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 DOWN FOR THE LESSER-KNOWN COUNT; it was in the last round of the match that aired on 6-3-2002.

$400: Egmont, Count of Lamoral was the subject of a Goethe tragedy with music by this great German composer
$800: Count Sergey Witte had the wit to put this country on the gold standard in the late 1800s
$1200: With Queen Caroline Matilda’s help, Count Struensee took over this country from Christian VII in 1770
$1600: In 1921 Count Andrassy tried to place Austria’s ex-emperor Charles I on this country’s throne
$2000: In 1060 Count Conrad ruled this country that’s now a grand duchy
ANSWERS: show

*=triple stumper
*$400: Beethoven (1 miss: Wagner)
*$800: Russia
$1200: Denmark (2 misses: Sweden, Netherlands; 1 reversal: Norway, after the judges found out that Christian VII was king of Denmark & Norway)
$1600: Hungary
$2000: Luxembourg

Today’s Quote: Modesty forbids what the law does not ~ Seneca

Born or Died: December 29th

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 correctly predicted 3 right for the one-child policy

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