Private Rundle

All I have set up the new private rundle, Levinson Longevity League. The registration code is abc12345. Good luck to all!

 

Brian Day 25 vs MeyerE

2/6 to close out the season.  I finished in bottom third of my rundle in correct answers, but had by far the lowest answers against (65), yielding a 5th place finish. As opposed to poor Ben who had 90 correct answers against.  It's always amazing to me to see the spread in CAA, there's a lot of luck in LL rankings despite it being a skill-based league. I signed up for three of the mini-leagues, hope to see you there. Feliz Navidad and happy new year everyone!

1) Brut.  I feel a little silly missing this one. 1/1

2)vanderhook.  Knew it was wrong, I don't remember the Leyden jar 3/3

3)still life.  A rare art get for me, I know there are a lot of paintings with 'still life' in the title and I took a guess.  1/1

4)Chan.  Wasn't there a Shanghai Express with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson?  I didn't recognize the other movies but hoped they were Chan's Chinese films 2/2

5) Doric.  no clue.  2/2

6) The Greatest Show on Earth.  Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for.  Between the movie and the Greatest Show on Turf, I don't see many people having trouble with this. 0/0

Jesse Day 25

4/6. Have a good off-season. 

1. Name the French Benedictine monk of the 17th and 18th centuries who remains known today by virtue of the essential improvements he introduced to the méthode champenoise style of wine production?
Correct Answer: DOM PIERRE PÉRIGNON
Your Answer: Perignon
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Total guess, but I was pretty sure Dom meant monk. 

2. An invention in the 1740s of a means to store static electricity, which permitted experiments with more powerful charges (and was used shortly thereafter by Benjamin Franklin), was what type of "jar," named for the Dutch city where it was discovered by Pieter van Musschenbroek?
Correct Answer: LEYDEN
Your Answer: Utrecht
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Shoot, seeing the answer now I should have known this. 

3. What is the two-word phrase for the genre of art whose masters through history have included Louise Moillon, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Anne Vallayer-Coster, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne—numerous works from the latter of whom include the phrase in their titles?
Correct Answer: STILL LIFE
Your Answer: Still Life
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew Cezanne produced a lot of still lifes. 

4. Shanghai Express, Destry Rides Again, The Blue Angel, Dishonored, The Scarlet Empress, Blonde Venus, and Witness for the Prosecution are all films which featured what Hollywood star?
Correct Answer: MARLENE DIETRICH
Your Answer: Deitricht
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I knew this from The Blue Angel and Blonde venus. 

5. There are four poetic feet in classical meter which are disyllabic (i.e., the feet are each made up of two syllables). They are most commonly known as iamb, trochee, pyrrhus, and what fourth?
Correct Answer: SPONDEE
Your Answer: gangsta
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Never heard of it. 

6. What was the name used for the enormous traveling caravan combining a circus, menagerie, and collection of freaks presented by P. T. Barnum beginning in 1871? The term was borrowed and altered slightly to describe the NFL's St. Louis Rams teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Correct Answer: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Your Answer: Greatest show on Earth
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

I got this by way of the greatest show on Turf. 

Ben day 25

3/6

1 :) Dom Perignon. Switched from Moët and hit one of my only 50/50s in a season where they have consistently run against me. I forgot what it feels like, not that it matters now. D1.

2 :( bell jar. I didn't think Bell was a Dutch town but I had never heard of a Rotterdam or Amsterdam jar.

3 :) still life. D0

4 :( Rita Hayworth. D3

5 :( lingam. No idea and glad I didn't waste too much time.D2

6 :) greatest show on earth. I d2ed here because I forgot there was a US sport reference. Does that make it easy?

Seif Day 25

1/6, and really had no chance at 4 of them. A two-day winning streak means that I'll avoid relegation even with a loss today, so it will be another season of struggles in B, to which I never really earned a promotion in the first place. 

1. Mendel :(, D21. Ah, this was gettable, but I didn't realize "Dom" was a term for a monk. 

2. Hague :(, D12. No clue. 

3. Magical realism :(, D20. I've certainly heard the term, "still life," but I didn't know it counted as a genre. 

4. Hayworth :(, D02. Nope!

5. Slip rhyme :(, D11. No clue. 

6. The greatest show on earth :), D33. Without the football clue, I would have had a goose egg today. I knew the Rams were called "the greatest show on turf," which is how I got this. I don't think this is the hardest question of the day despite by D33, but I think it may be given my opponents' weaknesses. 

It's been a blast this season. Until next year!

Also, if you want to participate in the forecasting contest, reach out to me and remember to submit your forecasts by the end of 2018. 

Gideon Day 24

2/6  Oof, I think today is the day I lose my top spot. 

1 :( D3 Sculpting
2 :( D1 Judo, Archery
3 :( D2 France, Switzerland - In retrospect, I have heard of the Darien Gap. 
4 :) D0 Clueless - Almost put Legally Blond
5 :) D1 Quinn Martin - Total guess. Tried to come up with the coolest sounding name with those initials. 
6 :( D2 Nope - Came up with other parts of speech. Interjection never came to mind. 

brad day24

2/6

1) taxidermy d3

didnt really get the question

2) judo, taekwondo d2

pretty simple 

3) portugal/spain d2

nope

4) clueless d0

a classic ... and my film % should get me some points for this

5) quincy moran d1

no idea

6) adverb d1

beer definately killed the brain cell that once knew this