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Excellent to be able to probably exclude two of them! I wasn't seeing A as a very real option, but B was my main favourite. I barely know a thing about Star Wars neither, but I do feel at least one of these three would sound at least a tiny bit familiar if it was C, but none of them do. I'm going for D, Zen rituals.

It is a hard choice....there is a certain direction I'm leaning towards (B) and I'd like the input of @dcro in this.

I don't want to run out with a lifeline still being open, so I'm going to call in an expert here to see if my doubts can be redirected somewhat.

Awesome, at least I'm going to be on the board with a significant amount of points

With one in particular....one being both an available expert here and the Totallympics equestrian encyclopedia.

This one I know, I believe! If I'm not mistaken, quarantaine rules (how 2021 of those 1950's people) made it as good as impossible to have the equestrian events in Australia, where the rest of the Olympics were held. Therefore, they were held in....C, Stockholm!

And in case I would have had to choose, I probably would have gone for D, maybe him turning into a dragon was the last revelation I have really no idea.

I believe we have two experts in the house, one of which I don't really think is much of a hardcore gamer and the other one (who probably isn't neither) is too young for the early Tomb Raider stuff I would say, so going for the expert lifeline seems awfully tricky. The only Tomb Raider experience I have from ages ago is that there's a tiger which is hard to kill and a big house with a cool gym and a maze in the garden, but that's not very helpful here Switch, please!

Never, I'm amazed at the variety and creativity of the questions

I mean come on, Carlie Kaufman?

I am going to hope there isn't more to this than I think. I am fairly certain there are two Coen brothers involved in the making of movies, although I have no idea whatsoever as to what their first names are. Then again, the simple fact that Cohen minus 'h' makes Coen, which is a name I think is involved in making movies, is too much to overlook for me, the other options just seem like grasping at straws if I'd go for them. I'm going for A, Joel Cohen.

Ah, and sodium is apparently natrium in Dutch, that sounds more familiar indeed.

Kalium, I knew it! As soon as I saw the K, I thought "kalium!", and then was disappointed that was not one of the answers

Hold on, I'm quickly going to get some light in here...

It really makes it significantly harder in the case of this specific question that it's in English. Especially potassium is entirely different in Dutch, but I do believe that might be the right one. I vaguely remember the single K element not starting with a K, but that doesn't really help a whole lot in this case. I can't really remember the other three, but still I have a hunch potassium is the one that's got a K in the periodic table. I'd say chromium and zirconium have a symbol which makes more sense (from their English names of course), sodium probably doesn't, but still I am going for C, potassium.

Shouldn't have brought up my story about The Major, she'll definitely mess with my lights if I get this wrong...

If C and D had been removed, I'd have been certain it was A Oh well, certain enough now

Did we go to commercials?

Well, unfortunately the one I was most certain about as being wrong (B) has been removed, so that still makes it hard...I'm not sure there is a term for being obsessed with relaxing noises and there definitely are terms for people obsessed with everything Japanese, so I'm going for A, Japanese culture.

Ouch, this is a seriously tough one. There is one answer of which I'm at least 70% certain it's wrong, but that's not enough...I'd like a 50:50.

Real Madrid is obviously not playing it's home games in Barcelona, that'd be weird. Sporting isn't even Spanish, so them playing their home games in Barcelona would be even weirder! There might be other Athletic's, but the one I know of is Athletic de Bilbao, and if there's one thing I know about Bilbao, it's that it isn't Barcelona. C, Espanyol it is, which I am going to assume is the anti-independence enemy of the Catalans of Barcelona.

Habemus punctorum

Ha, only when seeing answer D did I realize these might not all be real names! Julius doesn't really sound like a 17th century British name, Dominic Gammon doesn't ring a bell in the slightest. I think I've heard Francis Bacon be mentioned in the 'Stuff You Missed In History' podcast, but I might be wrong. Still, I am going for B, Francis Bacon, at the risk of looking like a complete fool for possibly choosing a meaty yet fake name.

And with that, the 20 minute video with background music has already ended

Joe Diden, Donald Nrump, Barack Obama, George Sush....I mean, one fits, but that's about it. I don't recall Nauru winning a FIFA World Cup recently, whereas I don't know the names of many Shakespeare plays at all. B it is, months of the year!