Learned League

the baconator was one of those answers where i realized 'everyone is going to know this except me'

My A rundle did worse than the league average on that one. Both my opponent and I missed it.

Yesterday's tiny slip might have actually helped me narrow it down. I lost anyway so not going to lose sleep over it but yeah, for future reference.

I have a friend who I sometimes talk to about questions on the day of after we have both submitted. I *believe* that is legit, please correct me if I am wrong.

Ha, was wondering about the baconator get rate, I couldn't remember it and figured "everyone else" would know as well.

As for the KISS question, I was pleasantly surprised to get it right since "Paul Stanley" was a wild guess. (I thought it was possible that at least one of them was self-titled and for some reason Stanley seemed more likely than the others.)

i owe getting that (and so much more) to 'back in the new york groove'

I could picture the album covers and was thinking they’ve got to have their names in the title, could it be “Ace Alive”? “Ace Solo”? which wasn’t converging but then I stumbled upon the obvious. I guess I might have figured it out anyway, even without the tiny boost.

I went with "Criss Live" which was probably not the most likely answer in any case.

Somewhere else yesterday I was reminded that he was a good friend of Jerry Nolan of The New York Dolls (maybe one was best man at the other’s wedding) and almost played drums for them himself instead.

the baconator was one of those answers where i realized 'everyone is going to know this except me'

Not me, I was startled that so many people knew the name of a random sandwich, but I live in an area where there's not a ton of Wendy's, maybe it has more penetration elsewhere.

BTW I also strongly endorse the "never say anything no matter how vague and seemingly innocuous about today's questions" policy

"baconator" was a late night talk show punchline for awhile

Realistically there was no way we would be expected to know the names of KISS solo albums so I assumed it had to be some sort of trick.

See I just put the only thing I could think of but didn't think there was a meaningful probability of being right

I went with Live Frehley which I assume would be followed up by ...Or Die Hardley

lol

i answered “the demon”

i am not that knowledgeable about kiss but decades of skimming through used records was all i needed to get that one

I’m old enough to remember when it came out and seem to recall valuable candy store record section real estate being taken up to display all four.

Really convinced myself a Dalmatian was a toy breed

I guessed Friesland (which I misspelled as "Frisland"), thinking of a Bichon Frise. Too far west, and "frise" is apparently just French for "curly."

Totally feel for Dalmatian as well.

tried to pretend borzhoi was something it wasn't

Remote coworker has a pom that he showed off on Slack to much adulation, so the breed definitely came to me quickly, but I wasn't sure about deriving the region so just entered the breed and got credit.

tongue kiss is not the name of a 1979 kiss member solo album

and that bright, shiny burrowing flop monster is a caterpillar, not a worm.

who knew.

I wouldn't worry too much about not getting the Kiss question right, a certain Rock Star didn't get it either, I just saw on the Message Board.

a certain Rock Star

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jaymc pointed that out. That's what her flag is.

https://www.learnedleague.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=12886&p=190265#p190265

DO U SEE?

I don't know about the etiquette about talking about other players, but said player is high-profile enough in a couple different ways that you can connect the dots relatively easily.

I don't know the etiquette totally either so don't want to talk too readily, but that link is only visible with a login so hopefully I am showing showing some discretion.

lol, that's awesome

Think the finals first reveal happens now

Oh no, 10PM PDT.

Ken Jennings in the top ten of round one I think

i'm in 58th, seven points ahead of some rutter guy

not surprised so many people got 11/12 right on round 1, it was definitely the easiest of the four - i'm very curious to see what happens in round 2 (to say nothing of round 3, which was a fucking nightmare)

I am in 110th place, in honor of Bobby Womack. I too have an embarrassing performance in R3 to reckon with, assuming that I qualify.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOg_8hCC4u4
Learned League Championship is a helluva tester

to say nothing of round 3, which was a fucking nightmare)
So I have heard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjwzTSOwUC0
Thorsten wont let contestants go free

I've never finished higher than 7th (in an A rundle), so I've never really paid much attention to the championship.

Wonder how many more participants will show up on this thread today..

Wow, good work.

I'm not sure how to feel about how much of my high score was due to my knowledge of pro wrestling and crappy comic strips, but there we are. My reckoning is coming in Round 3 (spoiler alert)

now i wanna know the crappy comic strip questions

"Most comic strip characters never age. Notable exceptions include those in Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury, and the Patterson family in what strip written and drawn by Lynn Johnston from 1979 to 2008?"

ah, that would've been my moment to shine too.

boxcar!

lol, i still have a boxcar coffee mug somewhere

The other guy rode his boxcar all the way to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ajzQ2fRLM

Would've been 50/50 for me on the strips question because I can never remember if it's For Better Or Worse or For Better Or For Worse (I think it's the former).