FJs for the 1/23/23 week

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Which FJ! clues did you solve correctly for the 1/23/23 week?

Poll ended at Sun Oct 22, 2023 8:54 pm

At the winter solstice, the Sun is in Sagittarius; it once appeared in this constellation, giving a geographic feature its name
48
67%
In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us"
55
76%
Pskov & Nizhny Novgorod are 2 of the cities that have a fortress called this
54
75%
Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast
45
63%
The 2007 biopic called "La Môme" in France, meaning "The Kid", was released in the U.S. under this other French title
14
19%
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:  I checked all five above.
7
10%
:( :( :( :( :(  I missed all the FJ! clues.
1
1%
WORDS OF PEACE $2000: It's Latin for the period of tranquility that lasted from the reigns of Augustus to Marcus Aurelius
46
64%
LANGUAGES $2000: It's the only country in Central America where English is the official language
56
78%
COUNTRY SONGS $2000: Little Big Town had its first No. 1 country hit singing about partying & catching waves on this title boat
9
13%
Cancer was my incorrect guess for the Monday FJ! clue.
3
4%
Prior to the Wednesday FJ! clue I was not aware there was more than one Kremlin.
40
56%
Pinta was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
1
1%
Nina was my incorrect guess for the Thursday FJ! clue.
0
No votes
I missed the Thursday FJ! clue with an item that can be held in one's hands.
15
21%
I have seen the movie La Vie en Rose.
10
14%
Even if I had been spotted "Édith Piaf" I would probably still have missed the Friday FJ! clue.
24
33%
WORKING 9 2 5 $1000: A standard 88-key piano has this many white keys - I was correct with 52.
26
36%
WORKING 9 2 5 $1000: A standard 88-key piano has this many white keys -  I guessed the wrong number.
18
25%
I did not need the "9 2 5" category hint as I learned the 52 & 36 split of white to black keys many years ago.
6
8%
 
Total votes: 72

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FJs for the 1/23/23 week

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1/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ASTRONOMY & GEOGRAPHY

1/23 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
At the winter solstice, the Sun is in Sagittarius; it once appeared in this constellation, giving a geographic feature its name

1/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FOREIGN-BORN AUTHORS

1/24 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In the 1950s the New York Times said this author "is writing about all lust" & his lecherous narrator "is all of us"

1/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LANDMARKS

1/25 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Pskov & Nizhny Novgorod are 2 of the cities that have a fortress called this

1/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HISTORY

1/26 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Returning home in 1493, Columbus stopped in the Azores at an island with this name, also something he'd lost off the Haiti coast

1/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD CINEMA

1/27 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The 2007 biopic called "La Môme" in France, meaning "The Kid", was released in the U.S. under this other French title

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
Capricorn
(Vladimir) Nabokov
the Kremlin
Santa Maria
La vie en Rose
The players were 10/15 (66.67%) with a 2-3-3-2-0 success pattern.

The extra clues have $2000 ones that challengers got correct.

WORDS OF PEACE $2000: It's Latin for the period of tranquility that lasted from the reigns of Augustus to Marcus Aurelius

LANGUAGES $2000: It's the only country in Central America where English is the official language

COUNTRY SONGS $2000: Little Big Town had its first No. 1 country hit singing about partying & catching waves on this title boat

Correct responses in spoiler box:
Spoiler
the Pax Romana
Belize
"Pontoon"
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(

Libra thinking some kind of equinox balance
News to me that there is more than one kremlin of note
L’Enfant to have something and never seen the movie, but would have had it if spotted E. Piaf.

Knew 52 from learning 52 & 36 as trivia nugget from however many decades ago
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :twisted:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(

No idea on Monday...maddening memory glitch on Friday...
I never heard of that country song.
I clammed on the piano clue...would have gotten it on a DD...
I'm sure I saw the movie, but I don't remember it much...I more fondly remember a Broadway (via the West End) play about the Little Sparrow from the 1980s...
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :( :(

Last week it was the minimum assumption, this week it's a fact: I did exactly as well as Troy on FJ. :mrgreen:

The miss on Belize is a bit of "penalty of the doubt"; I read Central as South and was at Guyana when my dad blurted out Belize, and I might have set myself right in time without his help, but I'll guess that I wouldn't have.

