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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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 SHAMANISM ON YOU; it was in the first round of the match that aired on 05-28-2010.
$400: Yikes! Among these indigenous Australians, a person is thought to become a shaman after an initiatory death
$800: In the traditional religion of this Asian peninsula, male shamans are called Paksu
$1200: 18th c. groups led by shamans fought over the Yenisey River in this 5 million-sq.-mi. area of North-Central Russia
$1600: The Warao Indians of South America believe this noisy shamanic gourd instrument has healing properties
$2000: Shamans on this Southeast Asian peninsula, also called the Kra Peninsula, use quartz crystals for healing
ANSWERS: show
Today’s Quote: To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth ~ Voltaire
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: VJ and JJ correctly predicted that no one would get the Barbary Wars.
Early Spoiler results are usually updated around 12 p.m. Central.
LOVED the show, but the name Alben Barkley meant nothing to me… zero correct answers.
I’ll say ONE right as well. idk how popular this show was.
I’ll say 1/3 today. Never seen the show, but I knew who Alben Barkley was.