FJs for the 11/5/18 week
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Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
NHO the musical. I've barely heard of the Bear, I went with Teddy Ruxpin. I think my little sis had one.
Screwed up the WAR with "against".
Looking forward to the semis with some clear favorites to root for.
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Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
Had heard of the Broadway play but best I could come up with was "Hello Evan ..... somebody". One word out of three doesn't cut it, even though I had the right play.
Most of the others were pretty straightforward, though "Domesday" is actually pronounced "Doomsday" and that's what I would have perhaps startled people with -- comes from watching too many BBC histories and docudramas on BBCA and PBS.
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Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
I was spoiled on Wednesday's clue (Jeopardy's Twitter account strikes again!). I've heard of the musical and possibly would have gotten it, but I can't be sure since Broadway isn't a strength of mine.
I can never keep Spanish musician pavlovs Casals and Segovia straight, but I won the coin flip there. Looking it up now, I guess remembering C=Cello=Casals would be the best way to keep them straight.
I'm not into sabermetrics or advanced stats in any of the sports I follow, but WAR was an easy one based on my time scouring baseball-reference.com.
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Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
Instagets M, W, Th, F.
Made the "A1" misteak on Tuesday.
If I didn't get BB = "base on balls" in three seconds, I wasn't getting WAR if you gave me an hour. Why the writers would think teens would be this familiar with baseball arcana is beyond me.
I would prefer not to.
Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
No idea how I knew Casals.
Dear Evan Hansen was a NHOI.
No guess Thursday
No tape delays for me, which is good since I had to binge watch.
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Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
Not really sure about Tuesday's FJ. I forgot that show was preempted, so I read it for the first time here in the poll and blurted out "A1" without much thought. I think with 30 seconds I may have remembered C1, but hard to say.
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Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
Dear Evan Hansen was a bit of a WECIB for me (in the sense that if it were anything else, it probably would've been an NHOI).
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Re: FJs for the 11/5/18 week
I messed up the perfecto by saying "wins against replacement"; while I'm not an expert on sabermetrics, I know enough not to have made that mistake.
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