MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2017 5:42 pm
Alex was not familiar with gimlet?
Sorry if I missed a reply to this. I assumed Alex meant that he wasn't familiar with the tool.
I enjoyed watching Melanie--glad you had a good time! Jon survived the "correcting Alex" jinx in his interview segment.
I got FJ! fairly easily despite only having had tangential exposure to the show. I spent a few years as coach of a Quiz Bowl club at an engineering school, where our main strategy on art questions was "guess a Turtle". (Though I've actually learned a few art factoids by reading questions at practice and watching J! for a Really Long Time.)
I guess I need to embrace the 21st century, but on my crappy little TV I could just tell that there were four people in that image, and I could only tell that the middle two were wearing colored masks. Under those handicaps I had no chance of getting this FJ! right.
I'm late catching up on episodes. The mural was in last summer's Learned League Mini-League on the Renaissance. There was a 76% correct answer rate in identifying a specific artist. https://www.learnedleague.com/mini/ques ... ssance&2&6