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Season 15 - Episode 4 - Blood on the Tracks For a variety of reasons, this was the first time I got a chance to tune into a full episode "live" in this new season and it did not disappoint. It was a good mix of mystery/drama and lighter moments. I enjoyed the story involving the volleyball team on the train because of the interactions of all the women - not all really liking one another fully but finding mutual ground to do what needed to be done and Effie was a hoot by the end. Also enjoyed seeing Miss Cherry again. I also enjoyed Murdoch and Baby Jordan - his reactions throughout to her and to Higgins' comments made me laugh out loud several times (always nice to do on a Monday). My heart broke again for Watts by the end of the episode. I do like what they are doing with his story line but can't the guy catch a break?

I admired rather than liked Matt - I am more of a James fan but have no problem with his streak being bested. I have great respect for the depth and breadth of Matt's knowledge and for most of his game play (what's vs. who's drove me batty but that is likely more me than him) but I never quite warmed up to him as so many others have (I am now ducking out of the way of the many Matt fans). I will give him full props on one of my most important criteria however - he handled his defeat with extreme graciousness. For me being a good loser is important (likewise being a good winner). He had an amazing run, seemed to have a good time, won a boatload of money and gets to come back for TOC - all in all, good for you Matt!

@j5cochran - apples used varies depending on availability and then I adjust sugar used depending on the sweetness of the apples. For apple sauce, I usually ask the vendor for a good mix of apples. This week I got honey crisp which I love to eat so I will probably use those.

I managed to stumble, fumble, crumble my way to 5/5 this week including the */M*. Questions just fell into my weirdly constructed wheelhouse. By being a dual history/government major, I read more about and by Machiavelli than I really wanted to but at least it made me get Monday's answer easily. I think the apples I bought at last weekend's farmers market probably helped with Tuesday. Wednesday I can again attribute to a little too much French history and French language classes for years plus I have always mentally associated the month with lobster thermidor. I benefit from the Kind Judge's ruling for Thursday - I honestly don't know how it would have come out if I had been on television. For Friday, a Tom Lehrer lyric popped into my head at the crucial moment "I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus than end up like old Oedipus Rex." I wasn't at all sure that it was a correct answer but it was all I had. @j5cochran - chicken pot pie with no peas sounds wonderful (and is my preferred way to have it). I can offer an Apple Brown Betty which may or may not keep the doctor away.

I managed 4/5 this week. Like others, I was in high school when Born to Run came out so Springsteen is usually my starting point for any musician with long career type questions. Plus I also heard mentions of him around his recent birthday. For Tuesday memories of standing over the Prime Meridian in Greenwich and watching a Michael Palin travel program where he went from Pole to Pole got me quickly to Africa (too quickly really - I started second guessing myself but never came up with a different answer). Wednesday I got the horse part of the clue but got stuck on Centaur and never made it to Pegasus. Thursday was a wild guess because my brain wouldn't come up with anything else. On Friday I immediately said San Francisco but then started wondering when the heck was the Chicago fire - decided it was 19th century just in time to make it back to Frisco. My cooking enjoyment is still on vacation (hoping it comes home soon) so I will offer up the last peach sangria of the season as my contribution to the T44.

Loved the Province clues - thanks to family connections (Father Grundoon was born in Nova Scotia), geographic proximity (Detroit being a border city) and plenty of time watching CBC, I did well. But my favorite clue was the Quebec one mentioning Gaspe. Part of the Grundoon Parents' honeymoon was on the Gaspe peninsula en route to Maine so that Mother Grundoon could meet those of my dad's family who hadn't been able to come to the wedding. The local small town newspaper where Mom grew up and where the wedding was held reported that the newly married couple would be honeymooning in the Gas Bay area of Quebec. It was a family laughline for years.

@PBnJay & @saber5055 - thank you - I do worry that I ramble on too much (and probably do) but I find it odd how often a clue/answer relates back to a memory. I always enjoy reading others' responses so I tried to follow suit. This board has helped me through some difficult times this past 18 months to the point where I regard posting as talking with friends.

