Spoiler Talk: CotD (Fri)

Here is the NY Times Clue of the Day for Friday’s game. 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 the Early Spoiler results are put up, usually by 1:30 p.m. Eastern. (And, yes, we are all aware that the results are sometimes put up earlier elsewhere, but we play fair here).

Take Your Lumps: No late predictions. No changing predictions. No exceptions.

But if you don’t want to read comments about the answer to the clue, READ NO FURTHER. If you do want to talk about it, then click on the link below to see the clue, and fire away! (Check the comments around 7 a.m. Central if Jeopardy.com is not up to date)

Clue of the Day

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FYI, we don’t reveal the answer outright. We just hint at it. However, it is okay to give possible wrong answers.

Alert: The first 8 words of our comments show up on the homepage sidebar, so prefacing any hint with a short observation is the best way to go.

All comments and predictions on the CotD posts are deleted after about a week, so be fearless!

An Old Category: The name of this category was COLORFUL VOCABULARY; it was in the first round of the match that aired on 01-24-2011.

$400: The “S” in the bacterium S. typhosa, it enters the digestive tract in contaminated food
$800: A large drinking cup with a handle & hinged cover
$1200: Watery word for Steve Zissou’s “Life” in a movie title
$1600: Apple seeds contain a compound of this poison
$2000: Salvation from sin, or the return of an investor’s principal
ANSWERS: show

*=triple stumper
*$400: salmonella
*$800: a tankard
$1200: Aquatic
*$1600: cyanide (1 miss: arsenic)
$2000: redemption

Today’s Quote: A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized ~ Fred Allen

Born or Died on June 12th

CUTOFF TIME: PREDICTIONS POSTED AFTER 11:15 A.M. CENTRAL WILL BE DISREGARDED (9:15-P, 10:15-M, 12:15-E)

THURSDAY’S PREDICTIONS: VJ and JJ correctly predicted that one player would get Chaucer

Early Spoiler results are usually updated around 12 p.m. Central.

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