groovitude wrote:J! Round
$9,600 Coryats / $12,000 without negatives
* I ran Which Religion's Holiday and clammed on the $1000 clue for Ends in "Sh." I guess the voices in my head started talking about a perfect game to jinx me.
* I was shocked Paul McCartney was missing from the Bass and Vocals category. I was secretly hoping for Les Claypool, too, but at least we got Geddy Lee. I couldn't remember if Simmons played bass or guitar, and was waffling between him and Ace Frehley when the answer was given. Shucks.
* Whiffed on the DD; guessed Arizona instead of the proper New Mexico.
Usually GS played bass for KISS, but on Love Gun (the song, not the album) and most of Dynasty, the bass parts were played by Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley, depending on who sang.
Another problem with FJ, besides the Blue Rider debacle, is that, if you remember high school art, Impressionism was named for a Monet painting: Impression Sunrise. This doesn't square with Jeopardy's account of the origin. But, then again, I guess there's always more to the story.
alietr wrote:Somehow never made it the O, though Primanti's in The Strip (as well as Benkovitz) was a regular destination. That and Chiodo's in Homestead.
I hate to tell you this, but Chido's is gone. It's now a Walgreen's and Subway.
"Physics is to mathematics as sex is to masturbation." - Richard Feynman.
xxaaaxx wrote:Well, at least my strategy of 'name a random -ism' worked. Is that a famous anecdote? Is there some connection that I was supposed to make? Wasn't happening here.
Wasn't happening here either. I have no idea why they thought that quote would or should lead us to the correct response. I figured "blue" was the TOM somehow and followed it to Picasso but didn't know where to go from there. I ended up saying Cubism even though I knew Picasso's blue period was not the same as his cubist period. I thought Mark's guess of Fauvism was terrific and Salvo's of Modernism wasn't bad either. Anne's guess of Impressionism was by far the weakest. Except for the part where it was right.
I used the same thinking to arrive at Cubism. I still don't know what about this clue was supposed to lead to a correct answer, other than, perhaps, you know it or you don't.
alietr wrote:I have no idea where they pulled that from, but I'd hardly call it how the movement was born. I know a fair amount about Impressionism, and had never heard this one. In fact, if you Google the quote (in quotes), there aren't an awful lot of references to it on the Web. Nope, this was a real stinker of a clue with very little pointing you correctly to the response. Boo, hiss. (FTR, I responded Fauvism to have something regarding color.)
How the movement was born? IIRC it came from the single work "Impression: Sunrise" or something to that effect. Nothing whatsoever to do with which color they had or ran out of.
That's exactly right. It's was Monet's "Impression, Soleil Levant" that lent its name to the movement. While color is obviously an important factor, it is not a defining characteristic.
groovitude wrote:J! Round
$9,600 Coryats / $12,000 without negatives
* I ran Which Religion's Holiday and clammed on the $1000 clue for Ends in "Sh." I guess the voices in my head started talking about a perfect game to jinx me.
* I was shocked Paul McCartney was missing from the Bass and Vocals category. I was secretly hoping for Les Claypool, too, but at least we got Geddy Lee. I couldn't remember if Simmons played bass or guitar, and was waffling between him and Ace Frehley when the answer was given. Shucks.
* Whiffed on the DD; guessed Arizona instead of the proper New Mexico.
Usually GS played bass for KISS, but on Love Gun (the song, not the album) and most of Dynasty, the bass parts were played by Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley, depending on who sang.
Would you believe I listened to Dynasty just the other night? Ace did some good singing on that one.