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Is there a C in the Greek language? I read that question as either of them, not both.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:28 pm I'm protesting. There's a Greek letter that resembles the Latin "P", but it's Rho. That makes an "R" sound. The Latin "P" makes a "P" sound.

Nothing in the question refers to what sound it makes

Giff wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:31 pm Is there a C in the Greek language? I read that question as either of them, not both.

Now this one I'm listening to

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:29 pm I have no idea who this is - Brycen Hopkins

I know this one... He is Brad Hopkins' (former Oilers/Titans Pro Bowl OLT) son, a TE from Purdue.

Lost by one point? Now I know how AB felt when we played putt putt together.

Good game, ya bastard. And many thanks, Ryan.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:37 pm

Giff wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:31 pm Is there a C in the Greek language? I read that question as either of them, not both.

Now this one I'm listening to

same. but I can see how it can be read as both as well

My best week ever....on a bye week.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:37 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:28 pm I'm protesting. There's a Greek letter that resembles the Latin "P", but it's Rho. That makes an "R" sound. The Latin "P" makes a "P" sound.

Nothing in the question refers to what sound it makes

You right. Carry on.

GGDiS

Thanks ryan.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:49 am Q3 - Name a location explicity seen as being visited or lived in by the Griswolds in either the Vacation (original) or European Vacation installments of the National Lampoon franchise (11)

CORRECT
Dodge City (1) - Brian
Chicago! (1) - Nonlinear
Italy (1) - PDX
UK (2) - Bengal, Carwash
France (3) - BSF, Enoch, GoodKarma
Walley World (4) - AB, DiS, Citgo, Jerloma
Grand Canyon (4) - Bronto, GPJ, Pruitt, Tony
Germany (7) - Cerrano, Chedda, DSafe, LJam, Rex, Rush, Syb
St Louis (8) - BFJ, Duff, Giff, Mister D, Rass, Romero, Sancarlos, Shirley

INCORRECT (13)
Las Vegas - Trav

LEFTOVERS
Phoenix
South Fork, CO

Probably the first time I thought... "This is so obvious no one will pick it.." And it actually worked.

Win one for Emperor Todd baby wooooooo!!!

When the questions are accessible you can play it conservative and win with no misses but when he brings the heat with this many participants you have to go for it or get hit with a 15 pt correct answer.

Almost went with Bob Stanley. How that guy closed out 110+ games in the 80s beyond me. Still remember screaming every time they brought him out. Less worrisome as a starter.

EdRomero wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:51 pm My best week ever....on a bye week.

same here

Read question 8 as numbers 8 and 9.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:36 am Bengal and Duff obviously never saw The Big Lebowski.

I am beside myself. So bad.

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:00 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:49 am Q3 - Name a location explicity seen as being visited or lived in by the Griswolds in either the Vacation (original) or European Vacation installments of the National Lampoon franchise (11)

CORRECT
Dodge City (1) - Brian
Chicago! (1) - Nonlinear
Italy (1) - PDX
UK (2) - Bengal, Carwash
France (3) - BSF, Enoch, GoodKarma
Walley World (4) - AB, DiS, Citgo, Jerloma
Grand Canyon (4) - Bronto, GPJ, Pruitt, Tony
Germany (7) - Cerrano, Chedda, DSafe, LJam, Rex, Rush, Syb
St Louis (8) - BFJ, Duff, Giff, Mister D, Rass, Romero, Sancarlos, Shirley

INCORRECT (13)
Las Vegas - Trav

LEFTOVERS
Phoenix
South Fork, CO

Probably the first time I thought... "This is so obvious no one will pick it.." And it actually worked.

Funny thing, I didn't have Chicago on my list. I thought England, Grand Canyon, St. Louis and France would be the big ones. I skipped Walley World in case he was looking for real places.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:12 pm There are like 11 people in the world who confidently know the biggest city in Virginia at any one time

I had it in my list, but was worried it had gotten passed in recent years.

HaulCitgo wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:21 pm When the questions are accessible you can play it conservative and win with no misses but when he brings the heat with this many participants you have to go for it or get hit with a 15 pt correct answer.

Almost went with Bob Stanley. How that guy closed out 110+ games in the 80s beyond me. Still remember screaming every time they brought him out. Less worrisome as a starter.

I went with 3 obvious high point answers (or so I thought) just to get correct answers (Hirohito, Landon Donovan and Ray Allen) and mixed in the low-pointers wherever I was pretty sure of them and it worked great.

The true 15+ point answers anecdotally seem to be ones that are li,e, commonly known answers that people think are kinda obscure compared to another well-known favorite. Like if you said name an Atlanta Braves pitcher I'd bet Tom Glavine is the high scorer every time.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:07 pm

PDX was 0-5 and laid down a 17 point first half? Mercy.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:46 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:00 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:49 am Q3 - Name a location explicity seen as being visited or lived in by the Griswolds in either the Vacation (original) or European Vacation installments of the National Lampoon franchise (11)

CORRECT
Dodge City (1) - Brian
Chicago! (1) - Nonlinear
Italy (1) - PDX
UK (2) - Bengal, Carwash
France (3) - BSF, Enoch, GoodKarma
Walley World (4) - AB, DiS, Citgo, Jerloma
Grand Canyon (4) - Bronto, GPJ, Pruitt, Tony
Germany (7) - Cerrano, Chedda, DSafe, LJam, Rex, Rush, Syb
St Louis (8) - BFJ, Duff, Giff, Mister D, Rass, Romero, Sancarlos, Shirley

INCORRECT (13)
Las Vegas - Trav

LEFTOVERS
Phoenix
South Fork, CO

Probably the first time I thought... "This is so obvious no one will pick it.." And it actually worked.

