Jesse Day 14

4/6

1. In an enduringly popular 1994 film adaptation, the character played by Morgan Freeman was an Irishman in Stephen King's original story. What name is used for that character in both the movie and novella?
Correct Answer: RED
Your Answer: Red
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie?

2. The ancient cities of Argos, Sparta, and Megalopolis were located on what Greek peninsula, connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth?
Correct Answer: PELOPONNESUS/PELOPONNESE
Your Answer: Ionian
Points Assigned: 3

I run trips there, but I have not been to that part of Greece. 

3. "Now and Forever" was the tagline for what musical, which, with 21 years in London and 18 on Broadway, did seem to run forever, figuratively speaking?
Correct Answer: CATS
Your Answer: Cats
Points Assigned: 2

I heard this tagline hundreds of times in TV commercials growing up in the suburbs of NYC. I think this will play hard for people out of the NYC area. 

4. What publishing partnership, formed in 1857 between an established lithographer and his firm's bookkeeper, promoted its lithographs for many years as "Colored Engravings for the People"?
Correct Answer: CURRIER & IVES
Your Answer: Simon and Schuster
Points Assigned: 2

I have never heard of them. 

5. The Hegira, which marks the beginning of the Muslim calendar, was Muhammad's secret migration in 622 from Mecca to escape persecution and live among the people of Yathrib, which is today better known as what?
Correct Answer: MEDINA
Your Answer: Medina
Points Assigned: 1

This felt easily guessable. 

6. Thousands of figures created in the third century BCE and discovered near the Chinese city of Xi'an were sculpted in what medium, which is included in the name by which the collection is regularly known?
Correct Answer: TERRA COTTA
Your Answer: Terra Cotta
Points Assigned: 1

I have seen them in person. 

Dave M day 14

Questions landed right for me today, with 3 in the geography/history sphere, accordingly a 5/6.

 

1 : ) Red. Ah so maybe the name Red is from Irish hair color in that case (never seen the movie just know the character is called Red). D21

2 : ) Peloponnesia. Like David S I assume my slight modification pays. I reckon a relatively difficult geography question. D12

3 : ) Cats. I remember it being the longest running musical for a while, and think I saw the tagline on tube trains in London. D22

4 : ( Harper Collins. Random guess of publisher. D33

5 : ) Medina. I recall Muhammed’s travel pattern was generally Mecca – Medina – Mecca – Jerusalem – Heaven. D11

6 : ) Terracotta. I’m assumed this would be a gimme but based on answers so far that doesn’t seem to be the case. D00

David S Day 14 vs Brad (LLL)

4/6 today.  Looking at Brad's post it looks like this one won't be close even though he's had my number a lot lately.

1. Red :), D32. I've seen this movie several times.  Perhaps my D was too high here.

2. Peloponnesian :), D11. I assume this pays.  I've always seen it written out this way.  I'm curious about how hard this plays.

3. Cats :), D01. The commercial with this tag line was ubiquitous in the NYC media market when I was a kid.

4. Simon & Schuster :(, D22.  No idea, and I've never heard of the answer.

5. Medina :), D20.  Knew the history here.

6. Clay :(, D13.  Ugh.  I can't believe I didn't make this connection.  I've heard this term so many times but somehow didn't realize terra cotta was the material.

brad day14

1/6 vs seif

1) red d1/1

didnt realize what this was adapted from but the enduringly popular clue could only be this

2) aegean d2/0

ugh bad miss

3) phantom of the opera d0/2

wrong andrew lloyd webber musical

4) houghton mifflin d3/3

no idea

5) mecca d1/1

coin flip went wrong way

6) bone d2/2

nope

Jesse day 13

2/6

1. The association of doves with peace originates with the biblical story of the Great Flood, during which a dove—released by Noah after the rains stopped—returned holding what in its beak (a sign of life indicating that the waters had receded)?
Correct Answer: OLIVE LEAF/BRANCH
Your Answer: Olive branch
Points Assigned: 0

Seems like a gimmie to me. 

2. Of the actual historical people after whom elements of the periodic table are named, two are women. One is Marie Curie, while the other was a Viennese-born Swedish physicist who was a co-discoverer of nuclear fission in 1938. What is her name, commemorated in element 109?
Correct Answer: LISE MEITNER
Your Answer: Johannson
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. My opponent is good at science, otherwise would have made this a three-pointer. 

3. The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which is known as COP26 (as it is the 26th "Conference of the Parties" to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), convened on October 31, 2021, in what city?
Correct Answer: GLASGOW
Your Answer: Edinburgh
Points Assigned: 1

I knew it was in Scotland and had wrongly assumed Edinburgh. 

