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$2.87M gets you this historic haunted house in Ireland -- (link) - Peglegpete Jul 28, 13:28
Ten in Ten final category: Schools with the most appearances in the NCAA Div I Men's basketball tournament w/o reaching the Final Four -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:20 15
- Louisville -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 13:32
- Akron -- nm - pmb Jul 28, 13:30
- BYU -- nm - MDH Jul 28, 13:29 1
  - 1 point. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:29
- Clemson -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 13:25
- Stanford. -- nm - Loyola Jul 28, 13:25
- notre Dame -- nm - mud Jul 28, 13:25
- Saint Trinians -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 13:24
- Boston college -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 13:23 1
  - 10 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:24
- Murray State -- nm - decline Jul 28, 13:23 1
  - This is a fantastic answer that just barely misses the cut. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:29
- Indiana -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 13:20 2
  - Clarification: w/o EVER reaching the Final Four. I will allow you to revise your answer. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:21 1
    - Very generous of you, but I don't really have enough knowledge here. Pepperdine? -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 13:24
NJ/NY is up to 36 states and provinces on the travel restriction -- (link) - decline Jul 28, 13:20 1
- ... lets call the whole thing off. -- nm - NY/NJ Jul 28, 13:29
FEC commissioner responds to Barr congressional testimony -- (link) - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 28, 13:16 1
- They left half a page blank. They could have used a bigger font. -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 13:28
Ten in Ten Category 5 of 6: Densest chemical elements (g/cm^3), atomic number < 100. - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:07 35
- Some of these answers hurt me physically to read. -- nm - Reagen Jul 28, 13:25 2
  - Ride the Plumbus -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:31
  - I'd a thought you had more mettle -- nm* - mud Jul 28, 13:30
- Time's up. Here's the list. - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:18
- Bery, how dense are you? -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 13:16 1
  - Extremely. Just not on an atomic level. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:30
- Elon Musk -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:16
- Iridium -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 28, 13:15 1
  - 2 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:15
- Californium -- nm - the ice Jul 28, 13:14
- carbon -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 13:14
- Unobtainium -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 13:13
- Copper -- nm - Loyola Jul 28, 13:12
- titanium -- nm - mud Jul 28, 13:11
- Rubidium -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 13:11
- oh, Platinum? -- nm - Jovian Jul 28, 13:10
- Aluminium -- nm - Loyola Jul 28, 13:10 2
  - One answer per person, please. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:13 1
    - That doesn't count, it's spelled the wrong, UK way. -- nm - loosilu Jul 28, 13:16
- Mercury -- nm - JaxSean Jul 28, 13:09
- Lead -- nm - Jovian Jul 28, 13:09
- uranium -- nm - decline Jul 28, 13:08
- Pb -- nm - znufrii still hasn't gotten a haircut Jul 28, 13:08
- Uranium -- nm - Loyola Jul 28, 13:08 2
  - damn you! -- nm - decline Jul 28, 13:09
  - 9 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:09
- Water -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:08 3
  - (This deserves "one answer, please") -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:10 2
    - It does but I was not clever enough to say it. :) -- nm* - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:12
    - (And also mockery, because I misread Element as Compound) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:10
- Thanks a lot, ty! Tungsten -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 13:08 1
  - 8 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:08
- gold -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 13:07 1
  - 7 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:08
- iron -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 13:07
I've been stuck in meetings! Where is Category 5 for me to get wrong! -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 13:06 3
- *blows you away* -- nm - Ghost of Lorenzo Jul 28, 13:08
- You get only one guess, and the closer you are to #10 the more points. -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 13:07 1
  - Thanks, I scanned back to the rules to figure out what was going on :) -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 13:08
Breaking: Public Inquiry coming from the Feds on the Nova Scotia shooting. -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 13:06 2
- Felt inevitable from the moment that half-assed review got announced. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 28, 13:07 1
  - Absolutely. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 13:12
1st place Cubs concern. Craig Kimbrel. First appearance last night. 34 pitches, 13 strikes. Threw 13 breaking balls and did not get *a swing* - zunk takes things literally Jul 28, 13:02 1
- But at least he recorded an out -- nm - JD Jul 28, 13:05
Steamed hams, but it's Take On Me. -- (link) - Mop Jul 28, 13:02 [youtube]
This is the most expensive photograph ever sold. -- (link) - Mop Jul 28, 13:00
Ten in Ten Category 4 of 6: US Vice-Presidents with the shortest vice-presidential terms -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:52 24
- I was doing other stuff and missed being here. I woulda had #5 -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 13:07
- Time's up. Here's the list. - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 13:02 4
  - I knew the Chester Arthur one from Die Hard with a Vengeance. -- nm - Loyola Jul 28, 13:05
  - Elbridge Gerry? You are making stuff up -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 13:03 2
    - The inventor of the gerrymander was a real person -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 13:04
    - he invented gerrymandering! -- nm - decline Jul 28, 13:04
- I assume there's a tie among many with 4 years? -- nm - Mop Jul 28, 13:01
- Burr -- nm - ty97 Jul 28, 13:00
- Fillmore -- nm - decline Jul 28, 12:57 1
  - 9 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:57
- Andrew Johnson -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 12:54 3
  - :-) Smart. -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 12:56 1
    - Not really - his term ended with Lincoln's assassination, which was soon after his inauguration. Looks like the only term shorter was Harrison's VP -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 12:58
  - 2 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:55
- Agnew -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:54
- Johnson -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:53 3
  - Please specify. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:54
  - Which one? -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 12:54 1
    - I meant LBJ -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:54
- Ford -- nm - mud Jul 28, 12:53
- I hate history. -- (edited) - Spawn Jul 28, 12:53
- Ford -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 12:53 2
  - 7 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:54 1
    - :-P -- nm - mud Jul 28, 12:54
ST is nothing if not unable to follow rules. -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 12:48 3
- Heh. This is true but even with that well earned reputation, we still wear masks -- nm - JD Jul 28, 13:02 1
  - Are you wearing one right now? - Spawn Jul 28, 13:04
- There's rules? -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:49
I slightly object to B2's list because non-scripted were allowed. What's My Line ran 17 seasons, an many of those were over 40 episodes. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 12:38 3
- Front Page Challenge was on CBC for 38 years -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 12:54
- Objection noted. -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 12:39 1
  - 876 prime time sunday night episodes total, before it went syndication in 1968 -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 12:45
Ten in Ten Category 3 of 6: First 10 Stephen King novels by publication date published under the name Stephen King -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:38 45
- Time's up. Here's the list. - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:48 11
  - That's a helluva a first-10-novel run. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 28, 12:50 10
    - and 10 for 10 on movies made -- nm - decline Jul 28, 12:53
    - There are 4 Bachman novels sprinkled in there too including Running Man. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:52
    - And you wonder why he is my fave? -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 12:51 7
      - I read quite a bit of King way back when but was more a Koontz guy. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jul 28, 12:53 6
        
