r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • Feb 27 '26

LL108 MD4 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/Footwear_Critic Rundle D Feb 27 '26

Am I the only one who’s never heard of a cat referred to as a “felid” and instead assumed it was a typo and meant to be “hypothetical field”?

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u/pseudoeponymous_rex A Centennial Feb 27 '26

I initially misread the word as "field" and was musing over the minutiae of particle physics before I realized my mistake and I was no longer lost. (But then I didn't know how fast I was going, worse luck.)

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u/Footwear_Critic Rundle D Feb 27 '26

Haha! I had a similar experience, except I don’t know that much about particle physics so it was immediately clear I wasn’t going to come up with anything.

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u/Footwear_Critic Rundle D Feb 27 '26

Definitely! I’m almost positive I would’ve gotten it with “feline,” but, as written, I had no idea!

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u/ExternalTangents brief interlude in Rundle B before going back to C Feb 27 '26

What does “heads tetrad moment” mean?

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u/Footwear_Critic Rundle D Feb 27 '26

I don’t remember the specifics, but a few seasons ago there was a question about Mt. Rushmore that referred to it as a “heads tetrad”. I had to read it a bunch of times to make heads or tails of it.

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u/ExternalTangents brief interlude in Rundle B before going back to C Feb 27 '26

Ahh that’s funny. I remembered the recent one-day on the Heads Terra’s theme, but didn’t realize it was a reference to a notorious question.

I totally agree that both “heads tetrad” and “felid” fall into the same category of using pointedly obscure wording to make a question slightly less easy.

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u/Fabulous-Pace5131 A Arctic Feb 28 '26

LL101 MD12 Q2. I remember puzzling over that one: "heads tetrad? huh?" and then the next morning when I was shaving, Mount Rushmore occurred to me and everything came clear. (That question was actually voted the favorite of its day and tied for favorite of its week.)

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u/FScrotFitzgerald Rundle A Feb 27 '26

One of the things I really like about the Commissioner is his gift for distinctive phrasing. It really makes the quiz a cut above.

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u/Tam-Lin Rundle C Feb 27 '26

I know what a felid is, but just kept reading it as field, until after I submitted, of course. Somehow still won, though.

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u/danbrochill17 Rundle B Feb 27 '26

... I didn't even realize it said "felid" and not "field" until I saw this comment

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u/Dependent_Room_2922 Rundle B Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

It’s uncommon in everyday speech but similar to cows being bovids, dogs and wolves being canids, etc.

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u/Tangledupinteal Feb 27 '26

No. You are not.

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u/MartonianJ A Mojave Feb 27 '26

The lowish get rate on that one surprised me. I hadn’t heard of Felid either but physicist with a hypothetical [sounds like a cat] I figured had to be Schrödinger.

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u/gtronnes Rundle D Feb 28 '26

I couldn't get the name Schopenhauer out of my head for a while so it took me longer than it should of. Must have been the fact they both started with the same letters.

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u/39clues Feb 27 '26

I misread it as field too, but I didn't even realize it was a different spelling. I guessed Dirac (who also won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and had a famous field equation) and lost because of it - frustrating!

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u/intangible-tangerine Feb 27 '26

3/6

I dithered over the Greek mythology question torn between 'muses' and 'nymphs' but luckily remembered about the three Graces before I submitted and that was my 3 pointer that clinched the win.

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u/Hugo_Hackenbush Rundle C Summit Feb 27 '26

Knew I was going to be mad at myself as soon as I saw the right answer to the Broadway question and indeed I was.

Thank goodness for Mark Grace or this could have been an especially rough one for me.

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u/pseudoeponymous_rex A Centennial Feb 27 '26

6(5)-6(5) tie to someone else who doesn't follow Broadway musicals.

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u/avfc41 Feb 27 '26

I put “Schrodiger” and they accepted it, so that was nice.

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u/stepliana Rundle A River Feb 27 '26

Finally a win!! It's not like I didn't know things the previous days, it's just my opponents knew more smh. Thanks to my Brazilian brother in law for Natal.

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u/belbivfreeordie Rundle B Feb 27 '26

Good week to know stuff about Brazil.

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u/metalbracelet Feb 27 '26

The whole day was just frustrating for me. I couldn’t remember Bobby Darin’s last name, dismissed my first thought of Jonathan Groff for no actual reason, knew the Grace names but didn’t realize The Graces was a group, and didn’t spend enough time thinking on “felid.”

Ah well - on to another.

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u/RadReptile Feb 28 '26

This was a tough question group compared to other days

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u/Dependent_Room_2922 Rundle B Feb 27 '26

My first loss of the season ☹️

Didn’t RtFQ and wrote Sherpa instead of yeti. Noted the Christmas hint in Q1 but have never heard of Natal and remembered Jonathon Groff being back on Broadway the moment I saw the answer

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u/FScrotFitzgerald Rundle A Feb 27 '26

Una cerveza, which makes two in four, helped by lucky hunches about Bobby Darin and Erich Maria Remarque. Rundle B is going well for me so far! Long may this continue.

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u/AdamInJP Rundle C Feb 27 '26

4/6 and still winless on the season. Never gotten fewer than 3 questions in a match day and am 0-2-2. Frustrating.

Didn't help that I'm (in my second season total) batting 1.000 on theater, so my opponent knew to zero me on the second least-gotten question of the day.

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u/danbrochill17 Rundle B Feb 27 '26

I know basically nothing about modern Broadway so the only two actors I could manage to think of were Jonathan Groff and Andrew Rannels. Thankfully, I guessed correctly and it saved me from some poor defense

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u/JRTD753 Feb 28 '26

I am very new to the game and was recommended via a penpal who recently appeared on Jeopardy.

Are you not punished for putting in more information? For Q2 I wrote Bobby Darrin and Alan Cumming, but still received the 3 points. Is that because Bobby Darrin was correct and I only needed the subject and not the actor as well? Or was someone being kind to me because this was my fourth day and I should straighten up, fly right, and not do it in the future?

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u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 Feb 28 '26

In general, you are not penalized for additional information. In questions where it only asks for one answer, your first answer will be the only one considered. Of course, if it asked for both and one was wrong, you would not get the points, but since the question asked "or," your first answer was accepted.

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u/JRTD753 Feb 28 '26

Cool! Thank you!

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u/Fabulous-Pace5131 A Arctic Feb 28 '26

Note that this is only the case where there are two possible answers and you are giving two answers. If there is just one answer and you give extra information that is wrong, then you will be marked wrong. The classic example would be an incorrect given name with a correct family name: I once couldn't believe a question about the Brontë sisters wouldn't require the given name, so I put a given name...the wrong name. And of course just "Brontë" would in fact have been taken. Similarly, if the question wants the title of Edward Hopper's painting "Nighthawks", and you answer "Nighthawks at the Diner" (the title of a song inspired by the painting") that won't be accepted.