Kim Day 25

Well, I thought I might avoid dead last, but 1 today probably doesn't help that effort. Either way, this is ridiculously fun and I look forward to Rundle E!

1 :) Paneer.
2 :( Hocus Pocus. I never watch TV but could have got it from the movie alone if I tried harder.
3 :( leather. This is a dumb guess.
4 :( Marcos. Nope.
5 :( Des Moines. Midwestern is a stretch!!
6 :( Egghead. Just in case.

Dave M day 25

A nice 4/6 to end the season, hopefully extending my winning streak to 6 and what looks like a promotion back into D, which seems to be my natural home after so many seasons.

 

1 : ) Saag Paneer is one of the best parts of Indian food in my opinion. D0

2 : ) The only two female-led comedies I know of from that time were 9 to 5 and Working Girl. I’m pretty sure Working Girl was a couple of years after 1980, so took a guess at 9 to 5. Worked out! D1

3 : ) One of her rooms was on display at the Dallas Museum of Art a few months ago. D1

4 : ) Knew both, went with Sukarno. D2

5 : ( Total guess of Kansas City didn’t pay off this time. D2

6 : ( Again total guess of McCormack. Would never have guessed this. D3

and one more thing from Brian...

LET'S GO METS!!!!!!!!

And in the LL off-season, consider trying some one-days and mini-leagues for your fix.  I'm signed up for all 4 MLs: Visual Art, True Crime, LGBT, and 2000 Sports.  See you there!

Brian Day 25 vs Ben

3/6 as I find myself suddenly fighting off relegation, only one point out of the zone.  And I'm just behind a friend with 5 forfeits, how embarrassing.  Hoping to get some points from a movie question disguised as literature.

1) vindaloo. no clue.  0/1

2) 9 to 5.  Gimme for me, that movie was on all the time when we first got cable.  1/2

3) candy.  There was a touring candy exhibit that my friends with tween daughters were posting on facebook.  I thought this could be it, and that Ben might have seen it on facebook as well, hence the abnormally low art defense. 2/1

4) Suharto.  recent history gimme.  Plus, this came up recently.  Ben, pub trivia maybe?  1/0

5) Omaha.  no idea.  can't imagine Ben is following this.  3/2

6) Warshawski.  This could save my season.  I thought there might be a chance these books were made into movies.  My first thought was Blue Steel with Jamie Lee Curtis, but she was a uniformed cop. Then 'hard boiled' brought Kathleen Turner to mind, perhaps because I just saw her play Chandler's dad on friends a few weeks ago.  Once I had Turner, the movie V.I. Warshawki burst forth in all its glory from my buried memories.   Hope this does it, and I get to stay in C with newcomers Seif and Carr.  2/3

Gideon Day 25 LL80

4/6 today

1 :) D0 Paneer
2 :) D1 9 to 5 - Good movie
3 :) D2 Mirrors - I had a bunch of really wild guesses before I remembered the actual answer.
4 :) D1 Suharto
5 :( D2 Minneapolis
6 :( D3 Cross

Ben day 25

2

1 :) paneer. Gimme for a former Australian vegetarian

2 :( airplane. I don't know many 1980 era comedies. I've watched grace and Frankie but it didn't help

3 :( meat. Mirrors make more sense and would smell better.

4 :) Suharto. Could have provided either answer.

5 :( Minneapolis. Maybe Wasted d0?

6 :( Holmes. My parents have a gazillion Paretskys but I've never read one. Ask me again in 10 years and I expect I'll have gotten there.

Jesse day 25

2/6 One last brother battle in the LLL. Have a good off season everyone. 

1. What is the name for the most common type of cheese, similar to chhena, that is used in traditional South Asian cuisines, often coupled in popular dishes with palak (saag), khoya, or mattar?
Correct Answer: PANEER
Your Answer: Paneer
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

We eat Indian food occasionally and I have been there twice. 

2. The title characters in the current Netflix television series Grace and Frankie previously appeared together as two-thirds of a trio of stars in what 1980 comedy film?
Correct Answer: 9 TO 5
Your Answer: An American Tale
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew there were two older women in that show, but I have never seen this. Even if I knew who they were, I have not seen 9 to 5. 

3. Among the numerous works in the seventy-year career of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, perhaps the most famous—currently the subject of an exhibition traveling through North America—involve cube-shaped rooms whose walls are all lined with what?
Correct Answer: MIRRORS
Your Answer: Flowers
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I had no idea. Took a guess.

4. Give the name of either the Indonesian statesman and nationalist who was his country's first, post-revolution president, or the general who succeeded him in 1967 and served until his own presidency collapsed in 1998.
Correct Answer: SUKARNO, SUHARTO
Your Answer: Suharto
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Suharto is the only Indonesian leader I know of. 

5. The men's professional soccer league Major League Soccer (MLS) expanded to twenty-four teams for the current 2019 season with the addition of the team that plays its home games in what Midwestern city?
Correct Answer: CINCINNATI
Your Answer: Madison
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I don't follow MLS.

6. What is the last name of the hard-boiled Chicago detective, from the works of novelist Sara Paretsky and first appearing in 1982's Indemnity Only, who is known to friends as "Vic" and to only a select few by her given name, Victoria?
Correct Answer: WARSHAWSKI
Your Answer: Smith
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

Never heard of any of this. 

Pelc Day 24

I followed up 2 straight 9(6)es - my first back-to-back 6/6 - with a 4/6. I'm pretty sure this season will end with my highest TCA ever but I'll still finish in the middle of the pack. 

1. :) - At first I thought this was a gimme but then I rethought it and realized that I'm kinda old and people are less and less familiar with the Rat Pack. D2

2. :) - I am absolutely shocked that this was correct. I was literally just filling in the blank. D3

3. :( - My embarrassing lack of geography knowledge strikes again. D1

4. :) - Gimme with the pet clue at the end. This will have a Top-5 get rate. D0

5. :( - I had no clue so went with Santa b/c of 'Navidad.' Didn't know how to defend this b/c of the science clue. D2

6. :) - Sports gimme. D1

Day 24 vs Andy

2/6 very frustrating day, lots of gettable answers.  boy do I hate losing to Andy.  but i don't know if I actually lost to him, because even though he deigned to post on the blog, he didn't post his defense. Andy, you have 4 points from me, how did I do?

1) Moshe Dyan.   At least I had the right religion, but how could I not think of his glass eye?  3/3

2) Hard to Find.  It was either this or Charlie Brown.  I didn't think either was correct, so thought it would be a very difficult question 2/2

3) polyponesia.  no clue, an again, kicking myself for not coming up with what in retrospect is very easy.  1/1

4) chia.  ch- ch- ch- chia!  There's a Groot chia head on the window sill of my trading floor. 1/0

5) Mary.  I knew it had to be the plural of Mare, the 'seas' on the moon, and guessed that it was Marii, which fit the birth, if not the Spanish. Should have thought this through a bit more to get to Maria.  0/1

6) Ryder.  I don't know leisure sport trophies. 2/2

Note from Seif

Due to the change in the LL schedule, I had to submit my Day 25 answers early since I'll be traveling all day Thursday.  I doubt I'll remember to post then.  Have a great off season everyone!

Ben Day 24

2/6

1 :( Sinatra. Same as Seif

2 :( an honest man. Same as Kim

3 :) Crimea. What else could it be. Andy, what do you have against Finland? Do you mean Iceland?

4 :) Chia. Rhymes with Crimea.

5 :( Mares. Same as Seif

6 :( Ryder. Same as Seif

Jesse Day 24

4/6

1. What dynamic and charismatic entertainer was featured wearing an eyepatch on the cover of his debut album released in 1955, after a car accident the previous year resulted in the loss of his left eye?
Correct Answer: SAMMY DAVIS JR.
Your Answer: Sammy Davis Jr
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew this answer instantly. 

2. What, according to the title of Flannery O'Connor's short story masterpiece first published in 1953, is "A Good Man"?
Correct Answer: HARD TO FIND
Your Answer: Pious
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Oh, that is very gettable.

3. The narrow, five-to-seven-kilometer wide Isthmus of Perekop connects what peninsula to the mainland of Eastern Europe?
Correct Answer: CRIMEA
Your Answer: Crimea
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Slavic sounding word, Eastern Europe, peninsula... Crimea. 

4. What is the common name of the flowering plant Salvia hispanica, a species of the mint family native to central and southern Mexico, whose seeds were popular for a time in the 1980s (and still sold today) as "pets"?
Correct Answer: CHIA
Your Answer: Chia
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I just had some chia seeds sprinkled on my salad. 

5. An important figure in La Navidad has a name that is a near-homonym for dark lowland plains (note plural) on the Moon. What is either name?
Correct Answer: MARÍA/MARIA
Your Answer: Seas
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I could not pull it.

