FJs for the 1/9/17 week

[MarkBarrett]

1/9 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
19th CENTURY NOTABLES

1/9 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France

1/10 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BEATLES SONGS

1/10 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Of the Beatles songs on which Ringo Starr sang lead, this one charted the highest, reaching No. 2

1/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SHAKESPEARE

1/11 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
With a backdrop of war, the 1609 play titled “The History of” this pair takes place earlier than any Shakespeare history play

1/12 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
RELIGIOUS TERMS

1/12 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Unlike newer Bibles the King James Version usually translates pneuma hagion as this, which can lead to unnerving images

1/13 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

1/13 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Once the center of an empire, it didn’t exist as an independent nation from 1938 to 1955

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Vincent Van Gogh
"Yellow Submarine"
Troilus and Cressida
Holy Ghost
Austria

The players were 4/15 (26.67%) with a 2-1-0-1-0 success pattern.

The extra clues have three requested triple stumpers.

SQUAD GOALS $1000: We must read all 14 books in the Robert Jordan fantasy series known as the "Wheel of" this: let's get crackin'

U.S. PLACES $1200: The U.S. Flag flies 24 hours a day over Mount Moriah Cemetery in this South Dakota town

COMPOSERS $2000: He began his "Leningrad Symphony" in that besieged city in late 1941

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Time
Deadwood
Shostakovich

[MarkBarrett]

Brass Monkey because of Beastie Boys
Thursday - false idols
Friday - Turkey

[Plactus]

No guesses on any of the missed clues. I probably could have gone "pick a Beatles song" Tuesday, but didn't.
Had no clue Monday.
I'm not sure why I know the term "brass monkey," but I got that one.

[ZachTheRiah]

As of this writing, I am the only one who missed the Shakespeare clue. I'm a little surprised in that it isn't exactly the most common play you hear about.

I was disappointed that I missed the KJV clue.

[Leander]

Octopuses Garden the only Ringo song that came to me, but I knew it was wrong.

Initially thought of Anthony & Cleopatra Wed., but knew Julius Caesar preceded it timewise, then thought of T&C

Got as far as "saint air" on Thursday, but no further

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[sarisson]

Fourth 5/5 week of the season, although I just barely wrote three of them down in time: "Yellow Submarine," "Holy Ghost," and "Austria."

[Volante]

Tue - Rocky Raccoon
Thu - nightmare

Shostakovich would've been a DD get, but under normal play, I couldn't rule out Rachmaninoff or Prokofiev. (~40/30/30)
Brass Monkey would also have been a DD get, I've heard the phrase -somewhere- but it almost felt like something I made up until the reveal.

[davey]

Don't recognize the Robert Jordan series.
I will stipulate that I was "familiar" with brass monkey but not enough to know where it came from, what it meant, or, consequently, to ring in...

[opusthepenguin]

Wow. This was quite a week for me.

[TenPoundHammer]

I've heard "freeze the balls off a brass monkey" somewhere, but I don't know where. Didn't get the clue though.

[dinghammer]

Thanks for polling two of those.

[bpmod]

The expression "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" is very popular around here, but that is a far cry from 'brass monkey' being a meaning for cold.

So, 'brass monkey' as a term I am familiar with. But the clue had me looking dumbfounded at the TV.

Brian

[rpg]

Hungary instead of Austria.

Coryat average of 16,560 this week, which is only $300 higher than three weeks ago. Not so great but we'll get there eventually.

[BigDaddyMatty]

Lost a coin flip between "Yellow Submarine" and "With A Little Help From My Friends"
"Royal Wind" was the closest I could get to Holy Ghost
I have never heard the weather tie-in, but I am very familiar with that funky monkey

[Kenny]

This was a blah week for me. Having grown up in Texas, the brass monkey clue for cold weather was Greek.

[JayK33]

I think I only got Van Gogh right of the FJs, and "Time" of those three added clues.

[MattKnowles]

Fun fact: Robert Jordan died before completing Wheel of Time and the series was finished by Brandon Sanderson who happened to be a college roommate of Ken Jennings.

[goatman]

15 FJs correct in past 3 weeks! My longest run before this: 17.

FTG "Mt Moriah" altho "SD town" has gotta be Deadwood, Pierre isn't famous for anything, really!? Doh.

[ElendilPickle]

[xxaaaxx]

If I've heard that phrase before, it didn't stick. Which is strange, since it sounds ridiculous.

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