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

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An Old Category: The name of this category was AMERICAN FOLKLORE; it was in the last round of the match that aired on 3-27-2003.

$400: The fame of this frontier fruit tree planter flowered after an 1871 article in Harper’s Magazine
$800: Among this lumberjack’s impressive achievements was digging Puget Sound
$1200: With his 20-pound hammers, he won a hole drillin’ contest against a man with a steam-powered drill
$1600: This “King of the Keelboatmen” had a daughter named Sal who once fought a duel with a thunderbolt
$2000: According to an 1858 poem, this Pilgrim proposed to Priscilla Mullens on behalf of his friend Miles Standish
ANSWERS: show

*=triple stumper
$400: Johnny Appleseed
$800: Paul Bunyan
$1200: John Henry
$1600: Mike Fink
*$2000: John Alden

Today’s Quote: It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity ~ Hippocrates

Born or Died: February 17th

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: Everyone correctly predicted that everyone would get Atlas

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