Ben Day 20

1/6.

1 :( Tennessee. I had Kentucky (based on bullitt bourbon) then changed it. D01

2 :( Wilde. I haven't heard of these movies. D22

3 :) Albania. Never gonna forget King Zog. D10

4 :( Mark to market. It didn't feel right, but neither did accrual. I don't know my accounting basics evidently. D11

5 :( Liszt. Composer crapshoot. D33

6 :( Rat Race. I only knew of this as a band name. D22

Seif Day 20 vs. Brad (LLL)

Forgot to include the matchup below. 

Seif Day 20

2/6. I found these very hard despite a world history, a (US) geography, and a business question. I'm actually lucky to walk away with two. 

1. Kentucky :), D11. I figured this had to be either KY, TN, NC, VA, or WV. I went with KY because that's where Fort Knox is. Phew!

2. Turing :(, D22. No clue. 

3. Egypt :(, D01. This kind of rings a bell now that I see the answer (or maybe I'm just making that up), but either way I would have probably guessed lots of other countries before Albania. 

4. Accrual :), D10. Only one I was pretty sure I had right when I submitted. 

5. Handel :(, D23. At least I got the first two letters...

6. The Owl :(, D32. No clue. 

Brian Day 19 vs MeyerE

Afrustrating 3/6.  kicking myself for two, but lucked out on hopefully a 3 point play.

1)Horses.  Complete guess.  At some point recently someone mentioned a painter who was famous for horses. Looks like it wasn't at bar trivia, maybe Jeopardy? I couldn't name the painter to save my life, but horses was as good a guess as any.  hoping for a 3.  D3/1

2)The Killing Fields.  kicking myself, very very gettable. and yes Dave, i know KL is not in Cambodia, I just had no other answer. 0/3

3)Lyssistrada.  My high school put on a production of this.  Looking back, how was that appropriate?  2/0

4)Turk.   I might be off by a few years and a few thousand miles, but I liked this answer better than union or confederate. 1/2

5)Tar.  kicking myself again, this is a no-brainer. at least i defended appropriately. 1/1

6) Mmacarena.  Ubiquitous doesn't begin to describe this annoying song.   2/2

Dave M day 19 v MMann (LL) and Brad (LLL)

Tough questions today and a measly 1/6 to go into battle with Brad and Mann. Same D for both.

 

1 : ( Went with ships. D3

2 : ( I had utterly no idea so randomly guessed Superman. D1

3 : ( Nope – guessed Jezebel. D2

4 : ( Pitt was my guess but turns out he was a few years later. D1

5 : ) This I also thought was the gimme of the day. D0

6 : ( Was confident with Every Step You Take, the Puff Daddy remix. Looks like that was 1997 though. D2

 

So for LLL It is me 2 (1) v Brad 3 (2)

Pelc Day 19

3/6 on a tough day. I'll take it

1. :( - No idea. Went with farms. Bad guess. D2/2

2. :) - Haven't seen it yet but hear it's great. D0/2

3. :( - No chance. Also guessed Helen. Hope it's as difficult as I thought. D3/3

4. :( - I had no idea here either. Question makes some sense in hindsight, well done to whoever got there b/c of the clue. D2/1

5. :) - Only gimme of the day, I thought. D1/0

6. :) - Took me a bit but I got there. D1/1

Jesse Day 19

0/6! First of the season!

1. Most of the works of the late 18th-, early 19th-century English painter George Stubbs, as well as many of the significant works in the career of American painter Susan Rothenberg, feature what as their subject, which is also featured in numerous works (and their titles) of German painter Franz Marc?
Correct Answer: HORSES
Your Answer: Flowers
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

I considered horses, but I had no idea.

2. The first credited acting role for Henry Golding, a Kuala Lumpur-based correspondent for the BBC program The Travel Show, was as a leading character in what feature film?
Correct Answer: CRAZY RICH ASIANS
Your Answer: Entrapment
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I saw this movie with my wife last week. Had no idea what the lead's name was. For some reason all I could think of was that damn Sean Connery movie set in Kuala Lumpur. 

3. Name the title character of the ribald satire by Aristophanes who, outraged by the destruction of the Peloponnesian War, convinces her fellow Athenian women to seize the city-state's treasury, occupy the Acropolis, and withhold carnal relations from their spouses until the war ends.
Correct Answer: LYSISTRATA
Your Answer: Penelope
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Never heard of her.

4. Who was British Prime Minister for most of the duration of the American Revolutionary War? He shared a name, in a sense (perhaps a straining sense), with one of the belligerents in another war that would begin roughly eight decades later.
Correct Answer: FREDERICK NORTH, LORD NORTH
Your Answer: Robert Lee
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

There was no way I would have gotten this. 

5. What is the common term for the thick, dark brown, uncrystallized residue, similar to black treacle, obtained from cane or beet sugar during the refining process?
Correct Answer: MOLASSES
Your Answer: Syrup
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Nope!

6. Miami-based record producers Mike Triay and Carlos de Yarza, working collectively as the Bayside Boys, are largely responsible for Billboard magazine's #1 single for 1996, their remixed version of what song?
Correct Answer: MACARENA
Your Answer: Walk this way
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Ah, this was very gettable.