Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2018 June 20

= June 20 =

hee haw
How come Buck Trent is not shown as a cast member on Hee Haw? He had a regular spot where he played the banjo and sang a little "poem". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1007:B000:965F:5065:FFC6:EAA9:E171 (talk) 00:51, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Assuming that's true, what's stopping YOU from adding it? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:23, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


 * It says both on the Buck Trent page and the Hee Haw page that Bucket Trent was a cast member in Hee Haw. Is there another page where he's not shown as a cast member?-- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 01:32, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Why was the Brazil 2014 World Cup high scoring?
2.7 goals per game. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 21:26, 20 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Why is this question not in clear English? HiLo48 (talk) 22:36, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The infobox in 2014 FIFA World Cup says "Goals scored 171 (2.67 per match)". I guess the question is "Why is this number high?" 1998 FIFA World Cup also says 2.67, 1994 FIFA World Cup says 2.71, and 1982 FIFA World Cup says 2.81. 2.67 is higher than in 2002, 2006 and 2010, but that may just be a coincidence in a small sample of 64 matches. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:58, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If we remove just one match from the 2014 tournament, the semifinal Germany-Brazil with its 8 goals, the average is already reduced to 2.59 (163 goals in 63 matches). The 1982 world cup had Hungary - El Salvador, 10:1. Removing that reduces the tournament average from 2.81 to 2.65. That shows that individual high-scoring matches can indeed have a strong influence on the average. To look for more subtle effects, like trends and fashions in game tactics, one would have to look at more robust statistics, like the median number of goals per match. --Wrongfilter (talk) 23:12, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * In fairness, the 2010 World Cup did have many fewer goals than 2014 (2.27 per game). Also, the later stages of the 2014 tournament generally had fewer goals than the group stages and round of 16, with the exception of that 7–1 semifinal. There were five 0–0 or 1–0 scorelines in the last eight matches, which helped drag down the overall average (offsetting Germany–Brazil). This Washington Post article from the early part of the 2014 World Cup attributes the increase in goals from 2010 in part to more aggressive play in the early stages, which this New Republic article claims was an extension of larger trends in the sport that favor goal-scoring. So far, however, there haven't been as many goals this year. As I type this, the average in 2018 is 2.41 goals per match, and that's after a seven-goal match today. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 15:26, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Marionettes controlled with ten strings attached to the ten fingers
I saw years ago (before YouTube even existed) some videos of a style of marionettes (string puppets) controlled with ten strings from the ten fingers of the puppeteer's hands as here or here (in these two pictures you've only got one hand but in the videos I saw the puppeteer was using both hands for one marionette). That puppeteer was very skilled and the realism was impressive. But I can't find anything about this style of marionette either in WP or on the Web. Any sources you can think of? Any other query and search ideas? How would I specify this particular style of marionette to make the search more efficient? Thanks. Basemetal 23:26, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Ten-string marionette? I don't see why it should be called anything else.--Shantavira|feed me 07:41, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
 * In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they're not. In theory, you're right. In practice, Google and see what you get. Actually, in this case, there might even be a theoretical reason why: ten strings does not necessarily mean ten strings attached to the fingers. Traditional styles of string puppets can also use ten strings. Basemetal  11:17, 22 June 2018 (UTC)