Probably, but he would've had to swap it into today's game because of the delay of the start of the season.
Learned League 88 - Feb/Mar '21
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I didn't go as far as seaborgium to compute the acreage, but I did figure it was talking about 700 x 700 miles square. Alaska is big on the map, but that seemed too big, Mercator projection notwithstanding (although it is usually an inset, so who knows?. And FWIW, I couldn't believe Andrew Johnson oversaw anything positive (jury is out on that ). I just said "California", in spite of the cognitive dissonance of 1849, and not knowing exactly when we stole it from Mexico.classicroadster wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 2:02 pm I also initially thought Gadsden purchase but when I fully re-read the question the timing was wrong but more important was the size. Gadsden is relatively small and the question was asking for something that was about 80% of the Louisiana Purchase so that eliminated Gadsden. I had thought Alaska was before 1867 but it was the only thing that made sense.
Lost 4(4)-6(5) to the last place person in my rundle. I was so thrown off by "obselete medical term" that I never would've gotten humor without knowing the play or book. I was pretty shocked to see the high get rate on that one, but it does make sense that those listed things are humors. NHO of a Mansfield bar and went with James Dean but was pretty sure it was wrong.
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Thanks to Law & Order:SVU for getting me Mansfield.
The Gadsden Purchase was right after the Mexican War, so that was out. Alaska was right after the Civil War, negotiated by William Seward, who was nearly killed the night Lincoln was shot.
According to the LL message board, “Seward’s Folly” was an acceptable answer. That is just wrong. First of all, it isn’t the name of the purchase. He also asked for the formal name, so people shouldn’t get credit for being a smartass.
The Gadsden Purchase was right after the Mexican War, so that was out. Alaska was right after the Civil War, negotiated by William Seward, who was nearly killed the night Lincoln was shot.
According to the LL message board, “Seward’s Folly” was an acceptable answer. That is just wrong. First of all, it isn’t the name of the purchase. He also asked for the formal name, so people shouldn’t get credit for being a smartass.
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If you recall that Seward was one of Lincoln’s “Band of Rivals,” that helps pin Sewards folly to the late 1860s.
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Sometimes you have to trust an opponent's category percentage. I stole my match 8(4)-7(5). My opponent gave me 0 for Current Events & 1 for Business (sandwiching Math for my worst ones), while I could not pull the trigger on 3 for Olivia Newton-John even with Film at 0/15.
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Olivia Newton-John: if white bread could sing.
A great trivia chestnut about her is that her grandfather was Nobel winning physicist Max Born.
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One in 20 think Isaac Newton is married to Olivia Newton-John . The headline says it all. I quote it to amuse and not to educate.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:58 am Olivia Newton-John: if white bread could sing.
A great trivia chestnut about her is that her grandfather was Nobel winning physicist Max Born.
I also assumed "formally" was meant to exclude "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox". I was annoyed to learn that the latter were accepted, but only slightly, as I can't imagine very many who so answered were thinking of New Mexico.
I remembered that "pollex" was either the thumb or the big toe, but went with the latter because of "most commonly". I mean, what else does anyone call the thumb?
There was definitely this FJ about "the butler did it", but I think I remember a tougher version years earlier, where they asked for the four-word phrase. I may be imagining, though.
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I couldn’t believe 22% guessed Dolly Parton. The question (to me) clearly said the artist is no longer a country singer.
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Anyone else go with Trump for the teflon question yesterday?
I didn't think that's what the question was going for but it almost fits so I went with it.
I didn't think that's what the question was going for but it almost fits so I went with it.
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Nope. Once I figured out it was Teflon they were looking for, I knew it was Reagan and Gotti. Still, not sure why he required actual names. Seems like asking for the nicknames would have alleviated any issues.bluejaylink wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:39 pm Anyone else go with Trump for the teflon question yesterday?
I didn't think that's what the question was going for but it almost fits so I went with it.
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Yup, and another great trivia chestnut is she’s distantly related to me via Max Born. About her mother my aunt once confided: “She was the prettiest... and stupidest... woman in Cambridge {England}”This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 10:58 am Olivia Newton-John: if white bread could sing.
A great trivia chestnut about her is that her grandfather was Nobel winning physicist Max Born.
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POP MUSIC - A leading role in the most profitable movie musical ever (at the time) and the release of her provocative album Totally Hot (both in 1978) announced a shift in the career of what artist, whose early US success was in country music (including a Grammy for Best Country Vocal and, somewhat controversially, the CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year).
