Learned League 73 - Official Thread
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Hannibal has an appearance in Ken Jennings's Tuesday Trivia this week:
1. Hannibal fought for what ancient city-state located on the Lake of Tunis?
1. Hannibal fought for what ancient city-state located on the Lake of Tunis?
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I think I came up with a reasonably accurate 50 in Spanish. Not that it mattered, of course.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 3:09 pmAs someone else pointed out to me "cinquante" is French for 50, not Spanish, so I was doubly wrong.alietr wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 3:05 pmYou had company on that one. It probably would have helped to know Spanish better.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2017 11:54 am Yesterday was my day to overthink the questions. I thought the Spanish one was asking for the number of U.S. states so I answered "cinquante."
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Love your story.mennoknight wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 12:45 pmThere has never been an easier LL question for me. I could sort those goons by PIMs acquired. McSorley is human garbage. Tiger Williams used to be our small town's floor hockey league sponsor, and he'd come up to Haida Gwaii once a year to play a game with us when he was still active with the Vancouver Canucks alumni. He'd set us each up for a tap in goal and then do his stick riding thing (pretending it was a horse and riding it to centre 'ice') before he left. One thing that consistently amazes me about borderline NHLers (Tiger wouldn't sniff the NHL today) is how much better they are than the average person at hockey. It's incredible.
Being from "Hockeytown" aka Detroit, that question was a gimme. Probert, who played for the Red Wings (and later, the Chicago Blackhawks), died in 2010. Last month, before the final game played at Joe Louis Arena, Bob Probert's family spread his ashes in the Red Wings' penalty box.
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Wow, I just had a look at A Mag. You have even more boardies and J! champs than my Rundle (A Cont) does.boson wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 11:07 am No clue on Clarissa. Said Becky (for Becky Thatcher from Vanity Fair) but it turns out that novel is from the 1840s, not 1740s (and probably wasn't epistolary nor overly long, but I had nothin).
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I don't know much about hockey, but obviously they didn't hold a record for scoring since Wayne Gretzky wasn't on the top five list.
So that leaves defense. I had vaguely heard of a couple of them, but I as pretty sure they weren't goalies. (I did a quick check of the list of the top goalies for saves and wins, and I do recognize some of them).
The only other stat that came to mind was penalty minutes. It seems a number of people said fights, but I don't think that is an official NHL statistic.
So that leaves defense. I had vaguely heard of a couple of them, but I as pretty sure they weren't goalies. (I did a quick check of the list of the top goalies for saves and wins, and I do recognize some of them).
The only other stat that came to mind was penalty minutes. It seems a number of people said fights, but I don't think that is an official NHL statistic.
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I've never read any Woolf either, nor have I heard of a long epistolary novel named Clarissa, but... I did remember hearing in college about a long (and potentially epistolary) 18th-century novel called Pamela (or, Virtue Rewarded), by Samuel Richardson, so overwrought that it inspired Henry Fielding to write a parody called Shamela, so I hoped maybe Pamela was Mrs. Dalloway's first name. Turns out both Pamela and Clarissa are epistolary and by Richardson, but Pamela was 1740.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 11:41 amThe other part of that question actually threw me off a little. I'd never heard of another novel called Clarissa, but I was sure enough that Mrs. Dalloway's first name was Clarissa that I stuck with it.
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When I was in college I watched hockey and played NHL '94 with my roommates, and then occasionally went to class when hockey wasn't on or two of the other roommates already had a game going. I will never forget the EPIC fight between Probert and McSorley. It went on FOR-EV-ER. And then, to top it off, when they were both completely exhausted and the refs finally broke it up, they tapped their heads together as if to say, "Nice fight, eh."Blue Lion wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 3:46 pmLove your story.mennoknight wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 12:45 pmThere has never been an easier LL question for me. I could sort those goons by PIMs acquired. McSorley is human garbage. Tiger Williams used to be our small town's floor hockey league sponsor, and he'd come up to Haida Gwaii once a year to play a game with us when he was still active with the Vancouver Canucks alumni. He'd set us each up for a tap in goal and then do his stick riding thing (pretending it was a horse and riding it to centre 'ice') before he left. One thing that consistently amazes me about borderline NHLers (Tiger wouldn't sniff the NHL today) is how much better they are than the average person at hockey. It's incredible.
