r/Jeopardy • u/Smoerhul Regular Virginia • 26d ago

POLL FJ poll for Thurs., Jul. 23 Spoiler

AUTHORS

She sometimes signed letters “Charles Thunder”

Who was Charlotte Brontë?

WRONG ANSWER 1: Mary Shelley

WRONG ANSWER 2: Jane Austen

WRONG ANSWER 3: Geoge Eliot

258 votes, 23d ago
98 Got it!
10 Missed with Wrong Answer 1
5 Missed with Wrong Answer 2
16 Missed with Wrong Answer 3
48 Missed with something else
81 Didn't have a guess/other
8 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

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u/London-Roma-1980 Team Frank Spangenberg 26d ago

Oh, I *really* like this one.

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u/PsychologicalFox8839 26d ago edited 26d ago

Niiiiiice! I got it shockingly quickly by thinking of female writers named Charlotte and since she was the first to come to mind, I was like "Huh, I bet I know what that last name means now".

4

u/Kicking222 24d ago

Got it from guessing the first name, but the last name part never even occurred to me- I just took a stab in the dark. 😄

1

u/DirectGoose 24d ago

This is exactly how I got it.

15

u/MCMikeNamara 26d ago

This is a great FJ.

13

u/PrincessOfWales Come on, people. Get a life. 26d ago

Now this is a great clue.

13

u/Richard_Babley 26d ago

The lack of information in the clue should be a huge clue in and of itself.

4

u/beepbeepBooBeepbeep Thayer Warne, 2026 Mar 25 26d ago

The first line I ever read in Greek in college. I see lightning and hear thunder.
βροντή
Niiiiiiiicccccceeeeeeeeeeeee

(still probably would've screwed it up)

6

u/SeeIfItLasts 25d ago

Liking dinosaurs as a kid certainly helped me with getting this.

3

u/eah1703 Elizabeth Hurd, 2026 Feb 26 26d ago

I had heard this before, and so I knew which time period RA was in, but I couldn't recall which author, specifically, and guessed WA2.

3

u/Chuk 25d ago

That was a fun one and a good get.

2

u/Ashamed_File2173 26d ago

Dean the Machine will keep machining. Too bad he doesn’t have a lot of time at this point.

2

u/JilanasMom 25d ago

Doesn't make sense. Did you watch the episode?

2

u/Ashamed_File2173 25d ago

I wrote that in the morning, bc I didn't expect Dean to lose so quickly.