Fair enough - but when they are encountered (online) they seem to have a level of fannish enthusiasm not seen since the heyday of Harry Potter. And maybe the show even deserves it! But it is unusual for a Broadway musical - we actually kind of agree.

There is no real way to measure this, but it seems to me that the hype for Hamilton has already reached levels far higher than hype for The Book of Mormon ever did. Hamilton fans seem to be omnipresent and relentless.

I bow to your superior knowledge, as Ben Stein used to say.

You could figure it out if you knew that there were only three active volcanoes in Italy and this was the only one of the three on a tiny island. I myself did not know any of that either, but someone with the right knowledge base could figure it out without having read the book.

It also made the contestants do a tiny bit more mental work - I don't think the clue ever explicitly said the characters came out from a volcano, but you were supposed to infer that if they went in one they came out another.

Actually, I think Arex knows this and meant to write "latter." The point of Arex's post was - Lewis told the girl he preferred chronological order, but he didn't really care, he probably said that just to be nice and agree with the person who bothered to write him the letter, and he never changed the order himself,…

True - each verse could be a different story even though some of them seem to overlap in themes.

The already-vague storyline present in the first three verses more or less disintegrates as the song goes along, so I am not sure what the line in question is supposed to mean. Apparently Bowie changed it to "man" in later concerts.

Each song transitions to the next via a shared word.

It is hard to picture Robert Smith socking anyone of either sex in the jaw.

Is Brooks oversimplifying the story, or is this barely comprehensible website burying it in jargon unnecessarily?:

As others have said above/below - strategy can be saved for the game. The in-person test is pretty much identical in format and in difficulty level to the online test. The mock game seems to be mostly for show. I hate to say this when you are already worried about the issue, but the personality interview seems to…

That was two remakes ago. The short-lived GSN version was back to seven (if I recall correctly - it came and went so quickly that maybe my memory is wrong).

You know how sometimes you wake up with a song in your head for no clear reason? This morning it was "Changes." Then I heard that David Bowie had died. Unlike most other posters in this thread I was never really a Bowie superfan, but I might have to become one now.

Oh, Brian! Are we going to do anything, or are you just going to show me films all night?

Does he also know the answers (I mean the questions) before they are revealed? It seems as if whenever he says "This is an easy one - I bet everyone got it right," that always proves to be true.

Lithgow already played FDR (a better match physically and temperamentally) in a long-go TV movie about the Big Three in World War II. Bob Hoskins was Churchill and Michael Caine (!) was Stalin.

I agree. The principal flaw of the show was not that it was "kid-friendly" but more like the opposite - the satire was too often heavy-handed and/or completely over the head of kids.

Steve Carell has spoken more than once about how mocking weirdos made him feel guilty and almost physically sick. Maybe Stephen Colbert has also. My own memory is that those pieces could be in questionable taste but were not quite that bad.

I would be curious to know what the actual quotation is behind that FJ paraphrase.