I hope you didn’t find the new posting schedule too jarring (and I’m sure I’m flattering myself in thinking some of you might have), but I really did have a great time with last installment’s category – exoplanets are just really, really cool. This week we’ll be going just about as far from exoplanets as you can, with an entire category devoted to donkeys in fiction. I’m actually a big fan of categories like this one, that take a seemingly random thing and build clues around it. I find they can open up a new way of looking at a topic – you’d probably never have thought about all the donkeys you’ve met in culture until you see a bunch of them thrown at you at once, like we get here.
Jeopardy! category: PIN THE TALE ON THE DONKEY (28-05-2014)
$200 clue: Clover, a horse in this Orwell book, asks Benjamin the donkey to read her their sixth commandment
Correct response
ANIMAL FARM
The gist: The two horses, Clover and Boxer, are the kind, loyal muscle of the operation, but they’re a bit lacking in brains. Continue reading →