3/6 should relegate me down to where I belong. Enjoy the offseason and play some one days! Shana tova y'all!!!
1) shooting 2/1 That's a table? I considered pommel horse but never thought of the women's side, so took a... shot.
2) Tet 0/1 gimme du jour
3) Sun 1/2 no idea
4) Gorman 3/3 no idea
5) Joe Buck 2/0 Gimme from the baseball angle. G-d the Mets suck
6) Copper 1/2 Figured copper/Cyprus was better than silicon/Sicily
A mediocre 3/6 to finish a mediocre season ending in the middle of the pack in B. See you all next season…
1 : ( Rings. Managed to escape David S's animal trap but couldn't think of the right gymnastics event. D12
2 : ) Tet. Simple world history Q. D10
3 : ) Tan Lines. I heard this song earlier in the summer otherwise I'd have had no idea. D22
4 : ( Magnus. Figured this was much older than it is. D31
5 : ( Joe Joe. Got the first name right at least. Never seen the movie but have heard good things. D23
6 : ) Copper. Of all the large Med islands only Cyprus felt like a good fit. D01
Disappointing 2/6 to cap off a fairly mediocre season for me. But it was still fun. I’m on the cusp of relegation, though even assuming I lose today, I’d have to be fairly unlucky to be relegated.
Have a great offseason, everyone!
Player: BrowningM
1. After a series of high-profile incidents, in 2001 a table replaced a horse for future competitions in what Olympic event, per the broader sport's international rules federation?
Correct Answer: VAULT
Your Answer: Vault
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Gimme even for a Brit2. A pivotal offensive launched in 1968 during the Vietnam War, often attributed to General Võ Nguyên Giáp and shifting combat from the countryside into South Vietnam's urban centers, was timed to coincide with what holiday?
Correct Answer: TET (NGUYEN DAN)/LUNAR NEW YEAR
Your Answer: Tet
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Not a clue3. Country artist Zach Top's 2025 summer anthem celebrates "Good Times and" what other warm-weather staple, less appreciated by dermatologists?
Correct Answer: TAN LINES
Your Answer: sun burn
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
4. preponderatingly because / unless statistics lie he was / more brave than me:more blond than you. \ \ So goes the final stanza from "i sing of Olaf glad and big", by what poet?
Correct Answer: E.E. CUMMINGS
Your Answer: EE Cummings
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
I've seen it several times , a wonderful if bleak film.5. What is the rather concise full name (first and last) shared by Jon Voight's would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy and the television play-by-play announcer for most MLB World Series games from 1996 to 2021?
Correct Answer: JOE BUCK
Your Answer: Joe Buck
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
6. What metal, known (and transacted) from ancient times, is named after the large Mediterranean island that served as its principal source during the Roman era?
Correct Answer: COPPER
Your Answer: Copper
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
5/6 (probably). Can't remember the last time I went a season without a 6, tomorrow is my last chance.
1) White Russian 1/1 I still haven't seen The Big Lebowski but I'm aware of this connection
2) Raster 1/0 Learned this when vector arcade games like Tempest and Star Wars came out
3) Morgan 0/1 Between J.P. and Carnegie, unsure of the exact history, ultimately thought financier fit JPM better
4) Scat 2/2 Blues Brothers gimme
5) Twilight Tunes 3/3 no idea
6) Apple Records 2/2 I assume this pays. Haven't seen it but I made the Beatles connection. Impressive, Seif! I'm proud of you.
3/6, but at least fairly hard to defend I think.
2/6 both yesterday and today. It was good enough to win yesterday owing to poor defense by my opponent (I managed Green Bay Packers). Today, not so sure.
1 : ) White Russian. I went from the beverage to the movie in this case. D21
2 : ) Raster. Picked this up somewhere, not sure where. D13
3 : ( Carnegie. I was a generation out on my gilded-age tycoons. D31
4 : ( Beebop. I considered Scat, but decided against it. D12
5 : ( End of the second. Never heard of this one. Both opponents have theater at the top of their lists today, though, so D00
6 : ( Parlophone. At least I got the industry right. D22
Player: BrowningM
1. What name for a signature beverage of the protagonist from a 1998 comedy film could perhaps evoke a resident of Minsk and environs?
Correct Answer: WHITE RUSSIAN
Your Answer: white russian
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
2. With regard to digital graphics, vector files are images created using mathematical formulas, relying on lines, curves, and anchor points positioned on a grid to define shapes and structures. What other term, associated and often used synonymously with "bitmap" and borrowed from a CRT scan process, refers to graphics represented as a two-dimensional grid of pixels?
