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We play Learned League, the greatest trivia competition in all the land. Each day, we run through the questions and how we arrived at the answers (or at least, how we arrived at our answers).
Finish Strong
"Kowloon" means "nine dragons": eight mountains and the last emperor of the Song dynasty.
A Bad Antepenultimate Day
Corvette Summer is a perfectly acceptable Teenager In Over His Head movie, and it also has Annie Potts.
It Was Raiders, Not Temple of Doom
Dixie Carter got zero nominations for Designing Women, y'all. Zee. Roe. Its only Emmy win was for Best Hairstyling.
We‘re So Insufferable
Oh hey, here's another podcast to listen to: How LearnedLeague founder Thorsten A. Integrity writes trivia questions. (slate.com)
It‘s Never Toulouse-Lautrec
The Tour de France does use cumulative-time scoring, but the 2020 winner "only" took about 87 hours.
Happy Saturday! um, Sunday? Friday! Probably Friday!
George is the grandson of a furrier, but had neither opportunity nor inkling to enter the family business.
200 LearnedLag Fans Are Often Wrong, Because That‘s Just How Trivia Is
Isamu Akasaki (who died earlier this year), Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of efficient...
What We Have Is a Pastry Cutter
Also, Digimon is a Tamagotchi knockoff, with the addition of inter-device combat. It was invented and marketed as the "boys'" version of Tamagotchi.