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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”.

Well, seeing Wednesday's FJ makes me think I must have seen a different episode that day. I am 100% sure I watched Jeopardy that day, but have absolutely no memory of that final jeopardy question. Don't remember what FJ I saw on Wednesday, though, and can't say for sure if I would have known Bhutan. Another rough week with three asterisks. Alas, it was zero for me.

1/5 for Curie. Tough week with three TS!

I spent the entire think music wondering if I should go with the obvious choice of Marie Curie, or Pierre Curie, who also shared the Nobel prize but maybe is a less obvious choice. I settled on Marie (didn't want to talk myself out of the answer by thinking it is "too easy"), but I am really surprised that they used that clue for Final Jeopardy.

1/5, with Morticia saving me from another shutout week.

Me too! Well, I immediately recognized they meant Chopin's nocturne, failed to do any sort of math, and then guessed Austria for who knows what reason.

I guess I haven't been paying much attention, because I have no idea who that is. I could tell by the music that I was supposed to know him, but I don't.

0/5 this week :(

Me, during FJ: Oh, of course the movie is Casablanca *pictures the airport scene* Random neurons firing in my brain: Casablanca=We'll always have Paris Me: The answer is Paris! And then of course once the answer of Lisbon is revealed...obviously they aren't trying to get to Paris, they are trying to escape the war! I did seem to have enough neurons firing properly to realize that they were not looking for the movie title or departure city. Not that it helped me overall.

1/5 - gaslight was an instaget. So close with Icarus - maybe a half point for "Daedalus' son"?

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.