6. The PGA Tour's championship trophy, first won in 2007 by Tiger Woods, is a "Cup" that has, since its inauguration, been sponsored by (and named after) what corporation?
Correct Answer: FEDEX
Your Answer: Fedex
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1  

I knew this was the Fedex cup. 

Andy

1. Not sure why, but I thought this was the gimme of the day. Seif, "Ol' Blue Eyes" (plural!) would be an ironic and mean moniker were your answer correct.

2. Charlie Brown, is a good man, no? Knew it wasn't right but had no clue.

3. Crimea popped for me. Question for people, especially Seif. Is Finland part of Scandanavia (geographically, as in part of the peninsula). Seems like shoudl be excluded.

4. Chia. was just talking about this Sunday night. Rachel Hazan has one in her kitchen. Mint? Interesting.

5. NO CLUE. I put Noel, like knoll, though that's a homphone not a homonym. Just no clue. 

6. Couldn't pull this, so put Canon. Was also considering watch brands. I knew Ryder Cup was the Euro/US thing, so not that.

Dave M day 24

A 2/6 today which was the maximum I was expecting as these questions are not in my strong categories!

 

1 : ( I had no idea and went with Buddy Holly on the morbid idea that it was a prelude to his plane crash later on in the 1950s. D1

2 : ( Also no idea and guessed Soldier – was way off with this one! D2

3 : ) Couldn’t really be any other peninsula except the Peloponnese in Greece, but I think that one would be worded differently. D3

4 : ) It hadn’t struck me until this question was asked that hipster food source Chia was the very same as the pet seed Chia in the 1980s. D0

5 : ( No idea so went with random guess of Erebus. D2

6 : ( Guessed Nike. D1

Seif Day 24

1/6.  Ugh.  I really thought I had more and was so close on so many.  I wish the site had just stayed down...

1. Sinatra :(, D13.  Partial credit for a the rat pack?

2. Rare :(, D12.  I remembered the idea here, but I couldn't remember the phrasing.

3. Crimea :), D21.  Seemed like the only choice, though I wasn't 100% sure.

4. Cilantro :(, D00.  I thought Chia was a brand name, so although it crossed my mind, I didn't think it could be right.  Food and drink is the best category for both of my opponents, so easy decision to D00.

5. Mares :(, D32.  I approached this from the moon side.  I realized they were called seas, and I thought (maybe correctly) that this would be translated into Latin, which I was pretty sure was mare.  But then I pluralized it wrong.

6. Ryder :(, D21.  I thought for sure this was right, though I guess this must be older than 2007.  I certainly wasn't going to come up with a better guess.

Kim Day 24

Lots of high scores today? Defense was hard! I should have had 4. 3/6

1 :( Dean Martin. I instantly thought Sammy Davis Jr. and didn't write it because my first instinct is usually wrong.
2 :( Honest. Close?
3 :) Crimean
4 :) Ch-ch-ch Chia
5 :( Craters. This was hard for me. Not sure for others.
6 :) FedEx

Gideon Day 23

6/6 today! My 6/6 on Friday got me a tie.

1 :) D2/1 Currency - I’m not sure if this is something I remembered or just guessed.
2 :) D3/3 Sodium - This was a tossup with Potassium for me.
3 :) D1/2 The Conners - I very quickly put down “The Tanners” and am very glad I gave it a second thought.
4 :) D0/0 Saturday Night Massacre - Now I’ve got the Bay City Rollers song stuck in my head.
5 :) D2/1 Vienna - I vaguely remember some story about a US city claiming to be the birthplace of the hotdog, and almost went off on the wrong track. Then I looked at the date, moved back to Europe and remembered weiners.
6 :) D1/2 Yemen - I associate “Houthi Rebel” with “Yemen”

brad day23

4/6

common d

1) money d1

I trust seifs comment that this probably should be wrong, but i'm getting 0 for this regardless

2) sodium d3

a lucky guess, thought this fit at the right spot on the periodic table and didnt have a better answer

3) the connors d1

this was all over the news for a while

4) saturday night massacre d0

in the context of trump, american history gimme

5) kielbasa d2

nope

6) qatar d2

oops, should have known this

Seif response to song

The song is wonderful (and in a bit of knowledge that is shocking for me, I actually know who sang it).  Also, raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, and warm woolen mittens are a few of my favorite things.  But none of them is a correct answer to what seigniorage is.

song for Seif

I've got ninety thousand pounds in my pajamas
I've got forty thousand French francs in my fridge
I've got lots of lovely lira
Now the deutschmark's getting dearer,
And my dollar bill could buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
There is...

...nothing quite as wonderful as money!
There is nothing quite as beautiful as cash!
Some people say it's folly, but I'd rather have the lolly,
With money you can make a splash!

There is nothing quite as wonderful as money!
There is nothing like a newly minted pound!
Everyone must hanker for the butchness of a banker
It's accountancy that makes the world go round!

You can keep your Marxist ways, for it's only just a phase...
Money, money, money makes the world go round!

Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money! Money!

Jesse comment on my comments

I realized wiener schnitzel is not a sausage, but fortunately I was thinking of those little vienna sausages when I pictured it in my mind. 

Jesse Day 23

5/6

1. In economics, seigniorage is defined as the profits made by a ruler or government from the production of what?
Correct Answer: CURRENCY/MONEY/COINAGE
Your Answer: Money/Currency
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew the term.

2. Most traditional water softeners remove hardness from water by replacing harmful calcium and magnesium ions with ions from what alkali metal element? 
Correct Answer: SODIUM
Your Answer: Zinc
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I did not know sodium was a "alkali metal element"

3. Following the cancellation of the sitcom Roseanne in May 2018, ABC ordered what spinoff series, featuring the same cast of characters (sans Roseanne) who are left to deal with the character Roseanne's death due to a drug overdose?
Correct Answer: THE CONNERS
Your Answer: The Conners
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I never watched it, but it was in the news.

4. Events that occurred in the evening of October 20, 1973, involving Elliot Richardson, William Ruckelshaus, Robert Bork, Archibald Cox, and others, quickly thereafter became known by what three-word phrase?
Correct Answer: SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE
Your Answer: Saturday Night Massacre
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew about this from different sources, but it was fresh in my mind over all the Trump scandals.

5. German butcher Johann Georg Lahner produced the all-pork sausages named after his hometown of Frankfurt before moving, in 1798, to a new city, where he began to make similar sausages made from a mixture of beef and pork (which quickly became popular in their own right). To what city did he move?
Correct Answer: VIENNA
Your Answer: Vienna
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Wiener schnitzel. It was the only other city named sausage I could think of off the top of my head outside of Italy. 

6. A conflict began in early 2015 and is still ongoing between an armed insurgency movement known as Houthi and the government of what country, led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi?
Correct Answer: YEMEN
Your Answer: Yemen
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1  

It is in the news. 

Brian Day 23 vs Seif

4/6.  I'm going to read Seif's post after I write this up, but I'll say there were a few gimmes for Dave, and I'm dreading the defensive numbers I was forced to give him. 

1) currency.  I've heard of the term, but wasn't 100% sure, though I didn't see what else it could be.  Was debating between currency and coinage, I guess I wasted time on that debate.  1/0 for the economist

2) sodium.    This debate was not wasted. Figured had to be sodium or potassium, I guessed that sodium was more commonplace. I think David will have the same line of reasoning, hated giving him a 2.  3/2

3) The Connors.  I haven't seen the new Roseanne or spinoff, but this was a big story and I remembered the name. A weak-ish category for Dave, but he could easily pull this, again I'm not happy with 2/2

4) Monday Night Football. Bork, isn't that the guy who was denied a Supreme Court position?  So this is American history, def give Seif a 1 or 0... but what's the phrase?  Watergate Break In?  I spent so much time on this, starting with Watergate, but I couldn't come up with a three word phrase. Then I moved on to Roe v Wade, Vietnam, and then thought about the World Series being in October. Those could be pro athlete names! I thought I was so clever when I went down the sports tack and came up with MNF.  Which made me change my defense from a gimme for Seif to a 3.  I'm going to regret this.

5) Vienna.  Vienna waits for you.  1/1

6) South Sudan. no idea.  Current events gimme for Seif.  0/1

I'm anticipating a 7(5) for Dave.... yep, Dave takes it 7(5)-5(4).  Nice job Seif.

Additional comment from Seif

I'm still annoyed that "money" is being accepted for question 1.  It's like having a question, "What is the main good that Harley-Davidson makes?" and then Thorsten accepting "motor vehicles" for the answer.  Give me a break.

Andy, when will this end?

1. Natural resources. I thought this was a good answer. Wrong, but good.

2. I don't even remember what I put. Potassium? Boron?

3. I wrote The Connors, which I should get credit for. I almost wrote The Barrs. The only answer that would have been worse than that would have been The Arnolds.

