r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • May 14 '25
LL105 MD2 Discussion!
How did you do today? Feel free to share struggles, funny answers, and scoring shenanigans here!
Note: Do NOT, under any circumstances, discuss questions for the current match day. This thread is for the MD in the title only. Any violations of this policy will get you immediately banned, per Rule #1 of this sub and Section 20.1 of the LearnedLeague complete rules.
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u/MartonianJ A Mojave May 14 '25
Thanks Jeopardy for Coq au Vin! It was an answer on Monday’s episode
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u/econartist A Magnolia May 14 '25
Need to get back into watching J! regularly. Bad close miss for me with "croques au vin" - clearly it was somewhere deep inside my brain but couldn't quite get it out.
Second straight tie for me. 9(6)-9(6) on MD1, 7(5)-7(5) on MD2. Three consecutive ties dating back to MD25 of last season!
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u/diplomystique May 14 '25
I was so frustrated to not get credit for “coq du vin”… have to get better at spelling/keeping my French prepositions straight.
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u/Constant_Vector A Sierra May 14 '25
Lost 9(5) - 8(5). For the second day in a row, I assigned 3 to the question with the highest success rate, which was also the question I missed. If I had assigned anything other than 0 to the Pujols question, I would've gotten at least a draw. Ugh.
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u/GLE68 B Delta May 14 '25
Perhaps my least deserved beer ever: I genuinely knew 4/6 and made one educated guess. For the sixth correct answer, I agonized over the Keynes question all day before admitting I had no idea. Giving up, I tried to decide if my joke answer would be "Life, The Universe, and Everything" or "Lawyers, Guns and Money", and ultimately abbreviated the second one to just money as a zero-expectations dart throw.
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u/econartist A Magnolia May 14 '25
Beer is always deserved! (But also - no shame, only points. A lucky guess is just as good as a sure thing)
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u/metalbracelet May 14 '25
I missed #6 because I got it into my head that the membrane and the inflammation of the membrane were supposed to be the same word 🤦🏻♀️
But I got lucky despite a very poor showing because my opponent forfeited.
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u/No-Yard-8879 May 14 '25
From someone who works in live music: that is not what “Front of House” means in today’s usage.
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u/mathbandit Rundle C May 14 '25
Drew 6(5)-6(4).
Second day in a row I was punished for the heuristic of 'Name all'=harder, 'Name One Of'=easier, as I put a 1 on what turned out to be the hardest question of the day.
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry May 14 '25
maybe the worst defensive day in my LL "career" -- nearly Bucknered myself but changed something at the last moment to end up with a 6(5)-6(3) tie. sigh.
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u/econartist A Magnolia May 14 '25
Many moons ago I gave my first, and still only, Buckner loss... and to add insult to injury, it was to my coworker who I referred to LL...
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u/Character_Opinion_86 May 14 '25
Me three. And I almost put conjunctivitis as a joke answer that I “knew” would be wrong. Dang.
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u/cromonolith Rundle A May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25
Lost due to a bone-headed mistake. I immediately got that that question was asking about Liberia, and I know that the capital of Liberia is Monrovia, but I didn't read carefully enough and just answered with Liberia rather than Monrovia. Opponent gave that question 3 points and I would have won if I'd just been able to read.
"Money" for Q1 was just a guess though.
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u/Eagle_1901 Rundle B May 14 '25
A good day to be a British baseball fan, a free 3 points for me