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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: My dad and brother started precalling historic lists after the category reveal, and the 95 Theses were probably the first named. I think I would have gotten it right anyway. I was on my way to figuring out 12 when my dad got it...

I've heard "jimmies" once before (or more than once from the same place: one of the guys from the GameGrumps channel on YouTube referred to sprinkles as "jimmies," and I previously thought he could have been joking. (For the record, he comes from the south of Florida.) Actually, on seeing the pictur...

This is the current "website is currently paused" video. Because they say "it's Friday" in the video and it's currently Friday on the west coast, I'm not assuming it's the same new video that was reported upthread, but it might be. Confirm/deny? That was the same video I saw a couple of days ago, y...

This is the current "website is currently paused" video. Because they say "it's Friday" in the video and it's currently Friday on the west coast, I'm not assuming it's the same new video that was reported upthread, but it might be. Confirm/deny?

'Retired Sports Team Numbers' was a category I could sink my teeth into. Naturally, the players avoided it until almost no other clues were left. Easy run of the category. I ran that category, and sports generally is a nightmare category for me. Those were either easy clues or I'm improving a lot. ...

What was the TOM for "wall" in Modern Activism for $400? I said "ladder" which IMO makes more sense. "Amnesty International wants more communities to accept refugees, asking for a longer table, not a taller this structure" "Ladder" doesn't make sense. A longer table is a metaphor for accepting refu...

Poll request on the Clemson fight song. I went to an ACC school and have been following ACC sports for 20 years, and the only part of that song I know is "C, L, E, M, S, O........... N!" What's the cultural relevance to anyone who didn't go to Clemson? And LSV didn't know it either, which says a lo...

I read "contraction" as "conjunction" in the Meat Loaf clue and called it "And I Would Do Anything for Love." Whoops. What was the TOM for "wall" in Modern Activism for $400? I said "ladder" which IMO makes more sense. "Amnesty International wants more communities to accept refugees, asking for a lo...

How have I gone all my life without knowing "fiasco" is just the Italian for flask, that it comes from the phrase far fiasco , which literally makes to "make a bottle", and that its figurative sense of "fail in a performance" is etymologically unexplained? Maybe it's related somehow to "pear-shaped...

Latitude, Hirschfeld, meter, parrot, merit, miter, and Rin Tin Tin were my gets, while I negged with ticks instead of mites and also made the TN/KY mixup for Fort Knox, giving me a total of $5,000, shy of a fourth-podium win on my Algonquin Round Table get. So let's just imagine I go straight from m...

mujason wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:23 pm

Volante wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:02 pm

Has anyone spelt the response outside of times when the category dictates you spell it?...

I seem to recall a contestant once spelled the city of Brno.

I got curious and found it with ease. A "B" CITY, $500. http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=217

You're pretty wrong about this. Did/do you feel the same way about Malala Yousafzai? Had to look her up. I still think they wouldn't even have given her the time of day if she weren't a kid. That's the impression I get literally every single time a kid does something noteworthy. They just get 15 mi...

Would they have accepted "Zosa" for "Xhosa?" I would've gotten it for sure if it were an FJ, but pronouncing it is another matter. Considering that the first sound in the word is supposed to be a click and that I don't think the writers expect that of the contestants, I can't imagine they'd neg any...

Equator, neg on silk (with "canvas"; clearly I confused airplanes with boxing), Car Talk, metronome, Holliday, (Thunberg,) fiasco, oaks, Novoselic, Elliott, fencing, and precinct, plus FJ right for an easy win from $12,600. (Also I had raptor and operetta, but I'll leave those alone; I'm winning $19...

I was trying to think of two-word novel/movie titles; it was the only question in yesterday's set that I didn't have a fairly immediate answer for. I don't remember what my first ideas were, but I was inferring a particular time frame that the titles weren't fitting. Then Gone Girl popped randomly i...

I got Luther's 95 Theses right away and then skipped forward wondering if it would be a triple stumper. It would have been awful if Alex had been the only one to get that right and then blew it because of her lousy wager. I don't get it. Both her opponents finished below her pre-FJ total, so there ...

I got Luther's 95 Theses right away and then skipped forward wondering if it would be a triple stumper. It would have been awful if Alex had been the only one to get that right and then blew it because of her lousy wager. I don't get it. Both her opponents finished below her pre-FJ total, so there ...

"Lion of the Senate" isn't an instaget for Ted Kennedy? I guess we lost our Boston-area contestant yesterday, but still, I thought that was always a very well-known thing. I guess that's the thing about trivia - it's easy if you know it. I for one was thrown by the wording: "His dad was the 'Lion o...

Looks like "thorough" for "through" was a vanishingly rare J! typo in the albatross clue (DJ, Ends in "SS" $1600) from Rime of the Ancient Mariner . "At length did cross" this bird, "thorough the fog it came" That's a direct quote from the poem. English ain't what she were. edit: in fact, "through"...

CasketRomance wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:25 am

jeff6286 wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 01, 2019 4:19 am

Oh come on, even at 4:18 AM I get sniped by seaborgium! Get these west coast whippersnappers off my lawn.

dude does live in the pacific time zone

He's aware, which is precisely why he's calling me a west coast whippersnapper.