Brian Days 13 & 14 (vs SeifD in LLL)

 3/6 both days and somehow despite my complaining my get rate has been creeping up and I find myself temporarily in first place in my rundle.

Day 13: Blanked on NYRB, WW84 was a gimme (and a big disappointment after the wonderful first movie), I remembered the radish had a D and a K in the name but the best I could do was an African shirt, Kentucky Bluegrass was my first and best guess, Bissau was a gimme because I drilled myself on African nations via Sporcle when I joined LearnedLeague, and I had no idea about Nicaragua. 

Day 14: A 7(3)-5(4) defensive destruction of David as I got my two worst categories correct.

1) Avenue Q 1/1 The only possibility

2) Bastille Part Deux  2/0  Kicking myself.  Always check We Didn't Start the Fire when dealing with 1950s and 60s world history.  

3) Diesel 2/1  Knew was wrong but had no idea, however I did get sucked into watching Lego recreations of various engine types on Facebook Reels yesterday and I should have gotten this.

4) Karma 3/3  This has been asked before, I knew there was a V in the name, but I had no idea.  

5) The Flight of the Bumblebee 0/2  As I delighted in texting Dave this morning as soon as it happened, I was going through my files this morning looking for my birth certificate, came across a folder with my deceased aunt's 50 year old flute sheet music, looked through them, then opened today's LearnedLeague questions.   I'll take the 3 points thank you very much.

6) Chicago 1/2 Very lucky guess.   I considered cities known for art museums for no good reason, when I got to Chicago I thought, that's the one from Ferris Bueller, they have a few iconic buildings, worth a shot.  

Dave M day 14

Like David S very happy to walk away with 4/6 today, same ones.

 

1 : ) Avenue Q. Never seen it but it was really popular at the time. D20

2 : ) Dien Ben Phu. One of those visually interesting names that sticks in the mind after seeing it. D02

3 : ) Rotary. I don't normally know these types of questions but this time it was straightforward. D12

4 : ) Avicii. Simple pop music Q. D21

5 : ( 1812 Overture. Didn't know where to start on this one. I remember the correct answer from that movie "Shine" a couple of decades ago. D33

6 : ( Los Angeles. No idea where to place him. D11

Marcus LL107 Match Day 14 -- Confirmation

5 today which I was very pleased with

Player: BrowningM

1. One of the biggest upsets in Tony Awards history came in 2004, when Wicked lost Best Musical to what show, whose cast consisted of just four puppeteers and three human actors (compared to Wicked's eleven principals and an ensemble of more than twenty)?
Correct Answer: AVENUE Q
Your Answer: avenue q
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
 A classic 
2. The 1954 armistice that ended French rule in Indochina followed the surrender, after a nearly three-month siege, of what fortified stronghold between Hanoi and the Laotian border?
Correct Answer: DIEN BIEN PHU
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Is this taught in history in the US cos it was impossible for me?

3. German engineer Felix Wankel is best remembered today for developing in the 1950s what type of internal combustion engine (also simply called a "Wankel engine") that is compact and smooth-running, but generally suffers from poor fuel economy and higher emissions compared with piston engines?
Correct Answer: ROTARY ENGINE
Your Answer: rotary engine
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
 Gimme
4. Before his tragic death in 2018 at age 28, Swedish-born producer and DJ Tim Bergling was a defining figure in the EDM breakthrough of the 2010s, with hits including 2011's "Levels" and 2013's "Wake Me Up" with Aloe Blacc. What Buddhism-derived name did Bergling use as his stage name?
Correct Answer: AVICII
Your Answer: avicii
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

If I know a pop question then it's easy

5. The 1900 opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan is only moderately known today, but a short, frantic orchestral interlude from it—an example of a perpetuum mobile ("perpetual motion")—remains hugely popular. What is the name of this interlude?
Correct Answer: THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE
Your Answer: flight of the bumble bee
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Very happy to work this out 

6. Though architect Louis Sullivan—the "father of modernism" who is credited with popularizing the phrase "form follows function"—was born in Boston, he is far more closely associated with what other city, where he died in 1924?
Correct Answer: CHICAGO
Your Answer: chicago
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

I like Frank Lloyd Wright so knew about him 

David S Day 14 vs. Brian (LLL)

 4/6. Very happy with that, as these were decidedly not up my alley. Brian and I often defend each other perfectly, but I think he’ll struggle to do so against me today. 

