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MitchO wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:51 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:44 pm Winwood's association with Clapton is starting to ring a bell with me now. My stepdad likes Eric Clapton so he has mentioned Winwood's name to me several times. Still couldn't name any Winwood songs off the top of my head, but I at least remember who he is now.
Steve Winwood is kind of an odd rock and roll famous to me. He was in a bunch of different supergroups, but it never seems like he's the focus; he was supposed to be a big name by the 80s and actually had several albums, but mostly middle of the road hits [Though I will admit both Roll With It and Higher Love were #1s ... the other songs that may ring a bell, IMO, are Valerie or Back In the High Life Again]. It just always feels to me that his name is given more cache than I think it should.
I don’t think Traffic counts as a supergroup except in retrospect; that said, it was one of the best bands of the late-60s / early-70s era, and their stuff still holds up well today. But in the ‘80s, Winwood was indeed a big solo act - selling out arenas across the US and topping the charts. He does seem to fly a bit under the radar over the last 25 years though. Clapton got him going again at Clapton’s 2007 Crossroads music festival, where the two of them played several songs together with Winwood mostly on keyboards, then EC left the stage, Winwood picked up his surf-green Strat, and proceeded to bring the house down with his spectacular lead guitar on the Traffic classic Dear Mr Fantasy; it seems that most of the audience didn’t realize Winwood could play guitar like that 8-) The next year, Clapton and Winwood did a tour, and released a live album and DVD of the Madison Square Garden shows. So TPH, check out the Clapton/Winwood Live from MSG stuff: it’s mostly on YouTube.
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Set up a poll for the 3 THINGS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT clues to see how right are wrong you are about "extremely obscure". It will help you learn the (not uncommon at all) facts and it will check the valuations by the writers.
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10 guesses and still not get the Bradbury planet? :lol:

Nice job on the trash pick up for decent value from the 4th podium.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:39 pm 10 guesses and still not get the Bradbury planet? :lol:
"Martian Chronicles" rings a faint bell, but just seeing "Chronicles" by itself threw me for a loop and had me wondering if maybe there was some other work I'd never heard of that was set on a fictional planet. I almost WAGged "Forbidden Planet".

if i lived in a market where Wheel airs first, then I probably would have gotten Fj! They gave away a trip to St. Maarten and in doing so, showed a map of the entire Caribbean.
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I ran the category but I would have put Coolidge at the bottom.
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It has been a while for a Christian Science Monitor to Boston match:

#8255, aired 2020-10-09 CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS $400: The mother church for Christian Science is located in this city next to the Mary Baker Eddy Library
#5475, aired 2008-05-30 PAPERS $1000: This city's newspapers include The Globe & The Christian Science Monitor
#4732, aired 2005-03-15 THE NEWSPAPER $1000: At the request of its founder, this Boston paper runs 1 religious article each day in its home forum section
#3599, aired 2000-04-06 NEWSPAPERS $400: This Boston-based newspaper was founded by a religious group in 1908
#3401, aired 1999-05-24 RELIGION $200: Founded in Boston in 1879, this church maintains "reading rooms" across the country open to the public
#3342, aired 1999-03-02 STATE CAPITALS $500: Its newspapers include the Globe, the Herald & the Christian Science Monitor
#2901, aired 1997-03-24 RELIGION $3,000 (Daily Double): This religious group held its 100th annual meeting in Boston in 1995
#1597, aired 1991-07-09 THE WORLD PRESS $400: Founded in Boston in 1908, it's one of the few daily papers sponsored by a religious denomination
#13, aired 1990-09-08 NEWSPAPERS $1000: This Boston-based newspaper is circulated in more than 100 countries
#1196, aired 1989-11-13 NEWSPAPERS $800: Boston has 3 daily newspapers: the Globe, the Herald, & this one with a national circulation
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So is there a way I can train my brain to remember just how close the Caribbean actually is to the US? I always picture it as several thousands of miles out, like Hawaii.
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Sat Oct 10, 2020 1:02 pm So is there a way I can train my brain to remember just how close the Caribbean actually is to the US? I always picture it as several thousands of miles out, like Hawaii.
I'm not sure what needs training. It borders the Gulf of Mexico. There you go.
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HOW?

