FJs for the 5/16/22 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 5/16/22 week?

Poll ended at Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:50 pm

The USA's smallest national park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark
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94%
A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean"
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52%
Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly"
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63%
New research suggests a device now called the Archimedes screw helped maintain this one of the 7 Wonders of the World
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70%
It's referred to as "the blue eye of Siberia"
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81%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:  I checked all five above.
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24%
:( :( :( :( :(  I missed all the FJ! clues.
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No votes
MILITARY HISTORY $1200: After this lengthy journey in 1935, Mao joined other Red Army soldiers with his surviving troops
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68%
SCIENCE $2000: As the naturalist for Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition in the 1740s, this man described a jay & a sea cow
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23%
LIT BITS $1000: The surname of this Persian astronomer & poet means "tentmaker"
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66%
My correct response for the Monday FJ! clue was St. Louis Arch.
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13%
My correct response for the Monday FJ! clue was Gateway Arch.
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75%
I have seen the Arch in person.
40
51%
I have been inside the Arch.
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28%
Hunter Thompson was my incorrect response for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
5
6%
Salinger was my incorrect response for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
6
8%
For the Wednesday FJ! clue I knew the movie was Breakfast at Tiffany's, but I did not know the song.
13
16%
The Lighthouse (no matter what else you added) was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
12
15%
The Colossus of Rhodes was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
5
6%
 
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Re: FJs for the 5/16/22 week

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

Did the unnecessary mental coin flip on Monday and settled on St. Louis. Been there in the 1970s. Rode to the top. Still recall that my dad referred to the odor in the rotating elevator cars as "rancid armpit." Probably why I remember them so well. The worst part is once you're at the top, you have no choice but to experience the smell again to get down.

No chance on Lit. Off a couple years on my Oscars. Tried to force "The Sound of Music" on the clue, even though I knew that was a Rogers & Hammerstein work. Thought maybe Mercer snuck in on one of the songs.

Archimedes screw? The invention used to lift water? And something that needed water to maintain it? That only describes one ancient wonder. But a really nice clue combining two pieces of the ancient world.

Bit of a lucky guess on Friday. Didn't know all of the details, but knew it was a lake that was likely at least some degree of blue. And I was pretty sure it was in Siberia. Guess or not, I'll take it.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).

Gateway Arch. Been to the park but didn't go inside the arch.
I would prefer not to.
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twelvefootboy wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 1:29 am
Congratulations on the quadruple post to get you up to twelve this week :lol:.
What quadruple post? I posted once, and I only see one.
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Bartleby wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 8:05 pm Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).
I don't understand the logic here. Whether they existed or not is irrelevant; they're considered one of the Seven Wonders.
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alietr wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 6:09 am
Bartleby wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 8:05 pm Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).
I don't understand the logic here. Whether they existed or not is irrelevant; they're considered one of the Seven Wonders.
If it didn't exist, how can there be "new research" about how it worked?
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davey wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 11:26 am
alietr wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 6:09 am
Bartleby wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 8:05 pm Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).
I don't understand the logic here. Whether they existed or not is irrelevant; they're considered one of the Seven Wonders.
If it didn't exist, how can there be "new research" about how it worked?
Exactly. It's like new research suggesting what kind of wax Icarus used.
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opusthepenguin wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 11:31 am Exactly. It's like new research suggesting what kind of wax Icarus used.
Those researchers need to mind their own.
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opusthepenguin wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 11:31 am
davey wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 11:26 am
alietr wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 6:09 am
Bartleby wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 8:05 pm Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).
I don't understand the logic here. Whether they existed or not is irrelevant; they're considered one of the Seven Wonders.
If it didn't exist, how can there be "new research" about how it worked?
Exactly. It's like new research suggesting what kind of wax Icarus used.
What about new research suggesting they've been digging in the wrong place?
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Volante wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 4:09 pm
opusthepenguin wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 11:31 am
davey wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 11:26 am
alietr wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 6:09 am
Bartleby wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 8:05 pm Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).
I don't understand the logic here. Whether they existed or not is irrelevant; they're considered one of the Seven Wonders.
If it didn't exist, how can there be "new research" about how it worked?
Exactly. It's like new research suggesting what kind of wax Icarus used.
What about new research suggesting they've been digging in the wrong place?
Obviously if we'd known about that, this clue would have been easier. As it was, I got this FJ because Hanging Gardens just seemed to fit too well to be wrong. It seems kind of cruel to float an FJ like that and expect people to know that the Hanging Gardens aren't real and therefore they had to be using water screws for some inscrutable reason on a lighthouse or a colossus or something. (I'd just like to point out that "inscrutable" is the mot juste for that particular sentence.)
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alietr wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 6:09 am
Bartleby wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 8:05 pm Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).
I don't understand the logic here. Whether they existed or not is irrelevant; they're considered one of the Seven Wonders.
I wish I had said the same thing several posts up. :P
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econgator wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 6:07 pm
alietr wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 6:09 am
Bartleby wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 8:05 pm Colossus of Rhodes on Thursday (dismissed the Hanging Gardens because there's no good proof they actually existed).
I don't understand the logic here. Whether they existed or not is irrelevant; they're considered one of the Seven Wonders.
I wish I had said the same thing several posts up. :P
You probably would've just gotten the same response.
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Rackme32 wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 10:02 pm
twelvefootboy wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 1:29 am
Congratulations on the quadruple post to get you up to twelve this week :lol:.
What quadruple post? I posted once, and I only see one.
Sigh. I may have to fire Chrome browser. It displayed 4 stacked posts, but I see by the post number that is impossible because it would have filled the first page. And, as cited earlier, Chrome induces double posts by me. Nothing to see here.
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twelvefootboy wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 10:53 pm
Rackme32 wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 10:02 pm
twelvefootboy wrote: Sun May 22, 2022 1:29 am
Congratulations on the quadruple post to get you up to twelve this week :lol:.
What quadruple post? I posted once, and I only see one.
Sigh. I may have to fire Chrome browser. It displayed 4 stacked posts, but I see by the post number that is impossible because it would have filled the first page. And, as cited earlier, Chrome induces double posts by me. Nothing to see here.
It's not a Chrome thing and the four posts were there for a time until a mod cleaned it up. Your explanation of how you handle the board glitch was instructive as it happens to everyone on occasion.

Click submit once and wait. One bit of insurance I do is copy my post so I can paste it later if needed. The usual pattern is for the post to appear and the board is working again. It's usually in less than two minutes.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
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