3/6 I expect Dave will also 3/6 and it will come down to D.... 3(3)-3(3) well done.
Happy Thanksgiving, see you all back here on Monday.
1) Soliloquoy 0/1 Was mildly concerned it could be monologue, but this felt more correct
2) Konigsburg 1/0 Feel like this has come up multiple times in my learned league career
3) Thorns 2/2 Was pretty sure, and "pointed nod" cinched it
4) Skaggs 3/2 no idea
5) Great American 2/3 no idea
6) Cuba 1/1 no idea
Yet another 3/6 today.
1 : ( Monologue. Fell for the obvious wrong answer straight away. D00
2 : ) Konigsberg. I learnt about the associated math problem in high school. D21
3 : ) Thorns. Having been to Portland several times, knowing it was the Rose City helped a lot, with the "pointed" nod sealing the deal (Stumptown was less promising as a nickname). D12
4 : ( Horton. Of course it's Haggard. D33
5 : ( Vaudeville Star. Was on the wrong track completely. D22
6 : ) Switzerland. The only possible answer, but I had forgotten that it wasn't a UN member until relatively recently. D11
I think they should give extra points for spelling…had 5 goes and got there in the endPlayer: BrowningM
1. Derived from the Latin for "speaking alone", what theatrical term refers to a device in which a character voices their inner thoughts aloud, unheard by other characters, so the audience can understand their true feelings and motivations?
Correct Answer: SOLILOQUY
Your Answer: soliloquy
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. What former Prussian city had, in Leonhard Euler's time, seven bridges that crossed the Pregel (Pregolya) River, connecting the city's northern and southern portions with the Kneiphof (Immanuel Kant) and Lomse (Oktyabrsky) islands?
Correct Answer: KÖNIGSBERG
Your Answer: konigsberg
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Not a chance3. What is the team name of Portland's National Women's Soccer League franchise, a pointed nod to the city's nickname dating back to the late 19th century?
Correct Answer: THORNS (PORTLAND THORNS FC)
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
4. Name the country music legend and "Okie from Muskogee", the "Lefty" to Willie Nelson's "Pancho", whose "Mama Tried" but was unable to keep her son from spending nearly three years in San Quentin in the late 1950s?
Correct Answer: MERLE HAGGARD
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
5. F. Scott Fitzgerald's character Monroe Stahr, said to be based on "boy wonder" producer Irving Thalberg, is described by the author as "The Last" what, in the title of his unfinished novel from 1941?
Correct Answer: TYCOON
Your Answer: tycoon
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. What country, despite being home to various UN and UN-aligned organizations including the World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, and Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, did not join the United Nations as a member until 2002?
Correct Answer: SWITZERLAND
Your Answer: switzerland
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
If not a gimme then guessable
3/6. Meh, I feel like I could have gotten more.
Have a good Thanksgiving, everyone!
A satisfying 5/6 as it took some work to figure a few out
1) shown on television 1/1 took awhile to get to this, had trouble making Bulova fit until I figured they were probably the first commercial
2) Ritter Sport 0/2 I've consumed at least 100 of the white chocolate macadamia nut (yellow wrapper). I kicked the habit when my go-to store suddenly raised the price from $3.75 to $7.00
3) Alpha 3/0 I get Seeking Alpha emails every day
4) Speed 1/1 Gimme
5) Newport 2/2 Went through the northeast and stopped when I got here. I only know of one festival but figured i had no chance otherwise
6) Polk 2/3 Assumed it was much further back. I'm worried this is a well known trivia nugget
Another 3/6 today, seems to be my typical score this hard season.
