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Vermonter wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 7:41 pm
morbeedo wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:13 pmHow did I miss Glasgow and Mt. Fuji (went with Iwo Jima on the photography association hint)??
I was stuck between Rainier and Fuji for a bit, then the second photography hint finally clicked (originally thought it had something to do with Hokusai)
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morbeedo wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:13 pm
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I can't win – I put the 3 on olive branch, but my bizarro opponent was among the 6% who missed that question!
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alietr wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:00 pmYou learn something every day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_Volcanoes
I'd never heard of >50% of those!
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Vermonter wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:47 pm
alietr wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:00 pmYou learn something every day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade_Volcanoes
I'd never heard of >50% of those!
I've heard of exactly 25% of them.
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Midseason Classic is up.
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7th non rookie season and it looks like it will easily be my seventh season without being promoted or demoted.
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9/12 right on the midseason classic. Missed a money question with Joe Pesci (correct answer was Spike Lee). Also missed ice hockey and countries that moved their capital city.

ETA - Whitney museum was the second hardest question!? I’m probably biased from living in NYC
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I moneyed perfectly, based on my less-than-perfect 9/12 answers. I tried to let the Adlai Stevenson percolate for a day or two...knew it was in there somewhere, but...no.

Also, I don't see MCWA for these (am I not looking in the right place?), but I think curling was a pretty decent guess for ringette. I was thinking some sort of game on ice, with rings, where you try to get close to a target, but...no.
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I only knew 5 of them, so that made moneying really easy.
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Dang, I could've lead my rundle if I moneyed properly. Instead I didn't even contribute to the team score...
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I missed Lee, Tagine and Big Bang Theory.

I'm not surprised that the Whitney played tough. I was not at all sure myself; I knew it was the "Whitney Museum of American Art" but that caused me to wonder why their exhibition of American art would be biennial. Luckily, there was nothing there to make any of the many other NYC museums stand out.
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It was a good set of questions for me and I only missed tagine and Whitney.

I don't think I've ever heard of the Whitney Museum before.
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Volante wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:27 pm Dang, I could've lead my rundle if I moneyed properly. Instead I didn't even contribute to the team score...
Same here. I got 11 right (missed Whitney with the Brooklyn Museum), but scored 395 against a 485 possible with proper moneying. I see people who outscored me with only 8 right.
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:53 am
Volante wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:27 pm Dang, I could've lead my rundle if I moneyed properly. Instead I didn't even contribute to the team score...
Same here. I got 11 right (missed Whitney with the Brooklyn Museum), but scored 395 against a 485 possible with proper moneying. I see people who outscored me with only 8 right.
It never occured to me that "Seventeen Syllables" = haiku = Japan would be money-worthy. I suspect a lot of people thought the same.
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MinnesotaMyron wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:34 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:53 am
Volante wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:27 pm Dang, I could've lead my rundle if I moneyed properly. Instead I didn't even contribute to the team score...
Same here. I got 11 right (missed Whitney with the Brooklyn Museum), but scored 395 against a 485 possible with proper moneying. I see people who outscored me with only 8 right.
It never occured to me that "Seventeen Syllables" = haiku = Japan would be money-worthy. I suspect a lot of people thought the same.
I got that one right, but for a flawed reason. I was thinking of the kana writing systems being based on syllables and thought maybe one of them had a total of 17 symbols. The one I was surprised played difficult was Spike Lee. I assume when I know a movie question it must be pretty easy!
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:44 am
MinnesotaMyron wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 11:34 am
This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:53 am
Volante wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:27 pm Dang, I could've lead my rundle if I moneyed properly. Instead I didn't even contribute to the team score...
Same here. I got 11 right (missed Whitney with the Brooklyn Museum), but scored 395 against a 485 possible with proper moneying. I see people who outscored me with only 8 right.
It never occured to me that "Seventeen Syllables" = haiku = Japan would be money-worthy. I suspect a lot of people thought the same.
I got that one right, but for a flawed reason. I was thinking of the kana writing systems being based on syllables and thought maybe one of them had a total of 17 symbols. The one I was surprised played difficult was Spike Lee. I assume when I know a movie question it must be pretty easy!
I got 9/12 right after talking myself out of ice hockey and totally overlooking the 17 syllables --> haiku linkage (polysyllabic put me in mind of Thai names -- oops!) which with perfect moneying was good enough for 6th place in A Cont. Gratz to bomtr and Reddpen for going 1-2 in my Rundle.
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Well when I checked last night I got credit for "nicoise" but it looks like that was reversed.

Makes sense as city was italicized. I admit I didn't make the Nice connection and figured Nicoise must be a city lol
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bluejaylink wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 3:11 pm Well when I checked last night I got credit for "nicoise" but it looks like that was reversed.
Good!

(not that you got it reversed, but that it was reversed)
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bluejaylink wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 3:11 pm Well when I checked last night I got credit for "nicoise" but it looks like that was reversed.

Makes sense as city was italicized. I admit I didn't make the Nice connection and figured Nicoise must be a city lol
This was one of my luckiest WAG's ever. I thought maybe it needed to be near the Mediterranean and picked Nice because I drove there on my first visit to France to visit the beach and was disappointed at the lack of sand. The beach is composed of "shingles", which are rounded disk like rocks about 2-3" diameter if I recall. I expected about a 15% get rate, and it was 67%.

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twelvefootboy wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:40 pm
bluejaylink wrote: Tue Dec 07, 2021 3:11 pm Well when I checked last night I got credit for "nicoise" but it looks like that was reversed.

Makes sense as city was italicized. I admit I didn't make the Nice connection and figured Nicoise must be a city lol
This was one of my luckiest WAG's ever. I thought maybe it needed to be near the Mediterranean and picked Nice because I drove there on my first visit to France to visit the beach and was disappointed at the lack of sand. The beach is composed of "shingles", which are rounded disk like rocks about 2-3" diameter if I recall.
I was just there in October and you are correct. Very rocky, but at least the rocks are big and smooth enough to not hurt when you walk on them. Cool city, though.
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