Joseph Campbell on Thursday. My struggle with underthinking continues. Saw Roots, didn't read it. Haven't read Campbell but people talk about him to me. I did the Ancestry.com DNA test recently, and the NatGeo one a while ago. The former is good for one's recent lineage, the latter for one's distant patrilineal or matrilineal ancestors. Now it's just a matter of filling the blanks between 15,000 BC and AD 1800.
I still have no idea of my % of Neanderthal or my predisposition to various diseases. I may next spring for the descending-from-Robbie-Burns-or-not test. For a while during my two weeks trial membership at Ancestry it seemed I might be related to his housekeeper, but it turned out to be a false trail.
Thought I would have a perfect 5/5 week in week 2 of the tournament, until I missed National Geographic and still don't know how in the world that was rated as high as 64% get on this poll (i.e. who would know this, and why could it have not been some other magazine or some newspaper).
Was also 4-for-5 in week 1, missing only security blanket.
I seem to be stuck on 4-for-5, now about six weeks in a row.
John Boy wrote: ↑Mon May 20, 2019 1:51 pm
Thought I would have a perfect 5/5 week in week 2 of the tournament, until I missed National Geographic and still don't know how in the world that was rated as high as 64% get on this poll (i.e. who would know this, and why could it have not been some other magazine or some newspaper).
Did you think of Nat. Geo. and reject it for a different response? If so, what? If not, would you have gone with Nat. Geo. if you HAD thought of it?
I agree this was a week clue and it wouldn't surprise me if not a single person in that 65% (as of this writing) actually KNEW their response was correct. But if you think of National Geographic, it just feels right. The publication is plausibly that old, even if you don't know its dates for sure. It's got a Jeopardy! connection via Alex Trebek and the Geography Bee. It's appeared as the sponsor/subject of entire categories on multiple occasions. I'd say it's the most Jeopardy!-ish publication there is without any close competitors. So I suspect most of that 65% got it the way I did: we thought of Nat. Geo. because it's a natural publication to think of during J! and our brains said, "That's it. That's GOTTA be it."
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Peter the accountant wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 2:57 am
Got Sandy D on Tuesday. Thursday was an instaget to "the guy that wrote Roots". I came up with Alex Haley just before time ran.
My wrong guess for Friday was Life. Wasn't sure it was old enough (and it's not), but it was the best guess I had.
Well Life magazine as a title goes back to 1883 - it just wasn't the photography magazine that Henry Luce turned it into. Another problem is that it hasn't existed as a regular publication since 2000, so a hundred million followers seems unlikely. Apparently they last put out a special issue in 2017, honoring Paul McCartney. (I could see that being worked into a clue somehow.) Not such a bad guess. It went through my mind before coming upon the right response.
Peter the accountant wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 2:57 am
Got Sandy D on Tuesday. Thursday was an instaget to "the guy that wrote Roots". I came up with Alex Haley just before time ran.
My wrong guess for Friday was Life. Wasn't sure it was old enough (and it's not), but it was the best guess I had.
Well Life magazine as a title goes back to 1883 - it just wasn't the photography magazine that Henry Luce turned it into. Another problem is that it hasn't existed as a regular publication since 2000, so a hundred million followers seems unlikely. Apparently they last put out a special issue in 2017, honoring Paul McCartney. (I could see that being worked into a clue somehow.) Not such a bad guess. It went through my mind before coming upon the right response.
I also tried to find a way to reconcile Life as the only photojournalistic rag I could think of (well, Playboy came later ). The start date was OK, but I couldn't see anything surviving the digital age. Once Nat Geo came to mind with those 3 foot long telephoto lenses, I was happy to switch, but with low confidence until the reveal.
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
Peter the accountant wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 2:57 am
Got Sandy D on Tuesday. Thursday was an instaget to "the guy that wrote Roots". I came up with Alex Haley just before time ran.
My wrong guess for Friday was Life. Wasn't sure it was old enough (and it's not), but it was the best guess I had.
Well Life magazine as a title goes back to 1883 - it just wasn't the photography magazine that Henry Luce turned it into. Another problem is that it hasn't existed as a regular publication since 2000, so a hundred million followers seems unlikely. Apparently they last put out a special issue in 2017, honoring Paul McCartney. (I could see that being worked into a clue somehow.) Not such a bad guess. It went through my mind before coming upon the right response.
I also tried to find a way to reconcile Life as the only photojournalistic rag I could think of (well, Playboy came later ). The start date was OK, but I couldn't see anything surviving the digital age. Once Nat Geo came to mind with those 3 foot long telephoto lenses, I was happy to switch, but with low confidence until the reveal.
Peter the accountant wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 2:57 am
Got Sandy D on Tuesday. Thursday was an instaget to "the guy that wrote Roots". I came up with Alex Haley just before time ran.
My wrong guess for Friday was Life. Wasn't sure it was old enough (and it's not), but it was the best guess I had.
Well Life magazine as a title goes back to 1883 - it just wasn't the photography magazine that Henry Luce turned it into. Another problem is that it hasn't existed as a regular publication since 2000, so a hundred million followers seems unlikely. Apparently they last put out a special issue in 2017, honoring Paul McCartney. (I could see that being worked into a clue somehow.) Not such a bad guess. It went through my mind before coming upon the right response.
I also tried to find a way to reconcile Life as the only photojournalistic rag I could think of (well, Playboy came later ). The start date was OK, but I couldn't see anything surviving the digital age. Once Nat Geo came to mind with those 3 foot long telephoto lenses, I was happy to switch, but with low confidence until the reveal.
you changed avatars?
Yup. Learned League has flag avatars and my fugly mug makes a fluglier flag.
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
). The start date was OK, but I couldn't see anything surviving the digital age. Once Nat Geo came to mind with those 3 foot long telephoto lenses, I was happy to switch, but with low confidence until the reveal.