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I do too. I was asking because I seem to remember trying to look up other contestants' books. Now I'm picturing Charlie's big head going bump, bump, bump on the stairs. LOL. I adopted a cat once who decided to bring her kittens to our second story apartment. She didn't quite know how to carry them, and picked them up towards their tails, and their heads went bump, bump, bump on the stairs. She was very young, I think. They were okay, though. And we were able to find a home that would take all of them. Excepting the mom, who we kept.

3/5 - Winnie and Saturday Night Fever were instagets. We actually laughed when the Pooh question came up - it's the mister's favorite childhood book, which he still quotes in his 70s. Mine was Velveteen Rabbit - Herb's incorrect answer, which made me happy (not the incorrectness, the reference). That means you also have an *. I've already recorded it. Don't be so harsh on yourself. Home rules are a bit more relaxed, and we all have different ones. (I mean, there are SOME boundaries, but still...)

Week 16 – December 23 – One Asterisk 76. *WORLD LEADERS - In 2009 this leader gave Barack Obama the book "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" (Hugo Chavez) 77. GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC AWARENESS - As individuals, only Santa Claus & this public service ad icon introduced in 1944 have their own ZIP codes (Smoky Bear) 78. U.S. PLACE NAMES - A trio including Andrew Jackson founded this city with a name that evokes a great city of the ancient world (Memphis) 79. MOVIES & THEIR SOUNDTRACKS - "Catch It" was a tagline for this 1970s film whose iconic soundtrack became one of the bestselling albums of all time (Saturday Night Fever) 80. FICTIONAL CHARACTERS - In his very first appearance by name, this character comes downstairs "bump-bump-bump on the back of his head" (Winnie the Pooh, or Pooh Bear)

I just ordered it - sadly, for me it's gone up a dollar, but still worth it, and I don't mind gross. Is it just me, or is promoting the actual books of authors a new thing in Jeopardy? Seems to me, previously, they'd mention someone was an author, but nothing about their actual books. Or am I misremembering?

I laughed at that. Easy for me too...but for a different reason. When it came out our downstairs neighbor played the darned album at full volume all the time. So I grew to hate it. But after moving, and a few years, I grew to enjoy it. It was an instaget in any case.

Same. I don't know why I blanked. For some reason that book (read in college) has stuck with me even though I didn't watch the Vietnam movie loosely based on it (Apocalypse now?) Have a Merry Day! Enjoy these songs. This was my favorite German Christmas song as a kid. Because it's fun to sing. I still love it. And here is the song I sing every Christmas in remembrance of my Mom. She came from the area where this song originated, and is the only song she would ever sing out loud.

As corrected by @ams1001 (thank you) Wednesday's FJ in my list was in error. Not quite sure how that happened, but I'll blame it on the racket in the house (carpets being replaced by hardwood). yeah, that's what I'll do. It's now corrected on my original post. Zero for me too. I'll continue the blame and blame it on the contractors messing up my mind. 😉 Nah, it was my own error. Thank you for the correction.

Week 15 • December 16 – Three Asterisks 71. *GEOGRAPHY - Jebel Musa in Morocco & Mount Hacho near Ceuta are candidates for the southern half of this pair (The Pillars of Hercules) 72. ANTHEMS - The unofficial anthem of this U.K. territory mentions kelp, penguins & "the wind from the Horn" (Falkland Islands) 73. FICTIONAL CHARACTERS - Dressed in white in her first scene, this play character says her name means "white woods" (Blanche Dubois)**CORRECTION 74. *SUPER BOWL HISTORY - It's the only team to play in the Super Bowl before Neil Armstrong's Moon walk that has not been back to the Big Game since (Jets) 75. *MOVIES & THE LAW - "Drafters... have to have a little fun sometimes", said the author of this law when asked if he was inspired by 1931's "Little Caesar" (the RICO Act)

Yep, the waistline had to be above the belly button. LOL. I was thinking Pratchett for FJ, but Adams shoved him out of the way just in time.

That's 2/5 and an *. 😊

Week 14 • December 9 – Three Asterisks 66. *ISLANDS OF EUROPE - In February 1793 the French were repulsed in an attack on this island from one just north that they controlled 67. *PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES - The running mates of this candidate included John Kern, Arthur Sewall & Adlai Stevenson I (William Jennings Bryant) 68. THE WORLD OF SCIENCE - nobelprize.org says some papers of this scientist "are stored in lead boxes", a "legacy that is literally untouchable" (Marie Curie) 69. *TV PROPS - A prop central to the title character on this '60s sitcom began as a special Christmas edition whiskey decanter (I Dream of Jeannie) 70. AUTHORS - Following his unexpected death in 2001, he was referred to as the "Monty Python of science fiction" (Douglas Adams)

I was reading too quickly, and thought Ken was a TS! LOL

You got me to check to see if they're sold near me (live in a small town). I will go there soon. Hopefully the store is still where they say it is on Google Maps. That particular shopping center has had a lot of turnover lately. Close but no cigar. :) If the FJ was looking for the French Island, instead of Sardinia, you would have been right. They're very close to each other (looked it up - I had no idea). Are you going to update your Avatar with a penguin photo you took on your trip? If not, I'd sure like to see some. I love them. That's the only one I got! My mind wasn't wrapping itself around the clues, I guess.

Done!

I didn't even ask myself if he was a poet. I just pushed out Pushkin. ;)