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I took my once-a-season stab with Paula Vogel's play ... How I Learned to ... StopWorryingandLovetheBomb.
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As the butterfly is to a caterpillar, a fly is to a maggot, and a frog is to a tadpole, a scarab beetle is to a what?
I'm not sure, but it's crawling up your shoulder right now
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Simon was the middle name of what American journalist and playwright...
David S Pumpkins
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The voting ... Some good choices this time around. I went with 1) David S. Pumpkins; 2) J'accuzzi; and 3) Nobody Expects the Spanish Improvisation!

Nakatomi and Francy Schmancy were also in consideration until the end.
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Volante wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:46 pm
Simon was the middle name of what American journalist and playwright...
David S Pumpkins
Was this your submission? I think it's got a good chance for VBWA.
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MinnesotaMyron wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:02 pm
Volante wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:46 pm
Simon was the middle name of what American journalist and playwright...
David S Pumpkins
Was this your submission? I think it's got a good chance for VBWA.
I plead the 5th
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MinnesotaMyron wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:02 pm
Volante wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:46 pm
Simon was the middle name of what American journalist and playwright...
David S Pumpkins
Was this your submission? I think it's got a good chance for VBWA.
It did not even place:
https://learnedleague.com/hist/awards/94.php

The deserved winner got it though. That one had layers.
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Volante wrote: Wed Oct 12, 2022 2:46 pm
MinnesotaMyron wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:02 pm
Volante wrote: Sun Sep 11, 2022 9:46 pm
Simon was the middle name of what American journalist and playwright...
David S Pumpkins
Was this your submission? I think it's got a good chance for VBWA.
It did not even place:
https://learnedleague.com/hist/awards/94.php

The deserved winner got it though. That one had layers.
Thanks for posting the link. I can never find it through the website. Those are some good wrong answers.
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...This type of company, which is sometimes known as a "blank check company" and whose popularity has risen sharply in the last few years, is best known by what four letter acronym?
C.H.U.D.

I later gave the actual answer the meaning "Stuff posing as capitalism" in my head
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FOOD/DRINK —What is the name, from the Hindi for "to lick", for the array of popular savory street-food snacks sold at roadside stalls and food carts across the Indian subcontinent?
Khlav Kalash
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Volante wrote: Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:55 am
FOOD/DRINK —What is the name, from the Hindi for "to lick", for the array of popular savory street-food snacks sold at roadside stalls and food carts across the Indian subcontinent?
Khlav Kalash
My one and only BWA, from the Jews and Judaism mini-league.

https://www.learnedleague.com/mini/ques ... udaism&9&4

From back when the MLs only had 15 or 20 groups.

Fun fact: the answer I was trying to think of was "kreplach". I wrong-answered it but good.
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I, to the best of my knowledge, have never been familiar with the actual response. So you can imagine my shock upon seeing it after going the direction I did with my goof:
LANGUAGE —Different types of affixes in English include the prefix (e.g., "dis" in "dislike"), suffix (e.g., "able" in "fixable"), and a third type that is exemplified by the third "s" of "passersby". What is the name for this latter type of affix?
The fix is in!

(It did not count)
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What is the name of the fully developed urban center that existed in present-day Western Illinois in the 12th century CE and was built around a central mound that reached a height of over 100 feet?
Mall of Indigenous America
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Identify the fruit, a hybrid between a mandarin and a sweet orange, that is named after a French missionary (last name Rodier) in whose Northern Algerian garden the hybrid originated in the late 19th century.
Jacquesfruit
(..or, at least, I would've put that if I didn't figure it out for real at the 56th minute (or if I knew my opponent was going to zero me for that one...))
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Volante wrote: Wed Jun 07, 2023 8:50 am
Identify the fruit, a hybrid between a mandarin and a sweet orange, that is named after a French missionary (last name Rodier) in whose Northern Algerian garden the hybrid originated in the late 19th century.
Jacquesfruit
(..or, at least, I would've put that if I didn't figure it out for real at the 56th minute (or if I knew my opponent was going to zero me for that one...))
That's the problem. Especially in A, every point counts. I'll think of a BWA (well, to me at least), but I don't want to lose the points if I do know the answer. So I make very few BWA attempts.
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A coulter (or skeith) cuts a vertical slice, and a share makes a horizontal cut underneath; the slice is then turned by the moldboard while lateral accuracy and stability are maintained by the landside. This describes the operation of the "moldboard" or "bottom" type of what mechanical implement?
First Holy Grail trap
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TELEVISION —Takahashi and Delvecchio were the last names of two different (and largely sequential) characters on the television series Happy Days. Give the respective first names of these two characters, by which they were better known—generally due to their proprietorship of a certain business establishment. (Note, two names required.)
Chuck, Sneed
(It's a Simpsons reference)
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