Just submitted on Goth and Gothic and Music Theory.
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 14:04 (seven months ago) link
Only missed one on Music Theory which means I wasn’t one of the umpteenth champs or perfect 12s. Just couldn’t come up with the words Secondary Dominant although of course I am very familiar with the concept.
― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 23:27 (seven months ago) link
No one else here played Godard except me?
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 January 2024 20:54 (seven months ago) link
In the run-up zone now.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 16:16 (seven months ago) link
Into the top 50 of Music Subgenres and got all 12 questions! (And I was just two moneys from a higher percentile.) I expect that's the closest I'll ever come to winning one.
― Ella Minnow Pea (Leee), Monday, 15 January 2024 20:44 (seven months ago) link
Cool. I just didn’t feel like playing that one.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 15 January 2024 21:31 (seven months ago) link
not sure why i signed up for the metal mini-league; i'm gonna get my ass kicked
― mookieproof, Thursday, 18 January 2024 01:34 (seven months ago) link
Ha, me too, but I don’t think I mind that so much.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 January 2024 01:44 (seven months ago) link
It's because yall can't resist my wiles.
― Ella Minnow Pea (Leee), Thursday, 18 January 2024 04:57 (seven months ago) link
Hah! Almost didn’t see your name!
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 January 2024 11:55 (seven months ago) link
I created another difficult one. Play at your own risk!
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 January 2024 13:15 (seven months ago) link
FWIW I would've gotten at most 2 questions in the metal MD1.
― Ella Minnow Pea (Leee), Thursday, 18 January 2024 18:34 (seven months ago) link
Heh, been doing this for so long I have a pretty good idea of how many will play and who will do well.
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 January 2024 20:28 (seven months ago) link
Interesting story about the extinct Celtic language from yesterday’s Metal ML.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 February 2024 02:58 (six months ago) link
Opened with a 9(6) and in first place, only one way to go from here.
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 15:50 (six months ago) link
Up, up and away?
― The Ginger Bakersfield Sound (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:37 (six months ago) link
James, I dismissed that as a bit of cheek at the time and yet after the first week I'm still undefeated! It's been an incredible run of luck with both the questions (my QvH is currently 129, which is pretty unsustainable) and opponents (lowest CAA).
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Saturday, 17 February 2024 15:10 (six months ago) link
nice work, Leee!
― jaymc, Saturday, 17 February 2024 15:17 (six months ago) link
Well, I'm in the midst of my regression back to the mean!
Also, my OQL team played Greg's last week, but I wasn't in the lineup. Sorry to miss you!
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Monday, 4 March 2024 18:48 (five months ago) link
good job jaymc getting #1 in the "just audio produced by" one-day. i surprisingly got #11 despite missing a question.
― na (NA), Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:30 (four months ago) link
!!!I forgot to check yesterday, but I had a good feeling about my chances.
― jaymc, Thursday, 4 April 2024 12:57 (four months ago) link
Meanwhile, I came in 93rd %ile in Butts.
(I forgot to submit the producers one!)
― Andrew Marvell Cinematic Universe (Leee), Thursday, 4 April 2024 17:34 (four months ago) link
Finished first on the Comedy Bang Bang 1DS, this time shared with 22 (!) others.
Feel like that quiz could've been much harder than it was. A question about a Red Hot Chili Peppers parody song included an audio clip and asked what band the song was parodying. A question about the character of Dabney Coleperson included a photo of Dabney Coleman and said the character's name was "very similar...but with a gender neutral surname." Both questions very gettable without any familiarity with the podcast/TV show, which was slightly annoying because I would've gotten those right even without the extra hints.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:05 (four months ago) link
i think one of my answers was misscored for that, it says i got andrew lloyd webber wrong but i'm pretty sure i would have gotten it. i'm not going to worry about it for a one-day though, i got another question wrong so i wouldn't have been at the top anyways.
― na (NA), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:16 (four months ago) link
is there a way i can see my answers? i wonder if i had some kind of mental blip
― na (NA), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:17 (four months ago) link
oh i found it. i put "webber" and it was marked wrong. was "lloyd webber" the required answer?
― na (NA), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:18 (four months ago) link
i also found it pretty easy - i haven't listened to the podcast regularly in years, aside from the end-of-year best-ofs, so i expected it to be harder
― na (NA), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:19 (four months ago) link
was "lloyd webber" the required answer?
I assume so. It's a double-barreled surname.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:23 (four months ago) link
So yesterday's literature question...
