David S Addendum

Am I seriously getting no takers on my Full House comment? Non-Americans are excused. 

Brian Day 4

 another day that could have been anywhere between 1 and 5, I'll take 3

1) Clarinet 1/1 coin flip between the two long French baguette-looking instruments

2) Ethiopia 3/2 In the right region

3) Pan Am 1/2 I fell for the trap, even though 1962 seemed very late for it to be built, and whatever Expressionist means, the Pan Am Building sure doesn't seem to fit that bill.  But once I got Pan Am I didn't even consider anything else.

4) electron 0/0 ahh, a gimme

5) dressage 2/3 the only event I can name

6) Lincoln 2/1 I thought I was guessing, but more likely The Dead Poets Society stuck with me.

Laura Day 4

3/6... seems to be my standard this round.

1 - Gougere :( I always just call this crimping or scoring, and came up with gougere (to gouge) even though they are usually balls and weren't an instrument. Figured I had never heard of the right answer but... oops, I def have. D1

2 - South Africa :( Got the right continent at least? D3

3 - TWA :) Gimme for any New Yorkers; I'm hoping it won't be that easy for my opponent in North Dakota. D2

4 - Ion :( Had no clue whatsoever. D0

5 - Dressage :) Gimme. D2

6 - Abraham Lincoln :) Took a bit of time for me to pull this from my memory. D1

Ben day 4

5/6. 2nd time this season where I was surprised by a wrong answer.

1 :( mandolin. I really thought I had it here. I simply did not know this. I do not know the breadstick, but i do know the instrument.

2 :) Egypt. The name had me in North Africa and Egypt seemed to fit, though I had thought the monarchy ended earlier.

3 :) twa. Almost facepalm submitted panam, and caught my mistake last minute. I literally submitted from an Uber heading home from that terminal.

4 :) electron. Negative charge got me here, and I'm not up to speed on my subatomic particles beyond the basic 3.

5 :) dressage. Australia is often competitive in dressage in the Olympics.

6 :) Lincoln. This was a guess. I did not know this. My next guess was Washington.

David S Day 4

 First 6/6 in a while. One guess and five I knew or was confident about. 

1. Flute :), D11. Complete guess, but it seemed like a logical one, so I doubt I’ll be alone here. 
2. Egypt :), D20. Could have had this by the name or the date. Though the question was clearly going for Egypt, I think Sudan should also pay. 
3. TWA :), D32. Figured this had to be what is now JetBlue’s terminal at JFK. 
4. Electron :), D02. Fits the definition perfectly. 
5. Dressage :), D21. I didn’t know exactly what dressage was until this question, but I thought it fit. 
6. Lincoln :), D13. I got this from the Full House episode, and I’m not embarrassed to admit that.

Marcus day 4

6/6 very happy

Player: BrowningM

1. The culinary technique of crimping or making slashes, grooves, or decorative marks on vegetables or pastries shares a name with both a long, French, baguette-like crusty bread stick and a musical instrument. What is that name?
Correct Answer: FLUTE
Your Answer: flute /fluting
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Is this badly worded? I was worried it was wrong cos the grammar in the question is so bad.

2. A 1952 coup led by General Mohamed Naguib forced the abdication and ended the reign of the last king of what country?
Correct Answer: EGYPT
Your Answer: egypt
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I'm pretty good at 20century history and 

3. Due to his Expressionist work completed in New York in 1962, Finnish-born US architect Eero Saarinen will likely forever be associated most closely with what airline?
Correct Answer: TRANS-WORLD AIRLINES (TWA)
Your Answer: TWA
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nearly went for Pan Am but managed to avoid the trap.

4. In particle physics (and in common terminology), a lepton with a rest mass of 9.1093897(54) x 10^-31</sup>kg and a negative charge of 1.60217733(49) x 10^-19</sup> coulombs is best known by what term?
Correct Answer: ELECTRON
Your Answer: electron
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Simples…now had it been a muon or a tau…

5. What is the name used for the formal equestrian discipline—either its own competition or part of a larger, three-day event—that tests the horse's obedience skills via a series of movements at walk, trot, and canter?
Correct Answer: DRESSAGE
Your Answer: dressage
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

6. The Walt Whitman poem "O Captain! My Captain!" was written to commemorate the death of whom (the poem's Captain, who has "fallen cold and dead")?
Correct Answer: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Your Answer: abe lincoln
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew but it's very guessable too so only gave 1 point 

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Re: Debbie Day 3

Goose egg. Nuff said.

