FJs for the 4/12/21 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 4/12/21 week?

Poll ended at Sun Oct 24, 2021 7:50 pm

Aside from the United States, one of the 2 countries with 2 different cities that have hosted the Summer Olympics
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78%
As Huygens observed in 1656, a weapon in this constellation contains a nebula, one of a few that can be seen with the naked eye
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62%
With 4,042 lines, it's Shakespeare's longest play & it's also the one that's been filmed the most
67
71%
Modern formulations of Newton's 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that's measured in newtons
63
67%
One of the luminaries who drove in the "Golden Spike" in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university  
60
64%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:  I checked all five above.
23
24%
:( :( :( :( :(  I missed all the FJ! clues.
1
1%
VICE PRESIDENTS $800: Daniel Tompkins, his vice president during the Era of Good Feelings, was very often absent from his duties
52
55%
MALFUNCTION $2000: This engineer's L.A. Aqueduct worked fine, but his St. Francis Dam north of the city collapsed in 1928, flooding Ventura County
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19%
THE PRESIDENT'S AIRPORT $1000: Generally speaking, Wichita's Mid-Continent Airport was renamed in 2014 to honor this man
68
72%
I had Australia for the Monday FJ! clue.
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41%
I had Germany for the Monday FJ! clue.
17
18%
I named both Australia & Germany for the Monday FJ! clue.
22
23%
If needed, I had all four cities of Melbourne, Sydney, Berlin & Munich for the Monday FJ! clue.
27
29%
I incorrectly had Japan for the Monday FJ! clue.
0
No votes
I incorrectly had Italy for the Monday FJ! clue.
3
3%
I incorrectly had Canada for the Monday FJ! clue.
3
3%
Sagittarius was my incorrect guess for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
29
31%
Romeo and Juliet was my incorrect guess for the Wednesday FJ! clue.
9
10%
I got Hamlet for the Wednesday FJ! clue more from the longest play angle.
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40%
I got Hamlet for the Wednesday FJ! clue more from the filmed the most angle.  
14
15%
Brigham Young was my incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! clue.
28
30%
 
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OrangeSAM wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:25 pm
Volante wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:02 am
davey wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:46 pm I knew the CA engineer had a street named after him but I only got as far as eliminating Sunset as his last name... :oops: Getting LA history from the movies, I might have come up with Mulwray before Mulholland. :geek:
There was a whole movie made about Mulholland Dr.! :D
There was also a movie named Mulholland Falls. ;)
And Tom Petty mentions Mulholland in Free Fallin'.
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opusthepenguin wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:36 pm
OrangeSAM wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:25 pm
Volante wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 12:02 am
davey wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:46 pm I knew the CA engineer had a street named after him but I only got as far as eliminating Sunset as his last name... :oops: Getting LA history from the movies, I might have come up with Mulwray before Mulholland. :geek:
There was a whole movie made about Mulholland Dr.! :D
There was also a movie named Mulholland Falls. ;)
And Tom Petty mentions Mulholland in Free Fallin'.
It's one thing to have heard of Mulholland Drive, quite another to know who Mulholland was.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Overthought on Wednesday, said King Lear - thought Hamlet was too obvious.
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OrangeSAM wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:25 pm
There was also a movie named Mulholland Falls. ;)
That ought to have been the name of Terry Mulholland's sinking fastball. Was it?
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Just last month, for the anniversary of the collapse, I went to the former site of the St. Francis Dam. The rebuilt powerhouse, a little ways downstream from where the dam used to be, has a historical marker next to it (which could use a bit of cleaning). It doesn't mention Mulholland's name, but I obviously knew the story.

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I also hiked past the former site of the dam, on a road that was built after the collapse but has since been bypassed.
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mas3cf wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:44 am No idea how you're supposed to know about Mulholland unless you are from California.
I knew about him from reading the book Cadillac Desert. Fascinating book, but perhaps a tad comprehensive unless you're really interested in the history of water utilization in the American West.
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:41 am
mas3cf wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:44 am No idea how you're supposed to know about Mulholland unless you are from California.
I knew about him from reading the book Cadillac Desert. Fascinating book, but perhaps a tad comprehensive unless you're really interested in the history of water utilization in the American West.
I have more of a thing for street pavement in medium-sized Ohio cities, personally.
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I was saved on Tuesday by not being able to remember the name of the constellation with the archer. So instead of flipping a coin, I had to write down the other constellation I could recall having a weapon.

