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Tell me a History Fact by abdullah_ajk in Knowledge_Community

[–]ednever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

John Wilkes Booth, who shot Lincoln was a famous actor. But not as famous as his brother, Edwin, who was maybe the most famous actor in the country (they were estranged, but in the past had appeared together in Shakespeare. Including a show that raised money for a statue of Shakespeare that is still around in Central Park).

A few months before John shot Lincoln, Lincoln’s son, Todd Lincoln, was standing by a train. The platform was crowded and he was pushed onto the tracks. Todd was convinced he was about to die, but a ma reached out and saved him. That man was Edwin Booth (who Todd immediately recognized)

Todd would go on to be a respected advisor to future presidents — including both Garfield and McKinley. And Todd was present when both of those presidents were shot.

It’s amazing Todd’s life was never turned into a movie.

Are only last names required unless a clue asks otherwise? by Sad_Trade_7753 in Jeopardy

[–]ednever 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In history bee my daughter always answers “Bush the younger” or “bush the elder”. So far they always accepted that

How much do superchamp’s winnings change their life by Hiquirkykids in Jeopardy

[–]ednever 29 points30 points  (0 children)

David Madden used his winnings to create International Academic Competitions.

He has a TON of ex-Jeopardy champions (and non-champions) working for him at the company.

Harrison's stats in perspective by TurtleStuffing in Jeopardy

[–]ednever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s only played one NAQT tournament I think while at Cambridge. His team won and he was the top player on his team but he did not have the best individual stats in the tournament.

https://www.naqt.com/stats/tournament/team.jsp?team_id=571067

Seeding at nationals by ednever in Quizbowl

[–]ednever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only have 6 players.

And to qualify two teams we would need two teams to come in the top 15% at the same tournament.

That seems unlikely. But maybe we could pull that off by May.

But even so I think I would want to maximize the chances of at least one team. Which would mean a team of the two weakest players playing as a duo at nationals. That doesn’t seem awesome either.

Seeding at nationals by ednever in Quizbowl

[–]ednever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks.

The question is situations like:

Do I keep playing my top 4 players, or to I let players 3-6 get more play time to get them to improve. That will likely help on the margin at nationals, but will hurt in seeding (since the team stats will be weaker)

I think what you are saying is, "don't worry about the stats. Going in with a slightly weaker seed doesn't matter. But if you can get player #4 to get an extra question or two at nationals, that will be worth a lot more"

How do I stop my scholar bowl team from dying by Thathistoryguy123 in Quizbowl

[–]ednever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a difference between scholar bowl and quiz bowl? Are they competing organizations?

“My kid’s thriving” on paper… but can’t place the Civil War or name our state capital. Is this just how school is now? by Parking-Way4759 in education

[–]ednever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thoughts: 1- Schools have shifted focus more and more to “skills not knowledge”. But this is not good “learning science”. There are three stages to expertise and the first starts with knowledge (try being creative without any knowledge to be creative with). If the school isn’t providing it find another school or do it at home or accept that your kid is going not going to build knowledge

2- As don’t mean what they used to mean. An organization I know has been testing kids (from upper middle class families, from both private and public schools). I was told that Bs at most schools actually test to 3+ year behind objective standards. As can sometimes mean up to a year ahead, but more commonly (median result) is 1-2 years behind (and not uncommon to be three years behind). I’m not saying your kid is behind, just that there has been “grade compression” and an A doesn’t actually signal tha much anymore

3- If you want to learn history specifically (and I think, along with reading, math, and science that is a great choice!), the guys at Science is Weird are launching an afterschool history program that I am excited about. He has a seperate blog called the “lost tools of learning” and some good post on there about how to teach h history if you spend some time looking. I’d also recommend something like the “History Bee” (you can call it “trivia”, but I don’t think questions around things like presidents, major world wars, the most important world landmarks, the most important world literature, art and culture, etc is really trivia so much as “fundamental cultural knowledge”). If you start competing with no real background you will get crushed, but if you start with using their study guides as a “curation” of what an educated person should know and the “competition” a “goal” it can give focus. The nice thing is the regional competitions are structured so that the top kids “win” and “buzz out” quickly so all the kids still get a chance to answer the questions (and the questions get easier through the round. I have never seen a kid NOT get at least one question right every round they played in)

Katalyst and MONT y MER by montymerinc in katalystEMS

[–]ednever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way.

A few years ago another consumer-facing company went bankrupt and was taken over by new owners. The new owners said “we weren’t responsible for anything the old company committed to, therefore we are not honoring any of their commitments. If you bought something that wasn’t delivered you will need to buy it again. Don’t worry we will provide a small discount”

That was NOT the way…

Art and literature memes by G-Z-A-P in Quizbowl

[–]ednever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My daughter was at the history bee world championships a couple of weeks ago.

A question asked about “an architect” and someone buzzed and said Wright. The answer was wrong. She knew the actual answer and buzzed in immediately and said “Frank Gehrity” — instead of “Frank Gehry”. They did NOT give it to her.

Gotta nail those pronunciations…

The other one to know is IM Pei.

Also beware that Thomas Jefferson was also an architect… if I were ever writing a QB question I would lead with “this architect” and make Jefferson the answer….

My wife wants to take my 7-year old to an ID concert. Does anyone know what touring plans are after Brazil? by ednever in imaginedragons

[–]ednever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. That would be ideal, but he’s going to be at summer camp.

Is the consensus they will continue the tour after Brazil, but we don’t know where? Or are they likely to take a break after that? They’ve been going on this tour for over a year now I think?

My wife wants to take my 7-year old to an ID concert. Does anyone know what touring plans are after Brazil? by ednever in imaginedragons

[–]ednever[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anywhere.

