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spotes · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:27 pm **Posts:** 1558

Dante wrote:

We thought that question was kind of funny. No idea why they could not include at least one other Saturn moon in there.

For what it's worth, that was just an incredibly brutal game. It was harder than any Sci-Fi game I can remember in a long, long time. The one good part, excluding the two Transformer questions, was that it wasn't filled with much pop culture, as far as I can remember. Some of those questions were awfully obscure, and required some film courses or literature courses to know.

Now I'm starting to get a little annoyed that I couldn't make it to that game.
If you remember any of the questions, could you be a sport and PM some to me?

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:25 pm

Nice game Dante on Japanese Influences.

Nice change of pace having hardly any pop culture in the game.

Dante · **Posted:** Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:28 pm

MitchWolf wrote:

Nice game Dante on Japanese Influences.

Nice change of pace having hardly any pop culture in the game.

Thank ya. Didn't think I'd be #1 with that score, but was a good game all around.

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Dante wrote:

MitchWolf wrote:

Nice game Dante on Japanese Influences.

Nice change of pace having hardly any pop culture in the game.

Thank ya. Didn't think I'd be #1 with that score, but was a good game all around.

Out of more than a lil curiosity, what were some of the questions?

Dante · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:20 am

liljol wrote:

Dante wrote:

MitchWolf wrote:

Nice game Dante on Japanese Influences.

Nice change of pace having hardly any pop culture in the game.

Thank ya. Didn't think I'd be #1 with that score, but was a good game all around.

Out of more than a lil curiosity, what were some of the questions?

A few I remember vaguely, but won't word correctly:

What event awoke Godzilla?
What is Ikebana?
What's the Japanese art of miniaturizing trees?
On what type of object did Hello Kitty first start?
Which of these materials is most expensive sold in blah in Japan? (I thought this one would be the difference. I thought not many people would know that it was denim. I was pretty sure, but not enough to overrule Crackhead (we were the only two playing out of our "team."), but I know it would be harder for people not to pick silk or satin there).
A heated what was developed in Akihabara in 2011? (Lunchbox)
Which of these is the first Manga?
Which of these is not a Japanese Anime?
Which of these was Gamera?
Which of these is a Japanese musical instrument?

If I remember the others later I'll post them. I thought an excellent score based on the questions would have been 14000+. Was rather perturbed I didn't hit that mark, 'til the final scores showed up.

cards · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:48 am **Posts:** 553

Dante wrote:

liljol wrote:

Out of more than a lil curiosity, what were some of the questions?

A few I remember vaguely, but won't word correctly:

Which of these materials is most expensive sold in blah in Japan? (I thought this one would be the difference. I thought not many people would know that it was denim. I was pretty sure, but not enough to overrule Crackhead (we were the only two playing out of our "team."), but I know it would be harder for people not to pick silk or satin there).

Too bad I was not there. Being in that industry I would have nailed it. Back in the day, people made tons of money buying Levi's here and selling them overseas. Today, it is nothing to buy designer denim in Japan for hundreds of dollars a pair. Sorry, had a real long day yesterday and stayed at home last night.

cards · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:48 am **Posts:** 553

Also, the most popular Hello Kitty item today would be stickers. I as guessing it started out as
a purse. Again my background is in merchandising. It could have started as a video game and
I would never know that part of the business.

Dante · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:47 am

cards wrote:

Dante wrote:

liljol wrote:

Out of more than a lil curiosity, what were some of the questions?

A few I remember vaguely, but won't word correctly:

Which of these materials is most expensive sold in blah in Japan? (I thought this one would be the difference. I thought not many people would know that it was denim. I was pretty sure, but not enough to overrule Crackhead (we were the only two playing out of our "team."), but I know it would be harder for people not to pick silk or satin there).

Too bad I was not there. Being in that industry I would have nailed it. Back in the day, people made tons of money buying Levi's here and selling them overseas. Today, it is nothing to buy designer denim in Japan for hundreds of dollars a pair. Sorry, had a real long day yesterday and stayed at home last night.

