Extras for the Thursday, July 31, 2014 Final Jeopardy! Clue - Spoilers

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How did you do with the July 31,2014 FJ! clue?

Poll ended at Wed Feb 18, 2015 6:58 pm

I got this FJ! clue correct.
43
55%
I did not get this FJ! clue correct.
33
42%
I have read the book.
9
12%
I have not read the book.
64
82%
I have seen the movie.
7
9%
I have not seen the movie.
65
83%
Before Thursday, I don't remember hearing about "The Fault In Our Stars."
14
18%
I got the clue correct in July, but I may not have known it when the Teen Tournament taped in March.
24
31%
"The Fault In Our Stars" was on my radar before the Teen Tournament taped in March.
27
35%
Before seeing Thursday's FJ! clue I did see previous mentions of the work in the "Teen Tournament Pre-Calls" thread.
24
31%
If the clue had given the title and asked for the author, I could have named John Green.
38
49%
I missed the clue by messing up a word or two in my response.
1
1%
 
Total votes: 78

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Post by MarkBarrett »

7/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BESTSELLING BOOKS

7/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This novel is dedicated to Esther Earl, who died of thyroid cancer at 16 & never got to read it

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The Fault In Our Stars
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:mrgreen:
Never read, never seen
Pre-March awareness
Knew author as well
Saw the Pre-Call thread
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Post by Leander »

Never read, never seen.
Never heard of the book prior to the movie publicity tours, so would not have gotten it in March.
Would not be able to give the author's name
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Added bit of info: I probably wouldn't have remembered the title if it hadn't been lifted from Shakespeare. Nicholas Sparks's generic phrases spring to mind as titles that wouldn't have sprung to mind. I would have figured out what they were referring to, then flailed to remember what it was called.
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Ads for the book started appearing in the NYC subways - maybe last Christmas? Made me curious, but they didn't reveal much with that plain cover. I looked it up, but I still might not have gotten this clue until the movie came out. Since then I've read a lot about John Green, including a New Yorker profile that mentioned the dedication.
Hard to miss this on cultural radar, I would have thought.
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Post by Paucle »

Been waiting for it on PaperbackSwap for about a year or so.
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Post by TheyCallMeMrKid »

Didn't do any pre-work, but I'm sure this would've been on the list if I had. I have seen the cover of the book, since I gave it to my 12 year old daughter. She has also seen the movie. I did not read it, but knew the very basics of the plot. Just didn't make the connection within 30 seconds.
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Post by StevenH »

I missed the clue, haven't read the book, have been wanting to see the movie but haven't yet, and saw the mention of it in the teen tournament precalls thread, but I still couldn't remember the title when I saw the FJ clue.
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Knew exactly what they were talking about, but couldn't pull the name.
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Post by lisa0012 »

Got it. Haven't read it or seen it, but I will eventually. I can't say for sure that I would have gotten it in March, but the movie came up regularly when Shailene Woodley was doing interviews for Divergent, so I was at least tangentially aware of it.
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Post by MinnesotaMyron »

John Green shows up on Mental Floss and YouTube and other places demonstrating lists of trivial facts. This blog post at mentalfloss.com is a good place to start.

Note: YouTube is blocked here at work, so if any of those links are dead, I do apologize.

(It's Myron plugs Mental Floss day, apparently.)
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Post by Mathew5000 »

If you saw last year's teen tournament (Feb. 2013) you can't say you've never heard of The Fault in Our Stars; it was a daily double in the third semi-final game.

After hearing the title in that daily double, I started noticing people reading the book on the bus.

I haven't read it (or seen the movie), but I did start a different book by John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, but only got about 20 pages in.
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I knew of the book and the author at least a year ago, and saw it in the pre-call thread.

I mentioned in the game thread that dh and I went to see the movie in NYC because we were exhausted after an overnight flight and really needed a nap. The Fault in Our Stars seemed like a good quiet choice. :) I woke up for about the last half hour, and will probably go see the movie again after I read the book.
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ElendilPickle wrote:dh and I went to see the movie in NYC because we were exhausted after an overnight flight and really needed a nap. The Fault in Our Stars seemed like a good quiet choice. :)
Seems like an expensive nap. I prefer the hotel's bed for that purpose! :)

Ah, overnight flight. Too early to check into your hotel. Now I'm beginning to understand...
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Post by Carpe Diem »

I'm not sure that I would've gotten it if I hadn't seen John Green on The Colbert Report June 23:

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/07oysy/john-green

Green (starting at about 01:56): "I was really good friends with a young woman named Esther to whom the book is dedicated and Esther died of cancer in August of 2010 when she was 16."
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This Is Kirk! wrote:
ElendilPickle wrote:dh and I went to see the movie in NYC because we were exhausted after an overnight flight and really needed a nap. The Fault in Our Stars seemed like a good quiet choice. :)
Seems like an expensive nap. I prefer the hotel's bed for that purpose! :)

Ah, overnight flight. Too early to check into your hotel. Now I'm beginning to understand...
:D This was the day before I taped Millionaire; we spent time in NYC before taking the train to Stamford.
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