Exact same thing here, but the News of the World would have given it to me if I hadn't.TheyCallMeMrKid wrote: Got lucky there and with Piers Morgan, since I had been watching some older "America's Got Talent" YouTube videos literally right before I answered yesterday's LL questions.
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There are, of course, worse ways to lose a match than 2(3) - 3(2), but it still stung. Especially when my opponent's "perfect" defense was ironically underscored by him missing the Piers Morgan question (to which we both assigned zero).
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I scored 9(5) – my opponent thought I was better with British journalists-turned-tv hosts.fowlerism wrote:There are, of course, worse ways to lose a match than 2(3) - 3(2), but it still stung. Especially when my opponent's "perfect" defense was ironically underscored by him missing the Piers Morgan question (to which we both assigned zero).
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And there it is. You can't communicate without resorting to insult. Why is that? Do you have an unhappy home life? Were you abused as a child? Inquiring minds want to know.gnash wrote:No, you just make judgments based on your ignorance. You are not alone - it's a very common error, but it's still an error, which is another useful illustration of my point above. (It would be easy to find and cite a source supporting Vanya's view of "they", but it wouldn't make it any less wrong.)Vanya wrote:So he has lost all credibility.
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FYI, I made factual statements, objective and verifiable, and only such statements. You just further verified them by showing ignorance of the meaning of the word "insult". Now your statements, however...Vanya wrote:And there it is. You can't communicate without resorting to insult. Why is that? Do you have an unhappy home life? Were you abused as a child? Inquiring minds want to know.gnash wrote:No, you just make judgments based on your ignorance. You are not alone - it's a very common error, but it's still an error, which is another useful illustration of my point above. (It would be easy to find and cite a source supporting Vanya's view of "they", but it wouldn't make it any less wrong.)Vanya wrote:So he has lost all credibility.
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I first thought it was a tossup between Skaggs and Krauss, but then I decided that (1) Krauss is probably better known, and (2) "Nickel Creek" sounds very contemporary. I can't explain #2, it just feels that way. So I went, fairly confidently, with the younger artist.Woof wrote:One thing to consider is that the Phuket question was a simple recall question (province in S Thailand with famous beaches and an island? Easy) whereas the Alison Krauss question asked for a specific bluegrass-country performer who produced Nickel Creek. I considered her as an answer but went instead with Ricky Skaggs (at least I didn't say Bill Monroe or Earl Scruggs)gnash wrote:I would never guess that twice as many people would know Phuket as Alison Krauss. I have pretty decent defense stats (currently 3rd highest DE in B Pacific), but sometimes I am completely baffled by the relative difficulty of questions. (Similarly, although I didn't expect many people to know its exact meaning and etymology, I thought ontology would be a fairly easy guess for most. Not so.)
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Throat...don't think so...windpipe...no...trachea? Is that an organ? Doesn't seem right. When they perform a tracheotomy (on the TV shows, I've never seen one in real life), they seem to cut lower than all of this cartilage...hmmm, an organ that is in your throat...larynx! That's gotta be it!
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I figure with a bunch of intellectual people like here, there has to be some crossover between this board and Kornheiser Littles, right? When I saw the question involving the Young Rascals, it made me laugh out loud.
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"Warring" was a stronger pull toward Sun Tzu than "analects" was toward Confucius. And the second MTV video is a piece of trivia I keep hearing but never remember; I've known it was Pat Benatar, but I never recall the title. So I just amalgamated every Pat Benatar song title I could name (except "Wuthering Heights") and ended up with a BWA, my first since my rookie season.
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Sorry for the late comment, but Alison Krauss should be, at least, on your radar. She's the top Grammy-winning female artist of all time and tied for second among all artists/music professionals for most Grammys won.
Plus she sings beautifully.
Plus she sings beautifully.
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Yeah, well I never thought of her as a producer, that's all.okstater04 wrote:Sorry for the late comment, but Alison Krauss should be, at least, on your radar. She's the top Grammy-winning female artist of all time and tied for second among all artists/music professionals for most Grammys won.
Plus she sings beautifully.
