Learned League is fun if you treat it as a quick daily trivia quiz. I'm convinced that it is rife with cheaters, though, which makes the competition part not as fun. There's really no way to prove it, but it's impossible not to be suspicious when there are people who get 1 wrong answer in an entire season, or when you give up 3 points to someone on an obscure theater question, when that person is historically 2-30 in that category.
I assume using a search engine is cheating? But it seems like a good way to learn more trivia.
You're not allowed to use any external resources to answer the questions - books, internet, friends, etc. You can use a pencil and paper for the math questions but that's it.
I tend to avoid pub trivia nights since they tend to focus too much on pop culture, which is one of my weak areas of trivia knowledge. This, on the other hand, sounds right up my alley. Too bad it's invite-only.
well it is the internet, you can always try to create your own? once you have people willing to play, their league isn't special or unique
I can't start it by myself, and if I knew like-minded people, one of them would probably have a connection to this group already.
Yeah, the only reason I can see to keep this invite-only is to try to create artifical cachet about being in a community of "smart people".
I'm sort of annoyed that their little embedded quiz didn't accept my answer "Jean-Michel Basquiat" and instead wanted "Jean Michel Basquiat".
We changed the linkbaity title to a sentence from the article that seems to describe what it's about.