FJs for the 11/30/15 week

[MarkBarrett]

11/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
U.S. HISTORY

11/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It's the only odd-numbered year in which a U.S. presidential election has been held

12/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE MOVIES

12/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The title of this 2009 Best Picture Oscar nominee alludes to the left tackle's job in a football game

12/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NEWLY INDEPENDENT NATIONS

12/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Prior to South Sudan, this European country was the most recent one to gain independence & be recognized by the United States

12/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SONGS FROM MUSICALS

12/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was once simply titled "First Singing Lesson"

12/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
RELIGION IN AMERICA

12/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The Dakotas & Minnesota are the 3 states with the largest % of residents identifying as this denomination


Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

1789
The Blind Side
Kosovo
"Do-Re-Mi"
Lutheran

The players were 8/15 (53.33%) with a 1-2-2-2-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have a triple stumper followed by two clues Joyce Hshieh had correct.

2 FOR THE LITERARY TAKING $2000: First names of the fairy tale-collecting Grimm Brothers

WOMEN OF MYTH $2000: After she spurned Apollo, he made sure no one would believe her prophecies

THE 1600s $1600: Oliver Cromwell & his Roundheads defeated this king & his Cavaliers in the English Civil War

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Jacob & Wilhelm
Cassandra
Charles I

[MarkBarrett]

1787
Never read/Never seen
Bosnia & Herzegovina
No preemptions of J! (Millionaire - yes)

[hbomb1947]

Montenegro on Wednesday's clue, as I lost the coin-flip with Kosovo on a 50-50-90. (There's a typo in one of the poll questions; it currently reads, "My incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue was Montenegro") That's how close I came to my first perfect week of the season.

The only Grimm brother I could name was Jacob.

Cassandra was overvalued at $2,000.

I have neither read the book version of The Blind Side nor seen the movie, although that didn't stop me from correctly solving Tuesday's FJ.

J! was pre-empted in my market (NYC) for San Bernardino coverage, although it was eventually broadcast at about 2:10 a.m.

[Plactus]

Jehovah's Witnesses (wild guess).
Never read nor seen The Blind Side.
No preemptions this week. I was a bit surprised Wednesday.

[Carpe Diem]

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[bpmod]

I really should have checked the last box because I could not find Jeopardy! anywhere in the listings for Thursday night. (Wheel got preempted (and not moved to a different time) on Wednesday, but Jeopardy! wasn't affected.)

Lo and behold, before I deleted the hours of recordings I capture just in case WIVB reschedules them without telling anybody, I skimmed through and there it was!

Brian

[econgator]

Walk the Line and Montenegro
Never heard of The Blind Side.
Knew Jacob, but not Wilhelm.

[RichmondJ]

I couldn't even remember the Grimms' names as I sat here today.

[MarkBarrett]

Montenegro on Wednesday's clue, as I lost the coin-flip with Kosovo on a 50-50-90. (There's a typo in one of the poll questions; it currently reads, "My incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue was Montenegro") That's how close I came to my first perfect week of the season.

Thanks, I switched the Montenegro to the proper day of Wednesday.

[Leander]

Right president on Monday, wrong year.

Seen and read The Blind Side.

[nightreign]

Monday and Thursday had me like, "omg, wheelhouse!"
I tried to grasp onto any TOM on Friday. The best I could get was St. Paul, which really led me nowhere. I guess it was a YEKIOYD? I'm really disappointed that it ruined my 5/5 though.

I've seen the movie The Blind Side. Never read the book.
No on San Bernadino pre-emptions (I feel like the only one that actually got J! that night; I was really surprised) but yes on Thursday Night Football (I thought that was over). My area (Grand Rapids, MI) is really horrible when it comes to preemptions. It seems like it's being preempted every week for one thing or another.

[davey]

First decent FJ week in a while. I look on the bright side: I'd be happy to face this week's contestants.
Said Macedonia - I guess I meant Montenegro. Not my subject...
Clammed on the Grimms- needed more seconds.
Saw The Blind Side, I remember it as a big hit for Sandra Bullock.

[clprez]

I hadn't read nor watched The Blindside, but as soon as it was revealed, it was a head slap.
I didn't get Thursday's FJ because it was pre-empted and I was spoiled when I read that day's discussion.

[alietr]

At least the Jeopardy writers were kind to us since Thorsten was not.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Yes, I have seen the movie (albeit under protest, even though I am a college football fan. FWIW, the real Ms. Tuohy is a jerk.)

Friday's Lutheran response was an instaget -- anyone hearing Garrison Keillor the past three decades or so know about how strong the Lutheran influence is from the Scandinavians that came there; I've also read The Emigrants tetralogy recently, and know how strong the Lutheran church was from the settlers in that area (although, ironically enough, a lot of them came here to get away from their version of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which ran those countries with every bit of the iron fist and control that the Roman Catholic church of the past had been; many came up with a 'new and improved' version once they got here.)

Cassandra, besides remembering it from school, was long ago reinforced by the ABBA song of the same name.

[Linear Gnome]

Never read or saw The Blind Side.
Considered several possibilities including Montenegro, not sure what my response actually was.
I get J! at 4:30 Central time so it was not preempted this week, though I still have not seen the Thanksgiving episode and it is not yet available on the Archive.

33233334[20ToC]23, 31 - 29

[dhkendall]

I checked the "preempted in my market" box even though I caught it on Wednesday. My usual channel preempted J! for the first time in about two years for San Bernardino coverage. However, fortunately, just two days earlier I bought a new PVR that allowed me to get HD channels (even though I don't have an HD TV) and one of the channels is one in Spokane that shows it at 9 pm my time. Sam Bernardino coverage has died down by then so I got it on a channel I didn't even have less than a week ago. Great timing!

[gnash]

8/8, but The Blind Side is still in my queue, I am a few years behind in movies.

[JonathanHenke]

Montenegro on Wednesday's clue, as I lost the coin-flip with Kosovo on a 50-50-90....

The only Grimm brother I could name was Jacob.

Ditto, ditto, ditto, and ditto.

[caknuck]

1783
Clam, clam, Charles II

My wife is a Minnesota Lutheran, so I had no chance of missing that clue. (Although, J! Was preempted again for HS football.)