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... except a cube ALWAYS has 8 faces so that seemed odd. But a diamond lattice is comprised of two interspersed cubic lattices. Oh, goody - I got here first!! Don't you hate when you crap out with a double-eight :lol: Just kidding, but I think you mean 8 vertices. Easy mistake to make just typing o...

... except a cube ALWAYS has 8 faces so that seemed odd. But a diamond lattice is comprised of two interspersed cubic lattices. Oh, goody - I got here first!! Don't you hate when you crap out with a double-eight :lol: Just kidding, but I think you mean 8 vertices. Easy mistake to make just typing o...

Bamaman wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:58 pm

I guessed Lewis Carroll for FJ. Being dead I guess it wouldn’t have been him in 1926.

When a medium is involved, you never know.

JEOPARDY! TRIVIA

The most common dollar value for a clue in the Alex Trebek era.

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What is $400? (the only value that has appeared in every J! and DJ! round both pre- and post- doubling)

Archive playthrough: Coryat $35,200 (41R, 0W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: LT $7600, a bit shy of 4th-podium victory Yowzers, tough DJ round. Ended up empty-handed in "C"s of diamonds. Almost negged with "cubic" on the $1200 clue, except a cube ALWAYS has 8 faces so that seemed odd. But a diamond lattice is ...

I gotta say, KJ is killing it. He's loose and he's having fun in a way that doesn't unduly impede the progress of the game. Agreed. Watching the episodes he's hosting, it feels like I'm watching Jeopardy!... and not the Ken Jennings Show or some other quiz show. He's exceeding my expectations for s...

22-year-old poet Amanda Gorman reads "The Hill We Climb" at Biden's inauguration.

Given the impressive poetry and the amount of buzz it has generated, I'm expecting her name and/or the name of the poem to show up in a clue before long.

Archive playthrough: Coryat $39,200 (47R, 1W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: Typically pretty good with mythology but it gave me trouble this time, only got the top and bottom clues. Whoopsie: aquifer for aqueduct. Clammed on blunderbuss because howitzer popped into my head and I knew it was wrong. FJ: WECIB?

Pretty sure the only reason they showed a picture of Hermann Rorschach is because he is Brad Pitt's döppelgänger. If anyone got that clue based on the photo alone, please feel free to correct me...

Coryat $41,600 (49R, 2W) DD 2/3 FJ :mrgreen: No idea on DD1. Wouldn't have wagered more than $100 on a fashion DD though, so no harm, no foul. Negged with omega for beta... my brain went "Greek letter + last = ??". Forehead slap upon reveal. Like Bamaman, for FJ, had to guess between Motel 6 and Sup...

Picked Off wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:50 am

NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY

Communities in this province include Sydney, Dartmouth, Pleasant Bay and Argyle.

Spoiler

What is Nova Scotia?

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My wife is from Dartmouth, NS so I wasn't missing this one! Good clue though, I can see the path to a solve if you're not married to someone from there.

SPORTS GEOGRAPHY With over 8.5 million inhabitants, it is the most populous U.S. state that is not home to a MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL franchise. What is Virginia? i believe we’ve been over this already in this thread. While the Washington Football Team plays home games in Maryland, it’s headquarters a...

I must admit, I was 100% expecting to see a giant Trump statue as the centerpiece.

If having movie buff Ken Jennings as host means we get one FJ a week that's tangentially related to the movies, I'm even more on board with naming him permanent host. Unlike last week's clue though, I got this one, and I got it instantly. I was on the Ken train and you just convinced me to jump off...

SPORTS GEOGRAPHY

With over 8.5 million inhabitants, it is the most populous U.S. state that does not have the home stadium of a MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL franchise.

Spoiler

What is Virginia?

Sul ponticello is an instruction to bow close to this part of the instrument "pont" = "bridge" is a handy thing to know. Examples of famous bridges include the PONT-Neuf in Paris and the PONTE Vecchio in Florence. In fact, the word "pontiff" means "bridge maker" (builds bridges between humans and G...

Anyone else find "Chernobyl" vastly overvalued in HISTOIRC TV? Ukraine + 1986 is an easy Pavlov for the explosion. I suppose you had to be sure that the city was the name of the mini-series, and it wasn't named "Chernobyl Disaster" or something like that. Maybe I'm biased because I watched the mini...

First a FJ, now a DD that requires knowledge about The Crown . I guess I know where I'm putting some extra effort... Never seen The Crown and got both, although the one today was a bit of a guess. Never seen the movie in today’s FJ but breakfast foods at a fancy NYC store leaves no other options. I...

Archive playthrough: Coryat $38,800 (48R, 1W) DD 2/3 FJ :mrgreen: First a FJ, now a DD that requires knowledge about The Crown . I guess I know where I'm putting some extra effort... Had a Really Rough time with alliteration, only 1/5. Some days my brain works for categories like that, some days it ...

cinemaniax7 wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:52 pm

trainman wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:40 pm

As noted by MarkBarrett in the study guide thread: Phil Spector, murderer who also did some music production work, at age 81.

Everything I've read says Phil Spector died of natural causes. Are you certain about the COVID connection?

COVID is a natural cause.