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opusthepenguin wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:32 am
alietr wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:18 am
opusthepenguin wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:10 pm I don't remember the Munich Olympics at all, except maybe Mark Spitz.
Um, seriously? Nothing else?
Seriously. I was 6 years old. Everything else I learned about the '72 Olympics, I learned later on.
I wasn't born yet, so everything I know about Munich is from the Spielberg movie.
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Robert K S wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:56 am
opusthepenguin wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:32 am
alietr wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:18 am
opusthepenguin wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:10 pm I don't remember the Munich Olympics at all, except maybe Mark Spitz.
Um, seriously? Nothing else?
Seriously. I was 6 years old. Everything else I learned about the '72 Olympics, I learned later on.
I wasn't born yet, so everything I know about Munich is from the Spielberg movie.
For the Munich games I was 8 (close to 9) and my only clear memory is how upset my dad and uncle were at the basketball game. As to the tragic events I was only vaguely aware something bad was happening though had no understanding of the details.
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Leander wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 8:00 pm Australia came to me almost immediately. Took a little work to come up with Germany.
Australia came to me as well, almost immediately. I stopped looking for the other one so I'm not sure I would have come up with Germany within 30 seconds.

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I like clues that require someone to figure it out. Anything higher than a 1 on Bloom's taxonomy. I got Australia pretty quickly.
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Australia was nearly instant for me. Took considerably longer to come up with Germany.

For the record, the countries with at least two cities to host a winter Olympics are:
U.S. (Lake Placid, Squaw Valley, Salt Lake City)
France (Chamonix, Grenoble, Albertville)
Norway (Oslo, Lillehammer)
Italy (Cortina, Turin)
Canada (Calgary, Vancouver)
Japan (Sapporo, Nagano)
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:18 pm Australia was nearly instant for me. Took considerably longer to come up with Germany.

For the record, the countries with at least two cities to host a winter Olympics are:
U.S. (Lake Placid, Squaw Valley, Salt Lake City)
France (Chamonix, Grenoble, Albertville)
Norway (Oslo, Lillehammer)
Italy (Cortina, Turin)
Canada (Calgary, Vancouver)
Japan (Sapporo, Nagano)
Any city (not country, but CITY) that's hosted both a winter and summer Olympics?
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ACW wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:41 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 4:18 pm Australia was nearly instant for me. Took considerably longer to come up with Germany.

For the record, the countries with at least two cities to host a winter Olympics are:
U.S. (Lake Placid, Squaw Valley, Salt Lake City)
France (Chamonix, Grenoble, Albertville)
Norway (Oslo, Lillehammer)
Italy (Cortina, Turin)
Canada (Calgary, Vancouver)
Japan (Sapporo, Nagano)
Any city (not country, but CITY) that's hosted both a winter and summer Olympics?
Beijing will be the first with the 2022 Winter games.
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jeff6286 wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 10:27 pm Basically most Summer Olympic hosts are either the capital or the largest city in a country: Rome/Tokyo/Mexico City/Seoul/Sydney/Athens/Beijing/London/Rio. The ones that don't fit this since 1960 are Munich, Montreal, L.A., Barcelona, Atlanta.
Rio is the second-largest city in Brazil.
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I'm here a day late to bring down the FJ percentage. My first thought was AUSTRALIA - Melbourne and uh, Sidney? Why couldn't I remember anything about Sidney, since it had to be in my adult lifetime? If I'm going to not remember an Olympics, it might as well be in Canada to go with the Montreal sure thing. Calgary, nope, Winter. Vancouver, nope Winter?

I'm assuming I don't remember the Sydney games because the US broadcast had become unwatchable to me. Some field event finals in track? Let's spend the evening watching abused children do an exhibition floor routine in children's gymnastics. When we do get to the track, let's spend 29 minutes on a human interest story for each minute of action. And follow the outmatched American in the event. Finally, show one throw or jump in a field event while talking about something else.

