Brian Day 7

 First, a big FU to Ticketmaster for being a piece of cr@p and ruining my daughter's life.  Why would you schedule all of Taylor Swift's shows to go on sale the same day if you couldn't handle it?!?  Didn't you stresst test?  Crashing servers, invalid codes, gateway and 303 errors...  5 hours of my life wasted just to not get tickets.  

I didn't get a results/reminder email this morning either.

2/6 today.  I blame Ticketmaster

1) Redundancy 1/0  Oh yeah, I've heard of that.  don't think i ever would have thought of it

2) nickel 2/2 no clue

3) Mother Goose 3/3 Great question, I hope it's as hard as I think it was.  Mere is French for mother, and since Oye was capitalized I looked for a proper name that fit. 

4) Etta James 0/2  At Last made this easy

5) RKO 1/1  NBC was one of several possibilities, but i went with my first thought

6) Taj 2/1  Knew what building, no clue what city

Dave M day 7

Is it just me or were reminder emails not sent today? If so, there could be mass forfeits today!

 

3/6 today for me.

 

1 : ) Tautology. It's the word that seemed to fit best even though it sounds Latin to me not Greek. D1

2 : ( Nickel. Way off here. D0

3 : ( Mother Dearest. Unlike Brad my high school French only got me as far as mother. D2

4 : ( Tina Turner. No idea, tough Q, glad I D3ed.

5 : ) National Broadcast Company. I think this is close enough to pay. GE being a shareholder was the link to the guess – which takes me back to fond memories of 30 Rock. D1

6 : ) Agra. I expect most will get Taj Mahal out of this but not sure how many will get the location. D2

brad day7

2/6 vs taylorz

1) ditto d1/1

no idea

2) zinc d2/2

nope

3) mother goose d0/0

high school french finally useful for something

4) aretha d2/1

no idea

5) wxyz d3/2

regretting the d now as could be guessable

6) agra d1/3

knew the shrine and where it was

Brian Day 6

 Another surprising 4/6 when I was only certain of 2

1) Baritone clef 0/2 Made sense after treble and bass, but i didn't remember it naming a clef

2) Kiki's Delivery Service 3/3 Very satisfying to pull this one out of my skull.  I've come across this several times, but was only confident it was "Someone's" Delivery Service.  I went through all the Japanese names I could think of, and when I got to my college roommate's ex-girlfriend Kiki, it sounded vaguely familiar

3) Tahini 1/0  I had schwarma with baba ganoush for lunch.  No tahini, but still

4) Detroit Red Wings 2/1 Original 6 are easy for me,  hopefully a little tougher for gen pop

5) Raphael 1/2 No clue, went with a Turtle

6) Creole 2/1 no clue, but that's an interesting bit of trivia

Jesse Day 6

3/6

1. In sheet music, the F clef is nearly always placed on the fourth line of the staff (second line from the top), where it is known as the "bass clef". When the F clef is placed on the third line, what other name is it known by?
Correct Answer: BARITONE CLEF
Your Answer: Alto Clef
Points Assigned: 2

I just took a guess. 

2. Identify the animated film whose plot centers on a 13-year-old witch who takes a job in the fictional Japanese oceanside city of Koriko transporting goods to customers of a local bakery.
Correct Answer: KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE
Your Answer: Spirited Away
Points Assigned: 3

I have heard of it, but never saw it. 

3. What is the name of the creamy paste made from toasted ground sesame seeds that is used extensively in Eastern Mediterranean and North African cuisines—both as a dip and as a primary ingredient in such dishes as baba ghanoush, Lebanese tarator, and hummus?
Correct Answer: TAHINI
Your Answer: Thahini
Points Assigned: 0

Spelled it wrong, but this feels pretty easy to this Jew. 

4. From 1942 to 1967, the National Hockey League operated with six franchises. Five were the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers, and Toronto Maple Leafs. What was the sixth (full team name required)?
Correct Answer: DETROIT RED WINGS
Your Answer: Detroit Red Wings
Points Assigned: 1

I don't follow hockey, but I knew this.

5. Beheading was a frequent thematic element in the works of what late-16th/early-17th-century Italian Baroque artist, with St. John the Baptist, Medusa, Goliath, and Holofernes among those losing (or having recently lost) their heads?
Correct Answer: CARAVAGGIO
Your Answer: Carvaggio
Points Assigned: 1

This was also a guess, but it felt right to me. I was still surprised it was right. 

6. Like many other people in the particular rural areas of the United States where she was born into slavery around 1797, the preacher, women's rights activist, and abolitionist Sojourner Truth was a native speaker of what language, whose accent she retained as she learned fluent English later in life?
Correct Answer: DUTCH
Your Answer: French
Points Assigned: 2

Nope! I would not have guessed Dutch. 

Dave M Day 6

Happy to get 4/6 though not on all the questions I was expecting.

 

1 : ) Baritone Clef. Like Seif this was a guess as the next one up, but I was not confident it would be correct. D3

2 : ( Spirited Away. Also never heard of the real answer. D1 as opponent strong in film.

3 : ) Tahini. Gimme of the day. D0

4 : ) Detroit Red Wings. Interesting we all got this so far. Maybe it's not so difficult. D1

5 : ) Caravaggio. I visited Malta once, where he lived for a while, and saw one of his beheading paintings (St John I think). Shady character by all accounts. D2

6 : ( Gullah. I was very much expecting this to be correct. D2

David S Day 6

 3/6. I found these tough, so happy with this. 

1. Baritone clef :), D22. This was an educated guess to go with something a bit higher than bass. 
2. Mulan :(, D10. No idea. Never heard of this. 
3. Tahini :), D11. Yum. 
4. Detroit Red Wings :), D31. I was pretty sure they were original. Would have been surprised if this had been wrong, but I wasn’t positive. 
5. Botticelli :(, D03. I couldn’t imagine this was right, but I had nothing else. 
6. Gullah :(, D22. Tough American history question. I had no shot.