FJs for the 5/23/22 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 5/23/22 week?

Poll ended at Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:52 pm

Post-this disease syndrome affects many survivors, of which the U.S. is estimated to have 300,000, the vast majority over 65
37
47%
It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens
31
40%
In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word
74
95%
A 1946 speech declared the terminuses of the Iron Curtain to be port cities serving these 2 seas
27
35%
In 2021 this Hall of Fame athlete launched Omaha Productions
54
69%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:  I checked all five above.
5
6%
:( :( :( :( :(  I missed all the FJ! clues.
1
1%
SALT & PEPPER $1600: The Salt River is a tributary of this other 4-letter river in Arizona
49
63%
LET'S GET HISTORICAL $600: he Sepoy Rebellion swept through the north of this country in the late 1850s
40
51%
LITERARY SHIPPING $1600: "The cruel rocks, they gored her side" is from the Longfellow poem "The Wreck of" this vessel
51
65%
COVID was my incorrect guess for the Monday FJ! clue.
5
6%
Stuart was my incorrect guess for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
13
17%
I misunderstood the Tuesday FJ! clue and thought I needed two names.
8
10%
I had Baltic though not Adriatic for the Thursday FJ! clue.
38
49%
I had Adriatic though not Baltic for the Thursday FJ! clue.
2
3%
Mediterranean was part of my response for the Thursday FJ! clue.
14
18%
Black was part of my incorrect response for the Thursday FJ! clue.
23
29%
Caspian was part of my incorrect response for the Thursday FJ! clue.
6
8%
North was party of my incorrect response for the Thursday FJ! clue.
8
10%
Peyton Manning was my response for the Friday FJ! clue.
51
65%
Manning with no first name was my response for the Friday FJ! clue.
1
1%
I missed the Friday FJ! clue with a non-football player.
8
10%
 
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FJs for the 5/23/22 week

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5/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MEDICINE

5/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Post-this disease syndrome affects many survivors, of which the U.S. is estimated to have 300,000, the vast majority over 65

5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE MIDDLE AGES

5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It was the surname of the 2 Scottish brothers who claimed monarchies of 2 different countries in the 13-teens

5/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FAMOUS SPEECHES

5/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In a draft of FDR's speech of December 8, 1941, the words "world history" were changed to this one word

5/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HISTORIC GEOGRAPHY

5/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A 1946 speech declared the terminuses of the Iron Curtain to be port cities serving these 2 seas

5/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT

5/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 2021 this Hall of Fame athlete launched Omaha Productions

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
polio
Bruce
infamy
the Baltic & Adriatic Seas
Peyton Manning
The players were 4/15 (26.67%) with a 0-1-2-0-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have three triple stumpers.

SALT & PEPPER $1600: The Salt River is a tributary of this other 4-letter river in Arizona

LET'S GET HISTORICAL $600: he Sepoy Rebellion swept through the north of this country in the late 1850s

LITERARY SHIPPING $1600: "The cruel rocks, they gored her side" is from the Longfellow poem "The Wreck of" this vessel

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Gila River
India
the Hesperus
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Macbeth & Malcolm
Baltic and Black

Blurted China for Sepoy when I should know better by now.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Mon - Smallpox Nope, I remember better now. Stroke; I said stroke.
Fri - Peyton Manning
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:( :( :(

Stuart; Baltic and Black (sure of Baltic)
Gila was just out of reach; "those lizards, what are they called...?"

Had Peyton's first name.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Peyton Manning
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:( (COVID) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: (Peyton Manning) another 4/5
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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:( :oops: :mrgreen: :( :(
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Thank goodness for the ridiculously easy one...! Should have gotten Tues...Went with Baltic-Black on Thurs. if I'd put the emphasis on History rather than Geography I might have remembered the Adriatic...
I guessed Yuma for the river...
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Baltic and North
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

I thought two names were needed for Tuesday's FJ and went with York and Lancaster.
Black and Mediterranean seas for Thursday's FJ
Said Peyton Manning (though I wasn't totally sure; but I think this clue should require specificity)
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:( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :| :mrgreen:

Mon - I think I said cancer. Polio makes sense in retrospect.
Tu - Stuart, though it seemed early for Stuarts. Didn't know Bruce was a "surname". I think I'd have guessed Wallace ahead of Bruce.
We - Didn't know that "infamy" started out as "world history" but it was easy enough to fill in the blank
Th - I know the first line of that speech by heart because I've always admired its poetic construction. So I could've gotten any clue requesting information contained in the line. Iron Curtain. Stettin. Trieste. Baltic. Adriatic. What I need to remember is that he was in Fulton, MO when he delivered it. That comes up every so often and it always surprises me somewhat.
Fr - No chance. Didn't even know if it was the pro football Hall of Fame we were talking about, though Brett Favre did end up being my wild guess. Not totally embarrassing, I suppose, though I seem to be in the minority in guessing rather than knowing here.

