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Today I said Daedalus' son...I blanked on the name "Icarus". I give myself half points. Mythology is not a strong area for me, and most of what I know came from watching Kaos (and peripheral googling that came from Kaos to fact check/gain more info).

1/5* - got Polk fairly easily, but no luck the rest of the week.

2/5 - started the week off strong at least. You know, on Thursday, my brain thought "bullet proof vests" but my mouth said "Teflon". I did know that teflon is not what is in the vests, but couldn't pull the right word out of my brain.

0/5 this week.

I guessed "snail". Then realized the antenna things aren't ears. But I couldn't get the image of the snail out of my head to come up with anything different.

1/5

That's too bad. I greatly prefer Sean Harmon as young Gibbs, though it might just be because I am so accustomed to him in the role. I'm trying to give Austin Stowell a chance to grow on me.

Also a lapsed Catholic who didn't get it...although when the answer was revealed, I had immediate flashbacks to Confirmation prep classes titled "Confirmation: A Personal Pentecost".

1/5 - just Great Gatsby, which I hated with a passion in high school but has helped me out often in Jeopardy.

I guessed Ronald McDonald but didn't think that was correct. I forgot about all the other characters, and would never have remembered the name of the purple blob.

1/5* - got the EU, at least.

3/5 this week! Should have at the very least known The Office, and probably Zion too, but alas will have to settle for 3/5 this week.

1/5 for me, saved by the Washington Monument - I couldn't even think of anything else the clue could possibly be referring to.

I got Downton Abbey, never having seen it, because following Maggie Smith's death, her character with the last name Crawley was mentioned approximately 40 times on the news/radio and in articles I read. So it didn't take much for me to connect the name Crawley to Downton Abbey while watching Jeopardy that night. I was half expecting Maggie Smith herself to come up in a clue, per the J! curse.

0/5 this week :(