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Robert K S wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:14 am

earendel wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 16, 2020 11:10 am

And an interview with Stephanie Hull, who achieved the lowest score ever.

*Maybe

Yeah, the interview mentions Wolf Blitzer.

And an interview with Stephanie Hull, who achieved the lowest score ever.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/jeopa ... rview.html

Slate interview with Harry Friedman.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/jeopa ... edman.html

The idea of letting millionaires play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire doesn't sit right with me. Like, if there should be one precondition for being a contestant, it should be not already being a millionaire . A fun version would be if they used billionaires instead, and they all competed to avoid ha...

An article in Slate magazine about the tournament.
https://slate.com/culture/2020/01/jeopa ... ament.html

The dates are January 28, 29, and 30.

Hugo Z wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:13 am

If you know what a "carhop" is, it's a layup.

Not necessarily.

. 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...

econgator wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:32 pm

I started with "mighty have fallen", but that didn't seem to jibe with the clue. Thankfully, the correct response came to me.

That was my first thought as well, but the right answer came to me in time.

harrumph wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 15, 2019 3:49 am

On FJ I clued into sodium = NA which led me to..... snack.

Sulfur, sodium, carbon, & potassium. Doesn't sound very tasty.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, the developers of the lithium-ion battery.

Nobel Week continues, with the physics prize being awarded to Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, for contributions to understanding the evolution of the universe (Peebles) and discovering exoplanets (Mayor & Queloz).

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Living in Kentucky gave me the edge on the Bowling Green question, since the Kentucky school's nickname is the Hilltoppers. Never heard of "Pirate's Booty" snacks. How often, if at all, do you go to Costco? I always see Pirate’s Booty there. No way ...

Living in Kentucky gave me the edge on the Bowling Green question, since the Kentucky school's nickname is the Hilltoppers.
Never heard of "Pirate's Booty" snacks.

I almost second-guessed myself on this one - said Wilde, then thought it might be Dylan Thomas or Oscar Wilde. I stuck with my first instinct.

First right answer of the week. Surprised that none of the contestants got it.

I said "A&M colleges" for FJ! Judges?

I had no idea for FJ! - I associate Chagall with stained glass. And my knowledge of Fiddler was that it was inspired by the writings of Sholem Aleichem, so I didn't have any avenue to come up with the answer.

The Pavlov for Chagall for me is "Russian Jewish painter". What musical could be about Russian Jews? Fiddler is the most likely candidate. Same here. Too bad that nobody even guessed on the “sgt Pepper” clue. Given the precedent from a few years ago I wonder if they would have required the complete...

Rubik's Cube seemed to be the obvious answer based on "3D" and the mid-1970s. Interestingly, there is now a levitating, self-solving Rubik's Cube.

https://youtu.be/2vG-YtRmBSw