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).
Episodes
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
That particular cuisine is excellent, by the way, but then, all Indian cuisine is.
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
The cat was having a cute little murder-dream on the ottoman while we recorded.
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
The host's name is Brandon Thurston, so of course it's lodged in my brain.
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Saturday Aug 29, 2020
Boseman has nothing to do with this episode, except that I got a pop-up notification on my phone while we were discussing Q1.
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
And make sure you spent at least a couple of years really into Lou Reed.
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
And also Lady Haden-Guest. And, just as we forgive her for Fierce Creatures, we will forgive Thorsten for "Battle of the Boulevard".
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
We have an extended rant at the end about scoring and gaps in American (our) educations.
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Turns out that Rosalind Franklin could have shared in the Nobel posthumously at the time, but she still suffered from Being A Woman.
Friday Aug 21, 2020
Friday Aug 21, 2020
A "MacGuffin" is an object of desire that drives a plot without being necessary to the plot itself -- that is, a treasure is a MacGuffin, but a weapon is not.