David S Day 17 vs Ben (LLL)

 Disappointing 2/6. 

1. Agriculteur :(, D20. I couldn’t quite remember the name. Ugh. This is probably not close enough to pay. 
2. Midshipman :), D11. I was pretty sure. 
3. Seurat :(, D33. This painting is so familiar. I feel like I could have gotten this. Probably would have gotten me 3 points if I had. 
4. Iron curtain :), D01. Gimme. 
5. Patterson :(, D22. No idea. 
6. The Little Mermaid :(, D12. I was never going to get this, but I only considered animated movies.

brad day17

2/6 vs brian

1) le farmer d1/2

no idea

2) midshapman d1/1

knew this from the sports teams

3) monet d3/3

the other one!

4) iron curtain d0/0

history gimme?

5) king d2/2

nope

6) the land before time d2/1

didnt even consider non cartoons

Brian Day 16

I've been lucky to tie the last two days with only 2/6.  Let's see how 3/6 treats me today

1) Oedipus 0/0  Felt pretty confident, but he might be the only mythological Greek king I can name anyway

2) Bill of Rights 1/1  No idea, went for something with ten items.  And now I'm 0/2 on math this season.

3) Io 2/3  Gimme for me after the first sentence, wish he hadn't added the clue of the other three Galilean moons.

4) Game Stop 1/1 This was my most profitable trading stock of 2021, and I actually traded it this morning as it got active again

5) Angkor Wat 2/2 No clue

6)  Five Empires 3/2  No clue

Dave M day 16

Looking at replies so far my 3/6 is not looking good.

 

1 : ( Agamemnon. Oedipus never entered my head. Wasn't in high school curriculum in NZ either. Worried about my D2

2 : ( Genes. No idea at all. D2

3 : ) Io. Was happy to get this, like Seif all the other ones I know were included in the clue. D1

4 : ) Gamestop. Seems gimmeish. D0

5 : ) Proximity to Oz growing up did help with this one. D1

6 : ( Three Kingdoms. Was optimistic about this one. Turns out Three Kingdoms was 200-ish CE period. D3

Jesse Day 16

5/6. No time for commentary. 

1. The mythological character Jocasta is notable, in part, for being the wife of what Corinthian-raised Greek King of Thebes (who himself was, among other things, her second husband)?
Correct Answer: OEDIPUS
Your Answer: Ptolmey
Points Assigned: 3

2. "May I have a large container of coffee right now?" is a popular mnemonic for what?
Correct Answer: PI
Your Answer: Pi
Points Assigned: 1

3. What moon of Jupiter is, with near constant volcanic activity, the most geologically active body in the Solar System? This intense geological activity results from tidal heating produced by its orbital eccentricity, which in turn is caused by the gravitational pulls of Jupiter and the other three Galilean moons (Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa).
Correct Answer: IO
Your Answer: Io
Points Assigned: 2

4. Thanks in no small part to the subreddit r/wallstreetbets, what company's stock increased in price from $2.57 in April 2020 to $483 at one point on January 28, 2021?
Correct Answer: GAMESTOP (GME)
Your Answer: Game Stop
Points Assigned: 0

5. The two most prominent sacred sites of the Pitjantjatjara people are known natively as Kata Tjuta and what?
Correct Answer: ULURU
Your Answer: Uluru
Points Assigned: 2

6. A certain stage in Chinese history began in the 5th century BCE, when the Zhou kingdom had split into various territorial kingdoms and fiefs that fought for dominance, and ended in 221 BCE, when the Qin dynasty took control and unified the kingdoms. This stage of Chinese history is known in English as what (two words) "Period", after a Chinese text compiled during the Han dynasty that chronicled the era?
Correct Answer: WARRING STATES
Your Answer: Warring States
Points Assigned: 1

brad day16

3/6 vs friedlandmj and currank

1) oedipus d0/0

high school lit

2) books in bible d3/3

never heard of this and couldnt come up with anything that seemed reasonable

3) io d2/1

dont think i could have named another moon

4) gamestop d1/1

biz gimme

5) acadia d1/2

nope

6) hunger games d2/2

no idea

David S Day 16

Thrilled with a 5/6, my first really good day in a couple of weeks and a day where I thought I’d done much worse. 

1. Oedipus :), D31. Boom! Straight from 9th grade English. Really didn’t expect this to be right, but the second husband clue did it for me. 
2. Pi :), D13. Never could have repeated the phrase, but I recognized it. This answer is of course easy to confirm as correct if you think of it and know pi to a few digits.
3. Io :), D12. Another guess that went my way. With those three other moons listed, this was the only one I could think of. 
4. Gamestop :), D00. I don’t want to think about this anymore…
5. Kilimanjaro :(, D22. Australia! I didn’t even consider that. I was firmly thinking Africa here and wasted way too much time on this. 
6. Warring States :), D21. Third guess that went my way today. I knew this was a thing, but I had no idea when it occurred, so this was lucky.