Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

This is where all of the games are discussed.

Moderators: alietr, trainman, econgator, dhkendall

Post Reply

Which of these triple stumpers (and one miss by James) did you get?

$400 HAIL, CAESAR!: The character King Kaiser is based on Sid Caesar in this 1982 Peter O'Toole film set in the world of 1950s TV
22
30%
$2000 HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY?: Meaning an emergency force, "posse" this
39
53%
$2000 NAVAL GAZING: In July of 1900, the crew of a German battleship posed while on their way to help suppress a rebellion in this country
17
23%
$2000 DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS: Tom Jones: "His fight goes on & on & on, but he thinks that the fight is worth it all, so he strikes like" this
9
12%
$1600 NOVELS BY CHARACTERS: Nat; Joseph Travis, his master; Judge Cobb
9
12%
$1200 NOVELS BY CHARACTERS: By Zadie Smith: Samad Iqbal & family, Archie Jones & family, the Chalfen family
14
19%
$800 NAVAL GAZING: The ships are part of one of these naval escorts that saved many merchant vessels from German submarines
23
32%
NOT A TS $800 NOVELS BY CHARACTERS: Yuri, Uncle Kolya, Lara
47
64%
I did not get any of these
8
11%
 
Total votes: 73

User avatar
opusthepenguin
The Best Darn Penguin on the Whole JBoard
Posts: 10319
Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:33 pm
Location: Shawnee, KS
Contact:

Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by opusthepenguin »

No frills tonight, gang. Just the TS clues plus James' one miss (other than FJ).
CORRECT RESPONSES
$400 HAIL, CAESAR!: My Favorite Year
$2000 HOW'S YOUR LATIN VOCABULARY?: comitatus
$2000 NAVAL GAZING: China (to the Boxer Rebellion)
$2000 DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS: Thunderball
$1600 NOVELS BY CHARACTERS: The Confessions of Nat Turner
$1200 NOVELS BY CHARACTERS: White Teeth
$800 NAVAL GAZING: a convoy
NOT A TS $800 NOVELS BY CHARACTERS: Dr. Zhivago (James guessed War and Peace for his one miss other than FJ, Steven got it on the rebound)
User avatar
MarkBarrett
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 16471
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:37 am
Location: San Francisco

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by MarkBarrett »

$400 in trash for the O'Toole movie + $800 on first try when seeing Lara.
Bigdogstalfos
Loyal Jeopardista
Posts: 116
Joined: Thu Aug 08, 2019 5:36 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by Bigdogstalfos »

Got them all for a change. My Favorite Year seemed a bit difficult for that value as it seems to be remembered now as another movie O’Toole could have won an Oscar for, but didn’t. On the other side of the coin, 1900 rebellion is close to Pavlovian for the Boxers and thus China.
User avatar
DBear
Denier of Pop Culture
Posts: 2548
Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:57 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by DBear »

posse comitatus was my only get.
User avatar
CasketRomance
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 2559
Joined: Fri May 22, 2015 2:40 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by CasketRomance »

only one i got was my favorite year...got it with almost no time to spare
User avatar
Volante
Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
Posts: 9254
Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by Volante »

:( :( :( :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Convoy, Dr. Zhivago and...well... OBVIOUSLY I got that one! I'd have to change my avatar if I didn't.

Unbelievably pissed at myself for not knowing My Favorite Year...somehow I remember the punchline "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" being used for an O'Toole memoriam piece (but not the Oscar one) and while that clip made me want to track it down, I didn't follow through on it. *pout*

Addendum: Maybe it was the Honorary Oscar montage which is even worse, that was over a decade ago...

Addendum Addendum: It's apparently 62 in my queue now, meaning I likely added it back in 2013...
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
Plactus
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 894
Joined: Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:33 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by Plactus »

"Thunderball" only among LT, plus Zhivago.
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
User avatar
LucarioSnooperVixey
Carrying Letters and Lemons
Posts: 3513
Joined: Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:41 pm
Location: New Jersey

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by LucarioSnooperVixey »

:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Douglas Squasoni
User avatar
MDaunt
Weighed in the balance and found wanting
Posts: 748
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:04 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by MDaunt »

Volante wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:45 pm :( :( :( :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Convoy, Dr. Zhivago and...well... OBVIOUSLY I got that one! I'd have to change my avatar if I didn't.

Unbelievably pissed at myself for not knowing My Favorite Year...somehow I remember the punchline "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" being used for an O'Toole memoriam piece (but not the Oscar one) and while that clip made me want to track it down, I didn't follow through on it. *pout*

Addendum: Maybe it was the Honorary Oscar montage which is even worse, that was over a decade ago...

