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goatman wrote:If you really want to learn about these trivia facts, get a copy of Steven J. Ferrill's book, The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide, 4th Ed. for about ten bucks on Amazon. He still runs a webpage with 15K clues and mouseover flashcard study zones in 62 categories
Whereabouts is this site? I feel I need the help too, and practically everything I get has to go toward feeding myself at school.
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TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons is one that most non contemporary music followers would not know. But for Bruce Springsteen fans, he is bread & butter knowledge.
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StrangerCoug wrote:
goatman wrote:If you really want to learn about these trivia facts, get a copy of Steven J. Ferrill's book, The Cultural Literacy Trivia Guide, 4th Ed. for about ten bucks on Amazon. He still runs a webpage with 15K clues and mouseover flashcard study zones in 62 categories
Whereabouts is this site? I feel I need the help too, and practically everything I get has to go toward feeding myself at school.
The book is an indispensable bible. Jennings used it exclusively to prep & review. I read some part of it daily. Eventually it starts to soak in. After awhile, you start to get things on J! that you NHO...

Go forth and increase your trivia!

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Category 13 wrote:
TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons is one that most non contemporary music followers would not know. But for Bruce Springsteen fans, he is bread & butter knowledge.
I'm not a big Big Man man or a big Boss man, but I knew it because his name was in the news when he died, and it stuck with me.
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seaborgium wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons is one that most non contemporary music followers would not know. But for Bruce Springsteen fans, he is bread & butter knowledge.
I'm not a big Big Man man or a big Boss man, but I knew it because his name was in the news when he died, and it stuck with me.
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Category 13 wrote:
TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
Clarence Clemons is one that most non contemporary music followers would not know. But for Bruce Springsteen rock'n'roll fans, he is bread & butter knowledge.
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TenPoundHammer wrote:... my brain also blanked on what show Robert Guiallume would've played Benson on.....
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What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
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Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
5 bonus points for proper use of thread.
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alietr wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
5 bonus points for proper use of thread.
Category 13 previously had 995 points. With his 5 more, how many points does he have now? Does anyone know a way to shortcut that?
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jeff6286 wrote:
alietr wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
5 bonus points for proper use of thread.
Category 13 previously had 995 points. With his 5 more, how many points does he have now? Does anyone know a way to shortcut that?
1013, obviously.
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Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
So...ummm...not to get sidetracked and not to start a fight, but what is an "upper class liberal college"? It's 2014--things aren't perfect, but highly regarded private liberal arts colleges are no longer composed mostly of rich prep school kids. Or maybe I'm just misreading your phrasing.
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alietr wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
5 bonus points for proper use of thread.
And -1000 points for spoiling questions without spoiler tags. That's one of the reasons this thread doesn't really work, those of us that are a few days behind can't really read this thread without being spoiled on other episodes.
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Caboom wrote:
alietr wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
5 bonus points for proper use of thread.
And -1000 points for spoiling questions without spoiler tags. That's one of the reasons this thread doesn't really work, those of us that are a few days behind can't really read this thread without being spoiled on other episodes.
I can, and probably should have, spoilerize the whole thread. That's the implication -- that it's going to be discussing current games.
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alietr wrote:
Caboom wrote:
alietr wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
5 bonus points for proper use of thread.
And -1000 points for spoiling questions without spoiler tags. That's one of the reasons this thread doesn't really work, those of us that are a few days behind can't really read this thread without being spoiled on other episodes.
I can, and probably should have, spoilerize the whole thread. That's the implication -- that it's going to be discussing current games.
Of course, but the problem is, it's pretty hard to read this thread "episode by episode", without seeing spoilers for episodes I haven't seen yet, whereas it's easy to read the daily topics without getting spoiled on following episodes.
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lieph82 wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
So...ummm...not to get sidetracked and not to start a fight, but what is an "upper class liberal college"? It's 2014--things aren't perfect, but highly regarded private liberal arts colleges are no longer composed mostly of rich prep school kids. Or maybe I'm just misreading your phrasing.
They're not?

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandrevie ... ed-schools
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Vanya wrote:
lieph82 wrote:
Category 13 wrote:
What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.
So...ummm...not to get sidetracked and not to start a fight, but what is an "upper class liberal college"? It's 2014--things aren't perfect, but highly regarded private liberal arts colleges are no longer composed mostly of rich prep school kids. Or maybe I'm just misreading your phrasing.
They're not?

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandrevie ... ed-schools
I would hardly call families who make more than $20,000 a year "upper class." The more prestigious the college, the more generous the financial aid, generally.
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Caboom wrote:Of course, but the problem is, it's pretty hard to read this thread "episode by episode", without seeing spoilers for episodes I haven't seen yet, whereas it's easy to read the daily topics without getting spoiled on following episodes.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but if you don't want to be spoiled, and the thread title indicates spoilers, then maybe you shouldn't be reading it?

Just a wild thought.
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Golf wrote:
Caboom wrote:Of course, but the problem is, it's pretty hard to read this thread "episode by episode", without seeing spoilers for episodes I haven't seen yet, whereas it's easy to read the daily topics without getting spoiled on following episodes.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but if you don't want to be spoiled, and the thread title indicates spoilers, then maybe you shouldn't be reading it?

Just a wild thought.
Yeah, not checking this thread until you're caught up on episodes seems like an easy fix.
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lieph82 wrote:
Golf wrote:
Caboom wrote:Of course, but the problem is, it's pretty hard to read this thread "episode by episode", without seeing spoilers for episodes I haven't seen yet, whereas it's easy to read the daily topics without getting spoiled on following episodes.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but if you don't want to be spoiled, and the thread title indicates spoilers, then maybe you shouldn't be reading it?

Just a wild thought.
Yeah, not checking this thread until you're caught up on episodes seems like an easy fix.
Yep, valid and easy solutions. Of course then I'll either miss part of the discussions, or get to read them days later than the daily thread. And having single discussions fragmented into multiple threads doesn't exactly make the board more readable.

But these are obviously only tiny problems compared to the need for people to be able to show their intellectual superiority by moving the "stupid questions" to a side thread.
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