Spoiler Talk: CotD (Mon)
Here’s Monday’s peek at the NY Times Clue of the Day. This clue may be today’s Final Jeopardy! If you know it (or even if you don’t), you can make a prediction on how many players will get it right and/or leave a hint on the right answer BEFORE 11:15 A.M. CENTRAL (And, yes, we are all aware that the results are sometimes put up earlier elsewhere, but we play fair here).
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Clue of the Day
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An Old Category: The name of this category was FICTIONAL CLERGY; it was in the last round of the match that aired on 4-24-1991
$200: Claude Frollo was the archdeacon who lusted after Esmeralda in this V. Hugo novel
$400: John, the Nun’s Priest, tells the story of the Cock & the Fox in this Chaucer collection
$600: In “Ivanhoe” he was Robin Hood’s “brother” & carried a lot of weight in the band of Merry Men
$800: G.K. Chesterton’s full-time priest, part-time detective
$1000: Nathaniel Hawthorne character who had an “A” on the skin of his chest
ANSWERS: show
Today’s Quote: The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up ~ Paul Valery
CUTOFF TIME: PREDICTIONS POSTED AFTER 11:15 A.M. CENTRAL WILL BE DISREGARDED (9:15-P, 10:15-M, 12:15-E)
FRIDAY’S PREDICTIONS: JP and VJ correctly predicted 2 players would get Jules Verne
Early Spoiler results are usually updated around 12 p.m. Central.
Learn something new from fj clues frequently. Never knew this factoid about one of my favorite people in history. Smh.
I had no idea.. 1/3 correct answers.
I didn’t get it. In my mind, this guy has a fruit in common with William Tell.
I’ll say ZERO right.
I didn’t know he was an MP, but I guessed the most famous person associated with Cambridge I could think of around that time, and that ended up being correct.
I’ll say 1/3.