Best Wrong Answer time
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ffloTime for my seasonal round-up of best wrong answers from LearnedLeague. (We get to vote at the end of the season.). The background shading doesn't mean anything---it's just from the every-other-line-shadedness of the list I'm copying from.
First, my honorable mentions:
A complex at 1820 E. Thomas St. in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood serves as the central setting of what 1992 film and grunge-era Gen X classic?
RAINSPOTTING
Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what?
SEVERE PLAQUE PSIORASIS MEDICATIONS
The name of the highest peak in suburban Atlanta is notable in its relation to the name of Major League Baseball's controversial first Commissioner. What is that peak's name?
MOUNT EXPLICIT WRITTEN PERMISSION (really should be "EXPRESS", but haha anyway)
What term for a formal assembly of representatives, derived from a Medieval Latin word and used for a 1521 gathering in an imperial free city on the Upper Rhine near Frankfurt, is (per that Latin word's literal definition) intended to describe a meeting lasting only one day?
MEETING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A TOWN CRIER MESSAGE
The Delian League, a voluntary alliance named for its island base and with upwards of 300 members at its peak, eventually evolved into the beginnings of what empire?
800-588-2300 EMPIRE
What town on the River Thames in England, home to the Royal Regatta, lent its name to the collarless shirt with a short buttoned placket that provided ideal ventilation for rowers? Today it's a menswear staple as a casual T-shirt alternative, undershirt, or layering piece.
QUARTERZIP-UPON-THAMES
My two runners-up:
3. Robert Graves's 1934 historical novel explores the drama of political scheming and the workings of imperial power in 1st-century Rome during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, as told by whom?
ROBERT GRAVES, PRESUMABLY
2. Iowa is the sophomore studio album, and also the birthplace, of what large heavy metal band, famous for its chaotic live shows and distinctive image, in which members wear matching jumpsuits and individual masks and are identified by number?
BRING IN DES MOINES, BRING IN DES FUNK
And my vote for Best Wrong Answer:
1. What carmaker, whose eponymous founder was born under the zodiac sign Taurus, has named many of its models after famous fighting bulls, including Murciélago, Aventador, Diablo, and Huracán?
CHEVR-OLÉ!
First, my honorable mentions:
A complex at 1820 E. Thomas St. in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood serves as the central setting of what 1992 film and grunge-era Gen X classic?
RAINSPOTTING
Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what?
SEVERE PLAQUE PSIORASIS MEDICATIONS
The name of the highest peak in suburban Atlanta is notable in its relation to the name of Major League Baseball's controversial first Commissioner. What is that peak's name?
MOUNT EXPLICIT WRITTEN PERMISSION (really should be "EXPRESS", but haha anyway)
What term for a formal assembly of representatives, derived from a Medieval Latin word and used for a 1521 gathering in an imperial free city on the Upper Rhine near Frankfurt, is (per that Latin word's literal definition) intended to describe a meeting lasting only one day?
MEETING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A TOWN CRIER MESSAGE
The Delian League, a voluntary alliance named for its island base and with upwards of 300 members at its peak, eventually evolved into the beginnings of what empire?
800-588-2300 EMPIRE
What town on the River Thames in England, home to the Royal Regatta, lent its name to the collarless shirt with a short buttoned placket that provided ideal ventilation for rowers? Today it's a menswear staple as a casual T-shirt alternative, undershirt, or layering piece.
QUARTERZIP-UPON-THAMES
My two runners-up:
3. Robert Graves's 1934 historical novel explores the drama of political scheming and the workings of imperial power in 1st-century Rome during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, as told by whom?
ROBERT GRAVES, PRESUMABLY
2. Iowa is the sophomore studio album, and also the birthplace, of what large heavy metal band, famous for its chaotic live shows and distinctive image, in which members wear matching jumpsuits and individual masks and are identified by number?
BRING IN DES MOINES, BRING IN DES FUNK
And my vote for Best Wrong Answer:
1. What carmaker, whose eponymous founder was born under the zodiac sign Taurus, has named many of its models after famous fighting bulls, including Murciélago, Aventador, Diablo, and Huracán?
CHEVR-OLÉ!
