FJs for the 4/24/17 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 4/24/17 week?

Poll ended at Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:50 pm

Though he graduated from high school in 1901 & later graduated to the presidency, he never graduated from college
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71%
This numeric group was the subject of an April 20, 1959 Time magazine article titled "Rendezvous with Destiny"
75
57%
While the White House was being built, George Washington’s executive mansion was in this city
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41%
When it was first marketed in the late 1970s, this toy was given the Hungarian name “Buvos Kocka”
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89%
“The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life”
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56%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
23
18%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJ! clues.
2
2%
THE 16th CENTURY $1000: Matteo da Bascio wasn't monkeying around when he founded this order of friars in 1525
75
57%
POETS & POETRY $1600: "The Song of Hiawatha" says, "From the water-fall he named her" this, "Laughing Water"
79
60%
A TV GUIDE $2000: "All Hail" this lemur king on Netflix; he likes to move it, move it
15
11%
I am counting my response of other than "Mercury Seven" as correct for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
4
3%
New York City was my incorrect guess for the Wednesday FJ! clue.
47
36%
When he wrote the "Golliwog's Cakewalk", Debussy was hep to this piano style, a forerunner of jazz - I correctly guessed "ragtime" even if the music did not sound like that style.
75
57%
I have played with a Rubik's Cube (or counterfeit, fake, knock-off etc.).
123
94%
"Das Kapital" was my incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! clue.
22
17%
"The Communist Manifesto" was my incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! clue.
24
18%
 
Total votes: 131

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :shock:
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:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(

I think every FJ I missed was one I could have gotten under slightly different circumstances. I had some sense that the group on Tuesday was going to be astronauts, but "Mercury Seven" just didn't occur to me. On Wednesday I just thought that naming one of the former U.S. capitals would be too facile for an FJ clue. Friday I first thought of The Communist Manifesto then considered The Wealth of Nations, saw "nation" was the sixth word, and stuck with my first idea.

I have tested a Madagascar video game and I have known the lemur king was Julien, but it's been around 6½ years since I tested and even longer since working on that particular game, and it wasn't going to come back to me during the time the clue was in play.
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Wow, although Wednesday was my only miss, I thought it would poll higher. Figured it was a toss up between NYC/Philly.
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i said the maginificent seven...turns out i was off by a year...came out in 1960 ..not 1959
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Surprisingly, I have not seen the Madagascar movies. I have, however, seen The Penguins of Madagascar when it was on Nickelodeon, and I also saw a few episodes of All Hail King Julien. Both surprisingly decent cartoons.
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon May 01, 2017 10:38 am Surprisingly, I have not seen the Madagascar movies. I have, however, seen The Penguins of Madagascar when it was on Nickelodeon, and I also saw a few episodes of All Hail King Julien. Both surprisingly decent cartoons.
Not only are the penguins my favorite Madagascar characters, but they also have what is IMO the last truly great Christmas special/short to date.

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

Mon - No idea anymore...that was two weeks ago...
Fri - Communist Manifesto

This is what my brain -first- thinks of when ragtime is mentioned:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8i4X67TnSQ
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
Got Ragtime
Have played with Rubik's Cube and done mathy stuff with it

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