2014 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 1, Day 6

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2014 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 1, Day 6

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Because many of us (myself included) have religious obligations on the weekend, I try to get the sixth day of each week's SHC up on Friday afternoon.

This week, I succeeded.

I don't always.

The first Weekly Winner spot in the TOC will be wrapped up Sunday at 11:59 PM PDT.

Also, over the weekend I'll look at the scores to see how close we're coming to the difficulty level we shoot for. Every year the field is somewhat different, so the first week is a bit of an experiment to see whether people are getting the number of points I expect them to. I also want to make sure that I'm getting the relative difficulty between clues as close to right as I can.

Most of these assessments are data-driven, but comments are welcome in Instant Replay as well.

Enough inside baseball. On to Day 6.

See you Monday.

(Oh, yeah. One more thing. I'll be in meetings all of Monday morning and into the afternoon, so the game won't be up until at least 3 p.m.)
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SECOND-LONGEST RIVERS

2: Two countries are named for this second-longest river in Africa.

4: This second-longest river in Iraq is called the Hiddakel in the second chapter of Genesis.

6: Running from the Bow Glacier to Hudson Bay, this river named for a British military hero is the second-longest river entirely in Canada.

8: The Ob-Irtysh is the second-longest river system whose water ultimately ends up in this ocean.

10: A discovery on James Ross Island in 2014 calls into question whether the Alph River is, indeed, the second-longest on this continent.

ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS

3: In “A Letter to a Royal Academy,” this American statesman and inventor suggests that compared to the study of human flatulence, other sciences are “scarcely worth a farthing.”

6: This author of A Clockwork Orange titled an essay collection, “But Do Blonds Prefer Gentlemen?”

9: In “The Libido for the Ugly” this Baltimore Sun essayist writes that the American “race hates beauty as it hates truth.”

12: His essay “A Modest Proposal” goes so far as to recommend recipes and preparation techniques.

15: In 1880 essay, Mark Twain suggests that people learn to do this “firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.”
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2: congo
4: tigris
6:
8: arctic
10: antarctica

3: franklin
6: burgess
9:
12: swift
15:
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2: Congo
4: Tigris
6: Frasier
8: Arctic
10: Antarctica

3: Benjamin Franklin
6: Burgess
9: H.L. Mencken
12: Swift
15: CLAM
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2: Niger
4: Tigris
6:
8:
10: Antarctica

3: Franklin
6: Burgess
9: Menken
12: Swift
15: speak
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2: Congo
4: Tigris
6:
8:
10:

3: Franklin
6: Burgess
9: Mencken
12: Swift
15: defecate
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Second Longest River
2: Pass (debated going Congo or Niger)
4: Euphrates
6: Pass (St. Lawrence?)
8: Arctic
10: Pass

Essays & Essayists
3: Franklin
6: Burgess
9: Pass
12: Swift
15: Pass
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Second-Longest Rivers
2: Congo
4: Tigris
6:
8:
10: Antarctica

Essays & Essayists
3: Benjamin Franklin
6: Anthony Burgess
9: H. L. Mencken
12: Jonathan Swift
15: Lie
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2: Congo
4: Euphrates
6:
8: Arctic
10: Gotta be Antarctica

3: Benjamin Franklin
6: Anthony Burgess
9:
12: Jonathan Swift
15:
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2: Congo
4: Euphrates
6: Nelson
8: Arctic
10: Antarctica

3: Ben Franklin
6: Joseph Conrad
9: CLAM
12: CLAM
15: Vote
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2:Zambezi
4:
6:MacKenzie
8:Indian
10:Antarctica

3:B. Franklin
6:A. Burgess
9:H.L. Mencken
12:J. Swift
15:
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2: Congo
4: Tigris
6: Nelson?
8: Arctic
10: Antarctica

3: Franklin
6: Burgess
9: Mencken
12: Swift
15: pray?
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2: Congo
4: Tigris
6: Nelson?
8: Arctic
10: Antarctica

3: Franklin
6: Burgess
9: Mencken
12: Swift
15: lie
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Re: 2014 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 1, Day 6

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2 congo
4 tigris
6 frasier
8 arctic
10 antarctica

3 franklin
6 burgess
9 mencken
12 swift
15 lie
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2: Congo
4:
6: Nelson?
8:
10: Antarctica?

3: Franklin?
6: Burgess
9:
12: Swift
15:
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2: Congo
4: Euphrates
6: Nelson
8: Arctic
10: Antarctica


3: Ben Franklin
6: Anthony Burgess
9: CLAM
12: Jonathan Swift
15: CLAM
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2: Niger River
4: Euphrates
6: Nelson?
8: CLAM
10: Antarctica

3: Ben Franklin
6: Anthony Burgess
9: Nash
12: Swift
15: CLAM
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SECOND-LONGEST RIVERS

2: Two countries are named for this second-longest river in Africa.
Congo

4: This second-longest river in Iraq is called the Hiddakel in the second chapter of Genesis.
Euphrates

8: The Ob-Irtysh is the second-longest river system whose water ultimately ends up in this ocean.
Arctic?

10: A discovery on James Ross Island in 2014 calls into question whether the Alph River is, indeed, the second-longest on this continent.
Aunt Arctica

ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS

12: His essay “A Modest Proposal” goes so far as to recommend recipes and preparation techniques.
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