Learned League

My first time on this year; would love a place to kibbitz on prior days questions and brag and bitch.
I'm 3-0 but I'm chalking that up to beginner's luck and a rookie rundle.
how about you?

Riding the bottom of A babee. Did we not have a thread already?

nope.

this is really making me use some muscles that have long been neglected. I've always prided myself on fast reference google-fu. LL is just about information that you've been exposed to or otherwise can puzzle out from your memory. You don't generally seem to be able to "figure out" clues logically or utilize your skillset to uncover information... you just have to remember it! I'm approaching it where I read the questions late night, answer whatever i know immediately and sleep on the rest till the morning and that seems to help a bit.

Oh hey! I remember James Redd and the Blecchs and I talked about starting a LL thread on ILX a few years ago, but we clearly never got around to it.

I'm 1-2-0 so far this season in A Keystone.

I occasionally post on the LL message board, too.

You don't generally seem to be able to "figure out" clues logically or utilize your skillset to uncover information... you just have to remember it!

I don't actually think this is true! I don't know that the first few questions this season have necessarily been representative, but one of the things I like about LL is that you often can puzzle things out if you read the question closely.

Actually, the Vaseline question from the other day might be a good example of this. I'd never heard of the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, but I kept focusing on "Titusville, Pennsylvania" and thought, is it related to the coal industry? If I'd thought harder, I might have landed on oil instead, which could conceivably have led me to petroleum jelly. (It didn't happen, but it could have!)

You're right, though, that a fair amount is dredging stuff up from memory. I always read the questions when I wake up in the morning and then usually let them rattle around my noggin for a while before submitting answers. Sometimes an answer will come to the surface in the interim. For instance, one time, on my way to work, I suddenly and inexplicably recalled the name Zamfir.

Anyway I never use my invites so hmu ilxors. Word is league growth will be capped eventually at which point I guess it becomes one in one out, so get in while getting is good.

Baffling

for the confused:
https://learnedleague.com/

Some other useful links:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-coolest-weirdest-internet-community-youll-never-be-able-to-join/2014/08/20/3c3f565e-26eb-11e4-958c-268a320a60ce_story.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/magazine/letter-of-recommendation-learned-league.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mick-mulvaney-learned-league-trivia_n_5c941573e4b0a6329e147a61

Thanks

3 of 6 correct today, 2 that i kinda thought i coulda got right and 1 that was just no chance at all

Hey don’t post about questions until the results are in, even obliquely! You don’t know who’s submitted yet.

well sure, but how is saying what i think i got right by the numbers revealing anything?

I’m sure there is some ruling from the Commissioner on this on the site, pro or con.

i challenge jaymc to 'smith' a one-day about ilx

forks if I were to know you intimately I could derive third-order insight into the answers by analyzing how well you thought you did, imo. Best to avoid even the appearance of etc.

Makes sense

i've been doing learned league for a few years on an invite from jaymc. i'm in C rundle, which seems to be about right since i almost always end up right in the middle of the rankings at the end of each season. i've had a strong start to this season so far but i'm sure i'll hit a rut and end up back in the middle again.

my ongoing minor issue with the main learned league is the "classical music" category, which seems very specific for a stand-alone category (that i suck at). i wish they just had a "music" category that spanned all genres.

silby OTM about not posting *anything* about a Match Day until it's over

U guys are playing 3D chess but whatever works is fine. Meet you back here at 1 in the morning to discuss.

I can't immediately find anything from the Commissioner about this, though it is a widely accepted norm within the LL community. On the LL board, whenever anyone posts even the most innocuous thing about a question while the Match Day is live, the post gets deleted.

Also, here's someone in a Learned League thread on the Jeopardy! message board:

With the new season and new players, it is a good time to remind everyone of the rule about discussing matches on this board. Please do not make any comment about the questions until that day's results have been posted on the LL board. Do not say how many you got right or wrong. Do not say if you thought they were hard or easy. Just do not say anything at all about the questions until the LL day has ended and the next day's questions are up.

As extreme as it may seem, I think it makes sense to stick with that rule here, too.

Oh, it's also in WestJ's LL84 welcome post:

Please remember, do not post anything here or elsewhere about any LL questions while a match day is underway. Not with a spoiler warning, not with oblique references, not asking if a question has an error in it, not anything. Period.

