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Would Major League Baseball have been enough for the Arizona Diamondbacks clue? It didn't even occur to me that they might've wanted a more specific answer. Would've been a coin flip if they'd asked me for a BMS.

brick wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 24, 2018 5:35 pm

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:15 am

The Eiffel Tower could be 23K.

Wow.

I'm curious now what a 23,000 foot tall Eiffel Tower would look like. Like I have trouble even imagining that .

I had no idea axle... err, axel jumps were named after a person. I just assumed they were called axle jumps because it looks like the skater is spinning on an axle. I can't be the only one who didn't know where the name of those jumps came from.

MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:40 pm

Vowela wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:38 pm

I was surprised the neg for "engagement" for the "marriage and war" clue wasn't reversed. That seemed to fit the clue. Did I miss something in the clue?

The category was SIMILAR WORDS, which would call for 2 different words, not one word with two meanings.

Ah. Kinda' sneaky, but makes sense.

I had no idea Guillotin's name was not spelled with an e. After tonight, I'll probably remember :lol:. But yeah, if I wrote down the answer instead of just saying it, I absolutely would've added that e. I was surprised the neg for "engagement" for the "marriage and war" clue wasn't reversed. That se...

Who were the people in the pre-FJ! commercial bumper?

I immediately thought "river" and got FJ! almost right away. It didn't even occur to me that it might be talking about an ocean instead of a river. Probably bad that I completely overlooked that it might not necessarily be a river, but a right answer is a right answer !

It's amazing how the writers totally missed that the almost too obvious answer of "slant" worked perfectly for that clue, even having the right letters. Just kinda' weird how that happens sometimes, trying to be clever with a semi-tough clue, and totally overlooking the really easy answer that also ...

xxaaaxx wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:39 pm

Vowela wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:32 pm

I was shocked that mastiff didn't get a BMS. What was the wording on that clue?

"This dog crossbreed began in England around 1860 to guard against poachers."

That makes sense. Can't really say mastiff by itself was correct.

I was shocked that mastiff didn't get a BMS. What was the wording on that clue?

squarekara wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:48 pm

It wasn't really clear to me that "value" was literally part of the business name. I went after a similar term and came up with Best Buy.

Same here. That really wasn't clear. Today I learned that Best Buy is older than I realized, though.

Did my station start the show late, or did they let the DJ! round run long? I was shocked that they finished that round.

And while I'm here, Charlotte Bronte. Wrong country, and died young, but not the worst guess.

Is pronouncing IRA like the name Ira and not letter-by-letter common? I was surprised when that turned out to be about Investment Retirement Accounts and not about people named Ira .

And while I'm here, another Macbeth guess.

It's funny that I was more confident in my answer for FJ! yesterday, but today is the one I got right. I got Masters from golf all right, but I wasn't sure I had the right sport in the first place, but whatever, a get's a get !

Golf wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 28, 2018 9:13 am

Vowela wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:02 pm

Answering with the first country you can think of with a "Dha" capital ain't always going to get you to the right answer .

It's not?

Abu Dhabi came to me pretty quickly. I probably didn't try hard enough after that to think if someplace else might fit the clue a little better.

United Arab Emirates was a perfectly valid guess, and what I went with. I can't think of anything that would've made it any better or worse a guess than Bangladesh, aside from it being wrong, anyway :P. I sort of agree with you. But the similarity to "Bollywood" made me start my search in the vicin...

United Arab Emirates was a perfectly valid guess, and what I went with. I can't think of anything that would've made it any better or worse a guess than Bangladesh, aside from it being wrong, anyway .

I don't see why GDP wasn't good enough. I'd have thought it qualified as an acronym that was understood enough as an answer, but I guess not? Definitely don't agree that it should've been negged after the fact if they wanted "gross domestic product" in full, anyway. At least it didn't really affect ...

Sagittarius, with about 35% confidence. I was probably 95% confident that it was either that, Libra, or Gemini. That other 5% can get you sometimes, though.

I had heard of Pentecost Island before, but all I really knew about it was that an island with that name existed. Didn't know where it was, so it seemed like a reasonable enough guess. Probably the best guess for an island that isn't anywhere near Africa, at least .