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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 10d

1. What is the term for the cooking technique, a method of butterflying, in which a bird (usually a chicken) is split and flattened, with the backbone removed (and also sometimes the sternum)?

FOGHORN LEGHORN'S RECUR—I SAY, RECURRING NIGHTMARE

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 10d

2. Identify the religious movement, founded in South Korea in 1954, which teaches in the Divine Principle that a sinless man could redeem the world and establish God's kingdom on Earth.

BI BIM BAPTISTS

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 11d

3. Laurel, Mississippi, provides the primary setting (and indirectly, the title) for what HGTV renovation series starring local husband-and-wife team Ben and Erin Napier?

AS I LAY DRYWALLING

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 11d

4. What refrigerator brand, founded in the 1910s and so popular in mid-20th-century America that its name was often used generically for any refrigerator, has a name that sounds like what one should expect to find inside a refrigerator?

DE BEERS

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 12d

5. Poverty, Disgrace, Fame, Idleness, Cupid, Ruin, and Politics were some of the spaces in the early version of what game, invented by board game pioneer Milton Bradley himself in 1860?

SO YOU WANT TO BE A CONGRESSMAN

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 12d

6. In the quadratic formula, the part under the square root symbol (b² - 4ac) is known as what "D" term?

D MINUS IN TRIGONOMETRY

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 13d

7. The USDA recognizes three grades for ketchup, the lowest being Standard and the middle Extra Standard. What word, which outside the ketchup-sphere suggests something ornamental or extravagant, is the highest grade, with the thickest texture & most tomato solids?

THICC

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 13d

8. According to a mega-hit released in 2007 by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, what did Shawty get?

A STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT & SHE NEEDS CASH NOW

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 14d

9. American author Sinclair Lewis's 1925 novel about a Midwestern doctor and medical researcher shares a pronunciation with the name of a legendary rock band from Boston. Give either name.

ARI O'SPEEDWAGON

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 14d

10. What is the word—uncommon in the 1850s but common today—that Walt Whitman used in the first line (and thus title) of his nine-section poem from Leaves of Grass in which he "sings" a celebration of physicality and the human "body"?

BADONKADONK

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 15d

11. The word "Sparrow" often appears in the names of social clubs organized around what game, as its name roughly translates to sparrow in English and the sounds of the game are said to evoke the birds' sounds?

COMPETITIVE BIRD-SQUEEZING

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 15d

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 15d

12. According to a mega-hit released in 2007 by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, what did Shawty get?

TALLER, EVENTUALLY

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 16d

13. In the geographical mnemonic HOMES, what does the "H" stand for?

FOR THE WAY YOU HOOK AT ME

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 16d

14. What energetic small dog breed, named for the English clergyman who developed it in the 19th century from the fox terrier, was bred to drive foxes from their dens?

AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC DOG WHO LOWKEY DGAF

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · 17d

15. Flour, salt, butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, & chopped nuts are ingredients in Nestle toll house chocolate chip cookies with what ingredient missing?

THE BLOOD OF THE FIRST-BORN KEEBLER ELF

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Aug 18

Happy LL106 Opening Day, LLamas! Also less happily, to those who observe, condolences on "Oh Man I Thought I Was Registered" Day.

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jul 28

It's LL106 new player invitation day! We welcome our newcomers, and hope you enjoy a respite from the current societal hellhole in LL. (Also a hellhole, but a marginally nicer hellhole.)

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jun 25

1. In photography, the brightness of an image is determined by the "exposure triangle" of aperture, shutter speed, and a third factor which is a measure of the sensitivity of the camera's sensor to light. This third factor is what?

REMEMBERING TO TAKE THE LENS CAP OFF

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jun 24

2. For good reasons, the word RELENTS will likely never be the solution in the Bonus Round of what game show that debuted on NBC in 1975?

DON'T SAY RELENTS

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jun 24

3. A knee kicker, seam iron, tack strips, and special utility knife are all tools often used for the installation of what?

WINDOWS 95

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jun 23

4. A love triangle of sorts, among the Cowgirl, Head Wrangler, and Rancher's Daughter, provides the storyline for the first section of what 1942 ballet?

WHERE THE DEER AND THE ANTELOPE PLIÉ

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jun 23

5. "We tell ourselves stories in order to live" is the famous opening line of "The White Album", the title essay in a critically acclaimed 1979 collection by what journalist, novelist, playwright, memoirist, and screenwriter?

NICOLE KIDMAN IN THAT AMC MOVIE COMMERCIAL

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jun 22

6. Goldbach's conjecture states that every even integer greater than two is the sum of two what?

GROWN-UP INTEGERS WHO LOVE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH

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LearnedLeague @learnedleague.com · Jun 22

7. In the following luxurious and delectable list of terms, what word would most typically fill in the blank? Aperitivo, [BLANK], primo, secondo, contorno, insalata, formaggi e frutta, dolce, caffè, digestivo.

ENDLESS BREADSTICKS

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