Learned League

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

ya boy is like last in his E division, but we carry on

Okay, I will spill the beans. It was a lot of work but I really enjoyed helping write the 60s Music recaps.

shocking beans

James Redd in Recap Shockah

I said "The Price is Right" but the crucial clue is that it was an all-expenses paid cruise FOR TWO, i.e. the couple. Good question!

Learned League really makes you realize you don't know what other people know. I thought Flannery O'Connor was a gimme but wrestled with mimosa; I got them both but I really wasn't sure about mimosa. And like 90% of people got that right!

Yes, defense is a mug’s game. I thought everyone would get the game show except me, hah. Also thought Fatima might be easy but was hoping more people would fall into the Leila trap.

Think people who are really into it maybe have a better idea of what is a “Pavlov” or things like that.

an all-expenses paid cruise FOR TWO

idk, it's not like showcase showdowns suggested you go on cruises or live on a camping trailer by yourself? feel like there was a general assumption that all game show contestants were married

if the newlywed game adjusted its prizes according to whether it thought the winners would better appreciate a BC cruise or camper, then okay i had no idea

Yeah, it wasn’t quite enough to hang one’s hat on. There is a thing about looking for those kind of clues or ins, but this one was a little too, um, subtle.

I put Canadian Jeopardy

Lol

Now I remember that for the ML question about “Blue Moon” we spent a little time discussing the wording of such a hint which ended up being “The Marcels stood alone atop the Billboard charts.” I suggested changing it to “The Marcels were seen standing alone,” which sounding more like the lyric, but somebody thought that would be a gimmie. The get rate was 30%

Like some hints are just “passing” as clues, kind of mugging and grimacing but not really quite acknowledging they are actual hints.

lol i'd have gotten 'blue moon' if the clue had been 'clapton solo ripoff' but i have literally never heard of the marcels

anyway the obvious answer is that you should do (absurdly difficult) one-days by yourself