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I am consistent if nothing else...

Q1: Album Title
1. The
2. Miss
3. Divine
4. M

Q2: Literary characters by earliest appearance
1. Hannibal Lechter
2. Icabod Crane
3. Willy Loman
4. Willy Wonka

Q3: Cities along the Mississippi North to South
1. St. Louis
2. Baton Rouge
3. Memphis
4. Minneapolis

And, now, the crusher

Q4: Events in Chronological order starting with the most recent
1. Althea Gibson win Wimbledon
2. Bella Abzug does something (can't remember and couldn't write fast enough)
3. Amelia Aerhart does her thing
4. Ruth Bader Ginsberg put on Supreme Court

I put 4213 and met Sad Fred again

Hey, if nothing else, I'm getting edumacated.

Sir_Galahad wrote:I am consistent if nothing else...

Q1: Album Title
1. The
2. Miss
3. Divine
4. M

Q2: Literary characters by earliest appearance
1. Hannibal Lechter
2. Icabod Crane
3. Willy Loman
4. Willy Wonka

Q3: Cities along the Mississippi North to South
1. St. Louis
2. Baton Rouge
3. Memphis
4. Minneapolis

And, now, the crusher

Q4: Events in Chronological order starting with the most recent
1. Althea Gibson win Wimbledon
2. Bella Abzug does something (can't remember and couldn't write fast enough)
3. Amelia Aerhart does her thing
4. Ruth Bader Ginsberg put on Supreme Court

I put 4213 and met Sad Fred again

Hey, if nothing else, I'm getting edumacated.

I believe 4213 has to be correct for that one. Bella Abzug's notoriety came mainly in the 1970s, well after Gibson's accomplishment in 1957 and well before Ginsberg's nomination in the 1990s. Maybe you fat-fingered or something?

I think the answer to that one is 3214.Amelia Earhart was in the 30's.  There's a movie about her coming out later this year.Althea Gibson won Wimbledon in the 60's-I think, WAY before Serena & Venus were even born.Bella ran for Congress in the Early 70's.Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by Clinton in the 90s.

Kazoo65 wrote:Crashed and burned on Q2.

1. Put these words in order to make the title of a Tom Cruise movie. 2 All 4. The 3. Right 4. Moves

This one got me.

Put these aviation milestones in order starting with the earliest.

1. Yeager breaks sound barrier
2. Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk
3. first airline food
4. Concorde debuts

I put 2134 and heard Sad Fred.

Should be

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2314. The first airline food came from United Airlines in 1936.

Kazoo65 wrote:I think the answer to that one is 3214.Amelia Earhart was in the 30's.  There's a movie about her coming out later this year.Althea Gibson won Wimbledon in the 60's-I think, WAY before Serena & Venus were even born.Bella ran for Congress in the Early 70's.Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by Clinton in the 90s.

The answer asked for starting from most recent. 4 2 1 3.

The women's history question was the same one I lost on yesterday...

Q1. Put these movies in numerical order by the number in their title, starting with the lowest
1. Blues Brothers 2000
2. 13 First Dates
3. Around the World in 80 Days
4. Plan 9 From Outer Space

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4231

Q2. Put these things in order by how many of them are in the human body, starting with the fewest
1. Eyes
2. Bones
3. Fingers
4. Teeth

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I don't believe I had ever fat fingered before. Not during TOPG. Not during Super Millionaire phone game. Never. I've missed easy questions, I've missed hard questions, I've run out of time. But I had never typed in something that I didn't mean to type in. For this one. I said to myself 1342, 1342, 1342 before I proceeded to type in 1324. Done.

I'm not feeling confident about my chances to get in the pool.

Q1: Put these words in order of a 1980s movie.
1. Heart
2. The
3. In
4. Places

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4321

Q2: Put these animals in order of their body weight, starting with the lightest.
1. American bison
2. [some type of] hare
3. [some type of] beaver
4. Panda bear

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2341

Q3: Put these books in chron order, starting with the earliest.
1. Mystic River
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream
3. Little House on the Prairie
4. Wuthering Heights

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2431

Q4: Put these mountains in geographic order, starting in Asia and going west.
1. Mont Blanc
2. Mt. Shasta
3. Mt. Washington
4. Mt. Sinai

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4132

Q5: Put these photographers in chron order, starting with the earliest.
1. Man Ray
2. Matthew Brady
3. Ansel Adams
4. Jacob Riis

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2413

I signed up for the July 31 taping -- the callback day is July 17.

Q1. Put these words in order to make a 1970s restaurant slogan
1. Your
2. Way
3. Have
4. It

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3412

Q2. Put these historic events in order from earliest to most recent
1. Plymouth Rock Landing
2. Unification of Scotland and England
3.
4.
Sorry, can't read my writing or remember #3 or #4 now.

