brad day8

2/6 vs brian ... and this is what happens when you do this at 7am on train

1) sky d1/1

2) clerks d2/0

ugh

3) novel d0/2

heard of this, never going to come up with it

4) alsace d3/3

i felt so good about coming up with the region, i completely botched this and the d

5) snowboarding d2/2

oof

6) abe d1/1

at least got the markets q right

Dave M day 8

4/6 today. I really enjoyed today's questions, some of them feel a bit different and unusual.

 

1 : ) Sky. British gimme, D20

2 : ( The Usual Suspects. Bad miss and bad D. D22

3 : ( Somatic. Never heard of Idiopathic which is hopefully a good thing. D12

4 : ) Lorraine. Clearly a quiche and then a quick jump to Lorraine from there. D11

5 : ) Ping-Pong. Spent a long time thinking of Olympic sports that could feasibly cross over before finally getting there after 5 minutes or so. D01

6 : ) Abe. Gimme for all those with a little Japan knowledge, I'm going out on a limb that my opponents don't with a D33.

Brian Day 8 vs Brad (LLL)

 4/6

1) Sky 2/1  Only vaguely aware of this, but I had no other answer

2) The Shawshank Redemption 1/1   Great way of phrasing the question

3) autosomal 2/2  No idea.   Have heard of idiopathic but never knew what it meant.  

4) Lorraine 0/2  Hoped this was quiche lorraine

5) ping pong 1/0  should be the easy one today

6) Hirohito 3/3  Figured it was the Japanese PM, but i couldn't come up with his name.  Now that i see it, I'm regretting my defense, but not sure where I'd put the 3 in what seems like an easier day.

Jesse Day 8

3/6

1. A satellite television service was launched by Rupert Murdochâ€"owned News International in 1989, merged with British Satellite Broadcasting in the early 1990s, evolved to become Europe's largest media company and pay-television broadcaster, and is now owned by American media conglomerate Comcast. What is the trade name of this company, headquartered in the London Borough of Hounslow?
Correct Answer: SKY
Your Answer: Sky
Points Assigned: 0

Feels like a gimmie.

2. Two tiny roles—a complaining customer in a grocery store and a bank employee—are filled by the only women with speaking roles in what exceedingly popular (and exceedingly male-dominated) 1994 movie?
Correct Answer: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Your Answer: Shawshank Redemption
Points Assigned: 1

My initial though was Reservoir Dogs, but I figured that was 1992 and not overwhelmingly popular.  Shawshank is one of, if not the most popular film according to many audience rating websites and the timing was right. I should have put the The there. 

3. What word, from the Greek for "one's own" or "personal" and "suffering", is used in medicine to describe a disease or condition that arose spontaneously or has no identifiable cause?
Correct Answer: IDIOPATHIC
Your Answer: Hystopathic
Points Assigned: 2

I got it half right. 

4. A pâte brisée filled with egg custard and cooked bacon, onion, and cheese is a dish named after what region now in Northeastern France, where it originated?
Correct Answer: LORRAINE
Your Answer: Lorraine
Points Assigned: 1

I am familiar with the dish. 

5. What Olympic sport is also well-known by an onomatopoeic name that was trademarked by English sports companies Jacques of London and Hamley Bros. in 1900, with US naming rights acquired by Parker Brothers shortly thereafter and owned since the 1970s by a company called Escalade Sports?
Correct Answer: TABLE TENNIS/PING-PONG
Your Answer: Squash
Points Assigned: 2

Nope.

6. What one name is missing from this chronological list: Koizumi, [BLANK], Fukuda, AsÅ , Hatoyama, Kan, Noda, [BLANK], Suga, Kishida?
Correct Answer: ABE
Your Answer: Tetsuo
Points Assigned: 3

I should have gotten this. 

David S Day 7

 Satisfying 6/6 today. 

1. Sky :), D20. I’ve spent enough time in Europe to know this one. 

2. Shawshank Redemption :), D23. Maybe Marcus is right that this is the easiest one today, but it took me the longest. 

3. Idiopathic :), D02. I’ve heard the diagnosis before, so I had no doubt. 

4. Lorraine :), D11. Went through NE French regions in my head until I thought of it. 

5. Table Tennis :), D32. I may have gotten this by being a bit confused. The 1970s reference made me think of the Atari game Pong, and that’s what led me to this. Better to be lucky than good sometimes. 

