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Single:
$200 -- Lifts all boats

$1000 -- Sepoy Rebellion

Double:
$400 -- The Blues Brothers

$2000 -- Abbie Hoffman

--Bob

Jeopardy Round - "The Rising"

$200 - According to a proverb, a rising tide does this.
Lifts all boats/ships

$400 - The Easter Rising took place in Ireland in this year.
1916

$600 - John Toland's account of the "Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire"
The Rising Sun

$800 - In song, Sean O'Farrell tells us that "the pikes must be together by" this event
The Rising of the Moon

$1000 - The Ketan Mehta film "The Rising" is about Mangal Pandey, the instigator of this 1857 rebellion in India.
Sepoy Rebellion / Mutiny. I was more-or-less unaware of this event until I read Zadie Smith's White Teeth (which I wouldn't recommend) a couple years ago, but since then I've run into at least a half-dozen references to it.

Double Jeopardy Round - "Chicago"

$400 - In a 1980 movie, they led the police, Illinois Nazis, and many others on a merry chase through Chicago as part of their "mission from God."
The Blues Brothers

$800 - The pictured untitled sculpture in Daley Plaza was designed by this Spanish artist. http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=82671&rendTypeId=4
Picasso. Everyone calls it "the Picasso". One of my favorite things about it is that the bottom part is tilted, and kids use it as a slide.

$1200 - Hopefully you won't have to wait a lonely lifetime to find out that one of the official mottos of Chicago is this 2-word phrase (the other official motto is "Urbs in Horto", and I've been told the UNofficial motto is "Where's Mine?")
"I Will". I've been told it has something to do with the determination to rebuild after the Fire. If you look for it, you can see it on all the "L" cars (at least all the cars that haven't been sold as one big advertisement). And, yes, the "wait a lonely lifetime" part was meant to be a clue.

$1600 - This Erik Larson bestseller describes the 1893 Columbian Exposition as well as the workings of a mass-murderer who lived nearby.
The Devil In the White City

$2000 - One of this "Rules for Radicals" author and native Chicagoan's first organizing successes was the Back of the Yards Neighborhood Coalition
Saul Alinsky. If you do lefty organizing nonprofit work, he's a huge name. If not, I guess not so much. But his biography, Let Them Call Me Rebel is a pretty good read


Scores for the day:

Greyhound Dude 9000
tlynn78 4600
jsuchard 4400
fantine33 4000
nitrah55 4000
mrkelley23 3400
MarleysGh0st 3400
Catfish 3000
themanintheseersuckersuit 3000
wintergreen48 2800
tanstaafl2 2600
andrewjackson 2400
T_Bone0806 2400
plasticene 2400
starfish1113 2400
PlacentiaSoccerMom 2200
trevor_macfee 2200
JBillyGirl 2000
etaoin22 2000
Vails 1800
TheConfessor 1800
peacock2121 1600
jarnon 1400
mikehardware 600
NellyLunatic1980 600
Appa23 DNP
DadofTwins DNP
traininvain DNP
ulysses5019 DNP
littlebeast13 DNP
takinover DNP
a1mamacat DNP
Bob78164 -400


Scores for the Week:
Greyhound Dude 32000
Appa23 24200
mrkelley23 22600
jsuchard 20400
PlacentiaSoccerMom 19600
fantine33 19200
andrewjackson 19000
T_Bone0806 19000
tlynn78 18600
tanstaafl2 18000
DadofTwins 16800
wintergreen48 16800
Catfish 15800
Vails 13800
JBillyGirl 13400
Bob78164 13200
peacock2121 13200
TheConfessor 12200
trevor_macfee 11800
nitrah55 11600
jarnon 11400
mikehardware 10800
plasticene 10800
NellyLunatic1980 10600
MarleysGh0st 10400
starfish1113 9400
traininvain 9000
ulysses5019 7400
themanintheseersuckersuit 7000
littlebeast13 6400
takinover 4400
a1mamacat 3800
etaoin22 2000

Chicago and I share a motto. Who knew?

peacock2121 wrote:Chicago and I share a motto. Who knew?

Chicago's motto is "Bite me"?

Hey rexer!

Bite me.

peacock2121 wrote:Hey rexer!

Bite me.

The whole city, or just the south side.

Go Sox!

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:Hey rexer!

Bite me.

The whole city, or just the south side.

Go Sox!

Did you let wb have your password or what?

peacock2121 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:Hey rexer!

Bite me.

The whole city, or just the south side.

Go Sox!

Did you let wb have your password or what?

Is wb the only one allowed to make double entendre?

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote: The whole city, or just the south side.

Go Sox!

Did you let wb have your password or what?

Is wb the only one allowed to make double entendre?

Not at all. He is the one that I expect to make them.

You doing them goes over a little bit like it did when bob##s tried.

peacock2121 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote: Did you let wb have your password or what?

Is wb the only one allowed to make double entendre?

Not at all. He is the one that I expect to make them.

You doing them goes over a little bit like it did when bob##s tried.

Tried? TRIED? --Bob

peacock2121 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote: Did you let wb have your password or what?

Is wb the only one allowed to make double entendre?

Not at all. He is the one that I expect to make them.

You doing them goes over a little bit like it did when bob##s tried.

I'll change my avatar before I try again.

Rexer25 wrote:

peacock2121 wrote:

Rexer25 wrote: Is wb the only one allowed to make double entendre?

Not at all. He is the one that I expect to make them.

You doing them goes over a little bit like it did when bob##s tried.

I'll change my avatar before I try again.

That would work!

Good thought.