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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 23/09/2026
1. Identify the current member of the U.S. Cabinet who appeared on MTV's The Real World: Boston in 1997, and later competed in Log Rolling and Speed Climbing at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games in the early 2000s. IN A SANE WORLD, I WOULDN'T HAVE TO. #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 22/09/2026
2. What was the three letter pen name under which Charles Dickens authored the "Sketches" from 1833 to 1836 that would eventually be collected and published as his first book? BIC #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 22/09/2026
3. Commissioned by California governor Leland Stanford, English photographer Eadweard Muybridge used a set of trip-wire cameras in 1878 to settle a famous uncertainty about what animal, proving that artists had long depicted it incorrectly? A BEAR SHITTING IN THE WOODS #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 21/09/2026
4. The sport of rowing is divided into two disciplines: one in which each athlete holds one oar, and one in which each athlete holds two oars. Give the common name for either of these disciplines. AND/OAR OR EITHER/OAR #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 21/09/2026
5. While other medicines eventually surpassed it in sales, what is the brand name of the drug that was the first blockbuster SSRI after its approval in 1987, and remains today likely the best-known in the group due to its cultural impact in the 1990s? JAGGED LITTLE PILL #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 20/09/2026
6. Mothers who wish to attempt an option known as VBAC typically first undergo what is referred to as TOL (or TOLAC). What do the letters in TOL stand for? THREATENING OBSTETRICIANS LOUDLY #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 20/09/2026
7. An October 1731 fire at (the unfortunately named) Ashburnham House near Westminster Abbey damaged numerous important historical documents. One document is the Nowell Codex, which contains the only manuscript of what Old English poem? THYRE WAF A YUNG MAN FRYM NANTUCKIT #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 19/09/2026
8. The massive popularity of Bill Bryson's 1998 book A Walk in the Woods caused a reported 60% surge in attempts in subsequent years to perform what feat (though Bryson and his companion fell far short of it themselves)? ACTUALLY READ THE BOOK #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 19/09/2026
9. A famous bronze sculpture from around 460 BCE attributed to Myron of Eleutherae, which is known only through Roman copies, shows its subject in the midst of what activity, directly described by the sculpture's Greek name? WRITING A NEGATIVE REVIEW OF EA-NASIR'S COPPER #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 18/09/2026
10. What word for the violent fragmentation of a larger region into smaller, mutually hostile states, which entered wide use in the aftermath of WWI, is drawn from the name of a peninsula whose own wars, fought in 1912-13, gave the term its original meaning? BAJA BLAST #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 18/09/2026
11. No Depression mag—the bible of the alt-country movement—took its name from the 1990 debut studio album by what band, pioneers of alt-country? They formed in 1987 outside St. Louis, and their 1994 split spawned Wilco and Son Volt. ALT COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 17/09/2026
12. What textbook first published in London in 1858 gave its name (though not precisely) to a popular television series that premiered in 2005? DANCING WITH THE TSARS #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 17/09/2026
13. In a famous 1948 film, Mexican bandits who claim to be Federales (despite not possessing any "stinking badges") confront a group of American prospectors who have amassed thousands of dollars worth of gold in what mountain range? THEM THAR HILLS #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 16/09/2026
14. Identify the term, from Latin & popularized by Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, that characterized several members of 19th-century Russian radical intelligentsia and today describes the rejection of established moral values, beliefs, or systems of meaning. CUBS FANS #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 16/09/2026
15. What was the nickname of the redheaded Scottish brigand, born into Clan Gregor in 1671, whose outlaw days began after his lands were seized and burned by the Duke of Montrose? YOUNG MACDONALD, WHO'D HAD A FARM #LL110 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 10/08/2026
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 02/07/2026
1. An Afrikaans name for a type of antelope was chosen for what shoe company at its founding in the UK in 1958, in the English municipality of Bolton? GNU BALANCE #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 01/07/2026
2. Name the society, founded in December 1776 at the College of William & Mary in Virginia & still existing today, that set the precedent for collegiate societies in America naming themselves after the initial letters of a secret Greek motto. NICE TRY, BUT I'LL NEVER TELL #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 01/07/2026
3. What imperial and U.S. customary unit is equal to 258.9988 hectares? 1 DATA CENTER #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 30/06/2026
4. Debates among people in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, & other nations center on whose version of what rice dish is best? Cooked in one pot with onions, peppers, & spices, it descends from Thieboudienne & named after a powerful historical West African state. UNCLE BENIN'S #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 30/06/2026
5. Whether the fourth tooth from the front on each side of the lower jaw is visible when the jaws are closed is a key differentiator between two otherwise very similar animals. Name either one. WILL FERRELL, CHAD SMITH #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 29/06/2026
6. In Ars Poetica, written around 19 BCE, Horace praises Homer for beginning his epics in the middle of the action rather than at the beginning. Horace used what 3-word Latin phrase, now a common literary term, for starting in the middle of things? ANYWAY, SO BASICALLY #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 29/06/2026
7. The terms "any%", "glitchless", "100%", and "blindfolded" are categories for the practice of completing a video game as fast as possible, commonly known by what name, also a TikTok trend where participants rush through Church of Scientology facilities? NOT TODAY, THETAN #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 28/06/2026
8. The British accent often regarded as the most socially prestigious, and sometimes associated with the "King's (or Queen's) English", is known to linguists by the abbreviation RP. What does RP stand for? RESEMBLES PADDINGTON #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 28/06/2026
9. The "hypermarket" retailing model, combining a supermarket and department store under one roof, was pioneered by what French retailer, which opened its 1st hypermarket outside Paris in 1963 and supermarket in 1960 at the crossroads of Ave. Parmelan and Ave. Theuriet in Annecy? LE COCHÓN WIGGLY
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 27/06/2026
