Jeopardy! Season 38 (2021-2022)

[Trey]

I didn't think Pete would last too long and he did not. 

I did get the ts's of Will Rogers, Plymouth, Clermont, Hawaii, and Abishola, plus the missed DD of payola.

I had absolutely no answer or even a bad guess for FJ.  I think Sesame Street questions have been stumpers in the past.

[proserpina65]

I had no clue on FJ.  I've never watched Sesame Street as we didn't have a tv which would get PBS until long past the age for it.  I said Dragnet because it started with a d.

Otherwise, I ran 7 categories: Chuck D, Diet Hard, Time Machine Movies (I called Hot Tub Time Machine the moment I saw the category title), Body Parts, Literary Title Characters, Science-Podge (to my great surprise) and Municipal Music.  Would've run -Ola had I heard the category name before the first clue was read because then I would've known payola.

My stumpers were Hawaii - because of the lepers, Plymouth, United States, Ethan Frome (Thanks, Liam Neeson!), Paris and Abishola.

For states, I was going "Will, Will, oh I know this one, damn it" but Rogers just would not come out of my mind.

13 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I was stuck on the moon landing too based on the date. 

I also had that problem.  Couldn't figure out what "D" had to do with the moon landing.

14 hours ago, ECM1231 said:

My TS's were Hawaii, Abishola, and Ibu from the Shogun category. Sesame St was way after my time (Captain Kangaroo& Romper Room) and didn't even register.  

I was the right age for Sesame Street but never watched it (see above).  Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo were my kiddie shows, too.

[SomeTameGazelle]

7 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Exactly! 👏   
And yet, did you notice for the first DD on this last show she toned it down? But by the 2nd DD she was back to gushing. Maybe 🤔 she should consider hypnosis to break the habit of being so utterly startled by the appearance of a DD and How in the World to correctly respond?  

Mayim's reaction would have to be a lot more effusive for me to think of it as "gushing". She just sounds slightly pleased to me. And while it is not a surprise that Daily Doubles exist in the game, no one knows who will select them or what impact they might have, so it could be exciting! The way she announces the DD doesn't seem as if it creates a problem for the contestant either in terms of wagering or in responding, either. I'm more concerned about things that disrupt the flow or create confusion. 

[HelenBaby]

Did this happen on your viewing of yesterday’s episode? In the -ola category, the clue for Shin-ola was revealed but it skipped whether anyone guessed and went directly to the next clue. I can see where maybe it was problematic. 

[ams1001]

16 minutes ago, HelenBaby said:

Did this happen on your viewing of yesterday’s episode? In the -ola category, the clue for Shin-ola was revealed but it skipped whether anyone guessed and went directly to the next clue. I can see where maybe it was problematic. 

Not on my station (ABC in NYC).

[Cotypubby]

27 minutes ago, HelenBaby said:

Did this happen on your viewing of yesterday’s episode? In the -ola category, the clue for Shin-ola was revealed but it skipped whether anyone guessed and went directly to the next clue. I can see where maybe it was problematic. 

No. It played fine for me. Probably was just a glitch on your station. What’s wrong with that clue?

[dcalley]

My "just write something down!" FJ answer was Laugh-In, but I didn't like it, and I started to think of Sesame Street right when the first response was revealed--so, too late.

I am still amused by someone confusing The Funky Bunch and Public Enemy.

[South]

29 minutes ago, dcalley said:

My "just write something down!" FJ answer was Laugh-In, but I didn't like it, and I started to think of Sesame Street right when the first response was revealed--so, too late.

I am still amused by someone confusing The Funky Bunch and Public Enemy.

Later in the evening, I played some Public Enemy while clubbing some baseboards. Partner South came home from the store and said “. Oooh!  The Funky Bunch!”.  So another Jeopardy gaffe lives on. There are quite a few that we use on occasion.  

Just now, South said:

Later in the evening, I played some Public Enemy while clubbing some baseboards. Partner South came home from the store and said “. Oooh!  The Funky Bunch!”.  So another Jeopardy gaffe lives on. There are quite a few that we use on occasion.  

Scrubbing baseboards, though taking a cudgel to them would have felt better.

