The GREATEST OF ALL TIME FJs for the 1/13/20 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 1/14/20 GOAT games?

Poll ended at Sun Feb 21, 2021 5:17 pm

This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it's a setting for Virgil's shepherd poems the "Eclogues"
11
14%
He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy  
34
43%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked both boxes above.
9
11%
:( :( I missed both FJ! clues.
37
46%
STUMP TOWN $600: The fabulous skiing of Snowmass is about 10 miles west of this city
29
36%
ALBUMS $800: "Follow God" & "Closed On Sunday" are tracks on this 2019 Kanye West album
9
11%
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAREEM $2000: I became a stronger, faster & more intense basketball player through my training with the great Bruce Lee, who pioneered mixed martial arts with the hybrid fighting style he called this, abbreviated JKD
11
14%
BRITISH STUFF $2000 box DD: One of Britain's greatest minds was this 19th century physicist & author of "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism"
22
28%
JEOPORTMANTEAU! $2000: Insidious pandemic culprit of 1918 plus delightfully foamy Italian custard
4
5%
MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $800 box DD: (1,000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee
8
10%
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $400: This alliterative name for a hangout of western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real
5
6%
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $2000:  In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra
34
43%
PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS $1600: In a 1901 novel a girl is seized by a Frenchman & "perhaps carried off to" this dreadful destiny
6
8%
I was 8/8 on FJ! clues in the GOAT.
2
3%
I was 0/8 on FJ! clues in the GOAT.
5
6%
I did not get any of the FJ! clues, triple stumpers or missed Daily Doubles correct from the 1/14 GOAT games.
6
8%
 
Total votes: 80

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The GREATEST OF ALL TIME FJs for the 1/13/20 week

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1/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
IT'S ALL GREECE TO ME

1/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This area of Greece, home to Pan, is synonymous with a rural paradise; it's a setting for Virgil's shepherd poems the "Eclogues"

1/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SHAKESPEARE'S TRAGEDIES

1/14 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy

Correct responses in spoiler box:
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Arcadia
Iago
The players were 3/6 (50.00%) with a 2-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have all the triple stumpers and missed Daily Doubles.

STUMP TOWN $600: The fabulous skiing of Snowmass is about 10 miles west of this city

ALBUMS $800: "Follow God" & "Closed On Sunday" are tracks on this 2019 Kanye West album

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KAREEM $2000: I became a stronger, faster & more intense basketball player through my training with the great Bruce Lee, who pioneered mixed martial arts with the hybrid fighting style he called this, abbreviated JKD

BRITISH STUFF $2000 box DD: One of Britain's greatest minds was this 19th century physicist & author of "A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism"

JEOPORTMANTEAU! $2000: Insidious pandemic culprit of 1918 plus delightfully foamy Italian custard

MATH TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO INITIALS TO NAMES $800 box DD: (1,000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $400: This alliterative name for a hangout of western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD $2000:  In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra

PHRASES & EXPRESSIONS $1600: In a 1901 novel a girl is seized by a Frenchman & "perhaps carried off to" this dreadful destiny

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Aspen, Colorado
Jesus is King
Jeet Kune Do
James Clerk Maxwell
influenzabaglione
Courtney Love
Gower Gulch
Lawrence Welk
a fate worse than death
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:( :(
:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

4/8 on FJ! clues overall.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:18 pm :( :(
:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
Right there with you.

3/8 overall on FJ.
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I just barely avoided the boxes of shame by having stayed at Snowmass when I visited Aspen (a LOT cheaper to stay there instead of in Aspen).
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:mrgreen: :(

Marc Antony was my rather dumb guess on the Shakespeare clue. Brutus would have been a much better try from the same play. I blurted out my answer quickly, though, thinking I remembered it from somewhere, but either it was a different trivia question or maybe I was also wrong that other time.

Playing from here, Love and Maxwell were the only two I'd have been confident enough to ring in. Perhaps I'd have got Welk and/or Aspen if forced to guess, but also maybe not.

On the other hand, maybe "Jea! kwon do" would have sounded close enough.
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Iago and Maxwell.

(Sounds like a new cop drama).

Missed everything else. I did ok Coryat-wise during this tournament: most games ~24k level and one game over 30k... but they upped the difficulty on the final questions. The performance to the GOATS on these questions was as impressive as they were during the other 60 questions each game.
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Maxwell only. Iago crossed my mind, but over-TOMed it with Polonius. Curtains! (Literally, for Polonius.)
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Got Iago.

Should have had Jesus is King since the album was discussed some in my online theology circles.
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Got Maxwell and Gower Gulch, nothing else.
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I only knew Lawrence Welk because my grandmother rode the school bus with his accordionist.
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boson wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:43 pm Iago and Maxwell.
Same gets here

Would have gotten Welk if it was a DD
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:mrgreen: :(

Guessed Claudius for the Shakespeare one. When I was going through the tragedies in my head I don't think Othello even came to mind, but I'm not sure I would've said Iago even if I'd thought of him.

Out of the Lach trash I only got the Kanye album, Jeet Kune Do, and Maxwell. Never heard of Snowmass, zabaglione, or Gower Gulch.
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alietr wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2020 5:34 pm I just barely avoided the boxes of shame by having stayed at Snowmass when I visited Aspen (a LOT cheaper to stay there instead of in Aspen).
They just aren't going to stump me on any questions related to skiing!

That said, I got that one and Lawrence Welk and that's it.
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:( :(
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :( :( :mrgreen: :(

I guessed "Halcyon" for the first FJ and Mark Antony for the second. I was also 4/8 overall on FJ.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:| :| :mrgreen: :( :| :| :| :mrgreen: :|
Guessed Dalton for the scientist.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen:
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Got both the FJs (Arcadia seemed fairly obvious, Iago an educated guess, but I might have gone with Brutus if I'd thought of him first), but I'm surprised to realize I didn't get any of the others. The only one that I feel I should have gotten was Lawrence Welk, but I said Guy Lombardo instead...
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DBear wrote: Sat Jan 18, 2020 6:55 pm :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:| :| :mrgreen: :( :| :| :| :mrgreen: :|
Guessed Dalton for the scientist.
I had three probables for the scientist - Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, Heaviside. Rejected Heaviside as too obscure even for this Jeopardy. Picked Maxwell because it sounded more like his speed than the relatively untutored experimentalist Faraday. Whew.
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Got both FJs (Iago an educated guess), Aspen, influenzabaglione, Welk
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I got a one and a two (pun based answer for Welk and Maxwell).
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