1 : ( Eclipse. I was lost with this question. Now I see the answer it seems a lot more obvious. D32
2 : ) Ritter Sport. When living in UK I used to get a Ritter Sport every time I visited Germany. They are available in the UK of course (and indeed in the US too) but didn't feel the same. D11
3 : ) Alpha. Simple finance Q. D00
4 : ) Speed. Not that many 1994 movies about freeway chases in LA. D11
5 : ( Danbury. No idea, completely random guess. D23
6 : ( Ford. Nearly got back far enough to the right answer. D22
Player: BrowningM
1. The first game of a doubleheader on August 26, 1939 at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, between the Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds, which the visitors won 5-2, is the first major league baseball game with what distinction? It's one shared, in a thematic sense, with Bulova watches, the New York World's Fair, and the 1954 Tournament of Roses Parade.
Correct Answer: FIRST TO BE TELEVISED
Your Answer: the first
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. A trademark feature of what German chocolate brand is its 3.5-ounce square bar, divided into sixteen smaller squares in a 4×4 grid? Popular varieties include milk chocolate with hazelnuts (brown wrapper), milk chocolate with almonds (green), and dark chocolate with marzipan filling (red).
Correct Answer: RITTER (SPORT)
Your Answer: ritter sport
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Finance gimme3. In securities investing, what letter-named measure (i.e., it is named for a letter, but it is not one character) indicates an investment's ability to outperform the overall market? A popular crowd-sourced financial news and investing website takes its name from investors "seeking" this edge.
Correct Answer: ALPHA
Your Answer: alpha
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
A guess but thought it had a good chance4. "Get ready for rush hour" was the movie poster tagline for what film, directed by Jan de Bont and released widely in the US in 1994 one week before O.J. Simpson's low-velocity freeway chase in Los Angeles?
Correct Answer: SPEED
Your Answer: speed
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
5. Muddy Waters, Norah Jones, Brittany Howard, and Brandi Carlile are among those who have performed at both major genre-based music festivals founded by George Wein, one in 1954 and the other in 1959, in what northeastern U.S. city?
Correct Answer: NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND
Your Answer: newport
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
6. Who is the most recent U.S. president to have previously served in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives?
Correct Answer: RICHARD NIXON
Your Answer: nixon
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Total guess
4/6.
3/6 my only chance vs “5 on a bad day” Marcus is these are more US leaning questions. Not that they helped me any.
1) pentecta 3/2. What?
2) grandma Moses 2/3 Who?
3) Rhapsody 0/0 knew it from Gershwin, Queen confirmed
4) Denmark, Germany 1/1 seemed German plus Nordic
5) rin tin tin 2/1 never heard of this movie. I should memorize the best picture winners, they come in handy.
6) Telstar 1/2 never heard of the song nor the game, but a portmanteau comm satellite made it straightforward
And of course Marcus gets 5 and plays perfect D. Well done!
Subject: Marcus LL107 Match Day 9 -- Confirmation
5 and I think today was quite hardNever heard of it
Player: BrowningM
1. In horse racing, an exacta is a bet on two horses to finish first and second in that exact order. What less common wager also involves two horses, paying out if the two horses finish first and second in either order, despite its name confusingly seeming to suggest the number five?
Correct Answer: QUINELLA
Your Answer: quinta
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3I couldn't name another female abstract expressionist2. "I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a little too independent." This 1973 quote came from what leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement, who at age 65 was finally receiving her first solo New York museum exhibition, at the Whitney Museum of American Art?
Correct Answer: LEE KRASNER
Your Answer: lee krasner
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2Gimme3. What word links Franz Liszt's famous set of nineteen piano works beginning in 1846, George Gershwin's Jazz Age classic from 1924, and the UK's top-selling single and legendary rock epic from 1975?
Correct Answer: RHAPSODY
Your Answer: rhapsody
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 04. The historical Duchy of Schleswig (locally Herzogtum Schleswig or Hertugdømmet Slesvig), formally established in the 15th century, covered territory that now lies across the modern border between what two present-day countries?
Correct Answer: DENMARK, GERMANY
Your Answer: germany denmark
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1The Schleswig-Holstein question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood it. One was Prince Albert, who is dead. The second was a German professor who became mad. I am the third and I have forgotten all about it."
