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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
 
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