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Got FJ but had to think through it. Started by thinking of female cabinet secretaries, but that got complicated quickly. Then went to which cabinet departments existed under Washington and it became a quick solve.

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Since 1993, it has been the world's most populous landlocked country.

Coryat $32,200 (37R, 0W) DD 1/3 FJ :( Rough game for me. My worst J! round in quite a while (13R/$6200). No idea on DD1, never heard that expression. Forgot the category on DD2 and went with toilet.. :lol: As far as I knew, FJ was "take a stab in the dark at a member of the royal family. They don't ...

That FJ required much more in-depth knowledge of the British royal family than I possess.

Archive play-through: Coryat $29,800 (40 R, 3 W) DD 3/3 FJ :mrgreen: I'm not going to be able to watch the episode, but looks like a rough day for the two challengers. I'm with Ironhorse on FJ... I came up with it right away and spent the other 29 seconds wondering if there was something I was missi...

FJ: staring at maps for countless hundreds of hours as a kid pays off in situations like this.

Given the hint of " colorful class of small, dim stars," brown dwarf and white dwarf were not good guesses. Were either of those the correct response, the writers would have chosen a different adjective. In the recent past, a "colorful" school was Brown University, and a "colorful" stone was browns...

Archive play-through:

Coryat $28,600 (39 R, 2 W)
DD 3/3
FJ

DJ was pretty rough. Three brainfarts on $2000 clues that I should have gotten. Getting a TV category in DJ is always bad news for me. I was proud to have run the geography category where the contestants went 0/5, though.

A big nope for me on FJ. Children's literature is a black hole in my knowledge base. Randomly guessing a Dr. Seuss title was the best I could do.

"Devon Island" sounds like it could be any of literally hundreds of countries. Well, probably not any of the landlocked ones. (And that's leaving aside the fact that we literally don't have hundreds of countries.) If the counts I'm getting from Google are correct, there are about 146 countries that...

Coryat $38600 (45 R, 0 W)
DD 3/3
FJ

Memorizing Best Supporting Actors/Actresses is on my to-do list, there was an extra $3600 to be had if I had them in my back pocket. I dunno how I'm ever going to get good at TV categories...

FJ was a slam dunk for me as geography is a strong suit of mine. I didn't pull it from the name of the island, but

Coryat $30200 (41 R, 3 W) DD 2/3 FJ :mrgreen: DJ was a bit rough. Negged on the $400 clue in Tricky Clues with "Vatican I" and didn't touch the rest of them with a 10-foot pole. Kicking myself for not connecting sharks -> Peter Benchley. One of the few positives: 4/4 on the $2000 clues. Also kicking...

Blah blah blah journeys. If not for that last word, I'd have had no clue.

:( :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :( Couldn't recall Shoemaker, even though I could conjure up a mental image of the fragments of the comet burning up in Jupiter's atmosphere. Had Hale-Bopp and Hyakutake stuck in my head. Ugh. I couldn't get Iñárritu out of my head, even though I knew he was wrong....

Coryat $31200 (41R, 0W) DD 2/3 FJ :mrgreen: Being a chemist worked against me on the fire extinguisher one. I was so hung up on thinking about all the things oxygen is essential for (respiration, oxidation, etc), and stumped about under what circumstances it would be important to generate CO2, that ...

ACW wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 10, 2020 3:53 pm

While I think people may refer to "penalty minutes" as "penalties", that's definitely too informal. Isn't Alex Canadian?

The box score if you're interested.

Different things. If you get three two-minute minors, that's 6 minutes but only 3 penalties.

Robert K S wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:44 pm

"1979" - done

Smashing Pumpki...oh wait

Eerily timely FJ. Instaget, but I took a few seconds to commit to it because I was beside myself about the timing.

I suppose it was obvious to me, a former Florida State student, and current resident of Tallahassee, but I was shocked when James, the sports-bettor he is, did not know our colors are Garnet and Gold. We may be looking at a different champion today if he did... I said diamond, knowing that it's a b...