Agggron wrote:As with others, I also had a FJ streak ended with this clue. I was really happy with my 5-in-a-row but seeing others' way longer streak puts me to shame.
Anyways, the degrees latitude didn't really help me that much - I had no idea that 59 meant it was that far north. Said Bangkok and Hanoi just because I knew the countries had to kind of be stuck together, and I didn't know the location of the capitals anyways. I do think this was a good clue though; just didn't have enough knowledge to even start in the right spot. xD
Something useful to remember, which I obviously did not think of tonight...the Arctic Circle is at just over 66 degrees N latitude (S for Antarctic of course). So those latitudes had to be pretty darn north. No help for my streak, unfortunately, but all knowledge is useful for the future, right? It's also helpful to remember that the equator runs through Indonesia, not even catching the Malay Peninsula on the Asian mainland.
There was some question on WWTBAM a while back about what country you'd hit if you dug directly through the Earth's core to the other side starting from Kansas or someplace like that - continental US anyway. Three of the choices were north of the equator and only one south. So that last one HAD to be the correct answer, even if you knew nothing else about geography. Man, was I yelling at the screen on that one, but as opposed to J!, I'm convinced that that show does NOT want people who know too much. As someone just pointed out in another thread, J! doesn't take any significantly bigger hit if one person wins many games or many people win one game each. But several people in a row on WWTBAM who get into the big $ can take a huge chunk of change from them.
As an aside, I recently saw the old WWTBAM on GSN with the first $1,000,000 winner - John Henderson or something like that? - and his questions were the type that any reasonably qualified J! contestant could get with no problem. Not the sort of obscure, picayune kind of stuff they put into the high value clues nowadays.