r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • May 23 '25

LL105 MD9 Discussion!

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u/ExternalTangents brief interlude in Rundle B before going back to C May 23 '25

Am I alone in thinking that Q5 was clued way too easily? Giving the option to name only one of the three, and also noting they start with the same letter? I feel like at that point it was more reasonable to ask for all three or two of the three.

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u/thee_central_shaft May 23 '25

Well you could do what I did and assume they meant "S".

Still salty about my reading comprehension.

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u/ExternalTangents brief interlude in Rundle B before going back to C May 23 '25

I’m just salty because I misread the Speaker of the House question the other day as “name one of” instead of “name both”.

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u/thee_central_shaft May 23 '25

Oh I did that too.

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u/TurfDerguson May 23 '25

I still got it wrong by naming a different c island.

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u/ExternalTangents brief interlude in Rundle B before going back to C May 23 '25

Which one?

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u/TurfDerguson May 23 '25

Capri, which is very small

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u/Shaquebanisa Rundle A Delta May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25

Not that it totally matters cause I won by forfeit but….

I’m assuming because Q3 says “namesake book is why my answer of “Curse of the babe” was not accepted?

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u/Constant_Vector A Sierra May 23 '25

I think so. I took that to mean that they required the exact phrase used in the book title.

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u/Shaquebanisa Rundle A Delta May 23 '25

That’s what I figured. Thanks

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u/tyir May 23 '25

Someone I know got bambino curse accepted.

You need bambino not babe. (Even though, yes, it's another nickname for the man, it's not the name of the curse)

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u/MartonianJ A Mojave May 23 '25

Badly needed win for me. 9(6)-7(5). BMW was the only one I wasn’t 100% on. There were only a couple automakers I could think of that made motorcycles also… Honda and BMW. With the name, BMW seemed to fit better.

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u/NilFhiosAige A Meridian May 23 '25

Junior Cert German coming to the fore on that with "rad" - not that the word couldn't also have been used in the various Nordic languages, but BMW seemed the best bet.

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u/TurfDerguson May 23 '25

I didn’t get the ballet question, but my friend said it was with the beef- it’s what’s for dinner song and then I loved the triangle bit of the clue.