FJs for the 10/30/17 week

[MarkBarrett]

10/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
19th CENTURY LITERATURE

10/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This 1870 novel has a ship whose name is from the Greek for "sailor" & a captain whose name is Latin for "no one"

10/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LETTER PERFECT

10/31 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
George Eastman called it "a strong, incisive sort of letter"

11/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE OSCARS

11/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
For 1992, this New Yorker was the first man with 2 acting Oscar nominations in the same year for different films

11/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
U.S. HISTORY

11/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Only 4 men have been both VP & President & served in both houses of Congress; 2 of them shared this last name

11/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD CAPITALS

11/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The world’s highest international airport, at an elevation of over 13,000′, serves this South American capital city

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
K
Al Pacino
Johnson
La Paz

The players were 7/15 (46.67%) with a 1-3-2-1-0 success pattern.

The extra clues have two triple stumpers followed by one the players had correct.

YOU HAVE ME AT A LOSS $2000: In John 18 Simon Peter deftly relieves Malchus of one of these

BUSINESS PAIRINGS $1000: "Purveyors of fine food": ____ & DeLuca

AUTHORS' NEW DIRECTIONS $1600: His third novel, "Mother Night", was his first to abandon science fiction

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

ear
Dean
Kurt Vonnegut

[MarkBarrett]

De Niro
No idea on Dean or Vonnegut

[Plactus]

De Niro; Lima (although I would have said Santiago if I hadn't frozen trying to come up with the capital of Chile)
I was considering between Adams and Roosevelt, and decided that Adams-2 had no chance to be in Congress before being Vice President/President and probably didn't go in afterward either.

[Leander]

Went with DeNiro over Dustin Hoffman. Pacino never occurred to me.

[Volante]

[hbomb1947]

mrgreen:

Playing off the archive for Wednesday's game, Joe Pesci was my guess, without much confidence. Pacino didn't occur to me as a New York actor. I did consider De Niro, but rejected him because I didn't think he had 2 nominated movies that came out in 1992.

[Linear Gnome]

Lucky guess on Monday--would I have had enough time to write it out? Dunno.

DeNiro on Wednesday. Bush on Thursday. Quito on Friday.

32335232, 23-17

[Ironhorse]

Went with Kevin Spacey with zero confidence.

[davey]

Pretty much blanked on Wed.; Fri., La Paz was my second choice, after Quito...
Dean & DeLuca pioneered the purveying of overpriced foodstuffs...Mother Night is a great book.

[seaborgium]

I said Robert Downey, Jr., a New Yorker himself who was up against Pacino for Best Actor that year.

[zerobandwidth]

Rough week.

[ElendilPickle]

[dinghammer]

De Niro.

NHO Jan and Dean and DeLuca or whatever.

[TenPoundHammer]

For once I didn't click the 0/5 box.

[opusthepenguin]

Ouch. First week under .500 this season.

[The Talking Mime]

Lima on Friday. The 5/5 week still eludes me.

[clprez]

I thought I read somewhere that Quito was the highest capital city in SA. Maybe it was from that incorrect WWTBAM question.

[AFRET CMS]

Fri., La Paz was my second choice, after Quito...

La Paz was first thought, but I went with Quito after my brain got into a "La Paz vs Sucre as capital" argument with itself -- and lost.

[Lefty]

Got all but ear (fishing rod), though I'm not certain I'd have had time to write the whole of 20,000 Leagues.....because I only turned to non-English works after rejecting Billy Budd and Treasure Island (Moby Dick was out at once because I remembered 1851).

I remembered there was a controversial MIllionaire question on the general subject, but didn't remember details. LaPaz as highest national capital was a familiar bit of trivia. Though it's tricky with countries with more than one capital.

I go past the Dean & DeLuca in SoHo every day, and I have gone in at least once.

[Ironhorse]

If somebody wrote "20K Leagues Under the Sea", would that have been acceptable?

I think "FDR" has been accepted before.