Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
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Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Nice to see OZZY'S BONEYARD mentioned on J! today.
Nailed FJ! today. They must have wanted a triget today.
From someone who would have titled the category SECOND JOBS and worded the clue so that it was gender-free.
After all, how many early 20th C. educators did Italy produce that have celebrity status other than Maria Montessori?
Nailed FJ! today. They must have wanted a triget today.
From someone who would have titled the category SECOND JOBS and worded the clue so that it was gender-free.
After all, how many early 20th C. educators did Italy produce that have celebrity status other than Maria Montessori?
Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
I thought the Room category was very poorly pinned. I almost said "walk-in freezer" at $200, I have no idea how "war room" BMSes to "situation room" (not like I've heard of either anyway), and almost WAGged "library" at $800. Also NHO "vestry" to my knowledge.
-2/5 in Templeton Prize. Guessed Pulitzer and New Delhi, which rattled me enough to clam on the next three even though I would have been right on all three.
So many brain farts in DJ! No idea how I didn't get "chai" and most of the Rock Stars clues.
New Technology completely eluded me. I could have taken 500 guesses at $400 and never gotten "scents".
No guess on FJ! Can't say I recognize the correct response at all.
Lach Trash: rivers, parlor, Oxford
-2/5 in Templeton Prize. Guessed Pulitzer and New Delhi, which rattled me enough to clam on the next three even though I would have been right on all three.
So many brain farts in DJ! No idea how I didn't get "chai" and most of the Rock Stars clues.
New Technology completely eluded me. I could have taken 500 guesses at $400 and never gotten "scents".
No guess on FJ! Can't say I recognize the correct response at all.
Lach Trash: rivers, parlor, Oxford
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Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
I really like the "Is it ... ?" form of a question.
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I said game room instead of parlor. Judges?
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Instaget FJ.
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Instaget FJ.
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Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Yeah, I don't think games were named for the game room...But parlor games were named for the parlor.
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I spaced on parlor, and blurted "drawing room." I dimly remember that ..... maybe Lestrade? Or someone in an Agatha Christie? Or an Auguste Dupin story? ..... the put-upon cop may have said something like "None of your drawing room games, now, Mr. [insert detective name]" at some point. However, I can't find that quote anywhere.davey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:16 pmYeah, I don't think games were named for the game room...But parlor games were named for the parlor.
I did find this: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Room-Gam ... 1330049217
Wonder if that would be enough to justify allowing "drawing room."
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Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Was anyone else thrown for a loop on "It's where the sub-zero goes"? Sub-zero + room led me to "walk-in freezer", which I couldn't quite justify as a "room" and I couldn't for the life of me backtrack to "freezers are usually in a kitchen".
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Yes. I had never heard of a sub-zero (or, Sub-Zero, as it is apparently a brand name) before. I thought maybe it was one of those deep-freezers, so I put it in the garage. Ideal range for a freezer is around 0 to 5F, so I don't know why you'd call it Sub-Zero anyway.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:46 pm Was anyone else thrown for a loop on "It's where the sub-zero goes"?
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This backs the book up a bit (see the next-to-last paragraph)-AFRET CMS wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:05 pmI spaced on parlor, and blurted "drawing room." I dimly remember that ..... maybe Lestrade? Or someone in an Agatha Christie? Or an Auguste Dupin story? ..... the put-upon cop may have said something like "None of your drawing room games, now, Mr. [insert detective name]" at some point. However, I can't find that quote anywhere.davey wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:16 pmYeah, I don't think games were named for the game room...But parlor games were named for the parlor.
I did find this: https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Room-Gam ... 1330049217
Wonder if that would be enough to justify allowing "drawing room."
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I think drawing room is the upper-class version of the bourgeois parlor, so there's that...
Parlor games is better because people still use it...even though nobody has a parlor.
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Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
For FJ I actually put Cabrini down first and then switched it to Montessori.
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My mother went to school with Cabrini, though not home, because Cabrini had already gone home.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:43 pm For FJ I actually put Cabrini down first and then switched it to Montessori.
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Oh, I can. I was screaming at the TV!
I hesitated on the John C. Calhoun DD. It's always exciting when the last clue of the round is a DD. Not sure I would have had the nerve to go all in on that bottom row clue, though.
Precalled Montessori! I think NOTABLE WOMEN (or similar) would have been a better name for the category
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Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Sub-Zero is a brand of $10,000+ refrigerator/freezers, popular in expensive mansions and obviously well known to the Jeopardy writing staffecongator wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:10 pmYes. I had never heard of a sub-zero (or, Sub-Zero, as it is apparently a brand name) before. I thought maybe it was one of those deep-freezers, so I put it in the garage. Ideal range for a freezer is around 0 to 5F, so I don't know why you'd call it Sub-Zero anyway.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:46 pm Was anyone else thrown for a loop on "It's where the sub-zero goes"?
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I'm over here going, "What room does Sub-Zero go in? Any one he wants to. I don't want to get fatailitied..."Leander wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 10:29 pmSub-Zero is a brand of $10,000+ refrigerator/freezers, popular in expensive mansions and obviously well known to the Jeopardy writing staffecongator wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:10 pmYes. I had never heard of a sub-zero (or, Sub-Zero, as it is apparently a brand name) before. I thought maybe it was one of those deep-freezers, so I put it in the garage. Ideal range for a freezer is around 0 to 5F, so I don't know why you'd call it Sub-Zero anyway.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 2:46 pm Was anyone else thrown for a loop on "It's where the sub-zero goes"?
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Re: Monday, September 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
This may have been one of the easiest pre-call FJs ever.
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This game had one of my easiest precalls ever: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1235cinemaniax7 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:31 pm This may have been one of the easiest pre-call FJs ever.
Poets would have been more wide open. Poems had me all but certain what was coming.