Or just, as some of us have said, What detective character active in 1947 and commonly referenced on J! fits with classical allusions?...even if we didn't quite grasp what the allusions were... I'm glad I didn't think, The Cretan Bull...that must be a sequel to The Maltese Falcon!...BigDaddyMatty wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 9:47 pmThis seems like overthinking to me. The majority of FJ!s can be solved by figuring out what the TOM is and why the writers would have included it. Here, if you realize that those are labors of Hercules, the question is, what fictional mystery-solver has a connection to Hercules?twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 1:11 pmThe clue:BigDaddyMatty wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:08 am
What a brilliantly, beautifully constructed FJ! clue.
FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In a 1947 collection he solved 12 mysteries, including “The Cretan Bull” & “The Girdle of Hyppolita”
I'm not a big fan of the clue, mainly the word "collection". Was it a compilation of previous years of work? Did Christie (J! Pavlov) write 12 books in a year? 12 chapters? How do we know the "he" was contemporary to 1947? Were the titles metaphors, or the actual 12 Labors?
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I was thinking the same, and it made me curious about other clues that have also required a lengthy list in the response (eg. "These five continents...", "These eight elements...") Any takers on doing that research?
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The most items required for a correct response that I could find was for a Daily Double in this game that asked for "the only letters of the alphabet used to name notes in current Western musical notation".
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What are A, B, C, D, E, F and G? (I suppose one could shorten it to just "What are A through G?".)
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What are Connecticut, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island?