Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Fwd: LL105 Match Day 17 -- Confirmation

Brain fart stopped me getting 6
Player: BrowningM

1. The video for what Billboard Top Ten hit, a staple in heavy MTV rotation in 1982–83, featured a jungle setting inspired in part by Little Red Riding Hood (like the song itself)?
Correct Answer: HUNGRY LIKE THE WOLF
Your Answer: hungry like the wolf
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Going round my head all day now, 80s banger 
2. What somber 1961 Stanley Kramer drama set in postwar Bavaria featured a star-studded cast including Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Marlene Dietrich, Werner Klemperer, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, and William Shatner?
Correct Answer: JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
Your Answer: trial at nuremberg
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I watched this about 4 weeks ago, 100 pct knew it and then got distracted at work and wrote down the wrong title. I was patting myself on the back for my good fortune that it was on the BBC on a wet Saturday afternoon.
3. The pen name of the woman who wrote Middlemarch and Silas Marner combines (coincidentally) the first name of the author of Lincoln in the Bardo and the last name of the author of Murder in the Cathedral. What is that full pen name (first and last names)?
Correct Answer: GEORGE ELIOT
Your Answer: george eliot
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1


Gimme
4. What term denotes atoms of the same element that have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons?
Correct Answer: ISOTOPE
Your Answer: isotope
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme
5. In what country did Eduardo Frei Montalva serve as president from 1964 to 1970 and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, his son, serve as president from 1994 to 2000? The interim years included a seventeen-year military dictatorship beginning with a US-backed coup d'état in September 1973.
Correct Answer: CHILE
Your Answer: chile
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2


Guessable 
6. Although pencils can be made from a myriad of woods and wood-like materials, since the mid-twentieth century, most wooden pencils have traditionally been made from the "incense" variety of what coniferous tree native to western North America?
Correct Answer: CEDAR
Your Answer: cedar
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Incense is a good clue with those useless cedar moth balls that don't work at alll


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