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Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:19 pm
by L-Jam3
New month, who dis?
Monday, October 1
CATEGORY: MOUNTAIN RANGES
CLUE: A chain of volcanoes is named for this mountain range where the continental USA's deadliest eruption took place
ANSWER:
- [+] spoiler
- What are the Cascades?
Tuesday, October 2
CATEGORY: ANIMAL AKAs
CLUE: It's also called the czar fish
ANSWER:
- [+] spoiler
- What is Sturgeon? You know, caviar, Russia.
Here fishie, fishie!
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 12:34 pm
by Pruitt
Yes fish, no volcano.
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:08 pm
by brian
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:54 pm
by Ryan
Wiki seems to confirm that my fish guess
- [+] spoiler
- Beluga
would have been accepted
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:56 pm
by A_B
AB 12-8
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:33 pm
by The Sybian
Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 1:54 pm
Wiki seems to confirm that my fish guess
- [+] spoiler
- Beluga
would have been accepted
Thanks for looking that up, I wasn't going give myself that one...
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:19 pm
by Pruitt
How the hell did you know about this site?
https://wikifish.co.za/
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:40 pm
by Johnny Carwash
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So everyone got the fish one? I almost didn't, then it clicked after about a minute.
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:57 pm
by brian
Johnny Carwash wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:40 pm
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So everyone got the fish one? I almost didn't, then it clicked after about a minute.
You went past the time limit. Mark it zero, dude.
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:48 pm
by duff
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Should I just quit since I missed the fish one?
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:54 pm
by A_B
Why do you people hate me?
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 9:42 am
by Giff
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 2:08 pm
by L-Jam3
Thursday, October 3:
CATEGORY: PHRASE ORIGINS
CLUE: The OED's first citation for this phrase referring to a region of the U.S. is from a Durant, Oklahoma newspaper in 1936
ANSWER:
- [+] spoiler
-
What is the Dust Bowl? I vaguely remember them asking this FJ similarly before. Say within the last 5-10 years.
Anyway:
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 2:11 pm
by The Sybian
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 2:13 pm
by brian
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 4:22 pm
by Giff
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 4:39 pm
by Pruitt
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:06 pm
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:52 pm
by L-Jam3
Shit. It sounds like Alex is having a really rough
treatment, which sadly, for his diagnosis, is expected.
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:54 pm
by L-Jam3
Friday, October 4
CATEGORY: WORLD LITERATURE
CLUE: Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700
ANSWER:
- [+] spoiler
- What is 1,001 (Arabian) Nights?
Missed that one.
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 12:55 pm
by brian
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:00 pm
by bfj
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:07 pm
by Ryan
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:20 pm
by rass
Friday's champ was adorbs. Though something flashed across her face a couple of times when she got frustrated that scared me a little.
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:56 pm
by Giff
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:59 pm
by Pruitt
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- [+] spoiler
- I wrote a few episodes of an animated series based on "1,001 Nights" Here's the preview for one of them...
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 3:53 pm
by govmentchedda
Pruitt wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 2:59 pm
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- [+] spoiler
- I wrote a few episodes of an animated series based on "1,001 Nights" Here's the preview for one of them...
Got the first three. Didn't post along last month because I was something like 1-18 or so.
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 5:24 pm
by duff
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:15 pm
by L-Jam3
Monday, October 7
CATEGORY: OBSERVANCES
CLUE: Washington made the very first presidential proclamation in response to a request for "a day of public" this
ANSWER:
- [+] spoiler
- What is Thanksgiving?
Interesting coincidence coming on the heels of the news of Turkey's invasion.
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:16 pm
by brian
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Spoiler:
- [+] spoiler
- They should have had that question on the show that airs 10/14 in honor Alex.
Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:56 pm
by govmentchedda
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:01 pm
by The Sybian
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:21 pm
by Ryan
Dumb
The Sybian wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:01 pm
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 9:49 pm
by duff
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:51 am
by bfj
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:00 am
by Giff
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:46 pm
by L-Jam3
Tuesday, October 8
CATEGORY: LAST WORDS
CLUE: In 1876 in the Dakotas this American said, "The old duffer broke me on the last hand"
ANSWER:
- [+] spoiler
- Who is Wild Bill Hicock?
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:52 pm
by brian
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:27 pm
by Giff
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Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge, October '19
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:35 pm
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