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I'm kinda surprised that so many people said Taj Mahal when asked for a temple. Thought it fairly common knowledge that it's a mausoleum.
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Pat Benatar/Rascals was the only one I knew for certain. (A bit of a stretch to call the (Young) Rascals' original version of "You Better Run" a hit, but I knew they were the first to chart. Now, having looked it up, I'll remember that it was written by Rascals legends Eddie Brigati and Felix Cavaliere.) Lucked out that my opponent knew less than me on LL20. I took a guess on Angkor Wat.... knew it was a BIG temple, but I didn't connect it with Hinduism. My only other thought -- as many others guessed -- was Taj Mahal, but that was a mausoleum, as Econ mentions above, and never a temple. Should have been able to at least guess Confucius... at my evening Toastmasters meeting a speaker quoted Confucius, which probably would have connected with me had I waited to submit my answers.seaborgium wrote:"Warring" was a stronger pull toward Sun Tzu than "analects" was toward Confucius. And the second MTV video is a piece of trivia I keep hearing but never remember; I've known it was Pat Benatar, but I never recall the title. So I just amalgamated every Pat Benatar song title I could name (except "Wuthering Heights") and ended up with a BWA, my first since my rookie season.
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Large 12th Century Hindu temple? I immediately "knew" it was Borobudur, never gave it a second thought, and Angkor Wat never occurred to me. Turns out Borobudur is a 9th Century Buddhist temple. At least it is a large temple though.
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It helped that this was Twisted Sifter's picture of the day a couple of days ago:
And had the following caption:
Angkor Wat was first a Hindu, then subsequently a Buddhist, temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world. The temple was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura, the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the Shaiva tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to Vishnu. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country’s prime attraction for visitors. [source]
The outer wall, 1024 m by 802 m (1120 x 877 yards) and 4.5 m high, is surrounded by a 30 m apron of open ground and a moat 190 m (207 yards) wide. The outer wall encloses a space of 820,000 square metres (203 acres).
And had the following caption:
Angkor Wat was first a Hindu, then subsequently a Buddhist, temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world. The temple was built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century in Yaśodharapura, the capital of the Khmer Empire, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the Shaiva tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to Vishnu. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of Khmer architecture. It has become a symbol of Cambodia, appearing on its national flag, and it is the country’s prime attraction for visitors. [source]
The outer wall, 1024 m by 802 m (1120 x 877 yards) and 4.5 m high, is surrounded by a 30 m apron of open ground and a moat 190 m (207 yards) wide. The outer wall encloses a space of 820,000 square metres (203 acres).
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Went downstairs to get something to eat for lunch at work today and I saw that our restaurant has a Nuova Simonelli espresso machine right there on the counter. I guess that's what I get for not drinking coffee.
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Vanya wrote:Ask him what are the parts of speech.
So now you know.gnash wrote:[M]ost publications on English grammar have a terrible classification of "parts of speech" that tosses articles and other determinatives into the class of adjectives, but separates pronouns as a class distinct from nouns. All of these things are wrong....
We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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Has anyone tanked questions in a wheelhouse (or admit to having done so) just so that wheelhouse looks less certain in future matches? I think I'm destined to have science questions be scored at zero perpetually. I really would like my opponents to do that to a different category. Since the opponent scores it zero anyhow, what have I got to lose?
(ummm... those of you in Frontier, don't read this).
(ummm... those of you in Frontier, don't read this).
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There has been discussion on this topic in the past on the LL board, with PahkJ being one of the proponents of it. I'll post a link if I can track down the thread.boson wrote:Has anyone tanked questions in a wheelhouse (or admit to having done so) just so that wheelhouse looks less certain in future matches? I think I'm destined to have science questions be scored at zero perpetually. I really would like my opponents to do that to a different category. Since the opponent scores it zero anyhow, what have I got to lose?
(ummm... those of you in Frontier, don't read this).
While in theory, there is some merit to the strategy, I don't see much chance that it would ever actually pay off.
Here it is: http://learnedleague.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2410
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tre-24uxVK8okstater04 wrote: Plus she sings beautifully.