FJs for the 3/16/15 week

[alietr]

Do we have a ruling on "Protestants" yet? Counting it yea or nay?

[davey]

Do we have a ruling on "Protestants" yet? Counting it yea or nay?

It was established in the thread that other Protestants were killed before Valliere. He was the first French martyr.

[skullturf]

3/5

Didn't previously know Dora's surname, but knew she spoke Spanish, and knew the correct response would probably be someone known primarily by their first name.

Got Tuesday without too much trouble, because as a professional mathematician I didn't have to wonder about whether 1 counts as a prime.

Got J.S. Bach right away on Wednesday, but embarrassingly didn't get Handel in 30 seconds. I wrote "Vivaldi" for the second one just to have something, knowing full well that he wasn't German. (I think I erroneously thought Handel was later than he was. I associate him with one of the King Georges of England/Britain but I forgot *which* King George, and some of them are as late as the 1810s or 1820s or something.)

Got Thursday, but had previously seen that anagram so I just straight-up remembered it. It might have been harder to work out on the fly.

Missed Friday, but I explicitly said to myself, "I wonder if it's just 'Protestants' or if it's 'Huguenots'." But I wrote down "Protestants".

[Lefty]

In his autobiographical Speak, Memory Nabokov refers to "Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine." Darkbloom is Clare Quilty's collaborator in Lolita.

I've read both, but in "Speak", Vlad helpfully explained that the name was an anagram.

[seaborgium]

I had to wait for Friday's show to appear on YouTube, which it did today. Pretty simple get there, though I quibbled over what term to use before settling on Huguenot as the happy medium between being general (which might let other martyrs in before him) and specific (which risked naming a group the man in the clue wasn't part of).
I knew Thursday's cold and didn't have to futz around with the letters.
First thought 37 on Tuesday, I don't know why; more attractive, I guess. Then I remembered 2 was prime.
I got Handel right away on Wednesday because he's further forward in my mind, due to my having done several of his works in my choir. I had to rule out Haydn (because I knew he was an early teacher of Beethoven) before I realized, oh duh, German Baroque composer is obviously Bach.

[karoliner]

My second time ever of "checked all five above"!
Had "Three Blind Mice" for "The Mousetrap".

Good week for me. On Monday, I guessed Diego, Dora's cousin. His last name is also Marquez but I see from Wikipedia that he debuted in 2002, not 2000 (and got his own show in 2005).

Diego came to me first, but eventually I decided to go with the obvious.

[This Is Kirk!]

Sole FJ miss was Wednesday's. Bach was instant. My first thought on the other one was Handel, but I thought he might be English, so I ended up putting down Schubert instead.

[hbomb1947]

I had to wait for Friday's show to appear on YouTube, which it did today. Pretty simple get there, though I quibbled over what term to use before settling on Huguenot as the happy medium between being general (which might let other martyrs in before him) and specific (which risked naming a group the man in the clue wasn't part of).
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What group would have been more specific than Huguenots?

[ElendilPickle]

[goatman]

Yay for another streak week. IMHO protestants wouldn't be acc, Huguenots = "French Protestant" they are a J-fav and frequent ask, they BMS for less...

I changed 11 to 23 when I realized in nick of time that '1' is technically NOT a prime #, because it causes problems in Euclidean theory of primes, doh!
Euler's Proof of Euclid's Theorem includes an expression {1/(1-1/p)} which goes to 1 when p=1 and renders nonsense. To include 1 as prime leads to an indefinite, progressively expanding universe of redundant, meaningless prime expressions:

A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because 1 and 5 are its only positive integer factors, whereas 6 is composite because it has the divisors 2 and 3 in addition to 1 and 6. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic establishes the central role of primes in number theory: any integer greater than 1 can be expressed as a product of primes that is unique up to ordering. The uniqueness in this theorem requires excluding 1 as a prime because one can include arbitrarily many instances of 1 in any factorization, e.g., 3, 1 × 3, 1 × 1 × 3, etc. are all valid factorizations of 3.

Wrote '11' then said to self; "Hey Fool! Doesn't that look silly?! How can it be 1-1? Are you SURE you wanna say that?! DOH! Facesmack > Scratchout; 2-3.

On lighter side, Dora was instaget b/c image of my Diego lunchbox popped into head when I thought of Spanish cartoon chars, lol. Love my Diegobox!

Anagram full of 'V's'... 1955... >Lolita, Vlad Nabokov. Scurried afterwards to get my copy and there is Vivian, never noticed her before! LOL, sigh...

JS Bach & GF Handel were near-instagets, briefly considered Haydn (Surprise!) but recalled he was contemporary of Mozart, much later.
Handel was a long-term resident of England, he composed his Water Music Suite in honor of fellow countryman King George I of hanover. for 1717 Thames River Concerts. Not having heard of their association would put you at a disadvantage in responding to this as noted above it becomes confusing.
("Wasn't he English? But how...?) Remember, the Germans ruled England after Queen Anne, the last Stuart monarch passed in 1714.

[mxc_takeshi]

Missed the Monday and Friday full shows. Got the Monday answer right from the clue here, and looked at the spoilers for Friday. I'm not 100% sure if I would have guessed that correctly, so I didn't count that one.

[opusthepenguin]

I had to wait for Friday's show to appear on YouTube, which it did today. Pretty simple get there, though I quibbled over what term to use before settling on Huguenot as the happy medium between being general (which might let other martyrs in before him) and specific (which risked naming a group the man in the clue wasn't part of).
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What group would have been more specific than Huguenots?

The Valliere Family House Church.

[alietr]

I had to wait for Friday's show to appear on YouTube, which it did today. Pretty simple get there, though I quibbled over what term to use before settling on Huguenot as the happy medium between being general (which might let other martyrs in before him) and specific (which risked naming a group the man in the clue wasn't part of).
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What group would have been more specific than Huguenots?

The Valliere Family House Church.

I think I've posted this here once before, but it is quite apropos here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fAcxcxoZ8

[OrangeSAM]

After 131 respondents:

26 got all 5 FJ!s
26 got 4 FJ!s
37 got 3 FJ!s
24 got 2 FJ!s
13 got 1 FJ!
5 got 0 FJ!s

Average: 3.10 FJ!s correct.

My responses went: /

Thur.: I got stuck on British authors. Never considered other nationalities.

[Bamaman]

Handel only

For the season: 80-55
TOC: 5-5
Kids Week:4-1
Teachers: 5-5
Longest winning streak: 10 (active 1)
Longest losing streak: 4

5/5: 1
4/5: 6
3/5: 12
2/5: 7
1/5: 1
0/5: 0