Dave M day 18

Happy to get to 4/6 today, found the questions tough.

 

1 : ) Stepford. Simple enough movie Q. D10

2 : ( Vespucci. At least I've never heard of the Eustachian Tube. D01

3 : ) Desert Rat. My grandad was a doctor for the British (Empire – South Africa specifically) in North Africa during WWII. D13

4 : ) Mario Kart. This was tough but the timing sounded right. D31

5 : ( Raisins. I ruled out a rising agent as I assumed these cookies wouldn't need any. D22

6 : ) 2 8 3. Random guess between 2 8 3 and 3 8 2. D22

David S Day 18

 Disappointing 4/6. I thought I had all 6. 

1. Stepford :), D02. If this is easy for me, it’s easy. 
2. Fallopian tubes :(, D21. Really thought this was right. It sounds like it’s named after an Italian. 
3. Desert rats :), D22. I’ve heard this term, though I don’t know how easy this will play. 
4. Super Mario :(, D11. Should have thought about this more. Of course 1992 rules out this more generic franchise. 
5. Baking soda :), D10. My only worry here was that it would be powder instead of soda. 
6. 2,8,3 :), D33. Gimme. But both my opponents are terrible at math. 

Marcus LL106 Match Day 18 -- Confirmation

6 pack today , first for a while 

Player: BrowningM

1. A 1975 film described by Entertainment Weekly magazine in 2017 as a "feminist horror classic" and contemporaneously by Betty Friedan as "a rip-off of the women's movement" was, along with the 1972 novel on which it was based and its 2004 remake, set in what fictional Connecticut town?
Correct Answer: STEPFORD
Your Answer: Stepford (wives)
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I might watch it again, must be 30 years since I did 

2. This passage, about 3.5 cm long and 2–3 mm wide, has bony and cartilaginous parts, runs at an oblique angle, and is named for a 16th-century Italian anatomist. What is it?
Correct Answer: EUSTACHIAN TUBE
Your Answer: Eustachian Tube
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Remember from school

3. What two-word term, an alternate name for the North African rodent known as a jerboa, was applied generally to British servicemen in the North Africa campaign of World War II, and more specifically for the 7th Armoured Division, which adopted the jerboa as its insignia?
Correct Answer: DESERT RAT
Your Answer: Desert Rats
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Harder for yanks ?

4. Toad Harbor, Rainbow Road, Shy Guy Falls, Moo Moo Meadows, Sherbet Land, and Yoshi Valley are locales on the all-time best-selling game for the Nintendo Switch console. This game is an installment of what franchise that launched in 1992?
Correct Answer: MARIO KART
Your Answer: Mario Kart
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Gimme

5. All-purpose flour, salt, butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, and chopped nuts (optional). These are the officially listed ingredients in Nestle's recipe for toll house chocolate chip cookies, with what one ingredient missing?
Correct Answer: BAKING SODA (SODIUM BICARBONATE)
Your Answer: Baking powder
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

My 16 year old son must have thrown a whole container of baking powder around the kitchen while baking cookies with his GF last week. 

6. Given that 2^3</sup> = 8, the equivalent logarithmic expression is log_xy = z. What is the correct order of the three numbers from the first equation replacing x, y, and z in the second?
Correct Answer: 2, 8, 3
Your Answer: 2,8,3
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Maths gimme but my opponents' worst subject 

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Brian Day 17 vs Marcus (LLL)

My paltry 3/6 was run over by the Marcus 5 train

1) Ford Bronco 2/2  Jerk interfered with my friends and I watching the Knicks.  Also, he murdered two people

2) Tungsten 1/0  I love elements with non-instinctive symbols

3) Wilson 2/3  I could not have less of a clue.  I had more of a chance with the Hamlet quote

4) Born with silver spoon 1/1  wtf is this?

5) Silhouette 3/1   Seriously, it's not enough that I'm up against Marcus, but I get three questions I've never even heard the answer to?

6) Running Up That Hill 0/2  Hadn't heard of the song until 2022.  The best scene in the best season of Stranger Things.  The wait is almost over. 

Jesse Day 17

1/6

1. On June 17, 1994, an estimated 95 million Americans watched live news coverage that largely centered on what vehicle (make and model required)?
Correct Answer: FORD BRONCO
Your Answer: Ford Bronco
Points Assigned: 0

It came to me pretty quickly. 

