MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 10:23 am
If someone wants a writing assignment.
Ken Jennings's Tuesday trivia used the name Olympia Lightning in asking for the father, Usain Bolt. Serena Williams's daughter is Alexis Olympia. There has to be something there with the name sharing that could make a FJ! clue.
Well, Alexis Olympia Ohanian. Might make it a bit tricker as a middle name.
Yes, one being the middle name does make it trickier. The writers could do like KJ and just ask for Olympia Lightning Bolt's father. The writers could bring in gold medals to the cluing and ask for the dad of Bolt and/or mom of Alexis Olympia Ohanian?
Here are three previous hits for Serena's husband:
#8149, aired 2020-01-30 WEBSITES $1000: Alexis Ohanian was still a student at UVA when he doodled what became the alien mascot for this website that he co-founded
#7957, aired 2019-03-26 BABY'S FIRST INSTAGRAM $600: @olympiaohanian has o'lotta followers--over 500,000! Did having this mom--winner of 23 major singles tennis titles--help?
#7839, aired 2018-10-11 DRIVING ALEXIS $800: If you're driving company founder Alexis Ohanian to Reddit's offices, head for the Tenderloin area of this city
Although Captain William Mynors of the English East India Company sighted this island on December 25, 1643, it was not explored by Europeans until the 1870s. Spoiler
This classic movie prop was inspired by an ad for Nehi soda Spoiler
The leg lamp (from A Christmas Story)
"Knee high", get it?
(The actual story, as related by Jean Shepherd, is slightly more complicated than the clue suggests, but the original lamp was a prize from a contest sponsored by Nehi soda.)
MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:26 pm
'TIS THE SEASON
This classic movie prop was inspired by an ad for Nehi soda Spoiler
The leg lamp (from A Christmas Story)
"Knee high", get it?
(The actual story, as related by Jean Shepherd, is slightly more complicated than the clue suggests, but the original lamp was a prize from a contest sponsored by Nehi soda.)
Spoiler
Got it because "classic movie prop" plus this time of year pretty much could lead to no other answer. I did not know the backstory, but it's a favorite movie. Thanks for sharing.
I'm not the defending Jeopardy! champion. But I have played one on TV.
MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:26 pm
'TIS THE SEASON
This classic movie prop was inspired by an ad for Nehi soda Spoiler
The leg lamp (from A Christmas Story)
"Knee high", get it?
(The actual story, as related by Jean Shepherd, is slightly more complicated than the clue suggests, but the original lamp was a prize from a contest sponsored by Nehi soda.)
Spoiler
Got it because "classic movie prop" plus this time of year pretty much could lead to no other answer. I did not know the backstory, but it's a favorite movie. Thanks for sharing.
Indeed. The category is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
The winner of 39 electoral votes in a presidential election prior to 1950, one of his last Senate votes was on the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill. Spoiler
Despite professing pacifism, the name of this religious group--many of whose members settled in Saskatchewan around the turn of the twentieth century--derives in part from a word meaning "fighter." Spoiler
Euphonium wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:55 pm
RELIGION
Despite professing pacifism, the name of this religious group--many of whose members settled in Saskatchewan around the turn of the twentieth century--derives in part from a word meaning "fighter." Spoiler
Who are the Doukhobors?
I suspect this get rate would be in the single digits.
Euphonium wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:55 pm
RELIGION
Despite professing pacifism, the name of this religious group--many of whose members settled in Saskatchewan around the turn of the twentieth century--derives in part from a word meaning "fighter." Spoiler
Who are the Doukhobors?
I suspect this get rate would be in the single digits.
Euphonium wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:55 pm
RELIGION
Despite professing pacifism, the name of this religious group--many of whose members settled in Saskatchewan around the turn of the twentieth century--derives in part from a word meaning "fighter." Spoiler