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FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:50 pm
by MarkBarrett
12/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORDS WITH MULTIPLE MEANINGS

12/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Found in a 1970 Tom Wolfe book title, it's a chemistry term, a math quantity & a drastic word in politics

12/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
2016 U.S. OLYMPIANS

12/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
If this U.S. state was a country, it would have been in the top 10 in gold medals with 14-- 9 of them by 1 man & 1 woman

12/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITTLE COUNTRIES

12/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It's the closest nation to the mainland U.S. where cars customarily drive on the left

12/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERARY INSPIRATIONS

12/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Seen here, the white city built for Chicago’s 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it

Image

12/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
RECORDING HISTORY

12/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Guinness recognizes his 1902 version of Leoncavallo’s “Vesti la Giubba” as the 1st million-selling record

Correct responses in spoiler box:
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radical
Maryland
the Bahamas
L. Frank Baum
Enrico Caruso
The players were 7/15 (46.67%) with a 1-1-3-1-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have three correct by Cindy.

THEY SAID IT $1200: "Do. Or do not. There is no try" were words of wisdom form this fictional trainer

HISTORY $1200: This Scottish hero was defeated by Edward I at the 1298 battle of Falkirk

WHERE $1000: In Australia's Northern Territory, 1,141 feet high, 5.8 miles around its base

Correct responses in spoiler box:
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Yoda
William Wallace
Ayers Rock

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 7:51 pm
by MarkBarrett
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Dr. Doolittle for Yoda
Kool-Aid
Rob Roy for William Wallace
California
Bermuda
Sandburg

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 8:13 pm
by Shaymin
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No guess M-Th-F.

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 8:27 pm
by dinghammer
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Just like last week. Jamaica on Wednesday — I didn't even think of the Bahamas, but I knew Bermuda was wrong.

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 8:40 pm
by TenPoundHammer
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No guess as always.

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 8:57 pm
by Leander
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Acid Test for Monday (not reading the clue)


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Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 9:41 pm
by dhkendall
Answered Uluru for WHERE $1000

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 10:39 pm
by Volante
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Mon - Stuff
Tue - Colorado
Thu - nada, kept racking my brain til the bitter end

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 10:54 pm
by theamazingchong
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Went with Mr. Miyagi instead of Yoda on Monday
Said 'Uluru' instead of Ayers Rock on Thursday, but it's all the same

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 11:04 pm
by Plactus
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quantum, no guess, Edison (desperation guess)
Knew the missed extra was the Braveheart guy but couldn't come up with his name in time.

I do not currently live in Maryland/Virginia. Narrowed the choices down to California, Texas, Maryland for Phelps, or wherever Biles is from (which turns out to be Texas), and figured "Maryland for Phelps" is a better guess than "California for sheer odds."

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2016 11:27 pm
by BigDaddyMatty
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Talked myself out of Maryland and into Texas
Came up with The Bahamas at about the 29-second mark, so I didn't have time to change my answer from Jamaica
Got stuck on The Devil in the White City and never paid any attention to the picture

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:23 am
by rpg
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Belize for the country FJ.

Knew William Wallace but was just too slow to organize my thoughts.

Average Coryat this week of 16,240. Improving slowly but surely.

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 6:51 am
by alietr
dhkendall wrote:Answered Uluru for WHERE $1000
I answered "Uluru", waited for Alex to pause, and then added "Ayer's Rock". Though I would hope Uluru was on his card.

The polling is indicating there weren't any gimmes this week.

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 9:56 am
by goatman
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Verdi here. Gets on Ayersrock = Uluru (DNC: Uhuru; Swahili = 'freedom' so hard to keep these straight- recall Lt Uhura > Uhuru, char was Swahili!); Yoda & Wm Wallace > Braveheart (Mel Gibson).

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:44 am
by Lefty
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Ok, I looked at a map. The Bahamas are quite nearby. So why aren't they ours?

Robert the Bruce for Wallace (always mix them up). "White City" helped Thursday, as did the picture and the year.

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:32 pm
by goatman
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Ok, I looked at a map. The Bahamas are quite nearby. So why aren't they ours?
We lost the War of 1812 :cry:

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 4:53 pm
by Carpe Diem
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Monday: ?
Tuesday: CA?
Wednesday: Bermuda?

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Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:06 pm
by jpr281
Went with Jamaica.

About halfway through FJ! on the Chicago Exposition clue The Wizard of Oz came to me looking at the picture, but I couldn't come up with Baum in time.

Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 1:07 am
by ElendilPickle
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Re: FJs for the 12/19/16 week

Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2016 2:10 am
by Kenny
Thanks to the poll I don't feel so bad about batting .200 for the second straight week on FJ.

Said Robert The Bruce for William Wallace because his name is so much cooler.