Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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I thought of Liszt, but I could name Clara Schumann so I went with that surname instead. Dang.
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That was a pretty rough game to watch.
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Another Schumann here. (His spouse Clara had a well-known music career of her own.) I would call this fact about Liszt a trivia staple and it's a fact I know I have read many times (and I saw Lisztomania, referenced above, quite recently when it was on TCM) but I could not dig it up... :roll:
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opusthepenguin wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 7:15 pm When Lynn said "What is sarong?" I feel confident Ken would have known to respond "That's-a right!"
I was thinking the correct response would be, "Nothing at all. What's-a-wrong with YOU?"


I imagine most people would find this FJ a real puzzler. I may not know anything about popular music, but this was right up my alley. Go from Lohengrin to Wagner and just happen to know that Wagner's daughter Cosima married Franz Lizst. Boom, done.

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I'm looking forward to this week's poll. Curious to see if we get more Schumanns than Liszts.
And from yesterday's FJ...
...more Benedicts than Benedicks
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John Boy wrote: Thu May 25, 2023 10:22 am
opusthepenguin wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 7:15 pm When Lynn said "What is sarong?" I feel confident Ken would have known to respond "That's-a right!"
I was thinking the correct response would be, "Nothing at all. What's-a-wrong with YOU?"
Full marks for that as well!
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I don't think I knew the Wagner/Liszt connection before the show, but I was able to pull the correct answer with the dates given (and surprised myself).

I'm never going to stop watching if a specific host is or isn't on that night, but Mayim's pacing (plus slow category calls from the contestants) make for a much tougher game to watch.
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Bamaman wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 8:53 pm
OntarioQuizzer wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 1:01 pm Whoever thought putting a video clue in an anagram category was a good idea must strike that idea from their brain and pretend it never existed.
That and we don’t need three wordplay categories in one day.
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Brahms for me; at least the right era, but it was a guess that I didn’t expect to be right.

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opusthepenguin wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 7:06 pm
MarkBarrett wrote: Wed May 24, 2023 1:38 pm The FJ! clue was pick a name (though not Italian or Russian) and I wrote Schumann.
That's a much better choice than the three we saw. Schumann was German, an exact contemporary of Wagner (both born in 1810) and they knew each other. Wagner was solidly 19th century--born and died in it. Haydn was mostly 18th century, living 9 years into the 19th. Toscanini and Rachmaninoff were born in the 19th century but didn't really get going until the 20th. Even knowing approximate dates makes all three of them less than great as guesses for this FJ.

That said, this was a rough clue. While more knowledge might have helped the contestants make better guesses, you pretty much have to know the fact in question to get this one. Liszt was Wagner's father-in-law (though only a year and a half older). I know this from reading CD booklets and the backs of LPs, but I'm not sure how much of a trivia chestnut it is.
I was pretty much at a loss. Finally settled on Mahler knowing it was almost definitely incorrect. I knew he was famously much in demand as a Wagnerian conductor, so much so that he had to take summers off so he could spend time as a composer. Unfortunately, he was born 10 years after the premiere date.
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It was a rough week of Final Jeopardys for me. To get this one right off the bat felt so good, having learned Wagner composed Lohengrin and knowing from years back Liszt was his father-in-law.
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