Best Wrong Answer time
Sep. 20th, 2025 01:32 pmThere seemed to be fewer hunters for these this season in LearnedLeague.
And I'm disappointed that some of my nominations didn't make the ballot, including the 4 answers below I thought were funny for the question
In typography, a symbol called a "pilcrow" indicates what?
I laughed aloud at many answers among those to the question In a 1997 action thriller starring Harrison Ford, his character instructs Gary Oldman's Ivan Korshunov to deboard from the titular conveyance (and then assists him in doing so) using what precise four-word statement? (correct answer: GET OFF MY PLANE!) that I won't even list them here.
So here are my honorable mentions:
(A) The affable-looking anthropomorphic dog created by American artist Phillip Banks, who wears a grey crew neck sweater, blue jeans, and red Converse sneakers, and who lowkey DGAF, has what two-word name? BARK RUFF-ALO
(B) A 2000 album by Madonna, the 1971 follow-up to Tapestry by Carole King, a 1993 release by 311, and a 2025 LP by Playboi Carti all share what plainly descriptive and literal title? CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
(C) According to a mega-hit released in 2007 by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, what did Shawty get? TALLER, EVENTUALLY
(D) Led Zeppelin, Cream, and The Jeff Beck Group were all successful acts that were founded in the 1960s by former guitarists of what other band? OOPS! ALL GUITARISTS!
(E) This passage, about 3.5 cm long and 2–3 mm wide, has bony and cartilaginous parts, runs at an oblique angle, and is named for a 16th-century Italian anatomist. What is it? A PIECE OF BUCATINI THAT WENT UP MY NOSE
(F) According to the lyrics and title of a signature song by country legend Loretta Lynn in 1966, "You ain't woman enough to" what? It's also what Dolly Parton begs Jolene to please not do in Jolene. BE PLAYED BY SISSY SPACEK IN A MUSICAL BIOPIC
And my runners-up:
And my #1:
And I'm disappointed that some of my nominations didn't make the ballot, including the 4 answers below I thought were funny for the question
In typography, a symbol called a "pilcrow" indicates what?
-- AN EDITOR IS PRESENT
-- ERUDITION
-- STOP READING, OR YOU'RE GOING TO GET INTERROBANGED
-- UNSPOKEN THOUGHT
I laughed aloud at many answers among those to the question In a 1997 action thriller starring Harrison Ford, his character instructs Gary Oldman's Ivan Korshunov to deboard from the titular conveyance (and then assists him in doing so) using what precise four-word statement? (correct answer: GET OFF MY PLANE!) that I won't even list them here.
So here are my honorable mentions:
(A) The affable-looking anthropomorphic dog created by American artist Phillip Banks, who wears a grey crew neck sweater, blue jeans, and red Converse sneakers, and who lowkey DGAF, has what two-word name? BARK RUFF-ALO
(B) A 2000 album by Madonna, the 1971 follow-up to Tapestry by Carole King, a 1993 release by 311, and a 2025 LP by Playboi Carti all share what plainly descriptive and literal title? CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS
(C) According to a mega-hit released in 2007 by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, what did Shawty get? TALLER, EVENTUALLY
(D) Led Zeppelin, Cream, and The Jeff Beck Group were all successful acts that were founded in the 1960s by former guitarists of what other band? OOPS! ALL GUITARISTS!
(E) This passage, about 3.5 cm long and 2–3 mm wide, has bony and cartilaginous parts, runs at an oblique angle, and is named for a 16th-century Italian anatomist. What is it? A PIECE OF BUCATINI THAT WENT UP MY NOSE
(F) According to the lyrics and title of a signature song by country legend Loretta Lynn in 1966, "You ain't woman enough to" what? It's also what Dolly Parton begs Jolene to please not do in Jolene. BE PLAYED BY SISSY SPACEK IN A MUSICAL BIOPIC
And my runners-up:
(3) In the geographical mnemonic HOMES, what does the "H" stand for? FOR THE WAY YOU HOOK AT ME
(2) What is the term for the cooking technique, a method of butterflying, in which a bird (usually a chicken) is split and flattened, with the backbone removed (and also sometimes the sternum)? FOGHORN LEGHORN'S RECUR—I SAY, RECURRING NIGHTMARE
And my #1:
(1) Laurel, Mississippi, provides the primary setting (and indirectly, the title) for what HGTV renovation series starring local husband-and-wife team Ben and Erin Napier? AS I LAY DRYWALLING
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Date: Sep. 24th, 2025 09:34 pm (UTC)"Pilcrow" made me spray my screen. (I'm a former typesetter & editor.) Is it within the rules to share the other answers?
More evidence that I'm not in your LLeague: I don't get #1 or #3, but I deeply appreciate #2