Learned League

2(3), coulda sworn there was a missouri in monopoly

lol, ulysses.

I did exactly the same as jaymc w.r.t. Monopoly.

Friggin’ in O’Higgins

... and yesterday, I went 0(0). *sigh*

What's more, Q6 broke up my previously perfect math score.

4(4), all on the pop culture questions. Lamb of God was something I had just been reading about!

my dumb ass misread the emblem of india question and wrote "camel, elephant, eagle, horse"

I didn't get that the Agnus Dei question could involve translation, so I decided Peccata Mundi sounded like a good metal band name.

Elephant was MCWA, at 55%!

I had elephant. I guess the symbol on this former flag of Laos may have been present in people's heads:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/3-head-elephant-laos-flag.svg/320px-3-head-elephant-laos-flag.svg.png

There was also thing about any exposure to Discworld.

Oh right, makes sense.

Really?

Four elephants standing facing outward on a circular thing, yes?

This season has been very feast/famine for me, as I've gotten 6, 0, 2, 5, 1 right answers so far.

3 and 2 so far; basically getting 3-4 questions right every day

Ohhhhh, I was 100% thinking of that Laos flag.

Hope you all got Whale, one way or another

not a clue on that one

I totally got it due to "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" which means I got 2 questions in 1 day due to teenaged watching of Beavis & Butthead.

whale was a random guess because the only WHA animal team i could think of was hartford

im having an awful season defensively & strength of schedule-wise; last in correct answers against, DE at .636 (aside from a couple of bad seasons i'm usually around .780)... really hope i regress very soon

WAIT were they called the Whalers because WHAlers???

oh damn that never even occurred to me

If I'd thought of that I might have gotten the question right

if you're not a universal monsters nerd, james whale is memorable for being the subject of the film Gods and Monsters with Ian McKellen and Brendan Fraser in one of his last films before he went action hero

G&M is exactly how I got it.

Dare I praise na for reaching the top of our rundle?

i don't really feel like i'm dominating. it's early days yet and i'll likely fall back into the middle of the group before season ends

Part of me wants to comment upon my experience working on the 60s Music ML now that it is over and I have some distance from it but maybe I should just let it pass.

My first 9/6 yesterday!

hey i got 9/6 yesterday too. still pretty rare for me.

there's always a 9/6 in the banana stand

lol

That's the only one I missed.

9(6) yesterday for me! not counting minileagues obv, this is only my third sixpack in 11 seasons (I've had a 9(5) as well). yaaaaaay!

i lost on a 3/3 vs 7/3 yesterday, annoyedface.emoji

I was gifted a 3 on the Eswatini question even though I made explicit mention of it in the Djibouti thread.

Which was enough to give me a tie instead of a loss.

how many days in a row can I get 5 out of 6 and lose I ask you

It's happened to me the last two days!

(Annoyed at myself because I literally typed in Raphael and then erased it and put Donizetti, who isn't even an artist.)

Never delete your first answer and replace it with something less famous is the lesson o keep learning over and over and not remembering somehow

Yup. I think changing the answer is OK if there is actual logic behind it, but not because "this kinda sounds right?"

yeah, i did that with raphael/michaelangelo

raphael is my stock answer for anything involving italian renaissance painting; finally it paid off

cowabunga dude

btw is there some reason those prizes are specific to the newlywed game? idgi

yeah that was terrible. also i voted for The Price Is Right, which is correct.

I don't think the prizes themselves are notable. The clue was the phrase "special prizes chosen just for the winners."

I was all set to submit "The Price Is Right," but that phrase kept nagging at me, and "The Newlywed Game" came to mind. It was a guess, but it turned out to be a good one.

Aargh