I'd say a snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and pretend not to think of The Lone Ranger...seaborgium wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:52 pmI learned of it from a crossword puzzle whose solution contained the Dan Rather quote, "An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger." And I suspect I previously learned what The Lone Ranger's theme music was from the joke, "Where does the Lone Ranger take his trash? To the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump."Philliesfan02 wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:11 pm Didn't know William Tell had an Overture (Guessed 1812)
FJs for the 10/19/20 week
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I've never experienced Guernica outside of reproductions, but have seen its companion piece Weeping Woman. Maybe I'd have a different opinion if I saw it in person, but I've always found his The Dream and Lie of Franco far more affecting as both art and agitprop.
I would prefer not to.
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If you gave me 100 years and 1000 guesses I could never have come up with Dalton Trumbo.
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Hadn't heard of Trumbo.
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Only three supreme court cases of the 19th century on my list of things every American ought to know: Marbury V. Madison, Dred Scott, and Plessy V. Ferguson. Anything else, you have to go to law school. Fortunately the writers didn't throw us a curve ball.AFRET CMS wrote: ↑Sun Oct 25, 2020 2:19 pm
Arabian phrase, WT Overture, Trumbo, Guernica together over the four days may have taken 12 seconds total. On Friday, precalled "MvM, Dred Scott, and ..... darn it, what was the case name, trains and separate but equal .... hope it's not that one." And then it was.
Not familiar with first lady Folsom, switched in Edo for Kyoto. Would have suspected Moonlight Sonata=Beethoven might poll at 95%.
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Easy 5/5 week. Toughest one for me was the William Tell one, but even then, I got it with plenty of time.
If the First Ladies clue was a FJ clue, I'd probably get it. But in the 10 seconds I had, I couldn't figure it out.
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