Learned League

also want to know who decides which vichyssoice ingredient is 'primary'

i'll take 'water'

yeah as far as i can tell there are two primary ingredients. i apparently chose the wrong one

The ingredienthood (or otherwise) of water seems like one of those things that should be settled once and for all in some kind of Quiz Constitution. I didn't even consider it, but see how it might throw you. I thought the Parmentier hint would make this one OK-ish (wiki says "best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source for humans in France and throughout Europe"), except it turns out leek was also accepted.

I got bight right because it's part of my flash card set, which also led me to assign it 1 point on defense against someone with a 70% geography score (they got it wrong).

Anyway, I've dug myself out of relegation, with a miraculous win against someone whose worst category is still 50%.

In a kind of reversal of the previous season, I'm lower half in correct answers, but only one point behind Championship qualification, having got a couple of ridiculous breaks with lucky matchups and strange opponent defence.

I'd have known _____ of Biafra but didn't know about the Australian one and I guess wasn't really sure what the definition was.

I need to brag because this season has been frustrating, but I was one of 2 people who got Q2 right yesterday and it was what got me the tie against the player in first place; what's more, they answered more questions right in that match and have 22(!) more TCA than me.

I don't think I am in danger of relegation, but I'm going to end up with my lowest TCA in 20 seasons. Have the questions been harder this season or just not in my wheelhouse?

by TBA it's probably the worst i've done in about 3 years, so it isn't just you!

by TCA* hah although I suppose it is TBA

I too am threatening to set a personal worst in TCA this year.

My latest 1DS is up in beta and there are still lots of testing slots if your are not going to play;)

You even

Wanted to plug the upcoming HEAVY METAL ML that I contributed to (my first ML!).

Cool! I registered.

Just submitted on Goth and Gothic and Music Theory.

Only missed one on Music Theory which means I wasn’t one of the umpteenth champs or perfect 12s. Just couldn’t come up with the words Secondary Dominant although of course I am very familiar with the concept.

No one else here played Godard except me?

In the run-up zone now.

Into the top 50 of Music Subgenres and got all 12 questions! (And I was just two moneys from a higher percentile.) I expect that's the closest I'll ever come to winning one.

Cool. I just didn’t feel like playing that one.

not sure why i signed up for the metal mini-league; i'm gonna get my ass kicked

Ha, me too, but I don’t think I mind that so much.

It's because yall can't resist my wiles.

Hah! Almost didn’t see your name!

I created another difficult one. Play at your own risk!

FWIW I would've gotten at most 2 questions in the metal MD1.

Heh, been doing this for so long I have a pretty good idea of how many will play and who will do well.

Interesting story about the extinct Celtic language from yesterday’s Metal ML.

Opened with a 9(6) and in first place, only one way to go from here.

Up, up and away?

James, I dismissed that as a bit of cheek at the time and yet after the first week I'm still undefeated! It's been an incredible run of luck with both the questions (my QvH is currently 129, which is pretty unsustainable) and opponents (lowest CAA).

nice work, Leee!

Well, I'm in the midst of my regression back to the mean!

Also, my OQL team played Greg's last week, but I wasn't in the lineup. Sorry to miss you!

good job jaymc getting #1 in the "just audio produced by" one-day. i surprisingly got #11 despite missing a question.

!!!

I forgot to check yesterday, but I had a good feeling about my chances.

Meanwhile, I came in 93rd %ile in Butts.

(I forgot to submit the producers one!)

Finished first on the Comedy Bang Bang 1DS, this time shared with 22 (!) others.

Feel like that quiz could've been much harder than it was. A question about a Red Hot Chili Peppers parody song included an audio clip and asked what band the song was parodying. A question about the character of Dabney Coleperson included a photo of Dabney Coleman and said the character's name was "very similar...but with a gender neutral surname." Both questions very gettable without any familiarity with the podcast/TV show, which was slightly annoying because I would've gotten those right even without the extra hints.

i think one of my answers was misscored for that, it says i got andrew lloyd webber wrong but i'm pretty sure i would have gotten it. i'm not going to worry about it for a one-day though, i got another question wrong so i wouldn't have been at the top anyways.

is there a way i can see my answers? i wonder if i had some kind of mental blip

oh i found it. i put "webber" and it was marked wrong. was "lloyd webber" the required answer?

i also found it pretty easy - i haven't listened to the podcast regularly in years, aside from the end-of-year best-ofs, so i expected it to be harder

was "lloyd webber" the required answer?

I assume so. It's a double-barreled surname.

So yesterday's literature question...

Use your words, please?

Yeah, what about it?

I know it's technically frowned upon to ask about low get rates but I thought more people might know that

WECIB?

Literature is already a sub-0.500 topic among the entire player base, and then add in French AND poetry, and yeah, that's going to tank CA%. Like I said on the boards there, I have a hard time with French writers (if I'd remembered Baudelaire, I would've gotten it wrong), and my undergrad was in literature (albeit English), and really the only reason I got it was because of Dum Dum Girls.

I think I probably first learned about Verlaine and Rimbaud as a teenager interested in the Beat Generation writers (and their influences). I don't know very much about either of them, but the reference to one triggered the other. I was a little surprised at the get rate, too, but yeah, it makes sense that French poets would be a blind spot for a lot of folks.