LL68: For the LLamas

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I also said Hellman's and Miracle Whip.

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This is my sixth season, and the first time I've lost all five matches in a week. I was so glad that I had gone grocery shopping in Colorado Springs before, and was disappointed that my opponent had done so somewhere in that region as well.
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I beat the leader of my rundle today with the highest score in my rundle to boot! Unfortunately, this gained me nothing, as I am still in 8th.

Did anyone else say al fresco for the art question?
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nightreign wrote:I beat the leader of my rundle today with the highest score in my rundle to boot! Unfortunately, this gained me nothing, as I am still in 8th.

Did anyone else say al fresco for the art question?
I considered it but it sounded way too Italian for me.
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We're 15 MDs in. I am still winless. I'm the only winless player in the Rundle. And my opponent for Monday is the second-worst player. Please, for all that is good and holy, give me some questions I know.
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ABC bombards my NYC station with Beautiful Ads during jeopardy, so that was an instal-get.

I said Dehors for the french term, since I know some french but nothing about art.

I tried my hand at humor for the first time on the condiment question and said "Soylent Green, People" but was not rewarded. I haven't heard of Best Food

Lost 8(5) - 2(2) to the 2nd best scorer in the rundle.

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For the French art term one I guessed "peinture d'air" and was pleased by not being terribly far off.

Good luck to all in the LL68 Midseason Classic! I know we're rare on this board, but let's go Metro!
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nightreign wrote:I beat the leader of my rundle today with the highest score in my rundle to boot! Unfortunately, this gained me nothing, as I am still in 8th.

Did anyone else say al fresco for the art question?
That was the MCWA, so you were far from alone. Me, I couldn't come up with anything better than tableau.

And of course my opponent, who was below .400 in theatre, got the 3 points I assigned him on the Carole King question, turning what could have been a win for me into a tie.

Those "multiple regions" questions are tough if, say, you've spent about 90% of your life living in the eastern seaboard. I had NHO "Best Foods."
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Female songwriter-composer from the Brill building? Could there be any other choice? Just curious.
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Woof wrote:Female songwriter-composer from the Brill building? Could there be any other choice? Just curious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Weil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellie_Greenwich (who had her own broadway show)
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I lead my division in ties, after getting consecutive ties for the first time ever. 51 TCA are the most I've ever had at this point in a season; I had 42 after 15 matches last season, followed by my first and only 0(0).
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hbomb1947 wrote:Those "multiple regions" questions are tough if, say, you've spent about 90% of your life living in the eastern seaboard. I had NHO "Best Foods."
Sneakily, the Hellman's jingle references both names: "Bring out the Hellman's, and bring out the best!"
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Today, I noticed that the squeezable mayonnaise bottle I've been using literally every weekday for the entire academic year says "Bring out the best" right below the name "Hellmann's". I don't remember consciously noticing it before.

It doesn't really matter, though, because I'm not sure I've heard of Best Foods before. (I actually flipped a coin between ketchup and mustard for this question, and more or less randomly wrote down two brand names that I was pretty sure didn't actually belong to the same company. I just hate leaving things blank.)
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Hellman's and Best Foods was an instaget for me but I can definitely see how it'd score so low. It's not just enough to travel across the Mississippi Rockies (which is sufficient for Carl's Jr/Hardees*), you have to either watch TV long enough on each side for the jingle or pay attention to the mayonnaise aisle in a supermarket.

I got it because my parents would take me along cross country travel trailer trips and we were a Best Foods family so when we restocked at supermarkets I recognized the same logo but different words within the logo.

*not applicable as much anymore since the TV spots list -both- companies, at least the last one I saw did.
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My opponent yesterday appeared to be Canadian, so I was fairly confident assigning two defensive points to the mayonnaise question.

I got three six packs last week and that's just nuts for me. Somehow this season all my guesses seem to be correct. I feel like I'm due for a big crash.
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Volante wrote:Hellman's and Best Foods was an instaget for me but I can definitely see how it'd score so low. It's not just enough to travel across the Mississippi Rockies (which is sufficient for Carl's Jr/Hardees*), you have to either watch TV long enough on each side for the jingle or pay attention to the mayonnaise aisle in a supermarket.

I got it because my parents would take me along cross country travel trailer trips and we were a Best Foods family so when we restocked at supermarkets I recognized the same logo but different words within the logo.

*not applicable as much anymore since the TV spots list -both- companies, at least the last one I saw did.
I had no idea Hellman's was otherwise-named out west. The only brand I knew of that split between coasts was Edy's/Dreyer's, and it was a stretch to describe ice cream as a condiment.

Other than Hardee's/Carl's, Hellman's/Best, and Edy's/Dreyer's, are there any others? (Oh, Sweet Tomatoes/Souplantation and Panera/St Louis Bread Company, I guess.)
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The question about the city in Romania that I had never heard of made me think of how ignorant I am about cities that don't come up in regular trivia questions.

So, a challenge: how far down the list of largest cities by population can you get before there is a city you've never heard of? Here's the list on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_cities

I can get to
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Dongguan population 8.2 million!
which I may vaguely have heard of. I definitely never have heard of
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Ningbo, population 7.6 million
and the first one outside of China I've never heard of is
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Faisalabad in Pakistan, population 6.5 million.
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ThreeIfByAir wrote:Other than Hardee's/Carl's, Hellman's/Best, and Edy's/Dreyer's, are there any others? (Oh, Sweet Tomatoes/Souplantation and Panera/St Louis Bread Company, I guess.)
It's more Midwestern than national, but there's the Carson Pirie Scott/Boston Store/Younkers/Bergner's/Herberger's department store group.
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skullturf wrote:Today, I noticed that the squeezable mayonnaise bottle I've been using literally every weekday for the entire academic year says "Bring out the best" right below the name "Hellmann's". I don't remember consciously noticing it before.

It doesn't really matter, though, because I'm not sure I've heard of Best Foods before. (I actually flipped a coin between ketchup and mustard for this question, and more or less randomly wrote down two brand names that I was pretty sure didn't actually belong to the same company. I just hate leaving things blank.)

I hate to break this to you, but it also says, "Known as Best Foods(R) west of the Rockies," right below the storage instructions. If I were smarter, I'd be able to upload a picture of this.

I remember noticing that when I was a kid.
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seaborgium wrote:I think it's a good idea for the trivia-minded to have details of various languages' orthography at their disposal.
Case in point: although the Romania question was gettable from the geography, I got it because of the second t in Constanța. The T with a comma under it is almost a unique feature of Romanian (the only other languages that use it are Livonian and Gagauz). It also has an s-comma, as in the name of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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