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Sherm wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:46 pm

Its worth remembering that Quito isn't even the biggest city in Ecuador, Guayaquil is.

Actually Quito recently surpassed Guayaquil in population. But Guayaquil's metro area is still bigger.

Here is some encouraging new: if Jeopardy listens that is. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/reading-rainbow-host-levar-burton-jeopardy-host/story?id=76921150&cid=clicksource_4380645_19_post_hero_card_hed&fbclid=IwAR2YeLXNG8N_Wdbe420YUABjNe6J_IBRztDqnpUvLl-A0mXO_cJH_Y1BUwQ That's not really news. ...

Thanks, alietr, for providing the context. If you asked 100 literate, well-educated people to copy-edit that passage, I suspect none would flag the "a." That in itself demonstrates that it's idiomatic English.

I was reading an article about a guy who tried to ship himself in a crate from Australia to London back in 1965. It had this sentence, "the stowaway was sent home to London on a plane - this time in the cabin." Imagine if that had said "a cabin". It would sound completely off, right? Bad English. I...

I was expecting a reversal on "messy." Obviously it's not as good a response as the intended one, but the clue is hardly well pinned.

I loved that all the Ken Burns clues used the Ken Burns effect.

I'm excited about Rodgers. He's the first guest host I've seen who seemed like he was being himself, rather than doing an Alex imitation. That's what I've been begging for.

I hope everyone boycotting Dr. Oz didn’t laugh at the “snowflakes” who refused to watch Couric. I'm sorry, but this is an absurd comparison. Couric has occasionally expressed opinions that people disagreed with. Oz has built his career on promoting fraudulent and potentially dangerous medical treat...

Drawing card is an entirely common phrase, used well beyond the sports world, for someone or something that attracts an audience (or just attention). I'm really surprised that folks here are claiming to be unfamiliar with it. As for Dr. Quack, he has no business hosting a show about facts. I'll fin...

I also loved the Sting epilogue.

"Phrasing in the form of a question in SJ" is the "Obamacare individual mandate" of the game-show world.

I got a bit confused on "Left-Leaning". My understanding is that the present parties swapped positions around the '60s and I don't know if the clue meant "Left" as "democratic" or "Left" based on policies. If you're suggesting that the Democratic Party was not a left-wing party in 1912, you're righ...

The U.K.'s House of Commons uses this 4-word electoral system where a simple majority of votes determines the winner of the race This is wrong. First-past-the-post means that the winner is required to receive only a plurality of votes. That a majority isn't required is the main distinguishing featu...

I was rooting for a scoreless tie after Mt. Rainier was a TS. I had no idea my wish would be so close to coming true! Rainier is the highest U.S. peak outside of AK, CA, and CO, and given its proximity to the dense population around Seattle and Tacoma, when (not if) it erupts, it has the potential t...

MattKnowles wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:06 pm

How many people got Samuel Barber?

Me! Then again, I'm a music teacher. Then again, Adagio for Strings is one of the most famous classical pieces of the 20th century. Then again, I needed a second to shift my mind out of the Renaissance, and maybe the contestants had the same problem.

Thank goodness for that T. It meant that Ken's pause after Andy's "political" response -- which was unambiguously wrong -- didn't cost Alan the game.

AntmanB wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 18, 2021 7:16 pm

I Put Down Biden just to have something Down. i could think of any young people who didnt win.

Biden is old, but he's not that old!

Since Ken knows everything in the world, I assume he knows what a volley is, but maybe not since he implied that that response was wrong because of the number of letters. For the record, a "volley" is a stroke that is hit before the ball bounces (its opposite is "groundstroke"). It is not a synonym ...

The Costa Concordia wreck was a terrible tragedy, but at least it gave us this front page:

It's the symbol for an unstressed vowel, such as the middle one in the word "je-pər-dē" This is just wrong. Lots of unstressed vowels are not schwas -- for instance, the last vowel of that very word they used as an example. Secondary stress. :P Take the comma out of the clue and it's giving an exam...

It's the symbol for an unstressed vowel, such as the middle one in the word "je-pər-dē"

This is just wrong. Lots of unstressed vowels are not schwas -- for instance, the last vowel of that very word they used as an example.

threearruda wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 03, 2021 8:13 pm

The Cape Cod TS hurt for this New Englander

Ditto, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were confused because Cape Cod hasn't actually been a peninsula since 1914.

Play me a little Bach on this old-time type of keyboard instrument that's "Well-Tempered" in a Bach title

Oy. "Clavier" just means "keyboard." It does not refer to any specific instrument, old-time or otherwise. A modern piano, or for that matter the very latest synthesizer, is a "clavier."