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0/5 this week, bummer.

Today's Final Jeopardy answer was the Wailing Wall. The Lion of Lucerne came into my head first and would not leave. Wailing Wall was obvious once it was revealed, but I couldn't get there on my own.

Wow, they didn't even put in a tiny bit of effort into understanding bone marrow transplants, did they? It's not a surgery like an organ transplant, and if you're too weak for chemo, you ain't getting a BMT, because step 1 of that process is chemo to kill all the cancer cells (and your own bone marrow in the process). Step 2 is the transplant itself - the marrow (either from yourself or a donor, depending on your type of cancer) is then given via IV. No surgery.

I don't think I'll end up with a concussion, so that is good, though it was quite the hit. I have a stacked unit and when I opened the door, a sock fell on the ground. I bent down to pick it up and on my way back up, the door had swung shut a bit so that it was in the path of me coming up, and I smacked my head on it. I once gave myself a concussion while sitting at my desk at work, which took a year and a half to recover from. That's how clumsy and accident prone I am.

3/5* Pretty annoyed about missing chemistry - I correctly identified Marie Curie and Linus Pauling as the two people referenced, knew Marie Curie was physics & chemistry, knew Linus Pauling got the peace prize, and then for some reason thought his other one was physics instead of chemistry. Of course it was chemistry for him!!! Don't know what I was thinking. I hit my head earlier on the dryer door, I think I shall blame it on that.

Surprised all three of them missed it. Even if they haven't seen Wicked, there was lots of media surrounding Ethan Slater in particular with his relationship with Ariana Grande.

Wow, I did not expect them to kill Nikki off - I didn't believe it was actually her until the last scene. The scene of them finding her was heartbreaking and even more so knowing she was actually dead.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. She also kept saying that she doesn't want to forget. And looking at media about this episode, multiple miscarriages or neonatal deaths seems to be the most common understanding of the episode. Here is one example: https://tvline.com/recaps/ncis-origins-mary-jo-four-miscarriages-divorce-episode-14-1235421869/

It spells words, but with "letters" - and there are far fewer letters/numbers/symbols than there are words. I also initially thought too few for Braille, and then realized that the math makes sense for letters/numbers/symbols.

3/5** Got Monday, Thursday and Friday. Should have known Tuesday, it was super obvious in retrospect, but oh well. Best week I have had in a while.

I thought it was pretty clear they were all babies that they lost. And there was no mention of children in the divorce.

I thought tonight's FJ was an instaget - the "Hermit nation" is something I have heard before about North Korea. I don't think I would have known South Korea just from that part of the clue, but paired with the Hermit nation, it came to me easily.

My logic was a little less educated: Aqueduct = water, Pietro Bracci = Italian. Looking for a landmark to do with water in Italy with multiple carvings/statues, and from there the Trevi Fountain was easy for me, as I am lucky enough to have been there. If I hadn't been, I'm not sure I would have got it.

1/5 for me - just Roots.

2/5 for me