I misread the clue somewhat thinking the singer was also in the Broadway play, but I also thought Dolly did a turn in the play, so my ignorance cancelled my misinformation. I had no problem thinking of Dolly's career with Porter Waggoner as a COUNTRY singer, and whatever follows in her solo career as a lower case C "country" singer. Call it crossover, or pop, or whatever, anything is a pivot from the tear in my beer music. It's a weak category for me, I couldn't have answered it if you gave me "Grease". I find the Max Born trivia interesting, he's one of my favorite German physicists named Max.
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The binary number 1111110001, which equals the hexadecimal number 3F1, when converted to Roman numerals, spells what English word? It is one of the very few common words which are valid Roman numbers.
Because it didn’t say “a valid Roman number”, I stopped thinking of words from Roman numerals after I came up with CIVIL.
Because it didn’t say “a valid Roman number”, I stopped thinking of words from Roman numerals after I came up with CIVIL.
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I was shocked to see that I lucked into a 3(1)-2(2) win yesterday. My only get was Roy G. Biv.
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I figured that one out on the drive to work before doing the (pen and paper) math; admittedly, I did remember the gimmick.triviawayne wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:36 am The binary number 1111110001, which equals the hexadecimal number 3F1, when converted to Roman numerals, spells what English word? It is one of the very few common words which are valid Roman numbers.
Because it didn’t say “a valid Roman number”, I stopped thinking of words from Roman numerals after I came up with CIVIL.
Not many others qualify either, if any. I think J! used xi, there's midi, Dili.. but wouldn't consider any of those common
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CNBC recently ran a documentary series, Empires of New York (https://www.cnbc.com/empires-of-new-york), about five people who gained prominence during the 1980s: Leona Helmsley, Ivan Boesky, Rudy Giuliani, John Gotti, and Donald Trump. On several occasions, it referred to Gotti as "the Teflon don".bluejaylink wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 8:39 pm Anyone else go with Trump for the teflon question yesterday?
I didn't think that's what the question was going for but it almost fits so I went with it.
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9(6)-9(6) tie for me yesterday. Pretty easy day. Nine people in my rundle got all six right.
I was somewhat offended that my opponent gave me three points for the math question. Converting 3F1 to decimal took maybe a minute, tops.
I was somewhat offended that my opponent gave me three points for the math question. Converting 3F1 to decimal took maybe a minute, tops.
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So you're saying that the plural wording led you to name a word merely consisting of letters found in the Roman numbering system? Under that interpretation, "valid" becomes meaningless (unless, I guess, your interpretation of an invalid Roman number is any letter that is not I, V, X, L, C, D, or M).triviawayne wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:36 am The binary number 1111110001, which equals the hexadecimal number 3F1, when converted to Roman numerals, spells what English word? It is one of the very few common words which are valid Roman numbers.
Because it didn’t say “a valid Roman number”, I stopped thinking of words from Roman numerals after I came up with CIVIL.
I had fun with this question; first I went from hex to decimal by adding 256 * 3 + (256 - 16) + 1, then I counted nine digits in the binary rendering, determining that it would be 2^10 - 1 = 1023 [edit: not 10^10] if they were all 1s, and then subtracting 2 + 4 + 8 = 14 for the three 0s.
What was not fun was submitting what I thought was a 9(6) and then seeing the castanets question was asking for the objects rather than the dance. Luckily both my opponents defended it low and missed something else for more points.
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The first 10 is in binary and the second 10 is in decimal. That's not recommended.seaborgium wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 1:15 pmSo you're saying that the plural wording led you to name a word merely consisting of letters found in the Roman numbering system? Under that interpretation, "valid" becomes meaningless (unless, I guess, your interpretation of an invalid Roman number is any letter that is not I, V, X, L, C, D, or M).triviawayne wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:36 am The binary number 1111110001, which equals the hexadecimal number 3F1, when converted to Roman numerals, spells what English word? It is one of the very few common words which are valid Roman numbers.
Because it didn’t say “a valid Roman number”, I stopped thinking of words from Roman numerals after I came up with CIVIL.
I had fun with this question; first I went from hex to decimal by adding 256 * 3 + (256 - 16) + 1, then I counted nine digits in the binary rendering, determining that it would be 10^10 - 1 = 1023 if they were all 1s, and then subtracting 2 + 4 + 8 = 14 for the three 0s.
What was not fun was submitting what I thought was a 9(6) and then seeing the castanets question was asking for the objects rather than the dance. Luckily both my opponents defended it low and missed something else for more points.
Your way of doing it was slicker than mine. I had to do 512+256+128+64+32+6+1. I like 1023 minus 14 better.
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