more Best Wrong Answers
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Woke up with a kinda bad headache today, but it's finally gone away. So here I am, ready to share more Best Wrong Answers from LearnedLeague. (The season just ended.)
There are a little over 100 nominees for Best Wrong Answer altogether for us to choose from in the voting. We'll start with my also-rans.
The ancient cities of Argos, Sparta, and Megalopolis were located on what Greek peninsula, connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth?
THE FETAVERSE
Sternutation is the medical term for a convulsive reflex closely associated, by name, with what secondary Disney character?
WILD BILL HICCOUGH
Sternutation is the medical term for a convulsive reflex closely associated, by name, with what secondary Disney character?
THE INVOLUNTARY HULK
"Houston, [REDACTED] Base here. The Eagle has landed." What word is redacted from this quote from July 20, 1969, and is also the name of the "Sea" where the lunar module made its landing on that day?
SOUND STAGE 12-B
What is the two-word term, a phrase from Italian that idiomatically means "from the beginning" and is often abbreviated "D.C.", which indicates in musical notation that the previous section of music should be repeated?
DOITAGAIN CORRECTLYTHISTIME
Olympic gymnastics are divided into three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and a third introduced in 2000 and known as what? Belarus's Ivan Litvinovich and China's Xueying Zhu won gold in this category in Tokyo in 2021.
THE FLOOR IS LAVA GYMNASTICS
The "Pop-o-Matic" die container was an innovation introduced in 1965 with what board game, now produced by Hasbro?
MINDLESS PLASTIC TOKEN RACE
Next up in my runner-up. Bummer I couldn't pick 4 winners.
American chemist Stephanie Kwolek developed the first liquid crystal polymer fiber, leading to the development of poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, which has a myriad of applications (e.g., tires, cables, helmet, ballistic body armor). This polymer is better known by what brand name owned by DuPont (Kwolek's employer for 40+ years)?
FLEX SEAL
And now, my top 3:
#3: Of the actual historical people after whom elements of the periodic table are named, two are women. One is Marie Curie, while the other was a Viennese-born Swedish physicist who was a co-discoverer of nuclear fission in 1938. What is her name, commemorated in element 109?
MOLLY B. DE NIM
#2: The policy with respect to Latin America during the early Franklin D. Roosevelt administration had what popular name, which today may be more associated with State Farm Insurance, but in the 1930s reflected America's intended hands-off approach and military withdrawal from the region?
ACCIDENTAL DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT
#1: H.R.3684, a $1 trillion bill that was passed by the 117th Congress after a bipartisan vote in the US House of Representatives on November 5, 2021, is officially known as the [REDACTED] Investment and Jobs Act. What word has been redacted?
WOEFULLY INADEQUATE
Woke up with a kinda bad headache today, but it's finally gone away. So here I am, ready to share more Best Wrong Answers from LearnedLeague. (The season just ended.)
There are a little over 100 nominees for Best Wrong Answer altogether for us to choose from in the voting. We'll start with my also-rans.
The ancient cities of Argos, Sparta, and Megalopolis were located on what Greek peninsula, connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth?
THE FETAVERSE
Sternutation is the medical term for a convulsive reflex closely associated, by name, with what secondary Disney character?
WILD BILL HICCOUGH
Sternutation is the medical term for a convulsive reflex closely associated, by name, with what secondary Disney character?
THE INVOLUNTARY HULK
"Houston, [REDACTED] Base here. The Eagle has landed." What word is redacted from this quote from July 20, 1969, and is also the name of the "Sea" where the lunar module made its landing on that day?
SOUND STAGE 12-B
What is the two-word term, a phrase from Italian that idiomatically means "from the beginning" and is often abbreviated "D.C.", which indicates in musical notation that the previous section of music should be repeated?
DOITAGAIN CORRECTLYTHISTIME
Olympic gymnastics are divided into three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, and a third introduced in 2000 and known as what? Belarus's Ivan Litvinovich and China's Xueying Zhu won gold in this category in Tokyo in 2021.
THE FLOOR IS LAVA GYMNASTICS
The "Pop-o-Matic" die container was an innovation introduced in 1965 with what board game, now produced by Hasbro?
MINDLESS PLASTIC TOKEN RACE
Next up in my runner-up. Bummer I couldn't pick 4 winners.
American chemist Stephanie Kwolek developed the first liquid crystal polymer fiber, leading to the development of poly-paraphenylene terephthalamide, which has a myriad of applications (e.g., tires, cables, helmet, ballistic body armor). This polymer is better known by what brand name owned by DuPont (Kwolek's employer for 40+ years)?
FLEX SEAL
And now, my top 3:
#3: Of the actual historical people after whom elements of the periodic table are named, two are women. One is Marie Curie, while the other was a Viennese-born Swedish physicist who was a co-discoverer of nuclear fission in 1938. What is her name, commemorated in element 109?
MOLLY B. DE NIM
#2: The policy with respect to Latin America during the early Franklin D. Roosevelt administration had what popular name, which today may be more associated with State Farm Insurance, but in the 1930s reflected America's intended hands-off approach and military withdrawal from the region?
ACCIDENTAL DEATH AND DISMEMBERMENT
#1: H.R.3684, a $1 trillion bill that was passed by the 117th Congress after a bipartisan vote in the US House of Representatives on November 5, 2021, is officially known as the [REDACTED] Investment and Jobs Act. What word has been redacted?
WOEFULLY INADEQUATE