[Clanstarling]

16 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

I never saw Sesame Street until the 80’s after my daughter was born so I was clueless on FJ. I actually wondered if Dennis the Menace carved his name in a tree or something 😂

Me too. I was out of the country in 69 , and even then was too old to watch the show. I started watching it in '89 when my first child was starting to get excited at the General Hospital theme. 🤣 So I mom-ed up and turned on Sesame Street and a  number of other kids programs. I particular liked Today's Special.

2 hours ago, Cotypubby said:

No. It played fine for me. Probably was just a glitch on your station. What’s wrong with that clue?

Well, there's an old saying something to the effect of you don't know  "s*** from Shinola." My dad used to use it a lot. Maybe they thought a contestant would use the whole phrase?

I did okay, almost ran a category or two, but in general not an impressive game for me.

Edited June 30, 2022 by Clanstarling

[ABay]

17 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

1969! Moon landing! Summer of love!

The Summer of Love was 1967, I believe.

[SoMuchTV]

29 minutes ago, ABay said:

The Summer of Love was 1967, I believe.

Whoops, so it was.  Not that knowing that would have helped me on this one.

[illdoc]

40 minutes ago, ABay said:

18 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

1969! Moon landing! Summer of love!

The Summer of Love was 1967, I believe.

Woodstock was 1969, however, so that might be where the confusion came in.

[rubaco]

Former head researcher of Jeopardy on Ken Levine's podcast. This is part one, conclusion next week. It's interesting! 

She's retired so there is no scoop on who the permanent host will be, so don't expect that info.

(Who's Ken Levine, you might be asking? He was a sitcom writer on shows like Cheers, Frasier, and he has a great blog and obviously a podcast too.)

[HyeChaps]

I also guessed Dragnet.  

Boo on that clue.

[853fisher]

It is accurate to say that Lucy Hayes is best remembered for banning alcohol in the White House, but "Lemonade Lucy" is a caricature of who she really was.  Lucy was a teetotaler herself but was not opposed to others drinking in moderation.  That, along with her belief that persuasion was a better tool than prohibition, earned her some criticism from temperance advocates during her lifetime.  According to sources like this one from UVA's Miller Center for presidential studies, it was actually Rutherford rather than Lucy who decided on the White House ban, although she was blamed for it by those who disagreed.

I think it's a shame that we recall Lucy as a sort of silly scold, if we recall her at all, because she was a very accomplished woman who contributed to public life far beyond her interest in temperance.  Her father was a doctor who in 1833 traveled to Kentucky to free slaves he had inherited and, while there, helped treat those affected by a cholera outbreak, to which he himself eventually succumbed.  Her mother said she would take washing in at home before she took her friends' advice to rebalance the family's accounts by selling the slaves.  Lucy took that example and was an advocate for African-Americans throughout her life.

That's just one facet of her life I thought was worth mentioning.  "Oh, Lucy Hayes" indeed!

[Montreal Meany]

17 hours ago, South said:

Thank you!  I’ve been wondering why they would have started with the letter D.  I don’t necessarily recall if they typically went in alphabetical order, but if they began with D, I would expect there was a symbolic reason of sorts.  But it sounds like D was just part of the scene with Gordon and the boys, not the letter that that day’s show was brought to us by.  Now I can lay me down to sleep.  Again, thanks for supplying that.

It was brought to us by the letter D and the number 2, but D was much more strongly featured. 2 in fact would have been justified in asking for its money back. 

I'll bet those two kids returned to the sidewalk later to do the job properly. 

[PBnJay]

16 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Thanks to watching a lot of antenna TV in recent years, for FJ I spent the entire time trying to recall the title “Dragnet,” thinking the ending hammer might have been making a D impression.

I totally went with Dragnet, even though the last time I saw an episode was ... well, a REALLY long time ago. At least it starts with a D.

[Katy M]

I got final.  I thought it was too easy and tried to think of something else, but luckily i couldn't.

I got the missed clues of yellow journalism, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and shack/shuck.

I got the entire category of stan countries right.  

I missed James Herriot, which really annoyed me.  I love his books,but his name escaped me.  If it had been final, I would have gotten it.

[blueray]

How did none of them get FJ? My husband and I were yelling at the TV "Portland". It seemed obvious to me. And they all picked cities that are major cities but there is no small known city to match. And NYC is on the east cost....