Perhaps repetition?
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#7981, aired 2019-04-29 THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR $800: Pablo Picasso forbade this work depicting the war's horrors from being shown in Spain until the fascists were gone
#7757, aired 2018-05-08 GENIUS: PICASSO $1200: Many of Picasso's motivations are dramatized, like how the horrors of the Spanish Civil War inspired this masterpiece
#7525, aired 2017-05-05 MODEL $800: Dora Maar took pictures of him making "Guernica" & he used Dora as a model for "Weeping Woman" pieces
#6989, aired 2015-01-22 THE BIG PICTURE $800: This Picasso work is 11 1/2 X 25 1/2', big enough to make viewers feel the horrors of war
#6673, aired 2013-09-25 WE PROTEST! $2000: This painting by Picasso was his protest at the bombing of an undefended town during the Spanish Civil War
#6394, aired 2012-06-07 PAINTERS & PAINTINGS $400: Commissioned by the Spanish government, this monumental Picasso work measures 11 feet by 25 feet
#6040, aired 2010-12-10 THE WAR OF ART $2,000 (Daily Double): A dismembered hand clutching a sword in black & white is part of this 1937 work inspired by the bombing of a city
#5298, aired 2007-09-26 ART & ARTISTS $800: Picasso painted this work as a protest against the bombing of a town in the Spanish Civil War
#4498, aired 2004-03-10 PICASSO $600: This Picasso masterpiece went on tour in 1938 & 1939 to raise money for Spanish relief
#3941, aired 2001-10-22 PAINTING & SCULPTURE $200: This Picasso masterpiece expressing the horrors of war was done entirely in gray, black & white
#3816, aired 2001-03-19 THE ART OF WAR $400: The bombing of this Spanish city in 1937 inspired a famous painting by Picasso
#3685, aired 2000-09-15 PICK ME, PICASSO $1,000 (Daily Double): This new work at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition showed Picasso's loathing of fascism for all to see
#3580, aired 2000-03-10 NAME THE DECADE $400: Picasso painted "Guernica"
#3500, aired 1999-11-19 ART $800: "Guernica"
#3347, aired 1999-03-09 WHICH CAME FIRST? $500: "Guernica", "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", "The Blue Room", "Three Musicians"
#3305, aired 1999-01-08 IT'S A MASTERPIECE! $400: Painted as a protest in '37, this work is often considered one of Picasso's most powerful works
#2901, aired 1997-03-24 MAY DAY $300: On May 1, 1937, 5 days after the town was bombed, he began sketching "Guernica"
#2471, aired 1995-05-08 ART $600: In 1937 he completed "Dream and Lie of Franco", a series of etchings, as well as "Guernica"
#2156, aired 1994-01-10 U.S. MUSEUMS $500: Picasso's "Guernica", now in Madrid, hung in this U.S. Museum from 1939 to 1981
#1714, aired 1992-01-30 THE 20th CENTURY $600 (Daily Double): The April 1937 bombing of this Basque village became the subject of a Picasso masterpiece
#1346, aired 1990-06-11 ART $3,500 (Daily Double): After more than 40 years at N.Y.'s Museum of Modern Art, this huge Picasso painting was returned to Spain
#14, aired 1984-09-27 THE 20TH CENTURY $800: His masterpiece was painted as a protest against the bombing of the Spanish town "Guernica"
Final Jeopardy! Round clues (2 results returned)
#8264, aired 2020-10-22 20th CENTURY ART: In occupied Paris, a German officer asked Picasso if he had done this masterpiece; he replied, "No, you did"
#4834, aired 2005-09-22 FAMOUS PAINTINGS: It was originally painted as the centerpiece for the Spanish Government Pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair
If you see Picasso and know nothing else then guess it.
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Only two times in the past five years. Doesn't seem like a very prominent fact.
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OK, then perhaps you get the Kirkland connection next time?

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TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:41 pm Only two times in the past five years. Doesn't seem like a very prominent fact.
I count four times in the last 5 years but I would never challenge you on math.
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jeff6286 wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:26 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:41 pm Only two times in the past five years. Doesn't seem like a very prominent fact.
I count four times in the last 5 years but I would never challenge you on math.
I still think that's way too little to say that it "comes up all the time" as so many others are.
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:41 pm
jeff6286 wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:26 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:41 pm Only two times in the past five years. Doesn't seem like a very prominent fact.
I count four times in the last 5 years but I would never challenge you on math.
I still think that's way too little to say that it "comes up all the time" as so many others are.
How many others is that?
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opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:25 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:41 pm
jeff6286 wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:26 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:41 pm Only two times in the past five years. Doesn't seem like a very prominent fact.
I count four times in the last 5 years but I would never challenge you on math.
I still think that's way too little to say that it "comes up all the time" as so many others are.
How many others is that?
All the other people who insta-got this, including all three contestants. It's clear it was at the forefront of literally everyone else's brain, yet I'm not seeing WHY it should be.
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 11:20 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:25 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:41 pm
jeff6286 wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 9:26 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2020 7:41 pm Only two times in the past five years. Doesn't seem like a very prominent fact.
I count four times in the last 5 years but I would never challenge you on math.
I still think that's way too little to say that it "comes up all the time" as so many others are.
How many others is that?
All the other people who insta-got this, including all three contestants. It's clear it was at the forefront of literally everyone else's brain, yet I'm not seeing WHY it should be.
All of them, huh? Do you see any irony in you making this wildly exaggerated claim in service of your complaint that others are making an exaggerated claim?
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I have heard of the painting but knew nothing about it. I didn’t know who painted it. But that’s on me.
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BrigadierSolo13 wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:38 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:30 pm What was the TOM for Little League on We Are the Champions for $400?
The city of Williamsport, PA
I only get two other hits for Williamsport + little league, the last from 2008.
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:40 pm
BrigadierSolo13 wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:38 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 8:30 pm What was the TOM for Little League on We Are the Champions for $400?
The city of Williamsport, PA
I only get two other hits for Williamsport + little league, the last from 2008.
I don't know what else to say other than the Pavlov of Williamsport > Little League Baseball is drilled into my head from decades of ESPN coverage every summer.
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