Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
I'm not sure why Alex thought the years were of particular help for the FJ, or even what he thought the choices were...Frost is associated with New Hampshire, where Dartmouth is - that's all that was needed.
Mark, there's a typo on the dates here and at the archive - 1955, not 1935.
Mark, there's a typo on the dates here and at the archive - 1955, not 1935.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
To the suggestions above, I'd add William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens. Here are some handy associations.goongas wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:33 pm It is a shame that some contestants are not aware of the time periods that certain historical figures were alive in. The two incorrect FJ guesses were long dead.
Side question: As poetry is a weak category (I got this FJ), are there any other male American poets alive after 1950 that J! would normally ask about?
William Carlos Williams - poem "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Wallace Stevens - Insurance executive
E. E. Cummings - J! may break format to quote lines from him in lowercase.
Alan Ginsberg - poem "Howl", first line ""I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked"
Carl Sandburg - Chicago
Langston Hughes - African American, Harlem Renaissance, poem "A Dream Deferred" aka "Harlem", first line "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ Like a raisin in the sun?"
Ezra Pound - too much to summarize, but a poet associated with T. S. Eliot or James Joyce might well be him
Lawrence Ferlinghetti - San Francisco, City Lights Bookstore
Joyce Kilmer - (yes, that's a man), "I think that I shall never see/ A poem quite so sadly twee"
James Dickey - mostly known as a novelist for Deliverance, a story about an ill-fated canoe trip taken by Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, and Ned Beatty
Robert Frost - New Hampshire/Vermont/New England, JFK's inauguration, The Road Not Taken (NOT "The Road Less Traveled" though that line appears in "The Road Not Taken"), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (NOT "Stopping by THE Woods..."), The Mending Wall, etc. etc.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
FERLINGHETTI!!!!!!MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:47 pm
Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
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#4612, aired 2004-09-28 POETS: A San Francisco resident since the 1950s, in 1998 he became the city's first Poet Laureate
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Green and arsenic together is Cracked frequent flyer.mas3cf wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:29 pm I'm cranky about DD2. They just said "copper sulfate." As someone who works with copper(II) sulfate in the lab all the time, I know it is very, very blue... so, naturally I said blue. They should have called it either "copper(I) sulfate" or "cuprous sulfate". I guess there is no such thing as Scheele blue, so if I had ever heard of Scheele green, I could have parsed it out, but man!
https://www.cracked.com/article_20411_6 ... ction.html , #5
Would have got Antiques Roadshow anyway, but felt I had to mention this popped up in my feed during one of the commercial breaks
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FJ. New England, poet, 1930-60...WECIB?
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
theFJguy fixed and onto the Archive next. Thank you.davey wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:34 pm I'm not sure why Alex thought the years were of particular help for the FJ, or even what he thought the choices were...Frost is associated with New Hampshire, where Dartmouth is - that's all that was needed.
Mark, there's a typo on the dates here and at the archive - 1955, not 1935.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
I'd have guessed Sarah Polley would be a sole get for me on this board à la Tollund Man, but True North already reported getting her. I told my dad just a few weeks ago that she directed the movie Away from Her and also got nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for it.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Don't forget Shel Silverstein. Obviously he was primarily a kid's author, but he wrote poetry.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:47 pm
For names you may want to know something about for American males in the 20th century:
Ezra Pound (expatriate)
E.E. Cummings
W.H. Auden (English-American)
Langston Hughes
Carl Sandburg
Charles Bukowski (German-American)
Vachel Lindsay
Mark van Doren (dad of infamous Charles)
and don't forget Joyce Kilmer of the planet Earth. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/29eadac2-4 ... 7ac4577685
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Am I the only one that shouted "THAT'S HEADLEY!" at the TV after the Hedy Lamarr clue?
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
You are not.buckeyebrain wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:31 am Am I the only one that shouted "THAT'S HEADLEY!" at the TV after the Hedy Lamarr clue?
