Debbie Day 1

Hello all!  Hope you're all safe and sound and still sane!

4/6 - a nice way to start the season. I felt pretty good about these. And wow - two 6/6s today! 

1. Vauxhall :(, D2.  Was thinking this or Kensington but realized I didn't know either way.  Probably knew this awhile ago but wasn't going to remember.

2. Willie Nelson :) D1.  The weed did it for me.

3. Atom :), D2.  Went back and forth on this a lot so glad I got it

4. Common Core :) D1. Also not sure if this is well-known, but familiar to me.

5. Bourque :(, D0 My hockey knowledge is limited but I know Ray Bourque was a good Bruin

6. Siam :), D3. Was thinking Thailand and psyching myself out that it might be wrong, but knew it was Siam.  Have a nice picture of Yul Brynner in my head right now.  

Brian Day 1 vs Seif

Welcome back everyone to even more socially distant trivia!  5/6 today, and I don't feel good about it.  Very hard to defend both opponents, as I thought the questions in their weak categories were gettable.

1)  Little Whinging.  No clue, though I see the Westminster Abbey connection makes this gettable.  I took a chance and gave Dave a 2 in his best category hoping there was a hole in his knowledge and with what I thought his chances were on other questions.  LL 2 / Seif 2
     -  Here's my first mistake of the day, down 2-0

2) Nelson.  Normally would give Dave a 3 for this music question, but I have to think even he has heard of Willie's status as a weed icon.  1/1
      - Here's my second mistake.  Down 2-1

3) Atom.  Up and atom!  1/0
     - Still down 2-1

4) Conmon Core.  Gimme for me, my wife teaches second grade.  So I might not know how well-known this is to the general public.  2/1
    - Down 3-2

5) Hull.   Hull popped into my head immediately.  I also considered Orr, but figured with two shots at a correct answer, Hull was a safer bet.  I wouldn't have gotten any of the others except maybe Jagr.  I wouldn't give Dave a 2 on baseball or football, but I'm hoping I'm safe here. 3/2
   - Very bad luck, but still, my third mistake, trailing 5-4 

6) Siam.  Clear reference to Anna and the King/ The King and I.  Absolutely hated giving Dave a 3 here, this is not that esoteric a literature/film/theater question, but I went with the percentages.  I worry there's something weird here like Siam is the only Asian country to have a king in the 1870s, and it will turn out to be a geography gimme for him. 0/3

 Phew!  Survived bad defense for a 7(5)-5(4) victory.  Well fought, Dave.

Jesse Day 1 LL 85

6/6! This is most confident I have ever been about all 6 of my answers. 

1. Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing Street, the Houses of Parliament, and Paddington Station are all located within what London borough?
Correct Answer: (CITY OF) WESTMINSTER
Your Answer: Westminster
Points Assigned: 2

I was pretty sure it was Westminster, and with Westminster Abbey not being included in that list, it made me more sure of my answer as it is right next to the Houses of Parliament and would seem an odd place to not include in that list. 

2. While he wrote numerous hit songs during the 1960s, including Patsy Cline's "Crazy", what icon—an outlaw country musician both in work and in life, given his issues with the IRS and affection for marijuana pre-legalization—did not find significant commercial success as a solo artist until the release of his 1975 LP Red Headed Stranger?
Correct Answer: WILLIE NELSON
Your Answer: Willie Nelson
Points Assigned: 0

I knew it from the first clue of Crazy. The other clues were a bit of an overkill. 

3. The term for what scientific object comes from the Greek for "indivisible", although physicist Ernest Rutherford is among those who have proven that to be a misnomer?
Correct Answer: ATOM
Your Answer: Atom
Points Assigned: 1

I knew this from my college Astro-physics classes, but I think this is very guessable. 

4. In 2009, members of the U.S. Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices met to develop a set of college and career readiness educational standards in language arts and mathematics. By what two-word phrase are these standards best known?
Correct Answer: COMMON CORE
Your Answer: Common Core
Points Assigned: 1

I work in education.

5. Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe are currently the only two players in National Hockey League history with over 800 career goals (894 and 801, respectively). Give the last name of any one of the other six players who have scored over 700 goals in their careers (none of whom are Messier, Yzerman, or Lemieux, who all retired just short of that mark).
Correct Answer: JAGR, HULL, DIONNE, ESPOSITO, GARTNER, OVECHKIN
Your Answer: Jagr
Points Assigned: 3

Jagr played forever and was amazing at his peak. Ovechkin would have been my second guess. 

6. British author Anna Leonowens, who was born in India in 1834, and who published two books in the 1870s, is likely best remembered for her service in the employ of the monarch of what country?
Correct Answer: SIAM (THAILAND)
Your Answer: Thailand
Points Assigned: 2

At first I had no idea but I read the question a few times and the King and I popped into my head. 

Kim Day 1

vs. Brad LLL

Same 3/6 right, but I lost on D.

1 :( Kensington D12

2 :) Willie Nelson  D11

3 :) Atom.  I figured it would not be the obvious and defended poorly. D22

4 :) Common Core.  D00

5 :( Sidney.  I was going for Crosby.  I don't think I could even answer "name a player in the NHL"  - but I thought Brad would get this! D31

6 :( Sweden.  No idea why I didn't pick a country in Asia at least.  D23

Dave M day 1

Good to be back to a bit of a distraction from week 8 (? Maybe 9 or 10) of the tedium of working from home. Great start for me with the very rare 6/6 which was a nice surprise.

 

1 : ) A double gimme given geography and that I lived in London for ~10 years. D22

2 : ) Now ~5 years in Texas means I’m picking up key pieces of country music trivia here and there. I wasn’t sure but if in doubt weed + country music = Willie Nelson. D22

3 : ) Every New Zealander learns at an early age that Rutherford (a New Zealander) was the first to split the atom. D01

4 : ) The timing was right for Common Core but I wasn’t certain. D10

5 : ) Guessed Jagr which was lucky as I don’t know any of the others. Jaromir Jagr played for so long I assumed he had to be up there. D33

6 : ) Pleased to get this. I assumed it would be somewhere in Asia, timing was too modern for it to be Japan, if it was China I assumed it would be ‘Emperor’ not Monarch, and there weren’t that many other ‘countries’ in Asia at the time so it had to be Thailand. D11

brad day1

3/6 vs kim

common d

1) mayfair d2

very gettable

2) nelson d1

if it wasnt him would have had no idea

3) atom d1

sounded right from the etimology and then the name confirmed

4) common core d0

gimme?

5) richard d2

bad miss.  could have named most of them, but figured would go with the guy who the trophy for most goals in a season was named after

6) china d3

no idea

Seif Day 1 vs. Brian (LLL)

Soooo great to be back.  Welcome, all.  I hope everyone is staying safe and not going (too) stir crazy.

4/6, which was a big positive surprise.  I felt confident of 3 (but also confident I had the other 3 wrong).

1. Westminster :), D02.  Gimme for me, but I think this may well trip Brian up.  Given that my LL opponent went to college in Scotland and is good in geography, easy D0 there.

2. Haggard :(, D21.  Really had no idea, but this seems like one that a lot of people will get.

3. Atom :), D10.  Gimme for me, and I think one that most people will get.

4. Common Core :), D11.  Not sure how widespread this is known, but easy for me.

5. Hull :), D22.  What?!  This is right?!!  I'm beyond shocked.  I wasn't even certain this was a hockey player, let alone that he was good, let alone that he was this good.

6. China :(, D33.  Great question, but I had no idea.  I hope this is as hard for everyone else as it was for me.  I'm now a little bit worried that because there was a movie "Anna and the King" some years ago, people will figure this one out.