Marcus LL110 Match Day 21 -- Confirmation

5 on a hard day as all my guesses were correct 

Player: BrowningM

1. In the West, what word from Sanskrit, often symbolically interpreted as a balancing of opposites and combining "sun" and "moon", is typically used as a broad umbrella term for physical, posture-based yoga, encompassing styles such as Vinyasa, Ashtanga, and Iyengar?
Correct Answer: HATHA
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

seems very tricky 

2. The apparition of these faces in the crowd: \ Petals on a wet, black bough. \ This is the entirety of In a Station of the Metro by what modernist poet, who spent much of World War II in Italy broadcasting antisemitic and pro-Mussolini propaganda on Italian radio, and later spent more than a decade confined to St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C.?
Correct Answer: EZRA POUND
Your Answer: ezra pound
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

a very interesting character with some interesting views 

3. The song "2120 South Michigan Avenue" (the Chicago address of Chess Records' studio) was recorded by what band, which is fitting as the band itself was named after a song recorded by Muddy Waters for Chess Records in 1950?
Correct Answer: ROLLING STONES
Your Answer: rolling stones
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Muddy waters = Stones. was the logic 

4. In 2024, Anna Sawai became the first actress of Asian descent to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Toda Mariko in what FX drama?
Correct Answer: SHŌGUN
Your Answer: shogun
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

i thought shogun was older than this but inhad nothing better 

5. While the immediate catalyst for its creation was West Germany's admission to NATO in 1955, the two most famous large-scale military interventions associated with the Warsaw Pact were not directed against NATO nations but against its own members, in 1956 and 1968. Identify both of those countries.
Correct Answer: HUNGARY, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Your Answer: hungary czekoslovakia
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

gimme for a cold war kid 

6. A famous bronze sculpture from around 460–450 BCE attributed to the Classical Greek sculptor Myron of Eleutherae, which is lost and known today only through Roman marble and bronze copies, shows its subject in the midst of what activity, directly described by the sculpture's Greek name?
Correct Answer: THROWING A DISCUS
Your Answer: throwing the discus
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2


only thing i could think of

David S Day 21

 Just 2 today. 

1. Bikram :(, D21. I thought this had a shot. 
2. Rossini :(, D13. Absolutely no idea. 
3. The Monkees :(, D11. Still no pop music gets for me this season. 
4. Three body problem :(, D00. Ugh. I thought Shogun was more recent. 
5. Hungary, Czechoslovakia :), D32. Wrote Czech Republic and then caught myself last minute. That would have killed me. Gimme other than that. 
6. Discus throwing :), D22. Happy to get this. I know the statue but didn’t know if it was the one being referred to in the question. 

Day 20

4/6, again

1. Identify the current member of the U.S. Cabinet who appeared on MTV's The Real World: Boston in 1997, and later competed in Log Rolling and Speed Climbing at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games in the early 2000s.
Correct Answer: SEAN DUFFY
Your Answer: Duffy
Points Assigned: 2

That fucking idiot.

2. What word completes the title of Dario Fo's 1970 play Accidental Death of an [BLANK] (Morte accidentale di un [VUOTO])? In the play, the missing word refers to Giuseppe Pinelli, but it could also be used to describe Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, or maybe Johnny Rotten.
Correct Answer: ANARCHIST (ANARCHICO)
Your Answer: Anarchist
Points Assigned: 2

I got it through Johnny Rotten, Anarchy in the UK.

3. What textbook first published in London in 1858 gave its name (though not precisely) to a popular television series that premiered in 2005?
Correct Answer: GRAY'S ANATOMY
Your Answer: Gray's Anatomy
Points Assigned: 1

It took a while to get this as I did not watch this show.

4. A cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome, associated in legend with the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus there, gave its name to what ancient Roman festival of purification and fertility? The name of the month during which this festival was held (February) comes from the purification objects (februa) used in this festival.
Correct Answer: LUPERCALIA
Your Answer: Stalactite
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

5. What laboratory technique, which is used to separate a mixture into its individual components and has a name that refers to "color writing," was pioneered in the early 1900s by a Russian botanist with the last name of Tsvet ("color"), while separating colored plant pigments?
Correct Answer: CHROMATOGRAPHY
Your Answer: Mass spectrometry
Points Assigned: 1

Nope. I figured I was wrong, but have never heard the word Chromatography. 

6. Of the seven countries that make up Central America, which is the only one without a Pacific coast?
Correct Answer: BELIZE
Your Answer: Belize
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie? I've been!

Brian Day 20 vs SeifD (CLL)

 5/6 on a day with several gimmes for David...  Took him down 7(5)-5(4)

1) Duffy 2/1   Two weeks ago I had never heard of him. Then my friends sent to me and ridiculed Duffy's op/ed worrying about his daughter applying to Harvard and potentially having her conservative and Christian values twisted.   I took Duffy's side.  Boola Boola.  I assume this is a gimme for David. 