4. While all three claims are debatable, what mountain—a volcano that last erupted in 1707—is widely credited as the world's most visited mountain (credible given its proximity to a major world city), as the world's most climbed (possible as no experience is necessary during the summer months), and also as the world's most photographed (a fact that would not be its only association with photography)?
Correct Answer: MT. FUJI
Your Answer: Mt Fuji
Points Assigned: 2

It just made sense based on the clues. I took a train by it, but it was covered in clouds. 

5. Most races which are categorized as TT races (for "Tourist Trophy"), including the original Isle of Man TT which first took place in 1907 and the Dutch TT which is normally held each June, are races using what conveyance?
Correct Answer: MOTORCYCLE
Your Answer: Bicycle
Points Assigned: 3

That makes sense. Probably should have scored it a 2. 

6. "Africa for Africans at home and abroad" was the slogan of an organization founded by what Jamaican in 1914, whose efforts in the US starting in 1916 focused on repatriation of Black people to a new African republic established from former German colonies?
Correct Answer: MARCUS GARVEY
Your Answer: Baldwin
Points Assigned: 1

I knew I did not know it but should know it. 

Brian Day 12 vs Mirkin (LL) and Kim (LLL)

 1/6 and not much of a chance for more.  Sure to be annihilated by Dave (Yes, yes I was)

1) olive branch 0/0 Bible gimme

2) Rutherford 3/3 no clue Even if Dave wastes a zero on me here it won't matter

3) London 1/1 Knew of the conference but not where it was

4) nikon 1/1 I got the hint, but didn't think it through enough, very gettable

5) boat 2/2 

6 zaire 2/2 Garvey is probably someone i should know about

Dave M day 13 v Brian LL and Ben LLL

A 4/6 on what I unfortunately suspect will be the 4 that Brian and Ben also get (at least) so not looking good for a win.

 

1 : ) Olive Branch. Pretty straightforward but D12 anyway given what I perceive would be slightly easier questions.

2 : ( Wallenborg. No idea so just guessed a Swedish name. D22

3 : ) Glasgow. Seems like a current events gimme. I was there last week too. D00

4 : ) Fuji. The ‘other association with photography’ put it beyond any doubt. D11

5 : ) Motorcycles. Isle of Man = motorcycles. D21

6 : ( Rastafari. Had no idea, guessed the one 20^th century Jamaican political thinker whose name I know. D33

brad day 13

3/6 vs amdurs

1) olive branch d0/0

jew gimme and i imagine generally has high get rate

2) mendelsohn d1/3

no idea

3) glasgow d1/1

read enough articles about this past few weeks

4) fuji d2/1

didnt know how often this erupts, but there were enough other clues to get

5) bicycle d2/2

nope

6) monrovia d3/2

figured capital might have been named after him

David S Day 13

5/6 today on another very friendly day of questions for me.

1. Olive Branch :), D11.  Seems pretty easy.  I expect a high get rate here, especially on this blog.

2. Mendeleev :(, D33.  I picked one of the few high numbered elements I could think of where I didn't explicitly know the person/place/etc. it was named after.  Turns out I had no chance here.  I expect this plays very hard.

3. Glasgow :), D10.  Gimme for me.  I followed this closely.

4. Mt. Fuji :), D22.  I didn't know anything about the timing of the eruptions, but I just didn't see what else this could be.  It it so iconic.

5. Motorcycle :), D01.  I was aware that the Isle of Man held a famous motorcycle race, which is the only way I got this.  This will likely the case for a lot of people who get this, I suspect.  I doubt this plays as easy as my D, but it was the right D for my opponents.

6. Garvey :), D22.  I got thrown a bit here because I didn't know Garvey was Jamaican.  But he seemed like the only possible answer here.

Ben day 12 v Brian

5/6

1 :) Reciprocal. I did indeed give Brian 0

2 :( Cumberland. Never heard of this answer. Very hard to defend

3 :) thin blue line. Sayonara Ingram 

4 :) haring basquiat. I wouldn't have gotten this 10 years ago.

5 :) Saxons. Straightforward.

6 :) Quechua. D3 for Brian. 

Brian Day 12 vs Ben (LLL)

 4/6 vs CarrBen12

1)  1/x   3/0  Complete brain fart by me, though I probably can make a case to get credit for this. Regardless, I'm sure Ben assigned me 0

2) Ticonderoga 1/1 yellow pencil gimme

3) The Thin Red Line 2/3   The war movie that everyone skipped to watch Saving Private Ryan.  Took me a bit, I had Red Badge of Courage and A Thin Line Between Love and Hate bouncing around in my brain until I melded them.

4) Haring, Basquiat 2/2 A very rare art gimme for me.  Haring was ubiquitous in NYC, especially the subway system, well into the 90s, and Basquiat is mentioned a lot in pop culture (maybe part of the 27 club?)

