It's Best Wrong Answer time again.
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ffloTime to vote again in LearnedLeague's seasonal Best Wrong Answers (in my second season of serving as one of the screeners for nominees for these).
I'll start with my almost-runners-up:
(1) Simon Pagenaud, Takuma Sato, Hélio Castroneves, Marcus Ericsson, and Josef Newgarden are the most recent winners of what Spectacle?
BRITAIN'S MOST SURPRISING BISCUIT
(2) In Shakespeare's Hamlet, in Act 5, Scene 2 (the play's final scene, just after Hamlet's dying words), a character referred to as "Ambassador" states, "The sight is dismal, / And our affairs from England come too late. / The ears are senseless that should give us hearing / To tell him his commandment is fulfilled, / That [BLANK]. / Where should we have our thanks?" What statement, itself the title of a 1966 play, fills in the blank?
T-SHIRTS ARE ON SALE IN THE LOBBY
(3) Among English playwright Peter Shaffer's numerous theatrical successes are two plays, from 1973 and 1979, that were later adapted to film and that both, coincidentally, have titles in Latin. What is the title of either of these plays?
ROSENCRANTZ ET GUIDENSTERN MORTUI SUNT
(4) The sheep-milk cheese that is arguably Spain's most famous shares a location of origin with a literary hero who is also arguably Spain's most famous. What is the name of that cheese?
DON CHEETO-TE
(5) A 1982 book written by Myra Williams (formerly Myra Lewis, second-cousin and former 13-year-old wife of Jerry Lee Lewis) and a 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis biopic starring Dennis Quaid both had what four-word title, which was first popularized as a phrase by Jerry Lee himself in 1958?
13 YEAR OLD WIFE?!
(6) Balkhash, Athabasca, Ladoga, Eyre, Kivu, and Poopó are all names, most prominently, of what?
6 DWARVES NOT CAST IN SNOW WHITE
(7) Balkhash, Athabasca, Ladoga, Eyre, Kivu, and Poopó are all names, most prominently, of what?
BOTTLES IN AARON RODGERS' MEDICINE CABINET
Then next are my actual runners-up:
(8) A story from the Old Testament during which, on the Day of Atonement, a priest would confess the sins of the Israelites over a particular animal's head and then drive the animal into the wilderness, is the source for what word common today?
BAAAAANISHMENT
(9) The six dots in the logo of what television series match the six umbrellas in its opening credits?
BETTER CALL PARASOL
(10) The scientific prefix "oo-" typically indicates what, per the prefix's Greek etymology?
A CHILDLIKE SENSE OF WONDER
And my top 3:
(C) Scott Kelly's 2017 memoir Endurance documents his year (or so) spent where?
A MEETING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL
(B) What password, used in countless TV shows, movies, books, and other media, first appeared in the 1932 Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers?
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(A) Texas-based private company Intuitive Machines developed a commercial robot named Odysseus that, as of late February 2024, is located where?
IT'S RIGHT BEHIND ME, ISN'T IT
I'll start with my almost-runners-up:
(1) Simon Pagenaud, Takuma Sato, Hélio Castroneves, Marcus Ericsson, and Josef Newgarden are the most recent winners of what Spectacle?
BRITAIN'S MOST SURPRISING BISCUIT
(2) In Shakespeare's Hamlet, in Act 5, Scene 2 (the play's final scene, just after Hamlet's dying words), a character referred to as "Ambassador" states, "The sight is dismal, / And our affairs from England come too late. / The ears are senseless that should give us hearing / To tell him his commandment is fulfilled, / That [BLANK]. / Where should we have our thanks?" What statement, itself the title of a 1966 play, fills in the blank?
T-SHIRTS ARE ON SALE IN THE LOBBY
(3) Among English playwright Peter Shaffer's numerous theatrical successes are two plays, from 1973 and 1979, that were later adapted to film and that both, coincidentally, have titles in Latin. What is the title of either of these plays?
ROSENCRANTZ ET GUIDENSTERN MORTUI SUNT
(4) The sheep-milk cheese that is arguably Spain's most famous shares a location of origin with a literary hero who is also arguably Spain's most famous. What is the name of that cheese?
DON CHEETO-TE
(5) A 1982 book written by Myra Williams (formerly Myra Lewis, second-cousin and former 13-year-old wife of Jerry Lee Lewis) and a 1989 Jerry Lee Lewis biopic starring Dennis Quaid both had what four-word title, which was first popularized as a phrase by Jerry Lee himself in 1958?
13 YEAR OLD WIFE?!
(6) Balkhash, Athabasca, Ladoga, Eyre, Kivu, and Poopó are all names, most prominently, of what?
6 DWARVES NOT CAST IN SNOW WHITE
(7) Balkhash, Athabasca, Ladoga, Eyre, Kivu, and Poopó are all names, most prominently, of what?
BOTTLES IN AARON RODGERS' MEDICINE CABINET
Then next are my actual runners-up:
(8) A story from the Old Testament during which, on the Day of Atonement, a priest would confess the sins of the Israelites over a particular animal's head and then drive the animal into the wilderness, is the source for what word common today?
BAAAAANISHMENT
(9) The six dots in the logo of what television series match the six umbrellas in its opening credits?
BETTER CALL PARASOL
(10) The scientific prefix "oo-" typically indicates what, per the prefix's Greek etymology?
A CHILDLIKE SENSE OF WONDER
And my top 3:
(C) Scott Kelly's 2017 memoir Endurance documents his year (or so) spent where?
A MEETING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN EMAIL
(B) What password, used in countless TV shows, movies, books, and other media, first appeared in the 1932 Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers?
••••••••
(A) Texas-based private company Intuitive Machines developed a commercial robot named Odysseus that, as of late February 2024, is located where?
IT'S RIGHT BEHIND ME, ISN'T IT