5. What is the name of the titular "Foundling" in Henry Fielding's comic picaresque novel and social satire from 1749, which was adapted to a Best Picture-winning 1963 film starring Albert Finney?
Correct Answer: TOM JONES
Your Answer: tom jones
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Read this at school6. A #1 instrumental hit by The Tornados and a late-1970s game console by Coleco were named after the first active communications satellite, launched in July 1962 and silent since February 1963 though still orbiting Earth. What portmanteau name do they share?
Correct Answer: TELSTAR
Your Answer: telstar
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Humming the tune
Never heard of it
Player: BrowningM
1. In horse racing, an exacta is a bet on two horses to finish first and second in that exact order. What less common wager also involves two horses, paying out if the two horses finish first and second in either order, despite its name confusingly seeming to suggest the number five?
Correct Answer: QUINELLA
Your Answer: quinta
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
I couldn't name another female abstract expressionist2. "I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a little too independent." This 1973 quote came from what leader of the Abstract Expressionist movement, who at age 65 was finally receiving her first solo New York museum exhibition, at the Whitney Museum of American Art?
Correct Answer: LEE KRASNER
Your Answer: lee krasner
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Gimme3. What word links Franz Liszt's famous set of nineteen piano works beginning in 1846, George Gershwin's Jazz Age classic from 1924, and the UK's top-selling single and legendary rock epic from 1975?
Correct Answer: RHAPSODY
Your Answer: rhapsody
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
4. The historical Duchy of Schleswig (locally Herzogtum Schleswig or Hertugdømmet Slesvig), formally established in the 15th century, covered territory that now lies across the modern border between what two present-day countries?
Correct Answer: DENMARK, GERMANY
Your Answer: germany denmark
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
5. What is the name of the titular "Foundling" in Henry Fielding's comic picaresque novel and social satire from 1749, which was adapted to a Best Picture-winning 1963 film starring Albert Finney?
Correct Answer: TOM JONES
Your Answer: tom jones
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
6. A #1 instrumental hit by The Tornados and a late-1970s game console by Coleco were named after the first active communications satellite, launched in July 1962 and silent since February 1963 though still orbiting Earth. What portmanteau name do they share?
Correct Answer: TELSTAR
Your Answer: telstar
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Humming the tune
3/6 and it could go either way v Carr in the LLL.
1 : ( Penta. I don't know my horse racing bets. D11
2 : ( Bourgeois. I know she was a sculptor but couldn't think of anyone else in a similar time. D33
3 : ) Rhapsody. I worked back from Queen. D22
4 : ) Germany, Denmark. Geography gimme D00
5 : ( Oliver. I've never heard of Tom Jones (aside from the Welsh singer). D22
6 : ) Telstar. I drove a 1985 Ford Telstar when at college and wondered where the name came from so looked it up. D11
2/6. This season has recently been feast or famine for me, though I do think today is quite hard.
After my complaining yesterday, I get a 5/6 today
1) Mares on the moon 1/2 I assume I'll get credit despite butchering the language. Tranquility Base got me there.
2) Denver 2/1 gimme
3) reciprocal 1/3 I think will play on the easier side of math questions
4) Glen 0/1 Glenfidditch Glenlivet...
5) Atlantis 2/2 Ohh, easier and more obvious than I realized
6) The Facts of Life 3/0 I liked Blair when I was younger, but once Tootie got her braces off...
3/6 today and Brian I'm glad I'm not the only one finding this season extra tough.
1 : ( Flowers. Obvious now I see it. D21
2 : ) John Denver. I heard somewhere that despite writing Country Roads John Denver didn't really have anything to do with West Virginia. D12
3 : ( Square. Nope. D22
4 : ) Glen. Also a regular name for valleys in the southern part of NZ. D00
5 : ) El Dorado. I believe the first European explorers of Texas were looking for El Dorado. D11
6 : ( Green Acres. Thought this was too old but couldn't think of anything better. D33
A truly shocking 6-pack today. I was pretty sure on 3, thought I had a good guess for 1 more, and basically took wild guesses on 2.