Addendum Addendum: It's apparently 62 in my queue now, meaning I likely added it back in 2013...
Watch that movie. And then watch The Stuntman.
User avatar
Shaquebanisa
Loyal Jeopardista
Posts: 182
Joined: Thu May 02, 2019 12:24 pm
Location: Northwest Suburbs of Chicago

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by Shaquebanisa »

$7,200 in total, only missed Thunderball and convoy. I also got the Doctor Zhivago clue.
User avatar
CasketRomance
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 2559
Joined: Fri May 22, 2015 2:40 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by CasketRomance »

LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:01 am :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
weird...so the only one of these that you missed is the only one i got correct...add that you missed the final jeopardy clue and i got it right the show could have been aired in bizarro world
seaborgium
Undefeated in Reruns
Posts: 8941
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:31 am

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by seaborgium »

Comitatus and White Teeth* for me, plus the one James missed (and I didn't have to wait for him to get it wrong for me to get it).

*Not an actual ring-in, but I said it aloud; if I still kept score I'd have counted it as a clam. There was a FleetWit race today where all the answers were Hangman style rather than multiple choice, with all the answers starting with Z; I had absolutely no clue when Zadie Smith was an answer, and then I looked her up on Wikipedia to remind myself of what books were in the question. The one title I remembered was my guess.
User avatar
MollyQMurphy
Silver Medalist
Posts: 145
Joined: Thu Oct 08, 2015 11:01 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by MollyQMurphy »

MDaunt wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:33 am
Volante wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:45 pm :( :( :( :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Convoy, Dr. Zhivago and...well... OBVIOUSLY I got that one! I'd have to change my avatar if I didn't.

Unbelievably pissed at myself for not knowing My Favorite Year...somehow I remember the punchline "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" being used for an O'Toole memoriam piece (but not the Oscar one) and while that clip made me want to track it down, I didn't follow through on it. *pout*

Addendum: Maybe it was the Honorary Oscar montage which is even worse, that was over a decade ago...

Addendum Addendum: It's apparently 62 in my queue now, meaning I likely added it back in 2013...
Watch that movie. And then watch The Stuntman.
Ooh. Another true OToole fan!

Gold: The Stunt Man
Silver: The Lion in Winter
Bronze: My Favorite Year.

Magnificent trio. Maybe Lawrence was a showier movie overall, but those 3 are O'Toole must-see.
Pending...
Charis
Contributor
Posts: 47
Joined: Sat Jun 15, 2019 10:43 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by Charis »

Comitatus and Doctor Zhivago for me.
User avatar
MDaunt
Weighed in the balance and found wanting
Posts: 748
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 7:04 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by MDaunt »

MollyQMurphy wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:02 am
MDaunt wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:33 am
Volante wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:45 pm :( :( :( :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Convoy, Dr. Zhivago and...well... OBVIOUSLY I got that one! I'd have to change my avatar if I didn't.

Unbelievably pissed at myself for not knowing My Favorite Year...somehow I remember the punchline "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" being used for an O'Toole memoriam piece (but not the Oscar one) and while that clip made me want to track it down, I didn't follow through on it. *pout*

Addendum: Maybe it was the Honorary Oscar montage which is even worse, that was over a decade ago...

Addendum Addendum: It's apparently 62 in my queue now, meaning I likely added it back in 2013...
Watch that movie. And then watch The Stuntman.
Ooh. Another true OToole fan!

Gold: The Stunt Man
Silver: The Lion in Winter
Bronze: My Favorite Year.

Magnificent trio. Maybe Lawrence was a showier movie overall, but those 3 are O'Toole must-see.
Good choices, though I would go with The Ruling Class over The Lion in Winter.
cthulhu
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 477
Joined: Sat Oct 08, 2016 1:29 am

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for 11/12/2019 - Tuesday TOC (SPOILERS)

Post by cthulhu »

MDaunt wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:18 pm
MollyQMurphy wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 4:02 am
MDaunt wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:33 am
Volante wrote: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:45 pm :( :( :( :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Convoy, Dr. Zhivago and...well... OBVIOUSLY I got that one! I'd have to change my avatar if I didn't.

Unbelievably pissed at myself for not knowing My Favorite Year...somehow I remember the punchline "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!" being used for an O'Toole memoriam piece (but not the Oscar one) and while that clip made me want to track it down, I didn't follow through on it. *pout*

Addendum: Maybe it was the Honorary Oscar montage which is even worse, that was over a decade ago...

Addendum Addendum: It's apparently 62 in my queue now, meaning I likely added it back in 2013...
Watch that movie. And then watch The Stuntman.
Ooh. Another true OToole fan!

Gold: The Stunt Man
Silver: The Lion in Winter
Bronze: My Favorite Year.

Magnificent trio. Maybe Lawrence was a showier movie overall, but those 3 are O'Toole must-see.
Good choices, though I would go with The Ruling Class over The Lion in Winter.
The Ruling Class rules! That and the original Bedazzled are the hidden gems of late ‘60s / early ‘70s British cinema.
Post Reply