Anyhow, besides that it was a close game and it was interesting to see the first place and second place winners both finish with 2000. I don't recall that happening at least not that often. Which makes me wonder if say he finished with 900 and she say finished with 700. Would she still get 2000?

[chessiegal]

8 minutes ago, blueray said:

Which makes me wonder if say he finished with 900 and she say finished with 700. Would she still get 2000?

Yes, because second place gets $2,000, third place gets $1,000, winner gets what they won with.

[ams1001]

June 30...Meh game. Didn't run anything but had five categories where I only missed one. No FJ. My brain did go to Washington before I realized that only one of them is a city so I was partially in the right general area of the country, at least? 

TSes were yellow journalism, Succession, Pakistan (DD), shack/shuck, Harvey Fierstein, Chris Stapleton (which I only knew because of the thumbnail of a youtube video that I didn't actually watch [I watch her channel mostly for the movie reviews]).

Dear Mayim, if the player has already started to pick the next clue, just keep your mouth shut!
 

20 minutes ago, rubaco said:

(Who's Ken Levine, you might be asking? He was a sitcom writer on shows like Cheers, Frasier, and he has a great blog and obviously a podcast too.)

Does anyone not have a podcast these days?

[Bastet]

The yellow journalism TS surprised me; I'd never heard of the character, but ask me about a name for sensational journalism and show me a picture of someone wearing a big blob of yellow, and it's an instaget, so I was surprised none of the three figured it out.  Shack/shuck going unanswered surprised me a bit, too.

The only TV show in the Emmy category I've ever watched is The West Wing, but I managed to get all but Succession.  That was my only miss in the entire first round, so I was off to a good start.

And I remained on fire in DJ; I ran eat, drink, memoirs, got all but one in science words and Kentucky, and missed two in merry.

It all ground to a halt in FJ, though.  For some reason, I never thought of cities with the same name, and was instead trying to think of western cities that contained another city as part of its name.  I wound up with no guess.

[The Wild Sow]

2 hours ago, Katy M said:

I missed James Herriot, which really annoyed me.  I love his books,but his name escaped me.  If it had been final, I would have gotten it.

Wonder if they'd have taken "Alf Wight"? <g>

Portland was an instaget - how did none of them get it?  New York, really?  It clearly stated a city named for an American city, not an English one!

[30 Helens]

4 hours ago, 853fisher said:

"Oh, Lucy Hayes" indeed!

Because we are limited to only one reaction, I chose a light bulb, but I would like to add 👏 as well. Thanks for the very interesting post! I had no idea. Although of course she was blamed for the alcohol ban, because wimmins be so uptight.

For me, today was proof of just how much difference the right category mix makes, because I ruled this game, up to and including FJ. Yesterday, I would have slunk away in shame.  The only category I blew today was “Drink”, which, well… let’s just say it’s a little ironic. 

I didn’t understand 2 people saying “New York City”. There are lots of cities in the US that share a name, but where is there another New York??

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A very low-carb, high-fat diet gets you into this state, when your body starts using fats to create energy

I don’t think “ketogenic” should have been accepted as a correct answer. Ketogenic describes the type of diet. The state it puts the body into is called Ketosis. I know this because I have a sibling who won’t shut up about their annoying Keto diet.

2 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Does anyone not have a podcast these days?

Me, and to be honest, I’m feeling a bit left out. Want to start one with me? We can do a weekly rundown of Mayim grievances. I’m sure it would be wildly popular. 😉

[SomeTameGazelle]

45 minutes ago, The Wild Sow said:

Portland was an instaget - how did none of them get it?  New York, really?  It clearly stated a city named for an American city, not an English one!

And of course the year 1845 was much too late for New York, NY as well. I felt very smug that I managed to think of Portland. But in FJ writing a dumb wrong answer has the same result as writing nothing, so I can see the logic behind writing something just on the remote chance that it is somehow not as dumb as you think.

Guessing Mamie Eisenhower as the first lady at the inauguration in 1965 was an awful guess. I don't know what Halley was thinking, unless perhaps it was 1956?

[SomeTameGazelle]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

The yellow journalism TS surprised me; I'd never heard of the character, but ask me about a name for sensational journalism and show me a picture of someone wearing a big blob of yellow, and it's an instaget, so I was surprised none of the three figured it out. 

