Jesse day 9

3/6

1. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and spawning three sequels of its own, what 1970 film (named generically for the setting where its plot unfolds) is often credited with launching the decade's disaster-movie craze?
Correct Answer: AIRPORT
Your Answer: The Towering Inferno
Points Assigned: 2

Nope

2. Early 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai popularized what term, commonly translated to English as "whimsical pictures" or "impromptu sketches", particularly via his 15-volume sketchbook series whose title included the word?
Correct Answer: MANGA
Your Answer: Totori
Points Assigned: 3

Shoot, very gettable.

3. The name of which month of the French Revolutionary calendar comes from a root relating to heat, fittingly as the month roughly covered late July through late August?
Correct Answer: THERMIDOR
Your Answer: Caldo
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea. 

4. "Porkopolis" is a former nickname for what American city, reflecting the city's German immigrant influence and contributions to its sausage and meatpacking traditions (though pork and sausage are not common chili ingredients there)?
Correct Answer: CINCINNATI
Your Answer: Cincinnati
Points Assigned: 0

I know Cincinnati Chili. Otherwise, I would have gone with Milwaukee. 

5. What plant, whose extract has long been used as an astringent for skin care and was used medicinally for centuries by Native Americans before European settlement, has a name that likely comes in part from an Old English word meaning "bendable" and is unrelated to sorcery?
Correct Answer: WITCH HAZEL
Your Answer: Witch Hazel
Points Assigned: 1

First thing that came to mind.

6. Who is widely credited with establishing the tradition of the white wedding dress when she wore one at her enormous 1840 wedding (before then, European brides commonly married in dresses of many different colors)? The marriage ended with her husband's death, attributed to typhoid fever, in December 1861.
Correct Answer: QUEEN VICTORIA
Your Answer: Queen Victoria
Points Assigned: 1

I knew this piece of trivia.

Brian Day 9

 4/6 but two bad misses mean I'll stay in last place in Avalon B 

1) airport 1/2

2) Ginza 2/2  Got fixated on what is the Japanese word for caricatures?  I read about 100 comic books a month and yet manga never occurred to me.   So annoyed with myself

3) Chaudre 3/3  Thermidor is the one French revolutionary month I have heard of, but since I never considered a root besides chaud, it never came to mind

4) Cincinnati 0/1  Would have said Milwaukee without the chili clue

5) witch hazel 2/1  I've used this

6) Queen Victoria 1/0    No other possibility 

David S Day 9

 3/6. I thought I’d done better. 

1. Airport :), D03. I knew there was a movie called this from around that time. Getting this was the high point of the match day for me. 
2. Doodle :(, D22. Terrible guess. 
3. Thermidor :), D31. Not sure there were any other months I could name. 
4. Cleveland :(, D12. Man! German immigrants and sausage led me to Ohio, and it was basically 50/50 from there. Picked the wrong one. 
5. Lithe :(, D21. Also not a good guess, but I’d have never gotten it. 
6. Queen Victoria :), D10. The dates given left no doubt. 

Marcus Match Day 9 -- Confirmation

5 again

Player: BrowningM

1. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and spawning three sequels of its own, what 1970 film (named generically for the setting where its plot unfolds) is often credited with launching the decade's disaster-movie craze?
Correct Answer: AIRPORT
Your Answer: airport
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

toyed with the towering inferno but airport fitted the generic clue better

2. Early 19th-century Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai popularized what term, commonly translated to English as "whimsical pictures" or "impromptu sketches", particularly via his 15-volume sketchbook series whose title included the word?
Correct Answer: MANGA
Your Answer: manga
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

a guess but what else could it be?

3. The name of which month of the French Revolutionary calendar comes from a root relating to heat, fittingly as the month roughly covered late July through late August?
Correct Answer: THERMIDOR
Your Answer: thermidor
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

this is hard but i’ve read quite a lot about Robespierre and the hot clue got me over the line 

4. "Porkopolis" is a former nickname for what American city, reflecting the city's German immigrant influence and contributions to its sausage and meatpacking traditions (though pork and sausage are not common chili ingredients there)?
Correct Answer: CINCINNATI
Your Answer: milwaulke
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

impossible for me , easy for americans ?