Player: BrowningM
1. Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what?
Correct Answer: LUNAR MARIA/SEAS OF THE MOON
Your Answer: lunar mares
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Gimme2. What stage name was adopted by the musician who had hit songs in the early 1970s with lyrics referencing West Virginia and Colorado, and who was actually born in 1943 in Roswell, New Mexico?
Correct Answer: JOHN DENVER
Your Answer: john denver
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Gimme3. The "multiplicative inverse" of a real number is more commonly known by what name?
Correct Answer: RECIPROCAL
Your Answer: reciprocal
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
4. What four-letter Scottish term, from Scottish Gaelic meaning "valley", is used as a prefix in the names of dozens of Scotch whiskies?
Correct Answer: GLEN
Your Answer: glen
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Gimme5. Legends of an indigenous ruler in northwest South America who ritually coated his body in gold dust and plunged into a sacred lake gave rise to the belief in what mythical land?
Correct Answer: EL DORADO
Your Answer: el dorado
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
6. Edna Garrett, the Drummond family's housekeeper on Diff'rent Strokes, left their Manhattan penthouse to become a housemother on what successful 1979 spinoff?
Correct Answer: THE FACTS OF LIFE
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Gimme strength …not sure this one ever made it to the uk
2/6 On pace for my worst get rate in 23 seasons.
1) pro rata 2/2 gimme for us, should be tough in general
2) beast wars 3/3 never heard of this
3) Austria 2/1 Brazil had an emperor???
4) THX 0/2 that sound before the re-releases in 1997 had me drooling like it was Pavlov's whistle
5) dream 1/0 no idea, but it does sound familiar. (Love the Shogun reference, good thinking.)
6) Arlington National Cemetery 1/1 No idea, considered West Point but thought there would be fewer permanent residents.
Another 4/6 today.
1 : ) Pro Rata. Simple finance Q for me and my competitors. D00
2 : ( Fortnite. How is it I've never heard of Monster Hunter? D13
3 : ) Brazil. I remembered there is a Petropolis in Latam and then remembered Brazil had an emperor. D32
4 : ( DTS. This piece of trivia had escaped my mind. D11
5 : ) Pillow. Like Marcus, I guessed based on Shogun. D22
6 : ) West Point. Reasonably straightforward for UK-US transplant. D21
GimmePlayer: BrowningM
1. What two-word Latin term, seven letters in total, is used in business and finance (and elsewhere) to denote a proportionate allocation according to one's share of the whole? One example is in the distribution of dividends to shareholders.
Correct Answer: PRO RATA
Your Answer: pro rata
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
2. The smash 2025 hit Wilds is the fastest-selling entry in what Capcom action RPG series, surpassing 2018's World and 2021's Rise?
Correct Answer: MONSTER HUNTER
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Nearly went for Persia but they had a Shah and Greece had a king and it sounded plausibly Portuguese. I didn't really know that Brazil had an emperor3. In 1877, one of the first telephones in a private residence, and reportedly the first phone line outside the United States, was installed at a summer palace in a town called Petrópolis, for an enthusiastic supporter of science and technology who was emperor of what country?
Correct Answer: BRAZIL
Your Answer: brazil
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Can can see and hear it now4. The "Deep Note", a distinctive synthesized and deeply resonant crescendo that glissandos from a low rumble to a high pitch, was composed in 1983 by Lucasfilm sound engineer Dr. James A. Moorer. It serves as the audio trademark for what three-letter sound system certification?
Correct Answer: THX
Your Answer: thx
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
5. Makura no Sōshi, a miscellaneous literary collection detailing court life in 10th-century Japan by lady-in-waiting Sei Shōnagon, is most often translated as The [REDACTED] Book, indicating its origin as a personal bedside book, like a diary. What word is redacted?
