peeayebee January 20, 2019 Share January 20, 2019 21 hours ago, saber5055 said: @peeayebee, I am missing your last week's total, Week 18. Repost for me, please? And thank you. Sorry. 4/5. 1 Link to comment
illdoc January 25, 2019 Share January 25, 2019 Week 20: 3/5 (0 asterisk) Overall: 62/100 (6 asterisk). Wondering....since it's week 20 & overall is, therefore, out of 100 (so the math is easy), how is everyone doing so far? I'm at 62%. I've had good weeks (although only one 5/5) and bad weeks (nothing below a 2/5 though), but overall I tend to hover in the 62-66 range. Anyone else care to share? 1 Link to comment
saber5055 January 26, 2019 Author Share January 26, 2019 20 minutes ago, Browncoat said: Bad week for me again -- 2/5. I'm missing your last week's total, Week 19. I have your Weeks 18 and 20 both as 2. Let me know if this is correct. Link to comment
saber5055 January 26, 2019 Author Share January 26, 2019 WEEK 20 — ONE asterisk * 96. Broadway Musicals. Premiering in 2005, its story is divided into spring, summer, fall, & winter, each narrated by one of the 4 male leads. * 97. Comic Strip Title Characters. These 2 were named for a European “theologian who believed in predestination” & a “philosopher with a dim view of human nature.” 98. 20th Century Literature. The writing of this novel, the author’s first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984. 99. U.K. Prime Ministers. He was the first U.K. Prime Minister born after Elizabeth II became queen. 100. Law Enforcement History. This U.S. group was formed to protect settlers in an area that had recently gained independence from Spain. Link to comment
biakbiak January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 5/5 with *! Woot it was my week, I even ran a poetry category which is unheard of for me! 3 Link to comment
SHD January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 4 hours ago, illdoc said: Wondering....since it's week 20 & overall is, therefore, out of 100 (so the math is easy), how is everyone doing so far? I'm at 62%. I've had good weeks (although only one 5/5) and bad weeks (nothing below a 2/5 though), but overall I tend to hover in the 62-66 range. Anyone else care to share? I would guess I'm at the bottom. I don't have my count in front of me but I'm probably well under 40%. Link to comment
GenerationX January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 3/5 with one * this week. I have no idea what my percentage for the year is. 2 Link to comment
j5cochran January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 5 hours ago, illdoc said: Week 20: 3/5 (0 asterisk) Overall: 62/100 (6 asterisk). Wondering....since it's week 20 & overall is, therefore, out of 100 (so the math is easy), how is everyone doing so far? I'm at 62%. I've had good weeks (although only one 5/5) and bad weeks (nothing below a 2/5 though), but overall I tend to hover in the 62-66 range. Anyone else care to share? Very interesting... (with my best Arte Johnson imitation - oh, you're probably too young to remember that! ;-) Overall - 68/100 with 9 asterisks. Only two perfect weeks, but at least I never had a total wipeout or a single correct answer week! 2 Link to comment
Browncoat January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 10 hours ago, saber5055 said: I'm missing your last week's total, Week 19. I have your Weeks 18 and 20 both as 2. Let me know if this is correct. Week 19 was also 2/5. I could have sworn I posted! 1 Link to comment
Sharpie66 January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 4/5 for me. I haven’t been tracking asterisks, though. 2 Link to comment
zoey1996 January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 Week 20 - 2/5, no * Season to date - 53/100, 6* 53% 1 Link to comment
helpmerhonda January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 4 out of 5, one * Best week I've had in a long time. 2 Link to comment
saber5055 January 26, 2019 Author Share January 26, 2019 5 hours ago, Browncoat said: Week 19 was also 2/5. I could have sworn I posted! You are caught up now. Perhaps you were still on the Antarctic clock for a few days? (I'd like to borrow that excuse if you don't mind.) Link to comment
Driad January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 Week 20: 2/5. Weeks 1-20: 69/100, 7*. 1 Link to comment
Browncoat January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, saber5055 said: You are caught up now. Perhaps you were still on the Antarctic clock for a few days? (I'd like to borrow that excuse if you don't mind.) I think both of us can use it, no problem! I might be wearing it out, though... 1 Link to comment
Clanstarling January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 3/5, no * - it's a step up from the previous few weeks. 1 Link to comment
