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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BEFORE THEY WERE AUTHORS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
While working for British naval intelligence during World War II, he was code-named 17F

David Sibley: 4000+3=4003
Pam Warren: 14000+13995=27995
Cris Pannullo: 29800-221=29579 (New Champ)

Correct response:
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Ian Fleming (Cris – Orwell)

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Cris: 600+1000
Cris: 8400+7000
Pam: 7600+4000

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David: 4000
Pam: 10800
Cris: 23800

Combined: 38,600

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David: 2000
Pam: 4800
Cris: 6800
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Pam left 3600 on the table at DD3 and needed 900 more to have had exactly have of Cris's score. As always in such cases, Pam then went big in the FJ! round with the match locked.

With Cris mentioning his poker background I have to wonder if he really did not know the FJ! clue or if it was mind games for whatever player(s) return from that day's taping pool to set up a supposed weakness in literature. With only $221 at risk Cris could tank the clue if he wanted to do that.

David leaves 7/7 on DDs and unable to get to one today with the challengers playing so strongly.

The writers almost skunked me this week until, I matched David and Pam on the FJ! clue as the other names that occurred to me, le Carre and Forsyth were easy to swat away.
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I went Le Carre and never looked back. :(
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September ends: https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7454

There is none chance LSV gets out of the IMDb category unscathed.
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25/1 21/0 took a bagel in IMDB :x hoping the contestants would do so as well. Alas.
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56 R (Only Jennifer Lopez and Brad Pitt in IMDB. Gunshot wound to the abdomen.)
DD: 3/3
FJ: :mrgreen:
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Coryat: $36,200

42 R (3 DDs), 3 W

FJ: :mrgreen:

LT: pinwheels, Borgia, Brad Pitt

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MarkBarrett wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:45 pm There is none chance LSV gets out of the IMDb category unscathed.
That category hit me in very, very strange wheelhouses and escaped. Seems like more and more Jeopardy is asking about the Marvel universe. Of course it doesn’t hurt when one of the answers was a childhood friend.
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Ha. Bishop of Rome.

Considered Fleming and Dahl, but naval pointed to Bond so Fleming it was. Yeah, I'm playin this FJ on hard mode! :lol:
(Turns out Dahl was RAF during WW2)
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MarkBarrett wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:40 pm
The writers almost skunked me this week until, I matched David and Pam on the FJ! clue as the other names that occurred to me, le Carre and Forsyth were easy to swat away.
Inexplicably, the writers found my faint brainwaves this week. I missed Monday's game due to a programming snafu and just went back and got it comfortably like all of them this week. They just managed to hit my niche knowledge or made the geography clues gettable for my fuzzy brain maps.

I knew Fleming was in British intelligence (I thought OSS) and worked with spies but maybe wasn't one himself. I dislike fiction and the last novel I've read voluntarily was a James Bond paperback or two when I was in high school. I like the occasional nuggets of new knowledge in period pieces, etc.., but don't like made up stories in lieu of the legitimate real stories that are just as captivating if you want them to be.

Cris seems like a strong player. His miss and the TS both surprise me but this may be a Baby Boomer question.

Thank you Ken Jennings for not mentioning James Holzhauer just because they both have professional gambling CV's. Alex would have already annointed him as JH2. I'm looking forward to seeing how his gameplay develops now that he has the rookie season past him.
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Missed FJ - unfortunately I did not swat away Le Carré and went with that

Cris played a good game
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I read Islands in the Stream by Hemingway somewhat recently and that has a lot about naval reconnaissance which threw me off for FJ. I figured that was wrong because he was an author before WWII and he was American. Put down Michener at the last second. I wasn't able to rule him out as strongly as Hemingway.

Went 0/5 on the IMDB category. Also went 0/4 on the same first & last consonant category. But at least there was a steel category so that was nice.

Cris played really well. Looking forward to see him play again next week.

15 episodes into season 39 and there have been no contestants from Southern California. I'm guessing it is deliberate to offset the surplus that they've had in recent years.
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Cris played a good game and showed a good knowledge base. I thought that Le Carré was definite negbait as he was in MI5 and MI6 but later than WW2. Poll question, perhaps?
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Volante wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:41 pm Ha. Bishop of Rome.

Considered Fleming and Dahl, but naval pointed to Bond so Fleming it was. Yeah, I'm playin this FJ on hard mode! :lol:
(Turns out Dahl was RAF during WW2)
I also was pretty sure Dahl had a similar intelligence background. But I figured the F was to point us to Fleming. Whether the 17F is actually based on his name, I don't know, but it worked for me.
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A British spy that wrote books shortly after WWII pointed straight to Fleming for me.
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Bamaman wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:06 am A British spy that wrote books shortly after WWII pointed straight to Fleming for me.
Fleming is a minor, but interesting, character in one of my favorite novels, William Boyd's "Any Human Heart". Masterpiece Theater adapted it into a four part series a few years ago which is excellent and which I happened to have just rewatched.
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MinnesotaMyron wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 1:48 pm I went Le Carre and never looked back. :(
I also said le Carré, but I did look back... to Graham Greene. He was a better guess since he worked for MI6 from 1941 to 1946 when le Carré was 10 to 15 years old. Didn't know le Carré's age ruled him out, so I stuck with him. As soon as Mrs. Penguin said Fleming I knew she was right and I'd been agonizing over two wrong possibilities.
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