M Mann - Day 2

Tied yesterday. 4/6 today.

1) Nehru gimme.
2) Range. What do you know - a math gimme! More please.
3) No clue. I said "I'm sad."
4) Said joule.
5) Murphy Brown! Yes!
6) Yup, got Dinah Shore.

Gideon Day 2

4/6 today
1 :) D1 Nehru
2 :) D2 Range
3 :) D1 All the world's a stage - This was a guess, but it made sense
4 :( D3 Foucault - I was guessing between this, Galileo and Liebniz. Liebniz would have been a great answer, because it can be associated with the Newton.
5 :) D0 Murphy Brown
6 :( D2 Kathy Lee Gifford

Ben Day 2

A rocky start indeed. It didn't take me very long to find the bottom place in rundle B. 8 point MPD against already. Through dumb luck and the vagaries of the realignment process I have been promoted to a position far above my abilities, from where I will almost definitely fall quickly and gracelessly. On the bright side, I won't take a whole country with me.

2/6 today. 

1 :) Nehru. I think I heard of Nehru jackets from Weird Al.

2 :) range. mmm - delicious 0 pointer for me, no doubt.

3 :( I guessed What's done is done as I knew it was Shakspeare.

4 :( I wrote Newton, which of course is kgm/s2, so that was stupid. I have had stupid mistakes both days now. I've been pretty scattered this last week.

5 :( Should have also gotten this one. I used to watch this. Newsmagazine threw me off as I thought that meant print media. I guessed Veronia Mars. Pretty sure I guessed Murphy Brown for something a season or two ago.

6 :( I guessed Ellen. I knew nothing about the late Dinah Shore other than the fact that she lit the menorah.

As for the Sierra reminiscing, I remember playing Police Quest 1 on a pc at my mum's work when I was too young to know that you could move diagonally on a keypad, or how to change directories to navigate around the games. That, Scorched Earth and Catacomb 3-D were the games on the machine at her office. I also played at least one King's Quest, a Space Quest and Castle of Dr Brain. I think they also made Air Bucks.

Dave M day 2

3/6 today including a lucky guess on the Shakespeare one, leaving me optimistic.

 

Re Sierra Games, my favourites were Gold Rush, Kings Quest 5, and Leisure Suit Larry (although as an 11 year old to-be-gay guy I definitely wasn’t the target audience)

 

1.      :( Also went with Mao over Nehru. Was confident about it too. D0

2.      :) Range – will this be the most common right math answer? D1

3.      :) A very nice lucky guess. D3

4.      :( Also went with Newton, even though my understanding of what the Newton unit is differed substantially with what’s described. Bit of a trick question. D1

5.      :) A moderately lucky guess – I can’t remember any other newsmagazine related sitcoms with someone’s name in the title. D2

6.      :( No idea – went with (KD) Lang

Steiny Day 2

A ties yesterday on perfect defense against 3 right for my opponent and I only got 2 right

1. :) Gimme

2. :) One of the few math questions I know

3. :( I guessed Beyond the gilded cage

4. :( Guessed Newton

5. :) Knew this, used to watch the show

6. :( Guessed Cher

Jesse Day 2

2/6 again.

1. The style of tailored overcoat like the example seen here is colloquially named after what world leader? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/p4985y0cn439.jpg
Correct Answer: JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
Your Answer: Mao
Points Assigned: 1

Oh darn, I knew that, but was blinded by the Mao suit in my mind. 

2. In mathematics, a function is a non-empty set of ordered pairs of which no two can have the same first element. The set of all first elements in a function's ordered pairs is the domain, while the set of all second elements is the what?
Correct Answer: RANGE/CODOMAIN
Your Answer: Range
Points Assigned: 3

I got a math question right! 

3. The title of a 1976 live album by the rock band Rush references the first line of a soliloquy by the melancholy traveler Jaques in Shakespeare's As You Like It. What is that line?
Correct Answer: ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
Your Answer: Parting is such sweet sorrow
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. Was never into Rush. 

4. A unit of acceleration, used in geological surveying and elsewhere, which is defined as one centimeter per second squared (1 cm/s^2</sup>), is named (appropriately) after what mathematician and physicist?
Correct Answer: GALILEO GALILEI
Your Answer: Newton
Points Assigned: 2

Argh, I considered Galileo, but didn't go with him. 

5. What titular television character was employed as an investigative journalist for the fictional newsmagazine program FYI?
Correct Answer: MURPHY BROWN
Your Answer: Murphy Brown
Points Assigned: 1

I watched this when I was a kid and seemed right to me. 

6. The ANA Inspiration, an event of the LPGA Tour and one of the five major championships of women's professional golf, was for many years hosted by and named after what singer, talk-show personality, and Chevrolet pitchwoman?
Correct Answer: DINAH SHORE
Your Answer: Rosie O'Donnel
Points Assigned: 0

Nope. 

Gideon Day 1 - LL71

Hey everyone, nice to be back.

4/6 Today

1 :) D3 Coffee - lucky guess
2 :( D1 Green - I considered putting Mulder or Lovelace. I came up with Daniel Ellsberg, but knew it wasn't right.
3 :| D2 Vitamin B
4 :( D2 Aleppo
5 :) D1 Jackson - I wasn't sure how to spell "Mahalia"
6 :| D0 Pudding Head Wilson - Never read it, but the time and place fit Mark Twain. Probably bad defense.