It was a nice FJ clue. I would have got both countries with a couple minutes of cogitation. I have flashbacks of the Sydney Opera House in every camera shot and some kind of time warped schedule for watching on multiple channels.
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twelvefootboy wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:19 pm I'm here a day late to bring down the FJ percentage. My first thought was AUSTRALIA - Melbourne and uh, Sidney? Why couldn't I remember anything about Sidney, since it had to be in my adult lifetime? If I'm going to not remember an Olympics, it might as well be in Canada to go with the Montreal sure thing. Calgary, nope, Winter. Vancouver, nope Winter?

I'm assuming I don't remember the Sydney games because the US broadcast had become unwatchable to me. Some field event finals in track? Let's spend the evening watching abused children do an exhibition floor routine in children's gymnastics. When we do get to the track, let's spend 29 minutes on a human interest story for each minute of action. And follow the outmatched American in the event. Finally, show one throw or jump in a field event while talking about something else.

It was a nice FJ clue. I would have got both countries with a couple minutes of cogitation. I have flashbacks of the Sydney Opera House in every camera shot and some kind of time warped schedule for watching on multiple channels.
It would be quite easy to disparage the NBC Olympic coverage without making light of real-life abuse scandals that have happened in gymnastics and also without dismissing the entire sport which contains phenomenal athletes as a "children's exhibition".
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theFJguy wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:31 pm Coryats
Dennis: 25200
Drew: 4800
Allison: 7400

Combined: 37,200
Those add up to 37,400. You have it right in the archive. (Am I correct in assuming theFJguy is a MarkBarrett alter ego?)
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That's pretty funny--I wonder if the writers were aware of it. Both references even date back to about 1967.
Didn't Mello Yello (like Mountain Dew, iirc) have tons of caffeine, well before Red Bull-type energy drinks hit the market?
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reddpen wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:22 am
theFJguy wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:31 pm Coryats
Dennis: 25200
Drew: 4800
Allison: 7400

Combined: 37,200
Those add up to 37,400. You have it right in the archive. (Am I correct in assuming theFJguy is a MarkBarrett alter ego?)
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37,400, fixed, thanks. Yes, same guys.
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reddpen wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:22 am
davey wrote: Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:29 pm I recently learned of the "candy" in American Food...$800 when I received this picture as an advertisement. My question: Who's buying this?? At best, it looks like he's peddling sea monster parts... :roll:
Smoked salmon is unbelievably tasty. Pretty sure I'd say that even were I not a PNW native.
I agree, and (not to beat a dead fish), I intend no comment on smoked salmon. I'm not even commenting on salmon jerky or "candy." I'm commenting on that unappetizing photograph... :roll:
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jeff6286 wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:42 pm
twelvefootboy wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2021 11:19 pm I'm here a day late to bring down the FJ percentage. My first thought was AUSTRALIA - Melbourne and uh, Sidney? Why couldn't I remember anything about Sidney, since it had to be in my adult lifetime? If I'm going to not remember an Olympics, it might as well be in Canada to go with the Montreal sure thing. Calgary, nope, Winter. Vancouver, nope Winter?

I'm assuming I don't remember the Sydney games because the US broadcast had become unwatchable to me. Some field event finals in track? Let's spend the evening watching abused children do an exhibition floor routine in children's gymnastics. When we do get to the track, let's spend 29 minutes on a human interest story for each minute of action. And follow the outmatched American in the event. Finally, show one throw or jump in a field event while talking about something else.

It was a nice FJ clue. I would have got both countries with a couple minutes of cogitation. I have flashbacks of the Sydney Opera House in every camera shot and some kind of time warped schedule for watching on multiple channels.
It would be quite easy to disparage the NBC Olympic coverage without making light of real-life abuse scandals that have happened in gymnastics and also without dismissing the entire sport which contains phenomenal athletes as a "children's exhibition".
I suppose NBC got the demographics they wanted. They were part of the exploitation as much as their viewers, ever since Olga and Nadia. I think this women's gymnastics part of my manifesto was the worst element of their coverage.

I'm the last person to dismiss gymnastics as a hurdler and pole vaulter with no flexibility :). Gymnastics is almost synonymous with athleticism. Only the decathlon is more immediately associated with the term. I try to be careful not to dismiss or diminish sports/games participants. Sumo wrestlers, hell yeah good athletes. Try a 320 lb. man spinning a 16 lb hammer 2.5 rotations inside a 7 foot circle :).

