alietr wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:09 pm
I did OK on this one:
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I'm glad to see someone I can trust with a score like that, it amazes me that someone can read the question, find the correct answer and click on it so fast for 12 straight questions.
alietr wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 3:09 pm
I did OK on this one:
I missed 3 of them.
I love the scoreboard of the people with 600 (max score), 599, 598. Clearly they cheated, but I guess that doesn't bother them.
I missed 4. I didn't even know Nabisco made those.
I made 4 Wags and hit on the actor and was pretty confident about the cookie. I wound up with 450-something with two misses on the garment and the beverage having no clue.
My fastest responses took 4 seconds to speed answer for 46 points (with reading and finding and clicking time). I maybe could make it in 3 seconds for 47 points on a tablet. I'm suspicious of any result over 564 points, making our fearless leader the official "clean" winner without the use of PEDs.
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
Another notable passing: playwright Neil Simon, age 91.
His Lost in Yonkers won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Simon won three other Tonys: Best Author for The Odd Couple (multiple TV adaptations, most famously the 1970s sitcom starring Tony Randall as Felix Ungar and Jack Klugman as Oscar Madison); Best Play for Biloxi Blues; and an honorary Tony for overall contributions to theater. He won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. From 1983 to his death, Simon was the only living playwright with a Broadway theater named for him.
Also added to the list of deaths - Robin Leach, former host of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"; he also made an appearance on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" last season.
"Elen sila lumenn omentielvo...A star shines on the hour of our meeting."
In 2019, tennis champion Althea Gibson will be honored with a statue at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows, site of the U.S. Open.
The Village Voice's 63-year run has come to an end. Norman Mailer was one of the three co-founders of the independent NYC publication. Colson Whitehead, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, wrote for the Voice. The Voice was the original presenter of the Obie Awards for off-Broadway productions--which I think has come up in Jeopardy.
Blue Lion wrote: ↑Mon Sep 03, 2018 11:00 am
The Village Voice's 63-year run has come to an end. Norman Mailer was one of the three co-founders of the independent NYC publication. Colson Whitehead, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, wrote for the Voice. The Voice was the original presenter of the Obie Awards for off-Broadway productions--which I think has come up in Jeopardy.
A minor league baseball team in Madison, Alabama, is set to begin play in 2020. They had an internet poll to name the team and the winning name was the Rocket City Trash Pandas.
Bamaman wrote: ↑Thu Sep 06, 2018 5:33 pm
A minor league baseball team in Madison, Alabama, is set to begin play in 2020. They had an internet poll to name the team and the winning name was the Rocket City Trash Pandas.