6. Abe :), D11. Gimme. 

Marcus LL100 Match Day 8 -- Confirmation

5/6 on a very easy day where I got perhaps the easiest question wrong and gave 3 points for it 

Player: BrowningM

1. A satellite television service was launched by Rupert Murdoch–owned News International in 1989, merged with British Satellite Broadcasting in the early 1990s, evolved to become Europe's largest media company and pay-television broadcaster, and is now owned by American media conglomerate Comcast. What is the trade name of this company, headquartered in the London Borough of Hounslow?
Correct Answer: SKY
Your Answer: sky
Points Assigned: 1

Gimme for Brits

2. Two tiny roles—a complaining customer in a grocery store and a bank employee—are filled by the only women with speaking roles in what exceedingly popular (and exceedingly male-dominated) 1994 movie?
Correct Answer: THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3

How did I not get this ? Should have spent a few minutes on it 

3. What word, from the Greek for "one's own" or "personal" and "suffering", is used in medicine to describe a disease or condition that arose spontaneously or has no identifiable cause?
Correct Answer: IDIOPATHIC
Your Answer: idiopathic
Points Assigned: 1

I knee this without the clues

4. A pâte brisée filled with egg custard and cooked bacon, onion, and cheese is a dish named after what region now in Northeastern France, where it originated?
Correct Answer: LORRAINE
Your Answer: lorraine
Points Assigned: 2

Real men don't eat quiche …in just googled the book and it was written in 1982, omg how did I get so old 

5. What Olympic sport is also well-known by an onomatopoeic name that was trademarked by English sports companies Jacques of London and Hamley Bros. in 1900, with US naming rights acquired by Parker Brothers shortly thereafter and owned since the 1970s by a company called Escalade Sports?
Correct Answer: TABLE TENNIS/PING-PONG
Your Answer: table tennis/ ping pong
Points Assigned: 0

We should have kept calling it whiff waff

6. What one name is missing from this chronological list: Koizumi, [BLANK], Fukuda, Asō, Hatoyama, Kan, Noda, [BLANK], Suga, Kishida?
Correct Answer: ABE
Your Answer: Abe
Points Assigned: 2

Gimme for someone who trades yen

Jesse Day 7

2/6

1. Mom's Spaghetti is a restaurant in downtown Detroit owned by what musical artist?
Correct Answer: EMINEM
Your Answer: Eminnem
Points Assigned: 0

I had heard of the reference before. 

2. What artistic term, which originally referred during the Renaissance to a relaxed, asymmetrical pose prevalent in Greek and Roman sculpture, is applied today to poses in which one part of a figure turns or twists away from (or is "set against") another part?
Correct Answer: CONTRAPPOSTO
Your Answer: Counterpose
Points Assigned: 2

I feel like I got pretty close.

3. A boundary dispute between the US and British governments over their respective possessions on the Pacific Coast of North America was settled by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, which drew a line at the 49th parallel but dipped south into the Strait of Juan de Fuca to maintain Britain's claim to what island?
Correct Answer: VANCOUVER ISLAND
Your Answer: Victoria
Points Assigned: 1

Damn. 

4. The "trilogy" of the 1989 Philip Glass album Songs from the Trilogy was a group of three biographical operas by the composer that culminated in 1984 with Akhenaten, included 1979's Satyagraha (about Mahatma Gandhi), and began in 1976 with an opera about what other individual?
Correct Answer: ALBERT EINSTEIN
Your Answer: Martin Luther King
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

5. Upon its launch in September 1906, the RMS Mauretania—named after the Roman province in Northwest Africa—was the world's largest ship, overtaking what other vessel, the Mauretania's sister ship, which had launched three months prior?
Correct Answer: RMS LUSITANIA
Your Answer: Lusetania
Points Assigned: 2

I butchered the spelling and knew it was wrong. 

6. Carl Sandburg's influential six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is divided into two parts: the first two volumes, subtitled The [BLANK #1] Years, and the final four volumes, subtitled The [BLANK #2] Years. Provide either of the words that fill in the blanks in these subtitles.
Correct Answer: PRAIRIE, WAR
Your Answer: Illinois
Points Assigned: 1

Nope!