Brian Day 25 vs Will (CC)

 4/6 to close it out.  As usual this season, defense is difficult.  Six days 'til kids leave for sleepaway camp, not that I'm counting

1) Guiding Light 1/1 Never knew how it got its name, but this came to me right away

2) Miami 2/0 no idea

3) Ragu 0/1 As with everyone else, started off with Bolognese, and then the correct answer was obvious 

4) Marco Polo 1/2 Played this every day of the summer in my childhood.  This is the second Marco Polo question this season. 

5) Sam 2/3  Second Fleetwood Mac question of the season.  I had a feeling this was a pop music, not literature, question, and should have thought about this longer, though Dreams is the only song I know of.

6) Kenya 3/2  Went with Kenya because of Lake Victoria and Victoria Falls. I discarded Tangyanika and Tanzania because they were asked about too recently, but with the way today went that was not sound logic.  If I got it on an educated guess, I'm worried about defense.

Dave M day 25 v Seif LL and Brad CC

Another double up day for me with a final matchup against Seif in LL. A strong 4/6 is not good enough to get me the win, Seif gets his first in our LL matchups, and given the bunching in the middle I risk being rundle-D bound next season. I was in the top 10 middle of last week!

 

1 : ( The Doctor’s Light. Never heard of the actual soap opera here. D22

2 : ) Boston. I am (well, was) in Boston reasonably often so picked up this trivia. Seif as a Harvard/MIT alum got himself the D0, not that it made a difference. D01

3 : ) Ragu. This fell into place quickly once I rejected Bolognese and went for the more generic meat sauce term. D10

4 : ) Marco Polo. Gimme but a D11 nonetheless

5 : ( Joe. I did not think this revolved around songs, would have been much easier if I had! D33

6 : ) Kenya. Tanganyika was a bit early for this (think they were 1960) so Kenya was the obvious choice. D22

 

See you all in August!

Seif Day 25 vs. Mirkin (LL) and Steiny (CC) -- Battle of the Davids

5/6 on what I think was an easy day to end the season.  I'm playing Mirkin for the fifth time in LL.  He's beaten me all four of the previous times, so let's see if I can finally notch a W (or at least a T).

1. Guiding Light :), D21.  Don't know where I pulled this from, but it came to me immediately.  Too bad there's a pop music question today, or this would have probably bagged me a 3.

2. Boston :), D10.  Gimme for me, but probably on the more obscure side overall.

3. Ragu :), D12.  "Bolognese" didn't seem possible given that Bologna was in the question.  So I thought this was the best guess.  I didn't know what diatritic meant, but it didn't matter.

4. Marco Polo :), D21.  Maybe my D was too high here.  Second time this season he's been the answer to a question, right?

5. Sam :(, D33.  I had no idea.  I have a lot of trouble judging how hard pop music questions are, so I just had to go by Mirkn's and Steiny's weakness in that category.  But they're both better than I am, so they might pull this off.

6. Kenya :), D02.  Like Jesse, I narrowed it down to Tanzania and Kenya.  I eliminated Tanzania because it only went from Germany to the UK in 1919, so a "transition" in 1920 didn't make much sense.

Have a great couple of months, everyone!

Jesse Day

5/6. Have a good off season everyone

1. What radio and television soap opera, which ran from 1937 to 2009, got its name via original main character Rev. Dr. John Ruthledge, and the "friendship lamp" he kept in a window of his church to welcome congregants seeking counsel?
Correct Answer: GUIDING LIGHT
Your Answer: Guiding Light
Points Assigned: 2

Intial thought was As the World Turns, but then Guiding Light came to mind. Never seen either. 

2. The man who currently serves as United States Secretary of Labor previously served, from 2014 until joining President Biden's cabinet in 2021, as Mayor of what city?
Correct Answer: BOSTON
Your Answer: El Paso
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea. I thought it might be a Castro brother, but didn't one of them attack Biden at one of the debates? 

3. What Italian term for a meat-based sauce, often associated with the cuisine of Bologna, is also—with a very slight diacritical change—the name of an American brand of mass-produced Italian sauces? (Note, neither diatritic is required in the answer.)
Correct Answer: RAGÙ/RAGÚ
Your Answer: Ragu
Points Assigned: 1

Inital thought was Bolagnese, but then the brand clue made it clear. I am a Ragu chunky garden style fan myself. 

4. The children's game "blind man's bluff", when transitioned from a terrestrial to aquatic milieu, becomes a variation most commonly named after whom?
Correct Answer: MARCO POLO
Your Answer: Marco Polo
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie.