Somehow stumbled my way to 5/5 this week. Monday, Tuesday and Friday were instagets - I have fond memories of see Roger Rabbit on a big screen when it was first released with a friend who was my movie buddy at the time - we went almost weekly and saw a wide variety of films. Weirdly haven't read much Beatrix Potter but just knew somehow it was the right answer. Recently listened to selections from the musical "Ragtime" which includes a reference to a character dying on the Luistania. Wednesday and Thursday were more in the educated guesses area. I couldn't think of another edible plague so went with locusts and I thought the length of time & distance was about right for the Wall so chose it probably because I have a vivid memory of going from West to East Berlin with the Parent Grundoons on a tour bus in 1971 and being scared out of my little 11 year old wits

I knew an answer thanks yet again to spending my summers watching Vintage Base Ball at Greenfield Village. They play by the rules of 1867 and one of the commentators has a favorite trivia question about which Wright Brother was born that year and who was the elder/younger. Since the Village has their family home and bicycle shop, it is a natural tie in.

Congratulations @theartandsound! What a great start for this season and away we go!

You are correct in the description of the clue @MrAtoz and I know that everyone's opinion of what is the greatest can vary. Don't get me wrong, absolutely nothing is out of place in Send in the Clowns and I will take a Sondheim song over just about any other musical theater composition (but I love a wide variety of show tunes). For me, the greatest would include The Miller's Son or a Weekend in the Country (from Night Music), Side by Side (or really anything from Company), Someone in a Tree (from Pacific Overtures), A Little Priest or God, that's Good (Sweeney Todd), Now You Know or Opening Doors (Merrily We Roll Along) Waiting for the Girls Upstairs or I'm Still Here (Follies) or about a dozen others I could mention.

Mercifully none exists. I think the students were so stunned that they didn't even bother to get their phones out. 🤣

I will admit to being slightly grouchy this morning but as a Stephen Sondheim fan, I have to object to him being a What and not a Who ( I know this is a Matt quirk but it is really starting to irk me as being a little disrespectful although I am reasonably sure he does not mean it to be so). Also I have a problem with Send in the Clowns as his "best" song. Most prevalent in pop culture? Quite possibly but "best"? I can think of dozens of other candidates. I am with @Abay - liner notes are a great source of information - I have read almost all of them for almost all the albums I have (not as much fun with a CD but it can be done). Don't get me started on digital music and you kids get off my lawn!

Well I did my own version of "piddle, twiddle and resolve" to try to reach the answers this week but I knew it wasn't John Adams this time around (although he did pop up in my life this week when I was leading Constitution Day quizzes for the students at the small career training school where I am the Registrar. Not only was he one of the answers but I referenced "1776" as one of my favorite musicals while trying to entertain the students by dancing/singing badly to snippets from "Hamilton" - don't ask exactly why but it got the students to participate in the quiz). I managed 4/5 - I remembered learning about the synagogue from a long ago visit to Newport, I flubbed the science question by focusing too much on the word and not the year, I got from Carroll to Tolkien in the nick of time, couldn't come up with any other name besides Malala and knew Jackson from too much early American history over the years. For food for the table, I offer up a Puffy Corn Omelet since I was still able to score fresh corn from the Farmers Market yesterday.

I got mine as well - thanks so much @saber5055! I am looking forward to reading it.

Thanks @Trey and I agree @peacheslatour, Watts is one of my favorites as well.

I saw over the weekend that it was returning Monday night on CBC (which is local tv for the Detroit area) but I couldn't watch since my neighbors kindly asked me over to see "Come From Away" on their Apple+ TV connection (which was extraordinary even for someone who saw the touring company in the theater in late 2019 - highly recommend it for anyone who has access). Thanks for the info about the episode since I will try to remember to watch next Monday's episode and then watch Part I when streaming is available. Was Watts in any of the story lines?

I have been telling people all week about how much fun this is and suddenly had to ask myself, did I sign up yet? Nope so here I am eagerly saying I'm in. Good to see familiar names but welcome all newcomers- I was new last season and can honestly say, this was one of the most fun things I did in the last year (and that is not intended to be damning with faint praise given the general suckiness of recent times - it was just an extra bright spot in my life when one was badly needed).

