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I can name one city in Northern Ireland. (London)Derry isn't it. Amen, brother. On the other hand I was pretty certain that President Lincoln didn't name General Lee to head the Union Army. :roll: (And that it wasn't General Custard either) To be fair, if it were Lee, "what could possibly go wrong?...

Archive playthrough: Coryat $36,600 (45R, 0W) DD 3/3 FJ :( Had a bit of a tough time in DJ... being unable to think of one word in a song lyric I otherwise knew cost me 2x 1600. Clammed on "dollars to doughnuts" because I couldn't choose between that and "a dime a dozen" fast enough. On FJ, Londonde...

I never root against a player, but this is the outcome I was hoping for. I didn't enjoy Brian's faux Holzhauer technique of mining the bottom row clues to start the game because it seemed like he batted under 0.500 on them. If it wasn't so late, I'd check on that. I don't like it even when they do ...

As Expected, a very good Game. Not a Lot of misses. Keeping those DDs away from Brian was Really Big. And yet Zach kept going back to BIOGRAPHIES after the first DD was revealed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Frida and Trotsky? Who knew! I had no idea so I said Kandinsky I had never heard that before, but I read the cl...

Archive playthrough: Coryat $47,600 (52R, 1W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: NHO distaff, couldn't think of the right Shakespeare quote. Negged with Fergie for Kate Middleton because my brain apparently went back to the 80s for a moment. Honestly didn't know what to expect in the Zach vs. Brian showdown. Feel ...

Bamaman wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:31 pm

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Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:21 pm

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:25 pm

Boston just doesn't "feel" like a capital to me.

Huh?

State capitals tend to not be in the most prominent city in the state.

I bet Atlanta, Hartford, Providence, Charleston, Indianapolis, Little Rock, Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Honolulu would have something to say about that.

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:25 pm

Boston just doesn't "feel" like a capital to me.

Huh?

U.S. STATES

It's the only state that borders three of the four states that are commonwealths.

Spoiler

What is West Virginia?

Major carnage for me on the GRAMM "E" category, considering pop music is usually a good topic for me. I got Eagles, and then just stood and stared - I knew Eilish, but couldn't get Ariana Grande out of my head. Rapper with "E"? Too distracted by Easy-E, but didn't buzz. I do -know- Eminem, but I do...

Archive playthrough: Coryat $42,400 (51R, 0W) DD 3/3 FJ :( Custer and Crazy Horse Finally cracked $40k and 50R for the first time in a week, and whiffed on a very gettable FJ. Totally missed the word "British" in Corsican $2000, otherwise it would have been a layup. Given the FJ miss, obviously nowh...

Request "Mixed up Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock" on the weekly poll. (Shame on me.) Got Custer though, thanks to Montana. Absolutely should not have missed the Deadwood part of the clue. I went with Custer and Crazy Horse, because I associate Crazy Horse with SD even though if I'd have th...

floridagator wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 8:08 pm

I also blew the Daily Double where the key word had both faro- and -equi- in it that lead me to think of horseshoeing.

Poll request: I was incorrect with some version of "playing horseshoes" on DD1 Tuesday

Golf and others like to comment about math and J! players. The clue is as much math as anything. It would be fun to know how Gabriela connected the Madonna song to a possible two more chart appearances. Am the right age that the song in question was right in my wheelhouse. Even so, initially focuse...

Some serious negbait in this one.... 1936 Olympian = not Jesse Owens F1 driver from German speaking country = not Schumacher Guessed "playing horseshoes" for DD1 because that's where "iron" and "horse" led me. I've been looking at maps and can't figure out how the Catskills are between the Mohawk an...

Bamaman wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:47 pm

I missed that because everyone was screamin’ about the new Treasury Secretary.

You were just Bidin' your time to make that joke, weren't you?

MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:21 pm

mas3cf wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:01 pm

Senate confirms Antony ("Tony") Blinken as Secretary of State.

You might say they gave him the "nod"

Important that you were winkin' at the end of that sentence.

Senate confirms Antony ("Tony") Blinken as Secretary of State.

THE CABINET

The longest serving Secretaries of Labor, the Interior, and State were all sworn into office in this year.

Spoiler

What is 1933?

I'm assuming, by the way, that Montenegro is ruled out only due to its size and not also due to the fact that it borders the Adriatic rather than the Mediterranean? I think of the Adriatic as a subset of the Mediterranean, but maybe I'm wrong. It gets a little dicey there with Adriatic vs. Mediterr...

Coryat $38,400 (45 R, 1 W)
DD 3/3
FJ

Felt a little off my rhythm on these boards. Negged with viejo for añejo - the latest example of where knowing a medium amount of Spanish is worse than knowing none at all.

Managed to reason my way through FJ in about 5-10 seconds.