4. Saturday Nigh Massacre. Wasn't sure if Ben would know this. They clearly teach American History in Australia better than they teach Australian history in America.

5. I thought of Vienna but could get past Wienner Schnitzel; didn't connect to Wienner like sausage. I went with Bratislava thinking maybe there was a Bratwurst connection (and didn't think sausage had to be limited to Germany (including Anschluss).

6. Yemen.  

Grace Day 23

Today for me was all about point defense, as I’m playing the top guy in my league (20/2/0, with one of the losses against someone we’re all sure is cheating) who I have no hope of beating.

 

1.       Organized crime? Literally almost submitted with the question mark in there. Would not have gotten coins or anything close to it.

2.       Carbon? Also should have submitted with a question mark. I really had no clue and wish that the part of my brain devoted to Simpsons trivia could share better with the part of my brain that took two years of college chemistry.

3.       Meet The Conners—wondering if I’ll get this one. I knew it had something to do with the family name but haven’t seen it which is why I butchered it a bit.

4.       Saturday Night Massacre—easy get given the Watergate timing/Robert Bork.

5.       Warsaw—thought they might be asking about a Polish sausage? Alas, I am used to a Chicago style all-beef Vienna.

6.       Yemen. Frequent topic of conversation on NPR these days.

Seif Day 23 vs. Brian (LLL)

5/6 today, and I probably missed the easiest question of the day.  Brian's been killing me all season, so hopefully I get a bit of late season revenge.

1. Physical currency :), D11.  Gimme for me of course.  As always with econ questions, I'm really not sure how hard this is.  I can't believe Thorsten is accepting "money" as an acceptable answer.  Give me a break.  What is this, low brow trivia all of a sudden?

2. Sodium :), D31.  I didn't know this, but it seemed like it was almost certainly the answer.  Couldn't imagine it was lithium, so that left sodium or potassium under the safe assumption it wasn't anything heavier.  And sodium just seemed so much more logical.

3. The Arnolds :(, D10.  What a terrible answer.  I don't know why I wrote this down so fast and then didn't really reconsider it.  I'm somewhat skeptical I could have come up with Conners, though, so I'm less upset with myself than I would otherwise be.  I'm sure everyone else will know this.

4. Saturday Night Massacre :), D02.  Gimme for me.

5. Vienna :), D23.  This is where I spent most of my time.  Glad I didn't go with my first thought, which was Hamburg.  Ultimately, I remembered those tins of Vienna sausages that are sold next to Spam at the supermarket, and that's why I went with this.  But not before I thought of every German city I could think of.

6. Yemen :), D22.  Gimme.  Not sure how well known the Houthis are for people who aren't as deep into current events as I am.

Ben day 23 vs descendant and Andy.

5. Out of nowhere.

1 :) money. I didn't know this, but I couldn't think of much else that governments or rulers produce. The lack of other options meant d11

2 :) sodium. Just went for the simplest alkali metal which I assume is also rather abundant. Given salt and all. Period table adjacency was also a plus. Had no ide whether I was right. D12.

3 :) the Connors. Spelling off but that's fine. I got this from a crossword the other day that I think reference ____ Gilbert of 'the Conners'. I knew that was their surname but didn't realize there was a new show by that name but it sure fit this clue. D23. Andy can't have heard of this.

4 :( pay for play. I need to look up what this was. I had Watergate Hotel Breakin but that didn't seem like an official phrase.D21.

5 :) Vienna. Hooray for cocktail Weiners. I'm hoping my opponents restrict their mental searches to cities in present day Germany. I wasted a minute there. D32.

6 :) Yemen. D00 and the only answer that I was confident about.

Gideon Day 22

6/6 today!

1 :) D3/3 New Jack Swing - Last month I read about New Jack Swing, in a YouTube/Wikipedia dive inspired by this tweet:

2 :) D0/0 Heiffer
3 :) D1/2 Commutative
4 :) D2/2 Cyprus
5 :) D2/1 Dungeoness - I had to talk myself out of Blue Point... I wasn’t sure if they were something I made up.
6 :) D1/1 Matrix - The Wachowskis! Glad I didn’t have to spell their last name.

brad day22

2/6

vs friedland mj

common d 

1) hip hop pop d3

no idea

2) sow d0

guess this wasnt as easy as i thought

3) transitive d1

forgot these after middle school algebra, figured had 1/3 chance

4) macedonia d2

nope

5) dungeness d1

only crab i could think of

6) matrix d2

good question and a rare film get

Brian Day 22

2 massive screw-ups today, leaving me with 3/6 instead of 5/6.

1) bone thugs harmony.  I had no idea.  New Jack Swing, what in the world is that? oh yeah, I F-CKING PLAY TESTED THE NEW JACK SWING ONE-DAY A FEW MONTHS AGO!!!!!!!!  Massive screw up number one.  3/3

2) heifer.  Almost put virgin, then randomly thought of the bar Hogs and Heifers.  2/1

3) commutative.  math gimme. 1/2

4) Cyprus.  For years, I thought Cyprus was part of Greece.  1/1

5) Alaska.  It was either that or soft shell.  0/0 Food was a strong category for my opponents.

6) Wachowski.  RTFQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Screwup number two.  This will be a tough question; the Wachowski brothers both changed their gender identity.  Glad I thought of this.  Why does it say Matrix?!?  Not like this.  Not like this.  2/2

Jesse day 22

1/6. I blame my cold. 

1. Harlem-born musical artist Teddy Riley, through his work as a songwriter and producer and as a founding member of the groups Guy and Blackstreet, is considered the father of a contemporary strain of R&B that is known by what three-word name?
Correct Answer: NEW JACK SWING
Your Answer: Doo wop shoowap
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I heard of New Jack City, never of New Jack Swing.

2. Among cattle, generally speaking, a non-castrated adult male is a bull, a castrated male raised for beef is a steer, a castrated male trained as a draft or riding animal is an ox, an adult female that has given birth is a cow, and a young unweaned bovine of either sex is a calf. What is the most common term for a young female who has not borne a calf of her own?
Correct Answer: HEIFER
Your Answer: Cow
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I was hoping it was a trick question because I was drawing a blank, but this seems very gettable.


3. What is the term for the mathematical property, applicable to addition and multiplication (but not subtraction or division), that states that a given operation's result is independent of the order of the numbers/objects in the operation? For example, 3 + 5 = 5 + 3 and 2 x 6 = 6 x 2.
Correct Answer: COMMUTATIVE
Your Answer: Reflexive
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I had no idea.

4. Enosis (Greek for "union") was the name given in the 1950s to a campaign for the union of Greece with what other country?
Correct Answer: CYPRUS
Your Answer: Malta
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Oh god, I just rushed the answer. I have been to Malta so there is no way I should have gotten them mixed up. Just a cold addled mind being sloppy. 

5. The most important commercial crab of the Pacific Northwest (and Oregon's "state crustacean") is named after a community on the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington State. What is that name?
Correct Answer: DUNGENESS
Your Answer: Seattle
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Oh, this gettable. I had no idea. 

6. Sisters with the first names of Lana and Lilly are a filmmaking partnership whose first major (and still highest profile) Hollywood success is what film trilogy?
Correct Answer: MATRIX
Your Answer: The Matrix
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Hope they give me credit for Matrix. There are very few film making partnerships and I knew they both had sex changes. 

Grace Day 22

1.       Bump and Grind. Wrong. Would never have gotten this one.

2.       Went with Yearling instead of Heifer. Clearly I’m not solid on what’s a horse thing vs. a cow thing. Ungulates, man.

3.       No idea, put in “transitive property” but knew it was wrong.

4.       Cyprus—same as others, really the only plausible option here.

5.       King Crab—upset at myself for this one, I grew up in Washington and was deciding between King and Dungeness. Ultimately my Washington geographical knowledge failed me here, I assumed they were leading toward King County across the Strait rather than anything more on the peninsula.

6.       Matrix, easy get here. My opponent will be displeased with me, playing someone with a poor record otherwise but a near-100% get in film, so… have fun with that 0.

Dave M day 22

3/6 today against a distant member of the now-sprawling CarrBen12 branch based in Canberra.

 

1 : ( Was never going to get this. I guessed Bump and Grind. D3

2 : ) I have relatives who are farmers and spent time at their farm growing up,  I think I picked up the various livestock names there. D1

3 : ( This seems simple and my opponent is strong on Math so D0, but I had no idea and guessed Equality.

4 : ) It could only be Cyprus given timing, language and politics. D1

5 : ( I saw Dungeness Crab on menus in Washington but stupidly assumed it referred to the Dungeness in England (home of a large Nuclear Power Plant). I didn’t know there was a town called Dungeness in WA. I guessed Angeles Crab as the only WA town I know of on the strait is Port Angeles. D2

6 : ) I knew both Wachowskis were transgender and ‘film trilogy’ sent me straight to the Matrix. D2

Ben day 22

I've been struggling to get the day count right lately. Not a good sign.

