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45 New York

45 for rillz on this one, after 48 and 45 (if I give myself 'skinny hinny') from the video on Tuesday/Wednesday.

Blanked completely on the Italian author (not sure I've ever heard that) and young female prime minister. Simply wrong on Wagner, Farrow and 'Shallow'.

Are we sure the Mexico painter wasn't ?

Instaget FJ for me, but I did need the dialogue to assist. Given just the year, it would have been a guess between a couple of films. Even having the movies (mostly) memorized, I would be leery of a question that was just '1970 Best Picture winner'. I've seen too many arguments of the form 'That mo...

wouldn't it have been awesome if gilligan had done "sunshine on my shoulders"? Is gilligan a death metal band? there should be one...want to be one of the founding members? my vocals are shot in my old age, but i can still churn out some decent growls and grunts...screams a bit shakier though I'll ...

CasketRomance wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 9:58 am

wouldn't it have been awesome if gilligan had done "sunshine on my shoulders"?

Is gilligan a death metal band?

Also, I gotta get those damn Presidential dates on some flashcards. This is something I should commit to memory, but it just seems so dang boring. I also went with Andy Jackson on this FJ, even though I figured it was probably wrong. I would argue no more or less boring than rote memorizing anythin...

so they went alliterative with the all of the names of the pierogies except for 1? any idea why jalapeno hannah instead of say jalaepno juanita? a phonetic thing? Jalapeno Hannah is alliterative, Jalapeno Juanita is not. I'm more disturbed by the switch in nomenclature order for the onion one.

For anyone misparsing the FJ! clue, I'd recommend the one technique I've learned painfully from misinterpreting clues myself: look for THIS. Literally, the word "this". I think in almost every FJ!, the correct response replaces the word "this" in some sense...I read it somewhere in here or online s...

I was a little surprised to see this TS in final. When I think of major beneficiaries of this internal migration, I think of Arizona and Nevada, and those don't signal 'Bible Belt' to me. I was very excited to get one that James got wrong, but then thought maybe this was gamesmanship. In a similar n...

BigDaddyMatty wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:09 am

Anyone else pronounce "diabetes" in the style of Wilford Brimley?

Nope. I usually go with 'the BEET-us', or simply 'the sugar'.

This quiz has two errors. Nashville, TN is NOT one of the correct answers, as even the information above the quiz proper points out. And Columbia, SC is omitted as a correct answer. Columbia should replace Nashville. No, the quiz is correct on both counts. That article is out of date. The problem i...

TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 06, 2019 11:12 am

Guyana, French Guyana, Suriname.

Why do those, along with every single South American country, completely fall out of my head whenever I need them?

It's the holes.

I wonder if we should change the name of this game from 'Think Different' to 'Confirmation Bias'.

I found the use of the term 'urban places' in the FJ! clue a bit confusing. Are we talking just about city populations, or are we talking 'urban area' or Metropolitan Statistical Area (many of which cross state boundaries)? Both Worcester and Springfield, MA (+ CT) show up in the top 100 of the latt...

I was really close to saying dumbbell, but caught myself with “wait, those don’t have handles” and getting to kettlebell. They don't? I guess there are dumbbells that are like mini barbells, where you add weights to a bar, but most of the dumbbells I see are fixed weight, and what is that thing bet...

I didn’t see the show live, so I didn’t see the Exercise clue. Any indication why dumbbell would not have been acceptable? Unlike barbells, the handles on dumbbells are also attached.

Maybe a poll question could be: 'I had the same answer as the contestants until I read the second half of the clue.' I wonder how high Pentecost rises on the 'inside baseball' scale re Christianity. I wonder what an equivalent event or term might be for other major religions, and would J! contestant...

A Wray wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:14 pm

twelvefootboy wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 31, 2019 11:06 pm

Why no other Hemingways here so far?

I was a Hemingway. But for no other reason than I ruled out Steinbeck, because obviously the date was wrong for Grapes of Wrath. &^%$#@!!!

Hemingway might have been a good guess, if the clue text read more like: ‘Sometimes it was dry, sometimes wet.’

Count me in for 'right author, wrong novel'. Do I smell a poll question?