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Two weeks ago I checked the 0/5 box.

I'll cycle back to Mark's baseball thread. They were all Boomer friendly except the Jeter one. I could have known it if I wanted to but Yankee related information is rejected at the second filter after the Kardashian firewall. To be fair, baseball nicknames were much cooler back in the day. I think...

I knew the book Pioneers (I own a bookstore) but then went and confused Cooper with Jack London. Then said Kipling for Tolstoy—the name did not sound particularly Russian to me. For FJ I immediately went to the only playwright whose birthplace I knew. I remember being a teenager looking for summer j...

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Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:06 pm

How many people got Samuel Barber?

I have an R.E.M. concert CD in which Michael Stipe waggishly introduces "Stand" (one of their more, er, polarizing songs) as ranking "alongside Samuel Barber's 'Adagio' and the theme song from 'Chariots of Fire'." That's the only way I knew it.

SPORTS BRANDS In 2011 this brand partnered with the Nature Conservancy to spread awareness of the destructive habits of the emerald ash borer beetle. What is Louisville Slugger? (because ash was, until recently, the preferred wood for baseball bats) https://sgbonline.com/louisville-slugger-partners...

There was nothing to piece together for FJ because I already knew that August Wilson wrote Jitney. The producers were obviously throwing me a line after a rough week previous.

I also said "aubergine" instead of "mauve."

FICTIONAL PAIRS

Debuting in 1975, they were named for buildings 1.5 miles apart, at 301 Seventh Ave. and 401 Park Ave. in Manhattan.

Spoiler

Who are Statler and Waldorf?

"2-reel short subject" made me think documentaries rather than animation. I said Jacques Cousteau.

I was stuck because I hadn’t understood that there was such a distinction between a coastline and a shoreline. I said New Hampshire, though it should have been obvious what the estuary in question was. This chart uses the term ‘coastline’ for both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_a...

Remembering this FJ helped me to get tonight's.

I was not ready for Botany Bay in a top-row clue, even spotted "plants" and "alliterative."

The “rhyme” given was part of a poem, written by one of Geisel’s college friends; that’s why it specified ‘rejoice.’ The “Dr. Seuss” alias evolved from a pseudonym that Geisel came up with at Dartmouth College, his undergraduate alma mater. Not coincidentally, Seuss was also the maiden name of Geise...

Maybe this was known but Ken says he can see the contestants' wagers and responses to Final Jeopardy as they are made. It makes sense as Alex would often say something like "I fear X struggled with this one" or "began writing immediately" Good stuff! It's long been speculated or flat out known by p...

This has been a rough few months for Cooperstown. Now it’s Hank Aaron. I saw him hit #701 in person. I was six years old. Watched the game on TV; pretty thrilling. Al Downing (who is still alive) will forever be linked with Aaron. Their relationship gets at least two hits in the archive. http://j-a...

1864 pointed me to Nevada ("Battle Born," made a state during the Civil War) and silver (Comstock Lode). California and gold were then obvious, though I wasn't sure how close their capitals were to each other.

Roger Clemens twice struck out 20 batters in a game. Kerry Wood and Max Scherzer each did it once.

I'm liking the Mayim Bialik idea. Well-versed and funny. She has a doctorate!

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Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:35 pm

When they revealed Dusty's response to FJ, did anyone else breath a sigh of relief that he hadn't used a more specific word for a female dog?

Assuming it's the word you mean, they've used it on the show before.

Katie Couric will get her shot at hosting:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... isodes-air

Are Lamaze classes even still a thing? Seems like the talk now is all about doulas and midwives. (I don't have children, if that isn't obvious.)

U.S. STATE CAPITAL NAMESAKES Of all the people after whom a state capital is named, he was born the earliest. Who was St. Paul? (If PR were to become a state, the new correct response would be San Juan) The most recently born might be more obvious: Joe Juneau, French-Canadian prospector, 1836-1899