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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Israel's flag is also horizontal stripes, so George was totally off.
No, not really. He's mostly annoyed at himself for violating Rule 1.
Thorsten wants you to get it. Except when he asks basketball questions, apparently.
George was wrong -- the Bangalore torpedo (for clearing wire) is barely 100 years old, and the naval version is the original.
That scene in Trading Places did... not... age well.
Some days, you just know the stuff and can't really come up with a good story of how you got to it.
That particular cuisine is excellent, by the way, but then, all Indian cuisine is.
The cat was having a cute little murder-dream on the ottoman while we recorded.
The host's name is Brandon Thurston, so of course it's lodged in my brain.
Boseman has nothing to do with this episode, except that I got a pop-up notification on my phone while we were discussing Q1.
And make sure you spent at least a couple of years really into Lou Reed.
And also Lady Haden-Guest. And, just as we forgive her for Fierce Creatures, we will forgive Thorsten for "Battle of the Boulevard".
We have an extended rant at the end about scoring and gaps in American (our) educations.
You were spared so much cat yowling.
Turns out that Rosalind Franklin could have shared in the Nobel posthumously at the time, but she still suffered from Being A Woman.
