Meta-question: Is there a Windows program or an app that automates the process of playing through one of these games? You know, it starts with clue 1, I make a guess, I click, it reveals the correct response, I click again and it reveals clue 2, etc.? Right now I'm just going through them by eye, searching for the next clue which isn't always the next one down, making a guess, and hovering my mouse over it to get the response.
Is John Milton Hay just a name I'm supposed to know? Or did the contestant presumably make an educated guess on SJ4 CIVIL WAR $400? "Later U.S. Sec. of State, John Milton Hay served as asst. private secretary to this man during the war".
John correctly went with Lincoln who of course was on my short list of candidates. Another obvious possibility would be General Grant. What could be more natural than newly elected President Grant remembering that fella who was so efficient during the war years and deciding he was due for a promotion?
Predictable TS on SJ20 CROSSWORD CLUES "Y" $500: Park Place (8).
Yosemite makes sense on reveal, but the clue is four freakin' words long (assuming Alex said "eight letters"). In that amount of time, who's going to figure out where they're going with that reference, eliminate Yellowstone as obviously too long, and settle on Yosemite?
Surprised by the low value and incident-free get on SJ27 THE CUTTING BOARD $200: A special knife or vegetable peeler is used to do this, removing the outer skin of a potato
Was "pare" in more common use back then? I know I've heard the term "paring knife" before, but "pare" feels kind of archaic. The word definitely doesn't leap to mind. What leaps to mind for this clue is "peel" which is presumably excluded since a form of the word is contained in the clue?
DJ1 TECHNOLOGY $200: In the U.S. most of these devices have 525 lines per image; soon they may have over 1,000
TV sets. Is this referring to analog sets or the switch from analog to HD? Are these vertical or horizontal lines? Analog goes by horizontal, right? In that case, my TV has 1080 lines, but I feel the image is better than twice as good plus a tad compared to the TV I had in 1995.
I guessed correctly on DJ14 TECHNOLOGY $1000: It's the term for the place in virtual reality where the virtual objects appear
Cyberspace. Was this correct at the time? The meaning has definitely broadened since then.
I was prepared to make a snotty comment on Eric's neg for DJ16 ARTISTS $600: Many people hated the sculptor Pietro Torrigiano for breaking this fellow Florentine artist's nose
Julia was correct with Michelangelo after Eric negged with "da Vinci". I was going to comment on that not being Leonardo's last name but the place he was from, meaning he wasn't "Florentine". But looking it up I see that Vinci is a community within the Metropolitan City of Florence. Huh. Still, though, not the guy's last name. Would you respond "Who is of Aragon" if asked for Henry VIII's first wife?
Surprised at the TS in FJ. I got there pretty quickly.