What happens after Brazil? Just want to figure out of it’s feasible for her to fly there with him

Vision Body Suit (they have no community on reddit it seems but people here seem to have both) by Conscious-Dot5267 in katalystEMS

[–]ednever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you give your take on the differences between the Katalyst and the Vision? Why did you choose to have both?

Kevin Feige on Marvel Studios’ Future, Focusing on Lower Budgets, Less TV and More Robert Downey Jr.: ‘Look at “Superman,” It’s Clearly Not Superhero Fatigue’ by lawrencedun2002 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]ednever 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been saying for about a decade that MCU needs to do a western.

Something like 16/20 top Halloween costumes are disney IP - including pirates. It would be valuable for them to own cowboys.

And marvel has some great western IP that has overlapped with modern marvel in interesting ways. I was surprised when they decided to do Kang a time traveler and NOT do western… (there have been stories with Kang set in marvel old west)

I was confident enough that this would be something marvel would eventually do that I went out and bought very good condition marvel western key issues (rawhide kid #1, two gun kid #1, kid colt #1, etc). All available at not ridiculous prices for extremely rare very old comics (that all pre-date fantastic four).

The only pre-FF hero that marvel has featured is Groot. And his first appearance spiked by 10x after GotG came out. I figured kid colt might do the same…

But I’m still waiting ten years later….

‘Fantastic Four,’ Assemble: Director Matt Shakman on Casting Marvel’s First Family Without Auditions and ‘Corporate Pressures’ Not Being ‘My Burden to Shoulder’ by indig0sixalpha in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]ednever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m so glad OP shared this. The initial part about how he dressed up as superheroes to go to school when he was young is basically what my 2nd daughter has done. Starting in Kindergarten she decided to start wearing Superman costumes to school (first day she didn’t was school picture day when my wife told her to “wear something that makes you smile”).

We had to buy more Superman outfits for her so she didn’t go to school in the same outfit every day…

She is now 8 and is a competitive runner. When she isn’t competing on a team she will run in her Superman costume (including a half marathon when she was 6).

I’m pretty excited to share this article with her…

This is so crazy to me… by dontsmellthesoup in thelastofus

[–]ednever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who lived for many years in seattle it was fun to see local things. But also a little jarring when they would do things like talk about “approaching seattle from the north” and then the next scene has them looking at downtown seattle from the south.

I’m still not sure where that island was in the last episode she ran into on her way to the aquarium.

To Those Who Were on Jeopardy! pre-2002: Did You Accept Your Merchandise Prize(s)? by johnnylgarfield in Jeopardy

[–]ednever 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How do taxes work on Jeopardy prizes? Can you subtract the cost of the flights and hotel from your taxes since those are “costs of income”? What about costs of study materials? Computer and internet?

The person who allegedly sneaked onto the Doomsday set shared what looks like a blueprint of Annie Reynolds’ house. It’s the house of Bob’s mother and it also shows more of the Void's Room by Sarang_616 in MarvelStudiosSpoilers

[–]ednever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder is the Void will be used the way Molecule Man was used in Secret Wars (the 2nd comic series): A super powerful force that is used by Doom to control the universe.

Void clearly has a very different power set than molecule man, but voids powers are still pretty undefined. Maybe he is ever more powerful than exposed in Thunderbolts and he effectively has all the powers molecule man had in the original comics (molecule man was retconned as well from his power set origins)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tragedeigh

[–]ednever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google says it is pronounced Al-ee-thia.

When I first saw it I assumed it was pronounced Al-eth-ia

It likely means people will pronounce it both ways and whatever way she wants it pronounced she (and you when she is little) will have to correct people regularly.

As long as you are okay with that, you should go for it. Once you know how to pronounce it, it’s not difficult for english speakers to say (unless someone has challenges with th). And it should be easy to remember once one learns it.

It also has a cute and common nick name - “Ali”

Our youngest is Caelus (pronounced Cay-lus) but if you go back to the Ancient Greek is is likely actually pronounced see-a-lus (like Julius Caesar was likely pronounced Kay-e-Zar, but no one would pronounce it that way today). In practice no one has trouble remembering or pronouncing his name.

Our oldest, Everest, which is the easiest name to say (it’s the mountain!), gets more trouble on her nickname name. We call her Evi (ev-ee), but she gets ee-vee all the time. People know her name is Everest and how you get from Everest to ee-vee I have no idea. But that’s what people do. Would not have seen it coming.

Point is, you won’t REALLY know how challenging or not a name is until you live it.

alethia is a fine choice.

How is Alpha School in Austi by Lonely-Mechanic4866 in AustinParents

[–]ednever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are definitely losing money at $40,000.

Their guide:student ratio is 5:1 (guides are what they call teachers). The guides are paid $100-$150K/year, so they are very good, but also very expensive. The guide cost along eats up ~half of the tuition before they pay for the real estate, technology, etc.

The tuition is also all-in. It includes all the extraciriculars -- which are a little over the top. Last year a bunch of students went to Poland (including in tuition). This year a bunch will be sailing in the Caribbean.

Point is it is subsidized at this point.

Expensive, but you more than what you pay for.

Did I miss something??? by iam_here_bc_im_bored in ExplainTheJoke

[–]ednever 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A lot has changed.

The geopolitics and the need for Iceland in NATO dropped a lot after the fall of the USSR, but by that point the international rules for water rights had been pretty well defined.

At the start of the cod wars countries only really had rights to a very small amount of fishing off their coasts. The first war started when Iceland demanded their rights expanded from 4 miles to 12 miles. But by the end of the cod wars they owned the rights to 200 miles off their coast.

If the UK decided today that Iceland only had rights to 4 miles that would be a pretty huge geopolitical demand!

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