Thread: FJs for the 11/2/09 week

Quote: Originally Posted by InfluencedByWit 4/5 on the FJs I went back and checked; out of the 40 FJ's so far, I have gotten 13. I had a streak where I was unable to get 11 in a row (9/30 to 10/14).

Quote: Originally Posted by econgator or Bedford-Stuyvesant, which is in Brooklyn, or Bedrock, which is where the Flinstones are from, or .... Or THE BEDFORD INCIDENT , with Sidney Poitier and Richard Widmark.

Quote: Originally Posted by The Real Diogenes That's Bedford Falls in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (though the film establishes its being in upstate New York, it's not to be confused with Bedford, NY, one of the wealthiest communities in the United States, or the nearby Bedford Hills, site of a state correction facility for women, and former home to Jean Harris, the girls' school principal who murdered her inamorata, Dr Herman...

Quote: Originally Posted by The Real Diogenes The problem with "Grover's Corners" is that one has to first separate it mentally from "Grover's Mills," the New Jersey site at which the Martians launch their invasion in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre production of War of the Worlds . Or Bedford Corners, which I think is the setting for It's a Wonderful Life (or something like that), which is what I said...

Very easy FJs Could not get Rhode Island. Had Grover's Corners, but not sure enough to pull the trigger.

I'm just glad the non-FJ questions didn't involve those "teen" categories I completely blanked out on.

Monday, I was blank at the beginning, my dad said James Garfield, I told him the date was too early for that, then he said Alexander Hamilton and I knew he was right. That was a team effort, but I won't credit myself since I credited myself last week when my dad stepped on any possibility of my figuring out Io. Got Maryland right away, was looking for another ____land neologism that didn't exist.

11/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY HISTORIC AMERICANS 11/2 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE On July 11, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, "This is a mortal wound"; he died the next day 11/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY NUMBERS & LETTERS 11/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE It's the world's most common number system & second-most common alphabet 11/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY LONDON LANDMARKS 11/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE A statue of him stands...

I honestly don't remmeber if I got Oregon when the show was on, but I'll give myself credit since I knew it instantly now. I need all the help I can get with Mark's bonus questions.