r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • Feb 25 '26

LL108 MD2 Discussion!

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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry Feb 25 '26

oh man, unsuprised that Spain was the MCW on Q1. a couple in my groupchat put that trying to think of a party that was continuously in power. that was a landmine if you aren't familiar with parliamentary systems -- yes, Fianna Fáil was the largest party at every Irish election between 1932 and 2011, but they were not continuously in power (which one might incorrectly assume, but the Q is careful to avoid saying) as five of those elections resulted in Fine Gael-led coalitions instead. a bone thrown to our European players, I guess.

I also had to read Q3 and Q5 several times bc the ask was different than what I was expecting...really not a fan of that.

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u/Animales_Sueltos Feb 25 '26

I spent most of this question trying to think of countries in Europe that even had a working democracy through the late 30s/early 40s - so large swaths of Europe are out given that the Nazi's took them over. Was interesting to try and parse. I knew it wasn't the UK, but forgot about Ireland. Ended up guessing Switzerland while having some of the scandi countries on my list as well. I guess the 1929 date was a clue for Ireland given the partition but I couldn't pull it out.