Q3. Put these U.S. landmarks in geographical order from north to south
1. Cape Hatteras
2. Alamo
3. Arlington National Cemetery
4. Independence Hall

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4312

Q4. Put these TV families in order of their number of children from least to most (I had seen this one here, but had known it anyway)
1. Cleaver
2. Brady
3. Keaton
4. Simpsons

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1432

Q5. Put these figures from Greek mythology in order of their number of eyes from least to most
1. Cyclops
2. Hydra
3. Minotaur
4. Cerberus

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1342

And I chose July 31st!

I guess it's good to know I can at least get to Q5...

Q1: Just the facts, Maam. A classic Q1, as I recall.

Q2: Put these dictators in order of their birth, starting with the earliest:
1. Stalin
2. Caesar
3. Hitler
4. Ferdinand Marcos

Whether order of birth or significance (no offense intended to Filipinos), I know which one is last, anyway.

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2134

Q3: Put these movies in geographic order based on the US place in the title, starting in the west:
1. Mississippi Burning
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
3. LA Confidential
4. Raising Arizona

I like questions where I don't have to write down everything; maybe I'm getting old, but Fred does seem faster.

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3421

Q4: Put these inventions in chronological order, starting with the earliest:
1. Lie Detector
2. Barbed Wire
3. Soft bifocal contact lenses
4. Velcro

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2143

Q5: Put these novels in order of their release, starting with the earliest:
1. Primary Colors
2. Love in the Time of Cholera
3. Roots
4. The Nanny Diaries

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3214. I knew the date of three of the books, but had no idea of Love's publication date. The movie version was done significantly later than the novel, as it turns out...

I'd like to succeed, certainly, but more importantly, it's fun to play, see questions, and see how others do. It's also nice to see some of the user names here from boards I participated in years ago. Thanks for letting me join.

hbomb1947 wrote:Excellent job lb!!!! I might well have screwed up your geography question, not realizing that

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Moscow is closer to Beijing than is L.A.

That was a nasty one! Is the width of Russia shorter than the width of the Pacific? With a couple seconds to think about it?

MarleysGh0st wrote:

hbomb1947 wrote:Excellent job lb!!!! I might well have screwed up your geography question, not realizing that

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Moscow is closer to Beijing than is L.A.

That was a nasty one! Is the width of Russia shorter than the width of the Pacific? With a couple seconds to think about it?

The Pacific is really, really big. --Bob

starfish1113 wrote:I'm not feeling confident about my chances to get in the pool.

None of that, now!

I brain farted Q1 on Monday, then aced them yesterday.

You only have to do it once!

Night #3

Put the following words in order to form a motto:
1. We
2. God
3. In
4. Trust

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3-2-1-4 ... what is with all of these 3-2-1-4 arrangements in my phone games?

Put the following cities in geographical order, starting at the Pacific Ocean and going east:
1. New York
2. Moscow
3. London
4. Los Angeles

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4-1-3-2

Put the following third-party presidential candidates in order from when they first ran, starting with the most recent:
1. George Wallace
2. Ralph Nader
3. H. Ross Perot
4. Strom Thurmond

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2-3-1-4

Put the following books by celebrities in order of their first publication, starting with the most recent:
1. Bill Cosby's Fatherhood
2. Al Franken's Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
3. Howard Stern's Private Parts
4. Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays

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I typed 4-3-2-1 and got another visit from Sad Fred. I've never heard of 700 Sundays, so it was a 1-in-4 guess for me.

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Put the following books by celebrities in order of their first publication, starting with the most recent:
1. Bill Cosby's Fatherhood
2. Al Franken's Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot
3. Howard Stern's Private Parts
4. Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays

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I typed 4-3-2-1 and got another visit from Sad Fred. I've never heard of 700 Sundays, so it was a 1-in-4 guess for me.

I just looked it up. I had 700 Sundays right. But Private Parts came before Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot. I thought Private Parts came out in 1997, and the movie version came out in 1998. Private Parts actually came out in 1993, with the movie being released in 1997.

Dammit.

Q2 - put these movies in order of release

1) knocked up
2) 3 amigos
3) ghostbusters
4) School of rock

3-2-4-1

didn't realize that school of rock was that old (2003)

expletive!

1 Words in order to make a law of physics

1. Of
2. Mass
3. Law
4. Action

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3124

2 Terms in popular culture, early to recent:

1. Gangster
2. Gen-X
3. Beatnik
4. Yuppie

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AAAARGH! I heard/thought "gangsta" (as in rap) so answered 3421. Of course it must have been 1342.

So they must have a database of answers for chronology/geography and other large-set questions and randomly mix them. Good idea.

Total and complete brain fart on Q1 tonight:

Place these words in order to form the name of a 2006 book.

