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).
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Clue of the Day
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An Old Category: The name of this category was “W”RITERS; it was in the last round of the match that aired on 4-28-2004.
$400: In 1892 rehearsals of his play “Salome” were halted by the censor
$800: This poet led a Bohemian life in the 1850s, but spent much of the Civil War caring for wounded soldiers
$1200: He was given the name Elwyn Brooks, but was known professionally by his initials & to his friends as Andy
$1600: This Holocaust survivor’s semi-autobiographical first book was published in Yiddish in 1956
$2000: Seen here, this native son of Mississippi died in Paris in 1960
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THURSDAY’S PREDICTIONS: VJ correctly predicted 2 players would get Captain Cook
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Finally a fj clue in my wheelhouse. This guy was one of my favorites. Loved all of his work.
1/3 correct. This could be tricky to filter through all of the info in the clue.
I can’t say I’d be surprised if everyone got it, but stranger things have happened.
I’ll also say 2 out of 3.
If my guess is correct, I’d say his genre would more accurately be described as fantasy than sci-fi. I’ll say 2/3.
I misread the clue early this morning, missing the French version of the son’s name. So my comment about his genre being better described as fantasy was incorrect.
The reference to an author’s son revising his works after his death immediately made me think of Tolkien, who did have a son Michael, although it was his son Christopher who edited and published “The Silmarillion” after his death.
I think the son’s name being French and the genre being sci-fi, it should be a triple solve 3/3