The referenced TV coverage did happen. It might not have been at the Sydney Olympics, but a meaningless exhibition event (I think a "thank you" performance) literally happened at one Olympics and was televised instead of important T&F coverage. We only got attention once every four years and that was taken away from us (in the ancient pre-internet past).

A good friend's daughter is a top College gymnast at Pitt State. The sport made some progress about 20 years ago with age limits and if they can get through this pervert coach/doctor scandal phase, it will continue to fill a niche, especially from Title IX standpoint. It will be just fine if the performance level decreases to a new, sustainable norm. Secretariat set the Kentucky Derby record 50 years ago and that doesn't make diminish the modern sport (all the horse deaths at Santa Anita are not helping however :( )

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reddpen wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:22 amOr Pumbaa from "The Lion King": "They call me MR. PIG!"
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"V" seems early in the alphabet for an "alphabetically last" clue. I thought of the Yazoo, which was part of the Vicksburg campaign. It is in fact a national wild life refuge, though Yukon beats it for alphabetically late.
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twelvefootboy wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:54 am The referenced TV coverage did happen. It might not have been at the Sydney Olympics, but a meaningless exhibition event (I think a "thank you" performance) literally happened at one Olympics and was televised instead of important T&F coverage. We only got attention once every four years and that was taken away from us (in the ancient pre-internet past).
As a swimmer I have the same angst. At least they do manage to show almost all the swimming finals in their entirety, however the longest race is the 1500 freestyle and it only takes 15 minutes for the men and closer to 16 for the women. NBC can't wait to take a commercial break more or less right after the swimmers dive in. It's hard for me to believe they can't show an entire 15 minute race without breaking for commercials. :(
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Lefty wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:22 am "V" seems early in the alphabet for an "alphabetically last" clue. I thought of the Yazoo, which was part of the Vicksburg campaign. It is in fact a national wild life refuge, though Yukon beats it for alphabetically late.
Another yahoo here who said Yazoo. I agree V is a bit early, a Civil War mention would have been more helpful.

I had Germany for FJ. The West Germany bit did concern me but nothing else was coming. I probably get both on a LL question.

Germany first came to mind because the 1936 games are pretty iconic in Olympic history with the Owens/Hitler connection. Munich had the murders and the basketball game. Nothing really stands out to me on either Australia games.

I was five during the Munich games so none of it is first hand to me. The 1976 games are the first I remember with Nadia Comaneci and Bruce Jenner.
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Bamaman wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:55 pm
Lefty wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:22 am "V" seems early in the alphabet for an "alphabetically last" clue. I thought of the Yazoo, which was part of the Vicksburg campaign. It is in fact a national wild life refuge, though Yukon beats it for alphabetically late.
Another yahoo here who said Yazoo. I agree V is a bit early, a Civil War mention would have been more helpful.
Would a "Civil War" mention actually help given the OP that Yazoo was part of said Civil War engagement?
Because the clue did say 'military park' in it.
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Volante wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 6:30 pm
Bamaman wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 4:55 pm
Lefty wrote: Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:22 am "V" seems early in the alphabet for an "alphabetically last" clue. I thought of the Yazoo, which was part of the Vicksburg campaign. It is in fact a national wild life refuge, though Yukon beats it for alphabetically late.
Another yahoo here who said Yazoo. I agree V is a bit early, a Civil War mention would have been more helpful.
Would a "Civil War" mention actually help given the OP that Yazoo was part of said Civil War engagement?
Because the clue did say 'military park' in it.
I think he meant in place of "alphabetically last", which, IMO, makes it tougher than simply "MIssissippi military park" would have been. I know that "T" comes even earlier in the alphabet and that Trenton is nonetheless last among state capitals, but that is because that's a trivia chestnut I've remembered.

An esteemed five-day champ once offered a hypothetical FJ of "among state capitals west of the Mississippi, it is last alphabetically", and the hypothetical comment "what? You didn't know that it's Topeka, Kansas? I guess you're not Jeopardy! material".
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