With 75 responses, Leadville is polling at 35%. I hereby withdraw my objection and will try to remember this factoid. (Well, I would have done that second bit in any event.) Setting aside quibbles over ore vs. metal, I'd say the clue is fair and well-constructed.
Streisand occurred to me pretty quickly on Tuesday and I was pretty sure it was right. I forced myself to keep thinking and did come up with Cher, which didn't seem as good a fit. I can see thinking of Cher first and feeling happy with that. But I'm surprised so many boardies said they thought of both possibilities and went with Cher.
Nick Charles is polling at 25%, so even tougher than Leadville but still, I think, fair. I'm not the best judge of that, though, since I know my Hammett and Chandler (and Doyle, for that matter). This area seems to be a common lacuna in contestant knowledge. I'll say again that it's worth rectifying the omission if you don't know these gentlemen and their works. Hammett's
The Maltese Falcon is an absolute classic--perhaps the best detective fiction novel ever written. And if you know the San Francisco area, it can be fun on that level too as you follow Spade up and down those mean streets.
The Thin Man is an extremely enjoyable read as well. And in both cases, the film versions are outstanding, with
Falcon in particular being one of the best films ever made.
Chandler didn't fare as well on film. (Really, the best representation of his work is
Double Indemnity which he helped script based on a novel by James M. Cain. Fantastic flick.)
The Big Sleep is a pretty good movie and a very good novel. The other must-read Chandler/Marlowe novel is
The Long Goodbye. But if you end up watching and liking the film version with Elliott Gould, it will be for entirely unrelated reasons.
Farewell, My Lovely is also great but less helpful to a Jeopardy! contestant. Its film versions aren't particularly distinguished either, though the one with Robert Mitchum at least did a good job casting the lead. The ideal Philip Marlowe, though, would have been Harrison Ford in the 1980s. He looked like the man Chandler described. And he had an unmatched ability to play a man who was cynical and world-weary without having given up on the idea that there was a right thing to do and he intended to do it. Bogie always gave the impression that he might be corruptible, given the right inducement. This made him great for Spade but less ideal (though still quite good) for Marlowe. Harrison Ford would have been better able to portray the man Chandler described when he said, "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.... He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world." It's a pity no one ever tried to make a Marlowe pic with Ford as the lead. I'd gladly move to a universe with no Indiana Jones sequels in order to see that. Oh well. At least there's
Blade Runner.
As for Arthur Conan Doyle, just pick up
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and read the first story or two. If you don't like them, you're hopeless and will just have to learn these bits of trivia the hard way. But I think you'll like them.
Vichy took a while to get to, for some reason. But every aspect of the clue led there, so I don't think I was going to miss it.
And of course suffrage was the immediately obvious guess on Friday. I couldn't think of a second guess that was remotely as good. The 93% get rate should (but won't) satisfy the poster who requested a citation for the claim that the clue had a big red arrow pointing to this response.
I've seen Latinx before but assumed it was a product for keeping Romans off my windshield.
SEC was the obvious guess. I fell for the Henry VIII neg. Note that I'm not claiming it was negBAIT, just that it was a plausible guess for someone who didn't have quite the necessary info. Though I've seen the Branagh version of Henry V, I did not remember that Emma Thompson's character was named Katherine. I figured her name would've been much more Frenchy and that steered me away from V and toward VIII.
I was actually just curious how many boardies actually WATCH the Pro Bowl, not whether anyone's actually been in person. Still, it's interesting to discover that one of us has.