*** NIGHT 3 SPOILER ALERT ***
Once again, I'm just awestruck at the responses they pull out, and so fast!
I guess I fall into a few categories as I play along, and I'm a causal player, I've never studied almanacs or record books or anything outside of general knowledge to try to prepare for an actual contest:
A) Responses that I know, and can actually get out fast (very few, usually right, but sometimes wrong).
B) Responses that I think I know, but just can't get out fast ( right maybe half the time?).
C) Responses that I sorta know something about, and the correct response rings a bell, or maybe it's a "DOH! I knew that!" after the fact, but I probably would not come up with it anyhow.
D) Very occasionally, I have the same response as the one who rings in, and we are
both wrong (pretty rare)!
E) And common in this round, I have absolutely no idea, I'm not even sure the clue is in English, and they buzz in and get it right like they could do it in their sleep! Maybe they all have "Watson" implants? Amazing.
But I was absolutely amazed by another category, rare for me in any round, but it actually happened three times last night!
The clue comes up, I immediately am certain of the right response, I wait to see who gets the buzzer so we just move onto the next clue, and... not one of them buzzes in! What the heck?
And I'm not talking some oddball clue that I just happened to have some knowledge about, that many would not know, these seemed pretty basic:
1) Response was "Morticia Addams". I'll need to watch the recording, but IIRC, this had several clues combined, I'm pretty sure they had Carolyn Jones named, plus 1 or 2 other hints. I was screaming " "Morticia Addams","Morticia Addams","Morticia Addams"!
Now the next two were tech related, but security is not my area of expertise, and I thought these were pretty generic/general:
2) Response was "Key Logger". I just thought the clues were specific enough to make this easy.
3) Response was "Bring Your Own Device", the clue described "BYOD". Again, seemed pretty straightforward with plenty of content clues, not just "BYOD".
Please don't get the idea that I'm bragging for knowing ones that they didn't, I'm not, I did miserably overall. I'm just amazed that all three of them, at their level, could not respond to these.
-ERD50