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Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:00 pm
by MarkBarrett
Many items were brought up in the Wednesday thread. I tried to round up all the choices. You can pick up to three in case some of you wrote down choices and never crossed off any or something like that.
3/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AGRICULTURE
3/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Prunus dulcis, this snack high in calcium & vitamin E, is native to the Mideast, but 80% of the world crop comes from Calif.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:05 pm
by Bamaman
I voted for both plums and dates. I think I ended with dates because I thought having prune in the genus just seemed too obvious. Dates seem Middle Eastern but oh well.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:28 pm
by econgator
Mark, for the bottom one you could have put, "TPH check this box."
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:47 pm
by nserven
Checked two boxes--my answer (grapes) and my wife's (dates).
Incidentally, as I was watching one of the 2000s games on Crackle today (Maria Wenglinsky's, I think), there was a clue about fruits of the genus Vitis, which I only got right due to looking up how close my wrong answer to this clue was.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:51 pm
by Spaceman Spiff
Bamaman wrote:I voted for both plums and dates. I think I ended with dates because I thought having prune in the genus just seemed too obvious. Dates seem Middle Eastern but oh well.
Definitely stuck as "middle eastern" in my head, with Dromedary Dates jingles from my youth clanking around.
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Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 9:05 pm
by Budphrey
For once in my life, I gave a fig.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 9:53 pm
by harrumph
No box for Gorp?
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 10:17 pm
by Peggles
Almonds never even crossed my mind.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:24 am
by dhkendall
I started with olives and did cross it off eventually in favour of figs, but I'm keeping both choices, as I was with olives longer than I was with figs, and I saw no real good reason (other than caprice) to switch.
Like others, would never have guessed almonds (but, in hindsight, not too surprised it was the answer.)
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:39 am
by zakharov
I had raisins, and I had a derisive tweet cued up to mock them for not knowing it. Boy was my face red!
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:43 am
by bengland
If they'd said P. amygdalus I'd have gotten it. That was the name I was taught at U. C. Davis in the 70s. Also, according to the people who grow 80% of the world's supply, almond rhymes with Hammond.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:07 am
by Plactus
I said raisins, but wasn't happy about it because they're grapes. Had I thought of dates, that would have been my answer.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 5:59 am
by alietr
Peggles wrote:Almonds never even crossed my mind.
Even after Alex gave the response, almonds never even crossed my mind.
Seeing the poll results, I feel better about my snarky comment to Debramc.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 7:29 am
by billiej
My nutritional studies came in handy, with Vit E/Calcium, in combination with Ca/Middle East connection, led me straight to almond. Even then, I wasn't 100% confident. Fortunately, I didn't look too closely at the genus/species, or I could have been swayed (likely would have gone with dates based strictly on that).
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 12:23 pm
by harrumph
dhkendall wrote:I started with olives and did cross it off eventually in favour of figs, but I'm keeping both choices, as I was with olives longer than I was with figs, and I saw no real good reason (other than caprice) to switch.
Like others, would never have guessed almonds (but, in hindsight, not too surprised it was the answer.)
"I was with olives longer than I was with figs" should be your new sig line.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 4:23 pm
by debramc
alietr wrote:Peggles wrote:Almonds never even crossed my mind.
Even after Alex gave the response, almonds never even crossed my mind.
Seeing the poll results, I feel better about my snarky comment to Debramc.
Golly it's like school again, being teased for knowing the answer (but this time by "the Teacher"!) (and hey, I'm not the only one that got it right!).
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 4:39 pm
by ElendilPickle
Dates for me; almonds never crossed my mind.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:34 pm
by Zhankfor
I said dates and I was probably around 90% confident - but another part of my brain was 90% confident that that it would land in that 10%, if that makes any sense at all, which obviously it doesn't but I'm using it for rhetorical effect.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2014 7:26 pm
by nightreign
Raisins for me...Figured it wasn't prunes, since that would be too obvious. Dulce means sweet, which led me to think of raisins, and was pretty sure if it since I've heard of California raisins. Never would have come up with almonds.
Re: Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2014 2:20 am
by Mathew5000
Dulce does mean sweet, but doesn't it also mean moist, or at least the opposite of dry? Specifically, in French, un vin doux is the opposite of un vin sec (a dry wine). So in the 30 seconds of that Final Jeopardy clue, “prunus” led me straight to dried fruit = raisin (especially paired with California) but then I was thinking, it couldn't be right that you'd refer to dried fruit with a word like dulce.
Of course, as someone pointed out in the other thread, drying out a fruit does not convert it to a different species, so it would not have its own Latin name in that fashion.