Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue

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How did you respond to the 3/26/14 FJ! clue?

Poll ended at Wed Oct 15, 2014 8:00 pm

Almonds
15
13%
Raisins
29
25%
Grapes
6
5%
Dates
34
29%
Figs
19
16%
Prunes
4
3%
Plums
15
13%
Olives
2
2%
Pistachios
3
3%
Walnuts
1
1%
Soybeans
1
1%
Peaches
2
2%
Apricots
0
No votes
Nectarines
0
No votes
I made no guess.
4
3%
 
Total votes: 117

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Poll of Responses for the Wednesday, March 26, 2014 FJ! Clue

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Many items were brought up in the Wednesday thread. I tried to round up all the choices. You can pick up to three in case some of you wrote down choices and never crossed off any or something like that.


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3/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Prunus dulcis, this snack high in calcium & vitamin E, is native to the Mideast, but 80% of the world crop comes from Calif.
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I voted for both plums and dates. I think I ended with dates because I thought having prune in the genus just seemed too obvious. Dates seem Middle Eastern but oh well.
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Mark, for the bottom one you could have put, "TPH check this box."
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Checked two boxes--my answer (grapes) and my wife's (dates).

Incidentally, as I was watching one of the 2000s games on Crackle today (Maria Wenglinsky's, I think), there was a clue about fruits of the genus Vitis, which I only got right due to looking up how close my wrong answer to this clue was.
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Bamaman wrote:I voted for both plums and dates. I think I ended with dates because I thought having prune in the genus just seemed too obvious. Dates seem Middle Eastern but oh well.
Definitely stuck as "middle eastern" in my head, with Dromedary Dates jingles from my youth clanking around.

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For once in my life, I gave a fig.
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No box for Gorp?
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Almonds never even crossed my mind.
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I started with olives and did cross it off eventually in favour of figs, but I'm keeping both choices, as I was with olives longer than I was with figs, and I saw no real good reason (other than caprice) to switch.

Like others, would never have guessed almonds (but, in hindsight, not too surprised it was the answer.)
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I had raisins, and I had a derisive tweet cued up to mock them for not knowing it. Boy was my face red!
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If they'd said P. amygdalus I'd have gotten it. That was the name I was taught at U. C. Davis in the 70s. Also, according to the people who grow 80% of the world's supply, almond rhymes with Hammond.
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I said raisins, but wasn't happy about it because they're grapes. Had I thought of dates, that would have been my answer.
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Peggles wrote:Almonds never even crossed my mind.
Even after Alex gave the response, almonds never even crossed my mind.

Seeing the poll results, I feel better about my snarky comment to Debramc.
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My nutritional studies came in handy, with Vit E/Calcium, in combination with Ca/Middle East connection, led me straight to almond. Even then, I wasn't 100% confident. Fortunately, I didn't look too closely at the genus/species, or I could have been swayed (likely would have gone with dates based strictly on that).
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dhkendall wrote:I started with olives and did cross it off eventually in favour of figs, but I'm keeping both choices, as I was with olives longer than I was with figs, and I saw no real good reason (other than caprice) to switch.

Like others, would never have guessed almonds (but, in hindsight, not too surprised it was the answer.)
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alietr wrote:
Peggles wrote:Almonds never even crossed my mind.
Even after Alex gave the response, almonds never even crossed my mind.

Seeing the poll results, I feel better about my snarky comment to Debramc.
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Dates for me; almonds never crossed my mind.
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I said dates and I was probably around 90% confident - but another part of my brain was 90% confident that that it would land in that 10%, if that makes any sense at all, which obviously it doesn't but I'm using it for rhetorical effect.
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Raisins for me...Figured it wasn't prunes, since that would be too obvious. Dulce means sweet, which led me to think of raisins, and was pretty sure if it since I've heard of California raisins. Never would have come up with almonds.
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Dulce does mean sweet, but doesn't it also mean moist, or at least the opposite of dry? Specifically, in French, un vin doux is the opposite of un vin sec (a dry wine). So in the 30 seconds of that Final Jeopardy clue, “prunus” led me straight to dried fruit = raisin (especially paired with California) but then I was thinking, it couldn't be right that you'd refer to dried fruit with a word like dulce.

Of course, as someone pointed out in the other thread, drying out a fruit does not convert it to a different species, so it would not have its own Latin name in that fashion.
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