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A Wray wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 12, 2020 12:30 am

"Pork you pine" doesn't really work, since pine in that sense isn't a transitive verb. I liked the rest of the category, though!

I mentally added "for". It made me think of this Family Feud episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdcleUk-T4U

$14,400, plus St. Elmo and parliamentarian. And Julius Caesar.

I expect we will be seeing all three of these contestants in the semi-finals. I could cheer for any of them. Maybe they will all be in separate games! Then we can cheer for all of them! OK, for the record, has there ever been a tournament final in which the three contestants met in the first round?...

I'm curious for those who learned the "sometimes w" rule, when did you learn it? I learned "sometimes y" but NOT "sometimes w" in 1971. James Buchanan Elementary School, probably 2nd grade, so 1959-1960. I also recall hearing “sometimes w” but I had forgotten about it until now. And I find the fact...

opusthepenguin wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 30, 2020 10:20 am

I'm curious for those who learned the "sometimes w" rule, when did you learn it? I learned "sometimes y" but NOT "sometimes w" in 1971.

James Buchanan Elementary School, probably 2nd grade, so 1959-1960.

When I was a boy, the trope we learned (we would never have called it that!) was "...sometimes w and y." You know, as in brown or cow or drew or saw ...But we may have been using 19th C. McGuffey's Readers... :roll: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/when-is-w-a-vowel I'm with you ...

Nikki and Jane were quite the contrast for how they played. Jane reminded me of Alan Carver. https://millionaire.fandom.com/wiki/Alan_Carver Should mention that Jane's in studio help was Louis Vertel. TIL that L. Vertel works for Jimmy Kimmel as a writer. And Anthony Anderson's studio helper was Jo...

Philliesfan02 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 22, 2020 3:05 am

Am I seriously the first guy here to report getting this FJ!

And it was an instaget, too

Looks like it. I'm in the "I know they're talking about 'Percy Jackson' but don't know who wrote the books" crowd.

The episode I saw yesterday was a rough one for both the contestant (Jonathan) and the Master Mind (Ken). Both of them missed three of the five questions in the final round; Ken only won because Jonathan chose the wrong isotope of carbon (16 instead of 14). Questions missed included the oldest conti...

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 16, 2020 12:49 am

For some reason I found it very hard to think of cities that aren't capitals even though I knew it didn't need to be one. Matched the three with Lincoln, although I knew it would be wrong.

I also fixated on state capitals but I went with Madison, WI.

I've been at this since 2002. 2002 Cincinnati - online application, chosen for audition, took test and passed 2003 Louisville - Brain Bus came to town, took 10-question test, passed, went to audition, took 50-question test, passed 2004 Nashville - online registration, chosen for audition, took test ...

No audience? That seems very strange, unless this was taped fairly recently - in that narrow window of time when they were doing "small groups, but keep your distance". Correct, it was taped the weekend of March 14-15. I had put my name in for audience tickets to one of the sessions, but was initia...

Starting April 6th, Jimmy Kimmel as host, with celebrity contestants. If that isn't interesting (and it doesn't really appeal to me - I'd prefer real people), there is an app that allows you to win money. It's available in the Apple app store and Google Play. It appears that it will be similar to HQ...

When the clue said "Bad version of Batman" I tried to think of the name of the Nite Owl character, who is a bad version of Batman. Not a bad guess - comic book nerds would know that Owlman is the Earth-3 version of Batman. Earth-3 is where the DC heroes and villains are reversed - Superman is Ultra...

For what it's worth, 1997 led me to China right away; the "one country, two systems" only confirmed my answer.

Actually, looking it up, since they were introduced at the same time and place in Cincinnati 1962...could this FJ! have two correct responses? I don't see anything that pins one over the other. I'd say that "Catholics" and "Lent" peg it for something that has fish in it. Many Catholic churches have...

I'll confess - I hadn't really looked closely at the category for FJ! - SCREEN TO STAGE. The reverse seems far more common. Oh, and as a coda, Waitress actually closed on Broadway recently - although I'm pretty sure it's still touring, and I think I remember reading something about Barellies subbin...

This is probably too obscure to be actually used, but when I stumbled across the fact I just couldn't resist. Category: US Vice Presidents He was the only 19th century veep to serve two full terms as Vice President (I'm not sure that adding the years he served and/or which which president he served...

ParrotRob wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 06, 2020 3:14 pm

Huh, go figure. Around here, 10th grade is World History, 11th is American History. At least it was in the stone age when I was in school.

Ha! In my day it was Pangaea history followed by Gondwanaland history!

How did "round 2" work? Twice I passed round 1 and received messages on my answering machine from the show saying that since I wasn't home to receive the call my spot in the next round was going to someone else. (After the second of these messages I got a cell phone, but alas, never got another cal...