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U.S. PRESIDENTS

THE LAST PRESIDENT WHO WAS NEITHER A REPUBLICAN NOR A DEMOCRAT WAS ELECTED IN THIS DECADE.

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What is the 1840s?

Picked Off wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:04 am U.S. PRESIDENTS

THE LAST PRESIDENT WHO WAS NEITHER A REPUBLICAN NOR A DEMOCRAT WAS ELECTED IN THIS DECADE.

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What is the 1840s?

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Technically, Lincoln ran under the National Union banner in 1864

Picked Off wrote: ↑Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:04 am U.S. PRESIDENTS

THE LAST PRESIDENT WHO WAS NEITHER A REPUBLICAN NOR A DEMOCRAT WAS ELECTED IN THIS DECADE.

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What is the 1840s?

This clue makes me uncomfortable because it's reasonable to infer "was elected president" from the context of the clue, but the last non-Democratic, non-Republican president was only elected VP. Technically it works under the wording, but I feel weird responding with the decade before he became president.

Yeah, that was actually my idea for the clue. We had a Whig in the 50s who wasn't elected in the 50s. Might be too much required for regular season.

BIBLICAL SUFFIXES

Meaning "God" in Hebrew, these 3 letters come at the end of the names of 6 Old Testament books in the King James Bible, including the shortest and longest by word count.

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What is -iah? (shortest = Obadiah, longest = Jeremiah, others are Nehemiah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, and Zechariah)

BrigadierSolo13 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:24 am BIBLICAL SUFFIXES

Meaning "God" in Hebrew, these 3 letters come at the end of 6 Old Testament books in the King James Bible, including the shortest and longest by word count.

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What is -iah? (shortest = Obadiah, longest = Jeremiah, others are Nehemiah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, and Zechariah)

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You left out "the names of," no?

davey wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:40 am

BrigadierSolo13 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:24 am BIBLICAL SUFFIXES

Meaning "God" in Hebrew, these 3 letters come at the end of the names of 6 Old Testament books in the King James Bible, including the shortest and longest by word count.

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What is -iah? (shortest = Obadiah, longest = Jeremiah, others are Nehemiah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, and Zechariah)

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You left out "the names of," no?

Haha whoops, that's what I get for trying to cut for length. Fixed now

WORLD CAPITALS

Its last recorded snowfall was July 13, 1930, making the field muddy for the first match of the first FIFA World Cup.

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What is Montevideo?

That’s not a geography question, it’s a sports question. If you don’t know your World Cup hosts/winners, you’ve got zero chance.

Golf wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:45 pm That’s not a geography question, it’s a sports question. If you don’t know your World Cup hosts/winners, you’ve got zero chance.

If it were some random WC, I'd agree with you. But I'd argue the first WC is more notable and worthy of knowing what country hosted it. Once you know the country, it becomes a capital question.

mas3cf wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:47 am

Golf wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:45 pm That’s not a geography question, it’s a sports question. If you don’t know your World Cup hosts/winners, you’ve got zero chance.

If it were some random WC, I'd agree with you. But I'd argue the first WC is more notable and worthy of knowing what country hosted it. Once you know the country, it becomes a capital question.

We can agree to disagree. But a person can know every single national capital backwards and forwards and have next to zero chance of answering this “world capital” clue correctly.

Golf wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:31 am

mas3cf wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:47 am

Golf wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 8:45 pm That’s not a geography question, it’s a sports question. If you don’t know your World Cup hosts/winners, you’ve got zero chance.

If it were some random WC, I'd agree with you. But I'd argue the first WC is more notable and worthy of knowing what country hosted it. Once you know the country, it becomes a capital question.

We can agree to disagree. But a person can know every single national capital backwards and forwards and have next to zero chance of answering this “world capital” clue correctly.

While you're agreeing to disagree, I'd like to pop in and disagree with you too!

ROMAN NUMERALS

Of all the years from 1 AD to present, its Roman numeral representation contains the most letters.

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What is 1888?

mas3cf wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:01 am ROMAN NUMERALS

Of all the years from 1 AD to present, its Roman numeral representation contains the most letters.

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What is 1888?

missed it by one...

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Literally: I forgot the '1'

HISTORICAL YEARS

It's the only year to have the death of a sitting U.S. President and a reigning British monarch.

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William McKinley and Queen Victoria

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1901

mujason wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:36 pm HISTORICAL YEARS

It's the only year to have the death of a sitting U.S. President and a reigning British monarch.

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William McKinley and Queen Victoria

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1901

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Heck, she was Queen for the deaths of the first FIVE US Presidents to die in office!

econgator wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:18 pm

mujason wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:36 pm HISTORICAL YEARS

It's the only year to have the death of a sitting U.S. President and a reigning British monarch.

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William McKinley and Queen Victoria

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1901

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Heck, she was Queen for the deaths of the first FIVE US Presidents to die in office!

Not quite; she missed the fifth by several months.

seaborgium wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:38 pm Not quite; she missed the fifth by several months.

Oops.

WORLD LEADERS

The first and second Presidents of Indonesia went by similar one-word names which shared this many letters in common.

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What is 5?

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Frequently in the news today, monomer antibodies contain two paratopes and are commonly described as being shaped like this letter of the alphabet.

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What is Y?

MattKnowles wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:43 am WORLD LEADERS

The first and second Presidents of Indonesia went by similar one-word names which shared this many letters in common.

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What is 5?

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Frequently in the news today, monomer antibodies contain two paratopes and are commonly described as being shaped like this letter of the alphabet.

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What is Y?

I was able to get the first one, the letters in question are, I believe

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s, u, a, r, and o

. But on the second I went the wrong way on Marktiple choice between

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H and Y

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