Laura Day 3

Originally I thought I didn't know any, but after thinking about some of these all day, I did much better than I thought! 3/6

1 - Eating :) Wild guess but it turned out to be right. D1

2 - Stars :) This one took me a while until I started trying to think of things named 

"alpha ___" and "beta ____" that were around in the 1600s. D1

3 - Dvorak :( Guess. D3

4 - Albertville :( I was thinking through countries that could conceivably host both, and France was one I thought of... but it turns out Albertville was famous for being the last city to host when the summer and winter Olympics were held in the same year. Nope! I totally missed that Beijing just hosted last year... D0

5 - Paraguay :) Seemed to fit geographically, and it's small, but I had never heard of this war. D2

6 - Red :( Guess. D2

Brian Day 3 vs Kim

Had no confidence in any of my answers today, I could have had anywhere from 0 to 5.  So I 'll happily take my 3 even with a frustrating miss.

1) Eating 1/1 lucky guess, but food seems to be a big theme in pics and tiktoks

2) Stars 1/2  A little more than a guess based on Alpha Centauri, seemed the right time for Galileo and Kepler as well.

3) Prokofiev 3/2  I was looking forward to giving credit to We Didn't Start the Fire if I got this right

4) Beijing 0/0 I know it justed hosted the Winter Games, and I remembered them having another sort of recently

5) Chile 2/3  Ugh.  Had Paraguay since it bordered all three countries (I think.) But why would there have to be a triple alliance against tiny Paraguay? So I switched to a country that made even less sense.  Really shows how eurocentric our U.S. education system is

6) white 2/1   no clue

 

brad day3

2/6 vs friedlandw common d

1) eating d1

had heard of this, but also thought it could be shopping

2) medicines d1

nope

3) solzenitsyn d3

no idea

4) beijing d0

recency helps

5) peru d2

nope

6) red d2

nope

Dave M day 3 v Steiny LL/LLL

A pleasing 5/6 on a day when I'm up against Steiny in LL and LLL. This is the 52^nd time we've matched up.

 

1 : ) Eating. I've never seen one but I've heard about them. D11

2 : ) Stars. The timing seemed to make more sense for stars than for my other guess of fraternities. D22

3 : ( Stravinski. No idea. D33

4 : ) Beijing. Gimme of the day? D00

5 : ) Paraguay. I remember being shocked when I first read about this and how it hasn't resonated more strongly through history. D11

6 : ) Pink. I've seen photos and it was a toss up between pink and rose. D22

David S Day 3

 4/6 and no chance at more. 

1. Eating :), D12. Credit to my older daughter for watching these on YouTube. Otherwise I would never have known. 

2. Medicine :(, D22. No clue here. I wonder if others knew this. Doesn’t even ring a bell to me after I see it. 

3. Dvorak :(, D31. No idea. 

4. Beijing :), D00. Gimme and I suspect one of the easier questions of the season. 

5. Paraguay :), D23. Gimme for me. I suspect this will play fairly hard even though there aren’t many choices. 

6. Pink :), D11. I’d heard of Jaipur as a pink city, so I was pretty confident. 

Marcus day 3

5/6 a couple of good guesses so happy with that

Player: BrowningM

1. Mukbang is a term for a special type of video that shows its subject engaged in what activity (in fact, the word itself combines the Korean words for this activity and "broadcast")?
Correct Answer: EATING
Your Answer: singing
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Had no idea, is this at all well known?

2. A German named Johann Bayer invented a system, which was published in the early 1600s and primarily used Greek letters and Latin names in the genitive case, for the naming of what?
Correct Answer: STARS
Your Answer: stars
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Worked this one out 

3. The Nose and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk are operas by what composer, whose fifteen symphonies include his WWII-era seventh known as the Leningrad?
Correct Answer: DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Your Answer: shostakovich
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

A guess based on it being 20th century and probably a Russian

4. Although numerous cities have hosted multiple Olympic Games, only one city has hosted both a Summer and a Winter Games (both in this century). What is that city?
Correct Answer: BEIJING
Your Answer: beijing
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

The easiest of some quite hard questions today

5. Although the evidence is wildly varied and hotly disputed, some historians suggest that as much as 60%–70% of the total population of what country perished during a catastrophic 1864–70 war that is sometimes called the War of the Triple Alliance? The deaths suffered by the triumphant "Triple Alliance" of Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina were significant but far fewer.
Correct Answer: PARAGUAY
Your Answer: paraguay
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I read about this years ago, truly shocking, almost all the Paraguayan men died.

6. The Indian city of Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan state, has been known since 1876 as the "[BLANK] City" because Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II had buildings of the city painted this color—at the time deemed the "color of hospitality"—in preparation for a visit by Albert, the Prince of Wales. (Fill in the blank.)
Correct Answer: PINK
Your Answer: pink
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I knew this but hope most didn't …

Re: Debbie Day 2

Ouch - a 2 today and I did not get credit for "Over Here, Over There" yesterday!

