Fifteen to One (Game 2, Round 3: !?!?)

[Nobody Special]

Blood pressure.


Xalxe, again....

[doctorwho]

Xalxe: It was reset to 3 minutes to midnight earlier this month in the face of climate change, among other global problems. What is it?

[Xalxe]

Doomsday clock

Original Roll String: 1d3

1 3-Sided Dice: (3) = 3

[Xalxe]

Save the Dragons!

[doctorwho]

Save The Dragons: "Cash Mountain" was the original working title for what game show?

[Save The Dragons]

I bet it's Pyramid, but I don't know if you're looking for that or specifically something like $25,000 Pyramid

[doctorwho]

*buzz!*

It's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, oddly enough.

We still have to eliminate one more person, so Xalxe, it's back to you.

[Xalxe]

Imaginality

[imaginality]

I predict the answer will be one of the following: Nepal and China, 1933, random access memory,

Brighton Rock

, isobars, Mark Twain, or badgers.

[doctorwho]

imaginality: The Greeks know this island as Kerkyra. What is it called in English?

[imaginality]

From the sound of it, I'm thinking Corsica or Corfu, but isn't Corsica French (I know Napoleon got exiled there)? So...

Badgers

Corfu?

JasonWazza if I'm right.

[doctorwho]

You are correct.

JasonWazza: In horse racing, the Triple Crown consists of three races. Name for me two of them.

[JasonWazza]

Which country's triple crown are we talking about?

[doctorwho]

The American one.

[JasonWazza]

Kentucky Derby, Preakness stakes.

Nobody Special

[doctorwho]

Nobody Special: What was the name of the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War?

[Nobody Special]

Well, that's done then.

No clue, not even a guess.

[doctorwho]

The Treaty of Portsmouth, that was.

And there we go! We're right where we should be, twelve down and three to go. In just a little bit (read: tomorrow hopefully, Saturday at the latest), imaginality, JasonWazza, and Xalxe will be here for the final. Stick around, won't you?

[doctorwho]

Well, here we are. imaginality, JasonWazza, and Xalxe, welcome to the final.

Your lives left over from the last round now form part of your score for this round, at 1 point per life. That means imaginality and JasonWazza start off with one point, while Xalxe starts off with three. We've given you all three brand new lives to start the round.

Questions are worth 10 points each now, and we start off on the buzzers; the first of you to 3 right answers will get the first choice of "question or nominate?".

You know all the rest, I think (and it's on the first page anyways), so let's get on with it.

Question 1/40: What American city did Raymond Chandler describe as having "the personality of a paper cup?"

[imaginality]

Pass (might be useful if we say pass during the buzzer round to save time if we all don't know it, rather than wait 24 hours in case someone answers).

[Xalxe]

Pass.

[doctorwho]

Los Angeles, that was.

Which ancient title for a Japanese ruler is also the title of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta?

[imaginality]

The Mikado.

[imaginality]

Just don't ask me to write it in kanji, hiragana or katakana...

[doctorwho]

We won't, and you're right.

imaginality: 11

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JasonWazza: 1

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Xalxe: 3

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38 questions left

Question 3: The Latin phrase 'cave canem' advises one to what?