Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
37 R
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: North Dakota, Lumiere Brothers
Other of my gets include Alex Cross, Dag Hammarskjold, and Beer Hall Putsch
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: North Dakota, Lumiere Brothers
Other of my gets include Alex Cross, Dag Hammarskjold, and Beer Hall Putsch
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Loved the briefly rocky start as a follow-up to yesterday.
I think Ryan benefited from J!'s generosity on foreign pronunciations. Sounded like he said Beer Hall Pushed to me.
Mrs. Penguin was on fire from the fourth podium today. She wishes she'd recorded her Coryat. Since she didn't, you'll have to take my word for it.
Pre-called Ulysses off the FJ category. So the correct response was in nearby brain space. I didn't like it so I tried to think of something else. Happily, I couldn't.
I think Ryan benefited from J!'s generosity on foreign pronunciations. Sounded like he said Beer Hall Pushed to me.
Mrs. Penguin was on fire from the fourth podium today. She wishes she'd recorded her Coryat. Since she didn't, you'll have to take my word for it.
Pre-called Ulysses off the FJ category. So the correct response was in nearby brain space. I didn't like it so I tried to think of something else. Happily, I couldn't.
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Don't forget the other Beauty & the Beast connection in this game:
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The Lumière Brothers.
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
I like a connection of Pan-Peter Pan better than the actual correct response. I would never think of Daedalus as embodying flight - to me he embodies failed invention! (I know, it was the son's fault, but still, Icarus falling is the dominant image from that story, no?...) Also, Stephen Dedalus is not one of the more unburdened characters in literature...mxc_takeshi wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:59 pm 34 right.
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I was thinking of Icarus, but guessed Peter Pan because I was also thinking of Pan, but that probably wasn't a good guess. Once Alex mentioned James Joyce, I thought Ulysses, so I was wrong on all counts.
I guess I'm guilty of overthinking this one, because even after Alex revealed the author I was trying to figure how Ulysses fit...
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Your age worked against you there. If you were born before the 1970s, you couldn't NOT know about Jacques Cousteau. (Well, obviously you COULD, but it's unlikely you'd have grown up to be interested in Jeopardy!)TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:33 pm I've heard of the name Jacques Cousteau but had literally no idea who he even was.
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Bonus question: Where in the United States did The Flying Nun take place?dinghammer wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:13 pm I got as far as "Well it's not The Flying Nun, because that already came up..."
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
I got stuck on Icarus and tried to think of something with a character by that name or maybe even Ichabod. Headslap on seeing Daedalus!
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If I'd gotten the FJ right I'd probably be more amused to learn that the analysis quoted is from SparkNotes...
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitartist/motifs/
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/portraitartist/motifs/
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Backup answer for FJ: Isadora Wing. But I didn't think they'd go there.
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Shame people don't know about that, North Dakota is right to push the Peace Gardens in its state nickname and license plates, the Peace Gardens is one of my top favourite places to visit in a day trip, I try to go every year.
Could do worse, Phileas (Phineas?) Fogg isn't even a twentieth-century creation!
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
I have a Museum of the US Air Force (a phenomenal museum, by the way) t-shirt, so no way was I missing it.Cat Hammarskjold wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:49 pm As someone who has spent most of his life living in a bedroom community of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, I was wondering if you could poll that $200 question that they all missed. Also, given how often clues about him end up as a TS, I'm glad that Ryan got the Dag Hammarskjold clue.
FJ, on the other hand? No way was I getting it. I guessed Pegasus just to say something. I've vaguely heard of Stephen Daedalus.
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
R: 23, W: 3, costing 3400
Coryat: 13,400
FJ:
DD: 1/3
LT: darken, Three Rivers Stadium
I really need to stop guessing on clues that are based on knowing French. "Mardi Gras" is not a good answer for some other phrase in French.
In playing along, I ended up with the champ on Icarus. Mythology and flying (and an assumption of a human character rather than a non- or part-human creature based on the recent novel) got me there. For someone who only knows a smattering of Greek and Roman mythology, I'll take it as a decent guess.
Coryat: 13,400
FJ:
DD: 1/3
LT: darken, Three Rivers Stadium
I really need to stop guessing on clues that are based on knowing French. "Mardi Gras" is not a good answer for some other phrase in French.
