Learned League

Ah you did the math camp?

You know it. Everybody did back in the day, except for the greatest of us all.

I just went there and got a degree in something. I’m not so good at math.

The worst math camper better at math than most Hampshire students probably, which is funny

Heh, one of the student teachers was a Hampshire student. He had a bit different angle.

There were a bunch of other summer things going on at the same time, Feldenkrais camp, drum majorettes, you name it.

...and another Top 20, barely, finish, in Classic Reggae Music.

4 out of 12 on the Ike Newtie quiz!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxY3FtlLc-M

Did I tell you about Tony Orlando and the Brill Building?

Sorry, wrong quiz.

Oh, good anonymization there, Leee!

May I ask you what your usual threshold is for submitting?

Also want to remark upon some midpoint lull in submissions.

Looking back at my recent performance, I seem to be hovering around 6 where I can at least enter a reasonable (if not the correct) answer, though I played the Islam one despite only getting 3 correct.

My moneying has been disastrous though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16qsYreBJZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxpb0-_NkQo

Sorry.

Thanks for playing, Greg and Leee!

Got my recap in. Was quite a bit of work didn’t want to let it linger.

Anyway, that was exhausting but fun. Over to you.

Also, noticing that some of you are doing pretty well in the MLs, particularly one of you, not to jinx.

Man, some of these recaps just sit there with no replies. I think I will give some love to your Ulysses recap over the weekend.

I always write my recaps in advance.

The Newton 1DS was fun but I am really kicking myself over not listening closely enough to the Jackson 5 clip (a song I know well - to be fair it does sound exactly like "ABC").

I wanted to write it in advance but ran out of road. Certainly planned quite a bit of it in advance.

I don't know if it's the done thing, but before I finished the recap I PMed some of the top finishers to congratulate them and thank them for playing.

Man, some of these recaps just sit there with no replies. I think I will give some love to your Ulysses recap over the weekend.

Aw, thanks! I was disappointed at first but given how few participated in the first place, it's understandable and the sting lessened over time.

Greg, do you know what rock song came from a musical version of Peer Gynt?

Also, I also for some reason left "In the Mood" blank even though I knew it. Does anyone else do this? Is there an LL name for it?

Wonder if I should ask the question of who we are really writing the recaps for. Even if nobody else posts, it still seems like a cheat if there is no recap at all.

I supppose I want somebody to read it eventually, some hypothetical audience but for now I guess I wrote it mostly for myself.

I know ELO did a version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" but that's about all I know re: Grieg and rock music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-olDjUy4540
Nothing to do with Grieg.

The Loneliness of the 1DS Recap Poster.

While I am waiting to pitch my next potential 1DS maybe I will try to run an ILX POLL.

Smithing 1DS's is definitely a time consuming and pretty thankless process but it's one of my favorite things about LL. Not something I would do if I didn't find writing and tinkering with questions fun though.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 14:47 (three weeks ago)

You appreciate the art of writing trivia questions in a much more concrete way, smithing your own 1DS, that's for sure.

Indeed. Also keep obsessing about the one trace element of Wikipedia that crept in despite my best efforts.

One moral of the story is that people like to talk about (pop) music. Look at the Outlaw Country recap, the Classic Reggae recap, Greg’s recap. Those all have plenty of posts.

You know, just more thing (hopefully), before I go gentle into the good night, but several testers and players mentioned that the (only) way they knew certain things was because of The Da Vinci Code and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Which I didn't mind at all, mostly, because it was a like a free extra in that I hadn't thought about.

I’m back, just like a bad penny that would have gotten me into hot water with Sir I.N. Good thing nobody showed me this beforehand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yis7GzlXNM

Apparently if you watched that, then read The Da Vinci Code and Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle you would be guaranteed like nine points or something.

So that is my answer to why the subscription to IN > U –but not 2U! Because costume drama steampunk whodunnit more popular than modernism.

In any case, I really enjoyed doing this contest, especially the recap, as usual, but I feel like I have already squeezed this lemon for all it’s worth. Already planning my next few.

PPS: My naked bid for feedback of PMing selected parties that participated has worked out pretty well for me. I recommend it if it doesn't make you too squeamish.

Greg, I see that you have written a few Alpaca Farms quizzes. I created an account there, but haven't participated in anything.

The fact that "Phoenix Coyotes" wasn't counted for "Arizona Coyotes" in the Indigenous Languages 1DS was balanced out for me by the fact that "Waylan and Madam" was accepted for "Wayland Flowers and Madame" in the LGBT ML.

i missed a question in 21st century literature about the hilary mantel wolf hall series because i answered "cromwell" instead of "thomas cromwell." fine, the question specified that you needed the first and last name for that answer, and i admittedly missed that. but ... why were both the first and last name required in the first place? i know that there's oliver cromwell too, but the question wasn't based around differentiating the two. seemed picky.

I think it was because people might have just guessed "Cromwell" based on the general time period, without actually knowing whether it was Thomas or Oliver.

Even so, shouldn’t that be specified in the question, or would that be a giveaway?

I chickened out on Indigenous Languages, good for you doing it, will take a look soon.

Lol, i guessed "Hilary Mantel", so that gives you a sense of how closely I am reading the questions.

I won my LGBT Rundle though!