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econgator wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:39 pm
Bamaman wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:45 pm
Ironhorse wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:22 pm "Sears is too obvious of an answer, right? I'll put K-Mart".

I was upset about that when I saw I had tied, until I saw that my opponent (my referrer) had given me 0 for it.
K-Mart owns Sears, so you were close.
Other way around (although I think "owned" is correct, not "owns").
Nope, K-Mart bought Sears but kept the Sears name (and the 'S' stock ticker)
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/busi ... -deal.html
Kmart will buy Sears, Roebuck for $11 billion, the companies announced yesterday...

"This is going to be an enormous undertaking," said Mr. Lampert, who is Kmart's chairman and will become chairman of the new company, to be called Sears Holdings.
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Simon & Garfunkel lol (that was my guess)
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morbeedo wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:07 am Simon & Garfunkel lol (that was my guess)
It blew my mind that that was the MCWA.
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morbeedo wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:07 am Simon & Garfunkel lol (that was my guess)
Me too. "Duo" seemed an odd word for two people who were vying against each other.
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alietr wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:13 am
morbeedo wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 11:07 am Simon & Garfunkel lol (that was my guess)
It blew my mind that that was the MCWA.
11%! Never would have seen that one coming.
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Pretty bad start to the season for me.

After confirming 2A translated to 42 and not 56 for Joe DiMaggio, I ended up typing in 42 for my answer.

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I can't do hexidecimal, but I figured it was either 42 or 56, with the former being more likely. I wonder if anyone put Mariano Rivera in a moment of blindness.
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Ironhorse wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:01 pm I can't do hexidecimal, but I figured it was either 42 or 56, with the former being more likely. I wonder if anyone put Mariano Rivera in a moment of blindness.
It's easy. Like 42 in decimal means 4 10s and 2 1s, 2A in hex means 2 16s and A 1s. The ones places go 123456789ABCDEF. Since A comes right after 9, it means 10 in decimal. 2A is therefore 2X16+10=42.
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Ironhorse wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:01 pm I can't do hexidecimal, but I figured it was either 42 or 56, with the former being more likely. I wonder if anyone put Mariano Rivera in a moment of blindness.
It was way more math in my head than sports and having no clue about the number (not even how many digits) I guessed (.400, well, .406) Williams. :oops:
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alietr wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:16 pm
Ironhorse wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:01 pm I can't do hexidecimal, but I figured it was either 42 or 56, with the former being more likely. I wonder if anyone put Mariano Rivera in a moment of blindness.
It's easy. Like 42 in decimal means 4 10s and 2 1s, 2A in hex means 2 16s and A 1s. The ones places go 123456789ABCDEF. Since A comes right after 9, it means 10 in decimal. 2A is therefore 2X16+10=42.
Yeah, I think many people are too easily scared off by base conversions, when in fact they're quite simple.
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Volante wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:30 pm "This is going to be an enormous undertaking," said Mr. Lampert, who is Kmart's chairman and will become chairman of the new company, to be called Sears Holdings.
Ah, there's the disconnect. The holding company was Sears, but it was Kmart who did the buying. Got it.
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alietr wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:16 pm
Ironhorse wrote: Wed Nov 10, 2021 3:01 pm I can't do hexidecimal, but I figured it was either 42 or 56, with the former being more likely. I wonder if anyone put Mariano Rivera in a moment of blindness.
It's easy. Like 42 in decimal means 4 10s and 2 1s, 2A in hex means 2 16s and A 1s. The ones places go 123456789ABCDEF. Since A comes right after 9, it means 10 in decimal. 2A is therefore 2X16+10=42.
It is indeed easy, although the reverse (Hex to base 10) isn't quite as easy to do in your head.

I have a confession: I put the numeral zero after the 9, assigned 11 to A, and ciphered 2A to be 43. I don't know JR's number, but it sounded close enough. I puzzled it out this morning (starting backward from F=15) this morning because the 43 had bugged me and TI didn't reveal that part. Moral: stupid math error and baseball uniform knowledge cancel each other. I have no criticism for the MCWA of Babe Ruth :).

I can tell you Ruth's, Mantle's, George Brett's, and Hammerin' Hank's uni numbers.
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3,7,5,44 (I think)
If they ever ask anyone else, I am done. I probably have 42 embedded now, thanks to Hitchhiker's Guide.
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The not-Bezos question was dirty pool. If they asked "What name did she write under?" it would have felt at least less nebulous.
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Volante wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:38 am The not-Bezos question was dirty pool. If they asked "What name did she write under?" it would have felt at least less nebulous.
Living in Seattle certainly helped me on that one. I also live within walking distance of the high school where Mackenzie Scott's current husband teaches, and where her kids go to school.

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Volante wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:38 am The not-Bezos question was dirty pool. If they asked "What name did she write under?" it would have felt at least less nebulous.
I see people bitching about the question on the FB group, but I had no idea who she was when I saw her name. But yeah, asking the question the way he did seemed way too "gotcha" to me.

I went with the MCWA of Oprah.
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econgator wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:13 am
Volante wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:38 am The not-Bezos question was dirty pool. If they asked "What name did she write under?" it would have felt at least less nebulous.
I see people bitching about the question on the FB group, but I had no idea who she was when I saw her name. But yeah, asking the question the way he did seemed way too "gotcha" to me.

I went with the MCWA of Oprah.
Especially with this in the past: https://learnedleague.com/mini/question ... rature&1&1
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I liked the question because you were expected to know more than just that it was the person who had been married to Jeff Bezos.
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From a writing background and being wealthy in what I perceived was some adjacent venture, I guessed Shonda Rhimes.
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Volante wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:17 am
econgator wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 10:13 am
Volante wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 9:38 am The not-Bezos question was dirty pool. If they asked "What name did she write under?" it would have felt at least less nebulous.
I see people bitching about the question on the FB group, but I had no idea who she was when I saw her name. But yeah, asking the question the way he did seemed way too "gotcha" to me.

I went with the MCWA of Oprah.
Especially with this in the past: https://learnedleague.com/mini/question ... rature&1&1
I don't do ML's so I never saw that.
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Six-packed 3 times in 4 matches. Ugh. On the upswing, I hope!
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