No idea on the clue, although I knew what the five year plans were. It didn't occur to me that they would be asking for plan #1 of a series of plans. For me it boiled down to "Name something Russian." I would've said "What is the Bolshoi Ballet?" just to avoid a total blank.jeff6286 wrote:Which would be worse: leaving FJ blank or writing "What is Sputnik?"? Obviously I knew it wasn't correct, but with the word "launched" in there I couldn't get it out of my mind, and I had absolutely nothing else even remotely plausible to write down. I figure that would have at least gotten a pretty decent laugh in the studio.
Those WAG responses are often good for a laugh. Plus, you never know - by sheer luck you might hit on a correct alternate response. ("We were going for Jean-Paul Marat, but after some research our judges have discovered that Orville Redenbacher is also correct.")