Debbie Day 1

Hello again! Will give myself a 5.5 today

1. Architect :) One of my favorite qs ever
2. Cells :) vaguely remembered but also just makes sense 
3. Jaws :) we just went to Universal Studios backlot tour so this is also kinda top of mind 
4. Madras :) happen to be reading a (very good) novel right now - The Covenant of Water - and a good amount of it takes place in Madras. Wasn't sure but made this easier to guess
5. Leader pro tempore : Close enough to give myself a half point :) 
6. silence, death :) wasn't sure but thought prob right

Ben Day 1

3/6. Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of A rundle.

1 :) Architect. Primarily from Mosby.

2 :) cells. Sounded like he was looking at cells. contemplated crystals at first.

3 :) Jaws. I knew this came out in 1975 so instaget,.

4 :( Chutney.  Grrrrr. I had Madras written in at first but was only guessing there, when I notrced the phonetic similarity demonstrated in all his examples so changed my answer to something associated with India that sounded like Chennai.

5 :( Speaker. I did not know this term.

6 :( Them, us. Don't know this poster.

Dave M day 1

Getting off to LL101 with a solid 4/6 though looking at answers so far I could have done better!

 

What are the odds on our leader Ben staying in rundle A this season? I give it a solid 60%.

 

1 : ) Architect. I got it straight away with father Brady, the rest were just icing. Mosby was How I Met Your Mother, I think. D12

2 : ) Cells. Delighted to get a science question but thought it much harder than it appears based on answers so far. D33

3 : ) Jaws. Have heard this called the first blockbuster before. D12

4 : ) Madras. Airport code is still MAA. D21

5 : ( Ranking Member. David S correct this plays hard for non-Americans. D00

6 : ( Love, hope. It makes more sense now I see the answer. D21

LL101 Match Day 1 Brian

Welcome back everyone!  A few friendly 70s & 80s questions got me to a 5/6 to kick off the season

1) Architect 1/1  My first instinct was hand model, but I got it from Mike Brady

2) Cells 2/1  science gimme

3) Jaws 1/0  There's a cool ad Spielberg took out congratulating Star Wars for passing Jaws at the box office

   

4) Delhi 2/3  no idea

5) president pro tempore 0/2   Politics not usually my bag, but this is well known 

6) Silence, death 3/2   Hard to miss these signs back then

Marcus LL101 Match Day 1 -- Confirmation

Nice to be back 5/6 but very slapdash defence 

Player: BrowningM

1. Mike Brady, Elyse Keaton, Ted Mosby, and "Art Vandelay" are all television characters who had what occupation?
Correct Answer: ARCHITECT
Your Answer: architects
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Family ties got this for me

2. The English physicist Robert Hooke, namesake of Hooke's law of elasticity and an innovator of the compound microscope, used this microscope in 1665 to study cork tissues, where he saw "little boxes" that he dubbed what?
Correct Answer: CELLS
Your Answer: cells
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

3. The "blockbuster era" of Hollywood film is widely considered to have begun in 1975, with the June release of a movie that established summer as the season of the action blockbuster. What was this record-breaking film, the highest-grossing of the year and, for a while, of all time?
Correct Answer: JAWS
Your Answer: jaws
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

4. Among the many cities in India that have been officially respelled or renamed since the end of the British Raj in 1947 are Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta), Puducherry (Pondicherry), Bengaluru (Bangalore), and Chennai, which was called what until 1996?
Correct Answer: MADRAS
Your Answer: madras
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Hopefully harder for Americans 

5. US Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), currently the senior member of the majority party in the Senate, serves in what constitutionally mandated role, presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice president?
Correct Answer: PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE
Your Answer: speaker
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Not a clue, is this well known in the US?

6. In 1987, the newly formed activist group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) acquired the rights to an iconic poster that had a solid black background, a pink triangle in the center, and a simple phrase expressed as an equation in bold print at the bottom. What were the two words in this phrase, one on each side of the equal sign?
Correct Answer: SILENCE, DEATH
Your Answer: silence death
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Saw a recent documentary about act up

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brad day1

welcome back!

3/6 vs winnr common d

1) architect d2

was pretty sure of brady

2) atoms d3

no idea and thought this might be more obscure

3) jaws d1

a guess, but pretty sure timing was right

4) shetty d1

no idea

5) president pro tempore d0

gimme?

6) love, hope d2

thought this had a chance

David S Day 1

Welcome back, everyone! Solid 5/6 to start the season. 

1. Architect :), D01. Easy even for me. 
2. Cells :), D22. I’m thinking this is guessable, but I remembered it from bio class. 
3. Jaws :), D21. Didn’t feel super confident Jaws was this old of a movie, but it was the best guess I had. 
4. Madras :), D01. Gimme for me. I’m thinking this is fairly hard, just not for my opponents. 
5. President pro tempore :), D12. Gimme for me. Have fun with this one, non-Americans. 
6. Men, women :(, D33. No idea.