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FJ was an instaget. I knew Lizzie Borden's murders took place in New Bedford, Massachusetts, which is Rhode Island adjacent. Also notorious from New Bedford was the gang rape which was dramatized in the movie The Accused, for which Jodie Foster won an Oscar. The murders took place in Fall River. Th...

Having Mr. Rogers be the correct response on Mr. Rodgers' hosting debut feels like more than a coincidence. Overall I liked his flow, seemed a bit more fluid and graceful than the others have been so far. He ad-libbed off the clues pretty well ("sackbut": "I've never heard of it either"). I was plea...

xkcd is now J! canon! ( well...at least one degree within canon... https://what-if.xkcd.com/ ) "We" were in its (pretty much): Except that is not xkcd, it's Strange Planet. A strange wrinkle to this FJ was that the name Milton Glaser sounded familiar to me, but I didn't know why. (It might be becau...

During the interviews, when Oz said Susan's hometown of Portland, Maine was "a stone's throw" from Paul's hometown of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, I wondered if he was confusing it with the much-closer Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

I got FJ but am a little surprised nobody guessed John C. Fremont.

Between Amal's pauses and 11 triple stumpers, I was amazed they got through all 60 clues.

Got locked onto Jules Verne and made a bad FJ guess of Journey to the Center of the Earth.

It's a little tiresome, but I think it shows how hard it is for the host to think on their feet while also keeping their focus on the clues and gameplay. And another subtle way that Alex was a master at what he did. (I seem to recall Ken doing it less, but I may be wrong.)

An interesting working list to keep during these weeks would be of players who appeared on the show under more than one host. By my count there are only 7 so far: Nick Cascone Laura Portwood-Stacer* Sam Stapleton* Zach Newkirk* Jim Gilligan Paul Roder (3/31/97 Trebek; 4/1/97 Sajak) Christian Stallsm...

"We were looking for..." after every triple stumper was getting on my nerves. Katie seems to have the same habit. Overall I think he was watchable.

Two weeks ago I checked the 0/5 box.

I'll cycle back to Mark's baseball thread. They were all Boomer friendly except the Jeter one. I could have known it if I wanted to but Yankee related information is rejected at the second filter after the Kardashian firewall. To be fair, baseball nicknames were much cooler back in the day. I think...

I knew the book Pioneers (I own a bookstore) but then went and confused Cooper with Jack London. Then said Kipling for Tolstoy—the name did not sound particularly Russian to me. For FJ I immediately went to the only playwright whose birthplace I knew. I remember being a teenager looking for summer j...

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Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:06 pm

How many people got Samuel Barber?

I have an R.E.M. concert CD in which Michael Stipe waggishly introduces "Stand" (one of their more, er, polarizing songs) as ranking "alongside Samuel Barber's 'Adagio' and the theme song from 'Chariots of Fire'." That's the only way I knew it.

SPORTS BRANDS In 2011 this brand partnered with the Nature Conservancy to spread awareness of the destructive habits of the emerald ash borer beetle. What is Louisville Slugger? (because ash was, until recently, the preferred wood for baseball bats) https://sgbonline.com/louisville-slugger-partners...

There was nothing to piece together for FJ because I already knew that August Wilson wrote Jitney. The producers were obviously throwing me a line after a rough week previous.

I also said "aubergine" instead of "mauve."

FICTIONAL PAIRS

Debuting in 1975, they were named for buildings 1.5 miles apart, at 301 Seventh Ave. and 401 Park Ave. in Manhattan.

Spoiler

Who are Statler and Waldorf?

"2-reel short subject" made me think documentaries rather than animation. I said Jacques Cousteau.

I was stuck because I hadn’t understood that there was such a distinction between a coastline and a shoreline. I said New Hampshire, though it should have been obvious what the estuary in question was. This chart uses the term ‘coastline’ for both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_a...

Remembering this FJ helped me to get tonight's.

I was not ready for Botany Bay in a top-row clue, even spotted "plants" and "alliterative."

The “rhyme” given was part of a poem, written by one of Geisel’s college friends; that’s why it specified ‘rejoice.’ The “Dr. Seuss” alias evolved from a pseudonym that Geisel came up with at Dartmouth College, his undergraduate alma mater. Not coincidentally, Seuss was also the maiden name of Geise...

Maybe this was known but Ken says he can see the contestants' wagers and responses to Final Jeopardy as they are made. It makes sense as Alex would often say something like "I fear X struggled with this one" or "began writing immediately" Good stuff! It's long been speculated or flat out known by p...