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).

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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 BRAND NAMES; it was in the first round of the match that aired on 4-24-2008

($200) This brand of petroleum jelly was selling a jar a minute in the U.S. by the 1880s, & it’s still a favorite
($400) The company that sold Nikkor lenses in the 1930s started selling cameras under this brand in 1946
($600) Adjective before “Dog” in a brand line from Purina
($800) The last names of chemists Franklin & Aldam combined in this brand name when they came up with a new oil filter
($1000) In “Lost in Translation”, Bill Murray does ads for this, Japan’s oldest whiskey brand
ANSWERS: show

*=triple stumper
($200) Vaseline
($400) Nikon
($600) Mighty -or- Lucky
($800) Fram
*($1000) Suntory (1 miss: Sapporo)

Today’s Quote: There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (Silverado Squatters)

That quote caught my eye because I know RLS also wrote a poem for kids called “Foreign Children”, which might be considered racist nowadays!
“Little Indian, Sioux or Crow
Little frosty Eskimo
Little Turk or Japanee
Oh! don’t you wish that you were me?”

Born or Died: November 18th

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: jk, VJ and JJ correctly predicted that 0 players would get the Spruce Goose

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