For FJ!, I went with London, but I was really distracted with Thoreau. Walden is a perennial J! favorite, but the clue seemed almost a little too...violent? Active? I think of Thoreau and Walden as much more calm, serene, and optimistic, but I haven't read either author, except perhaps in an excerpt. Call of the Wild could be another case of J! loving multi-media clues, since a movie version was released just before the pandemic.
There is a howl in Walden...from a loon... he uttered a long-drawn unearthly howl, probably more like that of a wolf than any bird; as when a beast puts his muzzle to the ground and deliberately howls. This was his looning,—perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide. I concluded that he laughed in derision of my efforts, confident of his own resources. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm
This could actually make a good FJ someday.
For once I heard a FJ clue calling out to me, loud and clear. Wrote down London and had 25+ seconds in which to second-guess myself, but I stuck with the right one.
A clue that confused me on this show: During The Renaissance for $800. When Alex gave the name of the city "in Italian," I assumed that he was using a heavy "Italian" accent, as he was wont to do, to say "Mantua" - never knew there was a v in it. So i couldn't tell what he was asking for...
He was saying its Italian name, Mantova.
Yes, that's something I learned yesterday...I wonder if anyone else was confused by it...
Apparently, my poor knowledge of literature is worse than I thought. Many people, including the contestants found the answer pretty easy. But what gets me worried is when TPH calls it an instaget. Good for him! Not so good for me.
I guess I'll have to let google start answering the response. Who is Jack London?
I think he's got a fine sense of what he doesn't know; it's his sense of whether a correct response will be something he doesn't know that's lacking.
Combined with all the things that completely fall back out of my head after the 10,000th time I've tried to learn them (e.g., which planet is the biggest)...
Combined with all the things that completely fall back out of my head after the 10,000th time I've tried to learn them (e.g., which planet is the biggest)...
All I know for sure is that you have an admirable ability to persevere when faced with a task that is difficult for you. Some people have an uncanny ability to remember little facts like this. Some don't. To keep working on your ability to remember trivia when it's hard for you to do is something to admire.
PS - It's Jupiter.
PPS - I can't remember music the way you can, so don't belittle the skills you DO have.
I think he's got a fine sense of what he doesn't know; it's his sense of whether a correct response will be something he doesn't know that's lacking.
Combined with all the things that completely fall back out of my head after the 10,000th time I've tried to learn them (e.g., which planet is the biggest)...
Each time you type out "which planet is biggest", look it up and type it in (Jupiter). Do that ten times. As my wife would say, "Say it ten times and its yours."
Each time you type out "which planet is biggest", look it up and type it in (Jupiter). Do that ten times. As my wife would say, "Say it ten times and its yours."
I actually do look it up every time and it STILL falls back out of my head three seconds later.
I gotta say, I like Ken, but him reading these categories isn't giving me confidence in how he'll do as host. Alex was just so natural at it. I guess we shall see.
As someone who has...issues...with this sort of thing, but is in a field where it's expected that you do it regularly, I'm told that I look a lot more comfortable behind a podium than not. I just don't know what to do with my hands, Ken seemed to be having the same issue, and as host he'll have the podium plus actual things he has to do with his hand (mark off clues, operate the timeout, etc.).
There are zero decent, moral people who support the death penalty.
A clue that confused me on this show: During The Renaissance for $800. When Alex gave the name of the city "in Italian," I assumed that he was using a heavy "Italian" accent, as he was wont to do, to say "Mantua" - never knew there was a v in it. So i couldn't tell what he was asking for... :oops:
He was saying its Italian name, Mantova.
Yes, that's something I learned yesterday...I wonder if anyone else was confused by it... :)
Yes I was confused by it. It's a peculiar type of clue because the Italian and the English names are so close. It would be like "This city is called Genève in French."
