Jesse day 11

4/6. I felt like it was an easy, yet hard to defend day. 

1. In 1938, innkeeper Ruth Graves Wakefield invented a cookie recipe using small pieces of semisweet chocolate in a brown-sugar dough. What name did she give to these cookies, after the Massachusetts inn she and her husband owned (and in whose restaurant the cookies were first made)?
Correct Answer: TOLL HOUSE COOKIES
Your Answer: Toll House
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

It was the first thing that popped into my head and seemed right. 

2. A 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue led eventually to the foundation of what republic in 1804?
Correct Answer: HAITI
Your Answer: Haiti
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

The only sucsseful slave revolt I could think of off the top of my head that led to a republic being formed. The timing was right too. 

3. The "Bridal Chorus" (aka "Here Comes the Bride"), the march often played at weddings during the bride's formal entrance, is from an 1850 opera by whom?
Correct Answer: RICHARD WAGNER
Your Answer: Puchini
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Interesting, I had no idea it was Wagner. 

4. Novelist Gillian Flynn, a former feature writer and television critic for Entertainment Weekly, has penned three full-length novels, all of which have two-word titles, and all of which have been adapted into full-length films or television miniseries. Give any one of these three titles.
Correct Answer: SHARP OBJECTS, DARK PLACES, GONE GIRL
Your Answer: Killing Eve
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Nope!

5. The Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets are all based on the 22-letter, consonant-only alphabet of what ancient civilization originally situated in modern-day Lebanon, Syria, and Israel, whose people spoke a Semitic language similar to Hebrew?
Correct Answer: PHOENICIAN
Your Answer: Phonecian
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I remember this both from reading sections of the World Book Encyclopedia when I was young and I think Civilization 1 had this info too when you discovered alphabet. 

6. A pioneering art-rock band whose earliest lineup included a Bryan and a Brian, the biggest pop duo to emerge from Sweden in the late 1980s, and the 1978 major-label debut single by a multimillion-record-selling rock trio all have names that begin with what three letters?
Correct Answer: ROX
Your Answer: Rox
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3  

I knew the first one was Roxy Music. Roxanne confirmed it for me. 

Brian Day 11 vs CarrBen12 (LL) & SeifD (LLL)

4/6 and I think it will come down to defense with both of these guys.  I'm not feeling confident at all.

1) Toll house cookies.  A gimme, as I've seen almost this exact question before; hated defending so high.  But I can't find the question in past seasons so maybe it's harder than I think.  2/2

2) Haiti.  French, probably Caribbean, most likely Haiti.  Santo Domingo is on the same island in the DR, that clinches it.  But so obvious (even for me) that I thought it was a trick, and almost put Martinique (that sounds French). I even considered Dominican Republic, even though they speak Spanish there.  Ultimately, I decided I would feel like more of an idiot if it were Haiti and I got it wrong, versus if I wrote Haiti and it was something else.  Hoping they give me some points here.  1/0

3) Wagner.  My rabbi ate at my non-kosher venue, and he drove on Shabbat to marry me, but there was no way he was going to allow Nazi music at my wedding.  And so I treated this as a Jewish question instead of classical music, sorry guys.  1/1

4) 13 dresses.  Damn, i knew the name sounded familiar.  I figured if I couldn't get it, no way would Ben and Dave, but I'm very worried they could get Gone Girl. 3/3

5) Akkadian.  Don't know why I thought I had this right. Figure these guys will get it.  0/1

6) Rox.  What a fun question.  Bryan==> Bryan Ferry==>Roxy Music, leading to Roxette and Roxanne.  Dave and Ben, you might get this from The Police, but I don't think you got The Look.  I'm positive you guys zeroed me here, but you get 2/2.

let's see how this went... In LLL, I take down Seif, and his defensive efficiency, 8(4)-2(3).  And Ben out-defends me for a 5(4)-5(3) tie. Should have known you'd be a Roxette fan.  It must have been love, but it's over now.

Dave M day 11 v Kim LLL

A poor 2/6 to start the week, I was hoping for one or two more. I did eke out a 2-1 win against Kim though as I successfully defended for the two answers she got right.

 

1 : ( Tollhouse is so obvious now I see it. I generally find American cookies poor so don’t ever buy them. D10

2 : ) World history gimme. D22

3 : ( I guessed Puccini after assuming Wagner would be too obvious. Risky D33 (which worked out at least in Kim’s case).

4 : ( Guessed Twin Peaks. D11

5 : ) I knew this from the French comic series Asterix, the heroes often encounter Phoenecians on their adventures. D22

6 : ( Should have got this. I discounted Roxette as I thought they were German. So ended up with Que on the basis that the Brian/Bryan group might be Queen. Roxette were amazing. D01

Seif Addendum

Interesting that I gave Brian a D0 on the Gone Girl question but Ben gave him a D3.  I'm curious to see how this works out...

Ben day 11 v brian and will’s mom

Defensive blunders and a miss will cost me I think. 3/6.

1 :) tollhouse. After flirting with chips ahoy (I could imagine a Massachusetts inn on the water being called Ships Ahoy) I feel like it was definitely asking for an inn name and tollhouse came to me. D12

2 :) Haiti. This was a little scary because I was worried that Saint Domingue is Santo Domingo which is the capital of the DR, also on Hispaniola, but the date felt right for Haiti and the French name and the fact that Slave Uprising creating a country helped me choose wisely. D21

3 :( Verdi. I considered Wagner. D20

4 :( miss congeniality. Far out. I knew the name and have seen the movie and I just couldn't connect the dots. This one hurts. D33.

5 :( Aramaic. D11. I simply didn't know this. 

6 :) Rox D02. Got it from Roxette. This one shouldn't trouble Brian.

Seif Day 11 vs. Brian (LLL)

3/6.  I think there's going to have to be some "catch up" questions in categories that are hard for me, since so far I think the question distribution has been very good for me this season.

1. Red Lion :(, D02.  Just didn't come to me, but this is of course very gettable.  My answer is the name of a historic inn in the Berkshires.

2. Haiti :), D22.  Gimme.  Not sure how hard this is going to be for people.

3. Wagner :), D13.  Only opera composer from the mid-1800s I knew.  It was Wagner or bust for me.  A rare straight-up classical music get for me.  I wonder if that means it's really easy.

4. Pan's Labyrinth :(, D30.  No clue.

5. Phoenecian :), D21.  Knew this (although somewhat ironically not the spelling).  I wonder if the fact that the Phoenician alphabet has exactly 22 letters will trick some people into saying Hebrews.  It certainly gave me pause for a minute.

6. Mil :(, D11.  Wasn't Milli Vanilli Swedish?  (Actually, I now see that they were German.)  That was the only thing I based this on.  I still have no idea what any of the three are.

Kim Day 11

Vs MirkinD LLL

Why did I not just write ROX?! I was obsessed with my single cassette of Joyride by the only Swedish duo I could possibly name. But didn't know how to make the rest fit.

2/6

1 :) Tollhouse D11
2 :( Morocco D30
3 :( Chopin. While I didn't walk to this, it's a bad miss! D13
4 :) Gone Girl. Assume most guess this of the three. D01
5 :( Aramaic D22
6 :( Blu. Ugh! D22