Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Ugh, why does even a little rain turn my recordings into a stuttery tiling mess every time?
WLT Wrigley Field at $200?
Swashbuckling was my only get in "Uck". The others were just not connecting (oh, you literally meant YOUR homeland?!).
Ran "Cl"assical music somehow.
NHO "rapture" in the apocalyptic context, just in the term of "being raptured".
"Wow" / "huh" was a total negbait clue.
0/5 in Ohio Presidents. I can barely even remember most of their names, much less what states any of them are from.
How did we run out of time in both rounds?
No guess on FJ! I agree that we're scraping the bottom of the barrel on FJ! right now...
WLT Wrigley Field at $200?
Swashbuckling was my only get in "Uck". The others were just not connecting (oh, you literally meant YOUR homeland?!).
Ran "Cl"assical music somehow.
NHO "rapture" in the apocalyptic context, just in the term of "being raptured".
"Wow" / "huh" was a total negbait clue.
0/5 in Ohio Presidents. I can barely even remember most of their names, much less what states any of them are from.
How did we run out of time in both rounds?
No guess on FJ! I agree that we're scraping the bottom of the barrel on FJ! right now...
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
IvyTenPoundHammer wrote:WLT Wrigley Field at $200?
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Edit: Wrong Thread. I am a dunce.
Edit2: To add something to the thread, I will concur with the majority opinion that the past two FJ's have been real stinkers.
Edit2: To add something to the thread, I will concur with the majority opinion that the past two FJ's have been real stinkers.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
And Cubs.econgator wrote:IvyTenPoundHammer wrote:WLT Wrigley Field at $200?
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4479Plactus wrote:And Cubs.econgator wrote:IvyTenPoundHammer wrote:WLT Wrigley Field at $200?
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I also thought the Geography Rhyme was unusually hard for J category. I normally do OK in Geography...but found today's category/clues really tough. Felt more like DJ round at least. How was it for you?
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I suck at geography and got all but $800. I thought the rhymes really telegraphed them pretty well, but I just didn't have enough to shift to the right "land" in time.doihavetoreally wrote:I also thought the Geography Rhyme was unusually hard for J category. I normally do OK in Geography...but found today's category/clues really tough. Felt more like DJ round at least. How was it for you?
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Rowing just felt right for the first sport posh Ivy Leaguers would compete in... but... yeah... I'll definitely overlook my 'Well, I got it right, how hard could it have been?' guideline if this one makes it to the Worst FJ poll.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
As someone who laughs at the sports jeopardy test, as someone who would have laughed when the FJ category was announced, I don't think there's a person out there that would have KNOWN this. Maybe stumble into the correct answer, but it's in no way a YEKIOYD.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Kelly's DJ! round was better than her J! round. That's what matters. She got a couple of categories favorable to her and took off.
The carousel is spinning this week. Anyone have the brakes?
Atlas, von Bulow, Van Cliburn and kissing were four trash pickups I had time to note. My blood pressure says thank you that Boogie Nights was collected. Now there's a movie.
A miss for me on the FJ! clue once again unable to make it a double Wednesday to go with solving the Sports J! clue. My guess was wrestling. Water gets me again. Writers: How about something for landlubbers tomorrow?
Reminder for ABC viewers in the west - NBA Finals:
The carousel is spinning this week. Anyone have the brakes?
Atlas, von Bulow, Van Cliburn and kissing were four trash pickups I had time to note. My blood pressure says thank you that Boogie Nights was collected. Now there's a movie.
A miss for me on the FJ! clue once again unable to make it a double Wednesday to go with solving the Sports J! clue. My guess was wrestling. Water gets me again. Writers: How about something for landlubbers tomorrow?
Reminder for ABC viewers in the west - NBA Finals:
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Thursday 6/2: Game 1
Wednesday 6/8: Game 3
Friday 6/10: Game 4
Monday 6/13: Game 5
Thursday 6/16: Game 6
Game 2 will Sunday the 5th and Game 7 if needed will be Sunday the 19th.
KGO has J! listed for 10:30 p.m. tomorrow after Kimmel. Check your local listings for each of the weekday nights listed above if you are in the affected area because J! will not be on at 7 or 7:30.
Wednesday 6/8: Game 3
Friday 6/10: Game 4
Monday 6/13: Game 5
Thursday 6/16: Game 6
Game 2 will Sunday the 5th and Game 7 if needed will be Sunday the 19th.