4-letter river in Arizona = Gila. Unless there's also a Mesa. (There isn't.) Don't know Sepoy rebellion. Got Hesperus. Thought of Edmund Fitzgerald, but only as a joke response.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Went with the dark purple properties on Thursday
Gave the first name rather than getting cute on Friday
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

I was getting to the right idea on Monday, but didn't make it past smallpox. I had Baltic and Mediterranean on Thursday. Maybe if I hadn't been discussing it with my dad I would have thought to be more specific, but it's possible that without discussion I would have pictured the Baltic but called it the North Sea.
opusthepenguin wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 9:35 pm 4-letter river in Arizona = Gila. Unless there's also a Mesa. (There isn't.)
In response to this I found myself believing there was also a Dora River in the area—there isn't; I had rivers and places in New Mexico mixed up. (And the reason I thought of Gila and Dora is that I was watching Prison Break in 2006 and reading online discussion, and there was an encrypted message in the show that viewers had almost decoded—it was either GILANM or DORANM. In the next episode it turned out to be Gila.)
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
----:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ----

The only idea Omaha gave me was Willis Reed, because he used to coach at Creighton. I don't like to sound ageist, but it did seem that he was rather old to be starting a production company. I also thought of steaks, poker and the Wizard of Oz.

Since I haven't mentioned it yet, I got skunked on that recent TV category.
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:( :( :(

Manning at 76% now, and based on comments, it is YEKIOYD (although Opus did manage a football player WAG). I.E., the negs were not familiar with the heavy use of the word and the meme surrounding it.

I think it would be Amodioan (my best shot at a new adjective) to just answer Manning in competition - how is that not going to be a bms? In FJ, it is sure to cost you the game. twelvefootgirl couldn't come up with the name in FJ time but knew it was one of the two brothers with goofy commercials.
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opusthepenguin wrote: Sat May 28, 2022 9:35 pm 4-letter river in Arizona = Gila. Unless there's also a Mesa. (There isn't.) Don't know Sepoy rebellion. Got Hesperus. Thought of Edmund Fitzgerald, but only as a joke response.
There is the Agua Fria, which is kinda like two 4-letter rivers ...
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:( :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

WAGed Alzheimer's on Monday. Misread Tuesday's clue and provided two names, Bruce and Wallace. Baltic and Black for Thursday.

I'm reading a couple of "This Day in History"' books this year and in one of them, the entry each day focuses on one famous event on that day and provides a quote or retelling from a (usually primary) historical source along with a paragraph of explanation about the significance of the event. Churchill's speech and the Sepoy Rebellion were both entries, though I couldn't remember the speech well enough.
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Joined two contestants with "Stuart" for the monarchs.

Another China instead of India for the rebellion. Maybe I was thinking of Bill "Boom Boom" Sepoy. He was a boxer. ;)

Glad they asked for the seas and not the cities. Baltic and Adriatic were a gimme, Stettin and Trieste would have been a stumper.

Full name for Peyton Manning.

Wonder if Rogers & Hammerstein, Bacharach & David, and Kander & Ebb will be joined by Ryan's team of Lightfoot & Longfellow as well-known songwriting teams.
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AFRET CMS wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 3:26 pmRogers & Hammerstein
In the rare event that Jeopardy! asks for the spelling, it's Rodgers.

Fun fact: His daughter, Mary Rodgers, composed the music for Once Upon a Mattress AND wrote the book Freaky Friday. Why wasn't Freaky Friday ever turned into a musical? Or was it and it just wasn't a hit?
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opusthepenguin wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 3:36 pm
AFRET CMS wrote: Sun May 29, 2022 3:26 pmRogers & Hammerstein
In the rare event that Jeopardy! asks for the spelling, it's Rodgers.

Fun fact: His daughter, Mary Rodgers, composed the music for Once Upon a Mattress AND wrote the book Freaky Friday. Why wasn't Freaky Friday ever turned into a musical? Or was it and it just wasn't a hit?
I'm not familiar with it, but there was a musical Freaky Friday a few years back. Probably got eclipsed by other, better stuff.

And, while we're at it, Mary Rodgers' son Adam Guettel is also in the family biz with musicals like Floyd Collins and The Light in the Piazza.
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