A big win thanks to our purple-pen-wielder helping us get the final answer!

What is the second-largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon?

What 1803 Supreme Court case established the concept of judicial review?

What German Enlightenment philosopher published a Critique of Pure Reason?

What English word, meaning "stored away for future use" can be spelled with 11 letters and pronounced with one syllable?


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guess: Porto; Madison v. Marbury; Kant; depends on your accent?
The ordering of plaintiff and defendant is probably important. Bonus trivia: Marbury's house has served as a nightclub and is now leased by the Ukrainian Embassy to the United States.
 

A tough night, in which we didn't bet confidently enough on our final answer to get first place.

What is the name of the character who is Stella's husband in A Streetcar Named Desire ?

What farm animals are raised by the corporation in the TV series Severance ?

What denomination of U.S. currency features the exterior of a building not located in Washington D.C. ?

What Italian company, makers of Tic Tacs, Kinder Joy, and Nutella, is the world's largest consumer of hazelnuts, using roughly a quarter of the world's supply?

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Most of the time I'm like, "well I'd never know that one anyway"



But this time I'm more like, "o dang I knew all of these facts at one point in time for a fleeting moment"



Except for the severance question. Obviously I got the severance question. I have verve. I have wiles.
The most of your flock.
I only know #1 thanks to the Simpsons. https://youtu.be/SPQSC5UVwsg?t=60
If you haven’t read A Streetcar Named Desire, you’re in for a treat. Grab a used copy and save it for a snowy or rainy day. It won’t take you more than two hours to read.
I'll give it a shot someday, i recall not caring for The Glass Menagerie in high school.
I can understand that Tennesse Williams isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

Neither is Tennessee Tuxedo.
He had the nerve and he had the libido

Yeah, there never was a penguin like Tennessee Tuxedo
I assume the expected answer for Q3 was the one hundred dollar bill, but would they have accepted the nickel?
Oooh! Hadn’t thought about coins.
The actual question may have specified bills. Someone tried to convince us that the $2 had Monticello on the back, even though I recalled its depiction of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
You’re correct about the $2, but was that the answer?
No, the answer was $100.
Prior to 1976 the reverse of the two dollar bill featured Monticello, but those bills would be well out of circulation by now.
 

I had started riding my bike from home to the train station, and then to work, then back again.  On April 30, an unseen lump of asphalt that served as a makeshift ramp to the curb came across my path, snapped my handlebars out of my grip, and down i went on my left shoulder, neatly breaking my collarbone in half.

Saw the orthopedist today and she very cheerfully gave the situation a thumbs up.  They only operate on cases where the broken ends separate more than 2 cm, it's a compound fracture, or separation.  Cases like mine just have the broken ends heal up until they find each other and make a weird mangled bone.  I should be mostly okay in another 5-6 weeks, and i can resume riding (if i'm up to it) after 3 months.

The bruising around the shoulder is... something.

a dark purple comma-shaped bruise on my left pectoral, plus yellow-green bruising above it, as well as on the upper part of my arm

Ugh, when did i develop all these skin tags?

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#old but it sounds like you’re putting up a really good fight. Best wishes for a healthy and weird mangled rone!
Oh dude. Yes, reminds me of breaking my shoulder a few years back because, well, I guess my backpack wasn't well balanced so I randomly fell off my bike while barely moving on 13th Street? Embarrassing and also painful. But you'll be back on the bike. I am.
Of course we all know you're the seasoned pro when it comes to recuperation.
Yeah, that's helping a lot, especially with the up and down days.
OW OW OW OW OW
I've never thought of a collarbone break as neat. Everything about it says "messy," you know?

Studies have shown that the average force required to fracture a collarbone ranges from 1,000 to 1,500 Newtons. That's a lot of weird chewy cookies.

Having taken so long to respond to this post, I'm really hoping you're feeling significantly better by now.

Please stop trying to kill yourself. I'm not the only person who is fond of you, you know.
My occasional suicidal ideation went away after GBS almost killed me, so, you know, that's pretty cool.



The pain is easily manageable these days with 600 mg Motrin in the morning and before bed.
These are both very good things.
 

My Favorite Team pulled ahead in the second half and got the victory despite my tempting of fate by cheering the final category "Word Origins".

The late Tony Todd returns as William Bludworth in Bloodlines, the sixth installment in what supernatural horror film series?

Bordered by Brazil, Guyana, and French Guiana, what is the smallest country in South America?

What 2019 Tony Award winner tells a version of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Euridyce?

What word used as the name of the sixth most visited website in 2024 has its origins in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels?

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I know 3 and that’s it.
That’s the one we failed to get! Both Mrs. Ferret and our missing bell-ringer probably would have known it.
 
 

A missing music expert and an early deficit left us in third place.

Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Matt Strahm has a Declaration of Independence glove in recognition of his resemblance to what actor?

One of the first purchases on Ebay (aka AuctionWeb) was $14.83 for what electronic office equipment that was advertised as "broken"?