Better today.

1 :( Blackstreets back alright. I had no chance of getting this, but I have heard of that answer before. Probably in LL

2 :) heifer. I only solidifyied what a heifer was a few years ago.

3 :) commutative. I have submitted that answer incorrectly in my LL past. Still wasn't sure. I find it very challenging to remember names for the really obvious rules that I never thought about. My opponent (Australian cousin) is 0/22 on math.

4 :) Cyprus. What else could it be. Hopefully seif got it after incorrectly overruling me on a related question in live trivia last year. Lest we forget.

5 :) dungeness. I knew it would be the name of the crab that I couldn't immediatly recall, and that it would come to me in a few minutes. Hard for the kosher folks I'd expect. Delicious. 

6 :( twilight. Jesus. I knew one of those former brothers had a sex change but not both. I should have smelled a Thorsten rat when he gave first names but not last. Gettable from that alone. It will be 20 years since I randomly walked into that movie in a theatre in Israel with zero expectations. One of my absolute best in theatre movie experiences. Blew my mind.

Steiny Day 21

Lots of bad luck this season...expecting to be relegated

1. :( Never heard of this...I guessed slow jamz R&B 2/2

2. :) Sounded right 2/2

3. :) Basic math 0/0

4. :) Only country that made sense 1/1

5. :( Really hard...never heard of this, I said horseshoe 3/3

6. :) Nice trick question from thorsten, but I did not fall for it. 1/1

Kim Day 22

Ugh. 0

1 :( Hip hop dance. Blackstreet and Teddy, the original rumpshakers! I know this lyric, but still had no idea. I don't think my guess even counts as three words (hip-hop?). I also considered uptown funk, also two words.
2 :( Sow.
3 :( Interchangeable. I assume most will get this.
4 :( Turkey.
5 :( Ophelia. I was going for Opilio after talking myself out of Dungeness.
6 :( Divergent Series. I thought this was a good guess.

Seif Day 22 vs. Will (LLL)

2/6 today.  This will likely end whatever small chance I had at avoiding relegation.

1. Rap Hip Hop :(, D12.  No clue whatsoever.

2. Sow :(, D11.  Never would have come up with the right answer, though now that I see it, I have heard the word.

3. Commutative :), D33.  Phew!  That should have been a gimme for me, but it most certainly was not.  Glad I got this right.  Clearly I have to review these properties I knew so perfectly in high school and college.

4. Cyprus :), D20.  This was was a gimme.

5. Blue :(, D22.  Wrong ocean, I now see.

6. Divergent :(, D01.  Man!  Why didn't I think of the obvious answer.  I wonder if everyone else is going to get this right.

Grace Day 21

Hi all,

 

Steiny’s friend Grace here. Thanks for welcoming me in to the fold. I was 3/6 today, could have been 4/6 if I’d had my mind right. Look forward to trying the private rundle once I’m no longer a rookie.

 

1. Christiane Amanpour—looks like someone else already did this one too, so I feel less alone. Rory Gilmore’s idol, you’ve hurt me this day. Would not have thought of Allende, my only knowledge of any Allende comes from the card in Twilight Struggle.

2. I misread this one and wrote “memory loss” as the central conceit instead of the name of the film. I need to stop doing my submissions right after I wake up.

3. Monte Carlo. This one was easy.

4. Peristalsis. Pulled this one out of my esophagass.

5. Coronation chicken. Just read a book on Queen Elizabeth II so both the date and the memory of a disgusting concept of chicken in curry mayo immediately helped me remember this.

6. I wrote “reservations” which I knew was the wrong move but didn’t have enough of a handle on where these counties were in the states to think of panhandle. I always forget Texas’ lil nub counts as a panhandle anyway. I am from the north.

Kim Day 21

4/6

1 :( Danielle Steele. No idea so wrote an author I was likely reading in 1994.
2 :) Groundhog Day. Ned Ryerson?! This might be one of my favorite movies.
3 :) Monte Carlo. Ben's efforts yesterday were likely for me :).
4 :( Seems like I am one of the only ones who does not even recognize this word.
5 :) Coranation Chicken. Assuming my spelling is forgiven.
6 :) Panhandle. Energy+Geography. I need more questions like this.

Seif response to Ben

If I don't get paid for just "coronation," which is what I put, then the LL gods will at least have been consistent with me this season.

Andy March 21

1. I thought Christinae Amanpour was a decent answer here. She's a journalist with some middle eastern connection. But it's still wrong.

2. Groundhog Day.

3. Monte Carlo sounds right. I'm troubled by the concept of calling an entire city a tourist spot though. 

4. Peristalsis. I knew I knew this but it took me a while to pull the word from my head.

5. Am I the only person who enjoys a nice bowl of Chicken Suez??? I should have gotten this.

6. Panhandle. The gimme?

Brian Day 21 vs Will

First, kudos to Kim for 1) referencing Pure Prairie League (Aimee, what you gonna do?), and 2) dropping the Bachelorette 15 years ago unlike the rest of you.

Second, Yale vs. LSU this afternoon.  Tigers are going down!

Lastly, 4/6, in what was the quickest I've ever taken to submit after reading the questions.  4 no-brainers, 2 no-way-in-hellers, nothing to think about.

1) Ocasio-Cortez.  My attempt to make this a no-brainer somehow.  Just kidding, she gets a bad rap. 3/3

2) Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day is great.  Edge of Tomorrow is  terrific, I think they're working on a sequel.  0/1

3) Monte Carlo.  Math/econ/biz gimme.  1/0

4) peristalsis.  I remembered this from 9th grade bio.  2/2

5) Prince Albert in a Can.  I figured the answer had to do with the coronation, but figured I wouldn't guess the actual name correctly, and I've always wondered what Prince Albert in a can was, so I went with it.  Looking it up... oh, it's a joke based on Prince Albert tobacco, sold in cans.  As funny as your refrigerator running.  1/2

6) panhandle.  Panhandle came right to mind, didn't see what else the three states had in common besides bad bagels and pizza.  2/1

Seif, I agree with Ben, you need Chicken in your answer.  Ben, in Fifty First Dates and Edge of Tomorrow, as well as Groundhog Day, the main character runs a modified Monte Carlo simulation, using information learned from repeating the same situation over and over, effectively a sensitivity analysis, to tweak the inputs and affect the outcome until the optimal result is generated.   I look forward to seeing both of you in C next year.

Dave M Day 21

A 4/6 on a day that was generally in my wheelhouse.

 

1 : ( I guessed Christine Amanpour. I had no idea Isabel Allende was a journalist. D2

2 : ) Edge of Tomorrow lined up neatly with Groundhog Day. Plus the only other 1993 comedy I could think of in the moment was Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit. That wouldn’t fit. D0

3 : ) I’ve used these. Suspect this group is going to have a higher than average get rate for this question. We used them in BP for some forecast oil production distributions so I’d quibble that it was just for economic processes. D1

4 : ( No idea. Guessed Contractions. D2

5 : ) One of my less favored preparations of chicken (Raisins/Currants are generally involved). A common sandwich filling in the UK. D3

6 : ) I have done a driving tour through the TX and OK panhandles to visit gas processing plants. All 3 panhandles are relevant to oil and gas production – even the Florida one. D1

Jesse day 21

3/6

1. Whose 1994 memoir, written as a letter to (and named after) her comatose daughter Paula, tells the story of the mother's extraordinary life—a childhood in Peru, Bolivia, Lebanon, and Chile; exile from her Chilean homeland following a 1973 coup; her career as a journalist and writer; and more?
Correct Answer: ISABEL ALLENDE
Your Answer: Amounpour
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew about the Allende coup, having visited the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago this past December. I was just too lazy to make the connection. 

2. The films Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999), 50 First Dates (2004), Source Code (2011), and Edge of Tomorrow (2014) all feature a central conceit that was previously used in what enduring comedy film from 1993?
Correct Answer: GROUNDHOG DAY
Your Answer: Groundhog's Day
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Hope I don't get penalized for the 's. 

3. A method of investigating the behavior of economic processes that are too complex for possible analytical solutions, instead using randomized initial positions to obtain numerical results and a resulting range of outcomes and probabilities, is a simulation named after what European tourist spot?
Correct Answer: MONTE CARLO
Your Answer: Amsterdam
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Oh, this makes sense. I had no idea. 

4. What is the physiological term for the wavelike muscular contractions that pass along tubular organs, such as what propels food through the esophagus into the stomach?
Correct Answer: PERISTALSIS
Your Answer: Gulleting
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

No way I was going to pull this.

5. A British chicken dish, consisting of cooked pieces of chicken in a curried mayonnaise sauce, was created for and named after an event that occurred on June 2, 1953. What is the straightforward name of that dish?
Correct Answer: CORONATION CHICKEN
Your Answer: Chicken cordon blue
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I had no idea.