In playing along, I ended up with the champ on Icarus. Mythology and flying (and an assumption of a human character rather than a non- or part-human creature based on the recent novel) got me there. For someone who only knows a smattering of Greek and Roman mythology, I'll take it as a decent guess.
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Hey, you were only one day off.Peter the accountant wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2018 11:14 pm"Mardi Gras" is not a good answer for some other phrase in French.
No guess on FJ! I considered Daedalus, Icarus, and Pegasus, but couldn't connect any of them with a character and the idea of picking a mythological name and hoping for the best didn't occur to me. (Daedalus is the one I wouldn't have chosen anyway.)
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
I was kind of rooting for Brandey as a fellow Sho-Me Stater and next door neighbor to the best darn Penguin on the board. But Ryan went big and they went home. I suspect he is just getting broken in to the buzzer and the game play and he may be a bulldozer.
IMHO this is about the suckiest FJ clue since I've been paying attention. What's with the category title and the quote of some random critic who is just being pretentious? End of rant. My girl Brandey got it so it must make sense to smart, literate people, not us redneck beatniks
I did guess Icarus just to name a flying mythological dude and not the Phoenix, but by the TOM in the clue, I would have guessed Flighty McFlightface.
IMHO this is about the suckiest FJ clue since I've been paying attention. What's with the category title and the quote of some random critic who is just being pretentious? End of rant. My girl Brandey got it so it must make sense to smart, literate people, not us redneck beatniks
I did guess Icarus just to name a flying mythological dude and not the Phoenix, but by the TOM in the clue, I would have guessed Flighty McFlightface.
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
You're not the only one.
I got FJ fairly quickly. I tried thinking of novels with mythology-themed titles and Ulysses managed to pop into my head pretty quickly. From there I made it to Daedalus.
I'm liking Ryan so far, he seems to have a very good knowledge base. It wouldn't surprise me if he put together a winning streak of his own, and I'll be rooting for him to do so.
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
It must be nice to be able to change your DD wager after the clue gets revealed...
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Wow, I'm impressed so many people got that FJ correct. Even had I thought of Icarus and Daedalus I don't think I would have recalled a literary character named Daedalus. That seems awfully obscure to me. So my FJ streak ends at 12 factorial.
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
I was gonna say, how often does this happen? I thought they were strict on that.buckeyebrain wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2018 12:52 amIt must be nice to be able to change your DD wager after the clue gets revealed...
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Re: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Literature and mythology are among my two best categories, which I regularly and easily sweep, and I've read Ulysses...and I didn't get this FJ.
I'm not a fan of the clue, since it's so general and open-ended. When "20th century novels" came up, there was an overload of hundreds of famous works that I've read that flooded through my head. And naturally, I thought of works that involved flying.
Now yes, I should have thought of this from the mythology aspect, which might have been enough to come up with "Daedalus" and "Icarus", after which I would go "aha! The former is the main character of Ulysses!" However, even that is general and open-ended, as I could have thought of Helios, Hermes, Pegasus, Bellerophon, or a SLEW of others.
So even if you know all the relevant trivia, it's a coin flip on whether you cycle through everything JUST fast enough to get what the writers are going for, or whether you stumble upon something else. I hate that. Jeopardy already has a bunch of luck elements that could allow a much weaker trivia player to beat a stronger one. They don't need FJs like this to add to that.
I'm not a fan of the clue, since it's so general and open-ended. When "20th century novels" came up, there was an overload of hundreds of famous works that I've read that flooded through my head. And naturally, I thought of works that involved flying.
Now yes, I should have thought of this from the mythology aspect, which might have been enough to come up with "Daedalus" and "Icarus", after which I would go "aha! The former is the main character of Ulysses!" However, even that is general and open-ended, as I could have thought of Helios, Hermes, Pegasus, Bellerophon, or a SLEW of others.
So even if you know all the relevant trivia, it's a coin flip on whether you cycle through everything JUST fast enough to get what the writers are going for, or whether you stumble upon something else. I hate that. Jeopardy already has a bunch of luck elements that could allow a much weaker trivia player to beat a stronger one. They don't need FJs like this to add to that.