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We‘re Back... Eventually

"Kowloon" means "nine dragons": eight mountains and the last emperor of the Song dynasty.

Finish Strong

In fairness, katabatic winds are caused by gravity.

Not Your Demographic

Corvette Summer is a perfectly acceptable Teenager In Over His Head movie, and it also has Annie Potts.

A Bad Antepenultimate Day

Dixie Carter got zero nominations for Designing Women, y'all. Zee. Roe. Its only Emmy win was for Best Hairstyling.

It Was Raiders, Not Temple of Doom

Oh hey, here's another podcast to listen to: How LearnedLeague founder Thorsten A. Integrity writes trivia questions. (slate.com)

We‘re So Insufferable

The Tour de France does use cumulative-time scoring, but the 2020 winner "only" took about 87 hours.

It‘s Never Toulouse-Lautrec

George is the grandson of a furrier, but had neither opportunity nor inkling to enter the family business.

Happy Saturday! um, Sunday? Friday! Probably Friday!

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".

200 LearnedLag Fans Are Often Wrong, Because That‘s Just How Trivia Is

Also, Digimon is a Tamagotchi knockoff, with the addition of inter-device combat. It was invented and marketed as the "boys'" version of Tamagotchi.

What We Have Is a Pastry Cutter

It stands for "Confederation Of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football". Points off for using the O from "of".

No One Thinks ”Oh Yeah, Those Great Cave Scenes”

Ubbe Iwwerks had a lifelong crusade against letters in his own name.

Third Amendment Twitter Is the Best Twitter

The actress who won the Tony for Oklahoma! is Ali Stroker, who played Ado Annie, a role originated by... that's right, Celeste Holm.

This Particular Gentleman Serially Marries Them

There are only six vocal ranges in operatic singing, which seems low.

The Mehdpoint

Fun fact about South American geography: France's longest land border is with Brazil.

A Good Day

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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