FJs for the 7/16/18 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 7/16/18 week?

Poll ended at Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:49 pm

In 1513 the son of a local chief told this man, when you cross the mountains, "You shall see another sea"
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52%
The unfinished Victory over America Palace & the rundown Victory over Iran Palace are in this city
121
95%
The last election in which both major party candidates were former state governors was in this year
76
59%
Earning its director the first of many Oscar nominations, this 1977 film had the working title “Watch the Skies”
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77%
Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon’s innovations inspired this 1932 novel
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65%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
30
23%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJ! clues.
1
1%
THE BOUNCY CASTLE $1000: In 1492 Catholic forces seized this Granada fortress & its castle from the Moors
70
55%
COMPOSERS $2000: "The Old Castle" is one of the artworks on which Mussorgsky based this musical work
50
39%
A LITTLE SCIENCE $800: The name of a Russian scientist gives us this adjective for an unthinking reaction
100
78%
I missed the Wednesday FJ! clue guessing a presidential election year prior to 1980.
8
6%
I missed the Wednesday FJ! clue guessing a presidential election year after 1980.
41
32%
I was 4/5 on the week's FJ! clues only missing the Wednesday FJ! clue.
9
7%
I have seen the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
72
56%
I have read the book "Brave New World."
51
40%
 
Total votes: 128

Plactus
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :( :mrgreen:

Vasco de Gama as the only name I could come up with that I even remotely liked.

Seen Close Encounters, read Brave New World (can't imagine getting Friday's clue otherwise).
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
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:( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Bolivar on Monday, 1984 on Wednesday. I have seen Close Encounters... but have not read Brave New World. I didn't know the Ford connection, just kind of got lucky.

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


Can't remember my last superfecto. I don't know whether to die happily or apply to stand at stud.
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John Boy wrote: Mon Jul 23, 2018 1:01 pm :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:


Can't remember my last superfecto. I don't know whether to die happily or apply to stand at stud.
I had seen your post of 5/5 and specifically had you in mind when I included the Composers clue as one of the extras as I know that's your area. If you had lost the superfecto for Pavlovian or the Alhambra then that would have been on you for letting gettable clues get by you. Glad to see the 8 smileys for you.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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:( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :(

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

Toughest FJ for me was Balboa; all of the rest were instagets.

I know Pictures at an Exhibition because of my hi-fi aficionado background (but I am NOT an audiophool); for years, a Telarc recording of that piece was a standard piece to show off a good stereo system. I have read BNW, more than once, but in the dystopian novel category, I still prefer Zamyatin’s We over BNW and 1984. I don’t really consider Animal Farm to be a dystopian novel; it’s a bitter allegorical satire.
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:( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Sorry for the bump, but I never got around to posting my results for this week (which I try to do faithfully now that poll votes are private), and want to get it done before the new season starts.
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