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According to all known laws
of aviation,

there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.

Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.

The bee, of course, flies anyway

because bees don't care
what humans think is impossible.

Yellow, black. Yellow, black.
Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

Ooh, black and yellow!
Let's shake it up a little.

Barry! Breakfast is ready!

Ooming!

Hang on a second.

Hello?

- Barry?
- Adam?

- Oan you believe this is happening?
- I can't. I'll pick you up.

Mike Q

3. Venture babysitter

thecoder16

have you not seen that ever :P

Gareth McCaughan

1. Whatever can you do with my bow of burning gold?

Mike Q

@thecoder16 Is that the entire script? That better not be the entire script.

ffao

1': Memetically titled sequel

thecoder16

9:19 PM

@MikeQ you bet it's the entire script :P

Gareth McCaughan

contact 1' @ffao maybe

though I hope my guess is wrong

thecoder16

just, ah, don't click see full text

Jan Dvorak

Too late :'-(

thecoder16

oh wait it doesn't matter it just scrolls nvm

Gareth McCaughan

2. Left, right, left, right, left, right ...

oops no

ffao

9:20 PM

@GarethMcCaughan I don't know what to think from that :P

Gareth McCaughan

2 is invalid

Mike Q

31. Where a tree grows

Jan Dvorak

1) braze, perhaps?

Gareth McCaughan

(didn't notice new letters)

(2 was BOUSTROPHEDONIC which would have been fine had we not had the R)

Jan Dvorak

31 brook, perhaps?

pass 1'

Mike Q

9:21 PM

31 Not really

Gareth McCaughan

I fear 1' may be B-MOVIE

Mike Q

But that's not BR

ffao

we're on BR-, gareth

Gareth McCaughan

oh expletive

sorry

I have no brain

Mike Q

I think I know what 1' could be though, but it's too late.

ffao

9:22 PM

do I still have to give it up?

thecoder16

yeah

ffao

1' was Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo

Jan Dvorak

31 a branch comes to mind

Mike Q

Yep. As I thought.

Gareth McCaughan

(someone star my 1 at some point?)

thecoder16

9:24 PM

(done)

Gareth McCaughan

thanks

Mike Q

32: Controversial apatosaur

Gareth McCaughan

contact 32 @MikeQ

Mike Q

33: Not-controversial apatosaur

Jan Dvorak

pass 32

Gareth McCaughan

9:25 PM

I think 32 is BRONTOSAURUS, though 33 has me full of fear I've got mixed up.

Mike Q

32 is indeed BRONTOSAUR(US), and 33 is not.

direct hit

cor

Wow what, really?

wow o_O

9:25 PM

was 33 BRACHIOSAURUS perhaps? I have no idea whether that's an apatosaur and vaguely thought not

Mike Q

Yes, 33 was brachiosaur(us)

Gareth McCaughan

yay

1 was BRING (from William Blake's poem known commonly, but not by him, as "Jerusalem")

Jan Dvorak

Oh. I was expecting a cryptic clue.

Gareth McCaughan

("Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire! Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire!")

Mike Q

31 was BROOKLYN, 3 was BROCK SAMSON

Gareth McCaughan

9:27 PM

so it's @MikeQ again

Mike Q

Sigh, okay.

Mike defending: I

Gareth McCaughan

1. That

2. Castilian

Mike Q

2 is IBERIAN?

Gareth McCaughan

3. Unlike the hippopotamus

2 is not IBERIAN, though if I'd noticed that it could be I'd have avoided the clue.

Mike Q

Come on people. This is a freebie round.

Jan Dvorak

9:29 PM

contact 1 :P

contact 1

Pass 1

I

really?

yes, 1 was I

(for the Romans, too)

Mike Q

Wow direct hit. Defended word was "I"✔️✔️

Gareth McCaughan

9:29 PM

you are allowed just to decline to defend...

ffao

this doesn't even count as a one-clue game

Mike Q

Oh look, whaddya know, it's Gareth's turn now

Gareth McCaughan

oh all right

Gareth defending T

Jan Dvorak

44: energy over work

Gareth McCaughan

@JanDvorak I wonder whether 44 is meant to be TIME, though that's not actually correct unless I'm confused.

(energy over power would be time, but energy and work are basically the same thing, no?)

Jan Dvorak

9:31 PM

44 was time. I guess I should check my physics.

I meant work in the sense of power. Incorrectly?

mdc32

I thought work and power were the same

Gareth McCaughan

nope

mdc32

Never mind work is joules

Mike Q

30. Sea of Galilee

Gareth McCaughan

@MikeQ I think 30 might be TIBERIAN or something closely related; certainly a bunch of things around there are named after Tiberius.

Mike Q

9:33 PM

30 is TIBERIAS.

