FJs for the 5/20/19 week

[MarkBarrett]

5/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NAME THE FRENCH AUTHOR

5/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
"I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense"

5/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
POETRY & THE MOVIES

5/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars

5/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY

5/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863

5/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
JAZZ CLASSICS

5/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington’s home in Harlem

5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AROUND THE USA

5/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA’s first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Emile Zola
Glory
Virginia
"Take the 'A' Train"
Sun Valley

The players were 10/13 (76.92%) with a 2-3-2-2-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have three correct by the players.

STOCK SYMBOLS $1000: Appropriately, the stock symbol for Sotheby's auction house is this 3-letter verb

ACRONYMS & INITIALISM $1000: The SWAT team has arrived bearing these, the S-W in its name

TEST YOUR MUSCLE MEMORY $2000: Muscles that help move this body part include the flexor pollicis longus & the extensor pollicis brevis

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

BID
special weapons
thumb

[MarkBarrett]

Zenger after doing Emil
Seen Glory
Yes, have heard a version of "Take the 'A' Train".

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

[seaborgium]

Unfortunately for me, the video game magazine GamePro published special side issues titled "S.W.A.T." that each laid bare a single game, and it stood for "secret weapons and tactics" there, and somehow at some point I thought it stood for "strategies, weapons, areas, and tactics" in that context. As a result I sometimes think SWAT teams' S stands for "strategic" or "strategies." And indeed that's what happened when I faced that clue.

The word "resort" on Friday made me think of hotels, and I had a brief detour to Comfort Inn, with its sun logo. But then I read the clue more carefully, and I briefly thought of Sundance before remembering that's in Utah. Then I recalled Sun Valley, which is also the name of an area not far from me in LA's San Fernando Valley, which causes me to have to stop and think when I read references to Idaho's place, since our Sun Valley is flat and snowless.

[Plactus]

Dreyfus (sigh), The Thin Red Line, no guess

Have not seen Glory
I... took a college class on jazz. I'm sure I heard "Take the 'A' Train" there. I wouldn't recognize it now, but I'm not clicking the "never listened to it" box.
Sun Valley is unfamiliar.

[DBear]

In Denver the A-Train takes you from Union Station downtown to DIA.

thumbs down on the last clue.

[StevenH]

I mean, I had heard of "Sun Valley" but I couldn't have told you where it was.

[floridagator]

Lawrence Welk once introduced that song by saying, "And now here's the band playing 'Take a Train.'"

Does anyone think that answer would have been accepted on Jeopardy!?

[alietr]

While James is good, I went back and looked, and I'm 21/25 over the last five weeks, which is well above my typical get rate. The FJs have been trending much easier lately.

[ElendilPickle]

[Volante]

Thu - Bupkis. I wouldn't have gotten it if you spotted me "What is Take the _ Train?"

[Ironhorse]

Friday - Hailey, Idaho

[Leander]

Seen Glory

[Foretopman]

In the now lost first draft of Hamlet, Hamlet tells Ophelia "Get thee to a nunnery." Ophelia asks how she should get there. Hamlet says "take thee a train"

[BaneWilliams]

Not being American always has its faults when it comes to FJ’s, which are predominantly America centric.

I knew those bones had to do with the hand, but had no idea to which digit.

[cthulhu]

All instagets except Sun Valley, which took me about half the think music.

[CasketRomance]

Not being American always has its faults when it comes to FJ’s, which are predominantly America centric.

I knew those bones had to do with the hand, but had no idea to which digit.

or being from the country and don't really care about the history, geography, politics, or just about anything academic

[TenPoundHammer]

No guess on the missed ones. "Glory" was unfamiliar.

I knew "Take the 'A' Train" but "Take Five" was blocking all the mental paths even though I knew it was wrong.

[CasketRomance]

No guess on the missed ones. "Glory" was unfamiliar.

I knew "Take the 'A' Train" but "Take Five" was blocking all the mental paths even though I knew it was wrong.

was the only one i got right

[davey]

I must have been asleep - or dazed - for those first 2 extras. I would never have gotten thumb...