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ouachiouat wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:14 am Tough set for BarrettM and I yesterday. I somehow remembered reflexive to give myself the 1 (2)-0 (1) win. The Oscar question was one of the fastest zeros I've ever given....which one did you go with, Mark? I picked Rainer, not entirely sure on any of the others.
You did not like the questions much more than I did. Congrats on the win. I knew the best I was looking at was a tie with my expected 0(1). At least I defended correctly giving you a 1 for the math to go along with the zero as well for the actresses. I went with Swank while also knowing Field and Rainer were good. Only needing one I moved on without taking the time to realize the current events angle and McDormand being another. Leigh being the last one is outside my knowledge bank.

I've never had a 0(0), but that set almost did the trick. I had Georgetown for the English surveyor question thinking Washington was the surveyor born in the 1730s. 1732 not 1733. I should know that.
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alietr wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:07 am I guess I was closer than I thought with my BWA attempt of "Looking at His Bracket After an Upset".

That was one tough set of questions. I was surprised Dixie polled as low as it did. I totally missed the surveyor connection, but after fishing around for a while, came up with it.
I overthought Dixie and wrote "Appalachia". I also talked myself out of "reflexive" on the math question. On the other hand, I guessed right on Sally Field, who was in the news recently for trying to fix up her son with figure skater Adam Rippon.
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45 24 32 35 28 16 % Correct (Leaguewide)
So it wasn't just me who thought MD15 was brutal. :lol:

Tied 0(1)-0(0) in D Summit 2 and lost by "only" 0(1)-1(1) in the Jundle, and somehow that feels like a lucky result.
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I wanted to guess the actress who starred in 'Boys dont' t cry' and 'Million dollar baby', but wracked my brain for hours and couldn't come up with her name. Audrey Hepburn had 1 win and a bunch of nominations - my best guess when that didn't come.

My worst LL league day in several years. I only got Dixie.
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I put "expiring" instead of "dying" for Q6. No luck from Thorsten. Still got the W in the public Rundle, but cost me a win in my private Rundle.
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I know it's only an E rundle, but only 4 of 24 players in E Mag D2 got more than 1 question right yesterday. I only got Q1 with McDormand, and considered Dixie but didn't make the connection to Mason-Dixon thinking that was more of an 1820s creation than 1760s. Wouldn't have mattered as my opponent actually got 3 right including the art question when previously being 5 for 35 in art...I'm still sitting in 16th place despite being 5th in TCA and 8th in DEF in the rundle. Doesn't help having 5 non-wins when answering more questions correct than my opponent.
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I seem to be lucky this season, although 2 days ago was my first loss because of defense. Today I played the only other player in my rundle who also got zero correct, so we tied.
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Luise Rainer was the only one I could think of. I bet that puts me in a tiny minority among people who got that question right. If I'd had to name two, I would have guessed Jodie Foster, who would have been a correct response between 1992 and 1995.
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Ironhorse wrote: Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:08 pm Did anybody else go with Kaizen instead of Six Sigma? My workplace brought in a Kaizen team awhile back, and they tried to change everything. Tons of union grievances later, everything went back to normal.
FYI, kaizen is Japanese for "improvement."
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Three WAGs in one day correct...the mean...I’m reverting to it!
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alietr wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:07 amThat was one tough set of questions. I was surprised Dixie polled as low as it did. I totally missed the surveyor connection, but after fishing around for a while, came up with it.
I did think of Mason and Dixon, and had heard someone on a podcast on my drive to work refer to "whistling 'Dixie,'" I somehow didn't manage to make any connections and couldn't pull the answer out.

Then the brand name of the paper plates in my office mocked me. I should have done LL after lunch.
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alietr wrote: Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:07 am That was one tough set of questions. I was surprised Dixie polled as low as it did.
Ditto. I bet a lot of people did a face palm after seeing Dixie upon submitting.
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I would have gotten a 9(6), but I answered "All in the Family" to the Alf Garnett question. Luckily it was an easy question, and Clerihew was an easy 3 to assign, so I won 7(5)-6(5) in my public match, and 8(5)-5(4) in private.
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seaborgium wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 2:45 am I would have gotten a 9(6), but I answered "All in the Family" to the Alf Garnett question. Luckily it was an easy question, and Clerihew was an easy 3 to assign, so I won 7(5)-6(5) in my public match, and 8(5)-5(4) in private.
My response after seeing the answers was "A cleri-WHAT!?!?"
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alietr wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:45 am
seaborgium wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 2:45 am I would have gotten a 9(6), but I answered "All in the Family" to the Alf Garnett question. Luckily it was an easy question, and Clerihew was an easy 3 to assign, so I won 7(5)-6(5) in my public match, and 8(5)-5(4) in private.
My response after seeing the answers was "A cleri-WHAT!?!?"
I said the same thing about that and the Rohingya, but I was in the clear minority on the latter.
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I thought I'd run across "scalar" before in LL. It was on the Midseason Classic last March, and I got it wrong. This time I got it right.

By the way, I'm going to play 45 , 24, 32, 35, 28, and 16 in Mega Millions.
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I actually remembered clerihew from a children's book on poetry I read back in elementary school. I have no idea how I retained that particular one.
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Because a post here about it has been my reminder on various occasions, I say: good luck in the Mid-Season Classic, everyone!
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econgator wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:54 am
alietr wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:45 am
seaborgium wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 2:45 am I would have gotten a 9(6), but I answered "All in the Family" to the Alf Garnett question. Luckily it was an easy question, and Clerihew was an easy 3 to assign, so I won 7(5)-6(5) in my public match, and 8(5)-5(4) in private.
My response after seeing the answers was "A cleri-WHAT!?!?"
I said the same thing about that and the Rohingya, but I was in the clear minority on the latter.
I hadn't noticed the get rate on that. What the heck? Two-thirds of the entire league knew that one?! It was an absolute NHOI from me.
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BigDaddyMatty wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:49 pm
econgator wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:54 am
alietr wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:45 am
seaborgium wrote: Sat Mar 17, 2018 2:45 am I would have gotten a 9(6), but I answered "All in the Family" to the Alf Garnett question. Luckily it was an easy question, and Clerihew was an easy 3 to assign, so I won 7(5)-6(5) in my public match, and 8(5)-5(4) in private.
My response after seeing the answers was "A cleri-WHAT!?!?"
I said the same thing about that and the Rohingya, but I was in the clear minority on the latter.
I hadn't noticed the get rate on that. What the heck? Two-thirds of the entire league knew that one?! It was an absolute NHOI from me.
I have to assume current events isn't your strong suit, because the Rohingya have been in the news a lot recently. Nobel Peace Prize winner and current Myanmar head of government Aung San Suu Kyi has taken a lot of heat for her inaction in the Rohingya crisis.
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