10. A teenager named Cassia lives in a rigidly controlled dystopia where Officials determine citizens' jobs, spouses & death dates. She's paired with one boy but develops feelings for another, threatening the system. This is what 2010 YA novel? 1984 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 27/06/2026
11. Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer noticed that a chocolate bar had unexpectedly melted in his pocket in 1945 while at work, and this observation led directly to the development of what now-common apparatus? A SIGN THAT SAYS "NO FOOD BEYOND THIS POINT" #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 26/06/2026
12. Mammals are divided into 3 groups: placental mammals, whose young develop inside the mother's womb; marsupials, whose young are born at an early stage and develop in a pouch; and what 3rd group, whose young hatch from eggs outside the mother's body? EGG MCMAMMALS #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 26/06/2026
13. A teenager named Cassia lives in a rigidly controlled dystopia where Officials determine citizens' jobs, spouses, & death dates. She's paired with one boy but develops feelings for another, threatening the system. This is what 2010 YA novel? NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE-SOME #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 25/06/2026
14. Debates among people in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, & other nations center on whose version of what rice dish is best? Cooked in one pot with onions, peppers, & spices, it descends from Thieboudienne & named after a powerful historical W. African state. RATATIMBUKTOUILLE #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 25/06/2026
15. H. Harrison's 1966 scifi novel Make Room! Make Room!, in which unchecked population growth devastates society & an affluent class hoards resources, is basis for what 73 film (though the novel doesn't contain the film's cannibalistic twist)? A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING #LL109 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 18/05/2026
1. Soften with a few drops of baby oil, hydrogen peroxide, or carbramide peroxide. 2. Wait a few hours. 3. Rinse gently with warm (not hot!) water using a rubber bulb syringe: tilt head, gently squirt, reverse tilt. 4. Dry with a freshly laundered towel. No digging! 5. LL109 has arrived.
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 05/04/2026
1. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; [REDACTED]; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world What redaction from this Yeats 1919 poem is the most widely read book in modern African literature? 10 YARD PENALTY #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 04/04/2026
2. What Swedish warship sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628, was eventually salvaged in 1961, and has been housed since 1990 in a museum on the city's island of Djurgården? FJORD EXPLORER #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 04/04/2026
3. In February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly declined a U.S. government offer of evacuation from Kyiv by saying, "The fight is here; I need [BLANK], not a [BLANK]." What two words fill in the blanks in this quote? A PITCHER, BELLY-ITCHER
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 03/04/2026
4. In February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly declined a U.S. government offer of evacuation from Kyiv by saying, "The fight is here; I need [BLANK], not a [BLANK]." What two words fill in the blanks in this quote? JETS, JET2HOLIDAY #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 03/04/2026
5. An innovative line of books called Indestructibles, made with synthetic material made from flashspun high-density Tyvek-like polyethylene fibers, was released in 2009 by Workman Publishing specifically for what market segment? READERS WHO ARE ON FIRE #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 02/04/2026
6. What chicken finger purveyor began in 1996 with a single location near the campus of Louisiana State University and, by the end of 2025, had grown to nearly 1,000 locations and more than $5 billion in annual sales? BON TEMPS POULET #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 02/04/2026
7. A spinning frame invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, which helped fully mechanize the hand-spinning process, has what name, derived from the fact that it was a hybrid of two previous inventions (the spinning jenny and water frame)? 8 6 7 5 3 0 TWINE #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 01/04/2026
8. "The Stars and Stripes Forever", "El Capitan", and "The Liberty Bell" are among the first musical pieces to include what instrument, in no small part because they were composed by the man who originated its design? FRANCIS SCOTT KEYTAR #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 01/04/2026
9. The Yang-Mills existence, Navier-Stokes existence, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Hodge conjecture are all associated collectively with what prize? FIFA MATHEMATICS PRIZE #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 31/03/2026
10. What term is most commonly used in English for the professional oral historians and storytellers of West Africa who preserve epics and traditions through memorized performance? Alternative regional names include jali, djeli, gewel, and others. BENINFLUENCERS #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 31/03/2026
11. What 2-word phrase, used by skydivers as a greeting wishing good weather for safe jumps, is also a cheerful 1926 Irving Berlin song later popularized by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, Ella Fitzgerald, and Willie Nelson? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 30/03/2026
12. A current list of seven members includes Philip Jefferson, Michelle Bowman, Christopher Waller, Lisa Cook, Michael Barr, and Stephen Miran, with what name missing? NICE TRY, RUMPELSTILTSKIN #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 30/03/2026
13. American children developed English accents & adopted phrases like "mummy", "on holiday", "telly", & "ready, steady, go" due to lockdown-era bingeing of what animated series, headlined by a good-hearted 4-year-old who loves jumping in muddy puddles? A CLOCKWORK ORANGE #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 29/03/2026
14. Most often caused by infection, what is the common name for the clinical condition known medically as pyrexia? ADDICTION TO GLASS BAKEWARE #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 29/03/2026
15. Und zum Schluß bringt noch einen Gruß / Uns'rer lieben Donau, dem herrlichen Fluß! So begins the final stanza from the lyrics to the less popular choral version of what orchestral work, first performed in 1867? ßABY GOT ßACK #LL108 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 23/02/2026
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 27/12/2025
1. The name of the highest peak in suburban Atlanta is notable in its relation to the name of Major League Baseball's controversial first Commissioner. What is that peak's name? NO, WHAT'S THE GUY ON SECOND #LL107 #bestwronganswers
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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 26/12/2025
2. Iowa is the sophomore studio album, and also birthplace, of what large heavy metal band, famous for its chaotic live shows & distinctive image, where members wear matching jumpsuits & individual masks & are identified by number? BRING IN DES MOINES, BRING IN DES FUNK #LL107 #bestwronganswers
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