TD387 - morbeedo's Revenge - Final Results

[morbeedo]

14. EVIL SPELLING BEE
Perfect spelling required. If your answer is misspelled, then it's WRONG!

Spoiler

• Chemical element Bk
• Chemical element P
• Capital of Burkina Faso (O)
• Capital of Bhutan (T)
• Capital of Honduras (T)
• Southernmost city in the world, located at the tip of Argentina in the province of Tierra del Fuego (U)
• First name of Lady Bird and Brooklyn actress, Ronan (S)
• Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winner, Ali, for Moonlight (M)
• Best Actor Oscar Winner, Matthew, for Dallas Buyer’s Club (M)
• Russian Far East peninsula (K)
• Third highest mountain in the world, straddling Nepal and India (K)
• Aztec god whose name means “feathered serpent” (Q)

Q14 ANSWERS

Spoiler

Ouch. That's gotta hurt!

Wrong answers – 11 points
Circe
Enormous Jeans

Ouagadougu
threearruda

Ougadougou
Quantum

Phosphorous
MattKnowles

Saorise
1stlvlthinker
ElendilPickle
psgola
Saturnalia

Saorsie
squarekara

Ushaia
Peachbox
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SHEEP
heppm01

Capital of Honduras (T)
Tegucigalpa — 6 responses
bev nar
classicroadster
clt013
SenseiCAY
Troydozzy
Vintsanity

First name of Lady Bird and Brooklyn actress, Ronan (S)
Saoirse — 5 responses
AFRET CMS
guessonguessonguess
MarkBarrett
Mastercone
Sims

Capital of Burkina Faso (O)
Ouagadougou — 3 responses
badgerfellow
RJRouge
sillymoose

Chemical element Bk
berkelium — 2 responses
econgator
twelvefootboy

Aztec god whose name means “feathered serpent” (Q)
Quetzalcoatl — 2 responses
Gamawire
Tybalteon

Capital of Bhutan (T)
Thimphu — 2 responses
casketromance
Magna

Southernmost city in the world, located at the tip of Argentina in the province of Tierra del Fuego (U)
Ushuaia — 2 responses
9021amyers
floridagator

Third highest mountain in the world, straddling Nepal and India (K)
Kanchenjunga (also acc. Kangchenjunga) — Singleton!
Woof

Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winner, Ali, for Moonlight (M)
I was going for his professional name, Mahershala. I'm twisted, but not that twisted
Mahershalalhashbaz (also acc. Mahershala) — Singleton!
xxaaaxx

Chemical element P
phosphorus — Singleton!
spell4yr

NOT USED
Best Actor Oscar Winner, Matthew, for Dallas Buyer’s Club (M)
McConaughey

Russian Far East peninsula (K)
Kamchatka

FINAL RESULTS

Spoiler

Congratulations to our winner, MarkBarrett, who forfeits all winnings due to snark, to our pedantic runner-up and also-ran, floridagator, and to our bronze non-medalist, AFRET CMS, whom I've seen IRL but never met, and to everyone else who participated but finished without distinction, and last and most definitely least, to Enormous Jeans, who stole last place from twelvefootboy (12 ft boy??) with an eye-popping 120 points!

To all who wined and whinged and otherwise expressed displeasure, I shall have my revenge!



1. MarkBarrett — 27 + 5 → 32 pts [unch]
2. floridagator — 35 + 2 → 37 pts [unch]
3. AFRET CMS — 37 + 5 → 42 pts [↑1]
4. Mastercone — 38 + 5 → 43 pts [↑1]
5. Magna — 43 + 2 → 45 pts [↑2]

6. casketromance — 44 + 2 → 46 pts [↑2]
7. squarekara — 36 + 11 → 47 pts [↓4]
8. 9021amyers — 47 + 2 → 49 pts [↑4]
9. badgerfellow — 47 + 3 → 50 pts [↑3]
9. RJRouge — 47 + 3 → 50 pts [↑3]

