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econgator wrote: Sat Nov 17, 2018 9:44 am Somehow I got credit for shurat for the Quran question. Not even sure how I got that close to begin with.
I started with Sutra - which I think is the Sanskrit equivalent - and searched my memory for something similar and ended with Sufi. Close but no halal cigar.
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I got really lucky on yesterday's set with a 3(2)-2(2) win. Film is my second worst category but my opponent gave me a 0 for Halloween, and they missed it themselves! I actually did consider Halloween but thought that it came out in '77.

The only two that I got were cosecant and Cyrus, which came from my two best categories, and they gave me a 2 for Cyrus. I guess I should just be happy and not question their logic for playing defense.
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MinnesotaMyron wrote: Fri Nov 16, 2018 12:24 pm
alietr wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:38 am I thought that since bronze was an alloy, it would come after iron. Cost me.
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I got credit for "surat," which is a different grammatical form of the word. Not sure what I was more surprised by: the low get rate or its classification as a literature question.
I initially put Xerxes, but the last part of the clue- "defeated by Alexander the Great"- was enough to lead me toward Darius. I was named after Alexander the Great, and my Jboard name is a word I invented for one of his infantrymen, so it's a good thing I changed my answer!
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1-1-1 to start. If I can avoid relegation this season then I need only pony up another year's dues and then avoid a slew of forfeits the following season to have played more games in the A rundle than any other, so I guess that's what I'm living for right now.

It was somewhat bumming Friday to have switched multimeter to polymeter, but I managed to tie through outblocking. I can't fault my opponent for threeing me on the math question, as he could little have known that cosecant has been my steady go-to on trig function questions from the earliest days of my competitive trivia career.
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I got credit for "sura", which I could have sworn I have seen as an alternative spelling. I, too, was really surprised by the low get rate on that one.

Fourth season in, and I've always been afraid to ask: What is generally considered a good DE %?
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Ironhorse wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:32 am I got credit for "sura", which I could have sworn I have seen as an alternative spelling. I, too, was really surprised by the low get rate on that one.

Fourth season in, and I've always been afraid to ask: What is generally considered a good DE %?
I had sura, too. I dont think that I was conflating it with Tom Cruise’s daughter, especially since it’s a transliteration. For DE, I’d say anything above .700 I consider good and above .800 is usually Sandra territory.
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Meanwhile, .400 is flat out awful...
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I feel like this season has been hard for defense as the question categories are somewhat vague to me. I mean, I'm terrible at Classical Music in general, but knew Juilliard cold and figured most people would be able to figure it out. I also wasn't sure how to classify the normal school Q, and I certainly didn't treat it as American History. Finally, my only miss yesterday was the board game question which is a game I'd never heard of despite regularly attending game nights with friends and family.
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Normal is this season's head-scratcher for me so far. I thought most people would know that. I guess lots of people went down the path of trying to name an Illinois city rather than thinking about what a teachers' college is called.

I'm off to a slow start this season. 1-3-0 and 23rd in my rundle. And my opponent today has a lifetime .842 get rate...
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I knew that Western Kentucky University (my sister's alma mater) was originally a "normal school". And Thurn and Taxis was one of my first Euro-style board games (and still a favorite). The box includes a little pamphlet with some of the history of the family's mail delivery.
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:06 am Normal is this season's head-scratcher for me so far. I thought most people would know that. I guess lots of people went down the path of trying to name an Illinois city rather than thinking about what a teachers' college is called.

I'm off to a slow start this season. 1-3-0 and 23rd in my rundle. And my opponent today has a lifetime .842 get rate...
I, on the other hand, was surprised at how high a get rate it was since I have never heard of a 'Normal' school, so I had nothing there. All I could do was name an Illinois city (Decatur, pretty randomly). And while I've heard of Normal, IL, there's no way I would remember it on its own, let alone know its connection.
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alietr wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:24 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:06 am Normal is this season's head-scratcher for me so far. I thought most people would know that. I guess lots of people went down the path of trying to name an Illinois city rather than thinking about what a teachers' college is called.

I'm off to a slow start this season. 1-3-0 and 23rd in my rundle. And my opponent today has a lifetime .842 get rate...
I, on the other hand, was surprised at how high a get rate it was since I have never heard of a 'Normal' school, so I had nothing there. All I could do was name an Illinois city (Decatur, pretty randomly). And while I've heard of Normal, IL, there's no way I would remember it on its own, let alone know its connection.
Could be a bit of regional bias on that question. Lots of history of Normal schools in the Midwest where I grew up. Also I recall Bullwinkle moose played football for Wassamatta U and one of their games was against Barely Normal. :)
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:06 am Normal is this season's head-scratcher for me so far. I thought most people would know that. I guess lots of people went down the path of trying to name an Illinois city rather than thinking about what a teachers' college is called.

I'm off to a slow start this season. 1-3-0 and 23rd in my rundle. And my opponent today has a lifetime .842 get rate...
I am a graduate of Teacher's College/School (that's what we call it in Canada) and I have *never* heard the term Normal School. I couldn't even come up with a guess there.
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I'm losing doubly badly, and I'm blissfully unbothered by it

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This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:29 am
alietr wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:24 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 10:06 am Normal is this season's head-scratcher for me so far. I thought most people would know that. I guess lots of people went down the path of trying to name an Illinois city rather than thinking about what a teachers' college is called.

I'm off to a slow start this season. 1-3-0 and 23rd in my rundle. And my opponent today has a lifetime .842 get rate...
I, on the other hand, was surprised at how high a get rate it was since I have never heard of a 'Normal' school, so I had nothing there. All I could do was name an Illinois city (Decatur, pretty randomly). And while I've heard of Normal, IL, there's no way I would remember it on its own, let alone know its connection.
Could be a bit of regional bias on that question. Lots of history of Normal schools in the Midwest where I grew up. Also I recall Bullwinkle moose played football for Wassamatta U and one of their games was against Barely Normal. :)
[sarcasm]Of course! How could I forget that their opponent was Barely Normal![/sarcasm] (But yeah, it's amazing some of the things you remember.)
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Being in academics, I have an inside track on those sorts of questions, but I also had a friend who went to IL St in Normal, so that one was a no-brainer. The Thurn und Taxis question was accessible only from Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49. No shame, only points.
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I see on the LL forum that courier was accepted for the Thurn & Taxis question. That was actually my first guess, but ended up going with banking. Drat.
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I ended up guessing transportation because "Taxis." I could argue that mail delivery is technically transportation, but that would be an awfully long stretch, and it wouldn't change my loss either. Currently 3-1 in my rundle after my last opponent picked up all 6 correct answers. Considering their record thus far I'm a little suspicious, but only a little. This batch of questions was perfectly gettable in the right situation.
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Volante wrote: Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:12 am Meanwhile, .400 is flat out awful...
...I just looked in more depth and I'm doing worse on defense than someone with four forfeits. I could probably -randomly- assign defense and do better... :roll:
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