Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19

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Wednesday, October 9

CATEGORY: HIT 1980s ALBUMS

CLUE: This American singer-songwriter briefly landed on the U.N.'s apartheid blacklist for his 1986 multi-platinum album

ANSWER:
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Who is Paul Simon?
Pulled that from the reaches of my memory.

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I barely got that one too. Was coming down to the wire and then some long-dormant weed-addled synapse fired.
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Fantastic album, btw.
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Seemed like the most logical guess to me.
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And he sucks. Sorry, in all my attempts in the last few years to listen to a bunch of artists I'd never listened to or not much, my opinion is even worse than it was.
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Immediately went down the Sun City path and never got on the right track.

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Should have gotten this one... 4-0 start down the tubes...


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The Sybian wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:32 am Should have gotten this one... 4-0 start down the tubes...


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a- wa, a-wa
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Giff wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:15 am

And he sucks. Sorry, in all my attempts in the last few years to listen to a bunch of artists I'd never listened to or not much, my opinion is even worse than it was.
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Not a huge fan, but he did put out some really good tunes. And no, "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" isn't one of them. Man, that song makes me so nauseous.
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Thursday, October 10

CATEGORY: ENGLISH HISTORY

CLUE: In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to "parts of Asia and Africa" in search of "trade and traffic"

ANSWER:
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What is the (British) East India Company?
I don't think mine is correct. I think it's wrong, because I said:
[+] spoiler
What is the East India Tea Company?
Google search doesn't say it was that in any capacity at least on the first page of results, so...

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If it were me I'd give it to you, but others can weigh in after their answer.
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brian wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:14 pm Brian 7-1
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If it were me I'd give it to you, but others can weigh in after their answer.
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That's the sort of answer that might lead to a stop tape to double check if the company operated under that name. If it did, than it'd probably be allowed
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brian wrote: Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:14 pm

If it were me I'd give it to you, but others can weigh in after their answer.
I'm changing L-Jam's score (and giving myself credit for the same exact answer.) I think it's the same thing...

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Friday, October 11

CATEGORY: AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS

CLUE: In 1963 the Pulitzer advisory board vetoed his controversial play & gave no award; he would go on to win 3 Pulitzers

ANSWER:
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Who is Edward Albee? The play in question was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Nada

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Not sure what happened here.
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Monday, October 15

CATEGORY: CHEMICAL SYMBOL WORDPLAY

CLUE: Fittingly, the symbols for the 4 elements in sodium citrate, which can make cheese melt easier, spell this 5-letter food

ANSWER:
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Que es Nacho? (Sodium = Na, Carbon = C, Hydrogen = H, Oxygen = O)
Well, it looks like I remembered at least a couple things from high school chemistry.

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Fuck science, amirite?
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Catching up a few days in a row. Mea culpa.

Tuesday, October 15

CATEGORY: 20th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN

CLUE: In her only kids' book, she says, "There was Rose, Rose was her name & would she have been Rose if her name had not been Rose"

ANSWER:
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Who is Gertrude Stein?

Wednesday, October 16

CATEGORY: WORLD LEADERS

CLUE: This man who ruled from 1949 to 1976 was sometimes called "The Red Sun"

ANSWER:
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Who is Mao Zedong? Mao, his surname, would've been fine.

Thursday, October 17

CATEGORY: MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS

CLUE: The soundtrack of this 2018 film has "Material Girl" & "Money (That's What I Want)" in Chinese & English

ANSWER:
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What is "Crazy Rich Asians"?
Hit the last two:

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Same.
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3 for 3!
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