KGO has J! listed for 10:30 p.m. tomorrow after Kimmel. Check your local listings for each of the weekday nights listed above if you are in the affected area because J! will not be on at 7 or 7:30.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I was running the "CL" category right up to Well Tempered ... Clavichord. Sigh. I totally knew it was clavier. But I'd precalled clavichord, so I had that stuck in my head. I'm not an idiot. I know you can't tune a collarbone.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Um, actually, we do.opusthepenguin wrote:That FJ was riDICulous. Goes back "at least to the middle ages"?!?!! Why would I pick rowing? I assume competitive rowing goes back to prehistoric times. Am I supposed to know that we happen not to have any accounts of rowing competitions in, say, the Roman Empire . . .
Rowing is one of the funeral sports in the Aenead (25-ish BC). I'm sure there are other sources that are older.
I also find it hard to believe that school club teams never met to play rounders, given that soldiers played something like it at Valley Forge.
So, yeah. Nobody on Sports Jeopardy would get it either, because Howie Schwab wouldn't have let it go to air.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
To me, a clavier is this:opusthepenguin wrote:I was running the "CL" category right up to Well Tempered ... Clavichord. Sigh. I totally knew it was clavier. But I'd precalled clavichord, so I had that stuck in my head. I'm not an idiot. I know you can't tune a collarbone.
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Anyone else go with archery? (About as much a team sport as javelin, I suppose…)
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Taking swashbuckling when swashbuckler was clearly indicated was interesting.
FJ I said golf. Better team sport than javelins at any rate!
FJ I said golf. Better team sport than javelins at any rate!
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
31 right.
Name (5), "UCK" (4), Ivy (3), Role (4), Ohio (3), Rhyme (2)
Poetry (1), Left (4), Nobel (1), Eponym (1), Tele (2), "CL" (1)
Lach Trash: Clock (Symphony), Sunny Von Bulow
I briefly considered fencing, but went with golf as well.
Name (5), "UCK" (4), Ivy (3), Role (4), Ohio (3), Rhyme (2)
Poetry (1), Left (4), Nobel (1), Eponym (1), Tele (2), "CL" (1)
Lach Trash: Clock (Symphony), Sunny Von Bulow
I briefly considered fencing, but went with golf as well.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
I said wrestling for FJ. I know it goes back before the Middle Ages, but the clue said, "at least."
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Same here. The middle ages bit seemed like a huge TOM leading to fencing and it seems like the kind of sport elite eastern schools would have played in those days (mid 1800s I mean). I supposed the category having "team" in it led away from fencing unless they had a melee as an early event in college fencing.alietr wrote:Went with fencing, and was sure I had it. Not a good clue at all.
Come on, now. I'm sure there are plenty of people who know what the first U.S. college sport was, and I'm sure most rowers would know it.golf wrote:As someone who laughs at the sports jeopardy test, as someone who would have laughed when the FJ category was announced, I don't think there's a person out there that would have KNOWN this
Rowing is an interesting college sport in that it's not governed by the NCAA (for men) even to this day.
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The TOM isn't supposed to make the clue harder! Any chance I had of getting that right disappeared with that.
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Re: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
While DoT picked a good job at finding an early example, I don't think they rowed competitively in prehistoric times. I'm sure they rowed, but they might not have thought to compete in it yet. (Perhaps it was codified in the middle ages, making it a "sport" rather than a "competition"? Still far from the best clue. Not often I get to recall two clues in the same week that will make it to Mark's "Worst FJs of the Quarter" poll in a few months.)opusthepenguin wrote:I assume competitive rowing goes back to prehistoric times.
Uhhh, that *is* the apocalyptic context. If a significant number of people were raptured in the sense you know of the term, then it'd be a pretty big apocalypse for those left behind to suddenly deal with the aftermath. (Tim LaHaye and the other guy know that better than anyone.)TenPoundHammer wrote:NHO "rapture" in the apocalyptic context, just in the term of "being raptured".
Interesting, like doihaveto, Geography is a wheelhouse (well, maybe doihaveto didn't say it was a wheelhouse per se) but I had a lot of trouble with that as well,l only getting the first one I think. Congrats for beating the smart kids, TPH.TenPoundHammer wrote:I suck at geography and got all but $800. I thought the rhymes really telegraphed them pretty well, but I just didn't have enough to shift to the right "land" in time.doihavetoreally wrote:I also thought the Geography Rhyme was unusually hard for J category. I normally do OK in Geography...but found today's category/clues really tough. Felt more like DJ round at least. How was it for you?
Nope, I'd be the idiot. OK, I'm not a total moron, I didn't give "clavicle" as my answer, but I used to think it was the name of the piece, and I physically had to restrain myself from answering "clavicle" so I could answer "clavichord" instead. *facepalm*opusthepenguin wrote:I was running the "CL" category right up to Well Tempered ... Clavichord. Sigh. I totally knew it was clavier. But I'd precalled clavichord, so I had that stuck in my head. I'm not an idiot. I know you can't tune a collarbone.
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