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"12? Rat and dragon? Sounds like the Chinese zodiac. Um...Confucius? No that doesn't make sense...was it a Buddhist thing? Eh, sure, Buddha." Whatever works. Same thought process here. And of course the astronomy category was left for the end. AGAIN! *grumble grumble $1800 left on the board...*

Entertainment/sports group of Texans on Nickelodeon:
Rockapellya'll

Though I was all but certain WitWiCS? aired on PBS I figured it was worth the stretch

I'm friends with my opponent from yesterday on Facebook, so I knew he was a booze connoisseur (he's been "brand ambassador" for two businesses with "spirits" in their name, and another job title on his profile is "drinks writer"), and that he's currently traveling through Italy, so I gave him 0 for...

Woof wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 11:37 am

BTW, for those calling Alex's current beard a goatee: it's not. It's a van Dyke. If he gets rid of the mustache and soul patch regions, then it will be a goatee.

Does that mean it also speaks in a horrible Cockney accent?

Reese’s story was about being a bourbon enthusiast while none of the players got the French royal house clue. Let alone that the others didn't get it. When HE didn't get it, all I could think of was "What IRONY!" I muffed that one hilariously. "Royal house? Uhh... Versailles?..." Cause they listed ...

Bulleit was my scale tipper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleit_Bourbon Glad that worked, but of course that's a lucky hint since the county is spelled differently than the bourbon and the distillery isn't even in Bullitt County. Turns out four out of five listed counties are in BOTH Tennessee a...

Eliud Kipchoge, gold medal winner in the men's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics, breaks the world record in the marathon by 76 seconds at the Berlin Marathon. The record now stands at 2:01:39. note that like so many great distance runners, he is Kenyan Looks like I missed this last year... For Bre...

Requoting to say that yesterday blew those days out of the water in terms of difficulty. Funny, I’ve really been struggling this season, but Monday was one of the days where I felt the beer was in reach, yet ended up with just 4 right because I thought Fort Knox was in TN Fort Knox is in KY, but Kn...

Japanese billionaire, entrepreneur and online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa [was chosen to be SpaceX's first lunar orbit passenger.] He is expected to lift-off on the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), a launch system unveiled by Mr Musk in 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45550755 So app...

A pika, when reached for comment on their mention as a clue, replied, "EEEEEP!"

Funny, I was just looking at my stats for the year and I am down about 6% in correct answer percentage. Then I looked at the get rates for the last few seasons and for this year and its been much harder. For LL75-LL77, correct % leaguewide was between about 50.5% and 51.5% and this season so far is...

Wed - '-ine'

Linear Gnome wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 15, 2018 8:07 pm

I do not plan to watch the draft because I'm not on Facebook.

Should be a checkbox for this option

It took me until this morning to figure out what the heck Thorsten was going for with that Lord North question. Yeah, I guess there was no Lord Ottoman. I ended up in the wrong war. I guessed that he was looking for the Civil War and after some though put Lord Grey. Same, well, I went with Earl Gre...

I should've capitalized it. Sorry.
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Unlike Morrison, that time it paid off

Anybody else snap-answer Looking Glass for the Brandy question? Yes, me. That one was so in my wheelhouse that it's embarrassing. It was an obvious defensive three-pointer, too. How many people are going to remember Looking Glass? Doh! Everyone who puts the the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 soundt...

When I miss things like Scott Morrison being the PM of Australia, it makes me feel like I'm not a serious trivia player. Like, it's 1 page back in the Current Events thread. Why am I not reviewing that thing every night before I open the day's questions? It makes me mad at myself. Would have turned...

Amusingly, Bedtime for Bonzo premiered in Indianapolis, though Reagan was not in attendance according to the clipping. It was also ~11 years too late. https://ia800502.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/23/items/motionpicturedai69unse/motionpicturedai69unse_jp2.zip&file=motionpictur...

opusthepenguin wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:42 am

Volante wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 13, 2018 9:19 am

But what if you've never heard the pronunciation and know French loves it's superfluous ending letters?

Almost as much as we love our superfluous apostrophe's.

All language's need their quirk's

Ricky Bobby cost me a perfect, could not dredge up Talladega at all. As penance, I've put it on the top of my Netflix queue.

Since we don't nasalize, I'm not seeing how the added "e" definitively changes the pronunciation in English. Heroine, valentine, and gasoline are all variously pronounced. This seems as ticky tack as the "k-ru-soe" vs "kru-soe" talk yesterday. Even without nasalization, Guillotin's last syllable st...