6. The Florida counties of Escambia, Walton, and Okaloosa; the Oklahoma counties of Beaver, Cimarron, and Texas; and the Texas counties of Potter, Dallam, and Deaf Smith are all within regions of their respective states that are known by what term?
Correct Answer: PANHANDLE
Your Answer: Panhandle
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1  

Seems pretty easy if you know the way those states are shaped. 

Ben message to seif

If you only wrote coronation, that might not get paid. He asked for the Anne of the dish, not the event.

Ben day 20

Very frustrating day. First time I've had a real shot at all 6 with only 3 to show for it. If I was fighting to avoid relegation I probably would have taken more time and squeezed out at least one more. I neither deserve nor want promotion back to C.

1 :( I knew that I knew her name but I couldn't remember it, from both my childhood and Jane the Virgin.

2 :( I didn't like this question. Groundhog Day occurred to me, but that was literally repeating the same day, whereas 50 first dates was about a girl with amnesia so I didn't don't think that could possibly be right. Maybe if I knew the other movies...

3 :) Monte Carlo. I ran half a dozen yesterday

4 :) peristalsis. 

5 :( inauguration chicken. I learnt about this dish in the last month but for some reason my brain Ruth/esthered inauguration and coronation. 

6 :) panhandle. Very relevant for energy commodities.

Seif Day 21 vs. Gideon (LLL)

6/6! My fourth ever. I was pretty sure about 5 of them, but one was a complete guess.

1. Allende :), D32.  I had no clue.  So I just picked the name of the Chilean president who was killed in the coup and hoped that it was somehow related to the answer.  Message to the LL gods: Even despite this answer, you have still taken far more from me this season than you have given.

2. Goundhog Day :), D01.  I love this movie.  The only tricky part of this question for me was figuring out what the other movies were about.  But I think I saw 50 First Dates, so that was enough to get this.

3. Monte Carlo :), D23.  Obviously a complete gimme for me.  But in all honesty I didn't know that this term was specific to economics.  I'm hoping this means it's very hard.

4. Peristalsis :), D20.  I'm very familiar with this term.  Is this relatively common knowledge?  We'll see.

5. Coronation :), D12.  A British event in the middle of 1953.  Had to be coronation.  This is a world history question, not a food question.

6. Panhandle :), D11.  It's the major geographic feature these three states have in common, so it was the only answer that made sense.

Gideon Day 20

6/6 today, if the commish is generous

1 :) D0/1 Pinch Runner - When I finally came up with this, it felt right.
2 :| D2/0 Livingston (I presume?) - I got this quickly, then spent a long time trying to remember Albert Schweitzer’s name, even though I was pretty sure he was German or Austrian.
3 :) D1/3 Buffalo Springfield - Whew.
4 :) D3/2 Easter
5 :) D2/2 Marble - I almost put down “Marbles” because of Elgin.
6 :) D1/1 The Bachelor, The Bachelorette - I was about to say how happy I was to get this without having ever watched the show, but I think I can remember Jesse forcing it on me once.

Kim Day 20

I am currently only ahead of a serial forfeiter, but I got 3 today.

1 :) Pinch Runner. I thought Pitcher-Right(hand) was possible.
2 :( Jones. I did not know this name.
3 :( Prairie League. My guess should have been Pure Prairie League but still incorrect.
4 :) Easter.
5 :( oil paint. I could not come up with anything here.
6 :) The Bachelor, The Bachelorette. Trista picked Ryan and I never watched again.

Brian Day 20

3/6, playing WinnR in LLL
1) pinch runner. Gimme, especially for an NL fan who sees pitchers get pinch run for like they do in real baseball.  0/0

2) Rhodes. No idea, I hoped Rhodes was a physician and missionary in addition to being a slaver and @$$hole.  2/1

3) Yardbirds.  Something I should know, but don't. 1/2

4) Easter.  Figured there was a good chance U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday was about this question. 1/1

5) stained glass.  no clue. 3/2

6) the bachelor, the bachelorette.  Luckily my marriage is past the point of me being forced to watch this drivel against my will, but several years of torture in the late 2000s have unfortunately made me familiar with the first two names.  Shame on all of you who have watched these willingly, and even worse, enjoyed them.  2/3

Steiny Day 20

1. :) Only thing that made sense...seemed failry gettable 2/0

2 :( So mad I didn;t think of this. I wrote Wallaca as a guess 2/1

3. :( no idea, i guessed grateful dead 3/3

4. :( Guessed Guy Fawlkes Day 1/1

5. :) Carrara got it for me.  I am in the process of building built ins in my apt so I am very into natural stones right now 1/2 

6. :) Used to play in a bachelor/bachelorette fantasy league (not to be confused with the fantasy suite) so I am, unfortunately, all too familiar with these names 0/2

Introduction of a new blogger (from Steiny)

All, a friend of mine, Grace, is in her Rookie season...she is not in our family since I did not invite her, but i still invited her to the blog.  Please welcome her with open arms.  She will hopefully be in our LLL private rundle next season. She is in Prairie and her name is JamesG

-Steiny

Jesse day 20

5/6

1. In a baseball box score, the abbreviation "pr" (or "PR") next to a player's name stands for what?
Correct Answer: PINCH RUNNER
Your Answer: Pinch runner
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Relatively hard baseball question. I used to read the Yankees box score in the NY Times every morning in my youth. PR did not jump out at me right away. My first thought was pitches received, but I did not recall ever seeing that in a box score, just AB. Then I considered the pitchers section of the box score, but that did not match with anything I could think of. I then made a list of P words related to baseball and came up with pinch, as in pinch hitter. Then pinch runner struck me. 

2. A town in southern Zambia, an island in the center of Victoria Falls, a number of rapids in the Congo River between Matadi and Kinshasa, and a mountain range on the northeast border of Lake Malawi in southern Tanzania are all named after what Scottish physician and missionary?
Correct Answer: DAVID LIVINGSTONE
Your Answer: Livingstone
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I've been to Vic Falls. Not sure how hard this is. 

3. Name any of the three bands of which David Crosby, Stephen Stills, or Graham Nash were members of most immediately prior to their eponymous debut release as a trio in 1969.
Correct Answer: THE BYRDS, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, THE HOLLIES
Your Answer: The Byrds
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I knew Crosby was in the Byrds because they sing one of my least favorite Dylan covers, Mr. Tambourine Man. The only thing worse... Joan Baez covers of Dylan songs. 

4. A pivotal 1916 insurrection in Dublin, where well over 1,000 Irish nationalists took up arms against British rule, and which led to the proclamation of an Irish Republic (and eventually, an independent Irish state), began on what holiday—after which the event is commonly named?
Correct Answer: EASTER
Your Answer: Valentine's Day
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I knew St Valentine's day massacre was a thing, but it turns out it was in Chicago. 

5. Parian, Pentelic, and Carrara (Luna) are different types of what specific artistic material? Famous works created in this material (and which include this material in their name) are named after Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.
Correct Answer: MARBLE
Your Answer: Marble
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew of Pentelic marble and then confirmed it with Elgin's Marbles, which I saw at the British Museum.

6. Trista Rehn, Ali Fedotowsky, Andi Dorfman, and Becca Kufrin are all women who have appeared on what two reality television series? Note, two answers are required.
Correct Answer: THE BACHELOR, THE BACHELORETTE
Your Answer: The Bachelor and The Bachelorette
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0  

My wife and I watch it together. I will admit I have seen all of these seasons. Hannah B, don't get me started. Tayshia, Hannah G or Demi were the only reasonable choices. 

Dave M day 20

How quickly day 20 rolls around… I was optimistic for a 5 when submitting but only managed a 3.

 

1 : ( It has to be pitcher, right? Wrong. D0

2 : ) I knew the city in Southern Zambia. Dr Livingstone I presume. D1

3 : ( I guessed the Doors. D2

4 : ) World history gimme. D2 as my opponent’s weak in WH, but his surname starts with an O’ and he went to College of the Holy Cross, so I’m not feeling good about this D.

5 : ) I have heard of Carrara marble before.

6 : ( I had no idea. I recall contestants jumping between Survivor and Amazing Race before so put that down. D3, clearly a poor defense given your answers so far

Ben Day 20

1 :( Right handed pitcher.

2 :) Livingstone. Worried about my D3 here.

3 :( Earth, WInd and Fire. No idea

4 :| Easter Sunday. 

5 :( charcoal. was overly confident given that Luna implied white to me, but I was set on my answer. I think I have tried it incorrectly a number of times before in LL. One of these days.

6 :) Bachelor, Bachelorette. Thanks to Steiny for making me watch this show at one point for a fantasy league.