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
I had wished a more specific version of the date given in response to this clue for this game of "Jeopardy!" (such as one involving a calendar year) was given instead of that one (even though it was accepted):
"American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date"
"American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date"
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You left out what he's best known for -- a rest area on the Jersey Turnpike.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:39 pm Joyce Kilmer - (yes, that's a man), "I think that I shall never see/ A poem quite so sadly twee"
And you really should have said the name of his most famous poem -- "Trees". (And for those not in the know, forget the second half of that.)
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Dictionary.com has the definition of "date" as month/day/year...but it also includes a definition of just the day - as in "What's the date today?" So, by that definition, the answer would be "the eleventh", with "September" (or 9) being extra, but correct, information.Mario500 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:41 am I had wished a more specific version of the date given in response to this clue for this game of "Jeopardy!" (such as one involving a calendar year) was given instead of that one (even though it was accepted):
"American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date"
Lexico (I think "powered by OED?") has "The day of the month or year as specified by a number."
Merriam-Webster supports your interpretation, saying "the time at which an event occurs".
But I theoretically agree with you. I can see that a BMS would be suitable, like perhaps answering "Oprah" for "Oprah Winfrey". I actually wondered when the clue was shown if the year was necessary, and if someone was going to say the year.
That said, 99.99% of the average J! contestants would get the BMS, with the remaining 0.01% probably knowing it but being confused at the reason for the BMS.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
The comments have reminded me that I blanked on Hedy Lamarr as all I had was, "Not Hedda Gabler." For September 11th my response was, "What is the eleventh of September, aught one?" There were numerous ways to get a correct response for the date and Cheyenne had one way. Move the game along and no need for Alex to extend it. At home if someone wanted to add the year then by all means do it. 9/11 would have passed muster as well.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Let's not forget the fourth member of this unlucky quartet, Ronny Cox, who also met an ugly end in Robocop.opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:39 pmgoongas wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 7:33 pm It is a shame that some contestants are not aware of the time periods that certain historical figures were alive in. The two incorrect FJ guesses were long dead.
Side question: As poetry is a weak category (I got this FJ), are there any other male American poets alive after 1950 that J! would normally ask about?
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
58 R (Sarah Polley was my only miss.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Everglades, A Good Man, China, JP Morgan Chase, A Tale of Two Cities, Hawaii, Bodhi, Maladroit, Carbon, Franks
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Everglades, A Good Man, China, JP Morgan Chase, A Tale of Two Cities, Hawaii, Bodhi, Maladroit, Carbon, Franks
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Nope. Me too.buckeyebrain wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 1:31 am Am I the only one that shouted "THAT'S HEADLEY!" at the TV after the Hedy Lamarr clue?
You're a hopeless lowbrow. I like that.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
That makes three of us, although I was frustratingly blanking on her name until Sarah was given. Now when does Megan Follows show up as an answer?seaborgium wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:32 pm I'd have guessed Sarah Polley would be a sole get for me on this board à la Tollund Man, but True North already reported getting her. I told my dad just a few weeks ago that she directed the movie Away from Her and also got nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for it.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
I didn’t have a problem with September 11 being accepted. I think Alex was a bit unsure if to take it.
It has been debated if Alex knows the questions the players give before the reveal. Him saying you should pay attention to the dates tells me he does, at least in this episode.
I started with Hemingway until I remembered the category and was a quick solve after that.
It has been debated if Alex knows the questions the players give before the reveal. Him saying you should pay attention to the dates tells me he does, at least in this episode.
I started with Hemingway until I remembered the category and was a quick solve after that.
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Re: Monday, January 27, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
+1 Sarah Polley (but only after spotted Sarah)
4/4 on the big clues today and mucha basura for the taking
POETS - They keep coming back to Frost. Change it up, guys! Not sure what the other 2 ladies were smoking
4/4 on the big clues today and mucha basura for the taking
POETS - They keep coming back to Frost. Change it up, guys! Not sure what the other 2 ladies were smoking