Correct Answer: RASTER
Your Answer: raster
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Hard to name another contemporary financier3. The formation in 1901 of United States Steel Corporation, regarded as the world's first billion-dollar company, was orchestrated primarily by what powerful American financier?
Correct Answer: J.P. MORGAN
Your Answer: JP Morgan
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Thiught it would be harder but couldn't come up with anything else4. What is the onomatopoetic name for the style of improvisational singing mastered by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé, and Cab Calloway, the latter of whom exhibited it extensively in Minnie the Moocher?
Correct Answer: SCAT
Your Answer: Scat
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
5. "What I Did for Love" in A Chorus Line, "Being Alive" in Company, and "Memory" in Cats are examples of emotional solo showstoppers that occur late in Act II of Broadway musicals. They are known by what term, based on around when they would occur in old Broadway scheduling?
Correct Answer: 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER
Your Answer: Interval song
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
6. The 2021 British documentary series subtitled Get Back climaxes with a performance on 3 Savile Row in central London, which housed the headquarters of what company?
Correct Answer: APPLE (CORPS)
Your Answer: Apple
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Gimme
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4/6 Three days to go, I'm back in the relegation zone by a tiebreaker. Coming down to the wire.
1) Liberte 2/2 as close as my francais could get me
2) Green Bay Packers 0/1 gimme
3) Barcelona 3/0 no clue
4) Aerosmith 1/1 Boston = Aerosmith or Boston
5) femur 2/3 I understood one word here, which shows what a terrifically constructed question it was. I knew humerus and parsed that it was looking for an equivalent bone in another part of the body. Now to look up crural and brachial in case they come up again.
6) ortho 1/2 orthogonal gimme. Lot of math this season.
4/6. Perfect defense against me should once again be easy.
Player: BrowningM
1. What city, the capital of Gabon, was founded by the French in the 19th century as a settlement for freed enslaved people (thus its name)?
Correct Answer: LIBREVILLE
Your Answer: Libreville
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Grr2. In Week 2 of the 2024 season, what franchise, despite playing its home games in the smallest major league professional sports market in North America, became the first in NFL history to win 800 games? (Location and team name required.)
Correct Answer: GREEN BAY PACKERS
Your Answer: Arizona Cardinals
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
3. Name the influential virtuoso classical guitarist born in 1893 in the Andalusian city of Linares (and not the Castilian-Leonese city with which he shares his name).
Correct Answer: ANDRÉS SEGOVIA
Your Answer: Segovia
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
4. American author Sinclair Lewis's 1925 novel about a Midwestern doctor and medical researcher shares a pronunciation with the name of a legendary rock band from Boston. Give either name.
Correct Answer: ARROWSMITH/AEROSMITH
Your Answer: Arrowsmith
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
5. Anatomically and functionally, what is the crural equivalent of the brachial humerus?
Correct Answer: FEMUR
Your Answer: Femur
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. What prefix, from Greek for "straight" or "correct", appears in various mathematical terms including words that are synonyms for perpendicular and great circle?
Correct Answer: ORTHO
Your Answer: Ortho
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Greek gimme
4/6 when I easily could have had only 1, so I'm very happy. Dave is easy to defend today.... LOL and I am not! Victory is mine 7(4)-3(3)
1) Trailer Park Boys 3/3 Knew it was Canadian, went with the only Canadian show I could name
2) Japan, China 1/1 A not completely wild guess, but Mukden did nothing for me so I picked the biggest non-Euro theatre
3) Black 1/2 was thinking black and blue as similar sounding names.
4) Capital 0/0 This made the most sense from the financial angle but have never heard it used in architecture
5) comments 2/1 Excellent! I knew it was non-executable code and took a guess with comments. Then I changed it to dummy. Then I changed it back to comments.
6) Menudo 2/2 The only answer I was confident of. If You're Not Here is a great 80s love song. I feel like I've written this before, is this blog searchable? Has Menudo come up before?
I got 3/6 (faint hope for 4) but Marcus is correct in his hunch he didn't know how to defend today, while he was pretty straightforward to work out – I walked away with a 6(3)-4(4) win.