Well it's tomorrow now and I can reveal the secret that a plurality LL'ers are not fans of Bhad Bhabie

Haha. That was actually my route in, and I almost thought the answer was "Bad" until I remembered that "Suge" was the name of a song by Da Baby.

I lost 8(5)-7(5). Always disappointing to get the same number of questions right but lose on defense.

I am averaging about three right per game, but in the rookie league with some judicious defense, that seems to be enough to stay fairly competitive.

damn i almost missed this thread. u can find me having terrible defense to start, i'm 2-2 :/ i'm usually decent on defense? but i have been getting steadily worse somehow season over season. idk why.

also there was a thread but like a fool i smushed the words together LearnedLeague - any iLLx0rs out there?

i was gonna give a cryptic clue to my name since i don't like saying it on here (i mean i guess it's already too late to run for office due to my history on this site, i would guess) but then i realized i put it in the other thread so go look there!

also yes i haven't used an invite in ages so if anyone needs, hit silby up and then hit me up

and i 100% got that q yesterday on account of bhad bhabie (almost went with lil on account of yes indeed, until i read closer lol) (also i feel like lil was a question super recently???)

and yeah esp if this is a public board, no talk on today's results is always a good move. also no talking abt the random comedians u found and you're like "wow no way they're just like me!" and you sometimes check in to see what they got. its bad form

Completely new to this, but really like the idea. It seems like it's too late to join this season--is that correct?

yeah you have to join in between seasons

or you might be able to join but you wouldn't be able to play this season.

also no talking abt the random comedians u found and you're like "wow no way they're just like me!" and you sometimes check in to see what they got. its bad form

What about high-ranking White House officials

I too would like to join! Will M, silby, or any other kind ilxor have a spare invite?

theo von is a beast at learned league guys

Oh wait $30 for membership, gotta think about this.

What about high-ranking White House officials

Actually, I am going to answer my own post and note that the Commish has laid down the law about this, so I am going to respect that decision, but I still find the whole thing amazing sometimes.

@Leee: You only have to pay after you've completed a full rookie season, so you can try it out and decide if you like it. I have plenty of invites to spare, too.

can one of you kind individuals send me an invite, please? ilx webmail reaches me :)

Ah ok, that sounds reasonable. You can ilx mail me, and thanks!

Suge was one of the year’s biggest rap hits; surprised that didn’t give away that clue. I guess people aren’t much listening to that world unless they are specialists.

the 30 also covers a full year, which is i believe 3 or 4 seasons, so if you like the first season you're not paying too much to keep going!

i don't see where to send invites tho, is it possible to do so during the season or do we have to wait a month?

also if we have this many ppl i am definitely thinking ilxor private rundle next go around

Okay, I just looked, and you can only give out 1 invite per season (unless you are a Premier or Commissioner's Circle member). Pretty sure there were more at one point, but I don't blame Thorsten for wanting to put some controls on growth.

I'll give mine to you, Leee, since we've actually met IRL!

Oh, and Will, the referral page is here:
https://www.learnedleague.com/thorsten/referral.php

if my quick scan is right, leee, unctious, and jim want invites? and jaymc has leee? so i will send one to Unc & someone else get jim? (lmk if i missed any. i am so tired rn)

Unc contacted me, I will take care of ‘em

ok jim i'll send you a message then!

Why the low get rate on Q4 yesterday, Charles Pathé? This was the flaw in my defense, since I thought everybody must know this, especially an opponent with .761 in Film so assigned it a zero, allowing him to tie me 4(4)-4(3). Note: really don’t care that much, long ago gave up agonizing on defense, valuing speed over accuracy, having long ago settled down into C Rundle, most of my enjoyment now coming from the occasional 1DS or ML.

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

i had an extremely weird season where i was basically undefendable, got far more questions in my bad categories than i usually do... 119 pts on 83 correct. (other pts on similar seasons have been... 101, 97, 104, 109, 98, 98)

anyway i won my c rundle and about to get absolutely bodied in B. i have been like a 60/40 split between D/C my whole career. trying not to think about the beating i'm about to take and looking at the bright side which is 2 more seasons guaranteed not in D, lol

i wish i could easily see my "defensive efficiency against" just to see how much i zagged on em this season

I think that's offensive efficiency and it's in the Expanded Standings!