1 - Almond :) yum

2 - peacock :( Couldn't think of anything and don't know Agatha Christie

3 - Cincinnatti Reds :( Nope. Just picked a baseball team I thought had been around awhile (and knew it wasn't the red sox!)

4 - Brugge :(  If he had thrown in an ABBA clue I might have had a chance

5 - satire  :( was kind of rushing when I submitted. Maybe could have gotten this if put more thought in?

6 - The Weeknd :)  This one has gotten a lot of attention

Laura Day 2 - 2/6

1 - Almond :) Gimme for me. D0

2 - Doom :( Wild guess. D1

3 - Baltimore Orioles :( Another wild guess. D2

4 - ?? :( D2

5 - Limerick :) Gimme. D1

6 - ?? :( D3

Jesse Day 2

2/6 I am going on vacation to watch the World Disc Golf Championships in Vermont, so might not post my answers this week. 

1. While its name comes from a word for "barley", orgeat syrup is characterized by the dominant flavor of what ingredient, which puts it in a category with frangipane, mandelbrot, marzipan, and biscotti?
Correct Answer: ALMOND
Your Answer: Almond
Points Assigned: 0

Feels like a gimmie.

2. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described as riding horses of different colors, with the first three being white (conquest/pestilence), red (war), and black (famine). The fourth horse (death) is green, but is more often described not with a specific color but as what other word, such as is used by Agatha Christie in a novel from 1961?
Correct Answer: PALE
Your Answer: Verdant
Points Assigned: 3

I considered pale mare, but I did not associate that with green.

3. From 1949 to 1962, New York City-based teams won baseball's World Series every year, with three exceptions. One exception was in 1959, when the Los Angeles (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers won. Name either of the other two non-NY teams (both location and team name), who won the World Series in 1957 and 1960, respectively.
Correct Answer: MILWAUKEE BRAVES, PITTSBURGH PIRATES
Your Answer: St. Louis Cardinals
Points Assigned: 1

I knew St Louis won, but it turns out that was 1964. 

4. The Lion's Mound and the Battle Panorama Mural are attractions located within the Wallonian municipality of Braine-l'Alleud, very near its border with what other Belgian municipality, which itself is home to the Wellington Museum?
Correct Answer: WATERLOO
Your Answer: Ardenne
Points Assigned: 2

Oh... 

5. What literary form, whose precise origins are unknown, was popularized in 1846 by Edward Lear's The Book of Nonsense?
Correct Answer: LIMERICK
Your Answer: Lymeric
Points Assigned: 1

I mangled the spelling, but guessed correctly.

6. The HBO drama series The Idol was co-created by and stars Abel Tesfaye, who is better known by what stage name?
Correct Answer: THE WEEKND
Your Answer: Nikki Minaj
Points Assigned: 2

Nope! I did not watch this show.

Brian Day 2

 5/6

1) Almond 0/0  I've eaten three of the four on this list.

2) Pale 1/1  Got this from On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony (Ben Carr,  you with me on this ? )

3) Pittsburgh Pirates  3/3  Both are gimmes for me, Hank Aaron and the Braves in '57, and the '60 Series is best known for Mazeroski's walk off home run in game 7.  The 1960 Series was used to teach me about the electoral college, as the Yankees scored twice as many runs (popular vote) as the Pirates but lost 4 games to 3. 

4) Waterloo 2/1  Excellently clued question.  Belgium + Wellington (+ Battle as a bonus) = Waterloo        (David S, this is a much worse miss than Teddy R's birth year)

5) stream of consciousness 2/2  nope

6) The Weeknd 1/2  There was a review of The Idol a few months ago titled along the lines of "Has Anyone Involved With "The Idol" Ever Had Sex?".  Which piqued my curiosity enough to read the first pararaph of the article.  (wow Dave!  This almost makes up for Waterloo, you certainly screwed up your opponents defense.)

Dave M day 2

Another 3/6 today which I feel better about compared with yesterday.

 

1 : ) Almond. Gimme with marzipan and biscotti, D00

2 : ( Demon. No idea with this one. D22

3 : ( Baltimore Orioles. Random guess. D11

4 : ) Waterloo. Yes Marcus I also have the Abba song playing in my head now.

5 : ( Comics. Was way off. D33

6 : ) The Weeknd. I read an article about this on the Guardian I think, right before the show premiered, about what a trainwreck it was. I did previously know that Tesfaye was the real name for the Weeknd and one of the bizarre trend of 2010s hip hop superstars from suburban Toronto.

