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CHILDREN's LITERATURE This beloved book about an animal was banned in Spain, as Francisco Franco's supporters accused it of promoting pacifism. What is (the Story of) Ferdinand? Great clue, but maybe tweak it to ask for the name of the animal rather than the book. That way no one has to agonize abo...

Spotted "Washington," "starts with H", and "ends with ford", I still wouldn't have gotten it.

She certainly isn't flashy, but certainly is fast Which is why we left like 19 clues on the board Monday, right? And I swear at one point there was a good 10 second pause before she managed to call out another clue on this episode. she is annoyingly slow...hope to see her booted soon...let's get ba...

The "clothing" doesn't look to be covering any important bits anyway.

Mark Lowenthal did almost precisely this in his ToC-winning game: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=182 (CORPORATE AMERICA, $300) The clue just asked for what the "Al" stood for, he gave the five-syllable name of the element, and it was accepted and later reversed. A company name has le...

So Jennifer punches her ticket to the TOC and stakes her claim as a top-caliber player. She certainly isn't flashy, but certainly is fast and has a good depth of knowledge. This was a fun game to watch, well played and with few TSs, though I did still pick up some Lach trash. And by "some" you mean...

Even having the movies (mostly) memorized, I would be leery of a question that was just '1970 Best Picture winner'. I've seen too many arguments of the form 'That movie came out in year X, but it won the Oscar in year X+1!' That's a good point. I frequently forget that Google takes the wrong (IMO) ...

I always thought people were just saying "disassociative" lazily. Thankful for the reversal there. That reversal was puzzling. So what if the OED contains the word "disassociative"? The clue wasn't asking for any word with that meaning. It was asking for the word that gets used with "identity disor...

OldSchoolChamp wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 11, 2019 5:08 am

“Phenomenons”? Really???

Ha! We noticed that and then I forgot to mention it. I had to rewind to make sure it was still there on second look.

Ran WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS and SPEAK TO ME OF FRUITS & VEGETABLES , including a random pre-call of "raspberry" in the latter category. Picked up the $1200 lach trash Pritzker prize and turned it into $4800 by the end of the game--still only good enough for 3rd place from the fourth podium. I'll c...

Fine, I'll give you British, but in what world is Dracula considered a "classic" novel. It's a loaded word, but if they're going to use it, then people are going to think of the canon, and IMO, that doesn't include Dracula. Splitting hairs, maybe, but the question is polling at 20% It's still read ...

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 09, 2019 8:18 pm

"Magic Mike" was my only miss and only NHOI in Rest of the Title.

I learned Magic Mike from Julia Collins. (I spent a little time typing a description and then decided show was better than tell in this instance, so I found the video and made an excerpt.):

https://youtu.be/36RfaudJLJo

Now I want to visit the area just so I can ask people, "Do you know where I can get scrod?"

Thanks John Boy, for the quiz. And thanks, Penguin for all the advice. I considered opening your spoiler because rule 6 doesn't say anything about previewing or purloining proffered Penguin propositions :). 6. No cheating - that includes Google, Bing, Ask Jeeves, phone a friend, etc. I like to feel...

Andrew Jackson's rise to the presidency is a great story that doesn't require rote memorization. Well worth studying in its own right and it would have steered everyone away from guessing him on this clue. Jackson's first bid for the presidency in 1824 resulted in his getting more electoral votes th...

. I could have taken 100 guesses and literally never gotten to Van Buren. That's pretty bad, because only 44 men have served as president. i thought there have been 45? Who's to say that in all that guessing I wouldn't accidentally say at least a few of them twice? To tell you the truth, in all the...

Thanks for this, Ironhorse. I don't normally get around to playing these things. There's something intimidating and depressing about trying to cleverly strategize over SO MANY different questions only to find out I wandered right into the fold on some and maybe even picked a flat out wrong answer on...

Since I seem to be the only person who looked it up... After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476, Monaco was ravaged by Saracens and barbarian tribes. After the Saracens were expelled in 975, the depopulated area was reclaimed by the Ligurians. http://monacodc.org/monhistory.html Hey, I...

TIL that. But "British" is also a demonym for denizens of Great Britain specifically, so at best the adjective "British" is ambiguous in the context of this flawed clue. As someone noted above, people should not be punished for knowing that Stoker was Irish, which the clue effectively does. I'm on ...

Despite the word "history" in the FJ clue I was think the inference was that the country is associated with a current movie star, so I went with Arnold thinking that was the barbarian tie-in. I'll just say to you and the others that went with Austria, I'm glad I didn't think of that. I might well h...