tintinnabulation wrote:I'm just waiting to get something historical off of an episode of Doctor Who. It's bound to happen sometime.
Plan Rubber wrote:tintinnabulation wrote:I'm just waiting to get something historical off of an episode of Doctor Who. It's bound to happen sometime.
I'm pretty sure this has happened for me, although I can't remember any specific examples at the moment. However, terrible art player me did learn to associate van Gogh and Arles from that one.
ScoBo wrote:In high school (back in the dark ages when pyramidal tournaments were practically nonexistent in Missouri) I once answered a question on Minnesota when it mentioned Mankato as a city in the state. I learned that from reading Best Buy newspaper ads, which at that time had fine print on several pages indicating that certain items weren't available in the store there.
The Hub (Gainesville, Florida) wrote:As far as pyramidal questions go, I've answered multiple US geography questions in my career simply because I've always loved a good road atlas and have answered on clues (like geographic features, landmarks, and cities) that I saw on the map.
bmcke wrote:A teammate once first-lined "Whitehorse" because the tossup mentioned her grandfather.
(Plus if I remember these forums right, Ted Gioia has accomplished similar.)
bmcke wrote:A teammate once first-lined "Whitehorse" because the tossup mentioned her grandfather.
(Plus if I remember these forums right, Ted Gioia has accomplished similar.)
Serious Games Showcase and Challenge wrote:Consequently I have nontrivial knowledge about those things. Tales of Symphonia is a great source of Norse myth answerlines.
ACPackers wrote:I don't know if this fits in the category or not, but I was watching Braveheart and it inspired me to research the major characters and battles and the I saw the new captain america movie and for fun I researched the Red Skull and two days later the red skull and edward 3 came up in practice and i knew them.
mhayes wrote:ACPackers wrote:I don't know if this fits in the category or not, but I was watching Braveheart and it inspired me to research the major characters and battles and the I saw the new captain america movie and for fun I researched the Red Skull and two days later the red skull and edward 3 came up in practice and i knew them.
The antagonist was actually Edward I.
But be careful, because Braveheart is loaded with historical inaccuracies. William Wallace probably wasn't Edward III's father...
Internet appliance wrote:I learned a good amount of my norse myth knowledge from reading a guidebook for age of mythology :/
Serious Games Showcase and Challenge wrote:What is it like to be a Batman? wrote:Atlee Hammaker wrote:One of my better buzzes, powering Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Gunpei Yokoi, was actually an artifact of my deep Achewood knowledge.
EDIT: Oh, and the only reason I know who Cesare Borgia is is that he's mentioned in Killah Priest's "B.I.B.L.E." at the end of GZA's Liquid Swords, and I've managed to snag tossups at the end because I know he's the "second son of Pope Alexander." I should probably look him up for real, though.
Or you could play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and that'll give you a sufficient amount of Cesare Borgia knowledge.
AustinlSmith wrote:At the past two tournaments or practices I've gone to, I have gotten questions based off school names from this forum. For example, I read a sample NHBB packet and got a question about the state quarter with Caesar Rodney on it because of that school being on this forum.
Cheynem wrote:Andrew Hart recently went to Europe and when he came back he gave me a souvenir, a postcard with a picture of Joseph Wright of Derby's painting about the bird and the air pump. Now I had written on that dude/painting before, but hadn't really thought of it in a while, so this reminded me of what it looked like and what Wright's name was, so I buzzed on it at Nats.
itsthatoneguy wrote:Numberphile (http://tinyurl.com/7wkayo2): These are pretty cool videos about mathematics. They aren't very technical, but are highly amusing. I really like the one about Graham's Number.
a joke about the use/mention distinction wrote:Learned about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and General Dyer (who was a third bonus part at NSC) from a rap song.
blizzard wrote:Watching The Amazing Race has helped me get geography questions. The song "Say You'll Go" by Janelle Monae first taught me what samsara is. Also, the cover of The Archandroid, also by Janelle Monae, led me to having a brief understanding of the plot of the film Metropolis. The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde has helped me with some literature questions.
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