i agree with thathbomb1947 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:39 pmI don't know about "way" overvalued. I don't think "Schiphol" sounds obviously Dutch to the same extent that Narita sounds Japanese. And it's a big hub airport, but it doesn't have quite the same Q-rating as certain other European airports like Heathrow and De Gaulle (both of which also would have belonged in the $200 box). Also, Kenyatta (especially Kenyatta) and Louverture, which were placed above Schiphol on the board, were pretty obvious because you could get them just from knowing who the names were - and, in the case of Kenyatta, really just reading the word.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 11:13 am I've got no problem with Narita at $200, but I do think Schiphol was way over valued at $800.
The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Moderators: alietr, trainman, econgator, dhkendall
- CasketRomance
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 2559
- Joined: Fri May 22, 2015 2:40 pm
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
- CasketRomance
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 2559
- Joined: Fri May 22, 2015 2:40 pm
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:41 pmNarita also sounds like Lupita as in Lupita Nyong'o. What now?
There are plenty of times to argue linguistics to TPH. This ain't one of them.
so you are backing up hammer dude's claim that it could be mexico city since she was born there?
- CasketRomance
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 2559
- Joined: Fri May 22, 2015 2:40 pm
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
also mentioned often in hawaii 5'0talkingaway wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:23 pmEver see Lilo and Stitch? Ohana means familymas3cf wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:42 pmOhio, Iowa, Oklahoma?talkingaway wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:58 pm
For a fun linguistic question: How many US states, aside from Hawaii, can be spelled with only the 12 letters Hawaiian alphabet? This is a Millionaire question, and not hard to get. Just start spewing Hawaiian words - think geography and food, and you'll get them.
-
- Undefeated in Reruns
- Posts: 8941
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:31 am
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
All I'm saying is that while "Narita" certainly fits Japanese phonology, there are plenty of languages whose phonologies n-vowel-r-vowel-t-vowel can fit into. Saying "Narita" could be in any country is not as ridiculous as, e.g., saying someone with the name "Sigurdardottir" could be from any country.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:55 pmseaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 5:41 pmNarita also sounds like Lupita as in Lupita Nyong'o. What now?
There are plenty of times to argue linguistics to TPH. This ain't one of them.
so you are backing up hammer dude's claim that it could be mexico city since she was born there?
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Narita sounds like the Naruto which is an anime. That's one way to make it stick for me, I guess. #weebseaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:58 pm All I'm saying is that while "Narita" certainly fits Japanese phonology, there are plenty of languages whose phonologies n-vowel-r-vowel-t-vowel can fit into. Saying "Narita" could be in any country is not as ridiculous as, e.g., saying someone with the name "Sigurdardottir" could be from any country.
Sigurdardottir is definitely a Hawley-Smoot name, but i didn't know that Iceland was even big enough to HAVE naming conventions. I've certainly encountered zero other -dottir names and I doubt anyone else here has, either.
- jeff6286
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 5228
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:34 pm
- Location: Indianapolis, IN
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BjorkTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:59 pmNarita sounds like the Naruto which is an anime. That's one way to make it stick for me, I guess. #weebseaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:58 pm All I'm saying is that while "Narita" certainly fits Japanese phonology, there are plenty of languages whose phonologies n-vowel-r-vowel-t-vowel can fit into. Saying "Narita" could be in any country is not as ridiculous as, e.g., saying someone with the name "Sigurdardottir" could be from any country.
Sigurdardottir is definitely a Hawley-Smoot name, but i didn't know that Iceland was even big enough to HAVE naming conventions. I've certainly encountered zero other -dottir names and I doubt anyone else here has, either.
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Yeah, and when has her full name ever come up?jeff6286 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:19 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BjorkTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:59 pmNarita sounds like the Naruto which is an anime. That's one way to make it stick for me, I guess. #weebseaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:58 pm All I'm saying is that while "Narita" certainly fits Japanese phonology, there are plenty of languages whose phonologies n-vowel-r-vowel-t-vowel can fit into. Saying "Narita" could be in any country is not as ridiculous as, e.g., saying someone with the name "Sigurdardottir" could be from any country.
Sigurdardottir is definitely a Hawley-Smoot name, but i didn't know that Iceland was even big enough to HAVE naming conventions. I've certainly encountered zero other -dottir names and I doubt anyone else here has, either.
