FJs for the 9/19/11 week

[MarkBarrett]

9/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN WRITERS

9/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In the 1840s he wrote, "I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"

9/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NAME'S THE SAME

9/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Name shared by a popular world sport & a member of the Gryllidae family

9/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
OSCAR WINNERS

9/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The most recent father & daughter to win acting Oscars: he won for playing a veteran, she for playing a mental patient

9/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
PHILOSOPHY

9/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Nietzsche wrote, "Once you said 'God' when you gazed upon distant seas; but now I have taught you to say" this word

9/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN BUSINESS

9/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In the 1880s he developed Crystal A caramels; a product under his own name came out in 1900

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Henry David Thoreau
Cricket
Jon Voight & Angelina Jolie
Superman
Hershey

The players were 7/15 (46.67%) with a 1-3-2-0-1 success pattern.

The players were correct on each of the extra clues.

WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS $1200: A Thomas gray poem says, "where" this "is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"

A CELTIC CATEGORY $2000: Celtic folklore told of this "woman of the fairies" whose mournful wails & screams foretold death

NAME THAT REBELLION $2000: New England, 1786-87: a former soldier & 1,200 followers versus taxes & foreclosures

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Ignorance
Banshee
Shays' Rebellion

[econgator]

[MarkBarrett]

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[seaborgium]

Monday was a shoulda, and Thursday's was a coulda. I think I was just tired of coming up with rebellions by the bottom of that category; I've definitely heard of Shays'.

edit: thanks, econgator.

[econgator]

I've definitely heard of Shay's.

To nitpick a little, it's Shays' (Daniel Shays was the leader).

[saintanthony]

I fell into the Werther trap also.

[cheezguyty]

I have heard of Civil Disobedience but had no idea that it had to do with government. I thought Tuesday's FJ was a weak clue; it could have easily been in the top row in an SJ category of the same name. I broke the cardinal rule on Wednesday by writing down nothing; what made it hurt ten times worse was that Jolie was the first person I thought of but I was convinced she had never won an Oscar. Went with "dead" on Thursday even though it didn't sound right; upon reveal I figured it would be among the toughest of the season. For Friday's I started thinking of candy makers, but I somehow totally blanked on the name Hershey and went with Werther instead.

I did not know Thomas Gray was the originator of that particular saying. Screaming woman should have been Pavlov for banshee but I had no idea they were Celtic. I precalled Shays' Rebellion at the beginning of the category and decided to go with it despite not knowing if it even fit the clue.

[Woof]

I've definitely heard of Shay's.

To nitpick a little, it's Shays' (Daniel Shays was the leader).

To nitpick even further, it would be Shays's, since the version you suggest is reserved for the possessive of plurals.

[DWS]

[seaborgium]

I've definitely heard of Shay's.

To nitpick a little, it's Shays' (Daniel Shays was the leader).

To nitpick even further, it would be Shays's, since the version you suggest is reserved for the possessive of plurals.

Since I've never heard it pronounced with two syllables, I'm content with its s' spelling.

[DBear]

Answered the Fondas (Didn't even know Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie were related); "I" (isn't that what a Nietzschean wannabe would do?); and Mars.

[Roadgeek Adam]

>:| ....



(Yes I know the last two aren't real emoticons, but I did not like this week at all in FJ. 1/5 hurts.)

[Yinzer]

Nailed the Nietzsche quote, love him. Came up with Jolie and Billy Bob (Yeah I know...), totally missed Thoreau, and guessed Hershey (PA is a good state to be from).

[nserven]

[OrangeSAM]

Well, I got stuck in the plant kingdom Tuesday, and the Nietzsche reference just sent me into a mental whirlwind.

"Banshee" just didn't come quickly enough.

[Budphrey]

Went with Nietzsche > nature and caramels > Brach.

[John Boy]

Thoreau was my second choice (I negged with Emerson), and I got Voigt but couldn't recall his daughter, old what's-her-name.

That's what passes for perfection hereabouts.

Meanwhile, can I possibly be reading these results correctly? No FJ was answered correctly by more than 15% of a sample of 200+ boardies? Can that possibly be right? I find that seriously difficult to believe.

[Volante]

Monday - midclue switch from Emerson to Thoreau.
Tuesday - Instant.
Wednesday - Almost instant, took a little to link "mental patient" to "Girl, Interrupted" and after that it was gravy.
Thursday - nature.
Friday - Werther's

[Rackme32]

Ugly week for me... Of course, most of 'em are... This was just extra-fugly ugly.

I had plenty of bliss, err, ignorance...

Hershey's was a good guess by me. Question. Werther's, is that American? I always thought that was British.

[seaborgium]

Meanwhile, can I possibly be reading these results correctly? No FJ was answered correctly by more than 15% of a sample of 200+ boardies? Can that possibly be right? I find that seriously difficult to believe.

Your vote, for example, counted as six: your five gets and the "I voted" box. That box is there because in multi-choice polls, this board's software reads each selection as a separate vote. The box (ideally) gives us the number of voters so we can get the actual get rate.