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Was wondering how well Irving Berlin was known.

this is why my defense sucks, i guess

Defense is overrated.

had no idea on the mitford but no worries with irving berlin

I knew Mitfords would play hard. (Honestly, I'm not sure I would've known it if I hadn't recently learned that both of them wrote for my former employer.) Unfortunately, my opponent was British, which I figured gave him an advantage on both that question and the Fleabag one. He drank the beer; I missed Cootie.

I feel like you could write a much harder Irving Berlin question by not mentioning "God Bless America" and "White Christmas." Like if those were replaced with "Puttin' on the Ritz" and "There's No Business Like Show Business," which are still fairly widely known songs but not (I don't think) as closely associated with Berlin.

i should probably already have gotten this, what does "drank the beer" mean?

Got all six answers correctly

Learned League lingo for going 6-for-6 (i.e., a six-pack). See the glossary.

ah! i live in hope!

Aargh, don’t like the way I worded that

Just checked my stats, and I hit a 9(6) 9.4% of the time, so about twice per season. Not yet this season, though.

anybody on this thread got a six yet?

"drank the beer"

embarrassed to be involved with this

anybody on this thread got a six yet?

days 9 and 10 this season so far for me

embarrassed to be involved with this

― mookieproof, Saturday, March 7, 2020 11:04 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not as embarrassing as the Best Wrong Answers crowd

Otm, unfortunately. Stopped participating in that long ago. Seem to recall that a friend of ours started thread about that on LL message board.

i got a 9(6) on match day 6

home movies forever

see i thought "Space" but apparently SG: CtC wasn't adult swim yet

also hey maura!

hah, I said "Coast"

I love Best Wrong Answers and I will not apologize

(But I never go for BWA myself because I'm too competitive and if I can think of something I think has even a 1% chance of being right I put that)

same

Finally got my first 9(6) of the season, although I arguably shouldn't have been credited for "taro" instead of "toro."

(But I never go for BWA myself because I'm too competitive and if I can think of something I think has even a 1% chance of being right I put that)

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:23 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Same for me, too.

I find the Commissioner-selected BWAs mostly amusing. What I roll my eyes at is the thread of people bragging about their horribly formed jokes and saying "No love from the Commish??"

hell yes i got a musical right

did anyone guess CO-OP?

Not me. Annoyed at myself for putting “A Chorus Line.”

Hm, Company is currently, or was, I guess it’s dark right now due to the disease, running on Broadway.

I should probably adopt the all-caps title convention as used by jaymc and others.

did anyone guess CO-OP?

― jaymc, Friday, March 13, 2020 9:58 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ha, someone did: https://learnedleague.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&p=172400#p172381

5 out of 6, went Utopianism instead of Transcendentalism

company was also crucial to MARRIAGE STORY

Finally got my first 9(6) of the season, although I arguably shouldn't have been credited for "taro" instead of "toro."

As someone who got "toro" I too object to you getting credit for this

What, I said I was competitive

tbf, taro is a root not a tuna belly

i am, in a purely unearned stroke of amazing luck (61 out of 120 correct answers versus 33 correct answers and 1.27 points allowed per correct answer), first in my rookie rundle which has me inordinately excited.

the degree of pride i had for getting the Cliff Hangers question right is just embarrassing

Ha, I was totally stumped on that one. Nice work on 1st place!

thanks! i have taken to letting things percolate A LOT longer than i would've thought i needed to and my subconscious pieces answers together over the day much more effectively than i could have thought. "Gulf of Tonkin" took two hours but popped out when I was brushing my teeth.

okay, how'd you place?

right in the middle of the pack. all i really wanted tbh.

same

ninth, although i should have been a bit lower. weirdly, i beat each of the 2-8 finishers

terrible, 25th of 26! Brutal season. Will be bounced out of A Rundle for the first time in 3 years.

Middle of the rundle, with a record of 10-12-3. That's par for the course for me: my career line is 294-302-104. As long as it keeps me in A, I'm happy. I'm also pleased whenever I hit 100+ correct answers in the season, and I got 103 this time.

I won my rookie rundle btw! Pure luck. Level B is gonna kick my ass.

Excited for the One-Days tomorrow on Steely Dan and Tiki Culture.

anybody else doing world cuisine?