Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)

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Geez, I read page 2 of this thread & realize I need to stop doing other things while the show is on. It sounds even worse than I'd remembered in re the unanswered clues.

I too guessed Lady C's Lovah but I had little faith in it. Brave New World crossed my mind too.
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zakharov wrote:Thanks to Twitter, I now know that actual Major League Baseball pitcher David Aardsma got the northpaw clue, so I am apparently a dummy.
Were you checking to see which players got it in alphabetical order?

(I'd never actually heard the term, but I figured it out.)
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trainman wrote:
zakharov wrote:Thanks to Twitter, I now know that actual Major League Baseball pitcher David Aardsma got the northpaw clue, so I am apparently a dummy.
Were you checking to see which players got it in alphabetical order?

(I'd never actually heard the term, but I figured it out.)
I maintain it wasn't a fair clue, since southpaw is a frequently used baseball term but northpaw is not.

Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
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zakharov wrote:
trainman wrote:
zakharov wrote:Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
Hank Aaron.

Northpaw I'd heard before but only as a joke. Still and all, I make it as a legit question in the spirit of the category.
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StevenH wrote:I was underwhelmed by this board. This one took the cake for having clues that were too trivial. This brought back memories of Wright vs. Rhee vs. Spak. Please, don't blame the contestants for this game. I am not sure if they could have done better on a more well written board, but they deserve the benefit of any doubt that there may be.

I guessed The Plague on FJ. I think that it was probably a good clue, but they should have saved it for the finals of UToC II.
I completely agree, Steven, and not just concerning the triviality of today's board. Count me among those who took a stab at FJ with The Plague, though I was pretty certain it took place in Algeria. (It's only been thirty years since I read it.) But I figured Camus was French, so why not? What threw me was the notion of a "scandalous" book written after the 1930s. As jaded as our society has become, it's hard to imagine any novel causing a true scandal after about 1970.
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econgator wrote:
MarkBarrett wrote:I knew it was too soon for Lady Chatterley's Lover and that was about it for hitting me in the scandalous department.
Me, too, but that's all I could come up with.
Ditto. 0-4 so far this week!
zakharov wrote:
trainman wrote:
zakharov wrote:Thanks to Twitter, I now know that actual Major League Baseball pitcher David Aardsma got the northpaw clue, so I am apparently a dummy.
Were you checking to see which players got it in alphabetical order?

(I'd never actually heard the term, but I figured it out.)
I maintain it wasn't a fair clue, since southpaw is a frequently used baseball term but northpaw is not.

Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
None of those "nearly opposites" were frequently used terms. However, their opposites are. Tricky wordplay category, but a clever one. Beats the pants off some of their other attempts at being too smart for their own good, too *cough* noble gas *cough*
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TenPoundHammer wrote:Wow, was this a bizarre board. Ran Fruity Rhyme Time, Stars and Partial Opposites, but was completely lost on Marx, Lennon, State Capital Birthplaces and African American Actresses.
I'm wondering how you did on the Stars category? I found the category insanely easy, and I've missed my fair share of astronomy and constellation clues on the show. (Thought today's was almost kids week level).

(In case you haven't figured it out, TPH, you're our guinea pig. If a category was easy for you, it can definitively be declared an "easy category" (Offer null and void for country music, cartoon, and otter categories). Hense why I asked. ;) )
zakharov wrote:I have been playing and watching baseball since I was 7 or so, and I have never heard of a northpaw. Southpaw is the only one I've heard. Jeopardy writers aren't baseball fans apparently.
I got the impression that it was a non-official term, one used "jocularly" (I think that was even in the clue), so "northpaw" was an easy guess. I think this is where knowing little about baseball actually *helped*, baseball die-hards (like, it seems, most of the board) would over-think it.
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I'd like to know too! I counted my answer wrong, since it added a syllable (I'm pretty tough on myself when I mark my Coryat, since I know the judges in Culver City will be, and that's why I do this every day.), but it'd be nice to reverse it.

Was looking forward to the Marx category, but was a little disappointed upon reveal. (But, since I eagerly read Marx in college and it influenced my subsequent politics*, I didn't do too bad in the category, but had a brain fart for "Das Kapital")

*keep in mind that Marxism/socialism isn't nearly the dirty word up here as it is down there. Besides, I think that most people tend to swing wildly to the left in their politics while in university, at least that seems to be my observation. (In my "old age" (I'm 40 now), my politics have gravitated more towards center of the road. Marxism was nice when I was young, but as I actually started to actually become politically involved, I went with beliefs that would actually *work* in real life. ;) ) I can almost guess what the Sony board denizens have to say about letting those clues on the show ...
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Re: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)

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dhkendall wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:Wow, was this a bizarre board. Ran Fruity Rhyme Time, Stars and Partial Opposites, but was completely lost on Marx, Lennon, State Capital Birthplaces and African American Actresses.
I'm wondering how you did on the Stars category? I found the category insanely easy, and I've missed my fair share of astronomy and constellation clues on the show. (Thought today's was almost kids week level).
I said right there in the very post you just quoted that I ran it.

