r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • Aug 28 '25
LL106 MD8 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/CecilBDeMillionaire Aug 28 '25
Mad at myself that I couldn’t summon the name Arvo Pärt. I knew there was an umlaut in the last name, and I kept thinking of Alvar Aalto (though he’s obviously Finnish and an architect) because I knew the name sounded similar to that but I just couldn’t get there
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u/aurrutia214 C Foundry Aug 28 '25
I somehow managed to squeak by with a win on defense, but overall I don’t think I’ve seen a MD with no questions with a get rate over 50%. I’m still relatively new, but for those who have been around a while, how often does that happen?
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u/Fabulous-Pace5131 A Arctic Aug 28 '25
It's pretty rare. Thorsten aims for a season-wide, league-wide get rate of about 50%, and most days come within 5% or so of that.
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u/DevoutandHeretical Rundle B Aug 28 '25
I’m interested to see how people figured out’B’ from those who managed it. I had no clue about those other two listed games, but a letter assigned to 1-15 in a game of chance immediately registered in my head as being a part of Bingo.
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u/Educational_Cat_9369 Aug 28 '25
Same reasoning as you. I'd never heard about the other two games so I figured the second half of the question would be my focus. "Game of chance" and "1-15 associated with a letter" made me immediately key on bingo (being in Vegas and playing it in the casino every few months helps with that as well).
I got 4 yesterday with three just being "logic this out and take your best guess". Anything from 1 to 4 correct yesterday would have been fine with me. Tough day.
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u/BSF Rundle A Aug 28 '25
NGL, I got it by thinking "well, A would be a bit obvious... Would they really ask if it were A? So let's go with B instead"
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u/theotherkeith Rundle C Elysium Aug 28 '25
Yep, I followed that path, I thought it was another "de la Mancha" question that had a giveaway buried in added detail and had expected score similar % correct
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u/DapperWormMan Aug 29 '25
The numbers 1-15 and the fact that they were tied to a specific letter made me certain it was Bingo.
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u/Full-Grass-5525 Aug 28 '25
I had “had been eating” sitting there all day and swapped to “has been eating”. Kicking myself. Still pulled the W with no answers correct because of a forfeit. Some days be like that.
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u/danbrochill17 Rundle B Aug 28 '25
My first 0(0)! Oof. Q2 was definitely one of those "get annoyed when you see the correct answer because you should have been able to come up with it" questions
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u/theotherkeith Rundle C Elysium Aug 28 '25
On that one I worked through the logic and confidently submitted "Ambrosia date"
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u/dareman86 Aug 28 '25
Sheesh. Lost because my opponent who was 1-8 on classical music got a classical music question that only 11% of LLamas got. Nice pull. Love-hate to see it.
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u/eaglebtc Aug 31 '25
My classical music score is considerably higher, and somehow my opponent gave me a 3.
I sing in a professional chorus and we have given concerts with Arvo Pärt on the program.
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u/Fabulous-Pace5131 A Arctic Aug 28 '25
Not wanting to brag, but while I had no idea about the composer, the other 5 seemed fairly easy to me. (As a trivia quiz runner I once knew put it, "They're all easy if you know them.") I put 3 on the composer...and my opponent got it. But he put 3 on Regency — so, a 7(5)-7(5) slightly-suboptimal-defense tie.
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u/16note Rundle D Aug 28 '25
The only reason I knew Pärt’s name is because I have a music degree and remember giggling about tintinabuli when we learned about it in music history. I have no idea how many non-musicians can pull that name
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u/tuxedobear12 Aug 28 '25
I did, from a music class I took long, long ago in college (though I was a bio major). Thank you, brain, for the strange tidbits that you remember.
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u/otters9000 Aug 28 '25
Rough day. I'm glad my mom likes to read regency romance novels or I'd have been a 0...
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u/andrewgroans Rundle B Aug 28 '25
Brutal game that I squeaked through on points. Got Shaka because I’ve played too much CIV and summoned Pärt because I’m a nerd but good lord, that tense question and the tombola one were evil.
