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Today’s Learned League mini-quiz: Game Shows 2
TLEberle:
LL does feel like six Daily Doubles or Final Jeopardies every day. Send me your e-mail addres via PM and I can put in for you if the deadline hasn't passed.
Matt Ottinger:
The Thursday set (the last one of the week) had several questions that I was worried the entire quiz would have. Namely, questions about other elements of pop culture (books and movies) that happen to have references to game shows in them. If you've not read that particular book or seen that particular movie, it won't matter how much you know about game shows, you'll come up empty. I'm hoping when the event continues tomorrow that those will be at a minimum.
TLEberle:
I do not have any fore-knowledge of any of the material. I am friendly with one of the Smiths but was not invited to playtest.
--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on August 04, 2024, 07:49:35 PM ---The Thursday set (the last one of the week) had several questions that I was worried the entire quiz would have. Namely, questions about other elements of pop culture (books and movies) that happen to have references to game shows in them. If you've not read that particular book or seen that particular movie, it won't matter how much you know about game shows, you'll come up empty. I'm hoping when the event continues tomorrow that those will be at a minimum.
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I hesitate to call it an argument because we're just so danged civil and friendly to each other, but I have been having this conversation with Kevin Prather.
I wonder how much could be mined from just straight up trivia, and in a group that self selects as part of Learned League would they play well? Can you go into Richard Dawson as Damon Killian? Game shows are certainly fodder for sitcoms (cf: Felix Unger and Cliff Clavin), but where's the line of game shows, or does it indeed matter?
I can see someone saying "this isn't what I signed up for", though it is spelled out there. I happened to read the book by D.F. Wallace during James Holzhauer's run so I had put myself in position to be right, but I imagine lots of other people might raise an eyebrow. Q1 from Thursday seemed quite a stretch.
Kevin Prather:
--- Quote from: TLEberle on August 04, 2024, 08:05:48 PM ---
--- Quote from: Matt Ottinger on August 04, 2024, 07:49:35 PM ---The Thursday set (the last one of the week) had several questions that I was worried the entire quiz would have. Namely, questions about other elements of pop culture (books and movies) that happen to have references to game shows in them. If you've not read that particular book or seen that particular movie, it won't matter how much you know about game shows, you'll come up empty. I'm hoping when the event continues tomorrow that those will be at a minimum.
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I hesitate to call it an argument because we're just so danged civil and friendly to each other, but I have been having this conversation with Kevin Prather.
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And a good conversation it was. As you remember, the counterargument I made was that a few tenuously connected questions here and there served as equalizers to prevent a barrage of 9(6) ties. I do however agree with Matt that I hope these questions make up a small percentage of the questions overall.
TLEberle:
Playing in the final challenge with several hundred other people, I always approach the assigning of "moneyball" questions a bit randomly, but I surely did not expect so many people to have a row of zeroes for their answer sheets, given that they too were in the championship.
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