It's Best Wrong Answer time again.

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LearnedLeague is wrapping up, and I shall now (again) share the subset of the 90 nominations that I'm considering, culminating in my top 3.  Enjoy!


Honorable Mentions:

7

The Japanese phrase 新幹線, which translates literally to "new main line" and colloquially to "bullet train", is often rendered in Latin characters as what single word, which first came into use in the mid-20th century?

PRINCESS MONORAIL

33

What was the name of the moderate "minority" faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party of the early 20th century, which (unlike their "majority" counterparts) favored a slower and more progressive transformation of society (which, in fact, is not what turned out to occur)?

MIDDLEOFTHEROADSHEVIKS

20

Identify the car company founder who achieved auto racing immortality with his innovation of placing the car's engine at the rear of the chassis. Despite that, he (and his name) may be more closely associated with his role in developing a performance version of the British Motor Corporation's Mini in the early 1960s.

V. W. BUGG

63

"Mr. Television" was the moniker of what early TV star, who was the first host of the televised Texaco Star Theater in June 1948, became the permanent host later that year, and hosted the show (which was eponymously renamed in 1953) on Tuesday nights at 8:00 pm until 1956?

CHARLES ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION

and my 2 runners-up:

26

Cuisses de grenouille is the name of a French culinary delicacy known in English as what?

CUISSES *OF* GRENOUILLE

67

Ötzi, the Copper Age person who was found in a region of the Ötztal Alps bordering Austria and Italy in 1991, is frequently referred to by what nickname, based on the condition in which he was found (which contributed to his preserved state, despite being over 5,000 years old)?

PEAT ROSE

and my fave:

53

A significant marker in the gradual transition from Middle English to Modern English, an occurrence centered on the mid- to late-15th century, is a phenomenon whose cause is still not fully understood. This phenomenon is widely known as the Great [BLANK] Shift (fill in the blank).

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