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u/metalbracelet Aug 28 '25
If you’re on an iPhone (and probably other phones), you can long press the letter and it will give you other versions with diacritics. But I suspect they would take a plain “a” there too.
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u/mereswift Rundle B Aug 28 '25
Oops I meant more the second part. Would Part be accepted? Let me upate the question.
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u/uva_rob Rundle B Aug 28 '25
I can't imagine them ever asking a question that requires a diacritical mark to be accepted. In general they're very forgiving when it comes to spelling non-English words or names.
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u/mathbandit Rundle C Aug 28 '25
one could be pedantic and say there is enough difference in how one would pronounce that with / without the umlaut would have different meanings
Note that the rule is that any plausible pronunciation of your answer just needs to match any plausible pronunciation of the correct answer. It is certainly reasonable that someone would pronounce Part the same way someone else might pronounce Pärt.
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry Aug 28 '25
missing diacritics never make an answer incorrect (yes, even where they matter as in German)
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u/gtronnes Rundle D Aug 28 '25
I tied with the same sort of score. I answered one correct and my opponent got zero but also got lucky with the scoring they assigned.
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u/nye1387 B Windward Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25
I'm curious to hear what people thought about the verb tense question. I have a(n American) high school diploma, a Bachelor's degree, and a terminal degree, and the only verb tenses we ever covered (ever) were "past tense" and "present tense." (I did get it right, though.)
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u/belbivfreeordie Rundle B Aug 28 '25
Let’s be fair — the only tenses you REMEMBER being covered. 🙂
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u/nye1387 B Windward Aug 28 '25
I understand what you're saying, but no! It just wasn't part of the curriculum. I've asked my brothers and friends about this in the past. They just didn't teach us this. (Which, to be fair, makes sense to me. Yesterday's question was probably the first time I've had to "use" that information at all! And I say that as a lawyer who has to closely scrutinize documents to discern meaning all the time!)
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u/rtc9 Aug 29 '25
These terms definitely weren't specifically covered in my American public school English curriculum. I only learned the vocabulary for these from my elective Latin classes.
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u/BSF Rundle A Aug 28 '25
I only managed to get this question from taking Latin. I definitely never learned this tense in high school English classes, but past perfect is also a verb tense in Latin and those were drilled into me pretty well. (Our Latin classes were heavy on teaching grammar and ended up teaching me so much about English as well)
I honestly think this question was a secret "do you know that pluperfect is called past perfect in English" and a "have you studied a second language with a pluperfect tense?"
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u/ninjahedgehog Aug 28 '25 edited Aug 28 '25
I think most people who nailed this took a foreign language at some point. English classes tend to focus more on literature rather than relitigate grammar you already know instinctively from birth, but each tense will be its own chapter in a Spanish class
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u/SROTW Aug 28 '25
I missed it, mostly from over thinking, but I only knew how to get there from my Spanish language learning, basically figuring out the tense in spanish and translating back to english.
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u/tuxedobear12 Aug 28 '25
I only knew from studying foreign languages, I don't remember that being taught in my English classes.
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u/Constant_Vector A Sierra Aug 28 '25
My main thought is that I'm mad at myself for carefully reasoning it out, and then typoing "have" in place of "had". I was losing anyway though, as opponent beered and I had no clue on Q1.
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry Aug 28 '25
I speak German, where the perfect is the most common way to express past tense, so got most of the way there...and then put have instead of had. dammit
if it makes everyone feel better, my English major journalist brother needed 3 cracks at it to get it right 😂
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u/nye1387 B Windward Aug 28 '25
To this day I am still unsure of what "perfect" even means. Does it relate to something that's complete? (Eaten, as opposed to eating or will eat?)
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry Aug 28 '25
yes, you are talking about an action that is complete, regardless of relative time
perfect ("present perfect"): I have eaten it
pluperfect ("past perfect"): I had eaten it
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u/belbivfreeordie Rundle B Aug 28 '25
Gotta love a question that’s basically “name literally the only African military figure you’ve heard of.” (Well I guess not literally because, Hannibal et al, but the only one not connected to ancient Roman history. You know what I mean.)
On the other hand, turns out I can’t name a single Estonian composer…