MD2 Recap
Opponent: StaloffM
Result: T 9(6) - 9(6)
Record: 1-0-1
Rundle Rank: 8
Question 1: A Bantu dialect term for "okra" and a Choctaw word for "filé" are possible (and appropriate) origins for the name of what dish?
Thought Process: I cooked this dish recently! I added both the okra and the file. Instaget.
Answer: Gumbo
Confidence Level: 100%
Defense: He's pretty decent at Food/Drink, and I feel like this is as straightforward as F/D questions go, so that's a 1.
Result: (+1)
Opponent Result: (+1)
Question 2: What Chicagoan dance lord became, in 1975, the first American to secure a title at the Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne (Irish Dancing World Championships)?
Thought Process: So I first saw Chicago and dance and typed in Fosse, but then I realized that the dance in question was Irish, and then I noticed "dance lord", so I typed in the answer and began humming the hymn "Lord of the Dance" that's sung to the same tune as "Simple Gifts".
Answer: Flatley
Confidence Level: 100%
Defense: This just simply seemed like something most A Rundlers would know, so I went with a 1.
Result: (+2)
Opponent Result: (+1)
Question 3: In early May 2018, what company, with its parent company SCL Group, ceased operations, following a scandal relating to its acquisition and use of personal data about Facebook users?
Thought Process: I pre-called a question about this company before the season. Easy peasy.
Answer: Cambridge Analytica
Confidence Level: 100%
Defense: Pretty sure most people heard about this. Easy 0.
Result: (+0)
Opponent Result: (+0)
Question 4: What island and external federal territory of Australia was visited, and named, by English sea captain William Mynors in December 1643?
Thought Process: Okay, Australian island. Tasmania? Probably not. What other Australian islands are there? Maybe Christmas Island... *parses question again and catches the December hint* YES! It was so named because it was discovered on Christmas! BOOM! There we go.
Answer: Christmas Island
Confidence Level: 95%
Defense: Well he's solid in Geography, but this is a tougher Geography question, so maybe he'll miss it? I've already used the lower point values, so I guess he gets a 2,
Result: (+2)
Opponent Result: (+2)
Question 5: An agricultural device gives its name to what term for a U-shaped bend in a river? The term is also used for a lake formed when a river bend becomes so sharp that the river cuts through the narrow neck of land in the middle.
Thought Process: YES! I remember my dad drilling this into my head when we saw Lake Chicot - he told me that's the largest oxbow lake in North America!
Answer: Oxbow
Confidence Level: 100%
Defense: Again, I don't love it, but the last one is the obvious 3, so this gets a 2.
Result: (+1)
Opponent Result: (+2)
Question 6: "Not Tonight Josephine"—purportedly (but likely not) once uttered by Napoleon to Empress Joséphine one evening—was the working title of what 1959 comedy film, in reference to a character portrayed by a character portrayed by one of the movie's main actors?
Thought Process: So, I don't know this one. For some reason "Some Like It Hot" is tickling the back of my headbone, but I literally have no idea why. However, since Film is such a bad category for me, I guess that's what I'm going with.
Answer: Some Like It Hot
Confidence Level: 40%
Defense: Of the questions, this is the toughest, and film is also not a great category for him. Obvious 3.
Result: (+3)
Opponent Result: (+3)