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Best Wrong Answer Time
Time again for LearnedLeague Best Wrong Answer voting. Seems like they're not as funny a collection this year. Still, here are my also-ran faves:
Goldbach's conjecture states that every even integer greater
than two is the sum of two what? GROWN-UP INTEGERS WHO LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH
What phrase for a judiciary proceeding that ignores principles of justice likely
originated in Britain or the United States, despite sounding like it might come
from another country that the term strongly evokes? I CAN'T BELIZE IT'S NOT JUSTICE
What term denotes atoms of the same element that have the same number
of protons but a different number of neutrons? THE ATOMS FAMILY
In craps, what two-word term (or three-word term, if "Bet" is included) names
the game's most common and fundamental bet, which often has one of the
lowest house edges of any bet in a casino, and also refers to the labeled area
where the bet is placed on the table? COLLEGE FUND
"He kindly stopped for me—" is the second line of a famous poem by Emily
Dickinson. What is the first line (and thus, because she did not provide a title,
the poem's generally-agreed-upon title)? A BRO WAS JABBERING ABOUT CRYPTO
Scottish Fold, Ragdoll, Russian Blue, and Turkish Van are all different types
of what? LIMITED EDITION MOUNTAIN DEW FLAVORS
In the 1990s, the Backstreet Boys requested that you quit playing games with it,
while *NSYNC complained about it being torn up. What was it? PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT
According to Amazon, a series that premiered on Prime Video in September 2022
became the most-watched of any original series on the service. The series was
based on The Lord of the Rings and had that in its title, with what subtitle? A HARD HOBBIT TO BREAK
And my top 3:
What 1875 opera by Georges Bizet begins at the Royal Tobacco Factory in
Seville, Spain, and ends outside a plaza de toros? MARLBORO MAN OF LA MANCHA
In photography, the overall brightness of an image is determined by the
"exposure triangle" of aperture, shutter speed, and a third factor which is
a measure of the sensitivity of the camera's sensor (or the film) to light.
This third factor is known as what? REMEMBERING TO TAKE THE LENS CAP OFF
What four-word phrase, which was popularized by Horace Greeley in an
1865 editorial about opportunities on the American frontier and became
his slogan, was originally coined by J. B. L. Soule in 1851? BEVERLY--- HILLS, THAT IS
Goldbach's conjecture states that every even integer greater
than two is the sum of two what? GROWN-UP INTEGERS WHO LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH
What phrase for a judiciary proceeding that ignores principles of justice likely
originated in Britain or the United States, despite sounding like it might come
from another country that the term strongly evokes? I CAN'T BELIZE IT'S NOT JUSTICE
What term denotes atoms of the same element that have the same number
of protons but a different number of neutrons? THE ATOMS FAMILY
In craps, what two-word term (or three-word term, if "Bet" is included) names
the game's most common and fundamental bet, which often has one of the
lowest house edges of any bet in a casino, and also refers to the labeled area
where the bet is placed on the table? COLLEGE FUND
"He kindly stopped for me—" is the second line of a famous poem by Emily
Dickinson. What is the first line (and thus, because she did not provide a title,
the poem's generally-agreed-upon title)? A BRO WAS JABBERING ABOUT CRYPTO
Scottish Fold, Ragdoll, Russian Blue, and Turkish Van are all different types
of what? LIMITED EDITION MOUNTAIN DEW FLAVORS
In the 1990s, the Backstreet Boys requested that you quit playing games with it,
while *NSYNC complained about it being torn up. What was it? PRENUPTIAL AGREEMENT
According to Amazon, a series that premiered on Prime Video in September 2022
became the most-watched of any original series on the service. The series was
based on The Lord of the Rings and had that in its title, with what subtitle? A HARD HOBBIT TO BREAK
And my top 3:
What 1875 opera by Georges Bizet begins at the Royal Tobacco Factory in
Seville, Spain, and ends outside a plaza de toros? MARLBORO MAN OF LA MANCHA
In photography, the overall brightness of an image is determined by the
"exposure triangle" of aperture, shutter speed, and a third factor which is
a measure of the sensitivity of the camera's sensor (or the film) to light.
This third factor is known as what? REMEMBERING TO TAKE THE LENS CAP OFF
What four-word phrase, which was popularized by Horace Greeley in an
1865 editorial about opportunities on the American frontier and became
his slogan, was originally coined by J. B. L. Soule in 1851? BEVERLY--- HILLS, THAT IS
Thank you from an Internet old who somehow had
never learned about LearnedLeague. This is clearly a source I need to drink like a firehose
/goes off to search, oh no! LLamas’ status is tightly guarded, and one needs to wait years to get a login. That's cool, and I hope it creates a fabulous community.
Here's some free-to-read examples:
The New Yorker on The Pleasures of LearnedLeague and the Spirit of Trivia
There are Learned League groups on Reddit and Facebook.
Some of the "Best Worst Answer" tallies follow the URL pattern
https://learnedleague.com/hist/awards/100.php
Where 100 references the season--I had some fun plugging in random numbers.
From season 97:
A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978), and Many Waters (1986) continue the story first told by author Madeleine L'Engle in what 1962 novel?
More fun to be had from grazing the #BestWrongAnswers tag on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bestwronganswers
Re: Thank you from an Internet old who somehow had
It's true that LL is invite-only, and there's a waiting list now (though the last person I knew who joined didn't have to wait long), AND we really need to be confident that people will follow the 2 rules---not cheating and (especially) not forfeiting (particularly for most of a season, as that can penalize the referrer--- it messes up the scoring when people forfeit, which Is forgetting to or otherwise not completing the day's match. But there are seasons, and it's only weekdays when it's not a major holiday, AND there are reminders you can set up. I think mine's at 10:00pm, to ping me if I've not yet submitted.
SO, with that said, let me know if you'd like to be referred, and let's have a little back-and-forth in more private correspondence. Sure sounds like you'd enjoy being a LLama, and I've always had a good feeling about you, stranger-on-the-internets-wise. :D
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Would that be Learned Lag? https://pod.link/1454334956
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Thanks so much for the glimpse of possibility.
I wish I could participate, but I've got chronic health woes and definitely would end up forfeiting.
How long have you been involved? Is it as Jeopardy-adjacent as it seems?
The great news is I can turn my reply into a journal entry.
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It's definitely Jeopardy-adjacent. Until he got the full-time host gig, Ken Jennings played, and a lot of LLama's have been Jeopardy! contestants.
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SO COOL that you know a W$rdle-smith!
In an earlier life, I used to construct acrostics with semi-cryptic clues--my big bragging rights, though, was that I then typeset them. And yes, NYTimes magazine in ink.
Now, not so much.
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SO cool that you're an acrostics person.