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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FYI, we don’t reveal the answer outright. We just hint at it. However, it is okay to give possible wrong answers.

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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 FICTIONAL CHARACTERS; it was in the last round of the match that aired on 3-27-2000

$200: Virgil’s “Aeneid” begins after Aeneas & his family escape this war-torn city
$400: Any one of the Brothers Karamazov (hint: one isn’t so “terrible”)
$600: In “Oliver Twist”, Bill Sikes is an accomplice of this gang leader
$800: This 1816 Jane Austen title character is “of no feeble character”
$1000: He’s the title husband of Mrs. Persis Lapham
ANSWERS: show

*=triple stumper
$200: Troy
$400: 1 of Ivan, Dmitri or Alexei
$600: Fagin
$800: Emma (1 miss: Jane Eyre)
*$1000: Silas Lapham

Today’s Quote: Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell ~ Bill Copeland

Born or Died: May 6th

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: No one predicted 1 player would get Macarena

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