        Twilight Eyes, Lightning, The watchers, Midnight are all faves of mine. -- nm - Beaker Jul 28, 12:58 1
        
        See, that is my problem with Koontz. I could not list a single of his books that I loved. Barker? King? I can recite *passages from them*. - Spawn Jul 28, 13:02
        
        Koontz and Barker sit at his right hand. -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 12:55 3
        
        gives you the side eye - Epiphany loves Elsie Jul 28, 12:56 2
        
        Barker is just twisted -- nm - decline Jul 28, 13:03
        
        True. Koontz was beach reading while Barker was campfire. -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 12:57
- Oooh wait - the original Dark Tower: The Gunslinger was early too. -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:47 2
  - http://slackertalk.com/?post_id=4914516&board _id=31418&username=BaronWasteland -- (link*) - Maracello Jul 28, 12:48 [Backboard] 1
    - ooooh - that would assume I backboard. BWAHAHAHAHA! -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:49
- And how bout Pet Semetary at #10? -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:46
- The Shining should be #3 -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:43
- The Dead Zone -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:43 1
  - 5 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:44
- Maximum Overdrive -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:41 1
  - Kathy Bates: A Biography -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:46
- I like how people remember Stephen King novels by when the Movies came out -- nm* - the ice Jul 28, 12:41 5
  - only my answer had the movie reference -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 12:46
  - Not if they're librarians. -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 12:43 3
    - or booksellers -- nm - mud Jul 28, 12:46
    - Or married to them, apparently. (But I do own original copies of all his earlier books, and read most upon release). -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 12:44
    - Or if they don't know anything about Stephen King and are making a wild guess -- (edited) - Roger More Jul 28, 12:44
- the one with the truck, he was in the movie. I forget the name. -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 12:40 5
  - (Maximum Overdrive which was based on his short story Trucks in Night Shift) -- nm - decline Jul 28, 12:42
  - That might have been a novella or short story, though. -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 12:41 3
    - I went with it anyway. 😂 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:41 2
      - maybe we will get split points :) -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 28, 12:42 1
        
        "You get zero points. And may god have mercy on your souls." -- baron, probably -- nm - Beryllium Jul 28, 12:42
- The Stand -- nm* - JaxSean Jul 28, 12:40
- Cujo -- nm - mud Jul 28, 12:40 1
  - 7 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:41
- The Stand -- nm - Roger More Jul 28, 12:40 1
  - 4 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:41
- Christine -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 12:39 2
  - 9 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:40 1
    - nice -- nm - mud Jul 28, 12:41
- Salem's Lot -- nm - decline Jul 28, 12:39 1
  - 2 points. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:40
- Carrie -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 12:38 1
  - 1 point. -- nm - Blue Punch Baron Jul 28, 12:39
Hey, look ma, I made it! -- nm - David Jul 28, 12:37 4
- Top of the world! -- nm - Maracello Jul 28, 12:38 3
  - Looking down on creation... -- nm - Daniel Prime Jul 28, 12:44 1
    - And the only explanation I can find -- nm - Spawn Jul 28, 12:45
  - *coughs* -- nm - Destroyer of Worlds Jul 28, 12:40

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