1. Avenue Q :), D12. I didn’t know anything about the Tony Awards, but I did see this play. So I had a clear guess when it came to a play with puppets that came out about 20 years ago. 
2. Dien Bien Phu :), D21. One history question for me today. No problem with this one. 
3. Rotary :), D30. I remember some years back Mazda was still using these in some of their cars. 
4. Avicii :), D21. An exceedingly rare pop music gimme for me. I don’t know much about Avicii, but I was certain from the question. 
5. Taps :(, D03. I had no idea. But this is a great question. 
6. Philadelphia :(, D12. I wasn’t going to get this barring a stroke of luck. 

Dave M day 13

Thanks Brian for confirming what we'd suspected about it being a tough season this year so far.

 

That went out of the window for me today, though, with my first 6-pack in a while.

 

1 : ) New York Review of Books. Seemed easy enough. D11

2 : ) 1984. What a terrible movie. D00

3 : ) Daikon. YEKIOYD. D11

4 : ) Kentucky. I wasn't certain it was bluegrass but it seemed v likely. D22

5 : ) Bissau. African geography Q straightforward for me. D22

6 : ) Somoza. Memories dredged up of the Sandinistas and the Iran-Contra affair. D33

David S Day 13

 4/6. 

1. New York Review of Books :), D21. I worked it out. 
2. 1929 :(, D00. I had no idea, but now that I see the answer, I remember seeing it. Should give my opponents no problem given their strength in film. 
3. Daikon :), D11. Yummy gimme. 
4. Virginia :(, D22. I was going with Virginia Creeper, which I spent 7 years battling with at my old house. Sure was abundant there!
5. Bissau :), D13. Gimme for me. Curious how hard this will be for people. 
6. Samoza :), D32. Thanks again to Thorsten for not making me spell it right. I suspect this will play hard, though I was pretty certain this was right. 

Marcus LL107 Match Day 13 -- Confirmation

Another 4

1. The MLS team New York Red Bulls is often abbreviated RBNY, probably most likely because the team's formal name is Red Bull New York, and also perhaps because NYRB has been in use since 1963 as the initialism for what literary periodical?
Correct Answer: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Your Answer: New York review of books
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

What else could it be ?

2. While the first Patty Jenkins/Gal Gadot Wonder Woman film was set at the end of World War I, its sequel was set in what year?
Correct Answer: 1984
Your Answer: 1984
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Not the greatest movie I ever saw

3. The Chinese dim sum dish turnip cake is not actually made with turnips, but with what variety of radish, also common in Japanese cuisine (the name is Japanese for "big root") where it is served raw, pickled, or as a tsuma garnish?
Correct Answer: DAIKON
Your Answer: wasabi
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I know it's not wasabi but I couldn't dredge it up 

4. The perennial plant Poa pratensis, native to Europe and Asia and extremely abundant in North America, has a common name that refers to what U.S. state?
Correct Answer: KENTUCKY
Your Answer: Kentucky
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

I wrote down about 30 states and then ping !

5. What West African capital, a city of around half a million near the Atlantic coast, has been included in the official name of its country since independence to distinguish it from its neighbor to the southeast?
Correct Answer: BISSAU
Your Answer: Bissau
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

Went thro a list of these too 

6. What was the name of the authoritarian family dynasty, notorious for corruption and repression, that dominated Nicaraguan politics from the 1930s to 1979, starting with the 1936 coup staged by Anastasio ("Tacho"), continuing with his eldest son Luis in the 1950s and 60s, and ending with the resignation of Anastasio ("Tachito")?
Correct Answer: SOMOZA
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

Didn't have a clue