SomeTameGazelle

I figured he overthought it and convinced himself that everyone else must have over 30k.

Luckily "I'm not throwing away my shot" from Hamilton instantly came into my head in this case.

I participated last year when the Jane Austen house asked for volunteers to transcribe Austen's brother's handwritten memoir. As far as I know they are still compiling the results and I will be interested to see it when it is published. I also learned about volunteer proofreading for Project Gutenberg from Jeopardy champ Hannah Wilson's online posts and I do that from time to time as well. It's a different challenge from reading cursive but there's quite a variety of material and alongside some obscure oddities I have seen some interesting and well-known works coming into public domain as well.

I was thinking that I would have advised Ken to wear a different tie with that shirt. Maybe the small pattern on the tie marched with the check on the shirt but on TV I thought the red of the tie clashed with the shirt. Olive crossed my mind but I discarded it. I didn't think it was laurel (although I don't blame anyone for guessing it) but I would not have thought of palm. Mehal is well-positioned for one of the wildcard spots.

I never finished this episode, but in the book Was he the same boy who had been trying to hide his thoughts from the hive mind?

I assume they would have accepted hind as well as stag. I was trying to think of the boar and thought I was smart to eventually recall the epithet Calydonian ... only to look it up and find that Hercules' boar was Erymanthian. I remembered Stevie and was hoping he would do better, but Evan played very well and I was pleased for him. Davey was probably right to take the risks he took but unfortunately they did not all pay off.

The second chance winners are then eligible for the wild card. And the wild card winner or winners will advance to the TOC. (Second chancers are people who came close but didn't win their regular game. Wild cards are otherwise champs who didn't automatically get invited to the TOC.)

I don't know how well-known Ron Sexsmith is in the US, but it took me a moment to get past the thought "I don't believe Ron Sexsmith is from Alberta" on that clue. I got all of the book category but couldn't access the name of Henry Louis Gates. That Nicobar Pigeon was beautiful. FJ was an instaget.

They're always just scraping by and Rose has to work very hard chiseling minor advantages in order to feed the kids and keep the act going. So to me the question would be would she dress herself better at the expense of the act?

The only reason I have the word cornetto in my head is because of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's "Cornetto Trilogy". We never called the ice cream cornetto, always drumstick. I don't know whether cornetto is used in North America at all. But even though I occasionally indulge in a drumstick from my local convenience store nowadays I don't remember thinking of it as either a drumstick or a cornetto recently, which makes me wonder what is on the label. I do occasionally wonder why some of the clues seem extra British. I very confidently guessed Ghost for the 1990 movie with the tagline "His story will touch you, even though he can't"

I think Adele might have been the only hit maker I got. I was glad that Drew and Sam made up some ground on Enzo on the second day, and any of the three would have been a deserving winner, but I was rooting for them in the order of Sam, Enzo, Drew. However since Sam's guess for FJ wasn't really an American, I am fine with Drew winning.

The picture was in B&W very unlike Drew Carey IMO -- he was in military uniform, no glasses, set expression -- we didn't come close to guessing it here and when his name was revealed the most we could agree on was we could see how it wasn't impossible it could be him. I was annoyed with Ken for saying "wrong set of twins" in response to Scott's half guess of Athena. Athena is not a twin -- was he thinking of Artemis and Apollo?

I remember being impressed with Yvette Nicole Brown on Hollywood Game Night or some such program -- obviously a different skillset from Jeopardy but she played very well. I agree that it is impossible to tell from a scripted performance how well a celebrity will do on Celebrity Jeopardy. And I don't care whether they really do well at the game, and I am pretty forgiving of joking and goofing around because they're there (a) to earn money for their charity, (b) experience Jeopardy, and (c) promote themselves. Sometimes they are Too Much but most of those are eliminated in the first round and I am OK with that. I just don't want anyone, even a celebrity, to feel embarrassed that they tried for the sake of (a) & (b).

I definitely know 17 of these and recognize the names of 2 others without knowing their faces. I really enjoyed Natalie Morales in The Grinder with Rob Lowe, and D'arcy Carden as Janet in The Good Place.

My first thought on seeing the clue was "there is no way I am ever going to come up with anything." But after some intense thinking, possibly because I had just seen Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl on TV, I decided to guess A Star is BOrn. I remembered Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson being on magazine covers and for some reason I persuaded myself that there were no other big movies with huge soundtracks in that era. Never saw the movie and although I remember the song title Evergreen do not know the music. When they revealed the correct response I kicked myself, saying that I should have known that because I remember someone bringing a cassette to the playground so that we could listen to it while playing boxball. None of us had seen the movie because we were too young, but the songs were familiar. When I got up this morning I wondered why my wrong guess had not been Grease, which I did see and did own the album of and spent hours listening to and singing along with.