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Got 1 which happened to be an *. First ever cruise I went on stopped at Bergen, Norway where Grieg's home was. Somehow, I never forgot that even though I was too sick with a cold to go on the planned excursion there. I will blame the rest of the week on frozen brain cells from the cold snap - although I did get Lecarre but not Fleming (both were among Father Grundoon's favorite authors, but I am more familiar with the former than the latter).

3/5 with 1*. Got sovereign, Egypt and Silent Spring. My brainpower clearly trailed off by the end of the week.

Ooh, maybe I should try buying a lottery ticket. 🤣 But I am very glad to hear it.

I managed 4/5 - couldn't get to Homestead Act which as a government/history major (albeit long ago), I was sort of embarrassed to miss.

3/5 with no * - got Hispianola, Grant and Jonah - all lucky guesses. Couldn't think fast enough for pantomime. Science is never one of my strong suits. Thursday reminded me of one of Father Grundoon's favorite final exam questions - he had an econ final and the first of about 100 questions was: _____ is the ______ ______ of ______. To hear Father Grundoon tell it, some students ripped up their test papers and just walked out. Others tried but got freaked out. Some made it through by skipping the question, answering the rest and going back to it. Father was in the third group. BTW - the "answer" is money is the common medium of exchange.

3/5 with no * I couldn't have pulled Chavez into my brain if someone had offered me a million dollars and Memphis proved elusive as well. The rest of the week seemed peculiarly suited to me. Since I got to meet (and have a picture taken with) Smokey on his 80th birthday, I would have been remiss not to get him. I remember the advertising for Saturday Night Fever (disco haunted my college years) and all of A.A. Milne's work was a staple of childhood literature in the Grundoon household. I will bring champagne to celebrate Jeopardy and the New Year. Best wishes for health and happiness to all of us in this forum!

3/5 with 2*. I got Blanche, Falklands (not at all sure where I pulled that from) and Rico. I have to defend Little Ceasar's pizza since the first one ever is less than five miles from my house. Have I liked other pizza more? Sure, but sometimes nothing hits the spot like LC and it is a Detroit area institution. Since pizza and cannoli are already covered, I will offer up some red wine and salad. Happy holidays to all!

3/5 with 1* (Marie, Jeannie & Douglas). For Monday, I got lost in the Channel Islands and never made it south. On Tuesday, I was too busy desperately trying to remember the relationship between Adlai and Adlai II to even get to a guess. All the sweet treats sound amazing so I will offer up some beef barley soup as a prequel.

Discovered last night that I must really like this show since I was annoyed it was preempted for The Voice finale. I had missed the information posted here about the dates it would be airing, but it was good to realize my affection for the show. Although I have to worry that I have now doomed it.

3/5 with 1* - all wild guesses, but I got War & Peace, Poland and Morticia (at one point in my little Grundoon life, I thought Carolyn Jones was the epitome of cool).

3/5 with no * (had no clue for Chuck E. Cheese but it made total sense when I heard the answer). Like @M. Darcy, I knew it was Casablanca but couldn't make my brain remember where the flight was going although I know it is referenced in the movie quite a bit. Thanks for everyone's good wishes for my health - still improving but not back to 100% yet. I ended up going to urgent care (mainly due to concern of pneumonia). The doctor said my lungs were fine (hurrah!) and that cold that was going around was just nasty & took quite a while for recovery. I did a course of steroids which helped a lot. Happy thoughts and hugs being sent to all other sufferers!

I had the opposite reaction @Harvey to seeing Nico Santos, but I do realize that opinions vary. I enjoyed the episode, especially Val pretending she was part of the gang to fit in. I like enough of the characters/actors to be willing to give it some time to build and I hope it gets the chance to do so.

@Browncoat - I am glad you avoided whatever I got. My whole office is in varying degrees of "the cough". Travel safe and have a great holiday!

I am with @Good Queen Jane in terms of score and cold suffering but not in terms of the wonderful treatment (your remedy sounds much better than my OTC preparations). 5/5 with 1* - more than a couple were lucky guesses. In terms of obvious news - don't get this cold that is going around if you can help it. My cough is ridiculous (think sounding like a victim of consumption). I actually went to urgent care yesterday to make sure it was nothing worse. Good news, it isn't. Bad news, the doctor said this delight was hanging around and taking people weeks to recover from.

Absolutely loved the first episode - I want to savor each one, so I am trying not to binge. Thought it was extremely well done and just enough familiar faces to have an interesting game of "who did they play in ....." to go along with the plot. Already hoping there will be a second season.