I love my certificate and feel honored that the Great Tub of Knowledge was gracious enough to award me a book as well. I have enjoyed participating in this contest so much - it helped draw me back into Jeopardy after losing Mother Grundoon in January 2020 and helped me feel part of a community again. Thanks to you all I laughed while I learned stuff - what could be better? I am really looking forward to participating in next season's contest.

By sheer happy coincidence, I had read recent comments here and while channel surfing last night came across the episode Hash which may be one of my favorites of all time for any series. I watched the whole rest of the episode and l laughed like a lunatic. So many great moments - Fish being Mr. Macho both with the arrest of the burglar and with the patrolman/Bernice, Wojo wanting Barney to be divine, a totally relaxed Harris, Levitt trying to use it to buddy/buddy with Barney, the actor/critic commentary from the cell, Barney's reactions throughout and Jack Soo just owned the episode culminating in his return to his Broadway roots with "Almost Like Being in Love".

@Prevailing Wind, I am assuming that your Pogo mention is referencing the old comic strip. The Parental Grundoons loved it and when I was in utero I was named Grundoon for the little creature who could only speak in consonants. Mother Grundoon wrote Walt Kelly to ask for a picture of the character so I could see it as I was growing up. He wrote back that he didn't normally do that but did send her an original strip (with the blue edit pencils marks) featuring Grundoon which he also signed for her. Needless to say it is a prized possession and I would have loved to have seen that mascot costume at the Olympics.

I have really been enjoying this show and tend to save the latest episode to stream when I want to watch something fun and different. I don't usually correctly guess the Hustler in the early going (more often than not, my first choice is one of the first people out the door) but this week I did for some reason so I liked this episode even more than usual. I also like trying to guess the answers to the trivia questions but I realized that I would probably be rubbish on this show - I haven't lived an interesting enough life to be a good candidate for the Hustler and I would probably be arguing too much for answers I knew that the Hustler might think I knew who they were. So another dream of being on a television game show dies....

Thanks @saber5055 for the T41 table setting and menu - I will just say YUM - and if either Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum's seat is available at the table, I will proudly take my place (long ago and far away in grad school, a friend and I dressed as them for a Halloween party).

I live in the Detroit area so have gotten Canadian/British tv all my life. I can't even remember how long I have been watching Corrie but am guessing it was in the 70s when I got into US soaps as well. I definitely go back to when the Duckworths first arrived, Curly was a binman, Alan Bradley, Gail before she was a Platt, Rita, Emily & Bet in their heydays, etc... I even got a chance to visit the old Granada Studios tour and see the Street in person. As with US soaps, I have gone off Corrie for awhile and then returned but it has been a small part of my life for decades. IMO no show/soap is ever perfect but I do value what they are doing in trying circumstances and honestly seeing Izzy's scenes last night (Canadian episode time) telling Carla and Sarah what pandemic life was like for her was as good if not better than the way any other show I watch has handled it. One last other way I know I have watched too much Corrie, I was on a cruise about 8 years ago and went to bingo where a gentleman named David Platt won the round. I could not stop laughing but couldn't really share the joke with anyone until I went up to speak to the British crew member calling numbers after the game. He had noticed me and asked "How do you know about David Platt?" We had a good chuckle over it.

1/5 with no * - bad end to the season but I have enjoyed participating with you all this season. You have helped me through some bad times this year and I thank you for that. @saber5055 - it was not the same without you and as far as I am concerned wouldn't be in future. Hope your sabbatical helped and that you can find your center again. No food to contribute this week for the T41 - sorry - just got power back last night after 4 days without due to storms - unfortunately I had a moderately well-stocked fridge and freezer - spending parts of the next few days judging what survived and what needs to be thrown out. On the other hand, this past weekend was one of my favorites of the year - World Tournament of Historic Base Ball at Greenfield Village - 12 teams, 18 hours of games and incredible weather makes for one happy Grundoon.