FJs for the 3/11/13 week

[MarkBarrett]

3/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BRITISH NOVELS

3/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Fittingly, this Thomas Hardy character is introduced near the Pure Drop Inn

3/12 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HISTORICAL RELATIVES

3/12 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This king was the first of Henry VIII's many fathers-in-law

3/13 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NEWSPAPERS

3/13 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The circulation of the Times of New York & London totals about 1/2 the "Times of" this place, largest of any English daily

3/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BEATLES SONGS

3/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It was one of the Beatles' longest songs & the one to spend the most time at No. 1 on the U.S. charts--9 weeks

3/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SHAKESPEARE

3/15 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Samuel Johnson said Shakespeare "so carefully informs us" that this play is set on the eve of May Day & yet called it this

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
King Ferdinand
India
Hey Jude
A Midsummer Night's Dream

The players were 7/15 (46.67%) with a 0-1-1-3-2 success pattern.

The extra clues have two triple stumpers followed by one the players had correct.

MEDALS & DECORATIONS $2000: In 1936 Guatemala created its national order, the Order of this bird

FLAGS $600: This nation's blue, yellow & red flag represents the colors used in the arms of Walachia & Moldavia

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING $1600: This name meaning "our thing" has been used as an alternative to "mafia"

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Quetzal
Romania
Cosa Nostra

[MarkBarrett]

City in California
Twelfth Night

[bpmod]

Back to normal.

I guessed "a city in India" for Wednesday's clue. But I don't think that's exactly what Mark meant when he worded the question, so I didn't check it.

Brian

[jeff6286]

Back to normal.

I guessed "a city in India" for Wednesday's clue. But I don't think that's exactly what Mark meant when he worded the question, so I didn't check it.

Brian

You mean you wrote the words "a city in India", rather than guessing a specific one? That seems like an odd choice.

[seaborgium]

I said New Delhi. And I got Romania eventually, but I jumped from Moldavia to Moldova before I used Wallachia to vault me to my senses, so I'm counting it as a miss.

[Linear Gnome]

After thinking of Twelfth Night, I didn't try hard enough to think of something better.

I came close-ish to the Medals and Decorations response. I thought of Quetzalcoatl but didn't follow the bread crumbs to the correct response.

Pretty much had no clue on Wednesday.

[bpmod]

Back to normal.

I guessed "a city in India" for Wednesday's clue. But I don't think that's exactly what Mark meant when he worded the question, so I didn't check it.

Brian

You mean you wrote the words "a city in India", rather than guessing a specific one? That seems like an odd choice.

Sort of. I am pretty sure I would not have written "a city in India". But when time ran out, that was all I had. No time left to write anything at all.

Brian

[billiej]

New Delhi

[TenPoundHammer]

Monday: No guess. I know nothing about that book.
Tuesday: No guess.
Wednesday: Somehow thought they were looking for another English city, and was stumped as to how a city smaller than London could have bigger circulation.
Thursday and Friday: Instaget.

I know what a quetzal is, but it didn't register. I know nothing about flags, and I clammed on "cosa nostra" since I wasn't sure if it was right.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I sucked this week, no way around it.

[ElendilPickle]

I said Mumbai for Wednesday's FJ, and quetzalcoatl instead of just quetzal for the medals clue.

[cinemaniax7]

Mumbai.

[Volante]

Mon - Tom Jones. No excuse, just total brain lapse. Another day, I might have gotten it, but not Monday.
Wed - Tokyo. Might have eventually gotten to India...maybe...
Thu - Long and Winding Road, because spluh. Stupid Beatles.

[This Is Kirk!]

Jude the Obscure
Delhi
Let It Be

[Andromus]

My incorrect responses were Hong Kong and Here Comes The Sun.

[jmenjes]

Bad week for me.

[dhkendall]

I know nothing about flags, and I clammed on "cosa nostra" since I wasn't sure if it was right.

You are dead to me.

[This Is Kirk!]

I know nothing about flags, and I clammed on "cosa nostra" since I wasn't sure if it was right.

You are dead to me.

Hey, 1,600 mythical dollars were at stake!

[davey]

I'd call this one of the easiest weeks of FJs in memory...and yet I managed to miss two of them...!
Good news first - literally:
When I was a kid, I had a copy of the Good News Bible whose paperback had newspaper mastheads all over its cover. For Wednesday's clue I immediately flashed on The Times of India from that cover...
http://www.amazon.com/Good-News-Modern- ... +paperback

Tuesday I second-guessed my instachoice Ferdinand to go with Phillip - wasn't even sure which number, though I note Phillip II of Spain was aka Phillip I of Portugal...
Friday I wish I had second-guessed. I immediately thought of 12th Night - so called for its supposed first performance date, not for anything in the text - and never considered anything else. The second time in a month or so I've botched a clue about my favorite Shakespeare play...

Never getting the bird...too slow to trigger Romania...but Cosa Nostra is something else I've known since I was a very young kid - when I wasn't reading the Good News Bible I read The Valachi Papers in The Reader's Digest...

[nserven]

Jude on Monday (and Thursday!). I work with a lot of international newspapers in my job and still couldn't come up with Times of India.