Learned League

And Just Audio In a World

Just had the pleasure of being schooled by Greg and company in OQL!

Hope people got to play the JI UWS -- clever idea, well-executed!

that one looked fun, but I didn't have time for it.

I am surprised at how well I am doing in the California ML for someone who has never lived there.

LOL you're in first while I, a lifelong Californian, am only in 3rd.

Good match, Lee!

Potassium was a guess for me, but it felt right.

Thanks, for that question I realize that I've only ever read up on composting and not fertilizers, so instead went with carbon. I was a little surprised to see that you missed the French question, though I may have fallen into the "If I know it, most people know it" trap?

Yes that trap is an extremely common one, for me anyway.

I have heard of the title dauphin, but would not have been able to tell you what it referred to. I figured the answer had to be "Prince of" something, which I completed with "Versailles."

So TIMOTHY and especially MARAT/SADE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZXI9RJSgok

Times when YouTube comes in handy, even if prevents one from reaching the lofty intellectual heights of some other posters.

I have heard of the title dauphin, but would not have been able to tell you what it referred to. I figured the answer had to be "Prince of" something, which I completed with "Versailles."

― jaymc, Friday, September 6, 2024 4:43 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

wouldn't have known this if it weren't for the adventures of huckleberry finn

i was just looking at ‘the aesthetics of resistance’ on monday night and had not previously known anything at all about peter weiss!

did not get timothy tho

Not sure how I knew timothy, tbh -- I went through some men's names and it vaguely rang a bell.

Ended up with a Buckner tie, 5(4)-5(2), because I assigned my opponent a 0 on multitudes (second-easiest question of the day), a 1 on Antarctica (easiest question of the day), and a 1 on Marat/Sade (he has a .781 in Theatre), and he missed all of them, but got the Spain and golf questions right.

That's quite a coincidence, because I got 3 for multitudes, and my opponent missed it despite a 0.600+ Literature score. And today's opponent, with a Literature score in the high 0.800s, also missed it. Meanwhile, the entirety of our rundle went 84% on it.

never heard of timothy grass in my life

i have heard of marat/sade but would never have pulled it

i did feel slightly dumb for not getting dauphin once i saw the answer but again i doubt i ever would have remembered it

Timothy Grass famous IRA informant iirc.

Informer ever

Even

I picked a great season to get 3 9(6)s (matches my career best).

from the LL message board, it always seemed like this guy had a big chip on his shoulder, but wow:

https://slate.com/culture/2024/09/jeopardy-champions-episodes-yogesh-raut.html

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I knew a little bit but hadn’t read that much. Not gonna click on his blog, that’s for sure.

I've encountered him several times over the years, suffice to say I defriended him on Facebook quite some time ago and he's generally edged himself out to the furthest fringes of the bits of the international quiz community I frequent.

I usually do a good job of actually reading the question, but in the 1DS on Pitchfork reviews, I answered "The Strokes" and "The Beach Boys" instead of "Is This It" and "Pet Sounds." Dumb! But even though those were the only two I missed, getting them right would've only been good enough for a tie at 52nd.

The Women In Art one was pretty bad, half the questions were about male artists.

I didn't end up submitting on that one, but I did read the questions and noticed that.

forgot to sign up for the Folk Music ML :(

Which just started, sorry

Don’t forget Arts and Sciences via Soccer starts today

Although maybe only Leee and I are doing it

yeah, wasn't interested in that one so much

I got a 1DS proposal accepted!

congrats! what's the topic?

The MiniLeague I'm running starting in January (The World of Pop Music) may be of particular interest to denizens of this forum.

yes! def looking forward to that one.

Women in Punk! Xps

Xps, more like X-Ray Spex

Lol spoilers.

Finished first in my Folk Music group.

But ofc did very badly in the Final.

I have no memory at all of the other ML Finals I have been in, except maybe the general idea that they are usually super-hard.

I got all 12 right in the Star Trek: TNG 1DS but didn't even crack the 90th %ile, which is the second-biggest heartbreak for me this week.

People love them some Star Trek.

I mean, I could've won the damn thing, this feeling of regret reminds me of something similar from last week.

A season after being relegated from A, I've been in the promotion zone for a decent chunk of this season. I dare think that I'm getting better!

I'm barely paying attention to my results because I'm deep in the throes of getting the World of Pop Music ML together. (registration should be open 'soon')

Back in A! And I finally broke the 100 TCA threshold, albeit in the sweatiest way possible that I actually feel a little bad about it.

came in 5th in my a rundle despite being 15th in tca and -3 in match point differential lol