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I don't think, in the books, that most characters are defined enough for me to care about them much. Her characters are usually painted with broad strokes and are more like puzzle pieces than actual people. (my opinion only of course) I'm trying to think of any I had any special sympathy/empathy for and can only come up with the ones on the Orient Express and you know about them..... Most of the time, most of the people lie to Poirot at one point or another, some are condescending or bigoted, I just don't think I care much if he takes them to task.

I said Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee - - Sorry, family story coming! When I was small my mom gave us (there were 5 of us at that time, soon to be 6) some canned ChefBoyRDee ravioli for dinner one night. After tasting it I refused to eat it followed by my siblings. My mom, at that time was a 'You'll sit there 'til you eat it' kind of mom. After some time she tasted it and said we didn't have to eat it. I had told her 'It tastes like Play-Doh!' . So this is why I laughed hysterically at the answer, apparently my taste buds and sense of smell were more correct than I thought!

Basically my thought process as well, I did do the math and the year seemed right for Poland so I went with it. And don't self congratulate until after the game please. If you had flat out asked me for names of characters in Hunchback I could've named Quasimodo and Esmerelda, how I knew Frollo is a mystery to me. (I did answer correctly) For the Anna Karenina one I said 'the one where she throws herself under the train' don't suppose that counts.

Secondary definition for quaint: b : unusual or different in character or appearance : odd From the poem: And in did come the strangest figure! His queer long coat from heel to head Was half of yellow and half of red; And later on in the poem: (And here they noticed round his neck A scarf of red and yellow stripe, To match with his coat of the self-same cheque; And at the scarf's end hung a pipe; I don't know if I would even have known it from all that. Without a mention of Hamelin or rats I'd probably not guess.

I think of quaint as old fashioned.

Yes but, all the clue gave us was 'quaint attire'. Nothing about that suggests 'pied'. It was Ken that said the character was dressed in an odd multicolored way. Other than that you got an 1842 poem about a legendary character. I did not get it, though the Van Johnson movie version was played every Thanksgiving, I think, when I was young. I think this was the least helpful clue I've seen in a while.

I wasn't too surprised at this one, I know it's translated differently in other versions and trying to remember which was the KJV might take a bit, also, -and this is a personal problem-, whenever they tell me how many letters an answer is supposed to have I get flustered. I think I've mentioned before that my brain sees the number but refuses to see what the number is supposed to go with, so I'm constantly saying four syllable words instead of 4 letters and the other way around too. I actually groaned at the category 4 Syllable Words 'cause I knew I'd mess it up!. The one I was surprised at was 'Breath of Life' because it just seemed a logical end to the sentence.

I forgot this was a day that Jeopardy was on until the posts started appearing in my mailbox. Every time Julia missed a clue and Ken asked 'Kevin or Drew?' I had Amazing Race flashbacks! The uterus answer was pretty funny,🤪 I got FJ because of the 3/4 time and the Tennessee Waltz.

Did anyone else notice that it actually said Cosmopolitan in the background of the pic of Helen Gurley Brown?

Not quite -insta- for me but as soon as I could actually read the clue I got it. I'll be interested to see if the board is cleared next game, Mikey seemed to look back and forth a lot before choosing a clue, something I don't understand, just pick something!

I didn't mind it too much as it could have been so much worse, Japanese/Mexican week anyone? and kept thinking of Brendan from season 3 (British season 3) when so many of his bakes were described as '70s' by Paul. I love Brendan.

They ask for the Geographic Word in the title, if -highland- is a geographic word then I can see the wiggle room. Highland is a word within the word Highlands. They did specifically ask for a word from the title, just a geographic word that was in the title. Sorry, probably not explaining well but I can see the wiggle room.

I actually got Sancho Panza, a character I never think about but despite knowing who it was supposed to be only got Don, even though 'Quixote' is probably the most famous part of the those names. Such is the state of my brain these days. I was rather sad no one knew the Bandersnatch, even with the frumious given. Along with that I got Immortal Portal, and Ocean's Eleven.

I think maybe, because it also crossed my mind, she was trying to think of First Ladies who would be against dancing? Lemonade Lucy might have fit that part? I was trying to remember if any were Quakers or something else very conservative, before I went to first names, duh! Really should've focused on dances. I'm half Polish and the first dance I ever remember was a polka at my Aunt's wedding when I was a flower girl.

I was going thru dances---easier! I was randomly going though pres's names also, but I was going through first names for some reason. I figured out when it was over that I should have been going through dances instead!