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Which FJs did you solve correctly for the 12/2/13 week?

Poll ended at Mon Sep 22, 2014 8:55 pm

In 2012, 22 years after their first album, they released a new one that includes "Good Vibrations" & "Monday Monday"
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42%
The inventor of this image format said the OED wrongly has 2 pronunciations of it--the right one is with a soft "g"
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83%
Consisting of a peninsula & 2 islands, it was the longest-lasting European colony in Asia: 442 years, ending in 1999
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41%
Pretending to be a tree is an exercise in a key textbook of this system that spread from Russia to Broadway & then to Hollywood
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75%
In April 1865 she wrote to Mary Lincoln, "I cannot remain silent...brokenhearted by the loss of my own beloved husband"
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28%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
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6%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJs.
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1%
SCULPTURE $1200: Charles-Antoine Coysevox' equestrian statues of mercury & fame sit at the entrance to these gardens near the Louvre
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37%
BRITISH NOVELS' FIRST LINES: $2000: Edward Bulwer-Lytton: the often parodied "It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents"
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8%
WOMEN IN HISTORY $600: This teacher stayed with Helen Keller from 1887 until her own death in 1936
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78%
My incorrect guess for the Tuesday FJ! clue was JPEG.
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12%
My incorrect guess for the Wednesday FJ! clue was Hong Kong.
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46%
My correct guess for the Thursday FJ! clue was Method.
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54%
My correct guess for the Thursday FJ! clue was Stanislavski or acceptable variation of the spelling.
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27%
1931 film with the line "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make" - I only knew this was "Dracula" because of Alex's Transylvania voice.
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28%
1931 film with the line "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make" - I knew this was "Dracula" without needing the hint of Alex's Transylvania voice.
47
45%
 
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :( :oops:

Tongue-tipped on Ms. Sullivan. Needed the intonation on Dracula.
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:D :D :( :D :(
:D :( :D
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:( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :(
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Mon - Spoiled on contestant answers NKOTB due to spastic DVR which led me not to pick what my brain slightly hinted at... "Wilson Phillips" (Didn't change because I had no idea Wilson Phillips was even a band...I think I picked it up from MST3K or Family Guy, so no frame of reference)

Wed - Hong Kong, flipped the years.

Fri - Spluh.

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Re: FJs for the 12/2/13 week

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:( :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

M: Couldn't even pull out a guess :oops: . Makes perfect sense in hindsight, but I think I would have needed some reference to relatives to get on the right track (I was trying to think of groups that sang in that style).

T: GIF is better than JPEG, but only if you think of both.

W: I really thought Hong Kong was 1999. Lesson learned. The painful way.

Th: Got Method Acting; never knew it was Russian or came from Stanislavsky.

F: "Who is Mrs. John Wilkes Booth Queen Victoria?" 2 seconds to spare!

Only knew Tuileries as a palace, not a garden.

Poll needed a third option: I didn't get "Dracula" even with Alex's Transylvania voice.
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jkbrat wrote:Poll needed a third option: I didn't get "Dracula" even with Alex's Transylvania voice.
That's the option of not checking either box. Like me.

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bpmod wrote:
jkbrat wrote:Poll needed a third option: I didn't get "Dracula" even with Alex's Transylvania voice.
That's the option of not checking either box. Like me.

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For me: no, yes, yes, yes, no

New Kids on the Block on Monday just to write something, not expecting it to be right. Got the correct response eventually, but it took me about 31 or 32 seconds.

"Mrs. Booth" on Friday just to write something, not expecting it to be right. I'm not surprised that this polled low. I think it was tricky, but not unfair. Like many other people, I failed to make the leap from the US to other countries, and I also failed to make the leap to wives who were more famous than their husbands.

Friday's FJ was one where you might have more success if you just forget everything. Who was a woman in the 1860s who might have written to a presidential relative?
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Re: FJs for the 12/2/13 week

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:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :( :mrgreen:

Alex's Dracula voice gave me a clue I would have missed otherwise.

I'm not much of a techie, said imag for the computer FJ. Landed in Hong Kong on Wednesday and said method acting. No chance on the book, had it been a DD, I'd have said "What is Snoopy's book?". Thought Victoria was simple.

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
Hong Kong
I ended up clamming on Dracula because I was dithering between it and Nosferatu. I just realized that Nosferatu is a silent film so duh.
Method acting

I knew Bulwer-Lytton but not the title.

I liked Friday's FJ despite not getting it--it provoked a reaction of, "Yeah, that makes sense."
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:( :mrgreen: :( :( :(
:( :( :mrgreen:
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Breakdown of board scores

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After 93 respondents:

:mrgreen: 5 got all 5 FJ!s
;) 13 got 4 FJ!s
:) 33 got 3 FJ!s
:( 28 got 2 FJ!s
:oops: 13 got 1 FJ!
:eek: 1 got 0 FJ!s

Average: 2.63 FJ!s correct.

As for me: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: / :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Monday was either Back Street Boys or N'Sync - I've put it out of my mind, thankfully. Jpeg on Tuesday! I had both Method and Stanislavski.

Never knew the title of the B.-L. work.

Brain fail on the Dracula clue, with accent or without.
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