Funny thing, I didn't have Chicago on my list. I thought England, Grand Canyon, St. Louis and France would be the big ones. I skipped Walley World in case he was looking for real places.

Oh yeah, Grand Canyon and Walter Cronkite were also "please just be correct no matter how many points its worth" answers and they did great.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:51 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:07 pm

PDX was 0-5 and laid down a 17 point first half? Mercy.

He does it a lot. Think it happened last week. If it weren't for certain sports PDX would beat ass in this game.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:27 am Game of the Week

Big game at the top of the AFC between the Pruitt Browns (4-1) and Syb Colts (5-1)

Sears Wish Book Item of the Week

I had those sheets!

I hit the most popular answer on 5 questions. The second most popular twice. That's pretty impressive.

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:47 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:12 pm There are like 11 people in the world who confidently know the biggest city in Virginia at any one time

I had it in my list, but was worried it had gotten passed in recent years.

My Submission Email to Ryan wrote:I bet some nerds are actually listing out the 50 states just to answer this question "best". Milwaukee.

BTW, I think I had those sheets (and curtains) too. Or maybe some that were pretty similar.

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:50 pmThe true 15+ point answers anecdotally seem to be ones that are li,e, commonly known answers that people think are kinda obscure compared to another well-known favorite. Like if you said name an Atlanta Braves pitcher I'd bet Tom Glavine is the high scorer every time.

I was thinking about something kinda similar during my 6.5 hours coming back from Buffalo and if Ryan ever needs a midseason break or something, I'm willing to run it as an experiment in stupidity.

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:56 pm BTW, I think I had those sheets (and curtains) too. Or maybe some that were pretty similar.

It might have been these:

I had the sheets, pillowcases and bedspread. But like Chedda, the version my mom got me had the expansion teams (Buccaneers, Seahawks) on them.

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:25 pm

Q9 - Name a letter whose capital form can be found in the Latin (you know, our) alphabet but NOT in either Greek or Cyrillic (11)

CORRECT
R (1) - DiS

Wild Ass Guess pays off...

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:54 pm I hit the most popular answer on 5 questions. The second most popular twice. That's pretty impressive.

I got you beat. None wrong. In all questions I was no better than second most popular. The biggest cities question was genius. Everybody coulda named almost all the cities. Went through 4 of the least popular answers in my head before settling on Milwaukee thinking people are gonna pick Seattle or or Salt Lake. Fuck! Thought I was showing off with Charlemagne.

Good game, GPJ. Thanks Ryan.

While I did not have those sheets, the electric football game I had (referenced a couple weeks ago) had the team names in the distinctive fonts on the frame.

Funny thing with the newscasters, I forgot Briana Kieler used to be hot! She looks nothing like that picture anymore. Not sure if she had a baby or is on heavy doses of steroids, but her face got really puffy a few years back.

turns out when you forget to do this all week and throw something together you don't read the questions right.

This was the design I had. Almost positive this is what it was.

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:52 pm

tennbengal wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:51 pm

Ryan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 12:07 pm

PDX was 0-5 and laid down a 17 point first half? Mercy.

He does it a lot. Think it happened last week. If it weren't for certain sports PDX would beat ass in this game.

Certain sports like football, baseball, and basketball ):

(I got the Gossage one because I read his book in middle school)

(And then I royally f’d the soccer one)

cerranoredux wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:03 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:54 pm I hit the most popular answer on 5 questions. The second most popular twice. That's pretty impressive.

I got you beat. None wrong. In all questions I was no better than second most popular. The biggest cities question was genius. Everybody coulda named almost all the cities. Went through 4 of the least popular answers in my head before settling on Milwaukee thinking people are gonna pick Seattle or or Salt Lake. Fuck! Thought I was showing off with Charlemagne.

Good game, GPJ. Thanks Ryan.

I was also thinking that Milwaukee and Seattle would be good answers. I assumed Burlington, VT would be the runaway most common answer.

My first reaction was Charleston, SC would would have accidentally been correct.

Gunpowder wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:15 pm

cerranoredux wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:03 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:54 pm I hit the most popular answer on 5 questions. The second most popular twice. That's pretty impressive.

I got you beat. None wrong. In all questions I was no better than second most popular. The biggest cities question was genius. Everybody coulda named almost all the cities. Went through 4 of the least popular answers in my head before settling on Milwaukee thinking people are gonna pick Seattle or or Salt Lake. Fuck! Thought I was showing off with Charlemagne.

Good game, GPJ. Thanks Ryan.

I was also thinking that Milwaukee and Seattle would be good answers. I assumed Burlington, VT would be the runaway most common answer.

My first reaction was Charleston, SC would would have accidentally been correct.

No it would not have. That's in West Virginia, hookers! SC is 11th from last.

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:58 pm

Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:56 pm BTW, I think I had those sheets (and curtains) too. Or maybe some that were pretty similar.

It might have been these:

I didn't have the sheets, but my bedroom was all done in Browns' colours, including a brown and orange shag rug.

Used to have one of those things at letter H - not in those colours, but I am amazed that you don't see them anymore. They are fantastic for reading in bed.