Answers from Andy

1. I wrote Pitcher Relief. 

2. Livingstone, I presumed.

3. No clue. I wrote the Seagulls.

4. Easter. 

5. Marble. I think maybe I thought this was easier than it was given the answers that have been posted so far. I think I scored this 1 and 0. Figured the word Carrara and the reference to Elgin would be a giveaway, even just for people who don't know art, or history, but follow current events. They're a source of tension between UK and Greece. 

6. Trista or whatever sounded like would be on one of those shows, so just seemed to make sense.

Brad day20

vs seif 

common d

3/6

1) pitcher d1

oops

2) livingstone d0

history gimme?

3) earth wind and fire d2

no idea

4) easter d1

only holiday that made sense to me

5) stone d3

also no clue here

6) the bachelor, the bachelorette d2

Almost gave this a d3 hoping that people would be embarrassed to admit they know this ... I personally have no shame ...

i see this as a 4(3)/4(4) draw

Seif Day 20 vs. Brad (LLL)

4/6.  I was certain of the four I got and was hoping for a good guess on one or both of the other two.  But no.

1. Pinch runner :), D10.  Baseball gimme.

2. Livingston :), D21.  I'm assuming the omission of the last e will be ok.  This is a pretty cool question.  It was easy for me when all of the clues in the question were combined together, but no single one would have been sufficient, I don't think.

3. Blood Sweat and Tears :(, D32.  Nope!

4. Easter :), D01.  Gimme.

5. Wax :(, D23.  Too bad.  Marble never occurred to me.  I wonder if I would have put it down if it had.

6. The Bachelor and The Bachelorette :), D12.  This was a tough one for me.  Not getting the answer--I knew that right away.  The tough thing was being willing to admit in a semi-public forum that I knew the answer to this.  I debated whether to throw a question (hey, I'm almost certainly getting relegated this season anyway) or to admit that I knew this.  I chose the latter, but I'm already having some regrets.

Brian Day 19

3/6 vs Steiny in Rundle C, Gideon in LLL

1) bow.  Aargh. Knew this was an easy one, I knew what papillon meant from high school French, but kept coming back to the farfalla pasta looking like a bow tie.  Happy with the low D of 0/1

2) War of 1812.  The only U.S. war I'm aware of in the early 1800s.  1/0

3) Kilborn.  Gimme for me, curious to see how this played.  1/2

4) carat.  another aargh.  I've seen this before.  2/1

5) three card monty.  yeah right.  3/3

6) young adult.  Happy to pull this out.  The titles sounded like Twilight-inspired books.  2012 sounded very late for the NYT to start a YA list, but I liked this option better than manga, which I also considered.  2/2

Steiny Day 19

All in the family today - IngramB in LL and FriedlandMJ in LLL

1. :) thank you high school french 0/0...so many ways to get this, i had to do 0

2.  :) War of 1812...revolutionary war too early, spanish american war and civil war too late...what else could it be 1/1

3. :) love craig kilborn 2/2

4. :( No clue, I wrote cubic width ton  1/2

5. :( I was happy with my guess of Shanghai Gin Rummy 3/3

6. :) Only thing that made sense...was wondering why they were withdrawn from publication 2/1

Jesse day 19

4/6

1. What word is the English translation of the Spanish mariposa, the French papillon, the Italian farfalla, and the German Schmetterling?
Correct Answer: BUTTERFLY
Your Answer: Butterfly
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I saw the youtube video where someone makes fun of how harsh German words sound. 

2. What war was referred to contemporaneously by New Englanders, disparagingly, as "Mr. Madison's War"?
Correct Answer: WAR OF 1812
Your Answer: War of 1812
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

War of 1812 involved Canada, so New England came into play. 

3. Trevor Noah debuted as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show on September 28, 2015, replacing Jon Stewart, whose tenure as host began in January 1999. Stewart replaced what comedian and former sports anchor, who hosted the show's premiere in July 1996?
Correct Answer: CRAIG KILBORN
Your Answer: Kilborn
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I am a Daily Show afishionado. 

4. The symbol cwt is the abbreviation for what unit of mass used in various systems of measurement? In the imperial system, it is equal to 112 lb.
Correct Answer: HUNDREDWEIGHT
Your Answer: Cord Weight
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I had no idea.

5. The now-popular casino card game baccarat is the cousin of a once-popular casino card game known colloquially as "Shimmy", which was displaced by baccarat in American casinos by the late 1950s. What is the actual, three-word name for "Shimmy"?
Correct Answer: CHEMIN DE FER
Your Answer: Shim Sham Man
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Never heard of of it. 

6. Kosoko Jackson's A Place for Wolves and Amélie Wen Zhao's Blood Heir are debut novels by their respective authors that were each abruptly withdrawn from scheduled publication in 2019. These works are categorized within what genre, which received its own New York Times bestseller list in December 2012?
Correct Answer: YOUNG ADULT (YA)
Your Answer: Young Adult
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1  

This was a guess based on the timing of Dec 2012 for a YA bestseller list. My wife likes YA stuff.  

brad day19

Vs FriedlandW and Ben

3/6 ... thought d was tough today as mostly gettable

1) butterfly d1/1

seems like a basic language question

2) war of 1812 d1/2

seemed like only war in that time frame

3) kilborn d0/0

mostly watched the show during his and the early jon stewart era

4) centuryweight d2/1

ugh

5) three card poker d2/2

never heard of this

6) teen fiction d3/3

ugh take 2

Seif Day 19

3 or 4/6 today.  I only deserve 3, but let's see if Thorsten gives me a fourth.

1. Butterfly :), D31.  I think this is pretty easy if you speak any of these languages.  I don't speak Spanish, but I knew that one and the French one.  D3 for my LL opponent only because he is as bad at language questions as I am at pop music...

2. War of 1812 :), D00.  Seems fairly easy, too.  D0 for my LL opponent was clear, since he has a higher American history get rate than I do, something I very rarely encounter.

3. Olbermann :(, D13.  I had no idea.  Kind of rings a bell now that I see the answer, but I was never going to get it.

4. Hundred :/, D22.  I don't think I deserve credit here, but we'll see.  I felt really smart about decoding the "c" from Roman numerals, and I don't know why I didn't then append the "weight," which made sense given the "wt" and the fact that I've heard of pennyweight.  We'll see here, but this is like the third or fourth time this season I've gotten really, really close to a right answer but gotten it wrong.

5. Three Card Monty :(, D11.  I've never heard of the game Chemin de Fer, though I do know what it means in French.

6. Young Adult :), D22.  Not sure how easy this is.  I thought of this but then second guessed it because I thought the NYT category was created much earlier.  Glad I stuck with it.

Brian Day 18 vs Belsky

3/6 today, no regrets.  6/12 with 5 moneys for 44% in the midseason classic this weekend.

1) Cygnus.  I think this is pretty well known.  Also, Cygus X-1 is one of my favorite Rush songs. 1/1

2) minaret. First thought was minaret.  Wait, aren't those the onion bulb shapes on Russian churches.  I guess I'll just put in Minas Morgul as a joke.  Wait, does minas come from minaret? Maybe minaret is right.  Whew! 1/1

3) North Macedonia.  About time FYROM or eSwatini made it to LearnedLeague.  Hated giving high defense on this, but not other choice given the categories.  3/2

4) bearnaise.  forgot about aioli, and not knowing what diaeresis is didn't help.  0/0

5) puritanism.  no idea 2/2

6) Smith. as in Patti Smith.  No idea. I think this will play the hardest.  hoping a 0 gets wasted on me.  2/3

Jesse day 18

5/6

1. Deneb is a name for the brightest star of what large, northern hemisphere constellation, which is represented as a swan?
Correct Answer: CYGNUS
Your Answer: Swanicus
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I had no idea. I have heard of Cygnus, but there was no way I was going to pull it. 

2. What is the term, from the Arabic for "beacon," for the tall, slender tower (typically part of or adjacent to a mosque) with a balcony from which Muslims are summoned to prayer five times each day by a religious official known as a muezzin?
Correct Answer: MINARET
Your Answer: Minaret
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Seems like a gimmie. I have been to a lot of mosques on my travels. 

3. As of February 2019, the Balkan country formerly known provisionally as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is now officially named the Republic of what?
Correct Answer: NORTH MACEDONIA
Your Answer: North Macedonia
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I saw this in the news. Considered Northern Macedonia, but went with North Macedonia.

4. What is the usual name for the sauce/condiment that is, in its traditional French (and most common) version, effectively a garlic mayonnaise? Its name is a Provençal portmanteau for its two main ingredients. (Note: diaeresis is not required.)
Correct Answer: AIOLI
Your Answer: Aioli
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I just new this. 

5. British Anglican priest John Wesley, with his brother Charles, is widely considered responsible in part for the religious revival known as the Great Awakening (a.k.a. Evangelical Revival), and the founder of what Protestant movement (related to his namesake Wesleyan theology)?
Correct Answer: METHODISM
Your Answer: Methodist
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

A bit of a guess. I knew the Methodist movement was part of an evangelical revival.

