FJs for the 11/23/15 week

[MarkBarrett]

11/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE 16th CENTURY

11/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1521 he was the credited author of "Defense of the 7 Sacraments" against Martin Luther's attacks

11/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE OSCARS

11/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting

11/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
DAYS OF THE WEEK

11/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
To the ancient Greeks, this day of the week was Hemera Aphrodites

11/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NATO COUNTRIES

11/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
With a population of under 400,000, this founding member of NATO remains the smallest of the member nations

11/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AUTHORS

11/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own"

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Henry VIII
George Clooney
Friday
Iceland
John Grisham

The players were 6/15 (40.00%) with a 1-1-2-1-1 success pattern. The extra clues have two correct by the players followed by a requested triple stumper.

FICTIONAL CAPTAINS $1000: This Air Force Captain in "Catch-22" hopes to get out of combat by proving he's crazy

REMEMBER NOVEMBER $2000: This Virginia slave revolt leader was tried & convicted on Nov. 5, 1831 & executed on Nov. 11

GIVING THANKS $1200: In 2014 Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers got a 2-minute ovation from a grateful House of Commons in this city



Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Yossarian
Nat Turner
Ottawa

[MarkBarrett]

Tivoli = Denmark
Clint Eastwood
Nat Tyler instead of Turner
Clam on Ottawa sensing the trap on London
Monday instead of Friday.
It took until this week to catch on to wind chill factor for Winchell Factor.

[MarkBarrett]

I ran out of space for Clint Eastwood as another popular miss on Tuesday. You can post if that was your guess and we can see if it beats the Affleck tally.

[StevenH]

Monday: I had John Calvin, and never would have gotten to a monarch/leader in 30 seconds.

Tuesday: Zeroed in on Ben Affleck, and never would have guessed Clooney.

Wednesday: It was a 1 in 7 guess where I had no idea...and guessed Sunday.

Thursday: I guessed Luxembourg, though I didn't even think that it was a founding NATO member.

Friday: 1990 + Mississippi author only led to Grisham.

[Volante]

Tue - Eastwood
Thu - Luxembourg

Yossarian was on the tip of my tongue.
John Brown...wrong pavlov triggers hit.
Knew the story, knew it wasn't London.
Bet all 3 would've been LL gets, and at least two DD gets (Nat Turner would've taken a bit longer)

Denmark.

[Carpe Diem]

Tuesday: Woody Allen

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[econgator]

Eastwood

Never caught on to Vaughn's handle.

[RichmondJ]

Monday FJ: Erasmus.
Wednesday FJ: failed to make Venus connnection; WAGged Sunday.

[davey]

Yikes...thank goodness Grisham came along to break a bad streak.
Only knew Ottawa on the rebound.
Clammed on Tivoli because I couldn't remember which Scandinavian country had it. If I knew Italy was allowed I would have taken it.

[Leander]

Tuesday, said Affleck. Clooney's writing and directing noms for Good Night and Good Luck were too far in the past to be on my radar screen.

Had the Danish Tivoli gardens

Ottawa was an instaget.

[TenPoundHammer]

I got Winchell Factor's pun immediately.

[Plactus]

Eastwood (didn't like it because Million Dollar Baby was 2004; didn't like Affleck any better, though) and Luxembourg.

I haven't seen Thursday's game because of football preemptions, but I've heard there was another example of the "The Canadian host is perpetually surprised how bad Americans are at Canadian trivia" running gag; I assume the Vickers clue was it.

Italy for Tivoli.

[caknuck]

Thomas Cranmer / Ben Affleck / Monday / Luxembourg / John Grisham
(clammed) / Nat Turner / Ottawa

• I'm giving myself credit for Grisham, even though I didn't see the episode (it was preempted by high school football). When I saw it here, it was an instaget.
• I clammed on Yossarian, although "Catch-22 character = Yossarian" is pretty much a Pavlov.
• I love the Kevin Vickers story for so many reasons. 1) Up until that day, I thought the Parliamentary Sergeant at Arms was only a ceremonial post, but in fact he is the chief of Parliamentary security and an armed law enforcement officer. 2) The gunfight was out of a John Woo movie. Vickers and the assailant were taking cover on opposite sides of the same stone pillar, exchanging fire. When Vickers heard the suspect reload, he DOVE around the pillar and unloaded a magazine into the gunman while falling, killing him instantly. 3) Shortly after the incident, Vickers was promoted to Ambassador to Ireland. (Seriously, is that not one of the primo embassy gigs? If someone tapped me on the shoulder and offered me a job as the ambassador to, um, The Gambia, it would take some serious thought and wife-convincing. But Ireland? I'd be on Amazon shopping for Gaelic Football jerseys before the sentence was over.)
• I had Italy.

[Robert K S]

Only got Grisham because just a night or two before, A Time to Kill played on TCM with Grisham on hand to chat about the film with Robert Osborne.

[Lefty]

Missed Tuesday's FJ with Eastwood. Haven't paid much attention lately and was unaware of Clooney's diverse talents. Got the three extras, though I would not in fact have buzzed in on Ottawa.

[Linear Gnome]

Richelieu on Monday. Eastwood on Tuesday. I think I said Vatican City on Thursday even though I was pretty sure it was wrong. Don't know why I missed Yossarian--I somehow forgot he was a captain, I guess. Said "Italy/other" but probably would have clammed in reality because of lack of confidence about Italy. Derp on Winchell Factor.

[The Talking Mime]

Nice week here coming off the heels from a pitiful 1/10 in the ToC. Got my first perfecta, and my first 5/5 in regular play since the week after the Battle of the Decades.

With my luck though, I'll probably go 0/5 next week.

[patkav]

Eastwood

And feel really dumb as a Vaughn groupie.

[JonathanHenke]

I missed Wednesday's show, so it's possible I would have gotten it by dumb luck.... but, let's be honest, it's not likely.
I crossed off Clooney to write Affleck. Doh!
And I'm more disappointed in myself for missing the Winchell pun than for missing all those Jeopardy clues.

[ElendilPickle]

Guessed Denmark and finally figured out WinchellFactor.