Learned Lag
Summary: 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).
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That "album name in hexadecimal" question was LL84MD16, March 11th, 2020 -- the last day George went to the office before lockdown. It's been a hell of a 20 months, ain't it.
Profanity warning: F-word at 6:51. Welcome to a new season! May your coin always land right and may you always KI rather than D.
Join us! Defense will never be easier!
"Kowloon" means "nine dragons": eight mountains and the last emperor of the Song dynasty.
In fairness, katabatic winds are caused by gravity.
Corvette Summer is a perfectly acceptable Teenager In Over His Head movie, and it also has Annie Potts.
Dixie Carter got zero nominations for Designing Women, y'all. Zee. Roe. Its only Emmy win was for Best Hairstyling.
Oh hey, here's another podcast to listen to: How LearnedLeague founder Thorsten A. Integrity writes trivia questions. (slate.com)
The Tour de France does use cumulative-time scoring, but the 2020 winner "only" took about 87 hours.
George is the grandson of a furrier, but had neither opportunity nor inkling to enter the family business.
Isamu Akasaki (who died earlier this year), Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources".
Also, Digimon is a Tamagotchi knockoff, with the addition of inter-device combat. It was invented and marketed as the "boys'" version of Tamagotchi.
It stands for "Confederation Of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football". Points off for using the O from "of".
Ubbe Iwwerks had a lifelong crusade against letters in his own name.