Gareth McCaughan

(I knew something was called Tiberias but vaguely thought it was a city. For the avoidance of doubt, this isn't calling your rightness into question.)

amazing how few words beginning with T are known by the assembled multitude

Mike Q

31. Quetzalcoatl worship city

Gareth McCaughan

@MikeQ I am not going to be able to spell this at all.

mdc32

3. Kruskal's are large

contact 31 for spelling

Gareth McCaughan

@mdc32 you're missing some boldface but I expect you mean TREES

mdc32

9:35 PM

yeah forgot about bold, my bad

Jan Dvorak

contact 31 for back-up

Mike Q

32. It's like death and childbirth, supposedly

Gareth McCaughan

I think I can probably manage an approximate anagram of 31 but honestly I don't think that should be good enough. So pass 31.

Jan Dvorak

45: future is in the cards

mdc32

Tenochtitlan

Mike Q

9:37 PM

Not the city unfortunately @mdc32

Gareth McCaughan

(I was just thinking "I didn't think my hazy memory was that far out")

@JanDvorak 31?

Wrong one nvm

Same as MDC32

Teotihuacan

phew

9:37 PM

Wait, those aren't the same city?

Gareth McCaughan

though if mdc32's second one is right, I was even further out than I thought

mdc32

I always get those confused

Mike Q

The correct answer was TEOTIHUACAN. Tenochtitlan was not the city.

Jan Dvorak

Aren't they the same?

Mike Q

No. Teotihuacan is the place with the actual Temple of the Feathered Serpent

Gareth McCaughan

9:38 PM

so, anyway, @MikeQ, perhaps 32 is TAX or TAXES (proverbially inevitable, though I don't remember the same being said about childbirth)

and @JanDvorak probably 45 is TAROT

Jan Dvorak

45 is correct

Mike Q

32 was TAXES, it was a recent puzzle

Gareth McCaughan

oh

I have the memory of a goldfish

(no wonder the goldfish is so forgetful)

mdc32

8. Either Marcus Mariota or a teenage cartoon

Mike Q

32. Star phenomenon

33. Prehistoric video game

34. Antagonist of 33

Gareth McCaughan

9:44 PM

wow, a veritable onslaught of Stuff I Know Nothing About

@MikeQ I don't see how 33 could be TETRIS but let's try it anyway

thecoder16

and clearly, also the rest of us :P

mdc32

22. Archaeologist Howard Carter's claim to fame

thecoder16

i don't see how tetris has an antagonist :P

Gareth McCaughan

no, that's why it probably isn't the answer

Mike Q

33 is not TETRIS

contact 22

Gareth McCaughan

9:46 PM

@mdc32 22 is presumably either TUT-ANKH-AMUN or TOMB ROBBERY :-)

thecoder16

contact 33 very very very very shakily

mdc32

tutankhamun, but i like the alternate answer

Gareth McCaughan

pass 33 in the hope that thecodr16's contact is shaky enough

apologies for missing e

thecoder16

uh, TERRARIA?

Mike Q

No, 33 was TUROK

Gareth McCaughan

9:47 PM

phew

ffao

hmm, I thought that for 33

Gareth McCaughan

though that may have enabled someone else to get 34 which I'm still stuck on

thecoder16

didn't know that one

ffao

but I didn't see the antagonist

mdc32

contact 34 maybe?

Gareth McCaughan

9:48 PM

@MikeQ is 32 TIDES or something of the kind perhaps?

Mike Q

No, 32 is not TIDES

ffao

contact 34

Gareth McCaughan

pass 34 since I have no idea

mdc32

T-Rex?

Gareth McCaughan

(I wish I'd been 20 seconds quicker about it thought)

(though)

Mike Q

9:49 PM

34 was indeed T(YRANNOSAURUS) REX. "Prehistoric" was the context clue, even for those unfamiliar with the game.

ffao

I had the same guess as mdc, so it wouldn't have mattered

Gareth McCaughan

Gareth defending: T E

ffao

but mdc was right, so it didn't matter any way

mdc32

8 dies (TITAN)

Mike Q

32 dies (TWINKLE)

Gareth McCaughan

9:50 PM

hah, I was trying to think of much more astrophysical things than twinkling :-)

Mike Q

32'. How to observe 32

Gareth McCaughan

@MikeQ perhaps 32' is with a TELESCOPE

Mike Q

32' yes, you can use a TELESCOPE to watch stars TWINKLE

mdc32

12. Nikola

Gareth McCaughan

@mdc32 12 is surely TESLA

Rand al'Thor

9:53 PM

Ooh, Gareth defending?

Time for some obscure clues.

Gareth McCaughan

o hai

mdc32

8'. Home of the 8s

Rand al'Thor

1: downtown Mexico City

Gareth McCaughan

@Randal'Thor I don't suppose 1 is TENOCHTITLAN or TEOTIHUACAN which we had earlier in the game?

Sp3000

7. JOIZLST

Mike Q

9:59 PM

33. Where to find the Eye of Cthulhu or Wall of Flesh

mdc32

contact 33

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