Yellow was the first thing that came to mind but I also got stuck on whether I needed to come up with the name of the character and not just the word yellow. Not sure if that was also a factor in Dave and Hoa not ringing in. Just having the picture means you can't double-check the niceties in the wording of the clue.

[3 is enough]

I am ashamed to admit I missed FJ despite the fact my daughter and son-in-law live in Portland Oregon. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[ams1001]

8 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

I didn’t understand 2 people saying “New York City”. There are lots of cities in the US that share a name, but where is there another New York??

Okay, you made me google this. Turns out there are 14 places named New York (7 in the US):

New York, Texas
New York, New York
New York, New Mexico
New York, Missouri
New York, Kentucky
New York, Iowa
New York, Florida

New York, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
New York, Saint Ann, Jamaica
New York, Limpopo, South Africa
New York, Singapore
New York, Chiapas, Mexico
New York, Santa Barbara, Honduras
New York, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

8 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

Me, and to be honest, I’m feeling a bit left out. Want to start one with me? We can do a weekly rundown of Mayim grievances. I’m sure it would be wildly popular. 😉

I feel like it would just be a lot of me yelling "shut UP!"

[JudyObscure]

13 hours ago, 853fisher said:

That's just one facet of her life I thought was worth mentioning.  "Oh, Lucy Hayes" indeed!

I didn't know all you just told us and even so I was offended by the condescending way Mayim said that.  Even if Lucy Hayes had been the reason for the ban, it wasn't a terrible thing.  I think the whole temperance experiment was admirable.  It was women trying to protect other women and their children, who, at the time, were at the mercy of men who spent their entire paycheck in bars before coming home to beat them.

[ams1001]

8 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

I don’t think “ketogenic” should have been accepted as a correct answer. Ketogenic describes the type of diet. The state it puts the body into is called Ketosis. I know this because I have a sibling who won’t shut up about their annoying Keto diet.

I just saw a comment on facebook from someone who said she is a pediatric dietician who specializes in ketogenic diet for management of drug-resistant epilepsy. She said ketogenic was "very incorrect" and she was "appalled that it was accepted" because the question asked for the state of the body the diet causes, which is "ketosis" and ketogenic is the name of the diet.

Someone else replied that "'ketogenic state' is listed in the Merriam -Webster dictionary as a valid phrase; I suspect that is why they allowed it."

So I guess fair enough. (Though I googled "ketogenic state" and most of the results are about "ketosis.")

Edited July 1, 2022 by ams1001

[Trey]

I said ketatosis instead of ketosis, close but no cigar.

My two ts's were yellow journalism and Lucy Hayes.

FJ was pretty much an instaget.

[M. Darcy]

Even though the 1969 should have told me immediately it was Sesame Street, it never occurred to me.  I guessed The Monkees - maybe Davy Jones wrote a D.  

No one knew Harvey Fierstein!  Not a great way to end Gay Pride month. 

[ABay]

18 hours ago, illdoc said:

Woodstock was 1969, however, so that might be where the confusion came in.

That makes sense. I thought maybe it was just the number.

[Mindthinkr]

I can’t find my scribble sheet where I write down my TSs, but I know i didn’t come up with FJ. Add me to the list of astonished people over the ketosis/ketogenic answer. 

[MrAtoz]

1 hour ago, JudyObscure said:

I didn't know all you just told us and even so I was offended by the condescending way Mayim said that.  Even if Lucy Hayes had been the reason for the ban, it wasn't a terrible thing.  I think the whole temperance experiment was admirable.  It was women trying to protect other women and their children, who, at the time, were at the mercy of men who spent their entire paycheck in bars before coming home to beat them.

True.  The temperance movement is often portrayed today as a bunch of puritanical scolds, but they were trying to solve a genuine social problem.

[ams1001]

I get the Morning Brew newsletter and there's a game section at the bottom. The games vary - word searches, crosswords, three headlines and a lie, word puzzles, and sometimes there's a custom Jeopardy game (not a full game; one round of five categories with four clues in each, plus Final Jeopardy). 

Today's had a Kit Carson clue. 

