FJs for the 3/19/12 week

[MarkBarrett]

3/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MOVIE DIRECTORS

3/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
On visiting RKO in 1939, he described the studio as the biggest electric train set any boy ever had

3/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HISTORICAL FACTS & FIGURES

3/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This site was active from 1892 to 1954; its busiest day was April 17, 1907 when 11,747 were processed

3/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FAMOUS NAMES

3/21 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
At his death in January 2010, he was called "the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous"

3/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
STATE NICKNAMES

3/22 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Its nickname is said to come from a line in an 1899 speech that followed "Frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me"

3/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
TOYS & GAMES

3/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1953 the maker of this board game was flooded with letters with ideas for timing devices, turntables, & bags to hold game pieces

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

Orson Welles
Ellis Island
J.D. Salinger
Missouri
Scrabble

The players were 7/9 (80.00%) with a 3-3-1-3-2 success pattern.

The extra clues have two correct by the players sandwiching a triple stumper.

BY GEORGE $1600: The novel "Silas Marner"

I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD $1000: Dethroned in 1952, this king of Egypt died of a heart attack in 1965 at age 45

SIR WALTER SCOTT $1000: Scott's novel "Kenilworth" contains the scene involving a mud puddle, a cloak & these 2 personages

Correct responses in spoiler box:

Spoiler

George Eliot
King Farouk
Queen Elizabeth I & Sir Walter Raleigh

Requested clue - "SQ"SES, "SQ"SES $1000: Easily made to feel sick

Squeamish was the expected response. Squeasy was originally ruled incorrect but later accepted as correct.

[MarkBarrett]

Judges say okay, good enough for me

[Paucle]

Wow- had I known Farouk (I can't even remember my incorrect answer) I'd've had a plu-perfect week! All correct, and a poll suggestion accepted!

[Spaceman Spiff]

OK with the call, figure they had a chance to check it out (and another example of a badly written clue, seeminly prevalent as of late).

And after last week's horrid FJ showing, came up with a clean sweep.

[dhkendall]

For some reason, I thought the FJ response on Monday had to be a boy in 1939 that later went on to direct. The only famous boy in 1939 I could come up with was Mickey Rooney.

Pleased I followed a 5/5 with a 4/5 week, though.

Clammed all the rest, I knew the last king of Egypt was dethroned in 1952, but his name wasn't coming tome.

Like the others so far, the judges are wiser than we are, if they found evidence that "squeasy" is acceptable, then that's good enough for me.

[davey]

WAGged Arizona and The Game of Life on Thurs and Fri - both clues were eminently guessable (I used to have a Scrabble tile bag)...
I knew the story about Queen Bess but I couldn't remember who the gentleman was - I said Francis Drake.
"Squeasy" is in dictionaries - I don't know how anyone can object once that's pointed out.

[Volante]

Had nothin for Scrabble. Think I went with 'Perfection' but I wouldn't know how a turntable would have applied.

I'm giving myself credit for 'Raleigh'...I only managed to blurt out 'Raleigh and the queen' before the contestant started speaking, but I figure I'd've gotten BMSed.

Fine with squeasy, there's plenty of references to it.

[Andromus]

Said Hitchcock on Monday, Updike on Wednesday. OK with squeasy.

[seaborgium]

No problem with squeasy. The word exists and fit the category and clue.

[goforthetie]

Darn you for picking toughies this week, Mark. Not squeasy about "squeasy".

[econgator]

Fine with 'squeasy'.

[StevenH]

Another disaster of a week for me.

Monday: Lucky guess from the year.
Tuesday: Honestly, I am surprised that so many people got this one. I had absolutely no idea what that "11,747" was supposed to refer to. I tried to look for a TOM in the specific date but all I could think of was tax day, so that was no help.
Wednesday: blanked. I don't think that it was a great clue but I had no excuse for missing it. The "not wanting to be famous" part made me think more in terms of people who might have been a little shy, as opposed to total hermits.
Thursday: The quote got me to the "show me state" but I couldn't remember what state that was.
Friday: Instant get.

Farouk was at the tip of my tongue.

I don't know enough about the squeasy thing to have an opinion, so I didn't vote, but I would probably trust the judges.

I am probably in the minority on this one, but honestly, I thought that this week of FJ clues was pretty crappy. On a happier note I thought that the three extra clues that Mark picked were all excellent ones.

[TenPoundHammer]

No idea on Monday-Thursday. Not even an educated guess. Not even an ex-recto.

I knew Farouk's name, damn it.

[cinemaniax7]

I'm surprised J. D. Salinger is doing so poorly in the poll. Didn't anyone read Shoeless Joe?

[bpmod]

I'm surprised J. D. Salinger is doing so poorly in the poll. Didn't anyone read Shoeless Joe?

No. I only saw the movie.

Brian

[DBear]

Inverse of last week



As pretty much the originator of the squeasy controversy, I just reacted "is that a real word?" and with good reason. The word is obsolete at best, and does not appear in most contemporary dictionaries. It does appear in some unabridged ones, and the definition fits the clue, so the judges had to go with that in the end.

[Sage on the Hudson]

I'm surprised J. D. Salinger is doing so poorly in the poll. Didn't anyone read Shoeless Joe?

I'm surprised J. D. Salinger is doing so poorly in the poll. Didn't anyone read Shoeless Joe?

No. I only saw the movie.

Brian

Nowadays, everybody thinks his name was Terence Mann, and that he was black.

[harrumph]

My first 5 for 5 week in a while (I surely needed it after a string of 1 for 5s), missed the perfecto for the sake of spacing on the Silas Marner pavlov.

[happybooker]

I missed the squezy call.

[nserven]

'Squeasy' is okay, it's just rare and perhaps obsolete.

Cannot believe I couldn't come up with Salinger. (And yes, I read Shoeless Joe.)
For the Walter Scott clue I could only come up with "the knight and the maiden."