FJs for the 5/16/22 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 5/16/22 week?

Poll ended at Sun Oct 23, 2022 7:50 pm

The USA's smallest national park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark
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94%
A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean"
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52%
Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly"
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63%
New research suggests a device now called the Archimedes screw helped maintain this one of the 7 Wonders of the World
55
70%
It's referred to as "the blue eye of Siberia"
64
81%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:  I checked all five above.
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24%
:( :( :( :( :(  I missed all the FJ! clues.
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No votes
MILITARY HISTORY $1200: After this lengthy journey in 1935, Mao joined other Red Army soldiers with his surviving troops
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68%
SCIENCE $2000: As the naturalist for Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition in the 1740s, this man described a jay & a sea cow
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23%
LIT BITS $1000: The surname of this Persian astronomer & poet means "tentmaker"
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66%
My correct response for the Monday FJ! clue was St. Louis Arch.
10
13%
My correct response for the Monday FJ! clue was Gateway Arch.
59
75%
I have seen the Arch in person.
40
51%
I have been inside the Arch.
22
28%
Hunter Thompson was my incorrect response for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
5
6%
Salinger was my incorrect response for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
6
8%
For the Wednesday FJ! clue I knew the movie was Breakfast at Tiffany's, but I did not know the song.
13
16%
The Lighthouse (no matter what else you added) was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
12
15%
The Colossus of Rhodes was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
5
6%
 
Total votes: 79

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FJs for the 5/16/22 week

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5/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

5/16 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The USA's smallest national park is a 91-acre site on the Mississippi River, home to this 630-foot landmark

5/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERATURE

5/17 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
A contemporary review of a novel by this man said he "commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean"

5/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
OSCAR-WINNING SONGS

5/18 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Johnny Mercer's lyrics to this 1961 Oscar-winning song once began, "I'm Holly"

5/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE ANCIENT WORLD

5/19 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
New research suggests a device now called the Archimedes screw helped maintain this one of the 7 Wonders of the World

5/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ON THE MAP

5/20 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It's referred to as "the blue eye of Siberia"

Correct responses in spoiler box:
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the St. Louis Arch (the Gateway Arch)
(Jack) Kerouac
"Moon River"
the Hanging Gardens (of Babylon)
Lake Baikal
The players were 6/14 (42.86%) with a 2-1-1-1-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have one correct by the players, a triple stumper and one rebounded correctly.

MILITARY HISTORY $1200: After this lengthy journey in 1935, Mao joined other Red Army soldiers with his surviving troops

SCIENCE $2000: As the naturalist for Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition in the 1740s, this man described a jay & a sea cow

LIT BITS $1000: The surname of this Persian astronomer & poet means "tentmaker"

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
the Long March
Georg Steller
Omar Khayyam
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Gateway Arch
Salinger
No chance on Steller

Watching the Cardinals play baseball on TV is the closest I’ve been to the Arch.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:| :| :mrgreen:

Mon - Gateway
Tue -
Wed -

For some reason Long March felt like it was missing something so I clammed
Recognize Stellar's after the fact. Probably a WWTBAM get, but not a fill in the blank

St Louis is on the list...
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: same pattern as last week
:mrgreen: :? :mrgreen: Guessed Linnaeus, NHO Steller.
I responded "What is the St. Louis Gateway Arch?", so both options checked :geek:
been there, went inside to the top. 8-)
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Steller's sea cow rings a bell, but I couldn't come up with anything. I said Gateway Arch.
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:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Gateway Arch -- have driven past it on I-64/70, but never stopped at it.
Thompson on Tuesday.
Figured Holly was Holly Golightly, but didn't know that BaT had songs in it.
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My vote for "For the Wednesday FJ! clue I knew the movie was Breakfast at Tiffany's, but I did not know the song." is not entirely accurate; I knew the song, I just couldn't retrieve it from my memory in time.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:| :| :mrgreen:

Nothing much to report on my mental processes. Gateway Arch, duh. Kerouac seemed the best guess but not such a great fit that I was sure. I remembered the scene with Audrey Hepburn singing "Moon River" so I didn't need to follow any breadcrumbs. Hanging Gardens and Lake Baikal just made sense.

Didn't remember Long March or the name associated with sea cows and jays. Knew Omar the tentmaker.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :(
:( :( :(

Gateway Arch Monday, never been.
No guesses Wednesday or Friday (knew Wed was from Breakfast at Tiffany's but wasn't getting from there to any song, and I have no recollection of hearing "Moon River" before looking it up after)
Alexandria lighthouse Thursday; dismissed the Hanging Gardens because last I checked there was no clear evidence they were real.
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Plactus wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 10:50 pm dismissed the Hanging Gardens because last I checked there was no clear evidence they were real.
It is one of the 7 Wonders of the World, though, so whether or not it actually existed is irrelevant.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Gateway Arch, although my first thought was St. Louis Arch, was not sure it would have been accepted.
Never been to St. Louis
Totally forgot about the Hanging Gardens, so went with the Lighthouse at Alexandria
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opusthepenguin wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 9:53 pm Knew Omar the tentmaker.
Always thought he was more famous for his red pleasure boat though
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econgator wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 11:02 pm
Plactus wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 10:50 pm dismissed the Hanging Gardens because last I checked there was no clear evidence they were real.
It is one of the 7 Wonders of the World, though, so whether or not it actually existed is irrelevant.
Yep. Also, current theory is they weren't in Babylon, but Ninevah:
https://www.history.com/news/hanging-ga ... in-babylon
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econgator wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 11:02 pm
Plactus wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 10:50 pm dismissed the Hanging Gardens because last I checked there was no clear evidence they were real.
It is one of the 7 Wonders of the World, though, so whether or not it actually existed is irrelevant.
Of course it's relevant. Researchers wouldn't be speculating about how the gardens were maintained if they don't think they existed. This was the one thing that gave me pause before locking in Hanging Gardens as still the most likely response.
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Been awhile since I got three in a week...

Been past the Arch, called it Gateway.

The three I nailed were instagets, esp. Moon River even though I have never seen the movie. I like music with an actual melody and no blasting electric guitars. :)

Looking at the correct response, I probably could have pulled Stellar in a good day... Maybe. Have heard of both animal species, but pulling the name in a few seconds?? Questionable...

I have heard tentmaker = Omar Khayam before, but couldn't pull that in the moment.
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

TWIL that the Gateway Arch is actually on the Mississippi...not just nearby?...also what an Archimedes screw is...not ancient erotica??
My knowledge of the voyages of Vitus Bering is...not Stellar???
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Rackme32 wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 11:38 pm :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Been awhile since I got three in a week...
Congratulations on the quadruple post to get you up to twelve this week :lol:.

My double post frequency has gone down a lot since I learned not to try to stop the upload for last second edits, and to pay attention if your post is still on the screen and you think you haven't pressed the Submit button. I frequently have long delays in loading pages or posts. It's probably the twelvefootfilter the mods have imposed to keep me from dumbing down the board ;) .

I had my first 3 greenies in a while as well:
:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :( :(

St. Louis Arch, per native jargon. I have ridden the washing machine tubs to the top.
I took the ambiguous definition of contemporary and had no idea, I picked Faulkner to have something.
I struggled to get to a Johnny Mathis (instead of Mercer) song. Because of Branson, Moon River is Pavlov for Andy Williams around here.
First instinct was the Gardens, then worried about the Leaning Colossus and the Leaning Lighthouse.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Gateway Arch as my answer; have ridden the rotating elevator car to the top.

Had the Bering Expedition clue said "sea lion" instead of "sea cow," it might have increased my chances of getting Steller from 0% to 2%.
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