FJs for the 6/26/17 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 6/26/17 week?

Poll ended at Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:50 pm

Later an Oscar winner, she appeared as the child baptized towards the end of "The Godfather"
104
82%
An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content
98
77%
In the 1960s M.T. Lott was one of the fictitious names he used to buy 27,000 acres in Florida
105
83%
Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area
105
83%
Made famous by a 1959 musical, the flower seen here graces a coin of this European country
102
80%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: I checked all five above.
54
43%
:( :( :( :( :( I missed all the FJ! clues.
1
1%
PLACES IN CONTINENTS $800: It's in North America; along with Manitoba & Saskatchewan, it's one of Canada's prairie provinces
111
87%
SCULPTORS & STATUORS $800: Hamilton MacCarthy sculpted Samuel de Champlain with his astrolabe upside down in this world capital
57
45%
PORTUGUESE HISTORY $200: The Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal & Spain dealt with discoveries by this man not born in either country
104
82%
I missed the Monday FJ! clue by guessing someone who was not yet born in 1972.
4
3%
Error code 404 was my incorrect guess for the Tuesday FJ! clue.
11
9%
Prior to the Wednesday show I am 0/3 for having any recognition of "manic pixie dream girl", "microaggressions" or "surrender cobra."
33
26%
Mixing up latitude & longitude caused me to miss the Thursday FJ! clue.
13
10%
Germany or Switzerland was my incorrect guess for the Friday FJ! clue.
9
7%
I correctly solved the Friday FJ! clue without needing to see the image of the coin.
51
40%
 
Total votes: 127

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FJs for the 6/26/17 week

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6/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
OSCAR WINNERS

6/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Later an Oscar winner, she appeared as the child baptized towards the end of "The Godfather"

6/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERARY REFERENCES

6/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content

6/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ENTREPRENEURS

6/28 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In the 1960s M.T. Lott was one of the fictitious names he used to buy 27,000 acres in Florida

6/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NATIONS OF THE WORLD

6/29 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area

6/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
PLANTS

6/30 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Made famous by a 1959 musical, the flower seen here graces a coin of this European country

Image of coin used in the FJ! clue:
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Image

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Sofia Coppola
451
Walt Disney
Chile
Austria

The players were 8/15 (53.33%) with a 1-2-1-3-1 success pattern.

The extra clues have three correct by the players with two in honor of Canada Day and one correct by Brandon to honor his good showing this week.

PLACES IN CONTINENTS $800: It's in North America; along with Manitoba & Saskatchewan, it's one of Canada's prairie provinces

SCULPTORS & STATUORS $800: Hamilton MacCarthy sculpted Samuel de Champlain with his astrolabe upside down in this world capital

PORTUGUESE HISTORY $200: The Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal & Spain dealt with discoveries by this man not born in either country

Correct responses in spoiler box:
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Alberta
Ottawa
Christopher Columbus
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Re: FJs for the 6/26/17 week

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :(
:mrgreen: CLAM :mrgreen:
0/3 on recognizing those new words & phrases
mixed up latitude & longitude & guessed Kazakhstan
France
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Fri - Didn't need image

Must've missed the Champlain part of that clue
2/3 - knew MPDG and microagression.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Familiar with the term 'microaggression'. Never heard the ridiculous term 'surrender cobra' in my life, but as a sports junkie I've seen (and probably done) it a thousand times. That pixie crap elicited a 'WTF?' reaction, even after it was explained to me.

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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

The only '50s musical I could think of referring to a flower was Flower Drum Song - right creative team, wrong continent...Another instance when memorizing the dates of major works would probably help...
The one phrase I never heard of was surrender cobra (sounds like a weird analogue to "Surrender Dorothy"!), but I wouldn't have been able to place MPDG. I've seen microaggression in the news too much.
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:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :( :mrgreen:

22 (desperation guess); no guess
I knew Alberta, just couldn't come up with the name.
Had heard of manic pixie dream girl and microaggressions (and got both), but not surrender cobra (but got facepalm).
Didn't really need to see the coin Friday.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I think this is a first-ever 8/8 for me outside of kids week and maybe a college week or two. Thanks for the birthday week present, J! Felt great to be able to watch a tiny bit for the first time since Feb., as we just moved back stateside. And even better to see Brandon be crowned a multi-day champ!


Also, Edelweiss was the first song my now-wife and I ever danced to, and it was also our first dance at our wedding. Would've been really embarrassing if that kept me from a 5/5!
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Hadn't heard of surrender cobra.
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Clicked the "0/3 on trendy modern words" even though I'd possibly heard of microagressions and MPDG before, but it was maybe once or twice.
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(

No guess Tuesday, only numerical novel I could think of was Catch 22
Did not need the image on Friday
Never heard of surrender cobra but knew the other two


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All green, and I recognized only microaggressions as something I'd heard of, though the clue would really have had to spell it out.

Do surrender cobras eat paneer?
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Where's the box for "I didn't see the prairie provinces clue because I was vacationing in Alberta when the show aired?" :lol:

Got everything except 451 and that one was a total face palm when I saw the answer.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

My first 5/5 week in a long while...woot! :D

Got Friday's FJ (which I had to read off the web no thanks to my local station deciding to run a freakin' special about the upcoming Greenbrier Classic golf tournament instead of J!) off of '1959 musical' before seeing the coin.

Got microaggressions and have heard of 'surrender cobra', but 'manic pixie dream girl' was a completely new one to me as of the clue about it.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
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dinghammer wrote: Sat Jul 01, 2017 9:56 pm :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:

Hadn't heard of surrender cobra.
Ditto all of this.

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BigDaddyMatty wrote: Sun Jul 02, 2017 1:36 am Is this the easiest week of regular-play FJ!'s in JBoard history? Sixty votes in, and 45% of respondents have clicked the Box of Glory.
It's sitting just behind the weeks of 02/13/17 and 11/02/15, when 47% and 46% of respondents checked the 5/5 box, respectively. Right now the "toughest" of the five clues is polling at 78%, which breaks the current record of 76% set in the week of 12/23/13.
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3/5
2/3

Pretty good for me.
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Count me among those who mixed up latitude and longitude. Also went Drew Barrymore on Monday, and she was not born in '72. Whoops.

Being Canadian I didn't miss the extra clues. Happy with that.
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
I hope I didn't screw up the polling by voting 2 or 3 times. I had tabs open and CRS (can't remember s**t) syndrome.

There's been a lot of good latitude/longitude chatter. The prime meridian = zero longitude was my validation TOM. I was sure that planting zones were latitude based (mostly) as well.

There are a surprising lot of references that should be tied to the latitude distinction, but aren't.
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I went with Drew Barrymore because of insider celeb connection and possibility of being alive and young. I think the clue should have said "infant" instead of child btw. My childhood Presbyterian church Christened infants and Baptized young teens if they accepted the brainwashing. If I knew celebrity ages, I'd have still been misled by the practice of the Catholic Church. Of course, I could watch a movie or read a book to get the answer as well :lol:
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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