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FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:50 pm
by MarkBarrett
9/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ROCK LEGENDS
9/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A new studio album in 2020 gave him a Top 5 album in 6 consecutive decades, his first in 1975
9/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE CONTINENTS
9/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It's the only continent with its mainland lying in all 4 hemispheres as defined by the equator & the prime meridian
9/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
MYTHOLOGY
9/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The Hippocrene Spring, sacred to the Muses, was so named because this offspring of Medusa brought it into being
9/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
9/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A 2000 Library of Congress exhibit called this 1900 work "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale"
10/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN HISTORY
10/1 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil
Correct responses in spoiler box:
(Bruce) Springsteen
Africa
Pegasus
The Wizard of Oz
San Francisco
The players were 8/15 (53.33%) with a 1-3-1-2-1 success pattern.
The extra clues have three that Matt got correct.
ELECTORAL COLLEGE COLLAGE $2000: Maine & this Midwestern state are the 2 that don't have winner-take-all electoral vote policies
JACK $1600: This titan of comic book art collaborated with Stan Lee to create the Fantastic Four & many more
SCIENCE $2000: It's the common term for animals of the order Lagomorpha
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Nebraska
Jack Kirby
rabbits
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:50 pm
by MarkBarrett
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:51 pm
by LucarioSnooperVixey
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:58 pm
by Plactus
×8
I thought my streak would end at 9 on Monday, but I got a lucky guess.
Aswan High Dam.
I did include Wonderful. My first two thoughts were British works (
Alice and
Peter), but I knew that so dismissed both.
I've been to Palo Alto, but that's as far north as I got. No earthquakes.
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:59 pm
by Volante
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 7:59 pm
by Ironhorse
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:10 pm
by Leander
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:19 pm
by DBear
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:22 pm
by squarekara
I'm a SoCal native, but San Francisco is my favorite city. ❤
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:24 pm
by pdano
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 8:36 pm
by davey
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 9:27 pm
by TenPoundHammer
This should have been a 4/5 at worst, but I just kept misfiring.
Didn't know that Springsteen released anything in the 21st century.
Got the prime merdian and international date line mixed up and stalled out.
"Offspring of Medusa" had me stuck in humanoid forms and not ever considering Pegasus.
Thursday, I took "Fairy tale" too literally and couldn't shift from Hans Christian Andersen/Grimm Brothers, neither of whom are American.
Misheard "hoseman" as "horseman", which distracted me from fully taking the date in.
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:07 pm
by trainman
Not only have I experienced an earthquake in San Francisco, I was at the stadium currently known as Oracle Park for one. It was very minor (didn't stop play or anything), and the organist followed it up by playing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" during the next break between innings.
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 10:54 pm
by RetiredDoc
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 12:53 am
by seaborgium
My first genuine 5/5 of the season. (I voted 5/5 for the first week, but I was spoiled on the season premiere and gave it to myself to preserve the absence of FJ negs I had.)
I didn't neg at all, let alone with a non-American's work, on Thursday, but I did give Beatrix Potter more consideration than I ought to have done, and it wasn't nationality that caused me to rule her out, but rather my deciding the "fairy tale" label didn't quite apply to her work. I kept the wizard unmodified in my response.
I was beaten to it before I could formulate my response, but I think my thought process was leading me to name the dam instead of the lake, so I voted Aswan.
I've set foot in San Francisco on several occasions thanks to a handful of choir trips since 2004. No earthquakes, though. (And no SFO, actually; the 2004 trip was exclusively by bus, and I believe we flew into and out of San Jose on the others.)
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 6:44 am
by alietr
I assumed you meant the San Francisco area, as opposed to San Francisco proper, and responded accordingly.
The first time, I was at Apple's HQ, and someone came up to us as we exited a building and asked, "Did you feel it?" I did not.
The second time, we were in Redwood City and it happened in the middle of the night and woke us both up. I knew immediately what was going on, but my wife woke up and asked me why I was jumping on the bed. Unfortunately, I can't say that was a completely unreasonable question.
And then there was the DC earthquake (which admittedly isn't responsive to Mark's poll). I definitely felt that one.
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 7:56 am
by mahatma
alietr wrote: ↑Sun Oct 03, 2021 6:44 am
And then there was the DC earthquake (which admittedly isn't responsive to Mark's poll). I
definitely felt that one.
Heck, I felt
that one in Manhattan.
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 10:27 am
by Bartleby
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2021 8:05 pm
by Jeffreygallup
I experienced the 1957 earthquake in San Francisco (oddly, it was a 5.7 on the Richter scale). It was described as minimal damage- only one death. What I remember most was that my instinct was to run outside, but the earthquake jammed the door in its frame and so I couldn't escape.
I also experienced a 5.9 earthquake in Bangkok in 1975. Earthquakes were so rarely felt in Bangkok that an elderly Thai colleague said (I'm showing off a bit here) "phom khit waa, phom mai sabaay"- "I thought I wasn't well", to generalized laughter.
I overthought the Wizard of Oz final - thought it was too obvious and picked "Babe and the Blue Ox"- but that's a Paul Bunyan story, not a book, and predates the Wizard of Oz.
Re: FJs for the 9/27/21 week
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:27 am
by twelvefootboy