FJs for the 2/16/15 week

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Which FJs did you solve correctly for the 2/16/15 week?

Poll ended at Thu Oct 29, 2015 8:51 pm

The ancient Greeks derived the name of this evil sorceress from a verb meaning "to plot"
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21%
A park, elementary school & medical pavilion named for Herbert Hoover are found in this 2-word California city
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45%
A U.S. No. 1 in 1977, it was performed the night before Carl XVI Gustaf's 1976 wedding to Silvia Sommerlath
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61%
On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L.of G. at last complete --after 33 y'rs of hackling at it"
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62%
Describing anything very showy, in architecture it refers to a style using curves like tongues of fire
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30%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
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5%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJs.
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6%
STATE CAPITOLS $1600: A prime attraction of the capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is a series of murals painted by this native son
38
30%
THE MARIAN KIND $200: In "The Music Man" Marian has this job
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62%
WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $1200: A phillumenist (though restaurants used to make it a lot easier)
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42%
"S" TO "T" $200: Laura Hillenbrand describes this title subject as "an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse" - Oops! I guessed Secretariat.
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13%
"S" TO "T" $200: Laura Hillenbrand describes this title subject as "an undersized, crooked-legged racehorse" - I was correct with Seabiscuit.
78
62%
My incorrect guess for the Monday FJ! clue was Circe.
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34%
My incorrect guess for the Tuesday FJ! clue was a city starting with "San".
29
23%
My incorrect guess for the Wednesday FJ! clue was the wrong ABBA song.
20
16%
My incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! clue was rococo.
23
18%
 
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FJs for the 2/16/15 week

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2/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MYTHOLOGY

2/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The ancient Greeks derived the name of this evil sorceress from a verb meaning "to plot"

2/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CALIFORNIA CITIES

2/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A park, elementary school & medical pavilion named for Herbert Hoover are found in this 2-word California city

2/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NO. 1 SONGS

2/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A U.S. No. 1 in 1977, it was performed the night before Carl XVI Gustaf's 1976 wedding to Silvia Sommerlath

2/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
POETS

2/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
On completing the "Deathbed" edition of his great work, he wrote, "L.of G. at last complete --after 33 y'rs of hackling at it"

2/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORD ORIGINS

2/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Describing anything very showy, in architecture it refers to a style using curves like tongues of fire

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Medea
Palo Alto
"Dancing Queen"
Walt Whitman
Flamboyant
The players were 3/15 (20.00%) with a 0-0-1-2-0 success pattern.

The extra clues one correct by the players, a requested one responded to correctly, and a triple stumper.

STATE CAPITOLS $1600: A prime attraction of the capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri is a series of murals painted by this native son

THE MARIAN KIND $200: In "The Music Man" Marian has this job

WHAT DO YOU COLLECT? $1200: A phillumenist (though restaurants used to make it a lot easier)

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Thomas Hart Benton
Librarian
Matchbooks
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
Seabiscuit
Circe
Dylan Thomas
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:( :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

:( :mrgreen: :(

Circe
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:( :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Circe on Monday. Tuesday the first thing that occurred to me was Yorba Linda, which I knew was Nixon, but I didn't know what to change it to--somehow I never became aware that Hoover<->Stanford. Thursday I should have had Whitman but didn't get there.

THBenton is embarrassing because I live about an hour's drive from there and I knew it was in my brain somewhere, but I couldn't retrieve it fast enough. Forgot the category on the Seabiscuit question and guessed something suboptimal.
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:( :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:( :( :(

Seabiscuit, and mumbled Circe 28 seconds in.
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:( :mrgreen: :( :oops: :mrgreen:
:( :mrgreen: :(
Another sub-par week (though I know I would have won some games!).
L of G rang no bells, and "hackling" sounded British to my ear - but still the long period of composition should have given me a clue...
Went blank on Grant Wood [edit: and Thomas Hart Benton too!] (and Seabiscuit, and the ABBA catalog) and took a stab with menus for phillumenist.
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:( :mrgreen: :( :( :(

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Worst week ever for me. I did know that group was Abba but I was thinking Waterloo. Yesterday I thinking "filigree" which was ridiculous.
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:( :( :( :mrgreen: :(
:( :mrgreen:

Calypso, New Deal ("say something" guess), "Mamma Mia," baroque
Brain froze on the Seabiscuit clue, couldn't come up with either.

Wednesday I worked the TOM up to ABBA, but then everything I know about ABBA: They're Swedish, and Mamma Mia! is based on their music. Saddest part is I've seen Mamma Mia!, but couldn't remember any of the songs.
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I got to check a lot of boxes this week, but alas, no FJ!s...
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:( :( :(

I forgot what city I picked on Tues and panache on Fri.
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:( :( :x :oops: :(
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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

Mon: Medusa
Tue: Palm Springs
Fri: baroque (wife said flamboyant)

Weird thing to note: both of my wrong answers on Monday & Tuesday had the same first three letters as the correct answer.
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It will not be surprising for Circe to outpoll Medea.
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Mon - Circe
Seabiscuit
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:oops:

:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


I will admit it outright: my first oh-fer in I don't remember when.

Circe, Seabiscuit, wrong ABBA song.
Poo-tee-weet? So it goes.
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:( :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Circe on Monday
Knew it was Abba on Wednesday, couldn't come up with the song
Facepalm on Thursday when I saw the answer. I thought "hackled" sounded archaic and I immediately went off thinking of earlier English poets, ending up with Milton and Paradise Lost.
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:( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :( :(

Medusa, Palm Springs, Secretariat
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:( :( :( :( :mrgreen:
:( :( :(
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:shock: :D :D :D :D
:D :D :(

"Waterloo" would have made more sense to play at a wedding, but I knew the song came out a couple of years earlier based on its success at the Eurovision competition in 1974. Given 1977, I reluctantly went with "Dancing Queen."
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I WAG'd "Minnie the Moocher":

"She had a dream about the King of Sweden.
He gave her things that she was needin'."
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