Correct Answer: PILLOW
Your Answer: pillow
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
6. What location with roughly 6,500 permanent residents is the functional American institutional equivalent to Britain's Sandhurst and France's Saint-Cyr?
Correct Answer: WEST POINT
Your Answer: west point
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I used to drive thro sandhurst every week to pick my eldest up from school
4/6, which was clearly my ceiling for the day barring a stroke of luck.
4/6 unless Thorsten is feeling generous
1) Wells 3/3. I thought this would be near impossible if we hadn’t had a similar question in an earlier season which I think referenced a financial institution. But you all thought it was easy, so what do I know
2) crystals 2/2 slightly thrown off that it said atoms but I would think it would work for molecules too, but it clearly was some sort of geometric lattice so there was only one answer
3) Below Decks 2/0 have only seen commercials for it, hence the extra ‘s’ and I feel like I’m not going to get the credit in this case
4) 3 point line 1/2 figured the basket is 10’ the free throw line is 15’
5) Tasman 1/1 no idea so guessed the only nearby-ish island
6) 6 7 0/1 what other cultural phenomenon could it be????
Finally a more respectable 4/6 with questions more in my wheelhouse. Didn't trouble Marcus though who perfectly defended to comfortably win our matchup (I also perfectly defended as consolation).
1 : ) Wells. I knew Amex and Wells Fargo had the same origins. D11
2 : ( Tesseracts. I did not learn this in Chemistry class. D10
3 : ) Below Deck. I've never watched it but have watched the Traitors (US version) where some contestants are Below Deck alumni. D03
4 : ( Gap between hurdles. I skipped over basketball in my thought process for some reason. D32
5 : ) Abel Tasman. Ultra-gimme for a NZer. D21
6 : ) Eurovision. I love it and go to a viewing party every year. I'm glad the bland Israeli song didn't win through paid-for votes, but also not a fan of this song. The winner should have been Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETZ96rSw25g
A gimme for finance folkPlayer: BrowningM
1. Give either of the last names, both still familiar in business today, of the men who started a carrier service between Buffalo and the West in the mid-1840s. They later launched an express service from New York to San Francisco during the 1849 gold rush, which merged with others in 1850 to form American Express.
Correct Answer: WELLS, FARGO
Your Answer: Wells (Fargo)
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Keep the chemistry coming2. Hexagonal, tetragonal, orthorhombic, and triclinic are among the seven systems used to classify the ways atoms can be arranged in three-dimensional space. What are the solids that form in these systems collectively called?
Correct Answer: CRYSTALS
Your Answer: crystals
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
Nah3. What reality television series, which debuted on Bravo in July 2013, was described by longtime star Captain Lee Rosbach as "Downton Abbey on the water"?
Correct Answer: BELOW DECK
Your Answer: dry-tanic
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
4. 6.75 meters is the international standard for what sporting distance, used in the Olympics and other international competitions, NCAA men's and women's play, and most professional leagues (with one notable American exception)?
Correct Answer: BASKETBALL THREE POINT LINE
Your Answer: 3 point line in basketball
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
5. The first Europeans to encounter the islands of New Zealand (Aotearoa) in 1642 were led by what Dutch navigator, after whom the (relatively) nearby island of Lutruwita is now also named (as well as the sea that separates them)?
Correct Answer: ABEL TASMAN
Your Answer: Tasman
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. The 2025 song "Wasted Love", recorded and co-written by Austrian singer JJ, is (and will likely always be) most closely associated with what cultural phenomenon?
Correct Answer: EUROVISION SONG CONTEST
Your Answer: Eurovision song contest
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
I made money betting on it, it's a very inefficient but surprisingly liquid in play market !
Bounced back from yesterday with a strong 5/6.
3/6 and I was a few minutes away from joining Seif with a 1/6.
