Marcus LL110 Match Day 14 -- Confirmation

5 yet again 

Player: BrowningM

1. "Signor Leone, I have just had the chance to see your film. It is a very fine film, but it is my film." This is a quote from a letter sent from Akira Kurosawa to Sergio Leone, in reference to the latter's unofficial spaghetti western remake of the former's 1961 samurai film. Name either of these two films.
Correct Answer: A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, YOJIMBO
Your Answer: magnifcent 7
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

i thought the “obvious” answer could be wrong and my second guess would have been the good the bad and the ugly so i had no chance 

2. What standard color of modern printing is named after a battlefield in northern Italy, from the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859? It was originally named fuchsine and is indeed similar to the color fuchsia.
Correct Answer: MAGENTA
Your Answer: magenta
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

RGB model 

3. The Pyramid Stage, and also arguably vast quantities of mud, are trademarks of the music festival originally called the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival in 1970, and now named after what nearby market town in the southwest of England?
Correct Answer: GLASTONBURY
Your Answer: glastonbury
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
 

ive a been a few times but not for 30 yrs

4. Simone de Beauvoir's famous line "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" opens Volume II of her 1949 book on gender roles as a learned social construct rather than biological destiny. The book's title labels women as The [BLANK] Sex. What word fills the blank?
Correct Answer: SECOND
Your Answer: second
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

easy if you know 

5. What word, used for the SI unit of illuminance (defined as one lumen of luminous flux incident on one square meter), is coincidentally also the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for a European nation?
Correct Answer: LUX
Your Answer: lux
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

good clue 

6. While its product line today spans handbags, leather goods, shoes, accessories, watches, jewelry, and fragrances, what eponymous luxury brand built its early reputation in the 1850s with its innovative flat-topped stackable trunks that revolutionized long-distance travel at the time?
Correct Answer: LOUIS VUITTON
Your Answer: louis vuitton
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 

gimme 

Jesse Day 13

5/6

1. Fauntleroy is the middle name of what animated character, a nod to the sailor suit he wears that was allegedly inspired by the title character of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy?
Correct Answer: DONALD DUCK
Your Answer: Donald Duck
Points Assigned: 0

I have heard this trivia at some point.  

2. With 29 strokes, the character for "utsu" (鬱, meaning depression or gloom) is infamous among Japanese students for its complexity and difficulty to recall from memory. This character is in what writing system, which is adapted from Chinese characters and literally means "Han characters"?
Correct Answer: KANJI
Your Answer: Kanji
Points Assigned: 2

I was hoping it wasn't one of the other Japanese writing types. 

3. The sport of rowing is divided into two disciplines: one in which each athlete holds one oar, and one in which each athlete holds two oars. Give the common name for either of these disciplines.
Correct Answer: SWEEP, SCULL
Your Answer: Stroke
Points Assigned: 3

I had no idea.

4. In an alphabetical list of capital cities of the countries of South America, which city comes first?
Correct Answer: ASUNCIÓN
Your Answer: Asuncion
Points Assigned: 2

I have been to Paraguay! 

5. In pre-decimalization British currency, a pound consisted of 20 shillings, a shilling consisted of twelve pennies, and a penny consisted of four what (at least until 1960, by which time they were nearly worthless)?
Correct Answer: FARTHING
Your Answer: Farthing
Points Assigned: 1

Only word that came to mind. 

6. The 1990 docuseries The Civil War, a landmark PBS production that helped define the prestige historical documentary format, popularized the technique of moving a camera slowly across still photographs. This effect is closely associated with, and commonly named after, what director of The Civil War?
Correct Answer: KEN BURNS
Your Answer: Ken Burns
Points Assigned: 1

Gimmie?

Brian Day 13

 4/6

1) Donald Duck 0/1   After discarding Popeye as being more of a comic strip than a cartoon, I got there very quickly

2) Hanoform 3/3  No clue, though I think this has been asked before and I'm looking forward to missing it again in a few years

3) sculling 2/1   Was either crew or sculling, crew felt like the broader term

4) Bogota  2/2  There are three South American countries I don't know the capitals of.  Now there are two. Surely a gimme for the rest of you.

