Elijah Baley wrote:So I guess I'm the only one who put oxygen and argon?
I read "If the standard periodic table were a chessboard, a knight standing on helium could reach these two gases by a legal move" as helium to oxygen and then "reach another gas by a legal move," therefore argon.
Anyone? Bueller?
I'd say no. If the q were rephrased as such:
"If the standard periodic table were On a chessboard, a knight standing on A1 could reach these two squares by a legal move"
I couldn't see C2 and A3 as acceptable (as opposed to C2 and B3)
Elijah Baley wrote:So I guess I'm the only one who put oxygen and argon?
I read "If the standard periodic table were a chessboard, a knight standing on helium could reach these two gases by a legal move" as helium to oxygen and then "reach another gas by a legal move," therefore argon.
Anyone? Bueller?
I'd say no. If the q were rephrased as such:
"If the standard periodic table were On a chessboard, a knight standing on A1 could reach these two squares by a legal move"
I couldn't see C2 and A3 as acceptable (as opposed to C2 and B3)
Well, except that you can get to argon in a legal move from oxygen.
Elijah Baley wrote:So I guess I'm the only one who put oxygen and argon?
I read "If the standard periodic table were a chessboard, a knight standing on helium could reach these two gases by a legal move" as helium to oxygen and then "reach another gas by a legal move," therefore argon.
Anyone? Bueller?
I'd say no. If the q were rephrased as such:
"If the standard periodic table were On a chessboard, a knight standing on A1 could reach these two squares by a legal move"
I couldn't see C2 and A3 as acceptable (as opposed to C2 and B3)
Well, except that you can get to argon in a legal move from oxygen.
Right, but that would require two moves. You can't reach Ar from He with "a legal move".
Elijah Baley wrote:So I guess I'm the only one who put oxygen and argon?
I read "If the standard periodic table were a chessboard, a knight standing on helium could reach these two gases by a legal move" as helium to oxygen and then "reach another gas by a legal move," therefore argon.
Anyone? Bueller?
I'd say no. If the q were rephrased as such:
"If the standard periodic table were On a chessboard, a knight standing on A1 could reach these two squares by a legal move"
I couldn't see C2 and A3 as acceptable (as opposed to C2 and B3)
Well, except that you can get to argon in a legal move from oxygen.
Right, but that would require two moves. You can't reach Ar from He with "a legal move".
Yes, and moving from helium to two different gases requires two moves as well. I mean, I totally get what was apparently intended; it's just that there is another interpretation that I happen to think has some reasonable basis.
kaberi wrote:So, I start at Helium. One down and two over leads to...nitrogen or oxygen? Nitrogen or oxygen? Nitrogen or oxygen? (Coin toss says "nitrogen").
Two down and one over leads to,..chlorine or fluorine? Chlorine or Fluorine? Chlorine or Fluorine? (Coin toss says "fluorine").
I should have thought harder about the knight. I have the elements memorized up to neon, so I had a halogen staring me in the face at atomic number 9, but instead I went a row down from neon and said, "What comes right before argon? Dunno, give up."
It started out so nicely, then I saw the word "opera..." I'm a little weaker on Russian lit than I'd like, as well, which could have kept today's score respectable.
Ooh, nasty negbait for Titania on the 6 pointer. I'm glad that it never occurred to me or I might have said it. And I'm also glad that I clammed the 15 pointer. I was 50/50 on Puccini and Rossini (with a darkhorse choice of Donuzetti). I wouldn't have got Bellini spotted 4 guesses.
Woof wrote:Ooh, nasty negbait for Titania on the 6 pointer. I'm glad that it never occurred to me or I might have said it. And I'm also glad that I clammed the 15 pointer. I was 50/50 on Puccini and Rossini (with a darkhorse choice of Donuzetti). I wouldn't have got Bellini spotted 4 guesses.
Day 5:
Yesterday I thought only one element was required - so I put Oxygen only. So, today I was careful when they asked for two moons, had Titan..casually thought of what sounds close to Titan and ended up making a moon out of Titian I might have gotten Triton if I thought a little. I should really do these SHC later in the day after thinking a while! This probably cost me a perfect round (I don't think I have one yet)
Titania never occurred to me...but I would have ruled it out as I know it is for Uranus.
I'm thinking a clue of equal difficulty level to the two pointer would be "Don't confuse ABC (the American Broadcasting Company) with this country's ABC broadcaster, whose website can be found at abc.net.au."
"Jeopardy! is two parts luck and one part luck" - Me
"The way to win on Jeopardy is to be a rabidly curious, information-omnivorous person your entire life." - Ken Jennings
Okay, Eugene Onegin is "a novel in verse", while The Queen of Spades is a short story. I knew Eugene Onegin was in verse and I thought The Queen of Spades was more like a novella; I wasn't sure which one was more likely to be described as a novel. Fortunately I was able to convince myself that Eugene Onegin had to be by far more popular. (It was the first opera I saw live, back in 1985.)
plasticene wrote:Okay, Eugene Onegin is "a novel in verse", while The Queen of Spades is a short story. I knew Eugene Onegin was in verse and I thought The Queen of Spades was more like a novella; I wasn't sure which one was more likely to be described as a novel. Fortunately I was able to convince myself that Eugene Onegin had to be by far more popular. (It was the first opera I saw live, back in 1985.)
Very close to my reasoning. The two operas with obviously Russian subject matter that I could think of were Boris Godunov and Eugene Onegin. I knew that the former was Mussorgsky and, as I thought about it, I recalled that Pushkin wrote Eugene Onegin, so that put me over the edge.
I've been assembling a collection of Anki flashcards, and they proved helpful with the opera questions. I'd seen the Bellini/Norma card often enough to justify a guess on the 15-pointer--and, for once, it paid off.