Well, you should have come, but I actually got it correct. I wasn't switching off of it, as I knew designer jeans there went for asinine sums.

Dante · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:51 am

cards wrote:

Also, the most popular Hello Kitty item today would be stickers. I as guessing it started out as
a purse. Again my background is in merchandising. It could have started as a video game and
I would never know that part of the business.

That's correct. I put purse, but the Fish showed up at that question (12 or 13 I think?), and given my inherent trust in the Fish, when he said lunchbox, I switched off. I switched back by 400 or so. He felt bad for pulling me off, but I told him I was the one who switched it, not him.

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:23 am

Dante wrote:

A heated what was developed in Akihabara in 2011? (Lunchbox)

its a Lunchbox that gets its heat thru a USB port.

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Dante wrote:

liljol wrote:

Out of more than a lil curiosity, what were some of the questions?

A few I remember vaguely, but won't word correctly:

What event awoke Godzilla?
What is Ikebana?
What's the Japanese art of miniaturizing trees?
On what type of object did Hello Kitty first start?
Which of these materials is most expensive sold in blah in Japan? (I thought this one would be the difference. I thought not many people would know that it was denim. I was pretty sure, but not enough to overrule Crackhead (we were the only two playing out of our "team."), but I know it would be harder for people not to pick silk or satin there).
A heated what was developed in Akihabara in 2011? (Lunchbox)
Which of these is the first Manga?
Which of these is not a Japanese Anime?
Which of these was Gamera?
Which of these is a Japanese musical instrument?

If I remember the others later I'll post them. I thought an excellent score based on the questions would have been 14000+. Was rather perturbed I didn't hit that mark, 'til the final scores showed up.

Well, to say the least, domo arigato.

The only two that I would have gotten with decent certainty were Ikebana and bonsai, and only because one of my aunts was an Ikebana instructor, and my grandfather and one of my uncles owned bonsai nurseries. Other than those, I'm more than a lil glad I didn't drag my poor tired lil old grumpy ass out to get royally embarrassed.

Dante · **Posted:** Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:54 am

liljol wrote:

The only two that I would have gotten with decent certainty were Ikebana and bonsai, and only because one of my aunts was an Ikebana instructor, and my grandfather and one of my uncles owned bonsai nurseries. Other than those, I'm more than a lil glad I didn't drag my poor tired lil old grumpy ass out to get royally embarrassed.

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I think you would have done pretty well when you saw some of the answers for even ones you didn't know. There were a few that they did not make very hard.

I just wish we were able to have more than 2 boxes (or a table for that matter) when the game started so we coulda got the bar up there again!

I'm glad they've moved Topix to Saturdays, though, so I can actually play them now. I always enjoyed those, though I still wish they wouldn't announce the categories as I don't want to play against short-term memory studiers. Just been fortunate I had two in my wheelhouse that I could gold (I am also the giant yellow bird, and took the gold last week, though admittedly because I hit the wrong button once on Dante, and then split the wrong way on another where we had two guaranteed different answers on the same question).

I think we will likely not do well next week, but I am hoping we can gold the Hitchcock and Screen Screamers ones.

If I can get Watson out on a Thursday, I'm pretty certain we (i.e. he) can destroy Spiders and Snakes, too.

zog741 · **Posted:** Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:33 pm

Great game by the Mill tonight on "Alaska", even if none of us knew what muktuk is.

-- RWM

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

zog741 wrote:

Great game by the Mill tonight on "Alaska", even if none of us knew what muktuk is.

-- RWM

Good game.

I knew the muktuk answer. (According to the great MCGREW, whales are fish...EGADS!!!)

The 'pilot bread' question stumped me.

Hope to do better on Saturday's topic.

zog741 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:28 am

tiefly wrote:

Good game.

I knew the muktuk answer. (According to the great MCGREW, whales are fish...EGADS!!!)

The 'pilot bread' question stumped me.

Hope to do better on Saturday's topic.

I got the "pilot bread" question, but it was definitely a wild guess, as I had never even heard of pilot bread before.

-- RWM

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