5) Saxons 1/1  I learned recently that the Anglo in Anglo-Saxon comes from the Angles.  And now I know how Sussex and Wessex got their names. 

6) Mezcal 0/2  Was going to put Persian as a joke answer but preferred mezcal.

Jesse Day 12

4/6

1. In math, a "multiplicative inverse" can be defined, for a number x, as the number which when multiplied by x produces the "multiplicative identity" (i.e., one). In most scenarios, the multiplicative inverse is much better known by what other term?
Correct Answer: RECIPROCAL
Your Answer: Square root
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea.

2. The name of what pencil model, produced by a company founded by American entrepreneur Joseph Dixon in 1827, comes from the discovery of a graphite ore in 1815 on Lead Mountain in upstate New York?
Correct Answer: TICONDEROGA
Your Answer: Ticonderoga
Points Assigned: 1

Seems like a gimmie. 

3. The title of a 1988 stylized documentary by Errol Morris, when shifted on the visible color spectrum, becomes an ambitious 1998 war epic by Terrence Malick. Give the title of <EM>either</em> film.
Correct Answer: THE THIN BLUE LINE/THE THIN RED LINE
Your Answer: The Thin Blue Line
Points Assigned: 0

I have seen both films. 

4. In a mock-epic poem published in The New York Review of Books in 1984 titled "The SoHoiad", in which critic Robert Hughes pillories the commercialization and dishonesty of the New York art scene in that decade, he refers to two particular artists (rather unfairly) as "Keith Boring" and "Jean-Michel Basketcase". What were the actual last names of these two individuals?
Correct Answer: HARING, BASQUIAT
Your Answer: Haring and Bassette
Points Assigned: 3

I knew Bassette did not sound right, but I went for it anyway. 

5. Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, and Kent are generally identified as four of the seven kingdoms in England from the 5th century until the 8th century. The other three are named after what Germanic people (specifically, their West, East, and South tribes), who entered Britain with the Angles during the latter stages of the Roman occupation?
Correct Answer: SAXONS
Your Answer: Saxons
Points Assigned: 1

Sussex, Essex and Wessex. 

6. Coca, guano, jerky, poncho, and llama are among the words that originated in what language, which was spoken by the Incan tribes around Cuzco and today has official status in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia?
Correct Answer: QUECHUA
Your Answer: Queqhua
Points Assigned: 2

I learned a few Quechua phrases and how to count in Quechua when I was in Peru. I don't remember any of it now. 

Dave M day 12

After yesterday's glorious 6 it was a fall to a more typical 3 today and a probable loss given I D3ed what now looks like a simple math question.

1 : ( Inverse of x. Of course it's reciprocal. D33
2 : ( HB. Knew this would be an easy one for Americans but I've never heard of this brand. D10
3 : ) The Thin Red Line. I only got this as the only two war movies I remember from late 1990s were this and Saving Private Ryan. D01
4 : ( Basquiat. I knew one but had no idea about the other. D12
5 : ) Saxons. Seems like a history gimme but opponents not great at World History so D22
6 : ) Quechua. I knew this was the local language in Peru and Ecuador. D21

David S Addendum

Brad, I also missed the part of the art question where it said you needed both names.  "Luckily" for me, unlike you I couldn't name either.

David S Day 12

4/6 today.

1. Reciprocal :), D13.  Math gimme.

2. Ticonderoga :), D20.  I thought the mountain was in Vermont, but I otherwise knew the story correctly, so I had no real doubt.  I'm really curious as to how hard this will be.

3. The Thin Red Line :), D01. "Shifted on the visible color spectrum."  Another great question in a season filled with them.  I never would have gotten this without that line in the question.

4. Moore :(, D32.  No idea at all.

5. Saxons :), D22.  I had to read this a couple of times to realize the answer only required one tribe.

6. Nazca :(, D11.  Although this did ring a bell once I saw the answer, I couldn't come up with it.

brad day12

3/6 vs kim and taylorz

1) reciprocal d1/2

simple enough

2) ticonderoga d0/1

only pencil model i could name

3) indigo dogs d2/2

nope

4) basquiat d2/0

i was so excited to get an art q that i didnt read the part where i had to name both ... would have gone higher d if so

5) saxons d1/1

gimme?

6) mayan d3/3

no idea

Re: Debbie Day 11

Finding it hard to find the time to even answer these, much less post on them.  No idea why.  3/6

1) Infrastructure :)  Made sense

2) Iran :( Right idea, wrong term

3) Greenland :) Had to think for a moment but remember this from when you're flying over the Atlantic

4) Celcius.  :(  Again, right idea

5) Carnegie :( Great question, bummed I missed it

6) Peppa Pig :) Don't really know the show but feel like it gets lots of play / you hear a lot about it