And some people's brains just work better spatially. Part of the appeal of maps may be insecurity-wanting to understand what's around us in a big, scary world. A friend hid her face in her hands when she told me she used to ask her parents for the Thomas Guide every Christmas. Comics atlases, Gotham City atlases, atlases of the Starship Enterprise.

Fantasy fans love their maps, and there are D.C. James has clinched a semifinal berth too.įor more than a millennium a huge embroidered work known as the Kiswa has been used to adorn & protect this structure.There is a prominent geek factor.

James runs Ends in a Double Vowel.ĭJ! LT: 2800 (2nd & 5th British Musical Geography clues) This Russian author & founder of literary socialist realism adopted a surname meaning “bitter”. Matt (3200) gets TDD #2 out of the 2K International Lit clue James stands at 21,800. This room gave its name to an official art exhibition sponsored by the French government & once held at the Louvre. The 1200 Go To Your Room answer is TDD #1 for Amy (4200) Matt’s up to 2400 & James can’t be caught as usual w/ 17,400. “What is Hell’s Kitchen?”…Chef Ramsay would approve & so would we. This midtown Manhattan neighborhood extends from 8th Ave. MATTEA: “What is Caracas?” (2801) = 11,201ĪNDREW: AGREED W/ MATTEA (1900) = 15,100 (12- clinches semifinal berth Mattea’s up to 8)Įarly DD for James in 2 clues w/ the 800 Possessive Geography prompt. SAM: “WHAT IS RIYADH RIYADH CARACAS ?” (2801) = 2799 This capital city founded in 1567 was where the founding statute of OPEC was adopted in 1961. SOLE ATTEMPTED TS: 800 (Women In History) “Uh, who are the Cyclops?”… another failure- they were the lotus eaters. “What is telekinesis?”… it backfires- what is teleportation? After getting 3600 back from the bottom 2 clues under The Geodyssey Andrew (3600) has yet another TDD back of its 1200 answer Sam’s back down to 400.Īfter getting blown off course rounding Cape Malea, Odysseus & crew arrived at the land of these very happy vegans. It’s just a state of 2 entangled particles this is moved- nothing bigger yet.” “2022 Nobel physics laureate Anton Zeilinger has pioneered the quantum type of this, from Latin for ‘far’ & ‘carry’. Quantum physicist Spiros Michalakis reads the following clue: KEN JENNINGS: INTERNATIONAL NERD OF MYSTERYĪndrew (8K) hits his 2nd TDDof the evening via the 1200 Science clue Sam just added 2K. Supreme Court this 1 has been there the longest. TDDfor Andrew (1600) on that 800 line in To the Nines Mattea’s currently uncatchable w/ 4K & Sam’s 2K on the negative side.

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