Learned League

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

How did you know that was my plan?

https://i1.yuki.la/6/56/e9ef6569a7e6e710c466d4ef59817f00c35c26c2b38e0c94816aec97bc16b566.gif

Never noticed or knew about that solo ripoff. Anyway the lead smith on that quiz was much younger than everyone else and was really conscientious about controlling the difficulty, starting it off with a 50% get rate in the beginning and then slowly tightening the screws.

Desktop still uses Lingots, looks like.

oh HI DERE thread! Llama since 2010 myself, ready for B Meridian tomorrow; my flag will not take ironing. I don't too often take part in 1DS and MLs, but had fun both with 60s music and stuff-or-else til off-season. Good luck in the upcoming!

Doing all right; without doing the analysis, it feels like I've been a bit lucky in facing other Europeans on the most US-centric days. I guess A/B yo-yo may be approximately my true level atm.

Yeah, I am currently at the top of the B/C yo-yo myself.

pretty annoyed with myself for going with "corsair" over "corvette" yesterday. it was one of those things where corsair popped into my head and i thought "that sounds right" and then didn't put any more thought into it. fortunately i got lucky with a total guess on the beijing man question.

i did exactly the same thing with corsair/corvette

Corvid Corsair Corvette
Baby, you're much too...oh never mind

D'oh! "Atom" is from Greek, not Latin, of course.

three days ago i was in first place. now i'm tenth : /

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOCCvN8YDuc

Do any of you have Premium memberships, if not Commissioner's Circle?

I chose to pay for Premier the last time, but haven't really used any of the perks.

My very very favorites are the ones where I truly don't know the answer but manage to reason my way to "the only thing it could be," like "ilium"