5) Farthing 1/0    The only other unit I know is a half penny.  (Glad i didn't think of pence! would've been a coin flip)

6) Burns 1/2  The only real gimme for me today.   Still haven't seen any of his miniseries, but he's a legend, and Baseball, The Civil War and Jazz are in the queue.

David S Day 13

 Bounced back from yesterday with 5/6. 

1. Mickey Mouse :(, D21. I guess this counts as close, though I really had no idea. 
2. Kanji :), D12. Gimme, especially since I worked at a Japanese bank for 2 and a half years. 
3. Scull :), D32. I had no idea what the other one was. 
4. Asuncion :), D00. Just have to go through all 12. 
5. Farthing :), D11. Econ/history gimme. 
6. Ken Burns :), D23. He’s the best, and this is his best documentary in my opinion. 

Dave M day 13

A solid 5/6 today but not sure it will be enough given my woeful defense so far this season.

1 : ) Donald Duck. Don’t know of any other animated characters typically found in (half of a) sailor suit. D01

2 : ) Kanji. I learnt Japanese for a few miserable weeks in high school. D13

3 : ) Scull. Rowing is reasonably common in NZ. D22

4 : ) Asuncion. Brute force required. It struck me while running through all the capitals just how many start with B or C. D10

5 : ) Farthing. UK gimme, hopefully plays hard for Americans. D31

6 : ( Pan. No idea and never heard of Burnsing. D22  

Marcus LL110 Match Day 13 -- Confirmation

5 again 

Player: BrowningM

1. Fauntleroy is the middle name of what animated character, a nod to the sailor suit he wears that was allegedly inspired by the title character of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy?
Correct Answer: DONALD DUCK
Your Answer: stewie griffin
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

i donald ducked it up …

2. With 29 strokes, the character for "utsu" (鬱, meaning depression or gloom) is infamous among Japanese students for its complexity and difficulty to recall from memory. This character is in what writing system, which is adapted from Chinese characters and literally means "Han characters"?
Correct Answer: KANJI
Your Answer: kanji
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

not sure how hard this plays 

3. The sport of rowing is divided into two disciplines: one in which each athlete holds one oar, and one in which each athlete holds two oars. Give the common name for either of these disciplines.
Correct Answer: SWEEP, SCULL
Your Answer: skulling
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3

they just call it rowing and sculling in the uk

4. In an alphabetical list of capital cities of the countries of South America, which city comes first?
Correct Answer: ASUNCIÓN
Your Answer: asuncion
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1

in this the 3rd time Asuncion has been the answer ?

5. In pre-decimalization British currency, a pound consisted of 20 shillings, a shilling consisted of twelve pennies, and a penny consisted of four what (at least until 1960, by which time they were nearly worthless)?
Correct Answer: FARTHING
Your Answer: farthings
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2

gimme for a brit and they weren’t that worthless in 1961 the were worth about 3 new pence when adjusted for inflation and we still have a 1 penny coin in circulation today 

6. The 1990 docuseries The Civil War, a landmark PBS production that helped define the prestige historical documentary format, popularized the technique of moving a camera slowly across still photographs. This effect is closely associated with, and commonly named after, what director of The Civil War?
Correct Answer: KEN BURNS
Your Answer: ken burns
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0


i seem to remember this question or similar before as well

Brian Day 12

 4/6

1) We Are the World 0/0  Gimme for an 80s kid

2) Aromatics 2/2  Lucky educated guess. Felt like odors was the clue, played around with synonyms until one rang a bell.

3) Basquiat 2/1  Another 80s gimme, even art is easy if it's NYC

4) King cake 1/2  I can picture the stacks of boxes, but couldn't pull the name.  I think will be a gimme for most

5) woman 3/3  went with woman and man.  Didn't think to stick with the theme of the book

6) chyron  1/1  I hear it used for the crawl all the time, no idea why