2013 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 1 Instant Replay Thread

[DadofTwins]

Comments, quibbles, suggestions, and anything else I need to know goes here.

[Creed Bratton]

Yum...a whole bunch of chowder in the movie category.

[econgator]

Yum...a whole bunch of chowder in the movie category.

*nod* Would help more if I had a clue who Bernard Schwartz and Lucille Leseuer were.

[hbomb1947]

Yum...a whole bunch of chowder in the movie category.

*nod* Would help more if I had a clue who Bernard Schwartz and Lucille Leseuer were.

Knowing who Bernard Schwartz was wouldn't have helped me on that clue . . .

[teapot37]

Yum...a whole bunch of chowder in the movie category.

*nod* Would help more if I had a clue who Bernard Schwartz and Lucille Leseuer were.

Tony Curtis and Joan Crawford.

[WooWho?]

I did better than I thought in Descriptive Characters, but yeah...I'll gladly take my bowl of chowder and see what the correct responses to the second category were.

(Except the first one. That one I got no problem.)

[rmfromfla]

I'll take my bowl of chowder too, as long as it isn't Manhattan-style.

Got locked in to thinking Lucille Leseur was Lucille Ball....wrong! (Lucille Ball's real last name is McGillicuddy.)

[alietr]

Crap. Totally forgot guessing gets you dinged. Too used to LL. Shoulda clammed on that one question.

[RandyG]

I'll always welcome a classic film category. But "The Defiant Ones" seemed kinda hard for a 6-pointer, especially compared to others in the category. I guess the category itself made all the clues potentially harder since you had to first know who the movie stars were. On that note....

This reminded me of a question that I posed on a Classic Cinema TD some moons ago. In fact, upon checking the archive, it turns out that two of the thespians in today's category appeared in that TD question, which was posted after TD108. (And the third was in my original draft, but dropped before posting.) I quote:

10. ATTORNEY: Chicolini, when were you born?
CHICOLINI: I don't remember. I was just a little baby.
Name the legendary star who was born with one of the following names. (You don't need to associate with a birth name.)

(a) Judith Tuvim
(b) Bernard Schwartz
(c) Allen Stewart Konigsberg
(d) Melvin Kaminsky
(e) Betty Joan Perske
(f) Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
(g) Lucille LeSueur
(h) Issur Danielovitch Demsky
(i) Adolph Arthur Marx
(j) William Claude Dukenfield

Also..... Better Davis

[ahirbhairav]

I'm quite sure that The Defiant Ones is a 1958 flick, and not a 1959 one.

[plasticene]

The first three answers to the Descriptive Names category threw me off: Good Samaritan, Big Brother, and Artful Dodger led me to think the answers had to be of the form [Descriptive Adjective] [Noun]. I'd never heard the Fool in King Lear called anything but The Fool, but Motley seemed like the most likely adjective to precede Fool. The name Franklin crossed my mind, but when I couldn't come up with an adjective for it, I dismissed it.

[cinemaniax7]

I'm quite sure that The Defiant Ones is a 1958 flick, and not a 1959 one.

Yes, but this quibble is not deserving of a RQ. The movie was released in September 1958, and it earned an Oscar (for cinematography) at the Academy Awards ceremony held in April 1959. But if you didn't arrive at the correct film based on the rest of the clue (and the fact that it was released in the lat '50s), I don't believe 1958 was going to make a difference.

[econgator]

I'm quite sure that The Defiant Ones is a 1958 flick, and not a 1959 one.

Yes, but this quibble is not deserving of a RQ.

And one has to wonder how an 11-year-old knows that ...

[MarkBarrett]

I'm quite sure that The Defiant Ones is a 1958 flick, and not a 1959 one.

Yes, but this quibble is not deserving of a RQ.

And one has to wonder how an 11-year-old knows that ...

I agree no RQ. In case it ever comes up Carl Weathers and Robert Urich did a TV remake in the '80s sometime.

[MDaunt]

I'm quite sure that The Defiant Ones is a 1958 flick, and not a 1959 one.

