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Learned League 73 - Official Thread
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The Marquess of Queensberry is also famous for getting Oscar Wilde convicted of gross indecency, in this case, homosexuality.Tabby wrote: ↑Sat Jun 10, 2017 11:42 amI was too. As a female, I figured if I knew it immediately, so would everyone, but neither my husband or son knew it. So, the thing that's bugging me, is where did I hear it that it has stuck with me? And, I didn't know the Marquess personally.
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You can access any MD early throughout the season. So what would people have seen for #5 yesterday if they looked at the day early on?
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Or did Thorsten predict covfefe and is a clairvoyant and/or time traveler?
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I looked at advance access the night before the season started. Only the first 5 or so match days were available at that time. It seems that advance access only goes as far as Thorsten has the questions completely finalized.
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Yesterday was another rough one, as I lost 1(1)-3(2). The Walt Whitman question was the only one that I had any hope on. And I had thought that I made a good call giving my opponent a 0 for Manhattan, but that one played tough.
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I was pretty surprised on the get rate for "Blunder". I'm a huge chess guy so I don't really have a good gauge on how hard that is, but I thought that was going to poll really high.
I must have seen "Too Many Cooks" about 10 times, so no way I was going to miss that.
I must have seen "Too Many Cooks" about 10 times, so no way I was going to miss that.
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Those were the two I missed. No chance I'd come up with either of those.OSXpert wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:50 am I was pretty surprised on the get rate for "Blunder". I'm a huge chess guy so I don't really have a good gauge on how hard that is, but I thought that was going to poll really high.
I must have seen "Too Many Cooks" about 10 times, so no way I was going to miss that.
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It's interesting that Q6, which says "name the TV show", is categorized as film.
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I didn't even need to open the picture for that one. The chess one though....OSXpert wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:50 am I was pretty surprised on the get rate for "Blunder". I'm a huge chess guy so I don't really have a good gauge on how hard that is, but I thought that was going to poll really high.
I must have seen "Too Many Cooks" about 10 times, so no way I was going to miss that.
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A frustrating 6(5)-6(4) tie. Too Many Cooks and the chess question (I wild-guessed miscue) were tough to defend because they're too specialized to be totally captured in someone's TV or games scores.
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Ditto. And so my unbeaten streak (and lead) comes to an end.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 9:48 amThose were the two I missed. No chance I'd come up with either of those.OSXpert wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:50 am I was pretty surprised on the get rate for "Blunder". I'm a huge chess guy so I don't really have a good gauge on how hard that is, but I thought that was going to poll really high.
I must have seen "Too Many Cooks" about 10 times, so no way I was going to miss that.
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I didn't win yesterday due to poor defense, but I was pretty happy with my game.
I knew exactly what the first question was looking for as emoluments has been in the news so much, but I just could not pull the word. I kept going about my day and coming back to see if it would come to me, but it just didn't. I also had absolutely no idea on the rest of the answers and figured that this game was going to be my first ever 0(0).
Finally at about 5 o'clock or so I decided to just put down something for each of the questions, and every one of them were WAGs. Lo and behold, blunder and Manhattan were actually correct! Lesson learned.
I knew exactly what the first question was looking for as emoluments has been in the news so much, but I just could not pull the word. I kept going about my day and coming back to see if it would come to me, but it just didn't. I also had absolutely no idea on the rest of the answers and figured that this game was going to be my first ever 0(0).
Finally at about 5 o'clock or so I decided to just put down something for each of the questions, and every one of them were WAGs. Lo and behold, blunder and Manhattan were actually correct! Lesson learned.
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I guess because you need to know the name of the Woody Allen film to be sure of getting this right, it was called a film question. Honestly, the one flaw with playing defense strictly based on your opponent's percentages in a category is that some clues might be miscategorized or fit into two or more categories. For instance, I get some classical music questions in opera because of an opera's Shakespearean antecedents. This inflates my classical music percentage higher than it should be.
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I misspelled it as "cofveve". I think I did so because of all the jokes about it being a type of coffee.Woof wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 12:55 pmI ended up in a strange 9(6)-9(5) tie for the same reason. Perhaps my opponent misspelled it? I can't otherwise imagine how an A Rundler would miss that one.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:43 amI managed a strange 6(5)-6(4) tie thanks to my opponent missing "covfefe" (we both missed lumpia). At least I assigned that question one point rather than zero or I would have lost! I assigned "Jump" the zero.
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Huh. That photo played easier than I thought...*checks photo again*...there were FLAGS in it?! /sigh
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Easier? It looks like leaguewide, it only got 18%.
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I saw the flags and knew her (former) title, but had no clue what her name was.
Surprised to see the 72% on water standards. I must've missed that day in class, because that didn't ring any bells.
And really, USS Covfefe as a BWA? C'mon. It's boring and predictable. There's nothing "best" about it.
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I had no clue, but what else could it be?
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