1 : ) Letterkenny. Despite the frequent low tone, both shows are pretty clever and hilaroious and won a bunch of Canadian comedy awards. A Canadian friend turned me on to them. D22
2 : ) Japan China. Simple world history Q for me and Marcus. D11
3 : ( White. I thought the word "similar" would mean sound similar not look similar. D22
4 : ( Investment. Really struggled with this one for some reason. Happily I assumed Marcus wouldn't. D01
5 : ) Comments. My husband just completed a degree in Computer Science, sorry Marcus. D10
6 : ( Mundo. This was a completely random guess and the fact it's close enough to maybe get marked correct with wrong spelling is a nice surprise. But I don't think it is quite close enough. D33
3/6. Usually I feel pretty confident how to defend Brian, but less so today.
Player: BrowningM
1. The comedy series Shoresy, in which Jared Keeso's title character leads a struggling "senior whale shit" AAA hockey team, is a spinoff from what other vernacular-heavy series?
Correct Answer: LETTERKENNY
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. The 1931 Mukden Incident was a precursor to the full-scale war that erupted in 1937 between what two countries?
Correct Answer: CHINA, JAPAN
Your Answer: China and Japan
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
3. While the center of a dartboard is called a "bullseye", in Olympic archery the innermost scoring rings (9 and 10) are often referred to—and officially designated by the World Archery Rulebook—by one of two similar color names. Identify either color.
Correct Answer: GOLD, YELLOW
Your Answer: Gold
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
4. In architecture, it's the top part of a column, pilaster, or pier, while in business it can refer to financial resources used to acquire assets or generate returns. What is this term?
Correct Answer: CAPITAL
Your Answer: Capital
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
5. In programming languages like C, C++, Java, and JavaScript, they begin with two slashes (//), while in Python and Ruby, they begin with a hash symbol (#). What are these lines of code commonly called?
Correct Answer: (SINGLE LINE) COMMENTS
Your Answer: Comments
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
6. Superstar Ricky Martin was one of the dozens who got their start in the music business as pre-teen (or early-teen) members of what iconic Puerto Rican boy band?
Correct Answer: MENUDO
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to 1
4/6 And Marcus, I did get credit for immunoglobin yesterday, thank you for your support. Don't know if your rationale is why but I escaped with a tie because of it.
1) intersectionality 1/1 gimme
2) obituary 2/2 gettable
3) Gilda 3/2 ahhh, good one
4) Man 2/1 Luckily the only one I could name
5) Lincoln Memorial 0/0 Even Marcus could get this American question
6) Babbage 1/3 I didn't realize Babbage's became GameStop
Another 3/6 today and I feel lucky to have got that far.
1 : ) Intersectionality. Came to mind straight away, I just had to check it did have 17 letters. D01
2 : ( Eulogy. Not quite close enough. D22
3 : ( The News Woman. Would never have got this. D33
4 : ) Isle of Man. Straightforward British Isles geography Q. D20
5 : ( Mt Vernon. Guessed the wrong president on the $5. D12
6 : ) Babbage. Only know of one 19th Century mathematician in computing history. D11
NahPlayer: BrowningM
1. American academic and civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw is credited with coining what 17-letter word, in a 1989 paper in which she decribes the overlap in various forms of inequality (such as race, gender, social class, immigrant status, and sexuality) and how they can have cumulative and exacerbating effects?
Correct Answer: INTERSECTIONALITY
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. What poetic form, once defined in ancient Greece and Rome by its specific meter and alternating hexameter and pentameter lines, by the 17th century came to describe a formal verse lament for someone who had died?
Correct Answer: ELEGY
Your Answer: Elegy
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
I've seen this3. The 1931 film The Front Page was the first big-screen adaptation of the 1928 play of the same name, but the second, a breakneck-paced 1940 adaptation, had what other title—reflecting the change in gender of the reporter character (played in 1940 by Rosalind Russell)?
Correct Answer: HIS GIRL FRIDAY
Your Answer: His girl friday
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
4. The island of Anglesey is the largest in the Irish Sea by area. What Irish Sea island is the most populous?
Correct Answer: ISLE OF MAN
Your Answer: Isle of Man
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
5. What structure is depicted on the reverse of the U.S. $5 note, corresponding to the figure on the obverse?
Correct Answer: LINCOLN MEMORIAL
Your Answer: Lincoln memorial
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
6. GameStop Corp. adopted that name in 1999, but the company traces its roots to 1983, when it was founded under a different name honoring the English inventor who originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Who was this mathematician, who died in 1871?
Correct Answer: CHARLES BABBAGE
Your Answer: Charles Babbage
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to 1
4/6 today.
