TD 354 Mr. Peabody VIII my homework

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Ouch! On second thought, can we argue about Kyrgystan some more?

[Ironhorse]

Well, at least I'm ahead of an actual J! contestant, right?

[jsm378]

Damn, I am from Maine and got that one wrong. I just thought in my head that since it was agreed both would become states as a part of the Missouri Compromise that they would have entered at the same time. Damn government, can never get anything done in a timely matter.

[zerobandwidth]

Damn, I am from Maine and got that one wrong. I just thought in my head that since it was agreed both would become states as a part of the Missouri Compromise that they would have entered at the same time. Damn government, can never get anything done in a timely matter.

Similarly I thought part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was to put them both on the rails toward statehood. Oh well. Between already being a guess, and trying to pick a different guess than everyone else's, this is… hard. Neat.

[BobF]

Our penultimate question is the Independence Day question.

SHEEP, Canada, 7/1, 7 points
AFRET CMS
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classicroadster
Ironhorse
floridagator
merica
clprez

SHEEP selected: clt013

USA, 7/4, 5 points
ElendilPickle
MarkBarrett
Vintsanity
immaf
Category 13

Singletons:
Panama, 11/3, dhkendall
Mexico, 9/16, gamawire

Drops:
jsm378
Tybalteon
econgator

And finally, the 20/20 anchors. The only question with wrong answers and a high enough sheep to get more than 8 points for a wrong answer.

Wrong answers, 9 points
Mike Wallace (60 Minutes) AFRET CMS
Lou Dobbs, zerobandwidth
Ted Koppel, classicroadster

SHEEP, Hugh Downs, 6 points
dhkendall
gamawire
floridagator
clt013
merica
econgator

Barbara Walters, 4 points
ElendilPickle
Tybalteon
MarkBarrett
immaf

Charles Gibson, 2 points
clprez
Category 13

Singleton:
Connie Chung, jsm378

DROP:
Ironhorse
Vintsanity

Final standings coming soon!

[BobF]

Now for the final standings. Sorry about the delay and my inability to come u with cute faux prizes for the contestants. I'm hoping this isn't my last TD but the future doesn't look too promising.

18th place zerobandwidth 51 points
16th tied with 43 points each classicroadster and merica
15th Ironhorse 37
14th Immaf 36
12th tied with 34 AFRET CMS and Tybalteon
8th toed with 32 dhkendall econgator floridagator and Vintsanity
7th Category 13 with 30
6th gamawire 28
4th tied with 27 ElendilPickle and jsm378

Very tight finish at the top
3rd MarkBarrett with 25
2nd clt013 with 24
And th winner is clprez with 23!

Thanks for playing along and for your patience.

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WOO I FINALLY GOT THE HIGH SCO— Wait. AAAAUGH

[jsm378]

My home state of Maine cost me the lowest score.......I'M MOVING, any recommendations for States to lay my hat?

[BobF]

WOO I FINALLY GOT THE HIGH SCORE

I wish you could have said that last month if you vet my drift.

[clt013]

Now for the final standings. Sorry about the delay and my inability to come u with cute faux prizes for the contestants. I'm hoping this isn't my last TD but the future doesn't look too promising.

Very tight finish at the top
3rd MarkBarrett with 25
2nd clt013 with 24
And th winner is clprez with 23!

Thanks for playing along and for your patience.

Thanks for hosting - and the delay just meant I got to spend more time in first place before the inevitable collapse (which somewhat surprisingly didn't prevent my first podium finish).

If only I had gone with my first instinct of Elizabeth Vargas on the 20/20 anchor (dismissed because I thought the current hosts would be too popular) - then Hugh would not have been the "Downs"-fall that kept me from winning.

[clprez]

Wow, 1st place! That was completely unexpected as I sheeped on the penultimate question.

After never getting in the top 10 for years, if I remember correctly my last 3 TDs were 1st, top ten, and 1st. I don't know what I'm doing differently. If anything, I'm sometimes picking answers that I think will be more popular.

[dhkendall]

Wow, 1st place! That was completely unexpected as I sheeped on the penultimate question.

Congrats!

I would think that was actually a really good question to sheep as, even in this knowledgeable group, you'd be hard pressed to find a person to come up with a North American independence day (or any other continent, really) other than Canada and US (and maybe Mexico), one of those two were gonna sheep. This also told me that it was a good question to break out some of my obscure trivia knowledge, like the independence dates of Panama, most of Central America (September 15), Cuba and Haiti (January 1, although I'm not 100% sure on Cuba), Jamaica (August 6, although it's celebrated the first Monday in August, unique in independence days), St. Lucia (February 22), Barbados (November 30), and Trinidad and Tobago (August 31).

[BobF]

Wow, 1st place! That was completely unexpected as I sheeped on the penultimate question.

Congrats!

I would think that was actually a really good question to sheep as, even in this knowledgeable group, you'd be hard pressed to find a person to come up with a North American independence day (or any other continent, really) other than Canada and US (and maybe Mexico), one of those two were gonna sheep. This also told me that it was a good question to break out some of my obscure trivia knowledge, like the independence dates of Panama, most of Central America (September 15), Cuba and Haiti (January 1, although I'm not 100% sure on Cuba), Jamaica (August 6, although it's celebrated the first Monday in August, unique in independence days), St. Lucia (February 22), Barbados (November 30), and Trinidad and Tobago (August 31).

Honestly, Canada and the US are the only ones I know, so this was a good learning experience for me.

[Ironhorse]

I was kicking myself on the Mexico one because I knew it had been several days prior (because several people on my Facebook had been posting about how this was the real Mexican independence day and not Cinco de Mayo) but I couldn't remember exactly which day, and of course I wasn't going to cheat by looking back at their profiles.