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Archive playthrough: Coryat $47,000 (53R, 1W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: My best game since I've been keeping score. I didn't give myself credit for Hugh Jackman because I wasn't sure I would have recognized him. Felt a little off-kilter for some of the clues in the first round, but 28/30 in DJ forgives a ...

Atomic mass and weight are not synonymous, I see that now. But where did chlorine come from? But would the judges have accepted "atomic mass"? That was my answer, since "weight" is variable depending upon gravity, whereas "mass" is constant. Mass and weight are different things, but atomic mass and...

ACW wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:27 am

People, would YOU have accepted just "William Tell"? I don't see why not.

That would be like accepting "the Black Album" for "Enter Sandman."

Doing Archive playthroughs for the time being because I am out of town and can't watch episodes. Coryat $43,200 (51R, 0W) DD 2/3 FJ :mrgreen: LT $11,600 if I did my math right plus FJ = 4th podium win Possibly the best I've ever done relative to the combined Coryat. This episode just played really w...

Poll request on First Ladies $2000... that seems pretty deep in the presidential trivia canon. ... Request seen. Check out the prior history on her in the archive: #8261, aired 2020-10-19 FIRST LADIES $2000: When she became first lady, both her grandmothers, on the Folsom & Harmon sides, got to hea...

Coryat $37,400 (45R, 0W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: Unusually "balanced" game for me: only ran three categories, and didn't miss more than two in any. Couldawouldashoulda had movies $2000 but couldn't pull it fast enough. Poll request on First Ladies $2000... that seems pretty deep in the presidential triv...

I have never read or seen It. (never read or seen what?)

As usual, I get all the FJ clues that poll above 50% and miss all the ones that poll below 50%. Can't seem to break through that barrier...

Coryat $34,600 (45R, 3W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: My Coryat slide continues. First $2000 neg of the year; matched Kristin with Northrop Grumman. Then tried to rebound with McDonnell-Douglas. Come to think of it, every defense aviation contractor is two-named, so that was a bogus TOM! I wasn't jazzed abou...

I figured Billboard 2020 was a sure 0-fer for me, but guessed Eminem correctly simply based on the fact he's a famous Detroit rapper. Even though I got lucky once there, I'd rather not see any recent pop-culture silliness, EVER. I got that one and Roxanne, as neither really required knowledge of th...

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 16, 2020 1:52 pm

Alex opened on commenting about both challengers being "AA" names. Let's see cheezguyty find another set of "AA" players.

I bet this is the first time in Aaron's life he has been in a group of three people and not been first alphabetically.

John Boy wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 15, 2020 8:31 pm

cinemaniax7 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:40 pm

Fred Dean, Hall of Fame DE for 49ers and Chargers, has died after battling COVID-19.

Wow. Happen to know his age? He couldn't have been terribly old. Young and strong and dead from the virus. Just wow.

68. Not exactly a spring chicken, but not very elderly either.

Coryat $31800 (43R, 3W) DD 2/3 FJ :( Had no idea gin came from the Netherlands. FJ not my favorite ever. Too much stabbing in the dark required. The best ones are the ones that force you to think, but then when you've got it, you know you've got it. My brain felt a little off kilter all game. Of cou...

Contronyms $800: I had "detail." Judges? Maybe a detail is something you overlook, though it's not part of the definition...I don't see how you get to "supervision of a project" even if you're referencing a small detachment of troops or police officers given a special duty , as I assume you are... ...

morbeedo wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 14, 2020 4:58 pm

SYMPHONIES

Which of Beethoven's symphonies did Schumann call “a slender Greek maiden between two Nordic giants”?

Spoiler

Symphony No. 4

You have to ask in the form of an answer.....

Contronyms $800: I had "detail." Judges? Assuming it is a neg: Coryat $44,200 (50R, 1W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: Struggled in the J! round, including a goose egg on the $800 row on a bunch of gettable clues. Turned on the afterburners in DJ! with 28/30, and clammed on Kenny Rogers. Making it a point to l...

I am not fond of the answer for the question about the 1937 disaster in Lakewood, New Jersey. The contestant replied, "what is Hindenburg?" Hindenburg is not a disaster. Hindenburg is the name of an airship. The correct response would be, what is the Hindenburg crash, or the Hindenburg explosion. I...

Kind of interesting that you can critique a wager even if you're the sole contestant. His small bet guaranteed that he'd be the first one (so far) cut from the ToC of the 4-game champs. To me, it'd be worth it to bet big and lock up the current 10th spot on the leaderboard - a likely invite if he w...

Coryat $35,800 (45R, 2W) DD 2/3 DJ :mrgreen: LT $11,200 - not quite good enough for the 4th podium victory On DD3, my mind went: Cubist = artist + female American in France -> Mary Cassatt. That's the price you pay for training on Pavlovs, I guess. Ran the NASCAR category, so I guess I absorbed a th...

Haven't seen this episode yet, but the stats make it look like a bloodbath.....

Cockroach. Wasn't puzzled or thrown off by 2010. I just assumed it was a pinning year and of no help beyond that. I can totally see how someone might key in on the year and get off track. I was familiar with the Mexican monarch migrations but that didn't occur to me here. Michoacan just didn't ring...