FJs for the 5/24/21 week

[MarkBarrett]

5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY ARTWORK

5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The artist's wife described the scene of this 1942 painting as "brilliant interior of cheap restaurant"

5/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NOBEL-WINNING NOVELISTS

5/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Falsely accused of murder, a character in his 1948 novel becomes "tyrant over the whole county's white conscience"

5/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS

5/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Monsieur Crescendo & Signor Vaccarmini ("Mr. Racket") were derisive nicknames for this composer whose last opera dates from 1829

5/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MUSIC & GEOGRAPHY

5/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In a British folk tune, the title lass Maggie May is sentenced to go way down south to this penal colony that rhymes with her name

5/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EUROPEAN BORDERS

5/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It's still there, but none of the countries that bordered this country at the beginning of 1990 exist anymore

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Nighthawks
(William) Faulkner
(Gioachino) Rossini
Botany Bay
Poland

The players were 10/15 (66.67%) with a 3-2-2-2-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have one correct by each of the finalists.

ON THE RIVER $2000: Ciudad Bolívar, Ciudad Guayana

MEDICAL MILESTONES $2000: Implanted in 1982, the first successful artificial heart was designed by & named for this American doctor

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE $800: In a story by Mary Mapes Dodge, the sister of this title boy wins the silver skates

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

the Orinoco
(Robert) Jarvik
Hans Brinker

  

[MarkBarrett]

Robert Penn Warren thinking of All The King’s Men
Haydn thinking of Surprise Symphony
Sydney in rhyming Maggie

Never been anywhere or seen anything related to the poll options.

7/10 on FJ! clues after starting 6/6.

[Plactus]

1948 made me think Orwell. I didn't think he was right but I couldn't unthink him in time to try to figure anyone else.
Verdi Wednesday.
Botany Bay was a desperation guess, just to prove that sometimes they pay off.

I've been to former East Germany and Czechoslovakia, but not Poland. Never down under.

5/10 on the tournament, with both weeks having similar patterns with only Friday different.

[Volante]

Tue - Steinbeck
Fri - *blank. Made it to Poland right before Jennifer's reveal...started too far south...

Orinoco would've been a DD get, but was got too fast for me to ring in live

I have seen Botany Bay...from the window of a 747... Sadly I didn't actually realize it at any of the times, but I'm counting it.

7/10

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

[davey]

I feel like Faulkner was very gettable if I'd read the clue more carefully...I considered gazing at a map of Europe for a few minutes before forwarding to FJ, but I still probably wouldn't have got that one...
I've never been to the Art Institute of Chicago so I've not seen the painting.

[Robert K S]

I feel like Faulkner was very gettable if I'd read the clue more carefully...

Ditto. A misread of the clue was probably the difference between a 4/5 week and a 5/5 week for me

[Leander]

Knee jerk reaction of DeBakey for the heart inventor.
Rossini the toughest get for me as I thought his years were a bit later. That he lived 40 years past his last opera probably influenced that.

Lived in Chicago for a while so have seen Nighthawks at the Art Institute

Actually worked in Warsaw off and on for several months some years ago on a business project. Have never been to Australia.

A surprising 9/10 on FJs

[DBear]

4/10

[seaborgium]

All I could think of for Thursday was Marshalsea, which is in England.

After getting all but the last two FJs right in this ToC, I want J! to know that 11 years later, I still have it in me to make it to a tournament's finals and blow it.

[The Talking Mime]

Figured they might've wanted an American Tuesday, but forgot about Faulkner during my precalls. Decided to go international and said Camus. I had recently skimmed his Wikipedia page and knowing his two most famous novels were published in the 1940s influenced my guess.

Focused too much on the French nickname and picked Ravel after trying to make something of "crescendo," but I knew it was the wrong era.

Guessed Greece Friday. Really got to work on my mental geography.

7/10 overall, which I think is my best ever mark for a ToC. Thursday's get marked my first one in a ToC final since I joined the board (and probably overall before I even heard of this place).

[ElendilPickle]

[Shaquebanisa]

[TenPoundHammer]

Learned of Brinker/silver skates from Peanuts. No guess on the rest.

2/10 on FJ! during the TOC.

[AFRET CMS]

Couldn't pull the correct painting name in time, went with Nightwings knowing it was close but no cigar.

Wagner on Wednesday.

Eliminated Poland because Lithuania has been around a long time, but it was an SSR and not considered independent before 1990. Wound up in Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria knowing all were incorrect, put down Romania.

Puts me in the third of us with fewer than 5 correct for the TOC.

[Bartleby]

7/10