1) Three
2) Of
3) Tea
4) Cups

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1 4 2 3, I'm guessing lol

Just out of curiosity, is there any advantage to qualifying earlier, other than the peace of mind?

Question 1:

Place the following words in order to form the name of a jewel featured in the 1997 movie Titanic.

1. Of
2. The
3. Ocean
4. Heart

Question 2:

Place the following animals in order of their length, starting with the smallest.

1. Blue whale
2. Whale shark
3. Crocodile
4. Pygmy mouse

Question 3:

Place the following magazines in order of their first publication, starting with the most recent.

1. Wired
2. Better Homes and Gardens
3. O, the Oprah Magazine
4. Martha Stewart Living

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1. 4123
2. 4321
3. 3142
Martha Stewart Living has been around much longer than I realized.

--Bob

out on q3 tonight. oh well.

Q1-- arrange to form a 1984 novel:
Eastwick
The
Of
Witches

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2431

Q2- VP's in order of which they served, earliest:
Ford
Agnew
Cheney
Mondale

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2143

Q3 - Movies from the earliest:
Edward Scissorhands
Girl, Interrupted
Reality Bites
Heathers

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correct answer is 4132, I ff'd it but it didn't matter cuz I thought Reality Bites was before ES. Years: Heathers: 1988, Edward S.: 1990, Reality Bites: 1994, Girl, Interrupted, 1999

tomorrow is another day.

I played better tonight and kept better track of my answers, although I still went down on Question 3.

I. Put these events in chronological order, starting with the earliest:

1. Lindberg baby is kidnapped
2. Napoleon marries Josephine
3. Romans mint coins
4. Marco Polo goes to China (or something like that. Obviously only the first word is needed and the rest of each clue is there only to make it sound harder than it is.)

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3421

II. Order in which these television shows first aired, starting with the earliest:

1. Smallville
2. The Munsters
3. ALF
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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2341

III. Order of birth for these musicians, starting with the most recent:

1. Eric Clapton
2. Buster Rhymes. Okay, I heard Buster. Fred must have said Busta.
3. Shania Twain
4. Nelly Furtado

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It should have been 4231. I said 4321. I would have been right if Mr. Fred had said Buster, and Buster (not Busta) had followed up his football career with a music career. Busta, who I thought was Buster but as it turns out was only named after him, was not born until 1972, after Miss Shania. Oh, well.

New method and new attitude will go forth tomorrow. I am trying to teach Lizbit to never give up, even if something seems kind of hard at first, and even when it's something that was designed for pushing numbers with fingers, instead of toes, which are the only digital appendages that Lizbit and I can provide.

/ \

gsn309 wrote:out on q3 tonight. oh well.

Q1-- arrange to form a 1984 novel:
Eastwick
The
Of
Witches

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2431

Hmm, I was just talking to someone today about The Witches of Eastwick.

Bob78164 wrote:Question 1:

Place the following words in order to form the name of a jewel featured in the 1997 movie Titanic.

1. Of
2. The
3. Ocean
4. Heart

Question 2:

Place the following animals in order of their length, starting with the smallest.

1. Blue whale
2. Whale shark
3. Crododile
4. Pygmy mouse

Question 3:

Place the following magazines in order of their first publication, starting with the most recent.

1. Wired
2. Better Homes and Gardens
3. O, the Oprah Magazine
4. Martha Stewart Living

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1. 4123
2. 4321
3. 3142
Martha Stewart Living has been around much longer than I realized.

--Bob

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And I would have transposed the order of "Wired" and "O," figuring that the "techie" mag was the most recent.

Bob78164 wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

hbomb1947 wrote:Excellent job lb!!!! I might well have screwed up your geography question, not realizing that

Spoiler

Moscow is closer to Beijing than is L.A.

That was a nasty one! Is the width of Russia shorter than the width of the Pacific? With a couple seconds to think about it?

The Pacific is really, really big. --Bob

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Yeah, it turns out this isn't even close -- something like 3,600 for Beijing to Moscow (a lot less than I would have guessed), and about 6,250 for Beijing to L.A. depending on which website you ask. (more than I thought).

Crashed on Q3, which is one better than the last two nights. I had never heard of two of the movies. Oy.

(This one was sort of odd, but not hard)
Q1 Number of seats, starting with the lowest:
1. bicycle
2. commercial airplane
3. car
4. NFL stadium

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1324

Q2 Parts of an elephant, starting from the front:
1. tusk
2. tail
3. ears
4. hind feet

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1342

Q4 Movies by date of release, starting with the earliest
1. Superbad
2. Breakfast Club
3. She's All That
4. Dazed and Confused

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1. Superbad (2007)
2. Breakfast Club (1985)
3. She's All That (1999)
4. Dazed and Confused (1993)
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