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Re: LL79: For the LLamas

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A whopping 2% for John Kalodner in the RnR ML. Whoever he may be. And that was my industry and my timeframe. And my Ozzy Osbourne MCWA guess scored higher than the actual answer(s).
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alietr wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 8:40 am A whopping 2% for John Kalodner in the RnR ML. Whoever he may be. And that was my industry and my timeframe. And my Ozzy Osbourne MCWA guess scored higher than the actual answer(s).
He sure looks like Rick Rubin, the guy behind the Beastie Boys, but the music listed wasn't them, or related.

I said Osbourne instead of Gene Simmons for the question before as I confused my crazy/reality tv/70s metal stars.
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I hate to criticize too much, and I have enjoyed the Rock and Roll ML overall, but does it seem like it's been a little too metal focused to anyone else?
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:44 am I hate to criticize too much, and I have enjoyed the Rock and Roll ML overall, but does it seem like it's been a little too metal focused to anyone else?
Yes. Plus there should never be a question in there that has a 2% get rate. And I, too, am reluctant to criticize since these are hard to do.
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alietr wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:07 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:44 am I hate to criticize too much, and I have enjoyed the Rock and Roll ML overall, but does it seem like it's been a little too metal focused to anyone else?
Yes. Plus there should never be a question in there that has a 2% get rate. And I, too, am reluctant to criticize since these are hard to do.
I don't think there's anything wrong, in a vacuum, with a couple, even a few clues out of 66 that are total clunkers.
But there's been more than a few and it's making those stand out even more.
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Volante wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:17 am
alietr wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 11:07 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:44 am I hate to criticize too much, and I have enjoyed the Rock and Roll ML overall, but does it seem like it's been a little too metal focused to anyone else?
Yes. Plus there should never be a question in there that has a 2% get rate. And I, too, am reluctant to criticize since these are hard to do.
I don't think there's anything wrong, in a vacuum, with a couple, even a few clues out of 66 that are total clunkers.
But there's been more than a few and it's making those stand out even more.
Given that it was a collaborative effort, I'm not seeing how that question could have made it through all of them without at least several of them saying who the hell is that? you can't use that. Just my opinion, of course. But yes, there have been two many total clunkers.
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Moving up the leaderboard in France ML after forfeiting MD1, which I should have won :(

MD4 was tricksy, but I eked out a win 3(2)-0(0) against a player who has yet to answer a single question right!!

Q1. Discarded Boyle, thought Lavoisier or Pascal, went with the latter. HENRI LOUIS LE CHATELIER
Q4. 17th c. French math guy? Thought Descartes or Fermat, went with the latter. PASCAL...doh!

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Congrats to jeff6286 on winning the Tolls 1DS! I coulda been a contender (top 15) had I not second guessed myself on Ft. Lee (that still looks NOTHING like the GW Bridge in my NSHO) and totally misjudged the difficulty of Q12. TBH, I'm still not sure how only 27% of the entrants could get the toll correctly from that diagram. It looked pretty straightforward to me.
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Woof wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:34 pm Congrats to jeff6286 on winning the Tolls 1DS! I coulda been a contender (top 15) had I not second guessed myself on Ft. Lee (that still looks NOTHING like the GW Bridge in my NSHO) and totally misjudged the difficulty of Q12. TBH, I'm still not sure how only 27% of the entrants could get the toll correctly from that diagram. It looked pretty straightforward to me.
Congrats, Jeff, but you didn't know Milo?!? I thought that was the easiest question on there (though no, I did not play in time).
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And for the record, I hate Breezewood with a burning, white-hot passion.
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On the "What band has had all of its members inducted into the RnR hall of Fame without itself being inducted" question, I said CSNY and got credit. That question's use of "only" was ill-advised.
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Woof wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:34 pm Congrats to jeff6286 on winning the Tolls 1DS! I coulda been a contender (top 15) had I not second guessed myself on Ft. Lee (that still looks NOTHING like the GW Bridge in my NSHO) and totally misjudged the difficulty of Q12. TBH, I'm still not sure how only 27% of the entrants could get the toll correctly from that diagram. It looked pretty straightforward to me.
Full disclosure: I messed up by adding in the "ramp toll zones". It's obvious when I look at it *now*.
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I thought there would be a lot more 12/12 scores on Tolls than there actually were. (I'm another member of the 11/12 club on that one -- couldn't remember "Poor Unfortunate Souls.")
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I stupidly added up all of the tolls shown along the route, including each on-ramp apparently, and had never read nor seen The Phantom Tollbooth, so there was no way I was going 12/12.

Personally, I love Breezewood, but it may have more to do with the fact that it indicates the final leg of my yearly drive to Baltimore (which will be ending this year, as the convention I was attending there is having its last one).
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alietr wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:51 pm
Woof wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 4:34 pm Congrats to jeff6286 on winning the Tolls 1DS! I coulda been a contender (top 15) had I not second guessed myself on Ft. Lee (that still looks NOTHING like the GW Bridge in my NSHO) and totally misjudged the difficulty of Q12. TBH, I'm still not sure how only 27% of the entrants could get the toll correctly from that diagram. It looked pretty straightforward to me.
Congrats, Jeff, but you didn't know Milo?!? I thought that was the easiest question on there (though no, I did not play in time).
I've never heard of Milo, either.

edit: oh, he's the character in "The Phantom Tollbooth." I have heard of that, but knew nothing about it besides the title. Now I do!
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These medieval French history and culture questions are killing me
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morbeedo wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:40 am These medieval French history and culture questions are killing me
Never before have I participated in an ML where I have had multiple opponents get 0(0) scores. Pretty brutal. OTOH, in the R&R ML our group leader just dropped his first point on MD6. Seems legit to me :mrgreen:
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Woof wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 10:19 am
morbeedo wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 7:40 am These medieval French history and culture questions are killing me
Never before have I participated in an ML where I have had multiple opponents get 0(0) scores. Pretty brutal. OTOH, in the R&R ML our group leader just dropped his first point on MD6. Seems legit to me :mrgreen:
Wow! Yesterday I won France 9(5)-0(0). Missed Pepin

Still kicking myself for the MD1 forfeit. My opponent scored 0(0) and gave me 3 for Les Fleurs du Mal :|
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morbeedo wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:08 pm
Wow! Yesterday I won France 9(5)-0(0). Missed Pepin
This is...remarkable. I only didn't assign that zero on defense because of the Breton question.
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Coelacanth wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 2:18 pm
morbeedo wrote: Sat Jan 19, 2019 1:08 pm
Wow! Yesterday I won France 9(5)-0(0). Missed Pepin
This is...remarkable. I only didn't assign that zero on defense because of the Breton question.
So you’re saying everyone knows Pepin?!
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