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hbomb1947 wrote:I enjoyed the Crusades 1DS. I finished in the 91st percentile in it, which is my best-ever performance in a 1DS. Of course, in an august herd of LLamas, it was only good enough for a 61st-place tie. But I'll take it. Still, I can only think of what might have been. Embarrassingly, while correctly answering 10 of the 12 questions, I missed the second-easiest (Constantinople), which had an 87% get rate. I overthought that one and guessed "Acre," which is another city in Turkey that played an important role in the Crusades.

I also never would have imagined that I would have gotten 23 more points if I'd moneyed sugar instead of the True Cross. I thought the sugar question was really easy (with the "sweet" TOM, WECIB?), and I never would have guessed that the True Cross one would have an 83% get rate. Admittedly, the hint about shipbuilding in the True Cross question probably gave that one away. I also expected the Saladin question to play easier than it did; in retrospect, that one would have also been a much better moneying choice than the True Cross.

Oh, and studying pays off for 1DS's! No fewer than 3 of my gets in this one (Albigensians, Battle on the Ice, and Mamluks) were tidbits I'd learned the previous evening while reading the Wikipedia article on the Crusades. And those were the 3 questions that, by a wide margin, played the most difficult.
I tested that One-Day, and I actually told the smith that I thought the sugar question was too easy. Guess not.
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nightreign wrote:I tested that One-Day, and I actually told the smith that I thought the sugar question was too easy. Guess not.
I missed it (said pepper) but got Battle of/on the Ice, so go figure.

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It says something about me (or perhaps more about LLamas) that I did better, percentile-wise, on the Sex Pistols 1DS (4 correct!) than I did on the Crusades 1DS (9 correct). My costly miss on Saladin with Suleiman the Magnificent was partly responsible for that outcome, as was my lack of conviction in my answer of Cathars leading to not moneying it (shout out to Name of the Rose for that one).
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nightreign wrote: I tested that One-Day, and I actually told the smith that I thought the sugar question was too easy. Guess not.
I had my TPH moment when I thought "there is no way it can be sugar, that's too easy" and left it blank. So, I guess it was too easy for me. I had a similar thought (without the leaving blank part) about the sacking of Constantinople.
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Woof wrote:It says something about me (or perhaps more about LLamas) that I did better, percentile-wise, on the Sex Pistols 1DS (4 correct!) than I did on the Crusades 1DS (9 correct). ... Gratz to Schlie on the Sex Pistols victory.
That's not schliemann; he's MeyerT. Don't know who MyersT is, but they sure know their Pistols. I finished in 66th with just four right (three $), largely from having just seen a D.A. Pennebaker documentary, which I hadn't known existed, about Bowie's Hammersmith Odeon show in 1973.

Aria, best of luck in group 30. With three A and five B rundlers, it's gonna play rough. KreitzerJ is my pick to win it, but after that who knows?
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reddpen wrote:
Woof wrote:It says something about me (or perhaps more about LLamas) that I did better, percentile-wise, on the Sex Pistols 1DS (4 correct!) than I did on the Crusades 1DS (9 correct). ... Gratz to Schlie on the Sex Pistols victory.
That's not schliemann; he's MeyerT. Don't know who MyersT is, but they sure know their Pistols. I finished in 66th with just four right (three $), largely from having just seen a D.A. Pennebaker documentary, which I hadn't known existed, about Bowie's Hammersmith Odeon show in 1973.

Aria, best of luck in group 30. With three A and five B rundlers, it's gonna play rough. KreitzerJ is my pick to win it, but after that who knows?
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I have never heard of sugar, so that was a big YEKIOYD. I put cocaine.
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All the previews of Humanities 4 as well as the previous Humanites MLs convinced me I didn't stand a chance, but now I'm really feeling like I should have signed up. If anything, it's because those questions from MD1 were incredibly entertaining. Remind me never to miss anything that Hicks smiths ever again.
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Yesterday in Humanities, I was so proud to have gotten 3 right...only to wake up and find that my opponent defended me perfectly and I really shouldn't have put that 2 on Mozart.

It hurts worse given that of the 11 other people in my group, I was playing one of two that only got two right.

I did puzzle out the letters question though, so I'll just continue being proud of that.
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mpahu wrote:All the previews of Humanities 4 as well as the previous Humanites MLs convinced me I didn't stand a chance, but now I'm really feeling like I should have signed up. If anything, it's because those questions from MD1 were incredibly entertaining. Remind me never to miss anything that Hicks smiths ever again.
Me too. 4/6 on MD1 without thinking very hard. Sigh.
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In Group 90 for Humanities. Figuring out the Jane Austen sequence was one of the most satisfying lightbulb moments I've had so far in LL. Hope all the days are as fun and interesting (and for me, successful) as the first one.
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Group 76 for me. I think I'm with TomKBaltimoreBoy.

A 5(3)-0(1) win is my kind of start to a ML. That El Greco question was very cleverly written. So was the Austen one, I just didn't get it right. :P

Had this been the regular season, I might have gone for a BWA on Q5 with "Andy."
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Felt decent about the Humanities ML, then realized who was in my pool . . . Brad Rutter & Dan Melia . . . *sigh*
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I managed a 0(1)-0(0) tie in Humanities Day 1 yesterday, getting Lazarus correct.
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My first of many 1(2)-9(6) losses, I'm sure.
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quarterrican wrote:In Group 90 for Humanities. Figuring out the Jane Austen sequence was one of the most satisfying lightbulb moments I've had so far in LL. Hope all the days are as fun and interesting (and for me, successful) as the first one.
Yes! I was pretty darn proud of myself for figuring out The Austen Code.
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I hate when I know the answer but type the wrong thing, and don't notice until the next day when I wonder why I got the question wrong.

That is to say, I knew it was "Macbeth", but typed "Hamlet" instead. Still won the day, though, thanks to defense. Today I play Jordan / heelsrule.
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teapot37 wrote:That is to say, I knew it was "Macbeth", but typed "Hamlet" instead.
I don't feel so bad now.
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ElendilPickle wrote:
quarterrican wrote:In Group 90 for Humanities. Figuring out the Jane Austen sequence was one of the most satisfying lightbulb moments I've had so far in LL. Hope all the days are as fun and interesting (and for me, successful) as the first one.
Yes! I was pretty darn proud of myself for figuring out The Austen Code.
The best questions (like the Austen one) are the ones you figure out two hours later and your kneejerk reaction is to yell "aw, f***" loudly
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My group is the supreme Group of Death. We tied for the highest Q% yesterday and the second-highest on Thursday. And that's with my, er, lack of knowledge of the humanities there to bring the group's percentage down. I somehow managed a Buckner tie yesterday, and that's probably the closest to a win I'm going to get.

I'm enjoying the questions, though! This is fun.

(By the way, what did people guess for that Japanese question? I guessed "The Tale of Genji.")
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