

5. Supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War of the mid-17th century were known by what derogatory name, so called due to their close-cropped hair (contrasting with the long hair of the Royalists/Cavaliers)?
Correct Answer: ROUNDHEADS
Your Answer: Skullduggerists
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Never heard the term.

6. Darrell Hammond, Norm Macdonald, Rob Riggle, George Hamilton, Rob Lowe, and Reba McEntire are among the actors who have appeared in television ads portraying what corporate mascot?
Correct Answer: COLONEL SANDERS
Your Answer: Colonel Sanders
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I have seen a few of these commercials. Rob Lowe was what made this easy for me. 

David S Day 1 vs Steiny (regular) and MeyerE (LLL)

Welcome back, all. It's been too long. 3/6 against Steiny in my regular match and MeyerE in LLL (not sure who MeyerE is). 

For formatting purposes, I'll put points as X/Y, where X is my regular D and Y is my LLL D. 

1. Saline :(, D1/1. Oof, bad start. Don't want to mix those two up!

2. Go dog go :), D1/0. My kids don't have this book, but I used to. My only problem was remembering whether the title was Go Dog, Go Doggie, Go Dog Go, or Go Doggie Go. Good thing I chose right. 

3. Aerosmith :(, D3/3. No clue. 

4. Marquette :(, D2/2. I was hoping the university was in the city Marquette, which is in the UP, but no. 

5. Roundheads :), D2/2. Only gimme for me today. 

6. Colonel Sanders D0/1. I was pretty sure Rob Riggle was in a KFC commercial. Glad I got this. 

Private Rundle

All: We have to re-register for the private rundle due to the hosting problem. I have re-set up the league and was pleased to see 3 entrants in under a minute (Congrats to Carr, Seif and Steinberg in that order).

 

As a reminder, the name is Levinson Longevity League and the code is abc12345.

 

Good luck! Will