Whereabouts is this site? I feel I need the help too, and practically everything I get has to go toward feeding myself at school.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
The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
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Clarence Clemons is one that most non contemporary music followers would not know. But for Bruce Springsteen fans, he is bread & butter knowledge.TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
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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...StrangerCoug wrote:Whereabouts is this site? I feel I need the help too, and practically everything I get has to go toward feeding myself at school.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
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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.Category 13 wrote:Clarence Clemons is one that most non contemporary music followers would not know. But for Bruce Springsteen fans, he is bread & butter knowledge.TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
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seaborgium wrote: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.Category 13 wrote:Clarence Clemons is one that most non contemporary music followers would not know. But for Bruce Springsteen fans, he is bread & butter knowledge.TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
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There. Fixed.Category 13 wrote: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.TenPound wrote:NHOIs in top boxes: Sixes and sevens, "Love Story", Clarence Clemons
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Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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5 bonus points for proper use of thread.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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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?alietr wrote:5 bonus points for proper use of thread.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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1013, obviously.jeff6286 wrote: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?alietr wrote:5 bonus points for proper use of thread.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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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.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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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.alietr wrote:5 bonus points for proper use of thread.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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I can, and probably should have, spoilerize the whole thread. That's the implication -- that it's going to be discussing current games.Caboom wrote: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.alietr wrote:5 bonus points for proper use of thread.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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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.alietr wrote:I can, and probably should have, spoilerize the whole thread. That's the implication -- that it's going to be discussing current games.Caboom wrote: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.alietr wrote:5 bonus points for proper use of thread.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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They're not?lieph82 wrote: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.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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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.Vanya wrote:They're not?lieph82 wrote: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.Category 13 wrote:Bowdoin is also the name of an upper class liberal college in Maine.What led to Maine on State Stuff for $600?
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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?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.
Just a wild thought.
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Yeah, not checking this thread until you're caught up on episodes seems like an easy fix.Golf wrote: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?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.
Just a wild thought.
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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.lieph82 wrote:Yeah, not checking this thread until you're caught up on episodes seems like an easy fix.Golf wrote: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?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.
Just a wild thought.
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.