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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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#LearnedLeague #LL108 has concluded. The season started off a little rocky, but then got a little better. I ended up 7th place in my rundle. Placed in 6th the season before. 🦙
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
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14. Most often caused by infection, what is the common name for the clinical condition known medically as pyrexia?
ADDICTION TO GLASS BAKEWARE
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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
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Blue ocean beneath blue sky with white puffy clouds. The sky and sea have a golden glow.
#LearnedLeague #LL108 MD25 thread. I come to the end of another season - one that started with so much promise, but that will end the same as every three-digit season so far: with a losing record. Factfueling with four COOKIES and a few last fleeting moments (for now) in the beautiful Caribbean Sea.
finishing #LL108 right around 5th place, right where i wanted
(the top 3 get promoted to rundle b which is basically a punishment because the people in rundle b are violent geniuses who will crush your spirit so really 4th place is 1st place)
Steak, grilled fish, a baked potato, and a salad, next to a blue bottle with a rooster on a football, in front of blue ocean and a coastline port.
A man in a black shirt, smiling, in front of a sign that says Welcome to Barbados.
#LearnedLeague #LL108 MD24 thread. My Recappee Gauntlet continues as I play Tiger Trivia Institute Board Games Director @awaygames.bsky.social in a crucial match that we both really need to win! Factfueling off the coast of Bridgetown, Barbados.
Well, this is nice. With two matches still to play, I'm already guaranteed to stay in B for LL109. And I've broken my record for total correct answers in a season, having picked up four 6s along the way. What a season!
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I'm a couple days late, but I can't believe I got another (actual!) beer on MD21 of #LearnedLeague. 🍻 I know I haven't been posting much about #LL108. Just so much stress going on, I'm feeling overwhelmed and social media is no place I want to be when I feel this way.
A hamburger and a hot dog next to a blue bottle with a rooster on a football, in front of a window, behind which sits blue ocean and a coastline with buildings.
A man smiling, in a blue and green shirt with pineapples, next to a waterfall.
Roseau, the capital of Dominica. A city next to a pier, with cloud-covered mountains in the background.
#LearnedLeague #LL108 MD23 thread. The Recapper onslaught continues, as today I play MathiasC! This is why I tried to get my points earlier, because I knew this stretch would happen. That's okay, because today I am Factfueling from the Nature Island of Dominica, after relaxing at the Emerald Pool.
Man, this sure is the season of talking myself out of right answers. 😞 #LearnedLeague #LL108
Two hamburgers, a baked potato, and a salad, next to a blue water bottle with a rooster on a football, with blue ocean in the background, the island of St. Croix in the distance.
Blue ocean in front of the island of St. Croix.
#LearnedLeague #LL108 MD22 thread. Factfueling off the coast of St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, heading southeast, as I prepare to face Tiger Trivia Institute Athletics Director and fellow @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social alum @cnorthside.bsky.social. No pressure!
A hamburger, rice, and carrots in front of a blue water bottle with a logo of a rooster on a soccer ball, in front of a window overlooking an ocean port, with a mountain and a ship in the background. Phillipsburg, Sint Maarten.
Ocean in front of mountains in a partly cloudy sky. Phillipsburg, Sint Maarten.
#LearnedLeague #LL108 MD21 thread. Factfueling for my match against fellow Recapper, LL referree, and recent @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social contestant @digitaldley.bsky.social - from Phillipsburg, Sint Maarten.
Breadsticks with red sauce, next to a cheese pizza.
#LearnedLeague #LL108 MD20 thread. I come off another loss in the Dogtown Throwdown, and right into a matchup against my Official Arch Nemesis, MorrisonSJ, who will be going for his TENTH win in a row against me. Factfueling on a Friday with cheese pizza and breadsticks, from a Memphis, TN hotel.
Nine cookies and a tiger picture in front of today's Jeopardy episode.
#LearnedLeague #LL108 MD19 thread. I sit only three points below LLRC qualification, the closest I've been at this stage since LL99, when I finished an agonizing fourth (back when the top three qualified.) Factfueling with All! Nine! COOKIES!!! and nothing else, for the Dogtown Throwdown with HuppD.
