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FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:50 pm
by MarkBarrett
7/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION

7/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The first of these to enter service was christened by First Lady Pat Nixon at Dulles Intl. Airport on January 15, 1970

7/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

7/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book

7/5 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SMALL COUNTRIES

7/5 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This tiny island nation 700 miles northeast of Madagascar makes a great addition to a classic tongue twister

7/6 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SPORTS TRADITIONS

7/6 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Since 1986, reaching the quarterfinals of this event has entitled you to free tickets & free tea for life

7/7 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
PEOPLES OF THE WORLD

7/7 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Living from Norway to Russia, they’ve been called the only indigenous people of the European Union

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
747
Goodnight Moon
Seychelles
Wimbledon
Sami (or Saami, Lapps, Laplanders)

The players were 6/15 (40.00%) with a 1-0-2-2-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have two correct by the players followed by a requested triple stumper.

UNDERWATER $2000: He's written over 20 books featuring underwater adventurer Dirk Pitt, including 2014's "Havana Storm"

ON JULY 4TH $1000: Rescuing 103 hostages captured by terrorists, in 1976 Israeli commandos raided an airport in this Ugandan city

BRIT LIT $400: This 18th c. Scotsman is famed for his diaries as well as for his biography of Samuel Johnson

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler

Clive Cussler
Entebbe
James Boswell

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:51 pm
by MarkBarrett
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Concorde
Clam on Lorenz curve
Have read Goodnight Moon
Letter L on Friday for Lapps

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 7:59 pm
by TenPoundHammer
Goose egg. I had nothing

Never read Goodnight Moon

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:01 pm
by Volante
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Fri - Lapps. (I figured 'Sami' was a better answer, but closest could get to before time ran out was 'Savi')

Inequality

Have not read/been read Goodnight, Moon.

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:08 pm
by skullturf
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Concorde on Monday and expecting tons of people to answer that way

Tuesday I came up with "Goodnight Moon" while discussing the clue with naurae29 but can't take credit for it because I needed a little coaching

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 8:58 pm
by Plactus
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Air Force One, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
disparity
I'm sure I've read Goodnight Moon. I don't remember it, though.
And Lapps.

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:46 pm
by BigDaddyMatty
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50/50/90 on both Monday (Concorde) and Tuesday (Harold and the Purple Crayon)
Wrote both Lapps and Sami on Friday
NHO Goodnight Moon until a couple of years ago despite having two children
Negged with Pepys
Income inequality

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:01 pm
by seaborgium
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Samuel Johnson biographer -> Boswell is something I've had in my pocket since Boswell was a correct FJ response in 2009. The diary thing threw me slightly, but it was window dressing on a Pavlov. (I let Danish astronomer -> Brahe escape me this week, though.)

I said Sami with middling confidence.

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:03 pm
by Leander
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Briefly considered the Concorde, but figured Pat Nixon would not be dedicating an Anglo-French project.

Might have flipped through Goodnight Moon once, never had it read to me.

Knew there was another word for Lapps beginning with "S", but could only think of Suomi, which I knew was wrong, so stuck with Lapps.



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Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:29 pm
by davey
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SST; Sendak's WTWTA - more likely to have read about the Brown biography than to have read Good Night Moon itself...Said Laplanders, thought of changing to Lapps, wasn't even certain they're the same... :roll: Did not know Sami... :oops:
I'd say Boswell is basic trivia and literary knowledge. The name is a colloquialism - Tony Schwartz has been called Trump's Boswell for writing The Art of the Deal-

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/ ... -tells-all

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:33 pm
by Maven
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Had to do red faces for Monday and Tuesday's FJs because I so should have gotten those (and made it a 4/5 week instead of a measly 2/5) with my knowing the Boeing 747 debuted sometime around the extreme late 60s/early 70s (I guessed the Concorde) and Goodnight Moon being an utmost staple of my wee-one-hood (guessed Charlie And The Chocolate Factory).

My remembering/nabbing James Boswell was all thanks to Sherlock Holmes..."I am lost without my Boswell.", referring to Dr. Watson and his chronicling Holmes' cases.

Letter S for Slavs on Friday's FJ.

"When in Slobovia, do like the other Slavs do, I always say."

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:43 pm
by cthulhu
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Instaget FJs all week. Goodnight Moon was a favorite of my kids, as was another of her books, Wait Till the Moon Is Full. There's also a black humored parody of Goodnight Moon called Goodnight Keith Moon at http://www.goodnightkeithmoon.com/welcome (not for kids).

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 12:16 am
by dhkendall
Said "What are the Sami or Lapps" on Friday so checked both boxes. :D

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 1:14 am
by Lefty
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I have never read "Goodnight Moon", but then, I only got around to "Little Prince" in my forties. I'll make "Goodnight Moon" my fifties project.

I'm sorry to see there's apparently no Jacques Cousteau, Jr. carrying on the tradition. Makes me wonder "why bother?"

I'm the right age for "Entebbe". I remember the competing pair of (TV?) movies.

My response to the $2000 "Curves" question was "tl;dr".

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:31 am
by dinghammer
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Almost precalled Sami but couldn't think of what the clue might be.

Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 8:08 pm
by Carpe Diem
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Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:14 am
by Linear Gnome
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Secret Garden on Tuesday, for lack of anything better--only previous exposure to Goodnight Moon was the recent LL reference. Probably should have gotten Seychelles on Wednesday. Got a bit lucky guessing Lapps on Friday. Clammed on the "curves" clue.

Caught up again, for the time being.

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Re: FJs for the 7/3/17 week

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:38 pm
by ClosingTime
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Concorde on Monday
Where the Sidewalk Ends on Tuesday