Re: Debbie Day 13

Should have had another 4, but I changed one right answer. Grr!  My string of 4s has put me into 1st place the latest into a season that I can recall!  Who knows if it will stay that way (I've probably jinxed it by acknowledging it). Happy weekend!

1) Royal hip hop :( never heard of this, thought maybe something with "king"

2) scapegoat :) had maybe heard this before but forgot. Fun to learn etymology of words like this...

3) Smog :) I mean, I live in LA

4) the Rights of Man :( blurgh. Had right answer then questioned myself and changed it.

5) open sesame :( yeah have never heard Swordfish as a password. My guess is only like baby boomers and older will know this?

6) logarithmic :) if it's a math question and I get it right, you know it's not that hard

Brian Day 14

 3/6 and no chance for more.  Given your answers, my defense is going to cost me.

1) Formosa rap 2/3  I considered that C-Pop meant Cantonese and not Chinese, so the answer would be M Pop for Mandarin, but never would have come up with the answer

2) scapegoat 1/1  I somehow didn't know the source of the word, but it was obvious

3) Smog 0/1  I actually do know the origin of this one

4) Slavery 3/2  no idea

5) abracadabra 1/2  Have never heard swordfish used as a password though I assume that's where the Hugh Jackman/Halle Berry movie got its name

6) logarithmic 2/0   Everyone can use their incorrect answers from Day 1

Dave M day 14 v Pelc LLL

4/6 today, same correct ones as Jesse and David S. Same wrong guess for question 1, and I guessed 1234 for the password. Don't think I'll beat either of my opponents on what seems like a relatively simple set of questions for the day.

Jesse's Addendum

David and I had same answers, both right and wrong. Nice.

Jesse day 14

4/6

1. Li Ronghao, G.E.M., Eason Chan, JJ Lin, and Jay Chou are musical artists who achieved great success in what popular music genre (a subgenre and branch of C-Pop), of which the Taiwan-born Chou is frequently dubbed the "King"?
Correct Answer: MANDOPOP
Your Answer: T-Pop
Points Assigned: 2

I have never heard of the answer. 

2. A story from the Old Testament during which, on the Day of Atonement, a priest would confess the sins of the Israelites over a particular animal's head and then drive the animal into the wilderness, is the source for what word common today?
Correct Answer: SCAPEGOAT
Your Answer: Scapegoat
Points Assigned: 1

Feels like a gimmie.

3. According to some sources, what portmanteau was coined in the early 1900s as a synonym for "London particulate matter" (though it is not unique to that city)? It's a phenomenon with several serious proven health effects and has been reported as the possible cause for the deaths of thousands of individuals in Delhi, India, every year.
Correct Answer: SMOG
Your Answer: Smog
Points Assigned: 0

Feels easy unless you overthink it somehow. 

4. John Stuart Mill's influential 1859 essay, which asserts that the state may interfere with individual freedoms only to protect other individuals, is titled "On" what?
Correct Answer: LIBERTY
Your Answer: Liberty
Points Assigned: 2

This was a guess that I was not confident in.

5. What password, used in countless TV shows, movies, books, and other media, first appeared in the 1932 Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers?
Correct Answer: SWORDFISH
Your Answer: open sesame
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

6. Give the mathematical adjective most often used to describe scales of measurement, such as the decibel and pH scales, in which an increase of one unit represents a tenfold increase in the quantity measured.
Correct Answer: LOGARITHMIC
Your Answer: Logarithmic
Points Assigned: 1

I was pretty sure this was right even though I am bad with math. 

David S Day 14

4/6 with no chance at the others. 

1. T-Pop :(, D03. No idea at all. 

2. Scapegoat :), D11. Gimme. 

3. Smog :), D11. Seemed like there was nothing else that could fit  

4. Liberty :), D22. I felt pretty confident here but was worried it might be freedom instead. 

5. Open sesame :(, D12. I thought this might be right, but I had no chance. 

6. Logarithmic :), D30. Math/science gimme. 

Marcus LL100 Match Day 14 -- Confirmation

5/6 I was certain of the ones I got and certain I could never get the other.

Player: BrowningM

1. Li Ronghao, G.E.M., Eason Chan, JJ Lin, and Jay Chou are musical artists who achieved great success in what popular music genre (a subgenre and branch of C-Pop), of which the Taiwan-born Chou is frequently dubbed the "King"?
Correct Answer: MANDOPOP
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3

2. A story from the Old Testament during which, on the Day of Atonement, a priest would confess the sins of the Israelites over a particular animal's head and then drive the animal into the wilderness, is the source for what word common today?
Correct Answer: SCAPEGOAT
Your Answer: scapegoat
Points Assigned: 1

3. According to some sources, what portmanteau was coined in the early 1900s as a synonym for "London particulate matter" (though it is not unique to that city)? It's a phenomenon with several serious proven health effects and has been reported as the possible cause for the deaths of thousands of individuals in Delhi, India, every year.
Correct Answer: SMOG
Your Answer: smog
Points Assigned: 0

4. John Stuart Mill's influential 1859 essay, which asserts that the state may interfere with individual freedoms only to protect other individuals, is titled "On" what?
Correct Answer: LIBERTY
Your Answer: liberty
Points Assigned: 2

5. What password, used in countless TV shows, movies, books, and other media, first appeared in the 1932 Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers?
Correct Answer: SWORDFISH
Your Answer: swordfish
Points Assigned: 1

6. Give the mathematical adjective most often used to describe scales of measurement, such as the decibel and pH scales, in which an increase of one unit represents a tenfold increase in the quantity measured.
Correct Answer: LOGARITHMIC
Your Answer: log (arthimiic) scale
Points Assigned: 2



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