2014 Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 3 Instant Replay Thread

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alamble wrote:
Paucle wrote:
Turd Ferguson wrote: 1988 Music is probably about as Wheelhouse-y a category as I'll have in the SHC
I about plotzed when I saw it, especially as the "tough" set. Free points!
Me too! I was not working retail in 1988, but I watched a LOT of MTV and listed to AT40 every Sunday on the radio. Yet another day just one question short of perfecto. Good start for the week for me. :)
1988 was the year I graduated high school, so these were pretty easy for me. I hated most of the pop music of the era, but luckily there weren't any real toughies in this set. I'm sure if there was, say, a question about Taylor Dayne I probably would have faltered. :)
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4: Family with “Deluxe apartment in the sky” (10)

TheJetsons :)
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MarkBarrett wrote:4: Family with “Deluxe apartment in the sky” (10)

TheJetsons :)
Gah! I totally overlooked the letter count and answered that for realz. So much for my perfecto today...
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I also answered "The Jetsons" which does, if you include the article, contain 10 letters. Once again, I am done in by not thoroughly reading the clue.
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I didn't even notice the letter count! It turned out to be a good category for me, though.
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I knew that counting "the" in The Jetsons was going to bite me
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Got all of the "Je"s pretty easily except for the 2-pointer. Knew it was Shakespeare, and that's about it. (Yes, I know more MUCH more about a certain Mr. Bodine than I do about Yorick.) Had to go through the whole alphabet to find the most logical 4-letter "Je" word. Had it down to 2 choices; fortunately, I didn't select "Jerk".
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Should have been confident enough to pull the trigger and write "Mary" and "Cheap Trick" for the respective categories. Oh well. Also had the lack of confidence w/Kyoto. The wording of the question made me think about it too much.
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TheyCallMeMrKid wrote:Got all of the "Je"s pretty easily except for the 2-pointer. Knew it was Shakespeare, and that's about it. (Yes, I know more MUCH more about a certain Mr. Bodine than I do about Yorick.)
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Oh yeah, Chichén Itzá is Mayan, not Aztec.
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seaborgium wrote:Oh yeah, Chichén Itzá is Mayan, not Aztec.
Would you call the Aztecs "Central Americans"?
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seaborgium wrote:Oh yeah, Chichén Itzá is Mayan, not Aztec.
I did the same thing. I didn't even make the connection for some reason. Gosh, I am off today.
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I got sucked into The Jetsons as well. And I just couldn't come up up with what "SJ" stood for. If it had said Society of Jesus, I would have been all over it.
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Agreed-had no idea what S.J. meant.
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happybooker wrote:I knew that counting "the" in The Jetsons was going to bite me
Also bitten.
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alietr wrote:
seaborgium wrote:Oh yeah, Chichén Itzá is Mayan, not Aztec.
Would you call the Aztecs "Central Americans"?
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I thought the Accra-Ghana question was the easiest of the second set, as it came down to "name the country" and had nothing to do with ancient empires. Plus IMO, Accra being one of the easier West African capitals to remember.
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MarkBarrett wrote:4: Family with “Deluxe apartment in the sky” (10)

TheJetsons :)
I came very close to writing "TheJetsons" before playing the Jetsons' theme song in my head (it's amazing how long those tunes stay hard-wired) and didn't hear any references to apartments.
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To my TV-ignorant mind, the clue described the Jetsons perfectly, and including the article in the letter count seemed fairly normal... :shock:
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The category was Crossword Clues "JE". "TheJetsons" was going to be wrong no matter how many letters it had or how closely it fit the clue.
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