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COLLEGE-POURRI $600: I rang in [on the Bowling Green clue] with Kentucky and was shocked to be wrong... or something like that.

got to hawaii from pele, but i went with mauna loa . Ditto. Pretty sure it wasn't that one, but couldn't pull the correct name. I got as far as Hawaii and knowing it was K... but couldn't get my head away from Krakatoa despite knowing it was wrong. Hell, I honeymooned on the Big Island back in fall...

I thought yesterday's set (MD 19) was brutal. I only got two right (Stallone/Rocky and Singapore). I've heard of the Bechdel test, but couldn't come up with the name. Agreed. I felt bad about getting only 3 right (narrowly missed the Taco Bell one) but then saw that Reddpen, my opponent for the day...

However, the "black bird" weapon was the stealth bomber not produced until decades after 1945.... Not quite. Blackbird was the SR-71 plane that flew much farther above earth than previous reconnaissance planes, but I don't think it employed stealth technology (which iirc was introduced in the 1980s...

Did trout have the highest get rate? Surely the highest in a long time. I read that one, and went, "Seriously, Thorsten?" This is only my 8th season but its the highest I can remember...I wonder what the get rate would've been if he left off rainbow. Yeah, were I writing that I'd have left off rain...

Interested in what people's thought process on the San Antonio one was. Asked for a city with an "eventful history concerning military compounds" I came up with San Antonio, Charleston (Fort Sumter) and Honolulu (Pearl Harbor) and didn't really know how to narrow it down from there. I went with Cha...

For FJ I knew it was a single syllable city and was pretty sure it started with G and ended in "th", but the closest I could get was Goth. Kinda doubt the judges would have given me that. Now if Goth had been correct and I'd written Gath...

If Ryno doesn't mind outing themself, who are you in A Cont? Mainly curious because I know bomtr, hbomb, KillerTomato, slam, StevenH and Woof IRL, assuming trivia conventions count. I'm PenroseB and have yet to crack the top three in any A rundle.
Good luck, everyone!

The man in the white t-shirt is reddpen. Unless, of course, since I don't know armandillo, he is reddpen's identical twin. Even if I had a long-lost identical twin, that story wouldn't match ElendilPickle's about meeting a brother she never knew about. These were taken as I was inhaling a pint so W...

TFW you put a defensive 3 on a question with a 15% get rate, by far the day's hardest... and it's the only one your opponent gets right. I know, wanh. Perhaps I should start caring more about MCWA than DE cuz that's what I'm best at this season: 17 and counting, my highest total ever. All season lon...

With 3 match days to go, somehow I'm 1st in B Continental. The top 5 LLamas in my rundle get promoted. If I end up in an A rundle for LL82, I expect the results to be similar to my only other season at A level (LL60), when I went 5-16-4. Looks like 14 people in your rundle have at least a mathemati...

My first Dolly. I guess my Language score is higher than I realized, so I was assigned 0 for the cane/perro question. Unfortunately I didn't know it. I got a Dolly too, though not my first--that came in my second match ever, LL50 MD2 vs. soroban (CraigR). Took umpteen years of French but no Spanish...

Saw the Patterson/DuBois title on the bestseller list in Sunday's Arts section and was like 'Wait a minute...' Very cool, Brendan!

morbeedo wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 22, 2019 10:01 pm

Never heard of Kaspar Hauser, but that's a story I want to read more about

From noted historian Suzanne Vega:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcklUmfHcJQ
Knowing the song did not, however, get me to that answer, but I did pull "Rocky Mountain High" and FJ.

Seattle, 42

Hey all. Gonna pimp my blog for just a minute. I scanned a pair of old (more than 30 years) Games Magazine articles about Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune that people might be interested in. Have a look, won't you? https://theycallittrivia.blogspot.com/2019/04/wheel-of-fortune-and-jeopardy-articles.h...

The "halogen" clue definitely [ETA: did not ask ed --thanks for the corrections, all!] for a 6-letter word. Even counting that as a miss, I think I got 42. Misses: 5 Red Dead Redemption 11 Billions 13 solicitor (said barrister) 17 Bolshoi (said Ballet Russe just to type something) 31 Pavarotti (said...

What was the TOM in that subject line?

44/50 from the video--thanks, Sue! Missed (with what) 1. Grant (Burr... and I know he wasn't a general) 11. Viola Davis (blank) 30. Alps (Apennines) 41. Wonder Woman (Sparta--yes, I'm embarrassed) 44. HRC (Conway--see above) 50. "Shake It Off" (made up a song called "Blonde") The thing women don't u...

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2019 9:49 am

Serious ennui upon coming into work, logging in to my computer and finding the LearnedLeague site down. What the heck am I going to do?

Read the VBWAs, especially #27.