6. The title of the 1990 album Songs for Drella, by Lou Reed and John Cale, references an individual who mentored the pair during their time in Velvet Underground. Who is "Drella"?
Correct Answer: ANDY WARHOL
Your Answer: Warhol
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

I celebrate most of their collection. I knew Andy Warhol was involved with the Velvet Underground. Also did the cover art for one of their albums. 

Dave M day 18

Also got a 4/6 today and felt I was going to get a 5/6.

 

1 : ) As with Ben, Swan turned this question from a 0% to 100% for me. D2

2 : ) As with everyone else, seems like a real gimme. D0

3 : ) I have followed this topic with interest as it always seems to bring out the Greek crazies in the internet comments of otherwise sober websites (eg Financial Times). D1

4 : ) Delicious and in the gimme-ish direction, although it does sound quite Italian. D2

5 : ( I had Methodist down then overthought it and switched to Baptist based on having heard the words Wesleyan Baptist together somewhere – now that I search I see there’s a college called by that name in Texas. D1

6 : ( No idea – I guessed Hendrix. D3 which seems like the right D for this question so far.

Seif Day 18 vs. Jesse (LLL)

4/6, which I'm pretty happy with.  One of the four was not much more than a good guess.

1. Casseiopia :(, D33.  I didn't know which one was a swan.

2. Minaret :), D11.  Seems like a pretty easy question, but maybe that's just my bias.  I couldn't justify higher than D1 for either opponent, and I'm wondering whether I should have done D0 in both cases.

3. North Macedonia :), D10.  Gimme for me (like most current events questions).  I've followed this closely.  I doubt this will give Jesse much trouble, either.

4. Aioli :), D21.  I actually had to think about this for a while, and then when it hit me I couldn't believe it had taken me so long.  I'm reasonably good at French, so there's no excuse for me not getting this right away.

5. Methodist :), D02.  This is where I really spent most of my time.  I really didn't know.  Methodism was my first thought, and through a process of elimination, I convinced myself it was the best answer.  I wonder whether my logic for eliminating other denominations was good or whether I just got lucky here.

6. Prince :(, D22.  Lol.  No clue at all here.

Ben day 18 v Steiny

Steiny was right. Constellation made the difference.

1 :) Cygnus. I was nowhere without the swan reference. D2 v Steiny

2 :) minaret. 90+% get rate here surely.

3 :) north Macedonia. This came up at pub trivia a few weeks ago. I'd missed the news.

4 :) aioli. After knowing the first 4 cold I was beginning to picture a 6 pack...

5 :( Unitarian.  Back to reality.

6 :( Smith. I should read up on the velvet underground. I have some vague notion that it was a band with a possible connection to the Czech revolution. Clearly wrong based on the answer.

Steiny Day 18 v. Ben Carr in LLL

1. :( I know very few constellations so I put orion's belt  2/2

2. :) Seems very easy 0/0 Definitely something Ben knows

3. :) Ben is a whiz on geography, plus this was just in news so... 1/1

4. :) I thought of aioli but never would have thought it was right had it not been for diaeresis clue 1/1  Guessing ben gets this too

5. :( I know very little about this stuff, went with Calvinism which makes no sense since it didn't mention john calvin, but didn't know what else to put 2/2

6. :( John COltrane...wild guess...3/3  

I think Ben's seperation will come from the constellation if anything, otherwise I expect a tie

Midseason Classic this weekend

Gideon Day 17

4/6 today
1 :( D2/1 Journal - I used to live near Magazine St.
2 :( D3/3 Parabolic Section - I looked this up once, but couldn’t remember and just guessed.  I had arc second written down for a bit, but couldn’t come up with the right P.  I did take the time to calculate (on paper) that it was about 3x10^13km long, though.
3 :) D2/2 Sri Lanka
4 :) D1/2 NBA, ABA - Even I knew this somehow.
5 :) D0/0 Offset
6 :) D1/1 It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

brad day17

3/6

1) magazine d2/3

im terrible at these, happy to see i finally got one

2) parallel, second d2/1

close

3) sri lanka d1/1

sinhalese has definately been asked before (and i have missed before)

4) aba, nba

favorite story about the merger was the st louis owners who negotiated a 4/7 media stake in perpituity to fold their team during the merger, after being bought out a few years ago they took in 800 mio!

5) blanco d3/2

thought this had a chance

6) tora tora tora tora d1/2

tziva lanu moshe?

Brian Day 17 destroyed by Jesse

3/6
1) encyclopedia.  That’s clearly Latin or Greek or something. Whatever.  1/1
2) arc second.  Despite doing the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs, I never knew where the word came from.  After spending a lot of time on Proxima Centauri, i discarded it and figured arcsecond had to be one word, and I couldn’t come up with the other, so I split up arcsecond. 3/3
3) ceylon(Sri Lanka).  Definitely has been a recent Sinhalese question.  0/2
4) nba aba. Love the red white and blue ball 2/0
5) Halsey. No clue.  I came across the names Quavo and Migos pretty recently, and thought I should memorize them, I bet it will come up in trivia.  I did not memorize them.  1/2
6) it’s a mad mad mad mad world.  2/1

Pelc Day 17

Wish I had time to post yesterday, I had a lot to say (mostly mumbo jumbo) about my much needed 9(6) vs Seif to end a 7 day losing streak .

I'm still in the relegation zone despite some ok defense and TCA in the top half this season. 

Hopefully today's 5/6 gets me closer to digging out of the hole. Most questions are in my opponent's wheelhouse so might come down to D. 

1. :) - Happy I got this one. This was the first publication I listed in my head that didn't sound latin/greek to me and also had a second meaning that implied storage (of ammo). D2

2. :( - No chance here - I didn't even know parsec was a portmanteau. D1

3. :) -  I only know this because my father once went to Sri Lanka to speak and he was there for his birthday so my sisters and I made him a birthday card in the native language of Sri Lanka (which we learned was Sinhalese). I believe this is the second LL question that I've gotten because my father went to speak in Sri Lanka on his birthday in 2005. D2

4. :) - Sports gimme. D1

5. :) - For some reason, when you plug in a phone in my car, the only way you can listen to anything other than iTunes is if you have something in your iTunes library that it can play first. If there's nothing in your library, you have to go through a few extra steps to play things like Spotify, podcasts. or anything else from your phone. I don't know why this is (and I'm sure it's somehow fixable) but I believe it's a common issue for people. So I downloaded some random song called Strip That Down for free and it autoplays every time I connect. Quavo is featured on this song, a fact I wouldn't have realized if the second word of the song wasn't "Quavo!" After hearing the name at least twice a day for months, I looked him up and saw that he was in Migos. It was all worth it to get this question. Apologies for the long story but it's one I felt I had to tell. D3 

6. :) - Forget about most successful, this is the only movie I know with 4 of the same word in a row. D0

Seif response to Steiny

I saw commercials on TV for it to be played on TV when I was a kid.  Obviously it wasn't for it to be played first-run in theaters.  

Seif, how old are you? (Steiny)

How could mad mad mad mad world have comercials when you were a kid?  It came out in 1963!

Steiny Day 17

C Rundle has been kciking my ass.  Explain this...Finn and I have the same TCA yet he is in first and I am second from bottom...lordie!

1. :( Nope, I wanted to write encyclopedia, but obviouly that was latin so I wrote thesaurus 2/2

2. :( I was close, I wrote parallel second...i don;t think that pays 3/3

3. :( No idea whatsoever 1/1

4. :) This I knew and I assume most do 0/0

5. :( I guessed POst Malone 2/2

6. :) One of my absolute favorite movies in the world when I was growing up...the big W! 1/1

Jesse Day 17

5/6

1. The initial sense of what word, originally derived from Arabic and most commonly used nowadays for a certain type of publication, was "storehouse", and thus its modern literary usage (dating from the 1730s) is as a figurative storehouse of information? 
Correct Answer: MAGAZINE
Your Answer: Magazine
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I wrote down a few different types of publications and immediately knew it had to be magazine as I new it was used for the thing that holds gun ammo. It also sounds like it has non-latin roots. 

2. The unit of astronomical length known as a parsec, equal to 3.26 light years, is a term derived from what other two words, which factor into the distance on which the unit is based?
Correct Answer: PARALLAX, SECOND (ARCSECOND)
Your Answer: Parallex Second
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I was able to pull this from my physics for poets class 20 years ago. 

3. Sinhalese statesman Don Stephen Senanayake was a chief architect of the independence from the British Empire of what island nation, as well as its first Prime Minister?
Correct Answer: SRI LANKA
Your Answer: Sri Lanka
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I have been there and scored it 0 because I feel as if Thorsten has used the word Sinhalese multiple times before. 

