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Quote: Originally Posted by MarkBarrett Hammer: You blanked on Lawrence Welk? A blank means you have heard of the guy. Good for you as a 22-year-old to at least be aware of the guy. I can't be the only one who would have lost a side bet on that one. After Monday's (not each game, just one for fun) game, set up a poll with ten choices of clues you may or may not have had correct. We'll vote our opinion of how we think you did....

Salvaged a 2/5 FJ week by getting Marco Polo right away. I never hard of a Stride Rigth brand, but the clue led me to it and I clicked my pen,

1298 should be Pavlovian for Marco Polo. Was for me anyways. I'm not that great at art and art history (as the coresponding Chronology showed), but the $1000 was an instaget because of the following comment I made on the March 16, 2009 thread (adapted for today's show): Quote: Originally Posted by dhkendall The only way I recognized anything in the [...] clue was a Monty Python skit which have paintings come alive when there's...

A great game by Dave. It was nice to watch him win again. I thought he should have wagered more on that last DD (if I remember correctly, he could have wagered up to 9999 without risking his lock game), but I won't complain. I didn't get FJ. I was off by a couple hundred years with my response of Magellan. That puts me at 2/5 for FJ this week.

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I probably wouldn't but I answered "absolutely" because I wouldn't absolutely rule it out. Phrase/word origin clues almost always trip me up, even though I consider myself above average in knowledge of language and its roots. I might do it if I had a hunch but I'd probably be so nervous my intuition wouldn't be at its best.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bobby McBride Congratulations to Commander Belote on a lock game win tonight! Colonel, not Commander.

Quote: Originally Posted by seaborgium I agree with your FJ comments. I see the category deals with women in Shakespeare, and the clue asks for someone whose name means "little king," and I go straight to King Lear . Normally, I can only name Cordelia off the top of my head among Lear's daughters, so I jumped straight to her first, but I've known since it came up in FJ a few years ago (it's apparently not archived,...

Quote: Originally Posted by DWS I also liked the math category. On that note, I responded "What is the ordinate?" for the clue about the abscissa, for which Todd responded "What is the y-axis?". Judges? The ordinate refers to the y-coordinate of a given point (much like the abscissa refers to the x-coordinate). They were asking for an axis, so I don't think it would count.

Quote: Originally Posted by Randy G And if I correctly recall my high school biology from the dark ages, I think that vertebrates were equated with chordata. Almost. While the subphylum "Vertebrata" makes up by far the largest percentage of phylum Chordata, Chordata does contain two other small, but significant, subphyla, made up of small sea creatures: Urochordata (tunicates aka "Sea squirts") and Cephalochordata...