$1000 BESTSELLING BOOKS: Rachel Hollis
$200 BESTSELLING BOOKS: Demi Lovato
$800 EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE: emperor of Japan
$2000 HER FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL: Barbara Kingsolver
DD2 $1200 slot in FAMOUS AMERICANS (Lindsey bet $3000): Good night and good luck
NOT A TS $600 OFFICIAL STATE STUFF: Vermont (Gilbert negged with Washington, Lindsey got the rebound)
NOT A TS $400 WORD-POURRI: an ax (Francois negged with saw, Lindsey got the rebound)
NOT A TS $2000 FAMOUS AMERICANS: (Alison) Bechdel (Lindsey was first to buzz in and got it right, so no rebound possible. I'm just curious how many boardies got this one.)
No LT. Had "good night and good luck," axe, and Alison Bechdel. And my FJ! response was "Who was the guy who invented the barometer?"
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
I got $200 BESTSELLER from the image alone - all the book info was useless to me. The clue mas as well have been just two words to go with the pic: This person. I had to pause for a second to make sure it wasn't Miley, but I definitely would have gotten there in time after a neg - even if it was a neg that didn't help me eliminate anything. That's not Selena.
At first, I thought I was misdirected on the 2019 clue, paying attention to the Toyota. Now I see two paths that point to the correct response...almost seemed like it could be a FJ! clue.
NHO "Bean Trees". Guess I need to brush up on modern women authors?
I sunk with Lindsey, but it didn't feel like it fit. London, five words, war....I ignored the one cromulent part of the question, and put what's on my doormat.
Maple. State. Pavlov. Yup!
Not reading closely enough, I didn't see/hear the word "tool". I morphed the word to quebraZo, which I guessed meant breaker of "un brazo", or an arm. I'm pretty sure I clammed on it, though. Answer makes 100% sense, and almost seems easy once you see it.
I saw Fun Home. And since I wiki most musicals I see, it connected me to the gender test, even if the test isn't mentioned in the musical (I think?). I'd heard of the test, and heard of Fun Home before seeing it, but it wasn't until seeing the musical that I learned they were the same person, which made the name stick.
No FJ! for me. The response was familiar, but so was Bernoulli.