TD 402 - The TD Strikes Back FINAL (Q9 - Q10)

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...aaannnnddd...screenshot for posterity before it all comes crashing down.
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Sorry for the delay with the holidays but here are the next set:

Topping the Box Office In 2018. Name a film that has topped a weekend only ONCE in the Weekend Box Office in 2018 as of November 1, 2018.
Maze Runner 3
Fifty Shades Freed
Pacific Rim 2
Ready Player One
Rampage
Deadpool 2
Ocean's 8
Incredibles 2
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Hotel Transylvania 3
The Equalizer 2
The Meg
The Nun
The Predator (2018)
House With A Clock In Its Walls
Night School


Deadpool 2 (2)
JayK33
clt013

Ocean's 8 (1 - singleton)
immaf
Incredibles 2 (1 - singleton)
Wpwells

Ready Player One (2)
MarkBarrett
clprez

Predator (1 - singleton)
CasketRomance

Rampage (1 - singleton)
gamawire

Ant-Man and the Wasp (1 - singleton)
xxaaaxx

INCORRECT
Mamma Mia 2 (+7)
spell4yr


What’s My Constellation? According to NASA, there are 88 officially recognized constellations. Pick ONE from the list of english translations by giving the official constellation name.
Peacock Pavo
Swan Cygnus
Table Mountain Mensa
Southern Cross Crux
Twins Pavo
Archer Sagittarius
Fly Musca
Water Bearer Aquarius
Eagle Aquila
Scales Libra


Cygnus (5)
AFRET CMS Cygnus
Wpwells Cygnus
Peachbox Cygnus
clprez Cygnus
clt013 Cygnus


Aquila (5)
SenseiCAY Aquila
Woof Aquila
econgator Aquila
RJRouge Aquila
xxaaaxx Aquila


Gemini (3)
spell4yr Gemini
CasketRomance Gemini
JayK33 Gemini


Sagittarius (2)
gamawire Sagittarius
immaf SAGITARIUS


Libra (1 - singleton)
MarkBarrett Libra


TOTALS
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MarkBarrett 11
SenseiCAY 12
floridagator 13
CasketRomance 13
xxaaaxx 16
RJRouge 16
clt013 17
Wpwells 21
Woof 23
AFRET CMS 24
spell4yr 24
JayK33 25
Peachbox 25
econgator 26
clprez 28
gamawire 28
immaf 30
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Ready Player One (2)
MarkBarrett
clprez


Libra (1 - singleton)
MarkBarrett Libra

Pick the movie I saw in the theater & pick my sign = 3 pts. Not bad.
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TIL there’s a difference between weekly box office and weekend box office.
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spell4yr wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:50 pm TIL there’s a difference between weekly box office and weekend box office.
I get "trivia", but how would anyone know which movie topped the list exactly once?
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econgator wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:51 pm
spell4yr wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:50 pm TIL there’s a difference between weekly box office and weekend box office.
I get "trivia", but how would anyone know which movie topped the list exactly once?
Can’t speak for those who got it right, but for me, pulling a movie out of my backside that didn’t seem to have any big competition that week, but wouldn’t have any staying power. Since I was the only one to get it wrong, I looked it up and found my guess on a list and was about to comment as such — but then realized it was a weekly list, and apparently it never even hit the top once.

Almost all of the correct answers that were given, I’d have thought would have been multi-week #1s.
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For me it was easy: I spend more time browsing BoxOfficeMojo than I care to admit.
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Deadpool 2 was a total guess... well, more like just an answer I gave since I had to give something, and I'm surprised it was right. I would have thought it was on top for much longer than just one weekend.
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econgator wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:51 pm
spell4yr wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:50 pm TIL there’s a difference between weekly box office and weekend box office.
I get "trivia", but how would anyone know which movie topped the list exactly once?
Well that's why I came up with the question, most people know what movies had staying power, but how about the one-and-dones. This is a TD after all, think differently.
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spell4yr wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:07 pm
econgator wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:51 pm
spell4yr wrote: Sun Nov 25, 2018 10:50 pm TIL there’s a difference between weekly box office and weekend box office.
I get "trivia", but how would anyone know which movie topped the list exactly once?
Can’t speak for those who got it right, but for me, pulling a movie out of my backside that didn’t seem to have any big competition that week, but wouldn’t have any staying power.
This was basically my thought process for a WAG - I figured Rampage could go #1 because of The Rock, but I did not think it was a multi-week #1 type film.
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when is the next reveal going to be?
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Re: TD 402 - The TD Strikes Back FINAL (Q9 - Q10)

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Once again apologies for the long wait, just had a lot more than I bargained for going on this month, but here are the final two question results.
I want to thank all who played and hope you enjoyed the game. I cant wait to do the next one, but I promise you the next reveal will not be as long and arduous!


