Jesse day 11

3/6

1. Identify this woman. LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/485970c8n9.jpg
Correct Answer: SHERYL SANDBERG
Your Answer: Sandberg
Points Assigned: 1

I "leaned into" this one. See what I did there? 

2. The Prix Renaudot, Prix Goncourt, and Prix Femina are all prizes awarded annually in what field?
Correct Answer: LITERATURE
Your Answer: Wine
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

3. Custer National Cemetery is located within Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, which itself is in Big Horn County, in what state?
Correct Answer: MONTANA
Your Answer: South Dakota
Points Assigned: 2

Darn. I haven't spent much time in the American West.

4. Four Green Dragons, four Red Dragons, four White Dragons, four North Winds, four East Winds, four South Winds, and four West Winds: this "Honor" set of 28 is associated with what game?
Correct Answer: MAH-JONGG
Your Answer: Mah Jong
Points Assigned: 2

I played Mah Jongg on my mac when I was in middle school and remembered seeing red and green dragons on the tiles.

5. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the first major Afghan city to fall to the U.S. Special Forces-backed Northern Alliance was what strategically important city in the far northern Balkh province, roughly 200 miles northwest of Kabul?
Correct Answer: MAZAR-I-SHARIF
Your Answer: Anbar
Points Assigned: 1

I had no idea. I knew Anbar was a province in Iraq, and I knew I didn't know the answer to this question. 

6. A 1983 strategy game for the Atari 8-bit family; a 1981 film credited with launching (or at least boosting) the film careers of Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Liam Neeson, and others; and a hotel and casino in Las Vegas are all named after what weapon?
Correct Answer: EXCALIBUR
Your Answer: Excaliber
Points Assigned: 0

I have stayed in the Excalibur for a conference two doors down at Mandalay Bay. It was the only casino I could think of that is a weapon and it sounds like a good concept for an atari game and  Patrick Stewart movie which I have never seen. 

Brad day 11

3/6.  Opponent nearly 70% overall and very strong at history/geography so made d tough to handicap today and prob still a loss

1) sandberg d0
Pretty straightforward

2) cycling d3
Nope

3) south dakota d1
Almost got this one, was 50/50 between this and montana, and figuring that history rhymes, the current dapl protests led me to sd.

4) mahjong d2
Mom had her weekly game, would have gone lower d except for the opponent history profile

5) tikrit d1
Nope

6) excalibur d2
Got it from the hotel, didnt know the other references, played a lot of poker in grad school in vegas

Steiny Day 11

1. :) Easy, especially with facebook logo in back

2. :) guessed film, was thinking cannes, even though I know they are palm

3. :( guessed wyoming...close

4. :( said magic, but now seeing mahjongg, i have heard of those before

5. :( nope

6. :) got it from the hotel, went through every vegas hotel I could think of...only one that made any sense

Dave M day 10

3/6 today

 

1 :( No idea. Guessed Magnusson as a common Danish name. D2

2 :( Guessed Beverly Hillbillies which of course was a TV show not a movie. D1

3 :( Guessed Cyndi Lauper. D1

4 :) Don’t know where I know this from. D0

5 :) This all seemed to align around Peron – the Spanish, the survival through to today, the personality cult. Risky D3

6 :) Gimme for map nerds who are also in the oil industry. D2

Ben Day 10

2/6.

1 :( Never heard of him. I couldn't think of a photojournalism award name so just guessed Pullitzer.

2 :( I got the context clue that the movie name would contain a state. If I'd also tried to think of a tool in the title maybe I would have gotten there.

3 :( I guessed Mariah Carey. Feels like a solid MCW option.

4 :) bathy. One of the few LL questions I would have gotten right as a kid.

5 :( Bad miss on Juan Peron here. Pretty gettable

6 :) Angola. A lay-up for those with African map knowledge.

Jesse Day 10

3/6

1. This montage contains photographs by what Danish-born social justice reformer and police reporter for the New York Tribune? LINK: http://www.learnedleague.com/images/art/23984y9n248y5.jpg
Correct Answer: JACOB RIIS
Your Answer: Sinclair
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. I knew Sinclair wasn't Danish, but couldn't come up with anything better.

2. Name the 1974 film loosely inspired by the real-life story of farmer and handyman Ed Gein (although Gein himself lived his entire life in Wisconsin).
Correct Answer: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE
Your Answer: The Poseidon Adventure
Points Assigned: 2

Never saw the film. I knew a state was probably in the title, but I just couldn't figure it out. 

3. 1990's I'm Your Baby Tonight was what artist's first full-length album not to reach #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, as well as her first not to be titled eponymously?
Correct Answer: WHITNEY HOUSTON
Your Answer: Houston
Points Assigned: 0

I knew the song.

4. What prefix, which is derived from the Greek for "deep," precedes "-scaphe" and "-sphere" in terms for vessels used to explore the ocean depths?
Correct Answer: BATHY
Your Answer: Bathy
Points Assigned: 1

I have listened to an episode of 99%Iinvisible about a Bathysphere.

5. A particular political movement, formed between 1945 and 1946 and still strong today, and formally labeled justicialismo in 1949, has transformed and modified over the years but is a general amalgam of populist nationalism, social democracy, and economic independence. Perhaps mostly, it can be described as loyalty to what person (and his memory), after whom the movement is also commonly named?
Correct Answer: JUAN PERÓN
Your Answer: Guevera
Points Assigned: 3

Ugh, seems gettable. My brother was in Evita when he was in middle school. Guessing he will get this. 

6. Which African country has the continent's longest coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, running from the mouth of the Congo River in the north to the Namibian border on the Kunene River in the south (plus an exclave to the north)?
Correct Answer: ANGOLA
Your Answer: Angola
Points Assigned: 1

I've been to Namibia I knew that Angola bordered it to the North. 

Brad day 10

1/6

1) moses d2
Also considered peter parker.  Would have gone d3, but opponent from brooklyn.

2) field of dreams d1
Slightly different plot ...

3) whitney houston d0
The one and only!

4) helio d1
Felt good when i put this down and after submitting remembered helios was the sun god ...

5) trotsky d2
Should have got this one, got thrown off by the date and was thinking of europe and ww2.  Not happy with the d2 in retrospect.

6) zimbabwe d3
Nope