saber5055 January 26, 2019 Author Share January 26, 2019 37 minutes ago, Driad said: Week 20: 2/5. Weeks 1-20: 69/100, 7*. @Driad I have your score as 72 plus 7*. Week 1-5: 17** Week 6-10: 22* Week 11-15: 18** Week 16-20: 15** Link to comment
Driad January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 31 minutes ago, saber5055 said: @Driad I have your score as 72 plus 7* Oops, you're right. I usually do well in math, but ... 1 Link to comment
DXD526 January 26, 2019 Share January 26, 2019 Not bad, 3/5 this week. Tuesday was such an instaget, I knew it before Alex was done reading the clue. Made me feel kind of smart, until after the music was done and he said how he'd never seen three people write so quickly! Oh well... 2 Link to comment
lb60 January 27, 2019 Share January 27, 2019 Week 20: 2 for 5, 1*. Overall: 53/100, 53%. I haven't been keeping track of asterisks. 1 Link to comment
Fex January 28, 2019 Share January 28, 2019 5/5, *!!!! What a great feeling! Tony Blair almost stumped me, but I remembered that he was so young when elected just in time. 2 Link to comment
opus January 28, 2019 Share January 28, 2019 20 hours ago, opus said: Week 1/5 Season 44/100 My goal for the season was 50%, but I see it drifting away. Unless they start hitting me with weeks of categories like Sports, Television, Comics, Rock Music, and Valerie Bertinelli, I'm probably screwed. 7 Link to comment
Trey January 28, 2019 Share January 28, 2019 I haven't calculated my score percentage but I don't think it's all that good. I am hoping for 1960's rock and roll, Agatha Christie novels and famous women aviators of the 1930's. 1 Link to comment
Good Queen Jane January 29, 2019 Share January 29, 2019 I'm Baaaack! Week 19: 1/5 with * Week 20: 4/5 with * So, on average, I'm average. 2 Link to comment
saber5055 January 29, 2019 Author Share January 29, 2019 3 hours ago, Good Queen Jane said: I'm Baaaack! So, on average, I'm average. Actually, you are above average. Take that! Hope you had a good time in Detroit. (Somehow, that's so odd to type, a "good time in Detroit.") I looked for you in the audience as I watched the skating on tv. Did you see me waving to you? Link to comment
Sharpie66 January 29, 2019 Share January 29, 2019 (Hello, your majesty! I hope you were at the ice dance and saw Manta/Johnson’s Sweet Dreams skate—I went back and rewatched that one several times before finally deleting it from my DVR.) 1 Link to comment
Good Queen Jane January 29, 2019 Share January 29, 2019 Of course I did, @saber5055, didn't you see me wave back? Actually, I go to these competitions with a number of other skating fans and we always have seats in the first three rows. We wear turquoise scarves so people can find us on TV. I was the gray haired old lady on the aisle of the third row. And I was impressed by how downtown Detroit has improved since the last time I was there. It has lots of great restaurants and the Motown Museum is fantastic. The skating was great too, so I did have a good time, at least until I got stuck in the Detroit airport for five hours on Monday. I did see Manta/Johnson's Sweet Dreams free skate, @Sharpie66. They repeated it at the Skating Spectacular (the only performance not done by a medal winner), so I hope NBC will show it when they broadcast the Spectacular on February 16. It was very well received. 2 Link to comment
j5cochran February 2, 2019 Share February 2, 2019 Week 21: 3/5. I got All Quiet on the Western Front stuck in my head and could not come up with the Red Badge of Courage. 1 Link to comment
saber5055 February 2, 2019 Author Share February 2, 2019 WEEK 21 — NO asterisk 101. 19th Century Literature. Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author “knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood.” 102. 20th Century Disasters. On the radio in 1937 this 3-word exclamation came after “The smoke and the flames now…not quite to the mooring mast.” 103. Women Writers. One of her circle described her as “a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds.” 104. Female Singers. In the 1990s this New York native had 8 of her first 10 Billboard Top 40 hits reach No. 1. 105. The Solar System. For awhile in the 1840s, the French wanted to name this new discovery “Le Verrier” & the British wanted “Oceanus.” Link to comment
Sharpie66 February 2, 2019 Share February 2, 2019 4/5–I know nothing about ‘90s music other than what was playing on the alt-Rock station, so I couldn’t tell you one Mariah Carey song from another. 2 Link to comment
Driad February 2, 2019 Share February 2, 2019 4/5 this week. Popular music is one of my "gap" categories. 1 Link to comment
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