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alietr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:09 am For Survivor: "Later for you, sucker!" I had (as usual) no understanding of what Thorsten picked ("Developers developers developers developers") -- feel free to explain.

boson wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:13 am Edit: hmm, the video tag doesn't work, but just writing the url does.

Alrighty, that's quite the inside joke.

I've heard of High Street, but it wasn't going to come to me. I almost made a BWA attempt with "Mornington Crescent," but I thought I had a nonzero chance of a random guess being right, and that the reference was too obscure (at least in America).

boson wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:13 am Edit: hmm, the video tag doesn't work, but just writing the url does.

Aha! Never thought of trying just that.

I'm kind of disappointed that my answers earlier this season of "Qurplop" for the Quran subdivision and "Prince E. Mail" for the Nigerian playwright weren't chosen.

seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 10:58 am I've heard of High Street, but it wasn't going to come to me. I almost made a BWA attempt with "Mornington Crescent," but I thought I had a nonzero chance of a random guess being right, and that the reference was too obscure (at least in America).

It would never have occurred to me that there could exist a person who could come up with Mornington Crescent but not High Street.

I went with "Basketball Jones" yesterday, which is a very old Cheech and Chong routine. Almost got it right totally by accident.

alietr wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 11:34 am I went with "Basketball Jones" yesterday, which is a very old Cheech and Chong routine. Almost got it right totally by accident.

That's all I could think of, too.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a seminal work in the field of urban planning, was written in 1961 by what tenacious New Yorker (and foe of Robert Moses)?

Pharaoh

(I opted for that variant over Faroe...didn't want to get too cutesy)

I guessed that the other Slovenian basketball player was Melania Trump.

LL81 MD14 Q5 wrote:What is the artistic term defined as a monochrome painting (or other work) completed entirely in shades of gray, frequently modeled in a decorative manner to imitate sculpture or stone relief?

FIFTY SHADES OF SADISTIC LL ART QUESTIONS

mine so far this season:

In computing, a control total of the correct digits in a particular set of data, which can be used in future comparisons to detect errors, is usually referred to by what compound word? NUMBERWANG

Charlie Townsend in Charlie's Angels, Mrs. Wolowitz from The Big Bang Theory, Vera Peterson in Cheers, and Maris Crane in Frasier—all of these characters are distinctive in a particular manner that is also shared by what character in Magnum P.I.? TOM SELLECK'S BITCHIN' 'STACHE

The #1 game by global downloads in the iOS App Store and Google Play for 2018 is described by its maker, Voodoo Games, as an "exciting adventure of the bouncing ball through the...tower labyrinth". What is the name of that game?
Amaze Balls!

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:47 am The #1 game by global downloads in the iOS App Store and Google Play for 2018 is described by its maker, Voodoo Games, as an "exciting adventure of the bouncing ball through the...tower labyrinth". What is the name of that game?
Amaze Balls!

Flappy Ball

Useless Game I'm Not Gonna Waste Time or Money On

alietr wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:20 am Useless Game I'm Not Gonna Waste Time or Money On

Get off my lawn!

For Aaron Spelling's last series before he died, I went with "Heaven Couldn't Wait". I knew 'heaven' was in there, but no way I was pulling that one.

alietr wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2019 8:17 am For Aaron Spelling's last series before he died, I went with "Heaven Couldn't Wait". I knew 'heaven' was in there, but no way I was pulling that one.

"What TV series, which centered on the Glenoak, California, family of Protestant Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie . . ."

I said "How I met your Savior"

L'Anse aux Carlrissian

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