Season 38 Final Jeopardy! Contest

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Yum!  
Oh. Wait. You probably meant cheese fondue to go with quiche.

Can we have chocolate fondue too, please?

I was imagining 

Well, if I have to pick between cheese and chocolate...chocolate always wins. 😁

[shapeshifter]

3 hours ago, zoey1996 said:

Week 9: 0/5

YTD: 20/45, 2M*

Yes, at last I achieved a perfectly round score - zero! Pecan pie, anyone?

Having had 0/5 myself the previous 2 weeks, I would like to invite you to enjoy bathing in the chocolate fondue fountain with us 1/5ers of this week.  
—Purely for purposes of intellectual stimulation, of course, to prepare for next week’s contest. 

 

[j5cochran]

Week nine: three of five with both of the asterisks! I couldn't come up with Langston or Stoppard (I guessed Edward Albee instead).

I have a fabulous recipe for this week -- Greenbrier’s Soupe à l’Oignon, cream of five onion soup from the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. However, I don't have a silver pitcher to serve it with!

https://www.greenbrier.com/DiningObjects/Main-Dining-Room.aspx

[Prevailing Wind]

21 minutes ago, j5cochran said:

Week nine: three of five with both of the asterisks! I couldn't come up with Langston or Stoppard (I guessed Edward Albee instead).

I have a fabulous recipe for this week -- Greenbrier’s Soupe à l’Oignon, cream of five onion soup from the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. However, I don't have a silver pitcher to serve it with!

https://www.greenbrier.com/DiningObjects/Main-Dining-Room.aspx

I'd like to visit there (and tour the nuclear bunker) but I don't think I could meet the dress code.

[Driad]

Were the asterisks on Tuesday and Thursday?  This week had some archive days for me.

If so, I was 3/5 with 1* (the pre-guess Thursday).

[GrannySmith]

1/5 no*

[zoey1996]

12 hours ago, Driad said:

Were the asterisks on Tuesday and Thursday?  This week had some archive days for me.

If so, I was 3/5 with 1* (the pre-guess Thursday).

Yes, Tuesday and Thursday were asterisks.

You can check the J! Archives for info like that.

[Driad]

14 minutes ago, zoey1996 said:

You can check the J! Archives for info like that.

Thank you.  I tried, but my vision is not good, and the discussion of Tuesday's FJ was so long that it kept vanishing unless I made it so small I couldn't read it.  

[opus]

1/5

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, Driad said:

Thank you.  I tried, but my vision is not good, and the discussion of Tuesday's FJ was so long that it kept vanishing unless I made it so small I couldn't read it.  

Much as I love the site, its display doesn't adjust to phones very well.

[Driad]

26 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

Much as I love the site, its display doesn't adjust to phones very well.

I'm using my laptop, but still ...

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, Driad said:

I'm using my laptop, but still ...

I use my  desktop, with a large monitor. (well large by my old fashioned standards, not so large for others). Even then I zoom it a bit. I have no problem believing it's difficult on a laptop too.

Edited November 14, 2021 by Clanstarling

[zoey1996]

I use the J! Archive on my PC and my iPhone. It is difficult using the phone, but still do-able for me. But when it's large enough to read, scrolling or moving from one section to another is a PITA.

[labresq]

Where is the Jeopardy! archive?  

 

[Trey]

Jeopardy!Archive

[labresq]

48 minutes ago, Trey said:

Jeopardy!Archive

Well that makes sense.  Thank you!

[Grundoon59]

I am at the 3/5 table with 1* - would have been 1/5 if not for a couple of lucky guesses.  Stoppard was the only one I was absolutely sure on - fell into my theater loving wheelhouse. 

I guessed on Langston Hughes and Hope Diamond which I know was an instaget for many.  I think I would have been quicker to it on a different day - work this week was a long slog on a special project which may have gotten wrapped up Friday but I suspect will be back to visit me this week. 

For Tuesday, I got stuck on Scaramouche and doing the fandango while not making the Europop connection - although Bohemian Rhapsody remained in my brain all day Wednesday which I will blame for not getting to Indonesia in time even though I am sure I knew the answer. 

@j5cochran - the onion soup sounds yummy especially as the snow falls (luckily it is not sticking).  I will bring a chocolate caramel torte for dessert (not home made but from a lovely area shop called The French Lady who makes the most wonderful melt in the mouth quiche I have ever had). 

[M. Darcy]

3/5 - 2 * 

[j5cochran]

3 hours ago, Grundoon59 said:

@j5cochran - the onion soup sounds yummy especially as the snow falls (luckily it is not sticking).  I will bring a chocolate caramel torte for dessert (not home made but from a lovely area shop called The French Lady who makes the most wonderful melt in the mouth quiche I have ever had). 