1) mantra 1/1 had chakra down even though it was wrong. I was about to submit, then decided to walk the dog and clear my head. Thought, what word do you repeat like a mantra that sounds Buddhist and Hindi.....
2) pied piper 2/2 The dog walk almost worked. I got to Pieta piece, said no that's Italian art, the answer is something with passion like passion of the christ but there's no p to go with passion... kicking myself
3) violet 1/3 no idea
4) Crooklyn 3/3 Had Blues in my head but couldn't get there. Turns out I've seen a few dozen Denzel movies but only one Spike Lee joint, and it was Malcolm X
5) Marquis de Sade 2/1 Another credit to the dog walk. Why is Torquemado in my head, he's Spanish. Who else is sadistic?
6) novacaine 0/0 Had a dentist appt this morning so was top of mind, but should be the go to answer today regardless
A poor 2/6 today which I thought was bad until I saw Seif's score. I feel much better (which may also have something to do with no more hangover from Saturday night, where it was great to meet some of you!)
1 : ) Mantra. This is the one I was especially confident about. D00
2 : ( Pied Piper. I was pleased of getting something Germany-adjacent, but Passion Play does make much more sense! D33
3 : ( Yellow. This was a 50/50 between the correct Cyan and Yellow and I went the wrong way. D12
4 : ( Do the Right Thing. I was pleased just to know another Spike Lee movie. D12
5 : ) Marquis de Sade. I was pretty sure this was right but not 100%, D21
6 : ( Tylenol. Completely missed the Novo-link. D21
Disastrous 1/6 that was very nearly only my second-ever goose egg. What a contrast vs his six-pack
GimmePlayer: BrowningM
1. In Buddhism and Hinduism, what term refers to a sacred word, phrase, or syllable believed to focus the mind and foster the development of spiritual power when repeated in meditation?
Correct Answer: MANTRA
Your Answer: mantra
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
I was in Port Talbot for Sheen's epic2. The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has famously, since 1634, hosted a production of what type of alliteratively named theatrical performance, to honor a vow made during an outbreak of the plague?
Correct Answer: PASSION PLAY
Your Answer: passion play
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Easy if you know but you won't guess this3. In both the additive RGB color model and the subtractive CMY color model, what is the complementary color to red (meaning that it creates the greatest contrast, and cancels red out when combined)?
Correct Answer: CYAN
Your Answer: cyan
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Took a while but dredged one up4. Denzel Washington has starred in five films directed by Spike Lee, with Highest 2 Lowest the most recent and Malcolm X the most notable. Name any one of the other three.
Correct Answer: MO' BETTER BLUES, HE GOT GAME, INSIDE MAN
Your Answer: he got game
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
Gimme5. Notorious nobleman and writer Donatien Alphonse François, whose body of work includes a depraved story he himself described as "the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began", is best known as whom?
Correct Answer: MARQUIS DE SADE
Your Answer: marquis de sade
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
6. The drug with IUPAC name 2-(diethylamino)ethyl 4-aminobenzoate was first synthesized in 1905 by Alfred Einhorn, who gave this new anesthetic what now ubiquitous trade name?
Correct Answer: NOVOCAIN(E)
Your Answer: novocaine
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
another 3/6 and my first loss of the season, a defensive victory by Mirkin 2(3)-4(3)
1) Calcium 1/1 figured lack of breast milk.
2) volatility 0/2 gimme for all of us posting
3) dalmatian 2/2 saw 'sal', thought the word was 'salt & pepper'
4) Falco 3/1 Sopranos was the in, Nurse Jackie the confirmation
5) hajj 1/3 pretty sure it was wrong, cold comfort that you all went with it also
6) Uncrustable 2/0 I assume i get credit without the final s, but the question is moot as Dave wins handily
Learned all the nasty deficiency diseases at schoolPlayer: BrowningM
1. The dietary deficiency kwashiorkor, a Ghanaian language word for "disease of the baby deposed when the next one arrives", is predominantly associated with a nutritional lack of what?