Edited July 1, 2022 by ams1001

[Clanstarling]

11 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

I don’t think “ketogenic” should have been accepted as a correct answer. Ketogenic describes the type of diet. The state it puts the body into is called Ketosis. I know this because I have a sibling who won’t shut up about their annoying Keto diet.

I said ketosis, and then doubted myself after they accepted ketogenic. Many years ago I was on a diet, and when you met you had to blow into something that measured ketosis (?) - and the worker accused me of cheating on my diet because it didn't show up. I hadn't cheated at all. That was the last of that diet.

2 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Okay, you made me google this. Turns out there are 14 places named New York (7 in the US):

New York, Texas
New York, New York
New York, New Mexico
New York, Missouri
New York, Kentucky
New York, Iowa
New York, Florida

New York, Saint Catherine, Jamaica
New York, Saint Ann, Jamaica
New York, Limpopo, South Africa
New York, Singapore
New York, Chiapas, Mexico
New York, Santa Barbara, Honduras
New York, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

That's way more than I imagined - though none of them have more than 10 times the population of NYC, NY.

Portland wasn't too difficult fro me since I am aware of Portland, Maine and I live in Oregon. The population comparison seemed about right.

I ran journalism (a surprise) and almost ran First Lady, Emmy, and Memoir (missed Herriot, I couldn't get to it in time). And got FJ, so all in all it was a pretty decent game.

Edited July 1, 2022 by Clanstarling

[chessiegal]

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A very low-carb, high-fat diet gets you into this state, when your body starts using fats to create energy

Sorry judges, the correct answer is ketosis.

[ams1001]

1 hour ago, ams1001 said:

Today's had a Kit Carson clue. 

The clue:

At the start of the civil war, Kit Carson nailed the Stars and Stripes to a flagpole in this New Mexico ski town and dared confederate sympathizers to take it down.

Options (it's multiple choice):

Spoiler

Taos
Santa Fe
Sipapu
Parajito

Answer:

Spoiler

What is Taos?

[Slade347]

2 hours ago, M. Darcy said:

Even though the 1969 should have told me immediately it was Sesame Street, it never occurred to me.  

The 1969 connection is what got me to Sesame Street pretty quickly as I remember the 50th anniversary celebration from a few years back. That, along with the Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers clue and last night's Portland are three FJ triple stumpers that I was able to get. That said, I thought the first two clues were pretty poorly written. 

As much as I liked Ryan, I'm enjoying not having a super champion. I hope that continues for a while.

[South]

5 hours ago, ams1001 said:

I just saw a comment on facebook from someone who said she is a pediatric dietician who specializes in ketogenic diet for management of drug-resistant epilepsy. She said ketogenic was "very incorrect" and she was "appalled that it was accepted" because the question asked for the state of the body the diet causes, which is "ketosis" and ketogenic is the name of the diet.

Someone else replied that "'ketogenic state' is listed in the Merriam -Webster dictionary as a valid phrase; I suspect that is why they allowed it."

So I guess fair enough. (Though I googled "ketogenic state" and most of the results are about "ketosis.")

Appalled?  Yikes.  I reckon the dietician is a brilliant scientist, but perhaps is lacking in her understanding of our parts of speech.  If the clue had been worded differently, “ketogenic” could have been incorrect.  Phrased as it was, both ketosis and ketogenic were correct.

[South]

4 hours ago, M. Darcy said:

Even though the 1969 should have told me immediately it was Sesame Street, it never occurred to me.  I guessed The Monkees - maybe Davy Jones wrote a D.  

No one knew Harvey Fierstein!  Not a great way to end Gay Pride month. 

I felt the same.  At least in my kitchen, he got an an adoring and immediate “Harvey!” from Partner South and myself.  I caught my breath hoping that Mayim would see that as a good time for her “come on guys, really?  It’s Harvey Fierstein!”, but alas, no.

[proserpina65]

I called Afghanistan as soon as I saw the "Stan" Countries category.  Unfortunately I missed Pakistan so I didn't run that one.

I only ran 2 categories, both in the first round: First Lady Firsts and I Won An Emmy For That Drama, but except for Baggage and Science, I only missed one clue in the others.  And if I hadn't thought Ithaca was a city, not an island in The Odyssey, I'd have run Be Merry as well.

