mas3cf wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 7:57 pm
On the topic of etymology:
THE PERIODIC TABLE
In ancient times, this element was named after a Mediterranean island where it was abundant. Spoiler
What is copper? (after Cyprus)
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I really like this one! And I had not heard that bit about its etymology, as my answer of rhodium would indicate.
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Rhodium is a great guess, and one I hadn't thought of when I wrote the clue. I did have an inkling that I should pin it by including "in ancient times" but I wasn't sure why my subconscious was nagging me about it. I think you answered that!
Turns out 'rhodium' comes from the red color of the solutions of its salts, rather than from Rhodes. (That factoid also sounds like potential FJ fodder to me)
That's a pretty great clue. I think the show would try to give it just a little tiny bit more of a TOM. "Set in 1980" doesn't help a great deal because there's nothing in the movie that screams that particular year. If I said "Coen Bros. movie set in 1991" or "set in 1958-1959" you'd probably know it right away.
MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:56 pm
Three versions of the same clue, each one slightly easier than the last. I hope I remember my research on this correctly.
THE OSCARS
This is the only Best Picture winner set primarily in Hawaii
Slightly easier version: Spoiler
FILMS OF THE 1950s
This is the only Best Picture Oscar winner set primarily in Hawaii
And a slightly easier than that version: Spoiler
FILMS OF THE 1950s
Set in 1941, this is the only Best Picture Oscar winner set primarily in Hawaii
Correct response: Spoiler
What is From Here to Eternity? (set in Pearl Harbor, just before the attack)
didn't get it with the initial clue, but got it with the middle clue you provided
Robert K S wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2019 4:54 pm
That's a pretty great clue. I think the show would try to give it just a little tiny bit more of a TOM. "Set in 1980" doesn't help a great deal because there's nothing in the movie that screams that particular year. If I said "Coen Bros. movie set in 1991" or "set in 1958-1959" you'd probably know it right away.
Reading it over again, I would replace "1980" with "Texas" or "West Texas".
mas3cf wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:13 pm
MOVIE MATH
It's the sum of all the numbers that appear in the titles of 21st-century Best Picture winners. Spoiler
What is 2,000,012? (Million Dollar Baby + Slumdog Millionaire + 12 Years A Slave)
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I went with 1,000,012. I don't think "millionaire" is a number. This is a good clue but I think it's asking for trouble.
You might be right about asking for trouble. My thinking was: Spoiler
although "Millionaire" isn't a number, "Million" is part of the word and therefore appears in the title.
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that would be like asking about movie titles with animals in them and expecting Slumdog Millionaire for an answer...even though there is no such animal as a slumdog.
mas3cf wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:13 pm
MOVIE MATH
It's the sum of all the numbers that appear in the titles of 21st-century Best Picture winners. Spoiler
What is 2,000,012? (Million Dollar Baby + Slumdog Millionaire + 12 Years A Slave)
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I went with 1,000,012. I don't think "millionaire" is a number. This is a good clue but I think it's asking for trouble.
You might be right about asking for trouble. My thinking was: Spoiler
although "Millionaire" isn't a number, "Million" is part of the word and therefore appears in the title.
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that would be like asking about movie titles with animals in them and expecting Slumdog Millionaire for an answer...even though there is no such animal as a slumdog.
mas3cf wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 8:13 pm
MOVIE MATH
It's the sum of all the numbers that appear in the titles of 21st-century Best Picture winners. Spoiler
What is 2,000,012? (Million Dollar Baby + Slumdog Millionaire + 12 Years A Slave)
Spoiler
I went with 1,000,012. I don't think "millionaire" is a number. This is a good clue but I think it's asking for trouble.
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the word million is in the title, albeit not by itself, but nothing says it has to be stand aloneSpoiler
If "five thousand" were in the title of a Best Picture winner during the remainder of this century, would it add 6,005 to the total because of "five" and "thousand" in addition to "five thousand"?
The parent company of a department store chain named after this body of water was incorporated by a royal charter from King Charles II of England. Spoiler
While the original and most widely-known version was developed by a Russian in the 1860s, French scientist Charles Janet's alternate rearrangement of this eliminates some gaps. Spoiler
They're the first and last names of the 1954 Pulitzer winner in Drama as well as the first and middle names of the 2005 Pulitzer winner in Drama. Spoiler
John Patrick (John Patrick won in 1954 for "The Teahouse of the August Moon" and John Patrick Shanley won in 2005 for "Doubt, a parable").