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FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:52 pm
by MarkBarrett
2/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORD ORIGINS
2/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The first recorded use of this word in print was when Nathan Hope posted an image of his busted lip online in 2002
2/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD POLITICS
2/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In August 2015 3 retired Marines helped raise the U.S. flag in this city where they'd hauled it down 54 years earlier
2/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS
2/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Year the New York World lamented, “The age of statesmen is gone…the age of rail-splitters and tailors…has succeeded”
2/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS
2/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it"
2/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
17th CENTURY GERMANS
2/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Astronomer who began his epitaph, "I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of Earth"
Correct responses in spoiler box:
selfie
Havana
1864
Richard III
Johannes Kepler
The players were 4/15 (26.67%) with a 1-0-0-2-1 success pattern.
The extra clues have a requested triple stumper, one correct, and another triple stumper.
ALL IN A DAY'S WORK $1000: An 8-hour day & I made 40 buttons, so divide output by input to get this measure, 5 per hour
UNCHARTED $2000: In the 500s B.C. Scylax sailed the length of this longest river of Pakistan to the Arabian Sea and beyond
I'M A FOOD "E" $800: The hole truth is it's another name for Swiss cheese
Correct responses in spoiler box:
productivity
Indus
Emmentaler
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:53 pm
by MarkBarrett
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:06 pm
by Volante
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:07 pm
by TenPoundHammer
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:12 pm
by skullturf
As others mentioned doing in Friday's game thread, I precalled Friday's correct response based just on the category. (With J.S. Bach as my second choice, and Leibniz as my third, but I thought Leibniz was pretty unlikely.)
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:27 pm
by cthulhu
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:39 pm
by TenPoundHammer
I have heard of Swiss and Emmentaler, but never knew they were the same thing.
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:58 pm
by Plactus
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:10 am
by Lefty
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:58 am
by BigDaddyMatty
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:16 am
by davey
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:06 am
by dinghammer
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:43 am
by Leander
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 7:54 am
by IronNeck
Those were my exact results, too. Tough set of FJs; much harder than the second week of the last College Championships, and considerably more challenging than the average week of regular Jeopardy.
I knew what spiciest memelord referred to. Unfortunately.
And I've taken a great many selfies. Usually for girlfriends or other female friends.
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:16 am
by ouachiouat
Lucked into Wednesday's. Misread the clue, thought it said 'has been succeeded' instead of 'has succeeded,' then brain-farted on when Lincoln was shot and thought it was 1863, thus the next election was 1864. Had I read the clue correctly, I would've said 1860 for Lincoln's first election. Had I not rushed through the dates as I'm prone to do when I'm playing along on my phone, but still misread the clue, I would've said 1868. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
For Friday, I've gotten Kepler before and will get him again. I made the mistake of playing it in the airport right after a 13-hour plane ride. Not so good for the brain cells, as I said Copernicus fully knowing it was wrong, but my brain wasn't having anything else.
Win some, lose some.
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 8:27 am
by JayK33
Same goes with the three extra clues.
Andrew Johnson being a tailor is one of those things that I have probably heard before, but didn't stick in mind for long.
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 12:10 pm
by nightreign
It deeply saddens me that 58% of you have never experienced the joy of posting a selfie online.
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:01 pm
by Robert K S
I was apparently posting selfies before there was a name for them. I have photo albums showing that my dad was taking selfies in the '70s, before there was an online.
I checked "no idea" even though I knew what memes were, so I could divine that a memelord was someone who excelled at created memes within a community of such authors. As for "spicy memes", I've since come to understand that they're essentially memes that are not just bitingly humorous but also politically incorrect or risqué.
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:19 pm
by twelvefootboy
Robert K S wrote:I was apparently posting selfies before there was a name for them. I have photo albums showing that my dad was taking selfies in the '70s, before there was an online.
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This may be picking a nit, but in 2002, to take a selfie, you had to hold the phone away from you, finger hopefully on the button, and hope you framed your image. I guess mirror shots kind of count, but it's kind of implied that you are taking them the hard way. I'm apologetically too lazy to google when the first self-facing cameras were put on phones.
I would not consider a film camera shot from a tripod and timer to be a "selfie". And of course your own picture taken by a third party is not a selfie. I'm sure plenty of people took their chances holding a film cameras (then waiting for the result) and a simple point and shoot would probably work out OK. There's plenty of Polaroid selfies since their invention, but of course they are NSFW, lol..
I posted that I have not put a selfie on line, but take them regularly and email/text them. I have no Facebook account because I don't let the Dark Lord Zuckerberg into my cyber space, although I know the digital big brothers already know my every move.
Anyhow, Robert's creative dad notwithstanding, IMHO any proto-selfies before 2002 are de-limited from the definition. I'm sure there is a judiciary body that has decided this.
Re: FJs for the 2/20/17 week
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 1:28 pm
by JayK33
Technically speaking though, this is the first ever selfie, from 1839.