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TenPoundHammer
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by TenPoundHammer » Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:09 pm
Poll time again.
The clue:
The Margaret Herrick Library of the Motion Picture Academy is home to more than 15,000 of these from 1910 to the present
Contestant Matthew was incorrect with
movies/films
Correct response:
scripts/screenplays
Myself? I gave the same incorrect response as Matthew but did not give the correct response after he was ruled incorrect.
davey
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by davey » Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:18 pm
I thought of movies first but quickly decided that J! was more likely to ask about print in a Libraries category. If the category was Stupid Answers I would have guessed differently...
Volante
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by Volante » Mon Jan 20, 2020 10:29 pm
Movies then would've picked up screenplays on the rebound if I was beaten to the buzzer. Obviously it makes sense in retrospect, but that top row's a buzzer race...
TenPoundHammer
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by TenPoundHammer » Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:57 pm
Yeah, the numbers so far definitely say "negbait" to me.
This Is Kirk!
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by This Is Kirk! » Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:10 pm
I assumed it couldn't be movies, but couldn't think of what else it could be so just kept clam.
seaborgium
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by seaborgium » Tue Jan 21, 2020 7:43 pm
With "Motion Picture" in the clue "films" was clearly not going to be the correct response. Calling it negbait is blaming it on the writers, when it was just a collective brain fart (that affected less than half of the voters).
cheezguyty
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by cheezguyty » Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:00 pm
I am not able to vote, as I neither clammed nor gave either of the responses listed.
MarkBarrett
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by MarkBarrett » Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:18 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑ Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:10 pm
I assumed it couldn't be movies, but couldn't think of what else it could be so just kept clam.
That's what happened to me. I realized after the neg that it was probably scripts while the term "screenplays" never occurred to me.