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1/5 with scarlet fever.

1/5 for me - just Atlas. Their exhibition game "gimme" saved me from a shutout!

1/5 - started the week off decently, but all downhill from there.

1/5* - annus horribilis was an instaget for me. I'd had low hopes for a category about Latin, but here we are.

I do think Reykjavik was a bad guess just because I know that the bulk of the border between Canada and the US is at the 49th parallel. And Iceland is quite north of that. Google tells me Reykjavik is at 64 degrees north. Having said that, I would have guessed Wellington was much further south than 41 degrees. But I guess I don't have a good mental landmark for that, the way I have for the northern hemisphere. Also I blame my wall map of the world, which cuts off most of Antarctica, thus making NZ closer to the bottom of the map than Iceland is to the top of the map! Washington DC is at about 39 degrees, making it closer to the 40s than Reykjavik.

0/5 this week :( or 0.5 if we are being generous, as I did get Ian Fleming.

1/5* - I won't give myself Silent Spring as I couldn't remember the name of the book, but I did get Egypt!

I joined the contestants in guessing laurel, though I was pretty sure it was a crown or wreath, not a leaf, that is given to winners.

With the FJ category, I pre-called the correct answer. The problem was, I could not recall the title. It's been on Jeopardy (and FJ!) often enough. So it was "that book that comes up all the time that is about pesticides destroying the environment".

4/5 this week! Only missed Homestead Act, and I feel like, as a non-American, that is understandable. Still much better than normal for me.

I had a big sense of deja vu for FJ today. I was absolutely certain of Tinder, but I felt like this fact has come up before. A search of the j-archive does not seem to suggest that it has, though.

2/5 for me. Was sooooo close on pantomime. I got the "mime" part and blanked on the Greek word for all, or how to make "mime" fit the clue.

1/5 for me - just Winnie the Pooh. Won't give myself credit for Smokey Bear since if I was watching by myself, I wouldn't have got there.

First I said Uncle Sam, then decided it was too late for Uncle Sam to be introduced. Then thought Rosie the Riveter. Then my mom started saying "oh! the fire one! not Sparky, the other one!" And then I remembered Smokey Bear. I'm surprised they accepted Smokey the Bear. Don't they have a history of not accepting it with "the", or am I remembering wrong?

This is what my week was, also. I remember all of those questions. Still 0/5 so it doesn’t change my score! I got stuck on “Bianca” for “white”.