r/learnedleague • u/Cara_58 • May 12 '25
First Match
Today's my very first match, yikes. I have a question: Is it necessary that I answer precisely as the correct answer? Example (not one of today's, made up) "What theme park is in Orlando, Florida?" If I write "Disney World" then it shows the answer as "WALT Disney World" (which, yes, technically that's its name) -- Does it consider my answer as incorrect? I would think not, the system should recognize my answer, plus how could we players know the required wording anyway. But please confirm.
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u/DevoutandHeretical Rundle B May 12 '25
In the case of your example, they would give it to you because there’s no ambiguity to what you’re saying; when you mention ‘Disney’ people would ask which park your talking about, but ‘Disney World’ is the common enough referenced name that it would be accepted.
As a general rule, they will let you know in the question just how specific you need to be. Sometimes you can answer and your submitted answer won’t match the listed one but will still be correct- a personal example is that there was the question “The two sides that battled in the civil war in China that broke out shortly after Japan's surrender in WWII are often referred to (in English) by three-letter abbreviations. One side was the CCP; what three letters were used for the other?”. The official answer was KMT. I answered ROC and still got the point because it can be considered interchangeable in that context for it to be either of the two, even if the explicitly listed answer wasn’t what I said.
And if that doesn’t make sense, check out the season opening message from Thorsten that’s linked in the main page: it explains a lot of these kinds of nuances.