FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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Which FJs did you solve correctly for the 6/15/15 week?

Poll ended at Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:57 pm

He rhymed the title character of one of his best-known poems with "drew on", "threw on" & "ruin"
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32%
"A reviewer... wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a a compliment, but it was"
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53%
In her 30s, this Texan was up for Best Actress in 2002 & 2003; she won Best Supporting in 2004 in a Civil War drama
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51%
Published for the first time in 2014, her "Pioneer Girl" was initially rejected, revised & transformed into a fictional series
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73%
Everything changed in 1924 after he observed, "I have found a Cepheid variable in the Andromeda Nebula"
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57%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
12
9%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJs.
2
2%
A LITTLE DAD'LL DO YA $800: A Florence, Alabama music festival honors this "Father of the Blues" who was born here in 1873
44
34%
TOO MUCH INFORMATION $200: This painting was reframed in 1951, has a small crack in the upper center & is aka "La Gioconda"
111
86%
BEASTLY LIT $1000: With "Jaws" he took quite a bite out of his readers' sense of water safety [Check it even if you only had the last name]
94
73%
I missed the Monday FJ! clue going the wrong way on a three-sided coin toss with Keats, Byron and Shelley.
12
9%
I missed the Tuesday FJ! clue by guessing Dali.
10
8%
I have seen the movie "Cold Mountain" and/or read the book.
28
22%
I have never seen or read "Cold Mountain", yet I was still correct on the Wednesday FJ! clue.
42
33%
I missed the Thursday FJ! clue by guessing Willa Cather.
14
11%
J! was preempted or shown at a later time at least once this week on my local station.
23
18%
 
Total votes: 129

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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Dali is not a bad response since some of his landscapes do seem to go on forever, but it seemed clear to me that the clue was referring to nonrepresentational work that had a random quality. I have a history of blanking on Pollock's name so I was happy that didn't happen Tuesday...
Wed. was tough since I didn't remember the movie - the only Civil War picture I could think of was Glory. The only Oscar-winning actress from the South that came to me was Holly Hunter (turns out she's from Georgia) then I thought of Viola Davis (South Carolina) but I knew she wasn't right though she has nominations for Best Actress and Supporting...I don't think Cold Mountain or Zellweger would ever have come...Except for her makeover she's dropped off the radar...
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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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:( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:( :mrgreen: :(

Monday, I knew it was Don Juan but kept thinking of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Tennyson, even though I knew they were wrong. None of the shorter-named poets came to mind.

Tuesday, I was preoccupied and missed the FJ category, so when the clue was read, I interpreted "pictures" as a reference to films (possibly because of the word "reviewer" too). By the time the category was legible on the screen again a few seconds later, someone had already blurted out the answer.
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dinghammer wrote:By the time the category was legible on the screen again a few seconds later, someone had already blurted out the answer.
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3/5 this week, and the three I did get were instagets
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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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How rare is it for the contestants to do much better in a week than boardies?
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cf1140 wrote:How rare is it for the contestants to do much better in a week than boardies?
I would guess it's either equal or they tend to do better than us as not every boardie can pass the test.

I'm thinking closer to equal because we aren't under the lights like they are and we don't all write our answers down.
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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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cf1140 wrote:How rare is it for the contestants to do much better in a week than boardies?
I knew that this had been an excellent week of shows, but yeah, wow! This week's contestants really did do very well on their FJs.
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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :oops: :mrgreen:
I was 171/295 on the board (BA .580) with an average Coryat of $25,160, somewhat down from last week.
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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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:( :mrgreen: :( :( :(
:( :mrgreen: :(
Bad week. Flatfooted on Monday--no guess. Lucky guess on a weak category for me on Tuesday to avoid getting skunked for the week. Did not read or see Cold Mountain. Guessed Suzanne Collins on Thursday, Percival Lowell on Friday.

I "know" Peter Benchley wrote Jaws, for some value of "know" which involves having the piece of information somewhere I couldn't retrieve it but think I would have more than half of the time.

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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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:cry: :cry: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

WAG Keats, Escher. Last minute switch from Cather to Wilder.
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I was lost without a map on Monday's clue. On Friday, Hubble crossed my mind, but then I convinced myself he was from the wrong century and guessed Einstein. Tuesday and Wednesday were instagets, Thursday was a lucky guess.
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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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4/5; Zellweger cost me the pentafecta. Have read Cold Mtn AND seen the movie but no joy, failure to associate. Inexcusable cognitive defect.
Lamely responded "Sandra Bullock?" knowing it was incorrect. bah. "My brain hurts; it's got to come out!" :oops:

Pollack, L.I. Wilder were instagets; Byron was a lucky guess, as I posted on the day. Better to be lucky than good, eh?! :P

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I'm on an ugly streak...

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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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I only got Wednesday correct. I guessed Dali on the Tuesday one, and I got the featured Jaws question quite quickly (both first and last name).
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Breakdown of board scores on FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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After 123 respondents:

:mrgreen: 11 got all 5 FJ!s
;) 26 got 4 FJ!s
:) 29 got 3 FJ!s
:( 29 got 2 FJ!s
:oops: 27 got 1 FJ!
:eek: 1 got 0 FJ!s

Average: 2.69 FJ!s correct.

My responses went: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: / :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Clueless Tuesday. Just put down Van Gogh to not leave a blank.

I have seen the movie, but not read the book.
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Re: FJs for the 6/15/15 week

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:( :( :( :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Knew Peter Benchley

Knew Don Quixote, but not his girlfriend
Said Beethtoven's ninth

For the season: 118-82
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Kids Week:4-1
Teachers: 5-5
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5/5: 3
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