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What iconic literary character famously mistook windmills for giant monsters?

Don Corleone/Don Quixote/Don Draper

Contestant used the pass and would have said Don Corleone.

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2019 7:29 pm

I instantly rejected "television" on the latter because wasn't that Philo T. Farnsworth?

The clue said "claimant" as the inventor. In the UK, John Logie Baird is said to be the inventor of the television.

Another such claimant of the invention is Vladimir Zworykin.

talkingaway wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2019 9:32 pm

Anyone else mix up Erik the Red with Erik'sson, Leif? Nobody? Just me?

BigDaddyMatty wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 16, 2019 1:24 pm

Starting off by losing the "explorers named Erik" coin flip

980, Greenland == Erik the Red

1000's, Canada, Vinland == Leif Erikson

55 R (Missed Morning TV Shows $1000(Said Rachel Maddow.) and Pop Culture $400 & $2000.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Gustav Holst(Out of all questions in this game. )

Which of the following is there most of in the human body? A. Sweat Glands B. Muscles C. Taste Buds Team's Answers: C B C Not the finest final round tonight. Question #1 The Chunnel is an undersea tunnel that connects England to which country? France/Germany/Ireland Contestant said Ireland. :roll: Q...

55 R (Missed Carrie $1000 and Black Rock.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Four Weddings and a Funeral, Fishing, Murmur, Lake Michigan, Air Supply, (San Francisco), Carl Sandburg

WORDS

This 4-letter name for a violent cold wind in the Adriatic can be found in the names of a Pacific Island, a Cave Complex in Afghanistan, and an Indonesian Volcano.

56 R (Stacy Abrams was my only miss today.) DD: 3/3 FJ: :mrgreen: LT: Elton John, Hoosier Poet, General Electric, Golden Horde, Snidely Whiplash, Grandstand, (Rio Grande), Bryce Canyon I was very excited to see Isabella d'Este on today's show. She is one of my favorite historical figures of all time...

It turns out my Mom was watching Night School on HBO today and just showed me the scene where the store blew up and Kevin Hart landed on the car. Oh well.

56/57 R (Missed Night School(Would have gotten it if I watched this episode after Mom showed me the scene.), Midnight Run, and Crankcase.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Muzzle, Terrazzo, Ardennes, Gird Your Loins, Daniel, (In the Heat of the Night)

2/27 bonus round - :o The first player got the first six right. He then missed. The second player missed. The third player missed. The pass was not used. Three chances for the $10,000 and they went 0/3. Ouch. This happened again on tonight's episode. "The Madison Family" made it to the Bonus Round ...

58 R (Phil Donahue was my only miss. Another that I have heard of, but never would have recognized from the picture.) DD: 3/3 FJ: :mrgreen: LT: *Gallipoli*, 18, Abel Tasman, Woke, Victoria, Sydney, The Member of the Wedding, A-Frame, Mausoleum, Hartford, (Pathfinder) Unsurprisingly, no one has menti...

54 R (Missed Omaha Steaks and Steve Kroft.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Strange Brew, Cinematographers, Sholem Aleichem, (Morse Code), Newport News Cycle, Viola, Support, (Baby Grand Rapids)

For Rahul, Mesmerism is named for a real life Austrian.

The classic children's book character Babar is what kind of animal?

Baboon/Elephant/Duck

The contestant used the pass and would have said Baboon.

Fast Forward to Question 3:

Where does Evian water come from?

French Alps/Swiss Alps/Aspen

Contestant said Aspen.

Category 13 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 07, 2019 9:46 pm

I thought Schoolhouse Rock was a Jack Black movie from 2004 or something.

The Jack Black movie is "School of Rock" and it was from 2003.

53 R (WeWork was my only miss today.)
DD: 2/2
FJ:
LT: Fleet, Clyde, Yoga, (Alaska Airlines), Bail, Soul Man, Antiquark, Self-Reliance, Prada, Zaha Hadid

Knew Nike just from Carolyn Davidson.

48/50. Missed Uncharted and IT. Pop Culture bites.

Ohio, though I have fallen in that trap in the past.
The Champagne question was my only LT miss on Thursday.

The FJ! clue was a fail for me all around. Speed reading the clue I started writing "Don Q" before seeing enough to put on the brakes. Slowing down I processed "Syrian" to Arabic and wrote "The Rubiyat" to compound my errors missing on years, century, language, spelling, etc. :oops: Well, I feel a ...