52 white keys was a guess based on the digits available. It was going to be two digits and the 90s were impossible and the 20s were improbable, and I guessed 52 because an even number felt more right. (I was only between 52 and 59, but I realized later that 55 may have been allowable.)

Other Kremlins were news to me, but I knew it referred to a fortress (unlike those whose mental associations, like mine once did, go from "Kremlin" to the onion domes of St. Basil's), so I figured there could be others.
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Did the board poll style/settings get changed recently?

I think I used to be able to change my vote. I can still see what I voted for because it's in bold, but I don't remember it being like that previously.

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

Coin flip between the two Tropics.
Pretty sure I’ve seen La Vie En Rose but it had fallen off my mental radar screen and I wouldn’t have known the year. Would have been an instaget with a Piaf clue.
Vaguely knew there were more kremlins than the one in Moscow.
No idea on the piano keys. Figured they were in the 50’s, but went with 59.
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MattKnowles wrote: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:19 pm Did the board poll style/settings get changed recently?

I think I used to be able to change my vote. I can still see what I voted for because it's in bold, but I don't remember it being like that previously.

:mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
Allowing votes to change is a very tiny box I have to click on and sometimes I overlook it. It's checked now to allow re-voting as necessary.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :(
guessed the Bible on Thursday, not in this life for Friday

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :|

Did the octaves in 88 keys math to guesstimate 52. :D
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Didn't know there was more than one Kremlin but it was the only thing that made sense.
Have not seen La Vie en Rose.
Guessed 55; I probably get it as a DD/FJ, but not a regular clue.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:( :mrgreen: :(
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :mrgreen: :(

Missed Monday because I wound up in a mental lock -- looked at "Geography" in the category name and was unable to break free of thinking about physical geographical features.

Had to give myself an incorrect for saying "Pax Romanus" instead of "Pax Romana."

I had to play several games this week from the archive (had cataract surgery early in the week and double vision interfered with television for several days), and either overlooked or simply don't remember piano keys.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
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:( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:| :mrgreen: :|

Mon - (nothing, I ruled out Aquarius, but I couldn't remember the other constellation)
Fri - (also nothing)

If I was spotted Piaf I feel I would've gotten it.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(

Knew 52
I would prefer not to.
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:mrgreen: + all abstains after Monday FJ

BOX OF GLORY !! (nano-version)

Looks like the La Vie en Rose clue is at 18%. I wagged 30% thinking it was high but am never surprised at how suave the Jboardies are.

I chose the Pinta since Nina means a little girl so it probably wasn't the flagship.

I completely derped the piano keys. If I'd had enough time and applied my knowledge of the diatonic scale and the exponential relationships with even tempered tuning, I'd have probably come up with a complex irrational number that had an imaginary component.

Fun fact (maybe it's part of the canon): Irving Berlin played only on the black keys. Well almost only. He learned that way, and stayed in the key of F# as much as possible.
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twelvefootboy wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:41 pm Fun fact (maybe it's part of the canon): Irving Berlin played only on the black keys. Well almost only. He learned that way, and stayed in the key of F# as much as possible.
But he also had a transposing piano. He could move a lever (or pedal? I forget) and the keys would slide to the left or right so that striking the same keys would sound different notes. That's how he tested what songs would sound like in keys other than F#.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
-----:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(

When I remembered La Vie en Rose and that it won a bunch of awards, it sounded like a good guess, but it took me LL off-season time. "The kid" bit was quite unhelpful; I guessed it was Marcel Cerdan's sobriquet.

I only play on the black keys because the white ones look so dirty.
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:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
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