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We had an Amber Alert flashing on the screen in our area when the Amber Alert clue came up. (Child has been located.)

This strikes me as an FJ where the text of the clue demands a response with a specific spelling.

I was pleased with myself for coming up with "Lewis & Clark Clifford Odets" without knowing if Clark Clifford was anyone at all.

I don't get at all how 'third wheel' is such a popular wrong answer. Carriages have four wheels, not two. Therefore a superfluous wheel would be the fifth wheel. : Having heard the term "third wheel" countless times and never "fifth wheel" will make you wonder if there's a type of carriage with two...

I overthought this and went with "registered to vote" since the date was September instead of November. I'm counting it as "close but no cigar..." :x Glad to see I wasn't the only one to go down that path. I should have taken the extra quarter second to realize that 1870 was not a presidential elec...

I use LEXIS-NEXIS for my work. A search for "anaphylaxic" brings up 118 hits with repeats, but mostly from news/wire articles. Here is one from UPI in which a pediatrician is quoted (note that he uses it as a noun as well, for a patient): A shot of adrenalin, such as that contained in the Epi-pen or...

Is this the first time Providence has been on the list?

Born and raised north of Boston. "Jimmies" is very familiar to me, though I hadn't noted the distinction between the chocolate and rainbow toppings. I believe Brigham's, a former ice cream/restaurant chain, used "jimmies" on its menu. While the restaurants have since closed, the brand is still sold ...

7 right for $8,600 plus the DD1 and FJ.

$13,200, but I also negged on canvas for silk and Doomsday for worst-case.

Got raptor and operetta.

I presume that a first name is always sufficient for a fictional character. If they've made exceptions to this I don't remember them. "Alex from Family Ties" was ruled incorrect on an FJ: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=3959 But TBH, I probably said "Napoli" because of Mike Napoli, fo...

COLORFUL PHRASES

A Nov. 28, 1960 use of this 2-word phrase referred to “police officials forecasting record traffic jams, both vehicular and pedestrian.”

I love the Last Blockbuster Twitter parody account:

https://twitter.com/loneblockbuster

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Wed Nov 20, 2019 12:03 pm

BUSINESS

20 percent of ESPN is owned by this corporation that launched with a single newspaper in 1887.

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What is Hearst?

My guess was

POP CULTURE THROUGH THE GENERATIONS In 2009, this member of the Monkees appeared in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants Who is Davy Jones (and his locker)? (This one could be made easier with another clue, but I like it this way.) I like it too, SpongeBob -> underwater -> 'Davy Jones' locker' is a ...

I think "valley" was supposed to be an operative word in the clue, as it refers to the Salinas Valley, which is pavlov for Steinbeck, is mentioned in the first line of East of Eden, and apparently was the original title for the book.

20th CENTURY FRENCHMEN These two 20th century Frenchmen, one a composer, the other a novelist, sound like they have the same name, but actually have differently spelled surnames. Who are Pierre Boulez and Pierre Boulle? I have long thought a similar clue would work well involving Kurt Weill (German...

I remember Leadville as a stumper in one of Matt Jackson's games. It said it was the USA's highest incorporated city. I got as far as Little Rock, with a paltry elevation of 335 feet. There are 11 hits in the archive for Leadville before this FJ!, with 2 asking for the city, and both of those were ...

I got FJ right, though with a couple of seconds in consideration of Hirohito, but I was pretty sure I could remember when he died so I went back to Mao.

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Fri Oct 04, 2019 2:47 pm

FILMS OF THE 2000s

Set in 1980, this Best Picture Oscar Winner took its title from Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium"

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What is "No Country For Old Men?

My first thought had been