"What's My Hometown?" GAME - ROUND 5 (ends Thu 2/5 12am NST)

[Miyu]

That footbridge was bothersome. Couldn't find a name for it to save my life. I found loads of pictures (assuming it was the correct one in question,) though each mentioning of the bridge in the movie - seemed to have multiple names in conjunction with it. xD

[Mongrel]

Broadly, yes. There should be no reason for 4 and 7 to conflict, despite the note below.

Siniri's brought it to my attention that the First Lady in clue 4 did not spend most of her life in my hometown, just the first part of her life.
EDIT: Okay, we're forty minutes from the deadline and I've only got two responses. If I don't get at least one more by 9 PM NST I'm going to extend the deadline to this time tomorrow, since PPT was so hard to navigate earlier today.
EDIT 2: I've gotten 4 responses, so I'm ending the round.

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Round 3 Answers
1. Lexington, Massachusetts
2. Jim Varney (AKA Ernest of the "Earnest" movies)
3. Fark
4. Jefferson Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln (The "vampirically-named university" is Transylvania.)
5. Adolph Rupp(the "famous Usenet rule" mentioned is Godwin's Law.)
6. Thoroughbred Horse
7. Marquis De Lafayette
8. Lexmark International
9. Belle Brezing
10. Fazoli's (The other restaurant mentioned is Long John Silver's. Fazoli's is way better.)

And the town: Lexington, Kentucky(since we've got an incorporated city/county government, it's properly "Lexington-Fayette Urban County", but that's a stupid name).

Round 3 Results
Player--score (missed clues)
Siniri--20
Pipsqueeek--19 (5)
Miyu--19 (4)
StuMan--11 (1-8, 10)
DM--no answers
Pixa--no answers

Cumulative results
Miyu--56.5
Siniri--39
Pipsqueeek--39
Mongrel--38.5
StuMan--14
DM--0
Pixa--0

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Miyu is the host for the next round, obviously.

[Evil Stu Man]

Ok. If I had more time I would have gotten them all right because they all come up in wikipedia. Well never mind at lest I answered 2 q's. If ppt was not down things would have being different.

[Miyu]

Awh, shucks.
I found the University.
I thought it was Mary Todd Lincoln.. and there were only so many Presidents to choose from; but I hadn't looked at the dates for his Presidency. xD
Is it just me, but if you glance at Davis out of the corner of your eye, he kind of resembles Lincoln?

My questions will be up tomorrow, early afternoon.


edit. Yay, it works! (Hopefully). I tried editing the post almost thirty minutes ago... then it didn't go through. Has anyone else been having problem with PPT?

[pipsqueeek]

Indeed. I couldn't get it to load at all yesterday, and was thinking I'd have to come today panicking and asking for the round to be extended... and then I find it hasn't even started xD.

[Siniri]

pinkpt.com didn't even register as a website on downforeveryoneorjustme.com yesterday or most of today. It's still a bit hiccoughy, so I'd suggest waiting a bit longer to post your clues, Miyu, and then extending the deadline if PPT goes down again for a substantial chunk of the 48 hours after you post them. No wonder activity's slowed down so much here lately; it's been going on for a couple of months now. I hope they fix it for good soon.

[Miyu]

Okay, will do.
It looks like it is getting better. *crosses fingers*
I didn't have to refresh the page, or wait at all. xD

[Evil Stu Man]

Look forward to ya q's Miyu. I hope ppt stays up for the length of the game.

[Miyu]

o.O
My edit didn't make it?

So what should we do?
See if everyone playing has access to PPT?
Post the Q's and hope for the best?

[Siniri]

I'd say just post them while you can, and leave 'em up for at least 3 days (longer if the forum goes down again, as seems highly likely at this point) to give people a chance to realize that they're up.

[Miyu]

Round Four: Miyu

1. This movie shot in my hometown features a future tornado chaser and a future murdering banker.
2. An award winning former baseball player calls this city home, while coaching at a local school.
3. Started ten years ago to commemorate a newsworthy event more than fifty years ago, this festival is the second largest of its kind in the country.
4. 1947 saw the one and only flight of this woody prototype that calls this city home.
5. I share hometowns with this man who worked on a famous profect, which birthed the gadget.
6. As of 2007, this college had the longest streak of consecutive winning seasons in all levels of the NCAA for this sport.
7. In 1993, the elementary school I attended began moving locations becuse of this event.
8. At this local attraction you can see gooney birds and skyhawks.
9. This city has hosted an annual event for many years, which includes antiques of this kind as well as a pancake breakfast.
10. My hometown was named in remembrance of the founder's own hometown.

So, what is my hometown?

Answers should be in by Wednesday at 9pm PST.

This should be enough time for people to realize it is back up, or if the site goes down. xD
Can't quite decide if they are almost too hard, or too easy.

[Siniri]

Okay, I really should have started on these clues sooner. I'm finding some of them a bit vague, Miyu (which I'm sure was designed to make it harder for us, which I appreciate)...

but for clue 5, I'm just really a bit clueless how the heck I'm supposed to figure out if I've got the right "project" or "gadget" (or even how I'm supposed to start looking for people with such a vague clue). I'm pretty sure I've got the right hometown, but I've tried people listed on the Wiki "famous residents" list, and none of them seem to be in a field that would lead to the creation of a gadget (well, one might have, but I couldn't find anything on him)... Can you offer a bit more direction without giving it away? Thanks!

Last edited by Siniri on Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[Miyu]

You won't find a direct Wikipedia page for him.
You'll know it is the right project when you see it. It is indeed quite famous, though I doubt the gadget is.

I hope that helps.

[Evil Stu Man]

I am having trouble pming you my answers miyu as it keeps timeing out or getting page error when i hit send.

[Siniri]

Thanks, Miyu. I'm discovering that I keep making these clues harder on myself by not going with my first instinct.

P.S. Stu, I was just able to send my answers via PM successfully, so you might want to try again (but I'd check your outbox 1st to see if they went through without telling you -- I accidentally sent 5 to someone yesterday).