FJs for the 2/24/20 week

[MarkBarrett]

2/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MUSIC STARS

2/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
On July 26, 1972 he testified before a Senate subcommittee on national penitentiaries

2/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FAST FOOD

2/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This sandwich was 1st sold in 1962 as an attempt to give the many Catholics of Cincinnati something to eat on Fridays during Lent

2/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SCIENCE WORDS

2/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1611 Kepler used this word from the Latin for "attendant" to describe the discoveries of Galileo

2/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
18th CENTURY AMERICA

2/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The first Census, in 1790, listed 24 urban places; this port was the most populous one in the South

2/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE CIVIL WAR

2/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The Chicago Tribune called Clement Vallandigham, an anti-war Ohio Democrat, a "traitor" & a "hissing" one of these creatures

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Johnny Cash
Filet-O-Fish
satellite
Charleston
Copperhead

The players were 9/15 (60.00%) with a 2-3-1-2-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have requested triple stumpers sandwiching a semi-requested correct Daily Double.

FAIRY TALE POLICE REPORT $400: "Open & shut. He admitted to killing Cock Robin, in cold blood with bow & arrow"

THAT'S SO 500 YEARS AGO! $1600 box DD: One of the largest religious complexes ever built, this temple dedicated to Vishnu was mostly abandoned by 1431

LITERARY LEE $1200: Children's author Virginia Lee Burton created "Mike Mulligan and His" this digging machine

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

the Sparrow
Angkor Wat
a steam shovel

[MarkBarrett]

I have never eaten a Filet-O-Fish. (Cheeseburger on the other hand...)
Jovian

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

[econgator]

Just had a Filet o Fish today, as a matter of fact.

[Volante]

Thu - Savannah

Decided to have a Filet O'Fish for the first time last week. *makes so-so hand gesture* I wouldn't go back for another, but wouldn't turn one down.

[Leander]

Have had a couple of Filet O Fish sandwiches in my time

[seaborgium]

I was looking for an adjective on Wednesday (I have a pet peeve for nouns being said to "describe" the thing they merely refer to), and I guess I'm bad on Atlantic ports in the South.

I am aware of the existence of the Cock Robin poem, and I know the sparrow has been implicated in J! clues previously, but the phrasing of the clue kept me from figuring out that I could solve it by finding a rhyme for "arrow."

[Carpe Diem]

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[Robert K S]

The inclusion in the poll of two questions for a binary choice should give us some information about how many poll-takers ignore the lower questions. Right now the numbers add up but will that stay the case?

[DBear]

NHOI on the children's book.
I have eaten a Filet-o:-Fish, but I couldn't tell you the last time I've done so.

[TenPoundHammer]

I have eaten a Filet o' Fish.

[Plactus]

No answer (I was trying to think of an adjective); Savannah.

The inclusion in the poll of two questions for a binary choice should give us some information about how many poll-takers ignore the lower questions. Right now the numbers add up but will that stay the case?

Well, there's a third option. I have no idea if I've eaten a Filet-O-Fish or not. Certainly not in the last ~30 years.

[Lefty]

Merle Haggard on Monday. I figured he'd died reasonably recently and deserved a valedictory FJ appearance (Breaking--not all that recently, in fact).

Unfamiliar with that children's book author and never very good with tools.

No specific memory of eating a Filet O' Fish, but I assume I must have, because I haven't set out consciously to avoid it.

I first learned of Cock Robin and Sparrow here:

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...later sort of reinforced by Byron's lines on Keats in "Don Juan".

[ilcap]

Instantly went with New Orleans on Thursday without giving it a second thought, based on an LL question from not that long ago.

Never heard of the Cock Robin nursery rhyme nor the steam shovel book.

[ElendilPickle]

[True North]

[cthulhu]

Savannah instead of Charleston.
Snake, not copperhead.
I remember my mom reading the steam shovel book to me, and I read it to my son too.

[AFRET CMS]

Couldn't pull Copperhead in time; for some reason I thought it was more associated with the 1820s or so. Had no idea Angkor Wat was associated with Vishnu, but "large religious complex abandoned six hundred years ago" was pretty telling, as was "steam shovel" for "a digging machine in a kid's book."

I'm sure I've eaten a filet-o-fish. But I couldn't tell you when. Decades ago, I'm thinking.

[twelvefootboy]

Whenever I found myself at McD's, I used to eat Filet-O-Fish to avoid the hamburgers but now have traded them for chicken nuggets to avoid the carbs in the bun. But I thought they were pretty decent.

I got the copperhead from one of the two 2019 J! appearances (courtesy Mark B:

Spoiler

#8096, aired 2019-11-18 WAR STORIES $1600: "Copperhead" by Bernard Cornwell
#8047, aired 2019-09-10 NAME-CALLING IN POLITICS $1000: Northerners against the Civil War embraced this beastly nickname & cut the heads out of Liberty pennies to wear as badges

. I NHO this nugget before. I would have not guessed it without the recent exposure. I highly doubt that copperheads hiss. What makes them dangerous is they freeze and hide instead of running away like other snakes. Then they accidentally get stepped on. But, 2/3rds of snakebites to humans is from trying to handle the snake .

The satellite clue stopped my second ever box of Glory and should have been a wheelhouse category. Great get by MacKenzie and it is polling under 55% as expected (but not in the 30's).

[SenseiCAY]

Rough week, culminating in me thinking that Clement Vallandigham was a "hissing donkey."