Yes, but this quibble is not deserving of a RQ.

And one has to wonder how an 11-year-old knows that ...

He/she is really 11?

[DadofTwins]

The first three answers to the Descriptive Names category threw me off: Good Samaritan, Big Brother, and Artful Dodger led me to think the answers had to be of the form [Descriptive Adjective] [Noun]. I'd never heard the Fool in King Lear called anything but The Fool, but Motley seemed like the most likely adjective to precede Fool. The name Franklin crossed my mind, but when I couldn't come up with an adjective for it, I dismissed it.

Thanks for pointing this out. When I re-ordered them for difficulty, I didn't notice that I had put the two-word ones at the top. I'll keep an eye on that going forward.

Also, I'd like to hear the opinion of the players on this concept:

I originally wrote the "Cliff Clavin FJ" category as multiple-choice, but changed my mind since I generally don't like those categories on The Show. I was afraid the way I posted it would play like a TOC category, but I'm relieved to see that it seems to be going OK so far.

Still, I'm posting the original here, curious to know which way you think is better.

ARCHIBALD LEACH, BERNARD SCHWARTZ, OR LUCILLE LESUEUR

3: Won an Oscar in 1946 for a role in Mildred Pierce.

6: Nominated for an Oscar along with Sidney Poitier as The Defiant Ones.

9: This person's character was kidnapped at the beginning of North by Northwest.

12: Played a wheelchair-bound character living with Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

15: In 1937, played half of a husband-and-wife ghost couple trying to make the life of Topper more interesting.

[dhkendall]

The first three answers to the Descriptive Names category threw me off: Good Samaritan, Big Brother, and Artful Dodger led me to think the answers had to be of the form [Descriptive Adjective] [Noun]. I'd never heard the Fool in King Lear called anything but The Fool, but Motley seemed like the most likely adjective to precede Fool. The name Franklin crossed my mind, but when I couldn't come up with an adjective for it, I dismissed it.

Thanks for pointing this out. When I re-ordered them for difficulty, I didn't notice that I had put the two-word ones at the top. I'll keep an eye on that going forward.

Also, I'd like to hear the opinion of the players on this concept:

I originally wrote the "Cliff Clavin FJ" category as multiple-choice, but changed my mind since I generally don't like those categories on The Show. I was afraid the way I posted it would play like a TOC category, but I'm relieved to see that it seems to be going OK so far.

Still, I'm posting the original here, curious to know which way you think is better.

ARCHIBALD LEACH, BERNARD SCHWARTZ, OR LUCILLE LESUEUR

3: Won an Oscar in 1946 for a role in Mildred Pierce.

6: Nominated for an Oscar along with Sidney Poitier as The Defiant Ones.

9: This person's character was kidnapped at the beginning of North by Northwest.

12: Played a wheelchair-bound character living with Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

15: In 1937, played half of a husband-and-wife ghost couple trying to make the life of Topper more interesting.

Yeah, would have been way too easy, especially when it's a 1/3 chance. (My soon-to-be-11-year-old daughter was just telling me today when we were watching J! that she wishes the contestants were given multiple choice like on the Wii Jeopardy! she likes to play, because "it's a lot easier"

[billy pilgrim]

Come on people, it's 'What Ever Happened To Baby Jane' . Not 'Whatever....

[econgator]

Come on people, it's 'What Ever Happened To Baby Jane' . Not 'Whatever....

What? Ever? Whatever ...........

[nserven]

The first three answers to the Descriptive Names category threw me off: Good Samaritan, Big Brother, and Artful Dodger led me to think the answers had to be of the form [Descriptive Adjective] [Noun]. I'd never heard the Fool in King Lear called anything but The Fool, but Motley seemed like the most likely adjective to precede Fool. The name Franklin crossed my mind, but when I couldn't come up with an adjective for it, I dismissed it.

I had the exact same reasoning. Since the category was Descriptive Names, I assumed they were all [adjective] + [noun].