1. Soften with a few drops of baby oil, hydrogen peroxide, or carbramide peroxide. 2. Wait a few hours. 3. Rinse gently with warm (not hot!) water using a rubber bulb syringe: tilt head, gently squirt, reverse tilt. 4. Dry with a freshly laundered towel. No digging! 5. LL109 has arrived.

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

3. 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? A PITCHER, BELLY-ITCHER

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

14. Most often caused by infection, what is the common name for the clinical condition known medically as pyrexia? ADDICTION TO GLASS BAKEWARE #LL108 #bestwronganswers

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 #LL108 #bestwronganswers

Welcome to LL108, LLamas!

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

Happy LL107 Opening Day, LLamas! It's a day of rejoicing, merriment, grilled cheese with tomato soup, the works.

Welcome new LLamas! It's LL107 New Player Invitation Day! Grab an open seat and get settled. Deb will be coming around with nametags and a selection of muffins.

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

Speaking officially as the host of Jeopardy!, Cal Raleigh is the correct MVP vote.

12. According to a mega-hit released in 2007 by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, what did Shawty get? TALLER, EVENTUALLY #LL106 #bestwronganswers

13. In the geographical mnemonic HOMES, what does the "H" stand for? FOR THE WAY YOU HOOK AT ME #LL106 #bestwronganswers

14. What energetic small dog breed, named for the English clergyman who developed it in the 19th century from the fox terrier, was bred to drive foxes from their dens? AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC DOG WHO LOWKEY DGAF #LL106 #bestwronganswers

15. Flour, salt, butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, eggs, Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, & chopped nuts are ingredients in Nestle toll house chocolate chip cookies with what ingredient missing? THE BLOOD OF THE FIRST-BORN KEEBLER ELF #LL106 #bestwronganswers