My stumpers were Uzbekistan (this was my answer instead of Pakistan first, then it was the very next clue), yellow journalism, Succession, Harvey Fierstein and Ode to Joy.

I came up with Portland, Oregon, but only after the music had stopped so there's no way I'd have been able to write it down.

17 hours ago, chessiegal said:

Yes, because second place gets $2,000, third place gets $1,000, winner gets what they won with.

Theoretically it's possible for the winner to actually get less money than the second and third place finishers as a result.  I'm it's probably happened.

18 hours ago, 853fisher said:

I think it's a shame that we recall Lucy as a sort of silly scold, if we recall her at all, because she was a very accomplished woman who contributed to public life far beyond her interest in temperance.  Her father was a doctor who in 1833 traveled to Kentucky to free slaves he had inherited and, while there, helped treat those affected by a cholera outbreak, to which he himself eventually succumbed.  Her mother said she would take washing in at home before she took her friends' advice to rebalance the family's accounts by selling the slaves.  Lucy took that example and was an advocate for African-Americans throughout her life.

'll confess, if it weren't for the Lemonade Lucy caricature, I'd never have gotten that one right, but now I feel like I want to know more about Lucy Hayes.  So thanks for the info.

3 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

The temperance movement is often portrayed today as a bunch of puritanical scolds, but they were trying to solve a genuine social problem.

The way they went about it was completely impractical and absolutely unfair to those who had no problem drinking in moderation, but their wanting to solve the problem was admirable.

2 hours ago, ams1001 said:

The clue:

At the start of the civil war, Kit Carson nailed the Stars and Stripes to a flagpole in this New Mexico ski town and dared confederate sympathizers to take it down.

Options (it's multiple choice):

  Reveal spoiler

Taos
Santa Fe
Sipapu
Parajito

Answer:

  Reveal spoiler

What is Taos?

Spoiler

Taos, correct?

[PaulaO]

Someday I want somebody  to answer Trebekistan in a “Stan” category.

[Prevailing Wind]

6 hours ago, M. Darcy said:

No one knew Harvey Fierstein!  Not a great way to end Gay Pride month. 

To be honest, I had a hard time recognizing him without that half-assed beard.

FJ: I immediately said Portland and then wondered if Salem, OR is 10X Salem, MA. Either way, the answer lay in Oregon.

[PBnJay]

8 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

Many years ago I was on a diet, and when you met you had to blow into something that measured ketosis (?) - and the worker accused me of cheating on my diet because it didn't show up. I hadn't cheated at all.

Ketosis gives one really bad breath, it's inescapable. At least that's what happened to me when I did that diet. It's miserable.

Before I came up with Portland, I thought of Springfield, knowing of three states, two near me, that have a rather large Springfield. Four if you count where the Simpsons live. But East Coast and Midwest x2 didn't feel right.

Besides, Portland has been a clue/answer a few times on this show so it was a safe FJ guess.

[853fisher]

2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

To be honest, I had a hard time recognizing [Harvey Fierstein] without that half-assed beard.

Do you mind?  Her name is Rebecca Howe.

[ams1001]

Okayish game tonight...Ran Fruits & Vegetables in French, Filmed in Georgia, and Italian Loanwords. Missed one in Animals & the Law and It's a Process, and 2-3 in everything else.

TSes were Salt Lake City (DD), cherry, Tyler Perry, refining, and cappucino. 

Got FJ which makes two for the week.

Nothing against Eleanor but I was rooting for Shayan.

_____

"This president..."
"Who is Johnson?"
"Yes!"

WHICH ONE?!
(I don't care if they served 100 years apart; there were still two of them and they should have to specify.)

Edited July 1, 2022 by ams1001

[Katy M]

I got FJ.  And it was geography, so extra impressive:)

I got th emissed clues of Salt Lake City (only one I got in that category), cherry, Committed, refining, and Cappucino.

I got the entire category of Biblical disasters right.

I had an OK first round and a great DJ.  

[kathyk24]

11 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

True.  The temperance movement is often portrayed today as a bunch of puritanical scolds, but they were trying to solve a genuine social problem.

Prohibition caused a bigger problem than it solved. Organized crime began as a result of prohibition. Prohibition also contributed to the start of the Depression since farmers couldn't sell crops used to make beer anymore and people who worked in breweries were unemployed.