Billy, don't be a deathmatch (24-08)
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26 Sep
3:24pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,699 posts
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GregP
R2G12 closes British Beatlemania (Collective frenzy surrouding the Fab Four), 12 votes, progresses to next round John Glenn (first American astronaut to orbit Earth), 8 votes, progresses to next round Sputnik (Sputnik 1 launched 1957, start of the Space Race), 5 votes, eliminated Toscanini (virtuoso conductor), 3 votes, eliminated |
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26 Sep
3:25pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,700 posts
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GregP
R2G13 closes Malcolm X (Civil rights leader assassinated 1965), 11 votes, progresses to next round England's got a new queen (Elizabeth II crowned in 1953), 6 votes, progresses to next round Disneyland (Californian theme park), 5 votes, eliminated James Dean (Iconic actor, d. 1955 aged 24), 4 votes, eliminated Rosenbergs (first American civilians to be executed for conspiracy to commit espionage), 1 votes, eliminated |
26 Sep
3:34pm, 26 Sep 2024
88,431 posts
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Diogenes
That’s changed recently- last time I looked it was Malc and Jimmy going through
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26 Sep
5:15pm, 26 Sep 2024
27,574 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
GregP wrote: Under strict application of Rule 6, wildcards 4, 6 and 15 would get two votes. In this circumstance it is being modified to four due to the distorting effect of the super-weak wildcards 3, 7, 9, 12, 14, 17 and 20. Well, I’m glad that got sorted out in my absence. Did I miss anything important? No? Nice! |
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26 Sep
5:23pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,703 posts
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GregP
R2G14 closes Marciano (world heavyweight boxing champion), 6 votes, progresses to next round Space monkey (May 1959, monkeys called Able and Baker became the first primates to survive the journey home after being launched into space by the US), 6 votes, progresses to next round Dacron (artificial high-strength textile fiber sometimes used in medical procedures), 6 votes, progresses to next round Rock Around the Clock (one of the best-selling rock-and-roll hits of all time), 5 votes, eliminated Peter Pan (Disney animation of the JM Barrie play, 1953), 3 votes, eliminated |
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26 Sep
5:24pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,704 posts
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GregP
R2G15 closes Children of thalidomide (Victims of thalidomide use in pregnacy), 9 votes, progresses to next round U-2 (US spy plane piloted by Gary Powers), 7 votes, progresses to next round Wheel of Fortune (TV game show which began in 1975), 4 votes, eliminated Reagan (40th president of the United States), 3 votes, eliminated Belgians in the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo gains independence), 1 votes, eliminated |
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26 Sep
5:25pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,705 posts
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GregP
R2G16 closes Buddy Holly (Singer and Songwriter d. 1959), 16 votes, progresses to next round Hula hoops (Plastic toy craze), 7 votes, eliminated Ben Hur (Hollywood biblical epic), 4 votes, eliminated |
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26 Sep
5:26pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,706 posts
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GregP
R2G17 closes Bardot (French actress and sex symbol), 16 votes, progresses to next round Prokofiev (Russian composer), 11 votes, progresses to next round South Korea (Democratic South Korea, war against North), 1 votes, eliminated |
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26 Sep
5:28pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,707 posts
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GregP
We're down to a last 31 ~rolls eyes~ The will be byes. I have spoken. |
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26 Sep
5:31pm, 26 Sep 2024
153,708 posts
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GregP
The bye goes to Moonshot (1969, the first human beings arrived on the Moon)
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