2) Anarchist 3/3   I had absolutely no chance until Johnny Rotten gave me an obvious guess with it having to start with a vowel.  Risky 3 here with a bunch of political names Dave might know 

3) Greys Anatomy 1/2  Ran through school subjects then got it pretty quickly

4) Saturnalia 2/2 Never heard of it, now I know where little red riding hood's lupine foe got his latin name

5) Chromotography 0/1  gimme 

6) Belize 1/0   Several years ago there was a similar question (i think name the two CA countries which do not touch both oceans) and my wild guesses were correct.  Didn't have to guess this time.   

Marcus LL110 Match Day 20 -- Confirmation

4 again 

Player: BrowningM

1. Identify the current member of the U.S. Cabinet who appeared on MTV's The Real World: Boston in 1997, and later competed in Log Rolling and Speed Climbing at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games in the early 2000s.
Correct Answer: SEAN DUFFY
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

impossible for a brit 

2. What word completes the title of Dario Fo's 1970 play Accidental Death of an [BLANK] (Morte accidentale di un [VUOTO])? In the play, the missing word refers to Giuseppe Pinelli, but it could also be used to describe Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, or maybe Johnny Rotten.
Correct Answer: ANARCHIST (ANARCHICO)
Your Answer: anarchist
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

humming the sex pistols 

3. What textbook first published in London in 1858 gave its name (though not precisely) to a popular television series that premiered in 2005?
Correct Answer: GRAY'S ANATOMY
Your Answer: gray's anatomy
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

gimme

4. A cave at the foot of the Palatine Hill in Rome, associated in legend with the she-wolf who nursed Romulus and Remus there, gave its name to what ancient Roman festival of purification and fertility? The name of the month during which this festival was held (February) comes from the purification objects (februa) used in this festival.
Correct Answer: LUPERCALIA
Your Answer: saturnalia
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

i thought this was a good guess, is this the hardest q of the season ?

5. What laboratory technique, which is used to separate a mixture into its individual components and has a name that refers to "color writing," was pioneered in the early 1900s by a Russian botanist with the last name of Tsvet ("color"), while separating colored plant pigments?
Correct Answer: CHROMATOGRAPHY
Your Answer: chromotography
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

easy for a chemist 

6. Of the seven countries that make up Central America, which is the only one without a Pacific coast?
Correct Answer: BELIZE
Your Answer: belize
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

got there in the end 

David S Day 20 vs. Brian (CLL)

Much better than expected 4/6 against Brian. I was worried I’d have only 1 or 2. 

1. Duffy :), D13. I thought I’d heard this about him, but I was definitely not sure. I expect this will play hard. 
2. Anarchist :), D11. Felt pretty confident (but not certain) given Emma Goldman was one and it had to start with a vowel. 
3. Weeds :(, D20. Oh… super gettable. I was never anywhere close. I think D0 was good for Brian here. 
4. Bacchanal :(, D22. Wow. Super hard I think. I had no idea. 
5. Chromatography :), D32. Surprised this is right. I just thought of words starting in “chrome” and hoped for the best. 
6. Belize :), D01. Only gimme of the day. 

I’m traveling next week, so my posts may not be as regular. 

Jesse Day 19

4/6

1. The Ravinia Festival has served as the official summer home and residency of what major orchestra since 1936?
Correct Answer: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Your Answer: New York Philharmonic
Points Assigned: 2

I have never heard of that festival or location.

2. The Nigerian visual artist Bolaji Badejo, who stood a slender 6'10", has a single acting credit, as the title character in what 1979 film (in which Badejo's face was never seen)?
Correct Answer: ALIEN
Your Answer: The Thin Man
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea.

3. In ten-pin bowling, the ideal impact point between the one and three pins for right-handers (one and two pins for lefties) is most commonly referred to by what word? The term has other uses in sports such as American football, billiards, and curling.
Correct Answer: POCKET
Your Answer: Pocket
Points Assigned: 1

Pocket felt right. 

4. What word for the violent fragmentation of a larger region into smaller, mutually hostile states, which entered wide use in the aftermath of World War I, is drawn from the name of a peninsula whose own wars, fought in 1912-13, gave the term its original meaning?
Correct Answer: BALKANIZATION
Your Answer: Balkanization
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie?

5. Identify the Dutch painter and Neoplasticist who deliberately limited many of his mature paintings to the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and three "non-colors" (black, gray, and white), believing this limited palette expressed universal visual harmony. His Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and Grey from 1922 is a famous and prime example.
Correct Answer: PIET MONDRIAN
Your Answer: Modrian
Points Assigned: 3

I just knew this one. We used to have playing cards with different artists as the card back art.

6. The influencer, online streamer, and global phenomenon born Darren Watkins Jr. in Cincinnati in 2005 is better known by what handle (or its five-letter shortened form)?
Correct Answer: ISHOWSPEED/SPEED
Your Answer: Speed
Points Assigned: 2

Suprised my guess worked. I don't watch streamers generaly, but I do like Marques Brownlee because he is an ultimate player and does great tech reviews. He has been on some Mr. Beast things, Speed was there, and seemed prominent.