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:31 (two months ago) link
Use your words, please?
― Scott Baculum (Leee), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:31 (two months ago) link
Yeah, what about it?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:32 (two months ago) link
I know it's technically frowned upon to ask about low get rates but I thought more people might know that
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:30 (two months ago) link
WECIB?
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:31 (two months ago) link
Literature is already a sub-0.500 topic among the entire player base, and then add in French AND poetry, and yeah, that's going to tank CA%. Like I said on the boards there, I have a hard time with French writers (if I'd remembered Baudelaire, I would've gotten it wrong), and my undergrad was in literature (albeit English), and really the only reason I got it was because of Dum Dum Girls.
― Scott Baculum (Leee), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 16:52 (two months ago) link
I think I probably first learned about Verlaine and Rimbaud as a teenager interested in the Beat Generation writers (and their influences). I don't know very much about either of them, but the reference to one triggered the other. I was a little surprised at the get rate, too, but yeah, it makes sense that French poets would be a blind spot for a lot of folks.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link
Okay, y'all's responses are very reasonable, thanks.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 17:37 (two months ago) link
iirc, Leee smithed a 1DS about one of the most famous books ever and maybe 125 people played.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 17:38 (two months ago) link
TBH, I had a split second at the very beginning where my brane was telling me to put Paul Valéry but I quickly recovered.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 17:39 (two months ago) link
one of those kinds of questions where a little bit of knowledge is more useful than a lot
bad season for me so far!
― na (NA), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 17:45 (two months ago) link
Snob-famous, and 236 players.
― Scott Baculum (Leee), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 18:13 (two months ago) link
Oh, okay, sorry for low-balling you!
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
And sorry for unnecessary hyphen in “lowball.”
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:06 (two months ago) link
Yesterday’s literature question played much easier, because of the film, I presume.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:07 (two months ago) link
Apocalypse Now? I don't know how many know about the connection to HOD, and I think it's more because it gets taught in HS.
I forgot that the real point I was making able my Ulysses 1D was that it did get more players than the John Grisham one, but a little fewer than Gabriel Garcia Marquez, so I think that novelists aren't the main thing that players care about. (Surprisingly, Faulkner got nearly double, but the point still kind of stands. )
― Scott Baculum (Leee), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:17 (two months ago) link
I think 1DS participation is probably influenced by things like the day of the week, the other 1DSes on that day, etc. Personally, I tend not to look at the site during the off-season as regularly as I do during the main season, so I miss some 1DSes I might otherwise have been interested in. As for Ulysses specifically, I'm sure a lot of people skipped the quiz because they've never read the book and assumed they wouldn't do well. (Yes, it is famous, but its fame is in part due to its reputation for being challenging. It's a book many people know about but few have read.) I might've done the same, but I think Lee mentioned it on here, so I decided to give it a go. FWIW, the general James Joyce 1DS from 2018 had 417 players, maybe because that one didn't require as much knowledge of a specific work.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:38 (two months ago) link
Apocalypse Now? I don't know how many know about the connection to HOD, and I think it's more because it gets taught in HS.Yeah, I was thinking more about the Rimbaud question and how Americans aren't very likely to come across him in a standard school curriculum, in which most literature taught is work originally written in English (except for ancient Greek lit, perhaps).Whereas I did read (at least part of) Heart of Darkness in high school -- in 12th grade, iirc, which is when we focused on British literature. The fact that it's short and packed with symbolism lends itself to the classroom.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 14:54 (two months ago) link
i got the verlaine/rimbaud question from reading about television/tom verlaine/richard hell
― na (NA), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 15:11 (two months ago) link
^this
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:48 (two months ago) link
Speaking of 1DSes, for various reasons I didn't complete my recaps within a reasonable amount of time for two of my last three (my friend was the main smith on the third one) so they never happened. I usually really enjoy doing the recap, maybe as much as or more so than the actual quiz. People seem to like and want the recaps but they don't often actually post much on those threads and once it's a few days late there doesn't seem to be any point at all, the thrill is gone.
― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:55 (two months ago) link
Nov. 21, 2022: LL95 Match Day 11 Question 6Tom Verlaine, Richard Lloyd, Billy Ficca, and Richard Hell were founding members in 1973 of what cult-favorite punk rock band and CBGB regular that was named after a technology invented a few decades prior?TELEVISIONLeaguewide Correct %31%
― jaymc, Thursday, 13 June 2024 15:15 (two months ago) link