TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:02 pm
So is there a trick to Stupid Answers? Because even by my standards I do horribly with it.
In 1982, Tony Randall hosted these awards at the Imperial theater
Well, none of the other words in the clue sounds like an award to me, so even though I've never heard of them, it must be the Imperial Awards, right?
Carrie Fisher auditioned for "Star Wars" & this horror film at the same time -- the 2 directors were in the same room
I know there's a horror film called "Carrie", but in the moment, no word in the clue sounded like a film at all to me.
Am I overthinking? Underthinking?
Over.
Take this as you will, though, but it seems you were thrown both times by the intended answer being included in a person's name.
I think another big part of it is, if you don't absolutely know the answer, there are a lot of perfectly cromulent negs and it's hard to filter out the right one in time.
Such as this game from 2016, where Instagram was my only get.
Clue: This university's admissions office is in Crouse-Hinds Hall in Syracuse, New York
Me: Crouse-Hinds university? Just Crouse? Just Hinds? Office University? In University? Is University? University University? Could be any of them!
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:02 pm
So is there a trick to Stupid Answers? Because even by my standards I do horribly with it.
In 1982, Tony Randall hosted these awards at the Imperial theater
Well, none of the other words in the clue sounds like an award to me, so even though I've never heard of them, it must be the Imperial Awards, right?
Carrie Fisher auditioned for "Star Wars" & this horror film at the same time -- the 2 directors were in the same room
I know there's a horror film called "Carrie", but in the moment, no word in the clue sounded like a film at all to me.
Am I overthinking? Underthinking?
Over.
Take this as you will, though, but it seems you were thrown both times by the intended answer being included in a person's name.
I think another big part of it is, if you don't absolutely know the answer, there are a lot of perfectly cromulent negs and it's hard to filter out the right one in time.
Such as this game from 2016, where Instagram was my only get.
Clue: This university's admissions office is in Crouse-Hinds Hall in Syracuse, New York
Me: Crouse-Hinds university? Just Crouse? Just Hinds? Office University? In University? Is University? University University? Could be any of them!
Clue: What the British call a jumper we call this type of sweater that you pull over your head
Me: Sweater? Head sweater? British sweater? Type sweater? Call sweater? What sweater? We sweater?
Yes, you still have to know some stuff - shocking as that continually seems to be for you. Like maybe having heard of Syracuse University or that a pullover is a type of sweater. Real complicated and arcane stuff, that.
It gave the years of his reign. Just know he was king for a very long time. French monarchs aren’t as popular with the writers as the British ones are. So if it is about a French king who was on the throne forever, it is definitely going to be Louis XIV.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:02 pm
So is there a trick to Stupid Answers? Because even by my standards I do horribly with it.
In 1982, Tony Randall hosted these awards at the Imperial theater
Well, none of the other words in the clue sounds like an award to me, so even though I've never heard of them, it must be the Imperial Awards, right?
Carrie Fisher auditioned for "Star Wars" & this horror film at the same time -- the 2 directors were in the same room
I know there's a horror film called "Carrie", but in the moment, no word in the clue sounded like a film at all to me.
Am I overthinking? Underthinking?
Over.
Take this as you will, though, but it seems you were thrown both times by the intended answer being included in a person's name.
I think another big part of it is, if you don't absolutely know the answer, there are a lot of perfectly cromulent negs and it's hard to filter out the right one in time.
Such as this game from 2016, where Instagram was my only get.
Clue: This university's admissions office is in Crouse-Hinds Hall in Syracuse, New York
Me: Crouse-Hinds university? Just Crouse? Just Hinds? Office University? In University? Is University? University University? Could be any of them!
1stlvlthinker wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 11:57 am
Have you seriously never heard of Syracuse?
I have but I didn't really know it had a university. And even so I didn't think it'd just be named Syracuse University. It could easily have been Crouse, Hinds, or New York.
For practice and fun: You are required to guess on the FJ! clue. Good luck. I mean bonne chance.
"Wait, isn't there just an eagle on the back of the Susan B. Anthony dollar? 1960s event... no, not JFK since he already got the half dollar. Not whichever amendment gave women the right to vote since that was earlier. Uh....."
I sat on this one for a good five minutes before I gave up. I wouldn't have guessed that even if I had the damn coin right in front of me. For the record my guess was MLK's assassination.
So French king = Louis XIV, except for the 43,789 times that it's not.
I haven't run the numbers, but I'd bet good money that 80% of the time, the answer for "French King" is going to be Charlemagne (united much of Europe, Holy Roman Emperor, ~800AD), Louis XIV (Sun King, reigned for 70+ years, most of 1600s), or Louis XVI (last French king, married to Marie Antoinette, guillotined in 1793).
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 11, 2018 7:28 pm
Derrick is a name?
I was reminded of your post from last week when this question came up tonight.
I learn at least piece of young pop culture trivia from each show.
For others who pop in to learn something: The new host of Double Dare is Liza Koshy with Marc Summers still around, doing announcing and providing missed answers.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:29 am
I still don't get the area codes category in this game.
712 gets you Iowa, 412, Pennsylvania & 212, this state
Absolutely no TOM whatsoever. You have to know cold that 212 = New York, which I doubt anyone knows unless they have a friend in that area code.
For Buffalo dial 716; for this city of 2.6 million 100 miles away, dial 416
Again, absolutely no TOM at all.
This state's 201 was the first area code to be used, in 1951
And still no TOM.
There aren't that many cities over 1 million in population. Find one within 100 miles of Buffalo. Hint, it's not NYC (too big), LA, Chicago, or Houston.
For the other 2, I'll grant you that, but NYC is the largest city in the country. Sometimes you just gotta know stuff.
TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:29 am
I still don't get the area codes category in this game.
712 gets you Iowa, 412, Pennsylvania & 212, this state
Absolutely no TOM whatsoever. You have to know cold that 212 = New York, which I doubt anyone knows unless they have a friend in that area code.
For Buffalo dial 716; for this city of 2.6 million 100 miles away, dial 416
Again, absolutely no TOM at all.
This state's 201 was the first area code to be used, in 1951
And still no TOM.
Area codes were designed in the era of pulse phones and followed two rules to start: must have a 1 or 0 in the middle (which has been phased out), and cannot use a 1 or 0 in the beginning. Pulse phones meant a 1 dialed 10 times faster than a 0. (dit vs ditditditditditditditditditdit) so high population areas got the low numbers. New York (city), being the most populated area, got the fastest area code to dial: ditdit dit ditdit (212). LA 213, Chicago 312, and so on.
The second one's asking for a big city near Buffalo, NY. That's simple geography. I didn't know it direct, but Buffalo's near Niagara and then Niagara to Toronto.
And sometimes you just have to know the fact being asked.