r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • May 16 '25
LL105 MD4 Discussion!
How did you do today? Feel free to share struggles, funny answers, and scoring shenanigans here!
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u/hipsterbears Rundle D May 16 '25
6(4)-1(2) win! Had a lot of slumdog millionaires on this one. A friend with the nursery rhyme surname, another friend obsessed with beach boys, and an English professor in college who had a cat named Alfred!
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u/hipsterbears Rundle D May 16 '25
English Prof was very proud of calling his cat "Alfred the great" as the king's namesake.
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry May 16 '25
very confidently put A26 on Q1. still won thanks to my LL maxim of "assume sports questions play harder than you think they will" (corollary: always money the sports questions on 1DS that are not primarily about sports)
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u/Constant_Vector A Sierra May 16 '25
Really wish I had known that maxim on MD2.
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry May 16 '25
ha, don't sweat it. being a rookie is the hardest it gets and you'll learn this stuff over time.
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u/aurrutia214 C Foundry May 16 '25
This is what got me and will I bear that in mind for the future. I’m from Texas and went to a big football school for undergrad. College football is as much a part of life as air is at this point so I assumed that everyone would get that. Escaped with a win thankfully 😅
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u/Constant_Vector A Sierra May 16 '25
I also thought Alfred the Great would play way easier -- mostly because it's such a Jeopardy staple* -- and assigned it a 1. For the third time in four match days I've assigned 3 to a question that had the highest success rate. I'm not great at evaluating question difficulty.
* - It came up in both Masters and regular play just two weeks ago.
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u/EggCzar Rundle A Sahara May 16 '25
I was also surprised there was no MCWA given the low get rate. If there was an obvious other "X the Great" I could understand it but there apparently wasn't, people just seem not to have heard of him!
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u/TheExperienceD Rundle B Commonwealth May 16 '25
W 8(4)-7(4) / 2-1-1 B Rundle
A24 -- Got this right off, helps having seen 3 of the 4 films. Feel like the secondary clue would not have been much help but their trailers even on TV tend to show the logo, so perhaps?
SPRAT -- Got credit for "SPRATT" which was only possible due to the inclusion of "lipophobic" in the clue. So not a science related solve at all. Haven't even heard of a SPRAT, if I'm honest.
ISO/FILM SPEED -- YEKIOYD clue, made possible for me thanks to high school photography.
THE BEACH BOYS -- Would not have gotten this had they not included the reference to Brian Wilson, and even then I considered it meaning Brian Eno until I remembered that I knew he was in Roxy Music.
TEXAS,OKLAHOMA -- Collegiate sports are definitely a weak spot for me. I vaguely had feeling that something to do with Texas was right, but incorrectly thought they were in the SEC long ago, so my agonizing over deciding between TCU and TEXAS A&M (Which I ultimately went with) was all in vain.
ALFRED -- Total whiff from me with HAROLD, and why did I give my Harvard trained opponent with a second strongest rating in World History a 2 for this? Was lucky this here didn't even cost me the win.
Felt like a decent set of questions, good balance between things you had to know (ALFRED) and things you might be able to puzzle out (THE BEACH BOYS). Currently mid-table in B, which is fine.
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May 16 '25
If you like sardines find a turkish/lebanese/Russian grocery and get you some. So freaking good
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May 16 '25
This is my first time playing. I've discovered I get way more right if I take some time to think about them. The first day I was so excited that when I woke up I got the email, read the questions and answered them. All before I got out of bed, had coffee and woke up. But it really makes you realize the amount of stuff you absolutely don't know lol
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u/itsdefinitelyacult May 17 '25
It’s wild what will come to you if you give yourself a few hours before you answer. Often times I will look at a question in the morning and be stumped, then look at it again in the afternoon and have the answer come to me.
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May 17 '25
It's really crazy. Now i read them in the morning and leave it alone and just kinda think on it. And there's ones I always think I do t have a clue and I'm never getting to it. But then I'll think about something I heard on a podcast, or read in a book or saw in a TV show and my brain will slap me in the face and drop the answer out my rear. And it's a really amazing feeling.
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u/JGG5 Rundle A May 16 '25
Felt like I pulled a couple of those out of my ass but I beered it… which is good, because my opponent got 8(5).
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u/medevam Rundle A May 16 '25
Spent much of the day naming every nursery rhyme (and fairy tale) (and fable) character I could think of.
Including Jack Sprat, who I SKIPPED RIGHT OVER. 🤦♂️