<< 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. >> Ok, granted, I'm a purist. I think trash should be trash and academic should be academic. However, if you're going to use a trash clue in an academic question, don't use it as the first clue. When you do that, you give a potential advantage to the more knowledgeable trash player over someone who actually knows the subject being asked. << 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). >> I agree with you on the fusion of knowledge; that's what a packet distribution is for. I don't know how legitimate a part of culture Lucy and Ricky are; I don't care for them and don't consider their work high culture. I also don't know who Amahl and the Night Visitors are. << 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.**>> A great lead in, if it's true. It's pertinent to the topic and give a suitable clue for the individual in question. Jerry
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