Fourth Podium Poll for 1/21/2021

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Which of these missed clues did you get?

SJ1 $1000 1-LETTER STOCK SYMBOLS: S: Formerly the symbol for Sears, later for this telecom company
53
73%
SJ12 $1000 SHAPELY SPEECH: Ranging from Myanmar to Laos to Thailand, Southeast Asia's major opium-producing region is called this (Brian: What is triangle?)(Ken: I need more.)(Brian: What is the Opium Triangle?)
27
37%
SJ15 $1000 A STREAM OF TV: The Apple TV+ show "Dickinson" stars this "True Grit" actress as the title poet
25
34%
SJ25 $400 A STREAM OF TV: Amazon Prime's "Tales from" here isn't set in Chicago but in an experimental physics lab in Ohio
4
5%
SJ26 $600 A STREAM OF TV: This 2020 Hulu film riffs on "Groundhog Day", with Andy Samberg & Cristin Milioti repeating the same day
14
19%
SJ30 $1000 BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS: In this bestseller by Angie Thomas, 16-year-old Starr Carter sees her friend shot dead by a police officer
14
19%
DJ1 $2000 ALMOST RHYMES WITH PURPLE: Playtex was once a big name in this undergarment that has mostly given way to shapewear
50
68%
DJ2 $2000 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS: Giant gem seller De Beers has been called "the most successful" this modern commerce cooperative arrangement (Robert: What is conglomerate?)
25
34%
DJ8 $1600 CANADIAN PLACES: A city in New Jersey has the same name as this province, Canada's only officially bilingual one (Brian: What is Quebec?)(Stephanie: What is Montreal?)
30
41%
DJ10 $2000 HISTORIC COUPLES: The 1614 marriage of Pocahontas & John Rolfe assured peace for years between this colony & the Powhatan Indians (Robert: What is Roanoke?)(Stephanie: What is Virginia?)
43
59%
DJ18 $1200 5 MORE "C"s OF DIAMONDS: A diamond is this type of solid, usually with 8 faces
17
23%
DJ22 $2000 AMPHIBIANS: This type of toad introduced to control pests on sugar crops has gotten out of control in places like Australia
17
23%
DJ24 $800 HISTORIC COUPLES: They're the couple seen here, captured in separate portraits by Gilbert Stuart
29
40%
DJ25 $400 AMPHIBIANS: The axolotl is unusual in retaining features such as external gills from this young stage called a tadpole in other amphibians
21
29%
FJ BRITISH WRITERS: When Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926, this British fellow writer tried to find her with the help of a spiritual medium
50
68%
 
Total votes: 73
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alietr wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:21 am Saving TPH the typing -- Yes, the "Tales From" question was way, way undervalued at $400. It's polling 6%. I don't know what they were thinking on that one.
Funny thing is, I went into Amazon yesterday to watch the most recent episode of The Expanse and guess what show was sitting two rows down ...?
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econgator wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 1:42 pm
alietr wrote: ↑Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:21 am Saving TPH the typing -- Yes, the "Tales From" question was way, way undervalued at $400. It's polling 6%. I don't know what they were thinking on that one.
Funny thing is, I went into Amazon yesterday to watch the most recent episode of The Expanse and guess what show was sitting two rows down ...?
So maybe it was product placement...??
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