David S Day 2

3/6 with two great gets and a miss that will hopefully only bother me all day and not even longer  

1. Almond :), D20. Was pretty certain here since I know marzipan. 

2. Jealousy :(, D11. No idea here. Took a shot given that jealousy and green are sometimes associated. 

3. Milwaukee Braves :), D33. Very happy to get this. Went down the rabbit hole a hit here. I was going to incorrectly guess St. Louis Cardinals based on their number of wins, but then I figured that Thorsten was likely hinting at a team that was located somewhere else at the time but did not change its team name when it moved. This led me to the As and the Braves, and I realized I didn’t know when the As were in KC vs. Philly, so I went with the Braves. 

4. Flanders :(, D22. Then I proceeded to miss a much more obvious clue…

5. Romance :(, D11. No idea. I didn’t realize limericks were so recent. 

6. The Weeknd :), D02. This show got canceled last night. I would have had zero chance whatsoever without having seen that. Given that I’m sure this question was written in advance, I doubt it was meant to be a current events question. Kind of like the Noma question two seasons ago. 

Fwd: LL98 Match Day 2 -- Confirmation

4/6 a lot harder today for me 

Player: BrowningM

1. While its name comes from a word for "barley", orgeat syrup is characterized by the dominant flavor of what ingredient, which puts it in a category with frangipane, mandelbrot, marzipan, and biscotti?
Correct Answer: ALMOND
Your Answer: almond
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

2. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described as riding horses of different colors, with the first three being white (conquest/pestilence), red (war), and black (famine). The fourth horse (death) is green, but is more often described not with a specific color but as what other word, such as is used by Agatha Christie in a novel from 1961?
Correct Answer: PALE
Your Answer: pale
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I was pleased to get this, not sure how hard it plays vs the US centric questions that I had no clue on but gave 3 points.

3. From 1949 to 1962, New York City-based teams won baseball's World Series every year, with three exceptions. One exception was in 1959, when the Los Angeles (formerly Brooklyn) Dodgers won. Name either of the other two non-NY teams (both location and team name), who won the World Series in 1957 and 1960, respectively.
Correct Answer: MILWAUKEE BRAVES, PITTSBURGH PIRATES
Your Answer: houston astros
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

No idea, my guess was particularly bad given the astrodome hadn't been built…

4. The Lion's Mound and the Battle Panorama Mural are attractions located within the Wallonian municipality of Braine-l'Alleud, very near its border with what other Belgian municipality, which itself is home to the Wellington Museum?
Correct Answer: WATERLOO
Your Answer: waterloo
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

The history book on the shelf…

5. What literary form, whose precise origins are unknown, was popularized in 1846 by Edward Lear's The Book of Nonsense?
Correct Answer: LIMERICK
Your Answer: limerick
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

An educated gueas

6. The HBO drama series The Idol was co-created by and stars Abel Tesfaye, who is better known by what stage name?
Correct Answer: THE WEEKND
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Even with the answer I am none the wiser…

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Brian Day 1

 Welcome back everyone!  4/6 to start things off

1) Kimalayas 3/2 No clue.

2) eggplant 0/1 Was pretty sure from the dish, the tomato clue cinched it 

3) Johnnie Came Marching Home 1/1 No idea, but I had a feeling it was something easy that I had somehow avoided coming across. I can sing the words Over There, but not much else.

4) Barrel 2/0  Gimme for the biz/financial crowd

5) Archimedes 2/3  Eureka!

6) Gaffer 1/2  First thought was key grip, but the question called for a single word, and that left gaffer as the only other weird term in movie credits.  

Laura day 1

2/6 - Bummer start to the season, as I thought I had a 4 or 5!

1 - Himalayas :( Oops, thought I had this one! D1

2 - Eggplant :) D1

3 - Yankee Doodle Dandy :( I went through my knowledge of the George M musical but totally missed Over There, and thought these lyrics might have been in an alternate verse. D3

4 - Tank :( This was my only wild guess, and I clearly had no clue. D2

5 - Archimedes :) I still remember the childhood visual I learned of fat Archimedes soaking in a tub! D0

6 - Grip :( Arghhhhh, picked the wrong one of the two. D2

Ben Day 1

5/6

1 :( Himalayas. Is Karokorum a subset?

2 :) eggplant. greek food gimme for a boy who grew up in Melbourne

3 :) Over There. Lucky guess. Very pleased with this.

4 :) Barrel. gimme

5 :) Arcimededs. Eureka

6 :) Gaffer. Just knew this. Old school trivia about the name of the role, etymology was new.

Debbie Day 1

Hello everyone and hope you've had a great summer!

I hope today is a 4?

1) Himalayas - tried to think of a mountain range starting with a K, couldn't, and figured maybe this was just the English name?

2) eggplant - yum

3) Over Here, Over There - hope this counts?  Anyone remember the old bank commercial "Now you've got your money over here, over there..."

4) barrel- guess which made sense

5) Newton - picked a physics guy

6) gaffer - helps to live in LA