5. "Not Waving But Drowning", "Dreams", and "I Wish" are all different artistic works written by individuals (two women and one man, respectively) who use what first name professionally?
Correct Answer: STEVIE
Your Answer: Stevie
Points Assigned: 1

Total guess based off Stevie Wonder. I was guessing he could pair with Stevie Nicks. 

6. An area known as the East Africa Protectorate, at the time it transitioned to a British Crown colony in 1920, was roughly coterminous with what modern-day republic, which declared independence from the UK in 1963?
Correct Answer: KENYA
Your Answer: Kenya
Points Assigned: 2

Given it was in Eastern Africa I thoughtit was either Kenya or Tanzania and guessed right. 

Jesse day 24

5/6- I was given credit for 4/6 yesterday, so he was forgiving of Gun v Guns and Increased v Increase

1. During the 1903 split of the Russian Social Democratic party, two groups emerged that took their respective names from the Russian for "majority" (Vladimir Lenin's group) and "minority" (Julius Martov's group). Name either group.
Correct Answer: BOLSHEVIKS, MENSHEVIKS
Your Answer: Bulsheviks
Points Assigned: 1

I butchered the spelling, but I remembered this. 

2. Due to his fighting spirit on the court, 1920s-era tennis champion René Lacoste was given what nickname (with which he remained closely associated until his death in 1996 and beyond)?
Correct Answer: THE CROCODILE
Your Answer: Crocodile
Points Assigned: 0

I had no idea Lacoste was tied to a tennis player. I was pretty sure it was a Crocodile, not an alligator. 

3. What recently departed actor starred in the 1970s comedies A Touch of Class (with Glenda Jackson), The Owl and the Pussycat (with Barbra Streisand), Blume in Love (with Susan Anspach), and Where's Poppa? (with Ruth Gordon)?
Correct Answer: GEORGE SEGAL
Your Answer: Gavin McCloud
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea. I knew the love boat guy died. 

4. The malleus, the largest and outermost of the three small bones (ossicles) of the middle ear, has a shape that is often described using the name of what musical artist and trouser trendsetter?
Correct Answer: (MC) HAMMER
Your Answer: MC Hammer
Points Assigned: 2

I initially put down Prince, because his name is a shape. While he is a fashion Icon, he is more known for blouses. I then thought of neil Diamond as I could imagine a diamond shape bone and he was "Forever in Blue Jeans." Just before submitting Hammer pants came to me and I knew that had to be right. 

5. Name the southern Egyptian city, and capital of its namesake Governorate, near which an embankment dam (at the time, the world's largest) was built in the 1960s?
Correct Answer: ASWAN
Your Answer: Aswan
Points Assigned: 1

I am aware of the Aswan Dam.

6. A 1920 novel by Edith Wharton that famously explores the customs and manners of New Yorkers in the 1870s describes that period as the "Age" of what?
Correct Answer: INNOCENCE
Your Answer: Innocense
Points Assigned: 2

It was a guess, but it was the first thing that came to mind. 

Brian Day 24 vs Ben (LL)

 4/6 on a much easier day than yesterday

1) proletariat 1/2 Much easier than I thought.  Pretty sure proletariat means the working class, but Bolshevik never crossed my mind.  Glad I defended low in LL

2) Gator 2/1  A lot of people will get in the ballpark due to the clothing line, but this will be a tough one.

3) Segal 2/3  Sean Connery? No.  Chadwick Boseman? No.  Ah, George Segal, he makes sense.

4) Hammer 0/0 Gimme du jour

5) Aswan 1/1  Aswan Dam

6) Innocence 3/2 I think Anthony Hopkins was in the movie version 25 years ago.  Don't love the high defense, but no choice given low lit/film scores from opponents.

Seif Day 24

4/6 today.  I got very lucky on one but probably should have gotten one other.

1. Bolsheviks :), D00.  I wish Thorsten had asked for both...

2. Lion :(, D22.  I can't believe I didn't try for the shirt logo.  I figured the two had nothing to do with one another.  Bad strategy, since my answer was just a throwaway.

3. Smith :(, D33.  No idea.

4. Hammer :), D12.  Love the pants clue.  Another great question in a season that I think has been filled with them.

5. Aswan :), D11.  Not sure how hard this will play.  The dam is pretty well known, and I figured that the dam was named for the town, though I wasn't sure.  But it would be easy to muddle the name a bit and get this wrong even if you kind of know it.

6. Innocence :), D21.  Really didn't expect to get this.  I had no idea but was aware that "Age of Innocence" was a term that has been used.