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... Erin crushed it on the music clues. IMHO, that's what won her the game. 3/5 and +$3200 on the music clues taken away leaves Erin with 9200 and still in position to take the game in the FJ! round with Anthony's miss. Erin won for overall better buzzer work while 6W and 2nd place after the DJ! ro...

Coryat 35200
43 R
1 W (but it was a $2000 clue, I also said Superior)
DD 3/3
FJ

Twilight Zone moment of the day: the last Wikipedia article I read before watching the show was Lawrence Ferlinghetti...

Erin crushed it on the music clues. IMHO, that's what won her the game.

BASEBALL & POLITICS This two-word term applied to pitcher Walter ""Big Train" Johnson from 1907 to 1927 and, in a different sense, to Democrat Henry "Scoop" Jackson from 1953 to 1983 What is Washington Senator? I like this one! I spent about 15 seconds assuming it was going to be something insanely...

I'm a chemist so this was the biggest slam-dunk of any FJ for me in quite a while. I've even imagined that combination of chemical symbols before AND I frequently use sodium citrate for that exact purpose. Why can't they all be like this!?

Another made-up one:

THE ANCIENTS

This royal name comes from terms meaning "glory" and "father."

FJ: should have thought of that. That's pretty much Jeopardy's favorite play to ask about. Said Neil Simon for lack of any better ideas. Rough FJ week for me... 1/5.

NORTH AMERICAN BUSINESS

The parent company of a department store chain named after this body of water was incorporated by a royal charter from King Charles II of England.

I now see a little bit of the reason for the FJ! bet - I'd be tempted to Clavin that category, because it's my specialty, too. I still don't like overbetting FJ!, especially when the "average contestant" is about 50-50 to get FJ! right, and unless you have hard evidence that you're above average, y...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino, the developers of the lithium-ion battery. add that goodenough is the oldest person to receive a nobel prize...he is 97 years old He wanted to win the prize sooner, but as long as he's still alive...

I'm not going to waste a poll request on it, but did most of you get The Member of the Wedding? I'd honestly never heard of it, but it has tons of Archive hits (albeit most back when the canon had a heavier focus on academic topics). I happened to get it. There are two main Carson McCullers novels ...

Another FJ miss for me. Rough week so far. Never heard the backstory that would have led me to the solve.

Hoping Thursday and Friday will be more like "Capitals of Former Soviet Republics" or "Solve This Calculus Equation"...

Nope on FJ for me. I'm usually OK on history, but the Old West is a gap of mine. All I knew is that the geography was telling me it wasn't

Just be glad it isn't 98 in French: quatre-vingt dix huit

quatre =4
vingt = 20
dix = 10
huit = 8
quatre-vingt = 80
dix huit = 18
quatre-vingt dix = 90
quatre-vingt dix huit = 98

sum = 328

Definitely harder than last week's. I managed a 42, but only on the strength of several good guesses, some of which I was pretty surprised to have gotten.

2019 pop culture is a guaranteed stand-and-stare for me...

MOVIE MATH It's the sum of all the numbers that appear in the titles of 21st-century Best Picture winners. What is 2,000,012? (Million Dollar Baby + Slumdog Millionaire + 12 Years A Slave) I went with 1,000,012. I don't think "millionaire" is a number. This is a good clue but I think it's asking fo...

MOVIE MATH

It's the sum of all the numbers that appear in the titles of 21st-century Best Picture winners.

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The opera I saw at Sydney is Pavlovian for Mussorgsky + opera.

I'd post the answer, but modesty forbids.

Or maybe you're just not good enuv.

Ok. Fine. You made me learn things again.

Still doesn't make your puns funny, though.

His puns are kind of onegin-off again.

I said "mourning" for lack of anything better as time was running out. I didn't start down the right road - - until it was too late. D'oh.

"Don't say St. Louis, don't say St...damnit". The Pony Express/St. Joseph connection strikes again. When's the last time a contestant got that right? September 6, 2002. Ask me how I know. How do you know? I was standing one podium over next to the guy on stage as he made a new record Daily Double w...

Instaget FJ. I didn't realize it was released in 1700; for some reason I thought it was older. "Don't say St. Louis, don't say St...damnit". The Pony Express/St. Joseph connection strikes again. When's the last time a contestant got that right? Also, the average retirement last 8000 days? OK ... ~2...