FJs for the 7/16/18 week

[MarkBarrett]

7/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EXPLORERS

7/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1513 the son of a local chief told this man, when you cross the mountains, "You shall see another sea"

7/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD CAPITAL SIGHTSEEING

7/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The unfinished Victory over America Palace & the rundown Victory over Iran Palace are in this city

7/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

7/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The last election in which both major party candidates were former state governors was in this year

7/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
1970s MOVIES

7/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Earning its director the first of many Oscar nominations, this 1977 film had the working title “Watch the Skies”

7/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FUTURISTIC FICTION

7/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon’s innovations inspired this 1932 novel

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Balboa
Baghdad
1980
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Brave New World

The players were 10/15 (66.67%) with a 1-3-1-3-2 success pattern.

The extra clues have two correct by the players followed by one rebounded correctly.

THE BOUNCY CASTLE $1000: In 1492 Catholic forces seized this Granada fortress & its castle from the Moors

COMPOSERS $2000: "The Old Castle" is one of the artworks on which Mussorgsky based this musical work

A LITTLE SCIENCE $800: The name of a Russian scientist gives us this adjective for an unthinking reaction

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

the Alhambra
Pictures as an Exhibition
Pavlovian

[MarkBarrett]

Mussorgsky clue not gonna happen
No guess on the presidential year that cost me a perfecto.
I've seen the Thursday movie; I've not read the Friday book.

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

[DBear]

Shoulda got this, guessed 1992.
Somehow I keep mixing up Mussorgsky with Mendelssohn.
Yeah, I saw CEot3K. Visited Devil's Tower earlier that summer and I will always remember it came out in 1977.
I read BNW sometime in high school.

[Volante]

Mon - Vespucci, spent too long on Polo before realizing "Panama!" and just couldn't make the right jump in time.
Fri - Nada. While I know a book exists called Brave New World and it was written by Huxley and the title comes from The Tempest...that's it.

Have seen CE3K.
I have a copy of Brave New World from an old "library" work had before they got rid of it...but five years later, still haven't cracked it.

[rmfromfla]

Haven't read Brave New World, but saw the 1998 NBC-TV movie with Leonard Nimoy as controller Mond, and everyone had access to the drug Soma.

[Saturnalia]

I realized Close Encounters was right b/c I was watching with my mother and she wondered about E.T., which made me think of Spielberg. I would not have gotten it otherwise, so I'm counting myself wrong.

I Pavloved to Pavlov, rather than Pavlovian.

[econgator]

Thanks goodness for Tuesday

[davey]

First of these in a while...!
I read Brave New World so long ago, all I remember is Year of Our Ford. So that helped with this FJ...I'm always surprised to remember - as others have said - that it's from the 30s. I'm always reminded when Huxley comes up that he died the same day as C.S. Lewis...and JFK.

[BigDaddyMatty]

Ponce de Leon Monday
Pictures at an Exhibition is one of my proudest gets ever

[Leander]

Have seen Close Encounters. Never read BNW, but was my best guess given the clue parameters.

[Ironhorse]

[TenPoundHammer]

Didn't realize I went 0/5 this week.

[dinghammer]

Can't remember whether I got Pavlovian properly or just on the rebound. I've been playing a lot of Civilization V lately, and I don't think I've ever built Alhambra (EDIT: whoops, that's not true -- turns out I built it in my current game, though it doesn't do much), though I've seen the option to do so many times, and I've seen notifications that other civs have built it.

Seen the movie, read the book.

[MinnesotaMyron]

Pictures at an Exhibition is one of my proudest gets ever

Tom said modestly.

[ElendilPickle]

[Lefty]

I thought Bald Mountain was a promising site for an old castle.

Saw Close Encounters, have not read Brave New World. I think I first learned of the Ford thing from a WWTBAM question.

Maybe some here will remember this wordplay question from the NPR website a few years back: Take a five-letter word that describes a bad smell and run it backwards through a five-letter word that describes a strong smell to get the name of a composer of classical music.

[tiwonge]

This is my first 5/5 since I've started keeping track.

Happy I got my first 5/5 before my first 0/5, but for a while there, I was missing more than I was getting.

(Edit to add that I've seen parts of Close Encounters, but I don't think I've seen the whole thing.)

[Saturnalia]

Pictures at an Exhibition is one of my proudest gets ever

Tom said modestly.

Hah!

[AFRET CMS]

Pictures at an Exhibition is one of my proudest gets ever

Tom said modestly.

You win the board today.