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It’s super exciting that Zoom auditions are going out en masse! I wonder if different cities are going to be auditioned together since distance isn’t really an issue anymore.

There have been several posts between this and last season about prospective contestants not making the cut due to knowing at least one of the experts. No way Brad will be a contestant on this show. There are still plenty of other trivia greats available good enough to become a Master Mind to stand...

I’ve taken the test 7 times (every year since 2013 except 2016) and I think have passed each. I know I’ve passed the last four for sure as I’ve kept track of them. No auditions yet, but it is what it is. So I keep on truckin’.

July movie with Dwayne Johnson & Emily Blunt based on Disneyland attraction: Jungle Cruise At this point, I wouldn't assume that any movie is going to open on its scheduled date, especially not four months out. "No Time to Die" got all the attention, but at least two other movies that were being wi...

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Thu Mar 12, 2020 5:44 am

"What major city is Northwestern University associated with?" is a strange choice for a DD, but whatevs.

I agree. That one had me wondering if there was a catch/twist that I was missing.

Especially when it was below the much harder, imo, Garden of Allah clue on the board.

It's worth knowing that the ten largest U.S. states are all west of the Mississippi. The largest state east of the Mississippi is Michigan, at #11 Indeed. Montana = 4th largest state seems to come up a lot. I am a geek about weather extremes, so for me, -70 was a Pavlov for Montana. I'm guessing th...

At the APogee, the Earth and moon are far APart. At the PERigee, they are PERessed together. Lame, I know, but it works for me. Hey, that just might work. Kind of like how I never forgot the difference between numerator and denominator after my elementary school teacher said that the D is for down....

I had ranking for the basketball clue. I don’t really follow the NBA and never heard of this. The Process is what I associate with Nick Saban. The Sixers pulled a multi-year tank in order to stock up on talent. Their old GM always said “Trust the Process” and Embiid, in his trolly Embiid way, ended...

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Wed Mar 04, 2020 11:40 am

More people should know more about Robert Johnson.

I had never heard of the movie, but knew the Johnson story. It’s also indirectly referenced in O Brother Where Art Thou and is a major plot point in one of the earlier seasons of Supernatural.

I'm guessing this is a trial run, maybe they will make it year round in the future. I bet you're right. Furthermore, I'd bet that if they do that, scheduled online tests will become a thing of the past. There's no reason to run it the old way if this way works. When I told my wife about this, her f...

The Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, which became Chesebrough-Ponds and was ultimately acquired by Unilever in 1987, was best known for a product discovered by its co-founder and company namesake in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and first sold in 1870. From the beginning, this product was (and is sti...

I quit playing after I got randomly barred from getting my money out about a year and a half ago. I tried to get it out way later, but my account was still “under review.” Ave atque vale, that $60 I will never get.

Pittsburgh, 45. Got an audition invite on the first online test I took. Have not on the last 10 (all scores of 39 to 44). The 11th time is the charm! must be...my 11th pass was my first audition I feel like a piker, comparatively. If I get an audition this time, I’ll have only racked up a streak of...

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Tue Feb 11, 2020 6:24 am

I never considered that Al and Roxie Roker might be related. Interesting.

Ditto for Jenny and Melissa McCarthy.

My mind-blown moment was learning about brothers Anthony Stewart Head and Murray Head.

Wait, Giles and the One Night in Bangkok guy are brothers?!

I’m going to take a guess I’m the only one here who learned who the Marquess of Queensbury was thanks to the cheat in the N64 game Perfect Dark named for him. It disarms all the enemies.

48, Minneapolis

Questions on the questions: 4 - It said "major" battle, so I'm assuming they didn't mean Fort Sumter? 10 - Did they want the name of the pope or the calendar? If the former, oops. On 4, yeah, all the clues, like dates, being a major battle, and “First Battle of” point to Bull Run/Manassas. I put Gr...

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Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:50 am

The 2020 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees:

Depeche Mode
The Doobie Brothers
Whitney Houston
Nine inch Nails
The Notorious B.I.G.
T-Rex

I just can’t get enough of these inductees.

Given the ratings, ABC will be very disappointed if Ken wraps it up Tuesday night. My PVR is showing four games on the schedule for next week. Should that be taken to mean that this tournament is going to the maximum seven games? Or is that merely a contingency in case it does, like scheduling the ...

I pretty much have permanently pinned fingerprint evidence to becoming a thing in the late 19th century thanks to the old Ultima PC game Martian Dreams, where a bunch of eminent Victorians get stranded on Mars. One of them is Teddy Roosevelt, who is SUPER into fingerprinting, which ends up being rea...