Monday.
(Ask and ye shall receive [apparently!])
Friday’s category “Norse Mythology” could be run by just watching the Thor movies. I got three “easily”, but I checked and the other two I didn’t know were actually mentioned or shown in the films, I just never noticed.
That is, I hope they would have accepted my pronunciation of the hammer.
Friday’s FJ (“The Strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel”) was one of those where I psyched myself out trying to think of a different answer, because they wouldn’t possibly make it that obvious, would they?
They did.
I missed it because I get Twist mixed up with Copperfield. I don’t care to read enough Dickens to engrain the right answer.
Even if you haven’t read any Dickens, that “Please, sir, can I have some more” scene is iconic.
I’ve been trying to figure out who Ken reminds me of. Finally: a blonde Tony Randall, but without the wit, cleverness and stage presence.
You’ve never seen “Oliver”? It was obvious.
It’s on the list now, and I’ll watch it after I’ve watched every other movie 
Without spoiling anything, the Final Jeopardy I just saw involved a ridiculous, bogus (IMHO) picayune hair-splitting nitpick.
I have been to schoolhouse beach on Washington Island
Brian
The outcome would still have been the same, except swapping the second and third place winners. At least Mattea learned how to bet in the case of a potential tie.
I only knew the answer from watching the Benjamin Franklin documentary, otherwise I too would have guessed the other way.
I can see the reason for the ruling;
“Seven Years War” fits the clue better given that it includes European battlefields in addition to the North American ones (instead of just the North American ones).
Still, I’d get behind the idea that the writing of the clue could have been more effective in ruling out the smaller case.
What was that other book in the Dracula clue? Anybody ever read it (something about shapeshifters)?
I suppose, but I would argue they’re two names for the same war. I wonder what would happen if someone went very retro and answered “What was the Great War?” to a WWI question.
Thanks! It’s at Project Gutenberg.
I fully expected Mattea to get that one, and I even predicted what the other two players would say.
Why? Because if Mattea’s education in Canada was anything like mine, we never learned about the French and Indian War. We learned about the Seven Years War, and that it took place in both North America and Europe.
The only people I’ve heard refer to the conflict as the French and Indian War have been Americans. I’ve never heard a Canadian (or a European) refer to the conflict as the French and Indian War; it’s always the Seven Years War. Thus my prediction for Mattea’s response, and for the responses of the other two players.
My ears are still burning from guessing Franco-Prussian War.
Always interesting that betting situation. Shouldn’t Mattea have bet more?
If I hated the FJ category, I might consider betting zero and taking my chances in the tie-breaker.
If she was greedy, perhaps. If she wanted to win, then I think it was a smart play.
If the other player doubled up, and got it correct, he would have tied her. If she got it correct, she’d be a dollar above him, and win the game.
If the other player got it incorrect, and she got it incorrect, then by simply wagering a dollar, she’d still win the game.
Besides, “History” is an extremely broad category. Who knows what they’re going to throw out there? It could be any country’s history, from any time period, about anything.
I’m also sure that Mattea had, in the back of her mind, the fact that Alex always demanded that at least one clue in a game be about Canada (he being Canadian and all), and that tradition has survived. Since there were none to that point in the game, she figured that FJ had to do with Canadian history somehow. A little mental arithmetic and knowledge of history and geography leads one to the Seven Years War.