Woof wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:35 pm
I said Poseidon for Neptune but can’t think of a reason why it wouldn’t be acceptable. Gimme FJ tonight.
I think I did the same - either way, when the response was given, I paused and looked it up. The wiki page for "Flag of Barbados" says "trident of Poseidon", so it's probably one of those clues where the Greek or Roman god is acceptable. If they'd put "Greek" or "Roman" in the clue, it would have pinned it, but they probably anticipated the cryptic/ambiguous (see what I did there?) response. Personally, I'm glad they left it as is - I can easily parse out Greek vs Roman gods and roots when given more than 5 seconds, but in J! time, I'm bound to say Hermes for Mercury.
For once, Alex's intonation (which 99 times out of 100 helps me) hindered me a tiny bit on FJ!. The way he said "comic books", and the way it was parsed on the first monitor with "comic" on one line and "books" on the next, I was thinking "comic" as in "funny or romantic, as opposed to tragic". Rereading the clue when it was presented during the Think! music, "comic books" was on the same line, and I realized it meant...well, a comic book, like Spider Man. Once I got that, it was an instaget.