David S Day 2 vs. Marcus (LL)

 Mediocre 3/6 against Marcus in our first (and maybe only ever) LL matchup. 

1. Random variable :(, D23. So gettable. Ugh. 
2. Visual :(, D20. No idea. 
3. Guys :), D01. Kind of a confusingly worded question, but otherwise a gimme. I just wasn’t sure if we were supposed to answer Guys or Guy Fawkes. Certainly won’t give Marcus any problems. 
4. Cleveland Browns :), D31. Hoping this trips up my Welsh friend. 
5. Stork :(, D12. Not even a little bit of a clue. 
6. Lake Geneva :), D12. Gimme for me, and I’m sure for Marcus. 

Fwd: LL104 Match Day 2 -- Confirmation

4/6 vs Seif and I'll prob lose. 

Player: BrowningM

1. What mathematical term was coined by British statistician Karl Pearson in his 1894 lecture "The Scientific Aspect of Monte Carlo Roulette", and are the two words that fill in the blank in the following quote from the lecture: "[F]or every type of experiment there is a numerical quantity, depending partly on the chance of the single event succeeding, and partly on the total number of the trials of it, which we may term the [BLANK]"?
Correct Answer: STANDARD DEVIATION
Your Answer: p value
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

This is a bad miss but I don't think he described the standard deviation very well!

2. Hollywood legend and multiple-Oscar winner Rick Baker has been credited with several "below-the-line" roles in films. A typical one is the following, from 1981's An American Werewolf in London, in which one word is redacted: Special [REDACTED] effects designer and creator. What is that redacted word?
Correct Answer: MAKEUP
Your Answer: makeup
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Great movie 

3. What word is often used for the effigies burned in the UK on the evening of November 5, the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot? It has come to be roughly synonymous with "men".
Correct Answer: GUYS
Your Answer: guy
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme 

4. "The Drive", "The Fumble", a controversial 1996 relocation drama, and a 17-year playoff drought beginning in 2003 are among the countless heartaches suffered by fans of what NFL franchise (location and team name required)?
Correct Answer: CLEVELAND BROWNS
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I don't know any American football trivia really 

5. What bird, a native of the northern hemisphere and member of the grouse family, has a name that begins with an unetymological consonant pair—as the birds's original Gaelic name just begins with the letter "T", and a Greek-influenced silent letter was added at the beginning in the 17th century?
Correct Answer: PTARMIGAN
Your Answer: ptarmigan
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Easy if you know 

6. Identify (in English) the lake, the largest of the European Alpine lakes, which straddles the border between southwest Switzerland and southeast France, and is known in French as Lac Léman?
Correct Answer: LAKE GENEVA
Your Answer: geneva
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

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Brian Day 1

 2/6 to start the season off 

1) eggs 1/1   somehow I've never heard of this

2) wedding 1/1  no idea

3) milk of magnesium 2/0 ugh

4) slam dunk 3/2   the only one I definitely knew today, though i was between dunk and slam dunk.  Dunk should pay

5) Goldwater 0/2  Educated guess

6) whatever it is would have made for a better halftime show 2/3   Shoot, it's actually something I've heard of.  oh well.

Jesse day 1

Happy to be back! 3/6

1. In 1986, The Economist introduced a tool for analyzing the purchasing power parity of currencies by comparing the prices in different countries of what food item, after which the "Index" is named, and which is standardized and available worldwide?
Correct Answer: BIG MAC
Your Answer: Big Mac
Points Assigned: 0

I was an avid cover-to-cover reader of The Economist in the mid-aughts. 

2. The plot of Harold Pinter's ambiguous and unconventional "comedy of menace" that was first staged in 1958, and which was initially met with decidedly mixed reviews (though it is acclaimed today), centers on what type of organized celebration?
Correct Answer: BIRTHDAY PARTY
Your Answer: Babtism
Points Assigned: 2

It was the most straightforward answer, staring me in the face and I chose a stupid guess. 

3. A quantity of Mg(OH)₂ in a liquid suspension with various inactive ingredients (and no other active ingredients) is a laxative and antacid known by what name?
Correct Answer: MILK OF MAGNESIA
Your Answer: Milk of Magnesia
Points Assigned: 2

Despite having acid reflux, I have never given this stuff a try. 

