Thursday, November 13, 2025

Marcus LL107 Match Day 3 -- Confirmation

5 again, thought I was going to get em all until the dreaded American sports question appeared.

Was just looking at Ben's post about prisms and I think a cylindrical prism is the limit for an infinitely sided polygonal prism but I'm not sure if that counts or not.


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


The Diet of Worms was always a fun schoolboy history joke.
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


I've ridden my bike up and down the appenines 
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


Easy for a Brit not sure for Americans 
4. 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

Gimme
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


My era 
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 

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