FJs for the 5/15/17 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 5/15/17 week?

Poll ended at Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:49 pm

In 1947 a journalist from the Washington Post became the last to win a Pulitzer for national reporting by this means
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74%
The book "From Marble to Flesh" is a biography of this statue that was created from 1501 to 1504
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95%
On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of “the mode, manner, and means of” this, which he would not live to see
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81%
A 1936 N.Y. Times review called the debut novel by this author “in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages”
87
74%
In 2015 it returned to the list of the 50 most populous U.S. cities, 10 years after dropping off
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78%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
45
38%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJ! clues.
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1%
-ISMS & -OLOGIES $2000: This -ism favored by psychologist William James takes the view that what is useful is what is best
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26%
THEATRE $2000: In "Six Degrees of Separation", a young black man named Paul claims to be this actor's son
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45%
A ROUND OF GULF $1600: The Gulf of Antalya is part of this country's long southern coast on the Mediterranean
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43%
I counted a response other than telegraph or telegram as correct for the Monday FJ! clue.
3
3%
Oops, I guessed utilitarianism for the clue that wanted pragmatism.
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42%
After seeing the category ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY and before seeing the clue I thought of Reconstruction.
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6%
Ayn Rand was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
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15%
Willa Cather or Edith Wharton was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
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Total votes: 117

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Re: FJs for the 5/15/17 week

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: FJs for the 5/15/17 week

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :( :(

My first 5/5 in a while.

Utilitarianism for Pragmatism, Telegram on Monday
Clammed on Sidney Poitier--I was reading about this play recently so I should have had that.

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