Learned League

Wanted to plug the upcoming HEAVY METAL ML that I contributed to (my first ML!).

Cool! I registered.

Just submitted on Goth and Gothic and Music Theory.

Only missed one on Music Theory which means I wasn’t one of the umpteenth champs or perfect 12s. Just couldn’t come up with the words Secondary Dominant although of course I am very familiar with the concept.

No one else here played Godard except me?

In the run-up zone now.

Into the top 50 of Music Subgenres and got all 12 questions! (And I was just two moneys from a higher percentile.) I expect that's the closest I'll ever come to winning one.

Cool. I just didn’t feel like playing that one.

not sure why i signed up for the metal mini-league; i'm gonna get my ass kicked

Ha, me too, but I don’t think I mind that so much.

It's because yall can't resist my wiles.

Hah! Almost didn’t see your name!

I created another difficult one. Play at your own risk!

FWIW I would've gotten at most 2 questions in the metal MD1.

Heh, been doing this for so long I have a pretty good idea of how many will play and who will do well.

Interesting story about the extinct Celtic language from yesterday’s Metal ML.

Opened with a 9(6) and in first place, only one way to go from here.

Up, up and away?

James, I dismissed that as a bit of cheek at the time and yet after the first week I'm still undefeated! It's been an incredible run of luck with both the questions (my QvH is currently 129, which is pretty unsustainable) and opponents (lowest CAA).

nice work, Leee!

Well, I'm in the midst of my regression back to the mean!

Also, my OQL team played Greg's last week, but I wasn't in the lineup. Sorry to miss you!

good job jaymc getting #1 in the "just audio produced by" one-day. i surprisingly got #11 despite missing a question.

!!!

I forgot to check yesterday, but I had a good feeling about my chances.

Meanwhile, I came in 93rd %ile in Butts.

(I forgot to submit the producers one!)

Finished first on the Comedy Bang Bang 1DS, this time shared with 22 (!) others.

Feel like that quiz could've been much harder than it was. A question about a Red Hot Chili Peppers parody song included an audio clip and asked what band the song was parodying. A question about the character of Dabney Coleperson included a photo of Dabney Coleman and said the character's name was "very similar...but with a gender neutral surname." Both questions very gettable without any familiarity with the podcast/TV show, which was slightly annoying because I would've gotten those right even without the extra hints.

i think one of my answers was misscored for that, it says i got andrew lloyd webber wrong but i'm pretty sure i would have gotten it. i'm not going to worry about it for a one-day though, i got another question wrong so i wouldn't have been at the top anyways.

is there a way i can see my answers? i wonder if i had some kind of mental blip

oh i found it. i put "webber" and it was marked wrong. was "lloyd webber" the required answer?

i also found it pretty easy - i haven't listened to the podcast regularly in years, aside from the end-of-year best-ofs, so i expected it to be harder

was "lloyd webber" the required answer?

I assume so. It's a double-barreled surname.

So yesterday's literature question...

Use your words, please?

Yeah, what about it?

I know it's technically frowned upon to ask about low get rates but I thought more people might know that

WECIB?

Literature is already a sub-0.500 topic among the entire player base, and then add in French AND poetry, and yeah, that's going to tank CA%. Like I said on the boards there, I have a hard time with French writers (if I'd remembered Baudelaire, I would've gotten it wrong), and my undergrad was in literature (albeit English), and really the only reason I got it was because of Dum Dum Girls.

I think I probably first learned about Verlaine and Rimbaud as a teenager interested in the Beat Generation writers (and their influences). I don't know very much about either of them, but the reference to one triggered the other. I was a little surprised at the get rate, too, but yeah, it makes sense that French poets would be a blind spot for a lot of folks.

Okay, y'all's responses are very reasonable, thanks.

iirc, Leee smithed a 1DS about one of the most famous books ever and maybe 125 people played.

TBH, I had a split second at the very beginning where my brane was telling me to put Paul Valéry but I quickly recovered.

one of those kinds of questions where a little bit of knowledge is more useful than a lot

bad season for me so far!

iirc, Leee smithed a 1DS about one of the most famous books ever and maybe 125 people played.

Snob-famous, and 236 players.

Oh, okay, sorry for low-balling you!

And sorry for unnecessary hyphen in “lowball.”

Yesterday’s literature question played much easier, because of the film, I presume.

Apocalypse Now? I don't know how many know about the connection to HOD, and I think it's more because it gets taught in HS.

I forgot that the real point I was making able my Ulysses 1D was that it did get more players than the John Grisham one, but a little fewer than Gabriel Garcia Marquez, so I think that novelists aren't the main thing that players care about. (Surprisingly, Faulkner got nearly double, but the point still kind of stands. )

I think 1DS participation is probably influenced by things like the day of the week, the other 1DSes on that day, etc. Personally, I tend not to look at the site during the off-season as regularly as I do during the main season, so I miss some 1DSes I might otherwise have been interested in.

As for Ulysses specifically, I'm sure a lot of people skipped the quiz because they've never read the book and assumed they wouldn't do well. (Yes, it is famous, but its fame is in part due to its reputation for being challenging. It's a book many people know about but few have read.) I might've done the same, but I think Lee mentioned it on here, so I decided to give it a go. FWIW, the general James Joyce 1DS from 2018 had 417 players, maybe because that one didn't require as much knowledge of a specific work.

Apocalypse Now? I don't know how many know about the connection to HOD, and I think it's more because it gets taught in HS.

Yeah, I was thinking more about the Rimbaud question and how Americans aren't very likely to come across him in a standard school curriculum, in which most literature taught is work originally written in English (except for ancient Greek lit, perhaps).

Whereas I did read (at least part of) Heart of Darkness in high school -- in 12th grade, iirc, which is when we focused on British literature. The fact that it's short and packed with symbolism lends itself to the classroom.

i got the verlaine/rimbaud question from reading about television/tom verlaine/richard hell

^this