- jeff6286
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 5228
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:34 pm
- Location: Indianapolis, IN
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
http://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=752TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:30 pmYeah, and when has her full name ever come up?jeff6286 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:19 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BjorkTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:59 pmNarita sounds like the Naruto which is an anime. That's one way to make it stick for me, I guess. #weebseaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:58 pm All I'm saying is that while "Narita" certainly fits Japanese phonology, there are plenty of languages whose phonologies n-vowel-r-vowel-t-vowel can fit into. Saying "Narita" could be in any country is not as ridiculous as, e.g., saying someone with the name "Sigurdardottir" could be from any country.
Sigurdardottir is definitely a Hawley-Smoot name, but i didn't know that Iceland was even big enough to HAVE naming conventions. I've certainly encountered zero other -dottir names and I doubt anyone else here has, either.
-
- Undefeated in Reruns
- Posts: 8941
- Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:31 am
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
On the Wikipedia page.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:30 pmYeah, and when has her full name ever come up?jeff6286 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:19 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BjorkTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:59 pmNarita sounds like the Naruto which is an anime. That's one way to make it stick for me, I guess. #weebseaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:58 pm All I'm saying is that while "Narita" certainly fits Japanese phonology, there are plenty of languages whose phonologies n-vowel-r-vowel-t-vowel can fit into. Saying "Narita" could be in any country is not as ridiculous as, e.g., saying someone with the name "Sigurdardottir" could be from any country.
Sigurdardottir is definitely a Hawley-Smoot name, but i didn't know that Iceland was even big enough to HAVE naming conventions. I've certainly encountered zero other -dottir names and I doubt anyone else here has, either.
And I don't understand the concept of "big enough to have naming conventions." That's a non sequitur if I've ever seen one.
- mennoknight
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 595
- Joined: Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:10 am
- Location: Ottawa, ON
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
And on Sugarcubes records.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:30 pmYeah, and when has her full name ever come up?jeff6286 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:19 pmhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BjorkTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2019 6:59 pmNarita sounds like the Naruto which is an anime. That's one way to make it stick for me, I guess. #weebseaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 9:58 pm All I'm saying is that while "Narita" certainly fits Japanese phonology, there are plenty of languages whose phonologies n-vowel-r-vowel-t-vowel can fit into. Saying "Narita" could be in any country is not as ridiculous as, e.g., saying someone with the name "Sigurdardottir" could be from any country.
Sigurdardottir is definitely a Hawley-Smoot name, but i didn't know that Iceland was even big enough to HAVE naming conventions. I've certainly encountered zero other -dottir names and I doubt anyone else here has, either.
I eat chicken. That's what I do.
-
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 970
- Joined: Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:59 am
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
The Japanese came in handy again in Friday's FJ!....E-to-ru-fu, Ha-bo-ma-i, Ku-na-shi-ri, Shi-ko-ta-n. "Shi" is one of those exceptions of Japanese syllables - if you went by how it "should" sound in their alphabet, it would sound like "see", but it's pronounced (and romanzied) as "shi". When Alex pronounced the words, they even sounded very Japanese - every syllable tends to have exactly the same amount of time.
- opusthepenguin
- The Best Darn Penguin on the Whole JBoard
- Posts: 10319
- Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:33 pm
- Location: Shawnee, KS
- Contact:
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
There's no need to know exactly how tall Robert Wadlow was. You just have to be aware that occasionally someone clocks in at taller than 8 feet. (Most recently, Sultan Kösen was in the news in 2009 when he was measured at 8 ft. 2.8 in.) So Wadlow can't have been the tallest if he was an inch shy of 8 feet. The only reasonable choice is to go one foot higher.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:28 pm Any reason I should know exactly how tall Robert Wadlow was? 8 seemed like a perfectly good guess.
-
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 970
- Joined: Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:59 am
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
I had the opposite effect - I knew NBA players reached 7 feet easily, and that there was some astonishing fact that some really high percentage of 7-foot-tall US males play in the NBA. (Turns out that percentage is 17%.) I thought 7'11" was a reasonable upper limit on height - turns out, I was wrong. But I do think 8 was a perfectly reasonable guess if you hadn't read about any 8 foot-tall people. According to wiki, there are only 13 people 8 feet or taller who have had their height documented without dispute.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:29 pmThere's no need to know exactly how tall Robert Wadlow was. You just have to be aware that occasionally someone clocks in at taller than 8 feet. (Most recently, Sultan Kösen was in the news in 2009 when he was measured at 8 ft. 2.8 in.) So Wadlow can't have been the tallest if he was an inch shy of 8 feet. The only reasonable choice is to go one foot higher.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:28 pm Any reason I should know exactly how tall Robert Wadlow was? 8 seemed like a perfectly good guess.