3/6 This should put me back in the relegation zone after a surprising number of days above it.
1) Immunoglobin 0/2 And i was so confident
2) Yardbirds 1/2 gimme if you're into classic rock, otherwise the most influential band no one's ever heard of
3) Axle 3/3 Tip of my tongue, should have waited until later in the day to submit
4) Kitt 2/0 no idea
5) Pamplona 2/1 I remember when Billy Crystal and friends ran with the bulls for their 38th birthday in City Slickers and I thought they were so old
6) Marco Polo 1/1 Favorite question of the season, classic Thorsten construction.
The expected 3/6 for me today.
1 : ) Immunuglobulin. I got an autocomplete prompt after Immunug- which helped with the spelling. D21
2 : ( The Eagles. Never hear of the Yard Birds (though there is a restaurant in Dallas called Yard Bird). D32
3 : ( Springs. Automotive engineering is not my strong point. D12
4 : ( Ross. Never heard of Lena Horne. D23
5 : ) Pamplona. I also considered Bunol where the tomato festival is held but tomatoes feels further south than Basque country (and it is, upon checking, near Valencia). D11
6 : ) Marco Polo. This seemed like a gimme to me. D00
Unexpected 4/6 when I thought I had done worse. Even so, I should be easy to defend.
Player: BrowningM
1. The most abundant type of antibody in human blood and extracellular fluid is known as IgG (uppercase I, lowercase g, uppercase G). What does the "Ig" refer to in this abbreviation?
Correct Answer: IMMUNOGLOBULIN
Your Answer: immunoglobulin
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Easier for Brits2. Led Zeppelin, Cream, and The Jeff Beck Group were all successful acts that were founded in the 1960s by former guitarists of what other band?
Correct Answer: THE YARDBIRDS
Your Answer: The Yardbirds
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
3. In a car's suspension system, shock absorbers ("shocks") provide damping. What similar component also provides damping but, unlike shocks, is a structural part of the suspension?
Correct Answer: STRUTS
Your Answer: leaf spring
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
I didn't know4. "Stormy Weather" was the signature song of what legendary singer, dancer, and civil rights activist, who won a special Tony award in 1981 for her acclaimed one-woman show The Lady and Her Music? In 2022, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre was renamed for her, making it the first Broadway theater named after a Black woman.
Correct Answer: LENA HORNE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
A guess but what else could it be ?5. What city of roughly 200,000 in the Basque region of northeast Spain swells to well over one million during the Festival of San Fermín every July?
Correct Answer: PAMPLONA
Your Answer: Pamplona
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. "Ye Emperors, Kings, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, and Knights, and all other people desirous of knowing the diversities of the races of mankind, as well as the diversities of kingdoms, provinces, and regions of all parts of the East, read through this book..." So begins the prologue to Il Milione, by whom?
Correct Answer: MARCO POLO
Your Answer: Marco Polo
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Italian explorer..so a guess
3
1) Virginia 2/1 Thought of Victoria and stopped
2) avant garde 1/1
3) walmart 1/2
4) happy gilmore 0/0
5) leave it to beaver 3/3 went old but not the right one
6) electric 2/2 Rush (see my flag) has a song The Body Electric, based on the Twilight Zone episode, which is based on Whitman.
Pleased with 4/6 again today, another tough day I thought.
1 : ) Washington. It was either SA or WA and I spent some time trying to think of a US state that could be "SA" before switching. D11
2 : ( Absurdism. Of course it's avant garde. D22
3 : ) General Motors. This is the one I was confident about, as I suspect most are. D01
4 : ) Happy Gilmore. Straightforward if you know the movie I guess. D10
5 : ) I Love Lucy. Like David S, the "Smith" answer to questions about clearly older TV shows pays off this time. D22
6 : ( Condition. Would never have guessed electric here. D33
A day after I incorrectly thought that I had all 6, today I got all 6 much to my surprise. I thought I had a good shot at each of them today, but I was pretty surprised they all went my way. I would not have been surprised to have gotten only 3 when I submitted.
5/6 the one i got wrong was not the one i expected
1) Stepford 1/3 gimme
2) Carpal tunnel 2/2 thought i had it
3) Desert Rat 0/1 Figured they'd be fighting the Desert Fox
4) Mario Kart 2/2 Coin flip with Mario World worked out
5) baking soda 3/1 My mom made these with my girls
6) 2,8,2 1/0 math gimme