And I thought I was bad at glossing over key words… :lol:
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dhkendall wrote:
Vanya wrote:I thought Amy said "apertif." Is that an accepted alternate pronunciation of aperitif?
I'd like to know too! I counted my answer wrong, since it added a syllable (I'm pretty tough on myself when I mark my Coryat, since I know the judges in Culver City will be, and that's why I do this every day.), but it'd be nice to reverse it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aperitif

aper·i·tif
noun
\ə-ˌper-ə-ˈtēf, a-; ˌä-pər-(ə-)ˈtēf\

Note the parentheses.
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WHY did Lindsay, $200 behind with a minute to go, select a $1200, a $1600, and a $2000 in a category no one was nailing, and then $2000 in a yet-unexplored category??? She was pretty dominant on the buzzer, and the unseen $400 clue would have given her a lead going in to FJ.

Second, has anybody found LIndsay's blog of litter-shaming? I thought that was pretty funny but couldn't find it after some Googling.
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CAPS LOCK wrote:Second, has anybody found LIndsay's blog of litter-shaming? I thought that was pretty funny but couldn't find it after some Googling.
I meant to start googling that as soon as the show was over, but of course, I had forgotten by that time.

I would be very interested, so if anybody finds it, post a link here.

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zakharov wrote:My Oklahoma native girlfriend agrees that scary/cherry rhyme. I'm from Jersey and they're quite distinct when I say them. Go regional accents!
I think it's mostly a northeastern/New England 'pahk yah cah ovah deah neah Hahvahad Yahd' accent that distinguishes those words. Most of America long ago decided that 'HAHree doesn't want to MAHree becawse the ideahr is SCAHree' is just too much trouble to pronounce with its 'original' accent.
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TenPoundHammer wrote:I have honestly never seen H[a]lle Berry, so I never knew she was black.
Ah, the Helen Keller defense.

TenPoundHammer wrote:
econgator wrote:"Scary" and "cherry" rhyme? Riiiiiiight.
They sound the same to me. How do YOU pronounce those words?
Scary (rhymes with hairy) and cherry (rhymes with ferry). The two aren't even close.

zakharov wrote:My Oklahoma native girlfriend agrees that scary/cherry rhyme. I'm from Jersey and they're quite distinct when I say them. Go regional accents!
In Oklahoma, scary rhymes with Inhofe.

zakharov wrote:Trivia time: Aardsma is the first alphabetically of all baseball players in history by last name. Whom did he displace on the list?
Hank Aaron, followed by his kid brother Tommie Aaron.
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Sage on the Hudson wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:I have honestly never seen H[a]lle Berry, so I never knew she was black.
Ah, the Helen Keller defense.
What does a little girl's diary have to do with black actresses?

I've seen Halle Berry many times, as well as the other actresses in that category, but I didn't realize that any of them were black. I guess I don't really see people in terms of color.[/Costanza]
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Her silly, breathless Oscar speech should've told you she was black. "This is for Diahann, blah blah blah & all those other black actresses who never won this." endless & loony.

Scary & cherry? No way.
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jeff6286 wrote:
Sage on the Hudson wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:I have honestly never seen H[a]lle Berry, so I never knew she was black.
Ah, the Helen Keller defense.
What does a little girl's diary have to do with black actresses?
You've got to be kidding.


And I wonder if Anne-Lise's won enough money yet to afford a comb and pair of scissors.
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bpmod wrote:
CyrusChan wrote:Aren't all the leap/Olympic years divisible by 4(what I figure growing up.....) ? WHat the....?

ANyone can elaborate?
All Leap Years are divisible by 4, but not all years divisible by 4 are Leap Years.

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I'm still missing something. How was 1900 not a leap year?
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Woppy T wrote:
bpmod wrote:
CyrusChan wrote:Aren't all the leap/Olympic years divisible by 4(what I figure growing up.....) ? WHat the....?

ANyone can elaborate?
All Leap Years are divisible by 4, but not all years divisible by 4 are Leap Years.

Brian
I'm still missing something. How was 1900 not a leap year?
Think the rule is divisible by 4, but not by 100 unless it is divisible by 400 (explains why 1900 wasn't but 2000 was).
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Sage on the Hudson wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:
econgator wrote:"Scary" and "cherry" rhyme? Riiiiiiight.
They sound the same to me. How do YOU pronounce those words?
Scary (rhymes with hairy) and cherry (rhymes with ferry). The two aren't even close.
Um, this doesn't help me. Where I come from all four of those words rhyme.
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Swift'sSecondCourse wrote:
Sage on the Hudson wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote: They sound the same to me. How do YOU pronounce those words?
Scary (rhymes with hairy) and cherry (rhymes with ferry). The two aren't even close.
Um, this doesn't help me. Where I come from all four of those words rhyme.
And you can throw in Halle Berry and make it 5-for-5.
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