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).
Take Your Lumps: No late predictions. No changing predictions. No exceptions.
If you don’t want to read comments about the answer to the clue, READ NO FURTHER. Otherwise, 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
More JEOPARDY! Links: CONTESTANT LINEUP ***** PLAY J!6
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! Any comments with the actual answer will be deleted right away.
An Old Category: The name of this category was WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS; it was in the last round of the match that aired on 03-26-2008.
$400: To get a horse to go fast, shift your body weight forward & tell it to do this, from the phrase “get up”
$800: “Muppet” comes from these 2 handy words
$1200: A component of acids, this gas discovered in 1774 gets its name from the Greek words for “acid” & “forming”
$1600: From a misspelling of the words “all correct”, it was later used by Democratic partisans of Martin Van Buren
$2000: A card player who didn’t want to deal would give the deal marker to the next player, or do this, hence the phrase
ANSWERS: show
Today’s Quote: You can make more friends in 2 months by becoming interested in other people than you can in 2 years by trying to get other people interested in you ~ Dale Carnegie
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 JJ correctly predicted 2 players would get “hut”
Early Spoiler results are usually updated around 12 p.m. Central.
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