11. Peachbox — 40 + 11 → 51 pts [↓5]
12. econgator — 51 + 2 → 53 pts [↑5]
12. SenseiCAY — 47 + 6 → 53 pts [unch]
12. sillymoose — 50 + 3 → 53 pts [↑4]
12. xxaaaxx — 52 + 1 → 53 pts [↑7]

16. MattKnowles — 45 + 11 → 56 pts [↓7]
16. threearruda — 45 + 11 → 56 pts [↓7]
18. bev nar — 51 + 6 → 57 pts [↓1]
18. psgola — 46 + 11 → 57 pts [↓7]
20. clt013 — 52 + 6 → 58 pts [↓1]

20. Gamawire — 56 + 2 → 58 pts [↑3]
22. guessonguessonguess — 54 + 5 → 59 pts [↓1]
22. Woof — 58 + 1 → 59 pts [↑4]
24. Troydozzy — 55 + 6 → 61 pts [↓2]
25. Tybalteon — 60 + 2 → 62 pts [↑2]
26. Sims — 61 + 5 → 66 pts [↑3]


27. ElendilPickle — 56 + 11 → 67 pts [↓4]
28. Saturnalia — 57 + 11 → 68 pts [↓3]
28. spell4yr — 67 + 1 → 68 pts [↑2]
30. 1stlvlthinker — 60 + 11 → 71 pts [↓3]
31. Vintsanity — 69 + 6 → 75 pts [unch]


32. classicroadster — 70 + 6 → 76 pts [unch]
33. heppm01 — 77 + 6 → 83 pts [↑1]
33. Quantum — 72 + 11 → 83 pts [unch]
35. twelvefootboy — 84 + 2 → 86 pts [unch]
36. Enormous Jeans — 109 + 11 → 120 pts [unch]

This is my last TD, as I despise you all

[MarkBarrett]

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Congratulations to our winner, MarkBarrett, who forfeits all winnings due to snark, ...

To all who wined and whinged and otherwise expressed displeasure, I shall have my revenge!
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This is my last TD, as I despise you all

My only post in the thread: I stereotyped Nebraska as flat bunch of nothing and got lucky.

Where does that fall on the snark-ometer from 1-10?

Oh wait, did I add an exclamation point to my DROP!? That must be it. If it's my response to that thread you started this morning and I responded with YNN then you got off lucky compared to what I was thinking.

Thanks for hosting. Lucky for me that my non-comprehending of the penalty for those early bonus guesses did not hurt too much. I'm sure glad I was caught up on watching FTWD or I would have been mad. At both myself and you for that spoiler.

[Magna]

Wow, 5th place!
Thanks for a fun TD!

[xxaaaxx]

Another fun TD! I wasn't sure if you wanted his professional name or full, but since I knew how to spell it, I figured I might as well. And if I can't get a singleton with that mouthful, then I might as well quit

[morbeedo]

I'm sure glad I was caught up on watching FTWD or I would have been mad. At both myself and you for that spoiler.

Oops, I should have hid that clue in a spoiler box

[squarekara]

Thanks for a great TD! The spelling bee was hilarious. I chose a shorter word hopng to limit the chance of screwing up, but that went horribly wrong!

[AFRET CMS]

Nasty but fun TD, and maybe my best finish ever. I'm flabbergasted "Kamchatka" went unused in the final question. I flipped a mental coin, and of course went with the 5-point answer instead of with what would have been a singleton. No Risk players in the group, forsooth? If had shaved those four point off my score, I would have moved from 3rd place into ... let's see ... carry the two ... 3rd place. Woo-hoo!.

[MarkBarrett]

Nasty but fun TD, and maybe my best finish ever. I'm flabbergasted "Kamchatka" went unused in the final question. I flipped a mental coin, and of course went with the 5-point answer instead of with what would have been a singleton. No Risk players in the group, forsooth? If had shaved those four point off my score, I would have moved from 3rd place into ... let's see ... carry the two ... 3rd place. Woo-hoo!.

