LL79: For the LLamas
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Re: LL79: For the LLamas
My answer of "author died before they were done" was not accepted. I did however, totally get the Koons question, and added this balloon dog to our tree ornament collection this year. Unfortunately for boson, we haven't set up the tree yet. If you want one, you can get it at Canadian Tire: https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/canv ... 7488p.html
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Confederacy of Dunces and the Kafka works don't qualify.
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From my visit to L.A.'s Broad Museum last year.
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I said "unfinished" because of The Mystery of Edwin Drood (also not accepted). Didn't know enough about the others to get it right.cmp146 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:58 pm My answer of "author died before they were done" was not accepted. I did however, totally get the Koons question, and added this balloon dog to our tree ornament collection this year. Unfortunately for boson, we haven't set up the tree yet. If you want one, you can get it at Canadian Tire: https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/canv ... 7488p.html
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I'd assumed that my opponent would not know anything about beer production, because his religion forbids it. I was wrong. (About the first thing, not the second.)
I keep losing by one point, so even though I'm four games under .500 and nearing relegation, I have a +1 point differential. That differential might save me.
I keep losing by one point, so even though I'm four games under .500 and nearing relegation, I have a +1 point differential. That differential might save me.
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I got bit yesterday by making assumptions based on the sex of my opponent. I assigned the beer question 3 and paisley 0. She got wort and missed paisley and I ended up with a 9(6)-9(5) tie and spoiling my first six-pack of the season.
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I was baffled that anyone would not put the 0 on Annie, yet somehow the average defense was 1.3, the third lowest. The question literally said to name a Broadway show from 1977 with a little girl as the title character.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:49 am I got bit yesterday by making assumptions based on the sex of my opponent. I assigned the beer question 3 and paisley 0. She got wort and missed paisley and I ended up with a 9(6)-9(5) tie and spoiling my first six-pack of the season.
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That one was definitely a softball. I'm sure the reason is lots of people have poor Theater scores, but that was a very easy theater question. For some reason I thought the paisley question was going to be just as easy. A Persian design named for a place in Scotland? I wouldn't have thought the get rate would be as high as for Annie, but not far off.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:18 amI was baffled that anyone would not put the 0 on Annie, yet somehow the average defense was 1.3, the third lowest. The question literally said to name a Broadway show from 1977 with a little girl as the title character.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:49 am I got bit yesterday by making assumptions based on the sex of my opponent. I assigned the beer question 3 and paisley 0. She got wort and missed paisley and I ended up with a 9(6)-9(5) tie and spoiling my first six-pack of the season.
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For the paisley question, Argyle and Tartan were two possible wrong answers. The “bush” hint steered me away from the geometric designs.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:22 amThat one was definitely a softball. I'm sure the reason is lots of people have poor Theater scores, but that was a very easy theater question. For some reason I thought the paisley question was going to be just as easy. A Persian design named for a place in Scotland? I wouldn't have thought the get rate would be as high as for Annie, but not far off.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:18 amI was baffled that anyone would not put the 0 on Annie, yet somehow the average defense was 1.3, the third lowest. The question literally said to name a Broadway show from 1977 with a little girl as the title character.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:49 am I got bit yesterday by making assumptions based on the sex of my opponent. I assigned the beer question 3 and paisley 0. She got wort and missed paisley and I ended up with a 9(6)-9(5) tie and spoiling my first six-pack of the season.
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Same here, but I put TARTAN anyway
I came up with AURICLE for ear, which is a synonym for PINNA only in the ear sense. I'll file that one away for, er, scratch that. Too obscure
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I was so happy to come up with Argyle as a geometric pattern named after a Scottish location that I stopped thinking about it.Woof wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:57 pmFor the paisley question, Argyle and Tartan were two possible wrong answers. The “bush” hint steered me away from the geometric designs.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:22 amThat one was definitely a softball. I'm sure the reason is lots of people have poor Theater scores, but that was a very easy theater question. For some reason I thought the paisley question was going to be just as easy. A Persian design named for a place in Scotland? I wouldn't have thought the get rate would be as high as for Annie, but not far off.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:18 amI was baffled that anyone would not put the 0 on Annie, yet somehow the average defense was 1.3, the third lowest. The question literally said to name a Broadway show from 1977 with a little girl as the title character.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:49 am I got bit yesterday by making assumptions based on the sex of my opponent. I assigned the beer question 3 and paisley 0. She got wort and missed paisley and I ended up with a 9(6)-9(5) tie and spoiling my first six-pack of the season.
alietr and I had a barn burner yesterday: 3(2)-2(1). I'll take it though: it ended a 9-game losing streak for me, and a 12-game no-win streak for me.
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Gee, thanks for the reminder. I can't remember the last time I bombed out that badly. But it must be a very, very long time. I went with 'plaid' on the cloth and the MCWA of Orange is the New Black. Wasn't getting wort no matter how hard I tried, and totally misread the president question to come up with JQ Adams. Finally, no clue on The Dark Tower. Any salt you'd like to rub in my eye while you're at it?
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Can I play? Not that I won my match, but everyone in my Prairie C (other than the one forfeit) had at least two right. When it rains, it pours.alietr wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:37 pmGee, thanks for the reminder. I can't remember the last time I bombed out that badly. But it must be a very, very long time. I went with 'plaid' on the cloth and the MCWA of Orange is the New Black. Wasn't getting wort no matter how hard I tried, and totally misread the president question to come up with JQ Adams. Finally, no clue on The Dark Tower. Any salt you'd like to rub in my eye while you're at it?
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And her last name was Irish which, if you apply a stereotype like I did, could hint that she is a redhead. I assigned it a zero in both my matches.jeff6286 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:18 amI was baffled that anyone would not put the 0 on Annie, yet somehow the average defense was 1.3, the third lowest. The question literally said to name a Broadway show from 1977 with a little girl as the title character.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:49 am I got bit yesterday by making assumptions based on the sex of my opponent. I assigned the beer question 3 and paisley 0. She got wort and missed paisley and I ended up with a 9(6)-9(5) tie and spoiling my first six-pack of the season.
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Re: LL79: For the LLamas
Pretty depressing to only get one right and have it be in your third best category (over .800). I was puzzled to be assigned 0 for the president question and 1 for Annie, not that it helped me.
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I'm not allowing myself to discuss the season because I'm way ahead of everybody else and can't keep track of which questions have appeared and which haven't. (Thorsten was kind enough to remove my limit on advance access this season because as a postal worker during December, I can easily put in 70-80 hours a week.)
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After many matches where I got more correct answers than my opponent and lost, the tables were turned yesterday.
I did the best defense, and she did the worst so I won 5(2)-4(4).
I did the best defense, and she did the worst so I won 5(2)-4(4).
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Hmm. If I had seen Tuesday's episode of Jeopardy before Thursday's match, I should have been able to come up with 'published posthumously'
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Kinda surprised that Casey Jones barely hit 50%, but just as surprised that John Henry was the MCWA. He wasn't even an engineer and he "died with a hammer in his hand."