5. What plant, whose extract has long been used as an astringent for skin care and was used medicinally for centuries by Native Americans before European settlement, has a name that likely comes in part from an Old English word meaning "bendable" and is unrelated to sorcery?
Correct Answer: WITCH HAZEL
Your Answer: witch hazel
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

the clue made it easy but i had no idea of the etymology and assumed it was an ancient british plant

6. Who is widely credited with establishing the tradition of the white wedding dress when she wore one at her enormous 1840 wedding (before then, European brides commonly married in dresses of many different colors)? The marriage ended with her husband's death, attributed to typhoid fever, in December 1861.
Correct Answer: QUEEN VICTORIA
Your Answer: queen victoria
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0

gimme 

Dave M day 9

4/6 today which I was happy with given the questions, though I think I got the 4 others are also most likely to get.

1 : ( Volcano. I thought airport then stupidly ruled it out for some reason. D02

2 : ) Manga. Pretty gimmeish. D10

3 : ( Chaudron. This seems extremely difficult to me, interested how everyone else fares. There must be a link I’m not seeing. D33

4 : ) Cincinnati. With Chili as a clue it needed to be south or south adjacent, but German influence would point to Midwest. So it was a 50/50 between Cincinnati and St Louis and I went the right way. D22

5 : ) Witch Hazel. The sorcery clue was a bit of a giveaway. D11

6 : ) Queen Victoria. While I didn’t know when exactly she got married, the timing was right when I’d expected. D21

Jesse Day 8

3/6

1. What is the name for the race of subterranean dwarf-like beings in Germanic legend whose member Alberich forges and curses a famous ring that, in Richard Wagner's recounting, eventually passes to the giant Fafner before being seized by Siegfried?
Correct Answer: NIBELUNGEN
Your Answer: Duegar
Points Assigned: 3

I thought my DnD knowledge had gotten me a tough one. I have never heard of Nibelungen.

2. The Chocolate Cake Shot, Nutty Irishman, and Hazelnut Martini are among the cocktails that include what liqueur, an Italian hazelnut liqueur that comes in a bottle shaped like a monk wearing a rope belt?
Correct Answer: FRANGELICO
Your Answer: Frangelico
Points Assigned: 1

I don't think I have ever had it, but I knew the answer.

3. Nicknamed "The Coathanger" for the graceful curve of its steel arch, the world's tallest steel arch bridge spans the harbor of what city?
Correct Answer: SYDNEY
Your Answer: Sydney
Points Assigned: 2

I lived in Sydney for over a year and knew that was a nickname for the bridge. 

4. What genre of electronic dance music, marked by synthesized basslines, a tempo of 115–130 BPM, and a steady four-on-the-floor beat, is named for the Chicago nightclub where DJ Frankie Knuckles pioneered the style?
Correct Answer: HOUSE
Your Answer: Trance
Points Assigned: 2

I had no idea.

5. With the Indiana Hoosiers' recent ascent to the upper echelon of college football, what state's flagship university now sits alone with the longest period since its last Big Ten football championship, a drought that is approaching six decades?
Correct Answer: MINNESOTA
Your Answer: Kansas
Points Assigned: 1

I do not follow college football.

6. In his nationally televised address introducing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to Congress, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously invoked what three-word phrase, echoing an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement? By that time, the song and phrase's original "will" had been replaced by "shall."
Correct Answer: WE SHALL OVERCOME
Your Answer: We Shall Overcome
Points Assigned: 0

Gimmie? 

Brian Day 8

 sure enough I tied with a 6 yesterday.  Still looking for my second win of the season. 3 today probably won't help. 

1) Nibelung  1/1  I assume this pays.   Wagner's Ring cycle gimme.

2) Frangelico 2/2  My mom's favorite after dinner drink with coffee

3) Melbourne  1/1  Could this be Sydney?  Nah, that's the opera house.  Guess another Australian city.

4) techno 3/3  Really, that's where it came from?

5) Iowa 2/2 no clue

6) We shall overcome 0/0  American gimme