4. Although it occurs at least once (and often many times) in many Division I games today, what was officially banned in NCAA college basketball prior to the 1967–68 season (after Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's sophomore year at UCLA) until 1976?
Correct Answer: SLAM DUNK
Your Answer: Slam Dunk
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?

5. During his one campaign for US president, what long time senator's slogan was "In your heart, you know he's right"—a sentiment apparently shared by only 38.5% of voters?
Correct Answer: BARRY GOLDWATER
Your Answer: Wallace
Points Assigned: 3

Damnit. Stupid, stupid, stupid. 

6. EDM musician Skrillex (Sonny John Moore), with his hits "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" and "Bangarang", was probably the most successful artist in what subgenre of EDM, which originated in the underground scene of South London in the late 1990s and early 2000s and was coined as a term in 2002?
Correct Answer: DUBSTEP
Your Answer: Trance
Points Assigned: 1

I don't listen to any of this stuff. 

Dave M day 1

Happy 104 everyone!

 

4/6 to start (providing Dunks=Slam Dunk), judging by responses so far that's not going to go well for me in B.

 

1 : ) Big Mac. Seems highly gettable for the LL crowd. D00

2 : ) Birthday Party. This on the other hand was a random guess. I D32ed which seems like a bad idea now.

3 : ( Ex-Lax. I knew it wasn't Metamucil and the only other laxative I know of is ex-lax. Turns out it does contain MG(OH)2 but presumably also contains other ingredients. D11

4 : ) Dunks. With proviso above this seemed pretty straightforward. D22

5 : ) Goldwater. I read an article once about Hillary Clinton being pro-Goldwater as a youngster. D11

6 : ( Grime. I didn't know Dubstep came from London. D23

David S Day 1

 Welcome back, everyone. This is my first ever season in A, and I strongly expect to be relegated. Here goes nothing:

4/6 to start out the season. I should be easy to defend today. 

1. Big Mac :), D20. Anyone who has been in the forecasting contest I sometimes write about should remember this. 
2. Wedding :(, D13. No idea. I guess I was kind of close. 
3. Milk of magnesia :), D32. All I had to go on was magnesium, but that was enough. 
4. Slam dunks :), D21. Seemed like the only possibility. Plus I knew they were once banned. Marcus, I agree this was badly worded and technically incorrect. 
5. Goldwater :), D11. I got it from the vote share. I didn’t know the slogan. 
6. Hackney :(, D02. No clue. 

Marcus LL104 Match Day 1 -- Confirmation

Nice to be back and I even remembered to sign up for LLL.

5/6 assuming dunking plays 

Player: BrowningM

1. In 1986, The Economist introduced a tool for analyzing the purchasing power parity of currencies by comparing the prices in different countries of what food item, after which the "Index" is named, and which is standardized and available worldwide?
Correct Answer: BIG MAC
Your Answer: big mac
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme 

2. The plot of Harold Pinter's ambiguous and unconventional "comedy of menace" that was first staged in 1958, and which was initially met with decidedly mixed reviews (though it is acclaimed today), centers on what type of organized celebration?
Correct Answer: BIRTHDAY PARTY
Your Answer: birthday party
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Easy if you know and very guessable 

3. A quantity of Mg(OH)₂ in a liquid suspension with various inactive ingredients (and no other active ingredients) is a laxative and antacid known by what name?
Correct Answer: MILK OF MAGNESIA
Your Answer: milk of magnesia
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme, can still taste it from childhood.

4. Although it occurs at least once (and often many times) in many Division I games today, what was officially banned in NCAA college basketball prior to the 1967–68 season (after Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's sophomore year at UCLA) until 1976?
Correct Answer: SLAM DUNK
Your Answer: dunking
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I was confused by it happening at least once per game, can someone explain.

5. During his one campaign for US president, what long time senator's slogan was "In your heart, you know he's right"—a sentiment apparently shared by only 38.5% of voters?
Correct Answer: BARRY GOLDWATER
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Rings a vague bell but I was never getting this.

6. EDM musician Skrillex (Sonny John Moore), with his hits "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" and "Bangarang", was probably the most successful artist in what subgenre of EDM, which originated in the underground scene of South London in the late 1990s and early 2000s and was coined as a term in 2002?
Correct Answer: DUBSTEP
Your Answer: dub step
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Hopefully hard for yanks 

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