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Congrats! Two bad moneys (one ridiculous guess on colt 45 that I moneyed for no good reason) and I'm in 348th place, with little chance of making the cut. I got 8 right, so I'm fine with my performance. I completely understand the temptation to money one of those "uncertain" questions. You figure i...

I could not be more thrilled to be in 136th place after the round one reveal. I came very close to maximizing the points I could get with the nine that I answered correctly.

It's going to be a hard fall for me in round two. I would love to still be above the cut line but it's going to be iffy.

Best of retro-active luck to all who are in the Learned League championship. Results will be posted next week (https://learnedleague.com/championship.php?2020 ) It looks like there are MANY current/occasional/former boardies in the qualifier list (https://learnedleague.com/thorsten/champqualifiers....

A hearty congratulations to Boson for his MagA victory, his first ever! Thanks! I made my learned league flag into a car window mounted thing, and I'm driving across town honking my horn. Congrats to the other jboardies who qualified for the championship! It's just nuts that I hung on to finish thi...

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2020 9:52 am

I was floored that 50% thought the Great Salt Lake is larger than Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

I'd say that most of that 50% couldn't name any other "Great" lakes and decided that some answer is better than no answer.

I work in the control room of a commercial nuclear power plant. It's been very interesting recently. In addition to the sending non-essential employees home, we have also restricted access to the control room to only those with a critical business need, we are using nitrile gloves when operating com...

38% knew how to convert decimal to hexadecimal? Really ? That might've been the longest I've ever spent on a question. I got it right (and guessed the right answer first) but yikes. I could probably have nuked out the hexadecimal conversion if I had to, but instead I used this thought process: It's...

Today I Learned: the game "Cootie" isn't anywhere near as universally known as I thought. To be fair, I knew exactly which game the question was about, but couldn't remember the title. It took me a good couple hours of thinking about it to remember the name. I got stuck on centipede or millipede fo...

LL84 Rundles are posted. Looks like BlishS has ronan'd his way over to A Horizon. Chalk up another 'L' for me...

Joined. I'll volunteer to be the "A-" cannon fodder for the sake of having an even number.

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2020 1:23 pm

I honestly thought the category was very tough for non-Michiganders. Interlochen in particular seemed obscure even for the bottom box.

Agree, I think everything except Grand Rapids was pretty tough. Jackson should have been the $2000 and the other two omitted.

As a lifelong resident of the Great Lakes State, I would have to forfeit my Michigan Card if I hadn't ran the category. And I'm slightly annoyed that there was no love for the U.P.

An average get rate for the day of 34.8% is quite low. I haven't been tracking those, but it was definitely one of the harder days this season. ETA: I found where you can see each day's get rate. 35% is the lowest. Monday's was 38%, which is the second lowest. Tough week so far. Is it just me, or w...

How do you spell the one where you agonize trying to decide between Elton John and Billy Joel, only to discover that the answer is Stevie Wonder? I would have had no chance on that one except that it came up at my pub quiz a couple of years ago as a final question, and it cost us the game. I always...

boson wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 03, 2019 7:20 am

(Plus,I have some quiet grumbling suspicion of our two-time rundle winner. I don't believe the stats.)

Yes, it looks pretty fishy. She must have spent those three forfeit days studying super-duper-hard to improve so much in one season...

And I've stared at the Degas statue in question at the Art Institute of Chicago enough that, after I convinced myself that Rodin could not possibly be the answer (his Burghers of Calais was a commissioned artwork, after all), I managed to come around to the correct answer. Rodin was my only other t...

Always happy when I am one of the five that posts a score for my particular Rundle. Even more impressive for me personally was that my score was used in an A Rundle for the first time ever. Of course, Horizon had experienced quite the exodus of it's former elite players. I think we were a top 5 leag...

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 14, 2019 1:47 pm

Only 35% recognize the Mercury Seven? I'm flabbergasted.

I almost missed it because I immediately went "Astronauts = Moon = Luna!" Then I read it again...

I have had the Mercury Seven memorized ever since the Jeopardy Ultimate ToC final game. Wow, that's been fourteen years now.

I have to constantly remind myself that "puzzler" clues should be overweighted for defense, no matter how quickly I myself solve the "puzzle". My poor defense cost me a tie or possibly a win against BigDaddyMatty yesterday.

I'm curious about people who got Fill or Kill. Did you just guess? Did you know it? I consider myself very well versed in finance and I don't think I have ever heard that phrase before (but I don't deal with trading admittedly). Back when I was much more actively trading stocks in my Roth IRA, I re...