That's a gimme spelling for the many Risk players here, so I'm not surprised it went unused.

[AFRET CMS]

Nasty but fun TD, and maybe my best finish ever. I'm flabbergasted "Kamchatka" went unused in the final question. I flipped a mental coin, and of course went with the 5-point answer instead of with what would have been a singleton. No Risk players in the group, forsooth? If had shaved those four point off my score, I would have moved from 3rd place into ... let's see ... carry the two ... 3rd place. Woo-hoo!.

That's a gimme spelling for the many Risk players here, so I'm not surprised it went unused.

Exactly why I avoided it -- and thus avoided thinking differently.

I once spent a year watching Kamchatka from 300 miles away. I was assigned to Shemya, Alaska, from May '81 through June '82. The Kamchatka peninsula was the target landing zone for then-Soviet missile tests, and the Shemya installation did airborne surveillance, radar imaging, and elint monitoring of the Soviet missile program. I was the island medic, taking care of 600 people. Great duty, miserable place. We build a Christmas tree out of packing crates and put it in the main compound, and on Dec 23 it blew into the Bering Sea during a 70-knot williwaw. And yes, we played LOTS of Risk. And Monopoly. And pinochle.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.7216603 ... a=!3m1!1e3

[squarekara]

I once spent a year watching Kamchatka from 300 miles away. I was assigned to Shemya, Alaska, from May '81 through June '82. The Kamchatka peninsula was the target landing zone for then-Soviet missile tests, and the Shemya installation did airborne surveillance, radar imaging, and elint monitoring of the Soviet missile program. I was the island medic, taking care of 600 people. Great duty, miserable place. We build a Christmas tree out of packing crates and put it in the main compound, and on Dec 23 it blew into the Bering Sea during a 70-knot williwaw. And yes, we played LOTS of Risk. And Monopoly. And pinochle.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.7216603 ... a=!3m1!1e3

You could construct a TD themed soley on the elements of this post!

[ElendilPickle]

I *knew* I should have gone with Mahershala.

I'm also disappointed that I didn't get bonus points for my "Edward 'face like an angel, body like a marble statue' Cullen" answer.

Nonetheless, this was a super fun TD. Thanks for hosting!

[morbeedo]

I *knew* I should have gone with Mahershala.

I'm also disappointed that I didn't get bonus points for my "Edward 'face like an angel, body like a marble statue' Cullen" answer.

Nonetheless, this was a super fun TD. Thanks for hosting!

Ahhhh, your answer made me smile, but I had to delete all those extra words so the scoring spreadsheet would work
Brava, brava!

[SenseiCAY]

Nasty but fun TD, and maybe my best finish ever. I'm flabbergasted "Kamchatka" went unused in the final question. I flipped a mental coin, and of course went with the 5-point answer instead of with what would have been a singleton. No Risk players in the group, forsooth? If had shaved those four point off my score, I would have moved from 3rd place into ... let's see ... carry the two ... 3rd place. Woo-hoo!.

I don't play Risk, but Kamchatka appeared on a recent TD (maybe even the last one before this one?) and I missed it due to a misspelling that changed the pronunciation, I suppose (I think I put Kamtchaka). I knew it this time, but I figured so would everyone else.

[morbeedo]

I once spent a year watching Kamchatka from 300 miles away. I was assigned to Shemya, Alaska, from May '81 through June '82. The Kamchatka peninsula was the target landing zone for then-Soviet missile tests, and the Shemya installation did airborne surveillance, radar imaging, and elint monitoring of the Soviet missile program. I was the island medic, taking care of 600 people. Great duty, miserable place. We build a Christmas tree out of packing crates and put it in the main compound, and on Dec 23 it blew into the Bering Sea during a 70-knot williwaw. And yes, we played LOTS of Risk. And Monopoly. And pinochle.

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.7216603 ... a=!3m1!1e3

You could construct a TD themed soley on the elements of this post!

Wow, Bob, wow!