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- 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
- 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
- 3. Robert Graves's 1934 historical novel explores the drama of political scheming and the workings of imperial power in 1st-century Rome during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, as told by whom? ROBERT GRAVES, PRESUMABLY #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 4. In horse racing, an exacta is a bet on two horses to finish first and second in that exact order. What less common wager also involves two horses, paying if the horses finish 1st and 2nd in either order, despite its name seeming to suggest the number five? $5 FURLONG #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 5. What state produced Devo, The O'Jays, Nine Inch Nails, & Guided By Voices, as well as (in a more readily apparent sense) the band who released "Yummy Yummy Yummy" & "Chewy Chewy" in 1968, and the funk band that had hits with "Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster"? INEBRIATION #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 6. Notorious nobleman and writer Donatien Alphonse François, whose body of work includes a depraved story he himself described as "the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began", is best known as whom? DONALD TRUMP'S BIOGRAPHER #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 7. A heist that took all of seven minutes and made international news on October 19, 2025 occurred at what historic site? DODGER STADIUM, LOS ANGELES #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 8. What reality television series, which debuted on Bravo in July 2013, was described by longtime star Captain Lee Rosbach as "Downton Abbey on the water"? KEEPING UP WITH THE CRUSTACEANS #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 9. Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what? MODERATE-TO-SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS MEDICATIONS #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 10. What term for a formal assembly of representatives, derived from Medieval Latin and used for a 1521 gathering in an imperial free city on the Upper Rhine, is (per its literal definition) a meeting lasting only one day? MEETING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A TOWN CRIER MESSAGE #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 11. "To ornament (metal or other surface) by inlaying or encrusting it with stones or gems" is one of the many definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary for what word, which had a Guinness-record 430 separate definitions in the OED's 1989 version? VAJAZZLE #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 12. Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what? JUICY DOUBLE IMPERIAL HAZY DRY HOPPED IPAS #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 13. The MLS team New York Red Bulls is often abbreviated RBNY, probably most likely because the team's formal name is Red Bull New York, and also perhaps because NYRB has been in use since 1963 as the initialism for what literary periodical? NICE, YOU'RE READING BOOKS! #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 14. Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, & Ivy Queen are pioneers of what music style, built around the "dembow" & emerging in Puerto Rico fusing Jamaican dancehall, hip hop, Panama reggae en español, & other Latin Caribbean sounds? SYNCOPATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION #LL107 #bestwronganswers
- 15. What carmaker, whose eponymous founder was born under the zodiac sign Taurus, has named many of its models after famous fighting bulls, including Murciélago, Aventador, Diablo, and Huracán? CHEVR-OLÉ! #LL107 #bestwronganswers
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- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 6. In the quadratic formula, the part under the square root symbol (b² - 4ac) is known as what "D" term? D MINUS IN TRIGONOMETRY #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- 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 #LL106 #bestwronganswers
- Reposted by LearnedLeagueSpeaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.
