Dave M day 13

Thanks Brian for confirming what we'd suspected about it being a tough season this year so far.

 

That went out of the window for me today, though, with my first 6-pack in a while.

 

1 : ) New York Review of Books. Seemed easy enough. D11

2 : ) 1984. What a terrible movie. D00

3 : ) Daikon. YEKIOYD. D11

4 : ) Kentucky. I wasn't certain it was bluegrass but it seemed v likely. D22

5 : ) Bissau. African geography Q straightforward for me. D22

6 : ) Somoza. Memories dredged up of the Sandinistas and the Iran-Contra affair. D33

David S Day 13

 4/6. 

1. New York Review of Books :), D21. I worked it out. 
2. 1929 :(, D00. I had no idea, but now that I see the answer, I remember seeing it. Should give my opponents no problem given their strength in film. 
3. Daikon :), D11. Yummy gimme. 
4. Virginia :(, D22. I was going with Virginia Creeper, which I spent 7 years battling with at my old house. Sure was abundant there!
5. Bissau :), D13. Gimme for me. Curious how hard this will be for people. 
6. Samoza :), D32. Thanks again to Thorsten for not making me spell it right. I suspect this will play hard, though I was pretty certain this was right. 

Marcus LL107 Match Day 13 -- Confirmation

Another 4

1. The MLS team New York Red Bulls is often abbreviated RBNY, probably most likely because the team's formal name is Red Bull New York, and also perhaps because NYRB has been in use since 1963 as the initialism for what literary periodical?
Correct Answer: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Your Answer: New York review of books
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

What else could it be ?

2. While the first Patty Jenkins/Gal Gadot Wonder Woman film was set at the end of World War I, its sequel was set in what year?
Correct Answer: 1984
Your Answer: 1984
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Not the greatest movie I ever saw

3. The Chinese dim sum dish turnip cake is not actually made with turnips, but with what variety of radish, also common in Japanese cuisine (the name is Japanese for "big root") where it is served raw, pickled, or as a tsuma garnish?
Correct Answer: DAIKON
Your Answer: wasabi
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I know it's not wasabi but I couldn't dredge it up 

4. The perennial plant Poa pratensis, native to Europe and Asia and extremely abundant in North America, has a common name that refers to what U.S. state?
Correct Answer: KENTUCKY
Your Answer: Kentucky
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I wrote down about 30 states and then ping !

5. What West African capital, a city of around half a million near the Atlantic coast, has been included in the official name of its country since independence to distinguish it from its neighbor to the southeast?
Correct Answer: BISSAU
Your Answer: Bissau
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Went thro a list of these too 

6. What was the name of the authoritarian family dynasty, notorious for corruption and repression, that dominated Nicaraguan politics from the 1930s to 1979, starting with the 1936 coup staged by Anastasio ("Tacho"), continuing with his eldest son Luis in the 1950s and 60s, and ending with the resignation of Anastasio ("Tachito")?
Correct Answer: SOMOZA
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Didn't have a clue 

Brian Day 12

 For those who missed Thorsten's Thanksgiving message, it has indeed been a rough season: "My same-player season-over-season metric so far this season is lower than it's been to end any season since LL81 in 2019. So if you're feeling particularly brutalized, hang in there"

5/6 with a very lucky get so maybe things are turning around

1) Trade winds  1/1  Gimme except that winds being in the question gave me some hesitation

2) Reggaeton 3/3  Maybe the most surprised I've every been to get an answer correct.  No idea, so I threw in a word I'd heard of that had no chance, especially since there wouldn't be two answers in a day with part of the answer in the question. 

3) Mattingly 2/1  gimme.  Possibly plays easier as he was on tv a lot for the World Series this year

4) Freedom 1/2  I know of it more from statistics

5 Frozen 0/0  I miss when my kids would watch this

6) Second  2/2  I consider this a close guess

Dave M day 12

A little better with 4/6 today.

 

1 : ) Trade Winds. Seemed simple enough. D11

2 : ) Reggaeton. I actually figured this to be a relatively easy pop question but answers so far suggest maybe not? It is pretty omnipresent these days. D22

3 : ( Strawberry. Marcus, the UK way to knowing the answer is the Simpsons golden-age-era episode where Mr Burns recruits a softball team for the nuclear power plant. It had to be one of those players. I unfortunately guessed the wrong one. D33

4 : ( Motion. Couldn't get there. D01

5 : ) Frozen. I haven't seen the movie but have seen the snowman. D10

6 : ) Sixth. Simple UK Q (6^th form was also a thing in NZ when I was in high school). D22

David S Day 12

 Day 12 vs. Ben (LLL)

4/6 today. 

1. Trade winds :), D11. Gimmeish.
2. Mento :(, D33. No idea. I think my answer is pre- not post-Reggae. 
3. Mattingly :), D12. Gimme for someone my age who grew up in New York. 
4. Freedom :), D00. Math (and economics) gimme that will certainly give Ben no problems. 
5. Frozen :), D21. Snowman in a 2013 Disney film? Even I know that. 
6. Associate :(, D22. Never heard of this. 

Marcus LL107 Match Day 12 -- Confirmation

4 gimmes and 2 impossibles for me today

Player: BrowningM

1. In Earth's atmospheric circulation system, wind belts run from each pole to the equator in a repeating pattern: polar high, polar easterlies, subpolar low, westerlies, subtropical high, [REDACTED], and the intertropical convergence zone. Between roughly 0° and 30° latitude sits the wind belt (redacted in this list) with what two-word name, coming from their historical importance to merchant sailing routes?
Correct Answer: TRADE WINDS
Your Answer: trade winds
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Gimme

2. Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, and Ivy Queen are among the pioneers of what musical style, built around the "dembow" rhythm and emerging in Puerto Rico as a fusion of Jamaican dancehall, hip hop, Panamanian reggae en español, and other Latin Caribbean sounds?
Correct Answer: REGGAETON
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Not a clue 

3. While Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel became known as "Johnny Football", what longtime player for the New York Yankees from the 1980s and 1990s was given a moniker with the surname "Baseball"?
Correct Answer: DON MATTINGLY
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Impossible for Brits 

4. In physics and mathematics, the minimum number of independent coordinates needed to describe the position of a body relative to a frame of reference is known as its "degrees of" what? A particle moving in a straight line has one such degree.
Correct Answer: FREEDOM
Your Answer: freedom
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Maths gimme

5. The 2020 Disney+ short Once Upon a Snowman tells the origin story of a character first introduced in what 2013 film?
Correct Answer: FROZEN
Your Answer: frozen
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I now have let it go spinning around my head

6. In England, the two years of study following the GCSE exams during which students prepare for A-levels are known as what "form"?
Correct Answer: SIXTH FORM
Your Answer: 6th
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp:2

My youngest is currently in the 6th form