Learned League

In any case, I really enjoyed doing this contest, especially the recap, as usual, but I feel like I have already squeezed this lemon for all it’s worth. Already planning my next few.

PPS: My naked bid for feedback of PMing selected parties that participated has worked out pretty well for me. I recommend it if it doesn't make you too squeamish.

Greg, I see that you have written a few Alpaca Farms quizzes. I created an account there, but haven't participated in anything.

The fact that "Phoenix Coyotes" wasn't counted for "Arizona Coyotes" in the Indigenous Languages 1DS was balanced out for me by the fact that "Waylan and Madam" was accepted for "Wayland Flowers and Madame" in the LGBT ML.

i missed a question in 21st century literature about the hilary mantel wolf hall series because i answered "cromwell" instead of "thomas cromwell." fine, the question specified that you needed the first and last name for that answer, and i admittedly missed that. but ... why were both the first and last name required in the first place? i know that there's oliver cromwell too, but the question wasn't based around differentiating the two. seemed picky.

I think it was because people might have just guessed "Cromwell" based on the general time period, without actually knowing whether it was Thomas or Oliver.

Even so, shouldn’t that be specified in the question, or would that be a giveaway?

I chickened out on Indigenous Languages, good for you doing it, will take a look soon.

Lol, i guessed "Hilary Mantel", so that gives you a sense of how closely I am reading the questions.

I won my LGBT Rundle though!

TFW you realize you should've played a 1DS.

Happens less and less frequently, unfortunately. Which 1DS?

Musical tributes. Basically I got scared off because of the Lemmy question -- I couldn't remember if his last name was Kilmister or Kilminster, and I just gave up, but apparently first name was acceptable. (Also, that was the day that I had to drive 30 miles to get my second dose, so there's that.)

Oh yeah.

On a kid's zoom piano recital right now and one of the perfomers is playing a Sherman Brothers composition, which of course, I had never known they had written.

I had never even heard of The Sherman Brothers until I started researching for the quiz. Not much of a Disney guy.

I think there was a book or a documentary about them recently where I saw their name, but otherwise never knew who they were until pretty recently.

https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-pleasures-of-learnedleague-and-the-spirit-of-trivia

Lost to a 9(6) (welcome to B), but I'm proud that I scratched out three of the answers and even got 7 points for my trouble.

Also, don't go onto the message boards right now, someone apparently spoiled one of today's questions.

I try not to go to the message boards unless it's for one of our recaps.

Fair strategy, but I don't think I can resist in going into excruciating details about how I came upon the answers I entered! Anyway, the spoiling thread's been deleted.

I was so close to winning yesterday -- my first thought for Driving Miss Daisy was Atlanta and then switched to Savannah; when I was actually entering my answers, I'd nearly forgotten that I decided on Savannah. If only my short-term memory were worse!

that was against me, right? i had no idea beyond it being somewhere southeast. i guessed charleston but i probably should have thought about it more.

Is anyone paying for commissioner’s circle presently and want to finally set up an ilxor private rundle next season?

xp Yeah, that was our match. I do want to thank you for the 2 points for the Chinese question, though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOayR5ri2xM

4 out of 6 for my first four games and a record of 0-3-1
bellyflopped yesterday with only the bill haley question right which ain't gonna help

ok somebody please explain what tf yesterday’s q6 had to do with pancakes

Some kind of Eastern European thing, eating pancakes for Shrovetide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslenitsa

Eastern European? Pancake Day is pretty common in the U.K., or at least was when I studied there in the late '90s.

As the final day before the austerity of the Lenten fast, Shrove Tuesday also has many customs pertaining to food. Pancakes are traditional in a number of European countries because eggs, sugar, and fat, commonly forbidden during the Lenten fast, are used up so they will not go to waste; the day is known as Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday in Ireland and in many Commonwealth countries.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shrove-Tuesday

ah, this jew did not know about strange pancake traditions

same. seemed like "indulgence" was a slam dunk to me.

yeah i answered indulgence knowing that it was likely wrong

Had no idea here, thought maybe there was some kind of Catholic doctrine of absolution called "syrupy"

Haven't checked yet, but I hope you all got RHINOCEROS, which has a tie-in with a recent ILX0r 1DS.

I'll bite: what's the tie-in? (I got it wrong.)

Zero Mostel was in the film of Rhinoceros- with Gene Wilder!

lol I had a feeling that I'd be walking into that one.

horn first.
9(5) yesterday, went with mimosa instead of bellini.
back down to earth today.

Midseason classic is upon us.

so MODES

yeah, i went "dominant"

Got credit for "diatonic"!

In a long discussion about that elsewhere.

My contention is that the question was insufficiently pinned.

if you have heard of "modes" and know what some of them are called you would always just write "modes" there idk

Indeed

if you have heard of "modes" and know what some of them are called you would always just write "modes" there idk

― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, June 11, 2021 1:01 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ive heard of modes but didn't remember the word so i was like "lydian scale, mixolydian scale, they aren't chromatic so they must be diatonic" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

still lost

i know shit about music theory but happened to read a sci-fi-ish book that mentioned the mixolydian mode in april

highlight of my season is that out of nowhere i pulled 'kirov' out of my ass to correctly answer our (thus far) hardest question