FJs for the 12/26/16 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 12/26/16 week?

Poll ended at Sun Oct 15, 2017 8:51 pm

The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to
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73%
Made from a boiler at a Mobile, Alabama machine shop, it was deemed a success though it went down off Charleston 3 times
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24%
This land is described as "all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea"
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62%
Of the 5 countries with the lowest population density, this U.N. member is the only one named for a desert
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34%
The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man
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43%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
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3%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJ! clues.
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8%
GEOGRAPHIC EXTREMES $2000: Of the 15 now independent former Soviet republics, this non-"stan" is the smallest in area
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24%
BRANDS $1000: The name of this brand of cleanser means "good friend"
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68%
DOCTORED BOOKS $1200: Eternally optimistic Dr. Pangloss is a companion & tutor to this title Voltaire fellow
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61%
I missed the Tuesday FJ! clue by not quite knowing the name "Hunley" and having something like "Huntley", "Henley", etc.
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6%
The 2 female-named sitcoms that spun off from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" - I knew "Rhoda."
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73%
The 2 female-named sitcoms that spun off from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" - I knew "Phyllis."
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34%
My bad, that it is not in the U.N., my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue was Western Sahara.
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11%
Even if I had figured out the movie referenced in the Friday FJ! clue was "A Beautiful Mind", I may not have come up with the name, John Nash.
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18%
"Gandhi" or "Schindler" was my incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! clue.
34
29%
 
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Re: FJs for the 12/26/16 week

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

Tuesday: ?
Thursday: ?

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Kenny
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Guessed Rhoda and Maude. Got my 70's sitcom spin offs confused.

Still hate the "John Nash" "title subject of Oscar film" FJ. That was a poorly worded clue.
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Knew Nash and "A Beautiful Mind" (read the book recently), but the wording of FJ said to me that the person had to be mentioned by name in the title. If I had been a contestant, I would have been furious at this chicanery.
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I knew the movie and the actor but couldn't think of the character's name.
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Instead of saying "title subject", maybe they should have said something like "main subject" or "main character".
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Thought of John Nash immediately but couldn't remember if A Beautiful Mind had won a Best Picture Oscar. Couldn't think of anyone else, though, so I stuck with Nash.

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

I guessed Gandhi for the John Nash question.
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:mrgreen: :( :( :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Hunley didn't ring a bell at all. Didn't know enough about Narnia to get Wednesday's--I think I said Middle Earth but I knew it was wrong. Western Sahara on Thursday. No problem with Nash, Candide, Rhoda, or Phyllis. Armenia was a guess--I wouldn't have buzzed in but I would have gotten it on a DD.

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This is the first week (since I've been on JBoard at least) that I missed all five FJs. I knew Western Sahara (a disputed area) is not a member of the UN, but I couldn't think of anything else. I wouldn't have come up with Namibia. Do they still need our fondue sets?
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