SomeTameGazelle

Boq is in part I of the movie -- I haven't seen the whole thing but he is in the first scenes at Shiz.

I remembered that there is a character Boq in Wicked and knew it was Oz, but nearly overcomplicated it by thinking if they weren't so very small maybe they weren't Munchkins but Winkies or something. Then I reminded myself that Alex would warn me against overthinking and said Munchkin. I'm sure the writers were relying on the popularity of Wicked since although the quote is from the original book, Boq is a very minor character there and isn't in the Judy Garland movie.

I got bullion and rollout. I didn't believe that Yellowstone the series was that old, but I guessed it anyway. And then spent a brief moment making sure that I hadn't said Yellowjackets by mistake.

It's 2^6 or 2x2x2x2x2x2 which happens to be the same as 8x8. The clue just specified 64 but trying to solve it using 8x8 didn't lead anywhere.

I rejected Braille because I thought 64 was too many for 26 letters + 10 digits even if there were a few punctuation marks and I didn't realise there was a set of 6 dots. I did realise that 64 was 2 to the power of 6 and even though I knew that the binary system has to be able to get to more than 64 I thought maybe it was some rudimentary use that required an adjective I couldn't think of. I sometimes complain about unnecessary stories mixed in with clues, but when Ken read the categories I wanted *all* the lyrics and was happy to hear them spread throughout the car clues. Exciting for it to be such a close game.

I think that was just a joke about Devon not being famous and people on the street only vaguely knowing what black cast members are on SNL. I didn't mind Devon ribbing Che for not being in the office, but I was confused by the part where he claimed to be the "only" black person when Ego and Kenan also exist. It did annoy me slightly that Colin didn't acknowledge that Paddington is in England and not America when he complained about his legal status. But it also annoyed me that Colin put on his "oh no, they force me to say these terrible things" demeanour to deliver the bit.

Well, he previously violated the show's COVID protocols and his appearance cancelled. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/08/921574715/snl-nixes-morgan-wallen-appearance-after-singer-violates-covid-19-safety-protoco More recently he was suspended from his label for using a racial slur. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/country-singer-morgan-wallen-suspended-from-label-after-racial-slur

Were the British accents an allusion to anything specific or just an absurd choice? I kept flashing back to the Charli XCX ep but I couldn't figure it out. The animated short was my favourite use of Longfellow since the tortoise gameshow. And I didn't have any factual quibbles with their plan unlike George Washington talking nonsense about imperial measurements that predated America.

I'm going to bump this thread since @illdoc posted an update in the Media thread and they will be taping next month. Expanded to 9 contestants. James is not participating. Brad Rutter is. Both Roger and Juveria are in, as well as Adriana and Isaac. Victoria and Yogesh and Matt are in as expected. And Neilesh! I knew that I hadn't included all 9! I enjoyed the first Masters' for the camaraderie. The second wasn't as much fun so I didn't watch it all. I will watch this year for Juveria and see how it goes. An extra hour of Jeopardy is too much if it isn't fun.

I didn't know any varieties of pangolin so I confidently shouted "pine cone!" I knew geometry and I went with the Trevi Fountain for FJ, although when Ken started to stress aqueducts I started to doubt myself.

I really thought Melanie would pull it off. Too bad she lost so much on those DDs, and didn't get FJ. I got Maria Callas and Androcles. I have never read Harry Potter so I didn't have any idea which house it was but was surprised that the symbol of Gryffindor would be a lion and not a Griffin.

When I saw the category for some reason I thought it referred to humans, so I wasn't thinking of any kind of animal before the clue was revealed. But when I saw orange and black luckily I went right to monarchs. I knew Tatiana Maslany right away but I wasn't sure it was obvious that it was someone who had played multiple roles in the same story in one series. And even though she won an Emmy for Orphan Black I'm not sure people really know her. But she was absolutely phenomenal in all those roles in Orphan Black.

They weren't asking for the Greek, which was clear from the clue. Geraldine definitely would have been wrong if she had said ἄρκτος. She was obviously thinking of the right constellation and the correct meaning. If Ken had said "you gave us the Latin for bear from the name of the constellation but we needed the English" it would have been absolutely clear. That's the grey area I was in -- the clue brought the constellation into it and led to Ursa. But I mostly felt that Ken's comment didn't illuminate anything and sounded too much like "you dope, don't know the difference between Greek and Latin?" and I felt indignant on her behalf.

I thought the judges wronged Geraldine when they refused to accept Ursa -- at least, Ken's comment "from the Greek for bear" was misplaced. The clue said "from the Greek for this animal" and she did name the correct animal, just in Latin. If he had said "we needed the name of the animal in English" I wouldn't be so put out, but it sounded like he was patronizing her for thinking Latin was Greek or something. It didn't make a difference under the circumstances but it annoyed me. For FJ I pre-guessed Barrymore, got briefly distracted by the surname Bottom thinking of the musical Something Rotten, rejected Gyllenhall and switched to thinking of people who left religious cults and managed to get to Phoenix.

I always associate Angels in the Outfield with Jeff Richards who played brother Benjamin (not really a singer, not really a dancer, but handsome enough to appeal to Dorcas) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and since I had read that he was originally a baseball player I had vaguely thought that this must be his first movie. However checking imdb I see that actually he had another earlier baseball movie, Kill the Umpire in 1950, plus appeared in a handful of non-baseball movies before that, including Johnny Belinda.