2. Wolframite is a principal ore of the metal with what name, given by Professor Torbern Bergman at the University of Uppsala in 1781?
Correct Answer: TUNGSTEN
Your Answer: Aluminum
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea, but I did consider Tungsten as a guess. 

3. Identify the American author who is a two-time winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, for Salvage the Bones, her 2011 novel about a working-class family during the days surrounding Hurricane Katrina, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, her 2017 novel that blends realism and Southern gothic supernatural to explore race and poverty?
Correct Answer: JESMYN WARD
Your Answer: Davis
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

4. What four-word phrase (precisely, an adjectival phrase built around a prepositional phrase), from Act 1, Scene 4 of Hamlet, is now used to describe someone seemingly destined by privileged birth to adopt the genteel habits and tastes of the upper class?
Correct Answer: TO THE MANNER BORN
Your Answer: SIlver Spoon in Mouth
Points Assigned: 2

Nope. 

5. Tchaikovsky titled his Symphony No. 6 in B minor Патетическая , meaning "emotional" or "moving", but the work is best known by what French word, which is also used for Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8?
Correct Answer: PATHÉTIQUE
Your Answer: Nocturn
Points Assigned: 1

Nope!

6. What song by English musician Kate Bush, from her 1985 LP Hounds of Love, reached the top of the charts in eight countries, and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2022?
Correct Answer: RUNNING UP THAT HILL
Your Answer: Running up the hill
Points Assigned: 1

Almost. I knew Stranger Things brought the song back into the consciousness, but I could not get the name right. 

Dave M day 17

Just 2/6 like David S, though different answers correct.

 

1 : ) Ford Bronco. Gimme of the day for elder millennials and above for sure. D00

2 : ( Titanium. I didn't know where to start with this one. I had no idea Tungsten was W on the periodic table either. D11

3 : ( Jones. David S do we have the same throwaway last name guess for these types of questions? D33

4 : ( From the Manor Born. I had the right idea but wrong execution. D22

5 : ( Etude. Nope. D22

6 : ) Running up that Hill. In addition to seeing the Stranger Things episode in question, my husband is a Kate Bush fan. D11

Marcus LL106 Match Day 17 -- Confirmation

Maintaining my 5 groove, no guesses and no clue on the one I didnt get.

Player: BrowningM

1. On June 17, 1994, an estimated 95 million Americans watched live news coverage that largely centered on what vehicle (make and model required)?
Correct Answer: FORD BRONCO
Your Answer: Ford Bronco
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

Even easy for a Brit 

2. Wolframite is a principal ore of the metal with what name, given by Professor Torbern Bergman at the University of Uppsala in 1781?
Correct Answer: TUNGSTEN
Your Answer: Tungsten
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

Classic chemistry trivia 

3. Identify the American author who is a two-time winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, for Salvage the Bones, her 2011 novel about a working-class family during the days surrounding Hurricane Katrina, and Sing, Unburied, Sing, her 2017 novel that blends realism and Southern gothic supernatural to explore race and poverty?
Correct Answer: JESMYN WARD
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Nope 

4. What four-word phrase (precisely, an adjectival phrase built around a prepositional phrase), from Act 1, Scene 4 of Hamlet, is now used to describe someone seemingly destined by privileged birth to adopt the genteel habits and tastes of the upper class?
Correct Answer: TO THE MANNER BORN
Your Answer: to the manner born
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I know Hamlet well so didn't have to wade through the grammatical soup

5. Tchaikovsky titled his Symphony No. 6 in B minor Патетическая , meaning "emotional" or "moving", but the work is best known by what French word, which is also used for Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8?
Correct Answer: PATHÉTIQUE
Your Answer: pathetique
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

In my wheelhouse 

6. What song by English musician Kate Bush, from her 1985 LP Hounds of Love, reached the top of the charts in eight countries, and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, in 2022?
Correct Answer: RUNNING UP THAT HILL
Your Answer: running up that hill
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp:1

Huge in the news here and I saw her and Donald Sutherland filming the cloudbusting video at the Uffington white horse while out cycling with some friends so I've always had a soft spot for her.