FJs for the 7/14/14 week

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Which FJs did you solve correctly for the 7/14/14 week?

Poll ended at Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:57 pm

It was Giovanni Boccaccio who added this adjective to another Italian author's work
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69%
A committee chaired by the official in this job released the influential 1964 report "Smoking and Health"
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96%
In 1994 this comedian starred in a No.1 sitcom, the No.1 Christmas movie & had a No. 1 non-fiction bestseller
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67%
It is often said of this man that he "Stopped the sun and moved the Earth"
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71%
Purchased in 1957 & called "The second most famous home in America", it was designated a national historical landmark in 2006
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30%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
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11%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJ! clues.
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No votes
TIME FOR A REVOLUTION! $2000: The Hungarian Revolution was in October of this Cold War year
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43%
A CHEMISTRY SET $800: By definition this type of chemistry deals with the reactions & properties of all the elements except carbon
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78%
STATELY LITERATURE $1000: "Winesburg, ___"
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57%
My incorrect guess for the Wednesday FJ! clue was Jerry Seinfeld.
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8%
My incorrect guess for the Wednesday FJ! clue was Bill Cosby.
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6%
My incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue was Galileo.
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22%
My incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! clue was Fallingwater.
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22%
My incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! was a place associated with U.S. Presidents.
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27%
Yes, I will watch boardie Lumosityfan on Tuesday in the Teen Tournament.
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69%
 
Total votes: 143
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Spaceman Spiff
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Re: FJs for the 7/14/14 week

Post by Spaceman Spiff »

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

Had no clear idea on Friday, ultimately went with Fallingwater just to have an answer. Originally thought of Mount Vernon, but I knew the years involved didn't make sense. Graceland would have never hit my thought process.

Hungary + Soviets/revolution = 1956. Chess (the musical) has that permanently etched in my brain. Heck, even the Swedish version sings that year in English.

http://youtu.be/4Yb0IyLn9D8?t=30s
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Re: FJs for the 7/14/14 week

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :oops:
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Curses! Foiled again! :x

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Rackme32
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Re: FJs for the 7/14/14 week

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :cry: :mrgreen: :cry:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Seinfeld (I had some doubts about Home Improvement being #1 in '94 after the clue was revealed, so I went online... Can't find any indivual week's ratings, but Home Improvement was NOT #1 for the '94 season or any other, Seinfeld was #1 in 1994.

Pres-related (I went with Monticello) after thinking about Waterfall... Went to looks for pics of Graceland; looks totally unfamiliar to me. I have seen pics of the pink Caddy before, and some of the other overrated fatso Elvis memorabilia, but not the mansion as far as I can remember.
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Re: FJs for the 7/14/14 week

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Rackme32 wrote:
Seinfeld (I had some doubts about Home Improvement being #1 in '94 after the clue was revealed, so I went online... Can't find any indivual week's ratings, but Home Improvement was NOT #1 for the '94 season or any other, Seinfeld was #1 in 1994.
For the 1993 - 1994 season the #1 show was 60 Minutes. While that show can be a joke sometimes it is not a sitcom. The #2 show for that season? Home Improvement making it a number one sitcom to fit the clue's wording.
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Post by Sage on the Hudson »

Volante wrote::mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:( :( :mrgreen:
StevenH wrote: Gracie Mansion for Friday
Ditto.
Mount Vernon. I suppose I should've suspected it was too stodgy an answer, but Elvis associations didn't occur to me (despite having had a conversation the day before about Kurt Russell -- with whom I found myself in an elevator about two months ago -- Elvis's one-time co-star and master Elvis portrayer years after that).

Oh, well. After getting right 15 FJ's in a row I suppose I was due to be crossed up by the writers' lamentable penchant for pop culture clues.
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Re: FJs for the 7/14/14 week

Post by Linear Gnome »

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( (Galileo) :mrgreen:
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I was traveling most of this week so I'm trying to get caught up. I have watched Monday's and Tuesday's quarterfinals of the Teen Tournament but I need to go back and figure out which contestant is Lumosityfan. I lost Wednesday's episode to a power outage but I plan to watch Thursday's and Friday's episodes today.

ETA: Thanks, Bamaman.
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Re: FJs for the 7/14/14 week

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Lum is Jeff from Tuesday.
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Breakdown of board scores on FJs for the 7/14/14 week

Post by OrangeSAM »

After 136 respondents:

:mrgreen: 16 got all 5 FJ!s
;) 55 got 4 FJ!s
:) 35 got 3 FJ!s
:( 23 got 2 FJ!s
:oops: 7 got 1 FJ!
:eek: 0 got 0 FJ!s

Average: 3.37 FJ!s correct.

My responses went: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( / :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Fri.: Blair House (Ugh!)
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