Correct Answer: PROTEIN
Your Answer: protein
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Gimme2. VIX is an index managed by Cboe Global Markets (formerly the Chicago Board Options Exchange) to measure the market's expectation of what, as represented by the "V"?
Correct Answer: VOLATILITY
Your Answer: volatility
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
3. Perro salchicha is an informal name in many Spanish-speaking areas for what dog breed?
Correct Answer: DACHSHUND
Your Answer: dachshund
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
Who?4. In the history of the Emmy Awards, there is exactly one woman who has won both Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (doing so in 1999, 2001, 2003), and also Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (in 2010). Name this woman, who was also nominated for her roles in Oz (1999) and Law & Order: True Crime—The Menendez Murders (2018).
Correct Answer: EDIE FALCO
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
I thought Hajj had a chance5. In 622, Muhammad and Abu Bakr left Mecca to live among the people of Yathrib (later Medina) in an event whose Arabic name means "migration" or "breaking of ties." What is this event called?
Correct Answer: HIJRA/HEGIRA
Your Answer: hajj
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Impossible6. Smuckers has sued Trader Joe's, alleging that the grocer has copied its popular thaw-and-eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. What is the brand name of Smuckers' version?
Correct Answer: UNCRUSTABLES
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Two surprisingly correct guesses made this a 3/6 instead of a disastrous 1/6.
Another middling 3/6 but I won the last two days with 3s so who knows. I do feel these questions are in Brian's and Pelc's wheelhouse.
1 : ( Iron. Didn't really know where to start with this one. I feel good about D33ing here.
2 : ) Volatility. Simple finance Q. D11
3 : ) Dachsund. Spelling aside, very rudimentary Spanish got me there quickly. D22
4 : ( Janney. I had no idea and went West Wing direction for turn-of-millennium drama not Sopranos. D11
5 : ( Hajj. I've heard of Hijra before but wasn't aware this was the context. D22
6 : ) Uncrustables. I guess this is a reasonably prominent "now for something different" current events story. D00
4/6 I've somehow won with 3 the last two days, which means I'll lose with 4 today. Hoping Ben keeps up his posting streak.
1) Diet 1/1 Diet of Worms came immediately to mind by the first comma, and diet was confirmed by lasting one day
2) Italian Alps 0/0 What?
3) Ono 3/3 Who?
4) Penguin 1/1 Penguin Random House is now the largest distributor of comic books in the US
5) Singles 2/2 Have somehow never seen it but I can picture the CD case that is probably in my attic
6) Wilson 2/2 Excited to get a WNBA question. I just read this tidbit last week, but had to stew on it all day before it finally came to me.
My poor run continues with another 3/6 today. David S trounced me 4(4)-2(3), his defense was pretty on point.
1 : ) Diet. I wasn't actually familiar with the Diet of Worms but based on the latin I figure it should have die/dia in it somewhere. D21
2 : ( Dolomites. Same thought process as David S but didn't consider the height issue. D'oh. At least I will got D0ed. D00
3 : ) Emin. The rare art get given she was in the UK press a lot when I lived there. D32
4 : ) Penguin. Simple book Q. D21
5 : ( Reservoir Dogs. I can only think of 1-2 1992 movies. D11
6 : ( Clark. Was sure it wasn't Caitlin Clark but couldn't think of anyone else. D23
Another 4/6. Again I’ll be very easy to defend.
Player: BrowningM
1. What term for a formal assembly of representatives, derived from a Medieval Latin word and used for a 1521 gathering in an imperial free city on the Upper Rhine near Frankfurt, is (per that Latin word's literal definition) intended to describe a meeting lasting only one day?
Correct Answer: DIET
Your Answer: diet
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
2. At 9,554 feet, Corno Grande in the Gran Sasso d'Italia massif is the highest peak in what mountain range?
Correct Answer: APENNINES
Your Answer: appenines
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
3. Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with the 102 names of everyone the artist had ever shared a bed with (not just sexual partners), which was destroyed in a 2004 warehouse fire, was the first major confessional work of what leading figure of the Young British Artists movement?
