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Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:02 pm
by Paucle
BADuBois wrote:And was tickled to see my native state of N.H. pop up in two clues; the state quarter one, and the novel "Peyton Place."
I was hoping they'd get a bit bolder if they did NH in that category, something like: "Though visible when it was issued, the rock formation on their quarter no longer exists." Or something like that.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:03 pm
by TenPoundHammer
^ Nice accidental pun (bolder).

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:07 pm
by This Is Kirk!
TenPoundHammer wrote:I ran Misnamed Animals, but couldn't get puma = panther.
Huh. Interesting definition of running a category.

For FJ I wrote down Dadaism. The "blue instead of black" just seemed like a non sequitur so that led me to an art movement that praised nonsense. Impressionism sure seems like a better guess in retrospect, though :)

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:09 pm
by Magna
dhkendall wrote:Now that I looked it up ill try to remember that the Rhone is entirely in the south of France, despite not sounding very French at all.
Its upper reaches also flow through Switzerland, including some of the German-speaking sections.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:10 pm
by ComingUpMilhouse
This Is Kirk! wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:I ran Misnamed Animals, but couldn't get puma = panther.
Huh. Interesting definition of running a category.
Puma = panther was in Synonyms (but is related to animals, obviously).

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:14 pm
by econgator
dhkendall wrote:Ok, this is rather embarrassing for a geography geek to admit, but lately I'm always getting Rhine and Rhone mixed up. I keep thinking the Rhone is also in Germany and drains into the North Sea via the Low Countries. Now that I looked it up ill try to remember that the Rhone is entirely in the south of France, despite not sounding very French at all.
I've always kept them straight by remembering (via similar sounds) the Rhone flows through Avignon, ergo French.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:16 pm
by This Is Kirk!
Also Rhone in French has the little hat over the "o." Remember that and you know it's a (predominantly) French river.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:34 pm
by silverscreentest
Painter would have also been a correct response in addition to Panther.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:39 pm
by NoName84
I went with Der Blaue Reiter for FJ!

Obscure? So was Liederkranz.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:50 pm
by Volante
MarkBarrett wrote:William Gates and Gates Brown are too obscure so the writers had to use Brandenburg Gate to find a fifth clue?
*looks at avatar* But clearly you were okay with the Golden Gate as a clue!
(Also, they used William Gates for the top: Bill Gates (Microsoft)'s mostly full name is William H. Gates, III. I would've gone all Walter Chrysler on that one, too. :D )
This Is Kirk! wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:I ran Misnamed Animals, but couldn't get puma = panther.
Huh. Interesting definition of running a category.

For FJ I wrote down Dadaism. The "blue instead of black" just seemed like a non sequitur so that led me to an art movement that praised nonsense. Impressionism sure seems like a better guess in retrospect, though :)
Yeah, I was hemming between dada, abstract, minimalism, and surrealism. Impression just...felt wrong as an answer despite it coming to mind first.

Apparently the lack of pure black is an impressionist technique. :|

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:51 pm
by OrangeSAM
MarkBarrett wrote:I forgot about the griping on (Henry) Louis Gates. If the last name alone is fine then there is no problem adding a correct middle name as long as the category is not requiring a first name for a quotes qualifier or something. It hurts the ears, but Allan Poe, Davison Rockefeller, Wilson Reagan etc. all have to be accepted.
In this case, though, the last name alone would be insufficient since it was part of category name.

I don't see how Louis Gates was accepted.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:08 am
by bomtr
MarkBarrett wrote:I forgot about the griping on (Henry) Louis Gates. If the last name alone is fine then there is no problem adding a correct middle name as long as the category is not requiring a first name for a quotes qualifier or something. It hurts the ears, but Allan Poe, Davison Rockefeller, Wilson Reagan etc. all have to be accepted.
But the category had 'gates' in it, yes? Which would invalidate the last name alone argument, and I should think in the category 'Booth' (or somesuch) that Wilkes Booth would neither be acceptable. I think Louis Gates should not have been accepted. In the category 'Dead Kennedys': this man had a bad day on a Dallas plaza in 1963. Who is Fitzgerald Kennedy? BMS might be called for in all three instances.

I agree that Alex's reacting to Salvo's successful ring on Italy was inappropriate and careless. I wasn't listening to the FJ, since I had played it off this thread earlier, but using an accent there would also be inappropriate. What the hell?

As mentioned, chorale was homophone, not synonym. I had refrain, and to me, Salvo looked surprised when chorale was ruled incorrect. It read to me less as a desperation guess than as a (perhaps momentary) misapprehension of the category. But what do I know?

I came to impressionism, after running through Picasso's Blue Period (a period is not a movement, and a change of color could have no connection to cubism), Fauvism, Hudson River School (would they talk about changing the color of the river from black to blue?). Nothing made sense, so impressionism seemed most likely.

ETA: Man, I'm slow.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:15 am
by billy pilgrim
I wondered if Salvo was thinking he was still in the 'starts with CH' category for that chorale answer. I know I was.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:26 am
by groovitude
svocan wrote:
groovitude wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:"Synonym for chorus" -> "corral"? RTFC, man.
"Chorale" is a homophone. It wasn't a great guess, but it wasn't as egregious as you make it out to be.
Wow, harsh. Yes, I couldn't think of refrain, so I went with a homophone, chorale/corral. Man.
I decided to look up "chorale," to discover that it can also refer to a chorus. I've only ever heard it refer to a performed piece before.

Summarily, you've been upgraded to "best possible incorrect guess," and I've thrown my degree in the rubbish bin.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:47 am
by svocan
svocan wrote:
groovitude wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:"Synonym for chorus" -> "corral"? RTFC, man.
"Chorale" is a homophone. It wasn't a great guess, but it wasn't as egregious as you make it out to be.
Wow, harsh. Yes, I couldn't think of refrain, so I went with a homophone, chorale/corral. Man.
groovitude wrote:I decided to look up "chorale," to discover that it can also refer to a chorus. I've only ever heard it refer to a performed piece before.

Summarily, you've been upgraded to "best possible incorrect guess," and I've thrown my degree in the rubbish bin.
Thank you! As I sing in a chorus whose name includes the word "Chorale," it was the first thing that came to mind. ;)

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 12:53 am
by This Is Kirk!
ComingUpMilhouse wrote:
This Is Kirk! wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:I ran Misnamed Animals, but couldn't get puma = panther.
Huh. Interesting definition of running a category.
Puma = panther was in Synonyms (but is related to animals, obviously).
Yes. Good catch. Consider my questioning of your definition of running a category withdrawn, TPH :)

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:09 am
by billy pilgrim
I also said 'painter' for puma. I've seen "Track of the Cat". Robert Mitchum and Tab Hunter. You should see it too.It's intense.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 1:25 am
by seaborgium
I got the refrain DD thanks to the old supposed gaffe from a student, which I must have read over 15 years ago in a Richard Lederer book: "Refrain means don't do it. In music it's the part you'd better not sing."

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:19 am
by stevo4212
WTF with Final Jeopardy, Well, I guess they say if it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

Isn't Mormonism a Christian religion? Why does Jeopardy get away with that nonsense? unique religion X 4 then Mormonism.

Re: Monday, April 8, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:56 am
by thenextofken
Art is my anti-wheelhouse category, but I got this one due to a WAG. I frankly had no idea--just tried to think of an art movement.