4. In professional basketball in North America, the term "since the merger" typically means since the combination of what two entities?
Correct Answer: NBA, ABA
Your Answer: NBA and ABA
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Easy basketball question. I love basketball. 

5. Give the stage name of any one of the members of the hip-hop group Migos, all three of whom have released solo hit studio albums in their own right over the past six months.
Correct Answer: QUAVO, OFFSET, TAKEOFF
Your Answer: Chance the Rapper
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Nope! I have heard of Quavo, but barely. 

6. A 1963 film, directed by Stanley Kramer and featuring a star-studded ensemble cast, is likely the most successful film in Hollywood history whose title includes the same word repeated four times. What is that film's full title?
Correct Answer: IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD
Your Answer: It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2  

Great film. Haven't seen it since film school. 

Ben day 17

1 :( almanac. Probably should have gotten this. I got carried away with the Arabic sound of almanac. Magazine crossed my mind.

2 :) parallax second. A lot of thought went into this one. Possible a little of that though should have been spent reevaluating my answer above.

3 :) Sri Lanka. Sinhalese and the name sounds Sri Lankan. The last time there was a Sri Lanka question I was thrown off by the number of Buddhists there and got it wrong. Making amends.

4 :( ABA, NBL. One letter off on my uneducated guess. I would have put ABL before NBA so not torn up about just missing this one.

5 :( Cardi B. I was so confident about this. Keeps coming up in trivia. I just can't get it straight.

6 :) its a mad mad mad mad world. I watched this movie. Inspired a simpsons parody and rat race.

Seif Day 17

3/6, though the breakdown of what I got should give me a decent number of points on those three.  Thanks to Pelc for dropping a 9(6) on me in LL yesterday...

1. Thesaurus :(, D11.  This was a great question, and I'm a bit annoyed I couldn't come up with a better guess, as it's hard to see in retrospect how this could possibly be Arabic.  It makes so much sense now that I see the answer.

2. Proxima, Arcsecond :(, D32.  Ugh.  So close, but actually I don't think I ever had a chance.  I knew arcsecond, and even if I hadn't I think it was guessable.  But for some reason I really thought it had something to do with Proxima Centauri even though the distance doesn't match up.  But I can't imagine I'd have ever come up with parallax.

3. Sri Lanka :), D00.  Gimme due to the Sinhalese reference.  I don't think this is super easy, but for my opponents, it's worth a double zero on D.

4. NBA, ABA :), D22.  I was confident but by no means certain when I submitted.  I really don't watch much basketball.

5. Drake :(, D23.  I've never heard of any of the answers.

6. It's a Mad^4 World :), D11.  A surprising get for me.  Once this movie popped into my head, I knew I wasn't going to come up with another guess, so it was this or bust.  I'm not sure why I've heard of this movie, but I think I remember seeing commercials for it playing on TV when I was a kid.

Gideon Day 16 vs Brad

5/6 today

1 :) D2/2 Mumbo Jumbo
2 :) D1/1 Red - Red Bank, NJ! Red Wings and Red Lion sounded familiar.
3 :( D3/3 Boogie Woogie - I filled a page with many B and W words/names; never came close.
4 :) D0/0 Nosferatu - as played by Max Schreck, as played by Willem Dafoe.
5 :) D1/1 Manchuria
6 :) D2/2 Renaissance - I had difficulty choosing a European historical period before realizing the significance of the nationality of the historian.

Brian day 16 vs steiny

3/6, similiar reasonings to Ben.
1) gobbledygook.  Considered jibber jabber. 2/2
2) Red. Got it from Red Bank, also from kevin smith
3) b Side.  I refused to admit I had no idea and wasted hours of mental energy.  3/3
4) nosferatu.  1/1
5) nanjing.  Same as Ben.  Had no more brainpower left, even though I knew the rape of nanjing was much later 1/2
6) renaissance.  Period in Euro history with a french name?  0/0

Ben Day 15

3/6.  Sorry for not posting yesterday, but I was mega pissed at going the wrong way on my Freidman/Keynes coin toss.

1 :( Jibber Jabber. Balderdash, flimflam, gibberish, poppycock and hogwash all crossed my mind. Sadly mumbo jumbo did not.

2 :) Red. It took me a long time to undesatnd the question, but once I did I couldn't think of anything that fit with lion, deer and wing. Redbank also sounded familiar.

3 :( Backwards winding. I don't think anyone who doesn't already know this is puzzling it out. Unfortunately I tried to do so for some time.

4 :) Nosferatu. I used to play a collectible trading game called 'Jyhad' (in the late 90s before 9/11) which was all about vampires and I've seen Nosferatu come up from time to time since then.

5 :( Nanking. I could have gotten this but I spent so much time thinking about 1-3 that I ran out of energy.

6 :) Renaissance. D00

Jesse day 16

4/6

1. What term, which today refers to meaningless speech, has historically referred to a West African god, and originates etymologically from a Mandinka word for a ceremonial masked dancer? It provides the title for author Ishmael Reed's enduring 1972 novel, in which the author himself defines the term—quoting the American Heritage Dictionary—as a "magician who makes the troubled spirits of ancestors go away."
Correct Answer: MUMBO JUMBO
Your Answer: Gibberish
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gibberish was the first thing that popped into my mind. Should have thought a bit harder. 

2. A Bank in New Jersey, a Deer in Alberta, a Lion in Pennsylvania, a Bluff in California, and a Wing in Minnesota: each of the aforementioned shares what characteristic, per the names of cities in the respective states/provinces?
Correct Answer: RED
Your Answer: Red
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

My first thought was Nittany, for the Penn State Nittany Lions, but I have no idea what Nittany means. I am from NJ and tried to figure out Bank. I have a friend that lived in Red Bank and knew that was around the area where the early Kevin Smith films where based. Red Bluff, CA sounds like a place. Red Deer too. Never heard of red Lion, PA, but I have not seen much of the state that I have lived in for nearly a decade. Figured Red was a good guess. 

3. The recording industry abbreviation "b/w," which often appeared on (or referred to) specific 45 rpm singles, stands for what phrase?
Correct Answer: BACKED WITH
Your Answer: Backward
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I had no idea. I knew backward wasn't a phrase. 

4. Max Schreck portrays the title character in what 1922 German film, subtitled "A Symphony of Horror" (eine Symphonie des Grauens) and one of the first cinematic representations of Count Dracula in all but name?
Correct Answer: NOSFERATU
Your Answer: Nosferatu
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimmie for a film major. I think this should be easy for the general public. 

5. Japan withdrew its membership in the League of Nations in 1933 after it was deemed the aggressor in its 1931 invasion of a region of China. What is either the name of this Chinese region, or the name of the state Japan established there upon occupation?
Correct Answer: MANCHURIA/MANCHUKUO
Your Answer: Manchuria
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I know this from a few different sources, including having been in what was referred to as Manchuria. 

6. The use of what term to denote a certain period in European history was not actually in common usage until 1855, when it was first prominently used by French historian Jules Michelet?
Correct Answer: RENAISSANCE
Your Answer: Renaisance
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Initially put down medieval, considered dark ages, but then changed my answer right before submitting. 

Kim Day 16

1 :( Jabberwocky. It took me a while to get to this and I really thought it was correct.
2 :) Red.
3 :( Bonus work.
4, 5, 6 :( all awful guesses. Phantom of the Opera, Hong Kong, Crusades.

Seif Day 16 vs. Pelc (LL) and Ben (LLL)

3/6, with a great deal of uncertainty as to how I did when I submitted.  I found this quite tricky.

1. Gobbeldygook :(, D33.  I felt like I actually came up with a good guess here, and I was wondering if this was somehow it.  If I had thought of "Mumbo Jumbo," I would have put that down, but it never crossed my mind.

2. Red :), D21.  I was very uncertain about this and happy to get it.  It strikes me as a very hard geography question unless I was missing something here.  I only got it because of the fairly obscure Red Bank, NJ, which is marginally a NYC suburb I've heard of.  Red Wing, MN (which I'd never heard of), while matching an NHL team name, does not match up with where that team is located.  So I see no clue that will make this come together for people.

3. Black/White :(, D12.  On the one hand, this made no sense, and on the other was super obvious.  I really just couldn't think of anything else.  I did consider "back" for a record, but I couldn't think of anything for the W.

4. Transylvania :(, D02.  No clue here.

5. Manchuria :), D21.  Gimme.

6. Renaissance :), D10.  The French portion of the clue made this clear.

Steiny Day 15

LLL v. Seif

1. :( So dissapointing.  Clinton was my first guess but I could only think of 2 and then cleveland popped into my mind and I had to choose, and I chose poorly. 2/2

2. :) We have a number of ravensburgers in my home 1/1

3. :) 3 kid gimme 0/0

4. :( I guessed terra cotta soldiers 3/3

5. :) strong economist guess 2/1

6. :) I have read a lot of greek theater 1/2