What is the name of the branch of philosophy concerned with the study of knowledge?

What deadpan comedian (1929-2024) had the top two albums on the Billboard chart for nearly 30 weeks in the early 1960s?

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You're telling me they had a sensible name before they had a stupid hopelessly local name? It all worked out for them of course...
Oh, it was renamed after his consulting firm. What a strange decision that turned out to be a perfectly fine brand in the long run
I've got the study of knowledge, but not if I also have to spell it.
 

One of our team members arrived late due to car shopping, but won it for us by getting us to the correct final answer.  

Which came first, Jazzercise classes or women getting credit cards in their own names?

What MLB Hall-of-Famer lettered in four sports at UCLA (baseball, football, basketball, and track), prior to being drafted into the Army?

What singer of "Coal Miner's Daughter" was the older sister of Crystal Gayle?

What longest-running talent show is known for its notoriously tough audience?


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credit cards, Robinson, Lynn, no idea
hmm Jazzercise is older than i thought
The address of the talent show is 253 W. 125th Street.
 

My Favorite Team finished on top, and answered the final question thanks to the extra hint.

What musical group, whose biggest hit was "Eye in the Sky", did Homer Simpson describe as "some sort of hovercraft"?

What does the musical instruction "col legno" mean to a violinist?

What household object, once called a besom, is sold using brands including Libman and SWOPT?

What hip-hop song, the top-selling single of 1995​​​​​​​, uses a melody by Stevie Wonder and was parodied by Weird Al Yankovic?

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Alan Parsons Project; guess: strike the wooden body?; broom; Gangsta Paradise?
 

I am pleased to report that My Favorite Team got every one of this week's questions correct except for the "toss-up" questions whose answers are some random number that one just tries to answer closer than everyone else.

What is the distance between the center of a circle and its perimeter?

What genomics company filed for bankruptcy in March 2025?

What Latin American dessert consists of spongecake soaked in a mixture of whole, evaporated, and condensed milk?

What is the name of Percy Jackson's friendly hellhound?

What manicure style is characterised by a natural base and white tips?

What disease was treated by the earliest vaccinations?

What basketball coach led UCLA to seven straight NCAA championships?

What board game includes the characters Frostine, Plumpy, Gloppy, and Gramma Nutt?

What singer who died in 1995 was called the Queen of Tejano Music?

What are the birthplace countries of the following actors?  Heath Ledger, Ryan Reynolds, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Lupita Nyong'o

What newsworthy country in 2025 is the world's largest island (not also reckoned as a continental landmass)?

What is the correct spelling of the region that includes Cuba, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and many other islands?

What is the only country with a non-quadrilateral flag?

What "Goonies" actor also voiced teenage mutant ninja turtle Donatello in two movies and Slash on TV?

Silk production begin during the Neolithic in what country?

Who was the author of "Don Quixote", often considered the first modern novel?

Cusco was the capital of what empire until the 16th century?

What actress and wife of Harrison Ford stars in "Curse of the Starving Class" with Christian Slater?

What civil rights activist was memorialized by Barack Obama for his legacy in the farm labor movement?

What annual event was inaugurated in 1985 at Madison Square Garden, with Muhammad Ali as a referee and Liberace as a timekeeper?

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radius; 23&me; tres leches? in this economy?; guess: Cerberus; French manicure; smallpox; Wooden; (no idea); Selena; Australia, Canada, Ukraine?, Israel, Kenya; Greenland; Caribbean; Nepal; guess: Corey Feldman; guess: China; Cervantes; the Inca Empire, or the Tawantinsuyo if you wanna get fancy; Flockheart; Chávez; (no idea)
20 right! The hellhound had multiple choice answers which I do not remember, but we had a youthful Percy fan on our team to get it. I was useless on most of the birthplaces, but she also got the surprising correct answer for Lupita. They did not get fancy with the Inca, but I bow to your masterful flourish. We only bet a minimal amount on the final question, but all the teams did get it right. A sport-like entertainment?
I know some but not all of these (without looking at @rone's answers). Guess which ones I know.
Nice - congrats! I got som of those, but very far from all.
I didn't know a lot of them, but it amuses me that I know the Cusco answer from 'Emperor's New Groove'.



Also, Cervantes as the author of Don Quixote, was that supposed to be a hard question?
Someone must have answered something like Dostoyevsky, because the emcee berated them to the effect “Don Quixote is Spanish, not Russian!”
 

Long-awaited semi-finals were going well at first, but our second half was not good enough.

What state has the Crayola factory and also the first US oil well?

Baylen Dupree of "Baylen Out Loud" has what unusual condition?

In what country is Ushuaia, the world's most southermost city?

What assassinated president had campaigned on the slogan "A Full Dinner Pail"?

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I actually know one without cheating for a change!
I’m stumped by all except for #1.
I don't recall visiting the Crayola factory, but I have now learned that their 100,000,000,000th crayon was made by Mr. Fred Rogers.
That’s beautiful.