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MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑

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...

On James’s DD miss, I spent most of the time thinking the colors referred to the state of Florida and not Florida State, the school. Had to pivot really quickly to get to birthstones that are kind of red and then garnet.

Can someone tell me how they got to Communist Manifesto from the clue? I had nothing. Famous European document from the 19th century that seemed to be pointing to shaking up the existing system is what got me there. I wasn't super confident, but couldn't think of anything else that fit. I think you...

The Founder (probably still available on Netflix) is a well-done history of the early years of the McDonald's franchise once Ray Kroc came on the scene. Watch this movie and you won't be getting any McDonald's history Finals wrong. For example, you'll certainly know that the brothers perfected the ...

Curious about the hits I did an archive search term of the author's name + Russia: #7499, aired 2017-03-30 PEN NAMES $800: This author of "The Fountainhead" was born Alissa Rosenbaum in St. Petersburg, Russia #7053, aired 2015-04-22 AUTHORS: BORN & DIED $800: Born in Russia in 1905, she died in cap...

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Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:13 pm

RobW wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 12:10 pm

I never did learn them ALL, but knew 1970 pretty quick because of Patton's notable refusal to accept it.

I mean, it's tough to accept an Oscar when you've been dead for 25 years

Now that he’s dead, he could probably just ghost into the vault and take it.

I got it on 1970, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Yes. Best Picture winners are up there with US Presidents and world capitals that you absolutely should try to get down for Jeopardy, or really trivia in general, purposes. Giving the year turned this from more of a puzzle it out to a straight re...

It got mentioned here already, but Potent Potables used to be a common enough category that it was used on every Celebrity Jeopardy SNL skit. Now that I can actually get questions in it, I can’t remember the last time it came up. The Archive tends to be helpful with such things as far as J! goes. I...

It got mentioned here already, but Potent Potables used to be a common enough category that it was used on every Celebrity Jeopardy SNL skit. Now that I can actually get questions in it, I can’t remember the last time it came up.

Not in love with this pure trivia, no-TOM Final. It's basically "pick a non-traditional Christmas song". Not sure what prevents it from being "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" or "Silver Bells" or "Frosty The Snowman" or "Holly Jolly Christmas" or a variety of others. A first edition reading shows th...

I took a much more liberal view of “literary” to be “any place in New York people might write about in some context” and said Yankee Stadium.

They're definitely clipping responses. For the DPI clue, I could see Julie's mouth moving, saying "What is...", but the audio only caught "inch" clearly. Hey, if it gets 61 clues in a game, I'm all for it. This is a sincere question: If they're clipping only the audio, and you can see the mouth mov...

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Fri Nov 22, 2019 12:55 pm

StevenH wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 22, 2019 12:33 pm

In baseball it could end up being Ruth, Trout, and Bonds as the undisputed top 3 position players of all time...if you can overlook the chemical help that Bonds had.

Anyone who omits Mays from that conversation needs to go back and look at his stats.

Don’t forget Ted Williams!

Wasn't that FJ a LL question in the not-too-distant past? Or maybe it was a pub trivia question that I encountered. Whichever, it was an instaget for me last night. The new champ had better learn not to guess quite as much if he wants to be a repeat winner. It was one of the LearnedLeague Live ques...

alietr wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:03 am

Maybe it's going to be like Willy Wonka ... the winner takes over host duties.

“We lied about the million dollars. Your real prize is a trip in this glass elevator emerging from the floor.”

Considering the format, they need to have a tennis category at some point in the games.

Jeremiad was an old Spelling Bee word, so I got lucky on that one and hoped there wasn’t something called an Ezekiel or a Deuteronomy I had never heard of. I thought both the Geography and British History categories were pretty easy for ToC final level. At least give the contestants a Marquess of Sa...

Did the Japan or Norwegian part of the Houston question mean anything? Unlike Thorsten to put something in that isn't meaningful, and I couldn't decipher why those were in there. I took the Japanese part to be pointing to an artist who was crazy popular in Japan in addition to being dead, a thing i...