LearnedLeague 78 - Official Thread
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Re: LearnedLeague 78 - Official Thread
I was pretty sure I had one of my rare six packs but sitcom was wrong as was grappa ( I would have bet a lot on this one).Managed a 5(4) 2(3) win anyway. It would have been closer had not Thorsten accepted my misspelling defenestration as defrenestration. It actually was a typo as I knew and meant to type the correct spelling.
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I'd like to celebrate my 4th 9(6) in 7 seasons, and it couldn't have come at a better time!
Defenestration took a while, but finally got there after reading the question a few times (tough way to go...)
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Defenestration took a while, but finally got there after reading the question a few times (tough way to go...)
Got credit for "Z"ambuca, happily, because that's how my Italian-American family always said it (which doesn't make it right, I know)
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I'm friends with my opponent from yesterday on Facebook, so I knew he was a booze connoisseur (he's been "brand ambassador" for two businesses with "spirits" in their name, and another job title on his profile is "drinks writer"), and that he's currently traveling through Italy, so I gave him 0 for the sambuca question (which ended up being the only thing I didn't know). He proceeded to miss it and tied me 6(3)-6(5).
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I wonder what his answer was, with those credentials. I flubbed with Galliano, myself.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:12 pm I'm friends with my opponent from yesterday on Facebook, so I knew he was a booze connoisseur (he's been "brand ambassador" for two businesses with "spirits" in their name, and another job title on his profile is "drinks writer"), and that he's currently traveling through Italy, so I gave him 0 for the sambuca question (which ended up being the only thing I didn't know). He proceeded to miss it and tied me 6(3)-6(5).
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Thinking about other Italian spirits, you've got Amaretto (almond flavored, not an anisette), grappa (a brandy), Frangelico (hazelnut/herbs) and, yes, Galliano (herbs)Volante wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:24 pmI wonder what his answer was, with those credentials. I flubbed with Galliano, myself.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:12 pm I'm friends with my opponent from yesterday on Facebook, so I knew he was a booze connoisseur (he's been "brand ambassador" for two businesses with "spirits" in their name, and another job title on his profile is "drinks writer"), and that he's currently traveling through Italy, so I gave him 0 for the sambuca question (which ended up being the only thing I didn't know). He proceeded to miss it and tied me 6(3)-6(5).
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I went Amaretto. For some reason, I thought ouzo had almonds. Wrong A flavor.Woof wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:47 pmThinking about other Italian spirits, you've got Amaretto (almond flavored, not an anisette), grappa (a brandy), Frangelico (hazelnut/herbs) and, yes, Galliano (herbs)Volante wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:24 pmI wonder what his answer was, with those credentials. I flubbed with Galliano, myself.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:12 pm I'm friends with my opponent from yesterday on Facebook, so I knew he was a booze connoisseur (he's been "brand ambassador" for two businesses with "spirits" in their name, and another job title on his profile is "drinks writer"), and that he's currently traveling through Italy, so I gave him 0 for the sambuca question (which ended up being the only thing I didn't know). He proceeded to miss it and tied me 6(3)-6(5).
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I knew ouzo was an anise-flavored liqueur, and I figured that was probably the connection, but I wasn't sure what the Italian analogue was. I said grappa because I knew that was a thing that was Italian.
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I answered with Limoncello, not thinking hard enough about the specific flavor of the liqueur.
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Amaretto, too. I've never heard of grappa.badgerfellow wrote: ↑Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:52 pm I went Amaretto. For some reason, I thought ouzo had almonds. Wrong A flavor.
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I was sure it was anisette. I don’t enjoy bitter liqueurs. I did get the other 5 correct but my opponent got all 6!
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I wonder how many spellings of pyrrhus were accepted yesterday. I wasn't sure if it ended in us or os, but ended up guessing right.
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Re: LearnedLeague 78 - Official Thread
Great books I’ve never read:
- O, Pioneers!, Willa Cather
- Pioneers in Venice, Thomas Mann
- A Pioneer in the Family, James Agee
- Pioneers of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
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The only books I remember by Willa Cather are My Antonia and O Pioneers.
So that would make it Pioneers.
But I can't imaging 'pioneers' being in the title of that many books.
What about Ship of Fools?
That was Catherine Ann Porter.
Wait... wasn't there a book called Death Comes for the Archbishop? Wasn't that Willa Cather?
Yeah, maybe. Didn't James Agee write A Death in the Family?
I think so!
Sure, let's go with that.
*submits*
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So that would make it Pioneers.
But I can't imaging 'pioneers' being in the title of that many books.
What about Ship of Fools?
That was Catherine Ann Porter.
Wait... wasn't there a book called Death Comes for the Archbishop? Wasn't that Willa Cather?
Yeah, maybe. Didn't James Agee write A Death in the Family?
I think so!
Sure, let's go with that.
*submits*
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Re: LearnedLeague 78 - Official Thread
I knew, and have read, precisely one things Thomas Mann did - and I was pretty sure Willa Cather hadn't written any books with Venice in the title. Sometimes it pays to not be well-read.
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I read O Pioneers! & I think I own My Antonia. I’ve heard of Death Comes For the Archbishop but it took me some time to get there. Death in Venice & Agee’s book helped. I’ve never heard of the last one. Is it any good? I knew most of the others except for the YouTube guys. I read about them briefly.
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The Hesse question (that I muffed) last week got me thinking about his bud Thomas Mann. Although I've read The Magic Mountain and Faustus, I have only heard about one novella he wrote, Death in Venice. Having no clue about the others (My Antonia and O, Pioneers were so unlikely to be it), I went with Death. Fortunately, he kindly stopped for me.
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Is Learned pronounced with 1 or 2 syllables? I was listening to the Trivial Warfare podcast and all the guests were saying Learn-Ed League
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I make dumb mistakes a lot in LearnedLeague, but yesterday may have taken the cake on the Penn question...I currently have about 6-7 cans of Penn racquetballs in my gym bag. Somehow, I knew that was the "similar or accessory item" but went with the "tennis racquets" MCWA instead. Nope, that's Penn's parent company Head that does the racquets. *face palm X 3*