That was a big groan for me on the "general" hint. Being a midwest city, I would have guessed him anyway, but that just sealed the deal.

On the LA guy, I had heard the story before and was almost certain it was a not-terribly famous person with a much more famous street named after him. Unfortunately, I guessed Sepulveda. Oh well. Educated guesses need to be wrong sometimes because they are still guesses and not proper knowledge.
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mas3cf wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:44 am No idea how you're supposed to know about Mulholland unless you are from California.
The villain from Chinatown played by John Huston was based on the real-life Mulholland. That's one way a non-Californian can get that one. (But like Opus said, being from California is not really gonna help you with this one.)
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mas3cf wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 12:33 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:41 am
mas3cf wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:44 am No idea how you're supposed to know about Mulholland unless you are from California.
I knew about him from reading the book Cadillac Desert. Fascinating book, but perhaps a tad comprehensive unless you're really interested in the history of water utilization in the American West.
I have more of a thing for street pavement in medium-sized Ohio cities, personally.
Ha. I realize it sounds a little dry (sorry), but the history of water in the West is pretty interesting and very important historically.
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I had Stanford, but crossed him out for Vanderbilt (railroad titan). Otherwise I got the other four FJs, a good week for me.
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tddeveryday wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:09 pm
mas3cf wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:44 am No idea how you're supposed to know about Mulholland unless you are from California.
The villain from Chinatown played by John Huston was based on the real-life Mulholland. That's one way a non-Californian can get that one. (But like Opus said, being from California is not really gonna help you with this one.)
it's Noah Cross's son-in-law Hollis Mulwray who's the water engineer and thus the film's substitute for Mulholland. Cross represents the oligarchy of Los Angeles, but is otherwise fictional.
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mas3cf wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 12:33 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:41 am
mas3cf wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:44 am No idea how you're supposed to know about Mulholland unless you are from California.
I knew about him from reading the book Cadillac Desert. Fascinating book, but perhaps a tad comprehensive unless you're really interested in the history of water utilization in the American West.
I have more of a thing for street pavement in medium-sized Ohio cities, personally.
I think Mulholland is top tier Civil Engineer info, but I couldn't pull his name. I can only name Eiffel and Roebling off the top of my head as others. Architects get all the buzz. (after research) He also made the quote "There it is. Take it".

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davey wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:02 pm it's Noah Cross's son-in-law Hollis Mulwray who's the water engineer and thus the film's substitute for Mulholland. Cross represents the oligarchy of Los Angeles, but is otherwise fictional.
Aha. It's been a while, so my memory was that John Huston was the DWP official. (Also, it's a pretty complicated story to keep track of.)
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This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:31 pm
mas3cf wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 12:33 pm
This Is Kirk! wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:41 am
mas3cf wrote: Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:44 am No idea how you're supposed to know about Mulholland unless you are from California.
I knew about him from reading the book Cadillac Desert. Fascinating book, but perhaps a tad comprehensive unless you're really interested in the history of water utilization in the American West.
I have more of a thing for street pavement in medium-sized Ohio cities, personally.
Ha. I realize it sounds a little dry (sorry), but the history of water in the West is pretty interesting and very important historically.
It's been a major driver of history in the West.

https://www.usbr.gov/lc/phoenix/AZ100/1 ... hting.html
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AFRET CMS wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:13 pm (snip)
It's been a major driver of history in the West.

https://www.usbr.gov/lc/phoenix/AZ100/1 ... hting.html
And the reason Colorado residents can't collect rain water

(Technically it looks like they can now, per https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-a ... ado-6-707/
But there's a catch:
diverting and storing water is allowed only during times when all water rights in the basin are satisfied
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