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I misunderstood the clue to mean only one State was named for a woman and Virginia was the first to come to mind so I didn’t spend any time trying to think of another state. Oh, well. I understood the clue that way too, at first. I went immediately to Virginia. But then I realized there was no way ...

AFRET CMS wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 12, 2018 1:58 pm

Many dittoes. "Space shuttle that was also a sea vessel? Gotta be." Then, "Oops, is there an 'Endeavor'" trench?" Took a moment for Challenger Deep to surface.

I'm pretty sure that all the Space Shuttles were named after sea vessels.

tiwonge wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 11, 2018 4:03 pm

I got 16 bits not because I played games of that era (I was never a console player), but the TOM of that being the greatest power of two less than the age of the players.

This

I was sure Cerberus was wrong because of the ears thing, but I stuck with it because I couldn't think of anything better.

Not to sound too much like TPH, but how were we supposed to know they were asking what "maglev" means? I gave exactly the same answer Lane gave.

Literary Eponyms THIS CLASSIC MEN'S HAT WAS NAMED FOR A 19TH CENTURY PLAY WHOSE TITLE CHARACTER WAS ACTUALLY A WOMAN I said "trilby", which is a hat named after a 19th-century novel (also adapted into a play in the 19th century) with a female title character (although the novel is far more famous f...

I misread #34 as "safety razor". 43 right, which is pretty much what I get every time.

Through my own clumsiness, I was spoiled on Wednesday's FJ! I have no idea whether I would have figured it out, given a chance. 5/6 otherwise.

This sub-committee chair on the ASTM E20 Temperature Measurement committee didn't get the absolute zero answer. Between the geographical category, the failure to mention a lab environment (I think), and degrees F - REALLY? I'm not up to date with who's chasing the record for lowest temp, I find it ...

I've been steering clear of the "J! drinking game" threads. Is "whenever there is a Nebraska reference" one of the suggestions?

Instaget. My wife and I had just watched "The Right Stuff" the night before.

I knew the Farmer book, and I'm surprised they asked about it; I would have thought it was too obscure to be Jeopardy material. I don't know any of the other works in that category, but I was able to figure out dark matter. I couldn't decide between "Apology" and "Apologia". I guess it wouldn't have...

Wow! A category theme and a specific clue (Billy $400) just for me!

For capo di tutti capi , I got stuck in translation goo and spat out " head of all heads" - assume they would have taken that I said "chief of all chiefs". Can I count that? I cycled through every possible translation except boss, chief included. They'd have to accept any reasonable translation Tha...

morbeedo wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:30 pm

For capo di tutti capi, I got stuck in translation goo and spat out " head of all heads" - assume they would have taken that

I said "chief of all chiefs". Can I count that?

squarekara wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:40 pm

Foretopman wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 29, 2018 7:37 pm

Was it my DVR or did WLS Chicago have a glitch just as the "Orestes" response was being given?

I noticed a hiccup at some point--that must've been it.

Thanks!

Was it my DVR or did WLS Chicago have a glitch just as the "Orestes" response was being given?

Aaargh! I made the entirely unforgivable mistake of forgetting the category. The Strand and a title beginning with "The adventure of ..." led me straight to Sherlock Holmes, but I never made the jump to Mycroft. If I had been paying attention it would have been an instaget.

I thought what the writers did with the "stalagmite" clue was pretty clever.

Were they really not going to accept David's first pronunciation of "clapboard"? In my opinion that's the only correct pronunciation.

No way I was going to miss "Distinguished Flying Cross". My father had two of them.