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On the Alaska question my first thought was Gadsden Purchase, and when I let Alaska creep into my mind, I thought it was still during Lincoln's presidency. But slowly 1867 started to feel plausible for Alaska. The one way I had to verify it was to convert the square mileage in the question to acreag...

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:52 am

The OCR read commas for periods and could not handle Ms & Ws.

There's still a "vvas" in J30, and Herodias is "Herodlas" in DJ2.

Melis was a contestant on Master Minds on June 23 last year, winning $1,000.

MattKnowles wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 03, 2021 10:55 pm

I was prepared to answer pied piper but then the clue wanted Robert Browning all of a sudden. Who got that one?

I did; I think there was an excerpt of his version in a book of poetry my siblings and I had.

Melis added a "Hi" in her FJ! response. It kind of looks like Ayden though I'm not sure about the "e". I know there's a Turkish name Aydın complete with dotless i. I can't see the mystery character as that, but food for thought. Edit: she confirmed on Facebook that it's Aydin, with a dot (pronounce...

I went to the uploader's channel and watched Addison Goodson's first game. When I was done I did the "swipe down to refresh" thing on the list of videos, and all but one disappeared.

And it's already gone. Oddly the previous episode is still up.

davey wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 03, 2021 2:01 am

twelvefootboy wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:41 pm

I thought he said he'd played in 45 countries last year, which I assume is employment?

It seems likely that "last year" means "before the pandemic."

He said "in the past couple years."

Who is the missing five timer? Dennis Donohue https://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=2872 He played against all three finalists in his ToC. I bet not a lot of people hold that distinction, although I suppose all you have to do is play against two future finalists in the QF, win or get a...

I almost said quilt, solely because there had been a question about it as an art form a year and a half ago (Harriet Powers was the artist in that question). But then for no reason I decided that "Street Story Silver" had a nice ring to it.

Thanks for the post bigblue999. I added 12/9/92: https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6956 Player pics of Regi Merwin, John Godfrey & Linda Kissling: https://i.ibb.co/QJHGLtL/Regi-Merwin.jpg https://i.ibb.co/wJB4Gvy/John-Godfrey.jpg https://i.ibb.co/zPZcmYJ/Linda-Kissling.jpg You left an ...

NATIONALITY RHYMES $400: Joy for those of Geneva Any reason not to count my response of Swiss miss instead of the show's Swiss bliss? What's your justification, that "Joy" is a woman's name and hence a Joy can be a "miss"? I suppose the clue could be about folks who really love hot chocolate... ;) ...

NATIONALITY RHYMES $400: Joy for those of Geneva Any reason not to count my response of Swiss miss instead of the show's Swiss bliss? What's your justification, that "Joy" is a woman's name and hence a Joy can be a "miss"? I would probably be ruled incorrect for "French Polynesia". I think it would...

Two episodes this week, finishing out the run. J! alumni include James Brown and Elliot Yates (in the first and second episodes respectively).

I hear his "What is" almost completely drowned out by Alex's "Glenn."

French (language) foods

I needed the home of a playwright bit for Avon.
I thought of Zane Grey first, then thought, "It's a $2,000 clue; it can't be that easy" and switched to Louis L'Amour. :/

From 2014: I noticed Bruce Fauman #3 is archived now. Is the date a guess? Also, if Bob's last name isn't confirmed, may I suggest Boem or Boehm? I think I've more or less confirmed that the rightmost player in Bruce Fauman game 3 is Bob Boehm, not Boed. Twitter user @BobbBoehm has "Former Jeopardy!...

Eric Berman pointed me to this post by our late great friend Robert McIelwain in which the 3-day total for David Peterman (winning challenger in Eric Berman game 5 I just entered) is given as $7,300, which is asserted to have been the lowest 3-day total ever, both pre- and post-doubled dollar value...

My dad got Williams before I could pull his name, but I think I would have come up with that, so I gave myself credit. Just $200 and $400 for me, which I count as a victory.