80s Grammy Award Winners. Being born right smack dab in the middle of the 80’s, I thought it would be fun to include some music history. Name ONE album and the artist that won Grammy of the Year from 1980 to 1989.
1980: Self Titled - Christopher Cross
1981: Double Fantasy - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
1982: Toto IV - Toto
1983: Thriller- Michael Jackson
1984: Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
1985: No Jacket Required - Phil Collins
1986: Graceland - Paul Simon
1987: The Joshua Tree - U2
1988: Faith - George Michael
1989: Nick Of Time - Bonnie Raitt


Graceland - Paul Simon (6)
gamawire
AFRET CMS
MarkBarrett
CasketRomance
econgator
clt013


Thriller - Michael Jackson (4)
SenseiCAY
JayK33
Woof
xxaaaxx

Toto IV - Toto (4)
Wpwells
floridagator
clprez
spell4yr


DROP
immaf


INCORRECT
Purple Rain - Prince
Peachbox
RJRouge



I was pleasantly surprised at how many of you knew this. This to me was a much more difficult get than the others!

We use the U.S. Dollar Too! Name ONE country that employs Dollarization, which is when a foreign nation ONLY adopts the U.S. Dollar as its own currency.
Ecuador
East Timor
El Salvador
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Palau
Turks and Caicos
British Virgin Islands
Zimbabwe

Ecuador (2)
floridagator
CasketRomance

East Timor (1)
Woof

Palau (1)
Peachbox

Micronesia (1)
RJRouge


DROP
clprez
clt013
xxaaaxx
Wpwells
gamawire
MarkBarrett


INCORRECT
SenseiCAY - Suriname
AFRET CMS - Belize
immaf - Jamaica
econgator - n/a
JayK33 - Malaysia
spell4yr - USA



Here are the Totals!!

TOTALS
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MarkBarrett 17
floridagator 19
xxaaaxx 20
CasketRomance 21
SenseiCAY 23
clt013 23
Wpwells 25
Woof 28
RJRouge 28
clprez 32
gamawire 34
spell4yr 35
JayK33 36
AFRET CMS 37
immaf 37
Peachbox 37
econgator 39


Congrats to MarkBarrett!! Hope you enjoyed the TD and I hope to see you guys again on the next TD!!
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oduguy22 wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:43 am

We use the U.S. Dollar Too! Name ONE country that employs Dollarization, which is when a nation ONLY adopts the U.S. Dollar as its own currency.
Not true. Dollarization is when a country adopts a foreign currency in place of their own, which may or may not be the US dollar. The US would not be a correct answer to this.

That being said, I have no clue which countries solely use the US dollar. :)
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econgator wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:54 am
oduguy22 wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:43 am

We use the U.S. Dollar Too! Name ONE country that employs Dollarization, which is when a nation ONLY adopts the U.S. Dollar as its own currency.
Not true. Dollarization is when a country adopts a foreign currency in place of their own, which may or may not be the US dollar. The US would not be a correct answer to this.

That being said, I have no clue which countries solely use the US dollar. :)
I'm perfectly okay with being marked wrong -- I had no clue which countries solely used USD other than, well, the U.S. (please don't tell my Global Finance instructor from last year), so I figured it wouldn't be the worst guess I'd make on this TD. It may not meet the dollarization requirement, but it does meet the "nation ONLY adopts the U.S. Dollar" requirement.

(Unless you're in northern New England. Growing up we had enough CAD coinage floating around it may as well have been a secondary currency.)
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econgator wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:54 am
oduguy22 wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:43 am

We use the U.S. Dollar Too! Name ONE country that employs Dollarization, which is when a nation ONLY adopts the U.S. Dollar as its own currency.
Not true. Dollarization is when a country adopts a foreign currency in place of their own, which may or may not be the US dollar. The US would not be a correct answer to this.

That being said, I have no clue which countries solely use the US dollar. :)
From a bystander - This is a real interesting nugget - and is also (part of) the reason I took a pass on this TD. I don't mind being the loser and getting 3 wrong with some educated and misguided guesses, but I was stonewalled on several of these.

Thanks for putting these out, and consider that some of us are enjoying them, even if we don't have the time or moxie to jump in!
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econgator wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:54 am
oduguy22 wrote: Fri Nov 30, 2018 9:43 am

We use the U.S. Dollar Too! Name ONE country that employs Dollarization, which is when a nation ONLY adopts the U.S. Dollar as its own currency.
Not true. Dollarization is when a country adopts a foreign currency in place of their own, which may or may not be the US dollar. The US would not be a correct answer to this.

That being said, I have no clue which countries solely use the US dollar. :)
That is correct, my apologies, it is a foreign country, so that is considered incorrect. I have updated the score. Once again my apologies. All is correct now!
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