Brian Day 20 vs Pelco

 5/6  Easiest day of the season for me, five gimmes puts me in a good mood for the long weekend.  Happy new year to those who celebrate, and if you're observant, don't forget to request advance access to complete next week's questions before Monday night.

1) Fergie 2/0 will.i.am = Black Eyed Peas.  Was a little worried I'd need her real name, but mostly confident Fergie would pay

2) Seurat 3/2  I asked a Ferris Bueller related question about this in my Children of the 80s one-day

3) Iditarod 1/2 Faithful = dogs

4) Omaha 0/1 Normandy Beach

5) Indonesia 1/1 I was shocked years ago when I found out its population

6) Perspective 2/3 no clue

David S Day 20

5/6.

1. Stefani :(, D11. No idea.

2. Seurat :), D33. Gimme for me despite art being a weak category. I’ve been very familiar with this painting for decades. But the question could easily play hard given how cryptically it’s written.

3. Iditarod :), D21. Happy to get this. “Faithful team” made this the best guess. Still was very unsure. 

4. Omaha :), D02. Normandy beach landing zones. Gimme for me.

5. Indonesia :), D10. No doubt here, though I suspect Pakistan will be a very common wrong answer. 

6. Mood :), D22. Another answer straight from high school French class. I’ve gotten several from it this season. 

Brian day 19 vs FriedlandMJ

 4/6

1) Nicole 1/2 I’ve been subjected to several episodes of the kardashians

2) auto de fe 2/1  Hey Torquemada, whaddaya say?

                            I just came back from the auto da fe!

                            Auto da fe? What’s an auto da fe?

                            It’s what you oughtn’t to do but you do anyway!

3) Noah 0/3 the only South African tv host I know

4) Tatooine 3/2 

5) click 2/0 made sense

6) Ebon 1/1 I knew I’d be kicking myself when I saw the answer

Dave M day 19

5/6 today – my top score so far this season.

 

1 : ) Nicole. Working back from the year got me to O J Simpson time. D11

2 : ) Auto da Fe. I read a Mexican history book once and these appeared regularly. D12

3 : ) Trevor Noah. I remember being amazed that they picked a South African to host the show. D20

4 : ) Atacama. Geography gimme. D01

5 : ) Click. Happy to get this. Assumed there would be a formal name and not just what the consonants sound like. Couldn’t think of anything so just stuck to click. D33

6 : ( Onyx. Had no idea Sable was synonymous with black. D22

Jesse Day 19

4/6

1. What is the middle name of 25-year-old model and socialite Kendall Jenner, given to her in honor of her mother's close friend who died just over a year before Kendall was born?
Correct Answer: NICOLE
Your Answer: Nicole
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea so I put down Nicole thinking it would ironic if they were referring to Nicole Brown Simpson. I was surprised to get this right. 

2. The public condemnation of heretics conducted by the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions, which is today often associated with its most extreme punishment of burning at the stake, is known by what three-word (or hyphenated three-part) phrase?
Correct Answer: AUTO DA FE/AUTO-DA-FE
Your Answer: Nobody-expect-the
Points Assigned: 3

I have never heard of this. 

3. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is a bestselling coming-of-age memoir by what author, comedian, and television host?
Correct Answer: TREVOR NOAH
Your Answer: Trevor Noah
Points Assigned: 0

My wife just read it. 

4. Name the desert, located mostly on Northern Chile's Pacific coast, that is widely regarded as the driest place on Earth. In some locations, no rain has ever been recorded in human history.
Correct Answer: ATACAMA
Your Answer: Atacama
Points Assigned: 1

I just knew this. I have been to Chile, but mostly down in the far south. 

5. The Khoisan language families are distinctive among languages of the world for their extensive use of certain consonants that linguists—and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)—describe using what word?
Correct Answer: CLICK
Your Answer: Clicks
Points Assigned: 1

I was hoping that was technical enough. 

6. Though it is typically dark brown, what mammal, native to northern Asia and related to the weasel, has a name which is synonymous with the word "black"?
Correct Answer: SABLE
Your Answer: Mink
Points Assigned: 2

Oh, sable. 

David S Day 19

4/6.

1. Nicole :), D00. Would have been shocking if this didn’t refer to Nicole Simpson. 

2. Auto da fe :), D11. Not sure how hard this is. Maybe I went too low on the D.

3. Noah:), D33. I remembered hearing that Trevor Noah was South African. But I wasn’t super confident this would be correct. 

4. Atacama :), D11. Solid geography question. 

5. Hybrid :(, D22. Very gettable. Not sure why this never occurred to me. 

6. Mink :(, D22. No chance here. Didn’t know sable was any kind of animal other than a fish. 

Brian Day 18 vs Will

 4/6

1) sublimation 2/3 Knew it

2) blu-ray 1/0 wavelength on the visual spectrum gimme

3) Ethiopia 1/2 didn’t think it would be the same country Kilimanjaro is in. P.S. Kilimanjaro is not in Kenya

4) Presley 2/2 A nice surprise to get, has me worried it’s not that difficult.   Was a guess  between Sinatra and Elvis, seemed too irreverent for Sinatra.

5) avant-grade 3/1 no clue

6) helix 0/1 we need more math questions