Being from "Hockeytown" aka Detroit, that question was a gimme. Probert, who played for the Red Wings (and later, the Chicago Blackhawks), died in 2010. Last month, before the final game played at Joe Louis Arena, Bob Probert's family spread his ashes in the Red wings' penalty box.
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It was probably "oprima," unless it was asking for your #2 female cousin for some reason.
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I know nothing about hockey but actually considered the correct answer only because of Happy Gilmore (still one of my top 3-5ish comedies of all time). But then I dismissed it for some reason and guessed "blocked goals."
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If you're thinking of blocked goals by a goaltender those are called saves.
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So, my brain whispered Aconcagua at me when I first saw this Q, but I didn't know why I thought that was right, so I changed it to Kilimanjaro. Turns out, this has been a FJ a number of times, most recently in 2013. Rats. Turned a 9(6) tie into a loss.Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level on Earth. What is the highest mountain in the world outside Asia?
Also, that's some weird question phrasing.
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Speaking of phrasing, I could have used one additional word in the nato clue, maybe entity or something like it. I somehow got it in my head we were looking for a piece of equipment--a plane, I assumed--and never entertained anything else. One step beyond and the answer was obvious.
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I got only my second win of the season yesterday, but it took some luck in how my opponent played defense. I'm kicking myself for going with McKinley over Aconcagua (I also considered Kilimanjaro), but I stuck with McKinley since it was my first instinct.
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Same here but my second choice was Vinson Massif and I lost on a (literal) coin toss. Won the stamen / pistil flip though- I was driving myself crazy tying to remember which was which. Was over the moon to see a theatre question I actually knew. I should be scoring a lot higher there but it's only my second season and theatre doesn't come up too often. 4 right was good enough for a tie 8(4)-8(5)MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2017 2:59 amSo, my brain whispered Aconcagua at me when I first saw this Q, but I didn't know why I thought that was right, so I changed it to Kilimanjaro. Turns out, this has been a FJ a number of times, most recently in 2013. Rats. Turned a 9(6) tie into a loss.Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level on Earth. What is the highest mountain in the world outside Asia?
Also, that's some weird question phrasing.
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Somehow I got credit for Arms and a Man, giving me a 9(5)-1(1) victory! "Arms and a Man" is a cromulent translation of "arma virumque," but "a" is different from "the" in the title, so it would not be accepted under Jeopardy rules.
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I think the reason he phrased it like this was to avoid Mauna Kea as an answer.MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2017 2:59 amSo, my brain whispered Aconcagua at me when I first saw this Q, but I didn't know why I thought that was right, so I changed it to Kilimanjaro. Turns out, this has been a FJ a number of times, most recently in 2013. Rats. Turned a 9(6) tie into a loss.Mount Everest is the highest mountain above sea level on Earth. What is the highest mountain in the world outside Asia?
Also, that's some weird question phrasing.
My defense has been terrible this season. I assigned this one zero thinking it was a total gimme (my opponent got it wrong).
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Nice match yesterday Blue Lion. But why couldn't you have just gotten NATO correct and not screwed up my DE even more than it is?
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Now that seems to be a good way to curtail fighting in the NHL. Did any Red Wings dare to incur a penalty in that game?Blue Lion wrote: ↑Wed May 24, 2017 3:46 pm
Being from "Hockeytown" aka Detroit, that question was a gimme. Probert, who played for the Red Wings (and later, the Chicago Blackhawks), died in 2010. Last month, before the final game played at Joe Louis Arena, Bob Probert's family spread his ashes in the Red wings' penalty box.
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Got hit with my first RTFQ of the season after answering Seattle instead of the horse's name - only hurt my pride and my opponent's defense since it was assigned zero, but still a stupid mistake to make. So far my daily correct answers have been yo-yoing like mad but hoping to settle down and find a groove soon.
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I was surprised Seattle was the MCWA. As for your hope, good luck with that one!quarterrican wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2017 10:31 am Got hit with my first RTFQ of the season after answering Seattle instead of the horse's name - only hurt my pride and my opponent's defense since it was assigned zero, but still a stupid mistake to make. So far my daily correct answers have been yo-yoing like mad but hoping to settle down and find a groove soon.