Jesse Day 8

5/6. Pretty easy day. I lost my last 5/6. Hoping that doesn't happen again today.

1. According to the popular nursery rhyme, Mary's garden grows with silver bells, pretty maids all in a row, and what else?
Correct Answer: COCKLE SHELLS
Your Answer: a green thumb
Points Assigned: 2

 I knew that it should rhyme with Bells, but didn't come up with shells. I sort of recall this rhyme. 

2. The 1997 boxing match that was billed as "The Sound and the Fury" but later became known as "The Bite Fight" was won by what fighter?
Correct Answer: EVANDER HOLYFIELD
Your Answer: Holyfield
Points Assigned: 1

Seems like a gimmie, right? 

3. The Strategic Defense Initiative, conceived and announced by President Reagan in March 1983 as a means of protecting the United States from Soviet attack via ICBM, was best known by what nickname?
Correct Answer: STAR WARS
Your Answer: Star Wars
Points Assigned: 0

If you are in your late 30's and American I also would think this was a gimmie.

4. Édouard Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, pictured here, features within it what is believed to be one of the first formally registered trademarks. It is a trademark for what brand? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/59806uv0589.jpg
Correct Answer: BASS PALE ALE
Your Answer: Bass Beer
Points Assigned: 3

I recognized the red triangle. Hopefully I don't get docked for calling it beer rather than pale ale. 

5. Among mammals, echidnas possess a prominent distinction shared with exactly one other mammalian species. What is that other species?
Correct Answer: PLATYPUS
Your Answer: Platypus
Points Assigned: 1

I guess I know this from my time in Australian zoos?

6. What is, by far, the largest state in Australia as measured by land area? It comprises nearly one-third of the total area of the country and is itself larger than any country in Africa.
Correct Answer: WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Your Answer: Western Australia
Points Assigned: 2

I lived in Australia for a year and half, but I think I would have gotten this anyway because I love maps. 

Ben Day 8

5/6.  2 Australian questions in one round set me up nicely.

1 :) cockleshells. DOes everyone know this? I hope not as I D2ed.

2 :) Holyfield. D0 as I figure if I know a boxing fact, so does everyone else.

3 :) Star Wars. Ahh Cardinal of the Kremlin - my first Clancy. fond memories.

4 :( ARGH. Cost me a six. I THOUGHT Bass was a red triangle nowadays, but I assumed it would be a French brand os guessed Pernod

5 :) platypus. hard to assign how to assign my defence between this question and the next

6 :) Western Australia. Say no more

Gideon Day 7

3/6 Today

1 :) D1 Chicago
2 :( D2 Haydn
3 :) D0 Suffragette
4 :( D2 Khulfi - Indian ice-cream with cardamom and pistachio
5 :( D1 Ravena - Dammnit! I should have gone with Godrick. Congratulations on avoiding this pitfall Ben!
6 :) D3 Hinny

Will Day 7

Nice to be back! I’ve had a horrible season so far. 2/6 today which is about as good as I’ve done.

 

1. ;) Even I could get this sports question
Your Answer: Chicago
Points Assigned: 0

2. ;) Was tempted to go with Radetzky!
Your Answer: Strauss
Points Assigned: 3

3. ;( Should have been able to guess this, but once a word pops into my head, it’s difficult to think creatively.
Your Answer: striver
Points Assigned: 2

4. :(
Your Answer: padu
Points Assigned: 2

5. :( I’ve spent about 10 hours this summer to listening to “The Goblet of Fire” on Audible in the car, thinking to myself about how it would lead to LL victory one day. But I just had no idea. I guess I really need to read to retain anything.
Your Answer: Gabriel
Points Assigned: 1

6. :( Growing up in NY, I didn’t encounter many hinnys
Your Answer: jackass
Points Assigned: 1

Steiny Day 7

stil winless in rundle B even after 4 yesterday

1. :( thought san fran was a good guess...it was not

2. :( guessed chopin

3. :) pleased to get this one, 

4. :( guessed lassi knowing it was wrong

5. :) knew salazar

6. :( interesting fact, guessed ass, but happy to know this now

Jesse Day 7

3/6 today. Yesterday I lost on defense even with my 5/6. Ugh. My career record is now  at .500. 

1. What U.S. city is home to both the second-oldest major league baseball stadium currently in use (after Boston), as well as the second-oldest stadium in current use by the NFL (after Los Angeles)?
Correct Answer: CHICAGO
Your Answer: Chicago
Points Assigned: 0

Seems easy to me. Wrigley was obvious and I knew their football stadium (Veterans, war memorial, something like that) was old too. 

2. The Radetzky March, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Music of the Spheres, the Alpenrose polka, and Ariadne auf Naxos are all works by composers that share what last name?
Correct Answer: STRAUSS
Your Answer: Strauss
Points Assigned: 3

This was guess based on Vienna being in there. 

3. Alice Paul, Millicent Fawcett, and Emily Wilding Davison are among the people that could be described by a term which was first used condescendingly by journalist Charles Hands in London's Daily Mail but has since taken a positive connotation, and today is mostly obsolete, used only in a historical sense. What is that term?
Correct Answer: SUFFRAGETTE
Your Answer: Suffagrete
Points Assigned: 2

Spelled it wrong, but I couldn't think of a better answer. Glad it was right. 

4. What is the name, used in North India and most common in the west, for the sweet milk pudding that is served as a dessert or during a meal, usually made with rice, and flavored with raisins, cardamom, cinnamon, almonds, pistachio, or other ingredients? Its South Indian equivalent is payasam.
Correct Answer: KHEER
Your Answer: Papayum
Points Assigned: 1

Could not think of it. 

5. The four houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, from the Harry Potter series, were each named after a different alliteratively named individual. Give the first name of any one of these four individuals.
Correct Answer: GODRIC, HELGA, ROWENA, SALAZAR
Your Answer: Servis
Points Assigned: 1

I haven't read Harry Potter or seen the movies in a long time, other than the great Wizard People Dear Reader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPVhmZodaLA

6. A mule is the hybrid offspring of a jack (male donkey) and mare (female horse). What is the term for the hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and jenny (female donkey)?
Correct Answer: HINNY
Your Answer: Ass
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. Went with dat Ass. 

Dave M day 7

A 2/6 to finish off the week and I’m guessing a loss.

 

1 :) I was about to put in Cleveland (on the basis they have teams but presumably no money and therefore old facilities) but then remembered going to a Cubs game once and remarking at how pleasant Wrigley Field was. Then remembering being told it was almost as old as Fenway Park. D0 as sport is one of opponent’s top categories.

2 :( Like Ben I was strangely confident this was Bach. D3

3 :) I know Fawcett was a suffragette so it was pretty straightforward. D1

4 :( I have eaten this before but knew I wouldn’t get it. I put down Lassi on the ridiculous basis that it is a sweetish Indian food/drink and so maybe in the USA it might extend to cover Kheer. D2

5 :( Uh-oh. Should have looked at the previous Harry Potter question. I made a random guess of Theodore. D2

6 :( I also went with Ass which looks very pleasing written down. Shame it’s not correct. D1