You had me at chocolate! But caramel and torte added together sounds wonderful, homemade or not.

[theartandsound]

4/5. 2 *s!!!

[OperaLover1229]

3/5. Hope diamond, Langston Hughes and Indonesia were instagets.  I knew the play but couldn’t remember who wrote it.

 

[Good Queen Jane]

2/5 with 1*. 

[shapeshifter]

22 minutes ago, OperaLover1229 said:

 I knew the play but couldn’t remember who wrote it.

On National Public Radio's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!  they might give you credit for knowing just "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," and/or maybe give you a punny clue to jog your memory on the author, but WWDTM doesn't give cash prizes. Of course, we don't get cash prizes on this board either. 🙃

[DXD526]

2/5.

[helpmerhonda]

3/5, one *

[PBnJay]

Late again! 4/5 with 2*. I'll bring a selection of dipping fruit for the chocolate fountain, plus some spoons for people who don't like fruit. Hopefully, we're all "immunized" here.

[PBnJay]

On 11/13/2021 at 7:39 PM, Prevailing Wind said:

I'd like to visit there (and tour the nuclear bunker) but I don't think I could meet the dress code.

Yes, no swim suits or robe wearing in the dining room!

[Ailianna]

3/5 no asterisks.

[Grundoon59]

On 11/15/2021 at 9:51 AM, shapeshifter said:

On National Public Radio's Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!  they might give you credit for knowing just "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," and/or maybe give you a punny clue to jog your memory on the author, but WWDTM doesn't give cash prizes. Of course, we don't get cash prizes on this board either. 🙃

I got to attend a few live shows of WWDTM back in the day and they were such fun.  As with Jeopardy, I know I will probably not ever be a contestant but would feel like I had missed something by not getting Carl Kasell's voice on my home answering machine (much like never getting to meet Alex). 

[ams1001]

Week 10: 2/5 (Monday and Friday)

At the table for two again...I'm watching My 600 Pound Life that I missed the other night so if there are any Pounders here I'm bringin' two big plates of spaghetti. (No ranch.)

Edited November 20, 2021 by ams1001

[Browncoat]

3/5 for me this week.

[shapeshifter]

Week 10: 1/5 😶

[j5cochran]

Week ten: five for five! I was really digging with tonight's Final Jeopardy. I immediately knew Harper Lee, but it took 25 of the 30 seconds to remember the other name ("c'mon, idjit, he's the model for Scout's friend who comes to visit in the summer and he wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's, oh, yeah, Truman Capote...").

[PBnJay]

Posting for a friend.

WEEK 10 • Nov. 15, 2021 — NO asterisk
46. Myths & Legends. This legendary place has been identified as being in Caerleon, Wales & in Winchester, England.  
47. Movie Quotes. This 3-word phrase was the protagonist’s second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series.
48. Final Resting Places. A cemetery on this island has the graves of Robert Fulton & 2 of the first 4 Treasury Secretaries.
49. History. In 1985 the mayor of Rome went to a suburb of Tunis to sign a treaty ending this after more than 2,100 years.
50. 20th Century American Authors. The old courthouse in Monroeville, Alabama has exhibits devoted to these 2 authors & childhood friends.

[Driad]

Week 10: 4/5.  Would be 4.5 if we got half credit for one author.  

Through week 10:  38/50, 2*.  
 

[Prevailing Wind]

3/5

[GrannySmith]

2/5

[opus]

1/5

[secnarf]

3/5...plus 0.5 for Harper Lee 😂

 

[ProudMary]

Week 10:  2/5

[Mindthinkr]

I’m at the T41 this week. 

[Trey]

4/5, my best score this year.

[SoMuchTV]

2/5, but I feel like I should get an extra point for knowing both authors!

[labresq]

2 of 5 this week.  But I did like my answer about the movie quote:  all I could think of was Disney movies and so I said What's up Doc?  And I knew Harper Lee but that was it.

[zoey1996]

Week 10: 4/5

YTD: 24/50, 2M*

Much better than last week!

[Clanstarling]

3/5. Started strong, petered out, then got Harper Lee at the last second. I knew their books, and that they were friends (maybe from the movie Capote) but was having a heck of a time remembering the authors' names.

Edited November 20, 2021 by Clanstarling

[illdoc]

Week 10:  3/5    Overall:   26/50  2*   52%

[theartandsound]

5/5!

[Ailianna]

5/5. Crazy.

[Toothbrush]

4/5 Missed the 3rd Punic War response. Monday, Tuesday, & Friday were instagets , and I got Wednesday thanks to a FJ clue years ago that referred to Manhattan as an island.