- opusthepenguin
- The Best Darn Penguin on the Whole JBoard
- Posts: 10319
- Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:33 pm
- Location: Shawnee, KS
- Contact:
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Oh, I definitely agree that 8 feet was a perfectly reasonable guess.talkingaway wrote: ↑Tue Nov 19, 2019 1:49 amI had the opposite effect - I knew NBA players reached 7 feet easily, and that there was some astonishing fact that some really high percentage of 7-foot-tall US males play in the NBA. (Turns out that percentage is 17%.) I thought 7'11" was a reasonable upper limit on height - turns out, I was wrong. But I do think 8 was a perfectly reasonable guess if you hadn't read about any 8 foot-tall people. According to wiki, there are only 13 people 8 feet or taller who have had their height documented without dispute.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 10:29 pmThere's no need to know exactly how tall Robert Wadlow was. You just have to be aware that occasionally someone clocks in at taller than 8 feet. (Most recently, Sultan Kösen was in the news in 2009 when he was measured at 8 ft. 2.8 in.) So Wadlow can't have been the tallest if he was an inch shy of 8 feet. The only reasonable choice is to go one foot higher.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:28 pm Any reason I should know exactly how tall Robert Wadlow was? 8 seemed like a perfectly good guess.
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
This reminds me of that "number of mountains over 29,000 feet" question. Everest is 29,029. K2 isn't that far off at 28,251, and Kangchenjunga isn't very far off at 28,169 either. Since Everest is only barely above 29K, and the next several-highest only barely below it. I could see even the slightest bit of mental imprecesion leading one to believe there are 10+ mountains above 29K.
- Category 13
- Wagering Viking
- Posts: 1912
- Joined: Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:43 pm
- Location: This side of paradise
Re: Wednesday 11-20
Gene Simmons would have scowled at that clue. Beth was the only big mainstream hit that was sung by their drummer, Peter Criss.TPH wrote: Can't say I've heard of any Elvis Costello song titles before. Or hell, any KISS ones, though I certainly know Gene Simmons and the distinctive makeup.
Criss was arguably the most misfit member of the original KISS line-up. He was kicked out of the band more than once.
- Volante
- Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
- Posts: 9254
- Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm
Re: Wednesday 11-20
(Family Guy past the link)Category 13 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:55 pmGene Simmons would have scowled at that clue. Beth was the only big mainstream hit that was sung by their drummer, Peter Criss.TPH wrote: Can't say I've heard of any Elvis Costello song titles before. Or hell, any KISS ones, though I certainly know Gene Simmons and the distinctive makeup.
Criss was arguably the most misfit member of the original KISS line-up. He was kicked out of the band more than once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IptQr_kK_eA
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
-
- Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
- Posts: 1406
- Joined: Sat Aug 31, 2019 7:15 am
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
He was looking for more TOM, like for example:jev15 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 2:39 amIt's trivia. Any reason you shouldn't?TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Nov 22, 2019 11:13 pm
Any reason I should know the Chicago riots were in 1968 and not any other years?
1968: LBJ decides not to run again, MLK shot, RFK shot, riots in Chicago at the Democratic convention.
The Chicago riots happened in this year, which was between 1967 and 1969 and rhymes with "nineteen bixty fate"
- Category 13
- Wagering Viking
- Posts: 1912
- Joined: Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:43 pm
- Location: This side of paradise
Wednesday Nov. 27
Coinsidently, it was still getting substantial airplay while the Eagles' Hotel California (single) was having it's Billboard success. Rhiannon had charted the previous year.True North wrote:Rhiannon is a Fleetwood Mac song.TenPoundHammer wrote: What was the TOM for Stevie Nicks or Afghanistan in the top box? I saw "name that sounds like Rihanna" and guessed that, .
Re: The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
Me literally any other time of the year: "A quote from Citizen Kane? That's easy. 'Rosebud.'"
Me, last night, after looking up Citizen Kane on Google before the answers were revealed: "Wait, did Citizen Kane even have a memorable quote? I can't think of any at all."
Why does my brain keep doing this?
Me, last night, after looking up Citizen Kane on Google before the answers were revealed: "Wait, did Citizen Kane even have a memorable quote? I can't think of any at all."
Why does my brain keep doing this?