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Days of the Week
In Spanish & French, the word for Friday comes from latin for "day of" this goddess.

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Who is Venus? Selena said Vesta.

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So, should we start calling Lumosityfan "Mr. Bubbly" a la Alex? :)
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No chance for me on FJ. Probably easier for teens who are likely studying French or Spanish right now.
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The Lyric category was mostly over my head. Fun's song was the only one of the five that I've heard before, and I actually like that song a great deal. NHO the other four songs, or Of Monsters and Men — surprised they weren't a TS.

YES! Otters in the Aquarium category!

Despite my 1/5 in Lyrics, I still ended up 21/30 in J!, my best in this tourney yet. My other misse were Pete Carroll, Joseph, Elijah, 18, and 14. (Overthought "18", and somehow thought a fortnight was 20.)

Oddly, Neil Gaiman was my only get in Graphic Novels. NHO The Losers or Scott Pilgrim.

Ata-what-a Desert, now? Don't recognize that either.

What led to Dickinson on that DD?

"Days of the week? Well, this HAS to be a cakewalk… Okay, Friday is viernes in Spanish. What goddess sounds like viernes? Vern… vien… vi… ve… ve… wi? I got nothing."
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I may have forgotten way more than I remember from Spanish class, but i do remember that Friday = Viernes, so the leap to Venus was an easy one.

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Bamaman wrote:No chance for me on FJ. Probably easier for teens who are likely studying French or Spanish right now.
There are some exceptions, but in Latin-based (or Latin-influenced) languages, days of the week tend to be named for the seven heavenly bodies that were known to the ancients (i.e. visible to the naked eye, i.e. the sun, moon, and planets as far out as Saturn).

Sun --> Sunday
Moon --> Monday, Lundi, Lunes
Mars --> Mardi, Martes
Mercury --> Mercredi, Miercoles
Jupiter --> Jeudi, Jueves
Venus --> Vendredi, Viernes
Saturn --> Saturday, Samedi
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Another great game, fun to watch.

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This was one of those rare FJ categories where I tried to precall the clue.

My precall was "The only day of the week whose English name comes from a planet."

I also thought there was a chance that the clue would involve foreign languages, so I tried to remember as many names for days of the week as I could in French, German, and Spanish. (I know all of them in French, but couldn't quite remember all of them in Spanish.)

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I guess there is an implicit and not unreasonable assumption that high schoolers are familiar with either French or Spanish (or I guess Latin) given the lack of a secondary clue to help figure FJ out. if you didn't know those languages, you were out of luck.
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evanakm wrote:
Bamaman wrote:No chance for me on FJ. Probably easier for teens who are likely studying French or Spanish right now.
There are some exceptions, but in Latin-based (or Latin-influenced) languages, days of the week tend to be named for the seven heavenly bodies that were known to the ancients (i.e. visible to the naked eye, i.e. the sun, moon, and planets as far out as Saturn).

Sun --> Sunday
Moon --> Monday, Lundi, Lunes
Mars --> Mardi, Martes
Mercury --> Mercredi, Miercoles
Jupiter --> Jeudi, Jueves
Venus --> Vendredi, Viernes
Saturn --> Saturday, Samedi
Except Sunday is Dimanche in French and Domingo (I think) in Spanish.
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TenPoundHammer wrote:What led to Dickinson on that DD?
Female poet who never titled her poems so they were numbered after she died.
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Congrats to Cooper on the win!

I did worse on this board than I would care to admit, including guessing Elizabeth Barrett Browning for the second row DD on Emily Dickinson.

I blanked on FJ. I took 3 years of Spanish in high school, and during the think music I was able to recall the Spanish names for all the days of the week except for Thursday and Friday. I remembered them right after the "Vesta" response was revealed, but by that time it was far too late.
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33 out of 60.

Computer: 4/5 "Mac/"PC": 4/5 Old Testament: 2/5 Lyrics: 0/5 Teen: 5/5 Aquarium: 1/5
Teens Rule: 4/5 Graphic: 1/5 4-Syllable: 2/5 Poets: 3/5 South America: 2/5 "Q": 5/5

No Lach trash.

I recalled that the French word for Friday was "vendredi", but I said "Minerva" because, apparently, the "Ven" wasn't enough for a clue for me. :|
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Great game! You could almost wish for a triple-0 tomorrow, because while I was rooting for Cooper (so the ones I root for are 2/2 in theses semis so far), that other dude was charismatic as ****.

Went with Frigg, the Norse goddess from whom the English word "Friday" comes from. I always thought Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were named for Scandinavian mythology, and they are in English, but I guess they wanted you to look at the other languages to get the actual answer? Fair enough, but, come on.... Enough stuff is named for things from Greco-Roman mythology, the days of the week (and, again, only some) being one of the few imports from Scandinavian mythology, and a little recognition of that wouldn't hurt.
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Yes, well played game by the two boys overall. Quality clues without many triple stumpers. As for the Dickinson DD, I just remember that her poems were numbered, so it seemed reasonable.

Lach Trash: Fingerprints.

Got FJ. Venus just came to mind and I stuck to it.
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Going by the Archive, I can get at least half of FJ's in every TT up to this one. I really need to blow off steam here (much like TPH does) because this is a particularly bad TT for me (only 2/7).
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Anyone else learn the Spanish days of the week to the Think Music? (I learned the French ones to the tune of the Flintstones theme song, which means that I can recall exactly zero of them now). I forgot the Spanish/French part of the clue until maybe :20 (was trying to think of which goddess had a name that began with Fri-), and then couldn't come up with Venus in time. To be fair, when I saw the category, I thought "how are they going to make a hard clue out of this?" so I may have brought this on myself.
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silverscreentest wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote:What led to Dickinson on that DD?
Female poet who never titled her poems so they were numbered after she died.
That and the poem excerpt sounded kind of like a downer.

FJ made sense -- I knew it started with "V" in both language, so I went with Venus.

And, a minor nitpick -- "God Loves, Man Kills" was itself a graphic novel, not a story arc as the clue said (the rough basis for X-Men: United).
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