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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

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Tue Oct 01, 2019 4:33 pm

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What are Iceland and New Zealand's North Island?

ISLANDS OF THE WORLD

The 14th and 18th largest in the world by area, these 2 islands are home to the world’s northernmost and southernmost national capitals

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My best guess was Antarctic (no -a).

Tonight's Tigers-Royals game is the first MLB game played in Nebraska (TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, site of the College World Series).

But I did find it interesting that Emma chose to stick with a single category for her first 5 picks, running a category from the bottom up to start the J! round. I think that was the first time in a long while we heard applause for running a category. James probably "ran" a few, but never in the tr...

Only recognized Randy from the list, but I did know of another Oscar-nominated David Newman, that being the co-screenwriter (of Bonnie and Clyde, with Robert Benton).

I won’t miss the shout-outs, but I can’t think of a single instance when one was almost misinterpreted as part of the response.

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Wed Apr 10, 2019 10:52 pm

Missed:
Kendrick Lamar, said Drake. Hey, Drake, "Duck"worth...makes sense!

I made this exact same mistake, same reasoning.

43 out of 50, for real. I thought Tuesday's test (off the video) was harder (37 right).

Did anyone notice the non-standard grammar choice on the category title ALEX' BUCKET LIST ? I cannot find a single style guide that suggests it is proper to drop the S on a possessive for a word ending in X. In fact, they all suggest that the S is not optional. Surprised that Jeopardy's writers wou...

The line quoted from the play (“bodies soft & weak...but that our...hearts should well agree with our external parts?)" made me think of wild desires needing to be tamed, I guess. It was the first answer I thought of and none of the options presented anything that fit better than that.

Though I understand that "pope" = "pontiff" was an important part of the clue, any chance they accept "proselytizing" for "pontificating?"

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Transcontinental Railroad. Taming of the Shrew was a guess.