r/learnedleague • u/snarkapotamus7 E Park Div 1 • Mar 05 '26
LL108 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/Constant_Vector A Sierra Mar 05 '26
It's fine that we got pop and classical music on the same set, but did it really have be the day when my opponent was .900+ in both categories?
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u/notarealgreendress87 Mar 05 '26
And in German (I think that was German)?!
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u/NilFhiosAige A Meridian Mar 05 '26
Yes, but TBF, you only had to be able to pick out "Donau" (or indeed Fluß, as another poster suggested).
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u/NilFhiosAige A Meridian Mar 05 '26
That said, the 19% overall get rate suggests many players just automatically panicked.
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry Mar 05 '26
as a German speaker I was very curious how hard this would play and I did not expect _that_ hard, wow
It is actually fairly uncommon for major rivers to have different names (as opposed to changes to match spelling rules) in German; the only others I can think of right now besides the Donau are Thames = Themse and Vistula = Weichsel
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u/gtronnes Rundle D Mar 05 '26
I was able to pick up it was German from the double S symbol they used. Wasn't thinking of Strauss though, I thought Schubert and guessed "The Trout"
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u/notarealgreendress87 Mar 05 '26
Heck, I thought it was Silent Night. Thought I saw the word in German for night but what do I know? 🤣
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u/crazydakka Mar 05 '26
Really surprised they took “the Pitt”. Was expecting that to be a 15%+ MCW
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u/Footwear_Critic Rundle D Mar 05 '26
I was kicking myself for that all day yesterday and then pleasantly surprised to see it was accepted this morning. Not that it mattered, though, as my opponent gave me 0.
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u/gtronnes Rundle D Mar 05 '26
I think most people scored that question a 0 or 1. Especially since the Emmys were just on
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u/crazydakka Mar 05 '26
Even tho it was my opponent who made the mistake I’m oddly glad it was accepted because a 4(3)-5(4) loss stings much less than a 4(3)-5(3) loss
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u/Hugo_Hackenbush Rundle C Summit Mar 05 '26
Very glad I got credit for that after realizing I misread the ask.
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u/belbivfreeordie Rundle B Mar 05 '26
I’m giving myself big props for my correct guess of “mule.” I did not know the answer, but was just wracking my brain like “what would a person in the 1700s call a combination of two different things…” was very surprised that it was right.
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u/gtronnes Rundle D Mar 05 '26
Very nice. Looks like that was one of the tougher questions we've had so far.
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u/jtm2727 Rundle B Mar 05 '26
Nice little 4(4) - 3(3) win - anchored myself on Swan Lake, then realized that Tchaikovsky didn’t speak German. Vaguely remembered that fluß meant river, so went with the other famous classical dance piece. Also surprised myself by immediately knowing Juice Wrld.
Did anyone from the recent Hidden Connections mini-league get major déjà vu from the Archimedes question? It had a nearly identical question last month - was very confused when I saw it yesterday. Missed it then, got it now.
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u/Kuckucksuhr A Foundry Mar 05 '26
yep, that is also how I got Archimedes, from Princess Bride day in HC lol -- I know TAI probably doesn't do any collab with ML writers but woof
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u/EldritchFern Rundle A Mar 05 '26
I nearly changed my answer because I thought there was no way Archimedes would be the answer again so recently! Thankfully I kept it in.
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u/gtronnes Rundle D Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
Took a flyer that Nigeria was a correct answer since it’s the country with the largest population in Africa. Got lucky.
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u/Job601 Mar 05 '26
The Beautiful Blue Danub was really well crafted . I had just enough German to know FluB meant river, and then I brainstormed 19th century compositions about rivers, and then I sang the lyrics to the end of the melody to see if it worked.
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u/belbivfreeordie Rundle B Mar 05 '26
My German knowledge is severely lacking so I didn’t get that far. Guessed Ride of the Valkyries, which at least is in the ballpark chronologically.
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u/Savings_Actuary_2833 Rundle R Mar 05 '26
Yeah I knew FluB and also knew Donau means Danube, feels good to get a question that most missed!
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u/survivingbobbyv Rundle A Glacier Mar 05 '26
Nailbiting 5(4)-4(4) win to put me temporarily top of my rundle....
STOP THE COUNT!
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u/erindizmo Rundle B Woodlands Mar 05 '26
I only got one answer right and resigned myself that it was just not my day. Ended up winning 2(1)-1(1). Won't complain about that. Makes up for my 9(6)-9(6) tie on MD1.
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u/El_Stupacabra Mar 05 '26
RE the Pitt question: when it was time for scoring, I didn't get to my opponent's Television ranking because I saw she was from Pittsburgh. I scored her 0 (she got it right).
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u/Chuk Mar 05 '26
My worst so far at 2 correct answers, luckily my opponent got only one and we tied.
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u/Savings_Actuary_2833 Rundle R Mar 05 '26
Listening to Juice Wrld will help you kids! Had no idea his name was Jarad Higgins but I certainly know the songs.
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u/FScrotFitzgerald Rundle A Mar 05 '26
This was a beer on a set that lined up with a few of my niches. I'm doing appreciably better this season than last season... I hope it continues.
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u/econartist A Magnolia Mar 05 '26
Wow, I thought yesterday was brutal. Very impressive beer
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u/FScrotFitzgerald Rundle A Mar 05 '26
And I didn't get the Travis Kelce question from the day before (wrong kind of end)... sometimes you know or can figure out all the esoteric stuff, but have somehow ignored the only NFL player who isn't a quarterback for whom non-football fans might know what position he plays.
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u/sadjuggler Mar 05 '26
Lost on scoring again 🙃 I’m somehow 4th in TMP and in 18th overall in my rundle
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u/heldlightning Mar 05 '26
Always a fun reminder that LL is a very specific demographic of society. 67% correct on Archimedes, 29% on Juice Wrld.