Grapesmoker opined: << Although he was born in London, he was claimed as a distant cousin by Ricky during a marathon performance of "Babaloo."**>> Another egregious example. If you know about Ricky Ricardo, you will might get this question off the fake clue without knowing anything at all about David Ricardo other than that he existed. What happens here is that not only is a fake riddle clue used as a tossup clue, but it's a trash clue to an academic answer!" What is wrong with a trash clue to an academic answer, or an academic clue to a trash answer? I would not argue every question should have that, but why shouldn't some? Not every tournament can or should be purity. The ability to fuse knowledge across disciplines (and frankly Lucy is as a legitimate part of culture and askable as Amahl and the Night Visitors and so-called high culture) should be a fundamental part of the game (and used to be). Let's try one from Chicago's pack which I thought one of the best of DeepBench "11. Tossup: When he visited a phrenologist at age 11, this future Nobel laureate was told that he was clueless mathematically and had no respect for property rights.** In the 1930s, he used the idea of marketing costs to discuss Soviet economics, and at a 1960 dinner party, he famously convinced the entire University of Chicago economics faculty -- including Milton Friedman -- of the truth of his namesake theorem. FTP, name this man, whose theorem holds that if property rights are established, no government action is needed to deal with externalities. Answer: Ronald Coase " -- dml
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