Correct Answer: TRACEY EMIN
Your Answer: tracy emin
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Gimme4. The English imprint that, since its founding as a publishing house in 1935, has aimed to produce and market high-quality paperbacks that are affordable and accessible to the general public, was named by co-founder Allen Lane (hat-tip to secretary Joan Coles) after what bird?
Correct Answer: PENGUIN
Your Answer: penguin
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
5. A complex at 1820 E. Thomas St. in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood serves as the central setting of what 1992 film and grunge-era Gen X classic?
Correct Answer: SINGLES
Your Answer: singles
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
6. Name the woman, arguably the greatest player in women's basketball history, who in 2025 won her fourth WNBA Most Valuable Player award, along with Defensive Player of the Year and Finals MVP honors, as she led the Las Vegas Aces to their third title in four years.
Correct Answer: A'JA WILSON
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Never in a million years
3/6 this seems like a tough day
1) galaxy 0/0 Never heard of jazz as an apple or a cup. Thought I’d heard of a galaxy apple, turns out it was cosmic crisp. (Just looked up jazz cup, didn’t know it had a name.)
2) prism 1/1 my one gimme and on the easier side of math questions if you can parse the language. The rest of the questions were so far out of my opponents’ strengths I had to give them 1 for math
3) phartoscope 2/2 oh, that’s for measuring broken wind. Yeah, no clue.
4) Athenian 2/1 knew had to do with Greece, just had to pick my brain a little to get there
5) Gorillaz 1/2 have heard of them but no idea
6) Uzbekistan 3/3 I knew Tashkent was in a Soviet -Stan nation, and felt pretty good about Uzbekistan. Prob a gimme for all of you.
Another tough day for me with just 3/6. Good to see you dropping by Ben!
1 : ) Jazz. Cup followed immediately by sports team back up. D21
2 : ( Ovoid. Had no idea here. D12
3 : ( Oscillometer. Not sure how hard this plays. D02
4 : ) Athens. Sounded Greek and Athens was more island-y than mountainous Sparta. D30
5 : ( Insane Clown Posse. Figured I had a shot. D13
6 : ) Uzbekistan. In the world of Central Asia geography questions I guess this is at the easier end. D21
Got it from the applePlayer: BrowningM
1. What single word provides the title of a 1992 Toni Morrison novel, an apple cultivar bred from Royal Gala and Braeburn, the name of a major North American sports franchise, and an iconic design for disposable cups?
Correct Answer: JAZZ
Your Answer: jazz
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
Had to think it through for a while2. What five-letter word refers to a solid figure with two congruent, parallel polygonal faces connected so that the other faces are all parallelograms?
Correct Answer: PRISM
Your Answer: prism
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
No gimmes today but this was easy3. What is the name of the scientific tool used for measuring wind, coming from the Greek word for "wind"?
Correct Answer: ANEMOMETER
Your Answer: anemometer
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
4. The Delian League, a voluntary alliance named for its island base and with upwards of 300 members at its peak, eventually evolved into the beginnings of what empire?
Correct Answer: ATHENIAN EMPIRE
Your Answer: athenian
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
5. Iowa is the sophomore studio album, and also the birthplace, of what large heavy metal band, famous for its chaotic live shows and distinctive image, in which members wear matching jumpsuits and individual masks and are identified by number?
Correct Answer: SLIPKNOT
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Nah
6. The ancient Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Tashkent are located in what modern-day nation, which was the center of the empire of Tamerlane (the Timurid Empire)?
Correct Answer: UZBEKISTAN
Your Answer: uzbekistan
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
Hopefully a little tricky
Lucky to walk away with a 4/6. Today strikes me as hard but with relatively friendly questions for me (except for the music question).
