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 THE OLD WEST; it was in the last round of the match that aired on 3-23-2003.

$400: Authors held off on unfavorable comments on this man & his “Last Stand” until his wife died; she lasted until 1933
$800: He called his buffalo gun Lucrezia Borgia
$1200: Born of a Scottish father & a Cherokee mother, he blazed a trail from Kansas to Texas
$1600: Jesse James had a vendetta out for this Chicago detective whose men had killed his 8-year-old half-brother
$2000: Frank Canton was elected sheriff of this Wyoming county in 1882; he later sided with the cattlemen in the “war” there
ANSWERS: show

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($400) George Armstrong Custer
($800) Buffalo Bill
($1200) Jesse Chisholm
($1600) Allan Pinkerton
*($2000) Johnson County

Today’s Quote: Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd ~ Baruch Spinoza

Born or Died on May 3rd

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 correctly predicted all the players would get France

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

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