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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( As often in the past, geography was my downfall. Afghanistan was my first thought, but I didn't think they'd be repeating an FJ question one week apart. Even without that, I might have rejected it. I went with China/Tibet.. Don't thin...

I don't consider something someone wrote in a book or other written material to be a quote. To me, a quote is something someone said. Not that it would have helped, but I think FJ should have called it "a famous line from one of his books". The US Copyright Office would disagree regarding your firs...

My biggest issue is with the inconsistency with which people bastardize the language in the name of inclusion. Why does somebody who finds 'chairman' offensive have no problem with 'manager'? Brian It never occurred to me that syllable was related to gender until you mentioned it now. If the word w...

A little late on posting this, but on the Ron Kovic question, I believe Alex mispronounced the name too. Kovic, has a "ch" sound at the end. I wonder if someone had come up with that response if they would have been given credit. Nope - he pronounces it with a hard "c." See this video- http://www.y...

My biggest issue is with the inconsistency with which people bastardize the language in the name of inclusion. Why does somebody who finds 'chairman' offensive have no problem with 'manager'? Brian It never occurred to me that syllable was related to gender until you mentioned it now. If the word w...

I still don't understand the Satie clue. Gymnopedies...Nocturnes...Gnossiennes...I would have guessed any of these before "opus" (no offense, opusthepenguin). But I believe there are only 3 Gymnopedies, and they ARE known as numbers 1, 2, & 3, violating the premise of the question. I was momentaril...

Even after visiting Wikipedia, I'm still not entirely sure about the $1,000 clue, so I'm going to post it here so someone smart can explain to us. "In giving his compositions these numbers, Erik Satie started with 62 instead of 1" Alex so butchered his explanation of the answer, that I'm not even s...

No French painters even came to mind. I did not know Monet was a gardener. I didn't know he did the gardening himself, but I knew some of his most famous paintings were of the gardens at Giverny. Still, when the clue came up, Giverny popped into my head, but it took a good 10 seconds to recall the ...

The Addams Family began as cartoons? I did not know this. Major, major, MAJOR adaptation displacement there. How the hell she did not get pumice? That was one of the four I actually got right in that round. My mojo was really thrown off by the first four categories being way out of my league, then ...

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Never thought this could happen in a week with 2 Geography-related FJs, often a bete noire of mine. But I thought these were easy...Not much hesitation about the other three either...Well, the first name that popped into...

I would accept The Comedy Network. The category didn't say anything about having to be the network the show originated on, did it? Since they accepted ESPN AND ABC for "Monday Night Football," I think it's all right. Jane Austen is such an old standby on J! - not too much thought required for that ...

Phonetic, though, is "coop dee grayse", which might not be accepted. The only difference between what the contestant said (which syncs up with what I usually hear) and what TRD (sorry, but SotH doesn't have the same ring to it, I hope that's OK with you) says is a faint "s" sound at the end, which ...

I saw Papillon on the big screen in 1973. Have seen it several times on tv since. Excellent movie - Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen acting a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. yeah, I'm a little surprised by the general indifference to the film displayed here. It's brilliant, and in fact earns a rare 8....

....I'm talking about a different scenario, in which he "aces" the test online and doesn't even pass the in-person version. My speculation is that no matter how good he looked in the other areas (appearance, energy, ability to generate interest, etc.), the CCs would be reluctant to pick him because...

I don't know about anybody else, but just the thought of "Lobster" anywhere near "Hummer" makes me wince...

I was somehow thinking it'd be a document of some sort. Rosetta Stone. Some ancient findings needing translation. The Bible is more of a "document" - a collection of documents - than is the Rosetta Stone, which is...a stone. They didn't actually have "books" when the Bible was written. Have you hea...

12-game FJ streak ended Friday. Longest in forever.

Tough break for Matt, missing that derby DD. I hesitated, because I thought for a second they wanted an actual race like Preakness/Belmont, but the bit about the hat sealed it. . The Derby - as others have said, usually pronounced Darby in England - IS an actual race, the Derby Stakes, run each yea...

But for all we know he changed his name from cheeseguytyan to avoid ethnic stereotyping, and this is part of the cover-up... By the way, did you know that a traditional Armenian cheese is a string cheese? I don't know what to make of that, but after string cheese was evoked in an odd WAG in this gam...

JyV92 wrote:
Bogosian was even better known (ok in some circles) for his play, then movie, TALK RADIO.

Only the best circles...and before he wrote plays he did solo evenings of kick-ass monologues like "Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll..."