Season 38 Final Jeopardy! Contest

[Grundoon59]

Somehow managed to get to 4/5 with no * this week (which I am quite proud of given my limits of attention and energy last week - I missed loads of answers in regular Jeopardy but must have summoned all my powers of concentration for FJ).  Slowly but surely getting better but still feeling fatigue and fogginess on occasion. 

Oscar popped into my brain even before finishing reading the clue.  For Tuesday, I was in the Colosseum/amphitheater area without coming close to a circus.  Adlai Stevenson was just before my time but the parental Grundoons talked about those campaigns and I recognized Kefauver's name immediately. 

I've been watching lots of the British show Time Team lately on Prime Video and there are frequent references to the Norman period so the date and Caen got me immediately to the Tower.  I am not entirely sure if I ever read Heyerdahl's book but I was certainly aware of it as a cultural reference and was pretty sure it was the correct answer. 

Happy Belated Birthday @Toothbrush!

[helpmerhonda]

1/5

[Good Queen Jane]

I'm back from the figure skating Nationals, which were wonderful (especially the Men's short program).

Week 16 : 1/5, but it was a good one, * and A*

Week 17: 2/5, no *

[theartandsound]

Week of Jan 3rd: 3/5, one * and one A*

[ams1001]

Week ending 1/14:

1/5, one * and one A*

ETA: YTD = 34/90 (38%) and 4*

 

Edited January 15, 2022 by ams1001

[illdoc]

Week 18:  4/5  3* (4 A*)  Overall:   42/90   7*  (46.7%).

[Browncoat]

3/5 this week, and I think all of them were asterisks.  Monday, Tuesday, and Friday?

[shapeshifter]

Week 18

[SINGING] Ha-aa-llelujah. Ha-aa-llelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Ha-lle-e-lu-u-jah!

I pulled out a Friday 1/5 and an asterisk (Amysterisk) with Hawaii (where my parents lived for the last 30 years of their 67-year marriage).

I haven't made cookies in probably decades, but I sent coffee cans full to Vietnam, making cookies was once my job, and I made infinite amounts of cookies for my kids with protein and fiber snuck into them, sweetened only with honey. Still I never made anything like these chocolate and vanilla checkerboard cookies, but they look appropriate for a game show theme:

 

But even better, (accidentally?) posted in the main thread by @ams1001:

56 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

How 'bout asterisk cookies?

56 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

 

 

Edited January 15, 2022 by shapeshifter

[Prevailing Wind]

I'm bringing Muesli.  LOL.

3/5, not sure which ones are *, but I got Mon, Tues, & Fri.  I'm disappointed that I didn't get Douglass, considering all the joshing that went on about him when Trump spoke of him as though he were still alive, but once I got "Guinness" in my head, there was no moving on.

ETA: THREE Asterisks!!

Edited January 15, 2022 by Prevailing Wind

[bybrandy]

4/5 with 3* and 4 A*.  Making this an exceptionally rough week for Amy and a particularly good week for me.   

[SoMuchTV]

Week 18:  2/5, 2 A*'s, 2 *'s.  Woo hoo?

[ams1001]

Oops, just realized I posted the asterisk cookie in the wrong thread...

1 hour ago, ams1001 said:

How 'bout asterisk cookies?

[PBnJay]

WEEK 18 • Jan. 10, 2022 — THREE asterisk FOUR A*
* A* 86. 19th Century Notables. On his deathbed in France in 1890, he told his brother, “The sadness will last forever.”  * A*
* A* 87. Broadway Musicals. Each in a show that ran more than 2 years, Ethel Merman & Sarah Jessica Parker played 2 different characters with this first name. * A*
A* 88. Historic Americans. In 1838 he took a new last name, of a family in Walter Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake”; for distinction he added a 2nd “S” to the end. A*
89. The Words of Victor Hugo. This object “is the ultimate expression of law, & its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.” 
* A* 90. Cemeteries & Memorials. 60,000 are at rest in a National Memorial Cemetery opened in 1949 in the crater of an extinct volcano in this state. * A*

[Driad]

Week 18: 4/5, 3*, 3A*

Wednesday I thought the person must be a politician or an author, but couldn't think of one with a double S. At 25 seconds I thought, "I'm going to kick myself when I see the answer." At least I was right about that.

Edited January 15, 2022 by Driad

[j5cochran]

Week eighteen: three of five, with three asterisks and three Amysterisks! I apparently have the reverse of Amy's brain, as I got Van Gogh, Annie, and Hawaii, though guillotine completely fell out of my head.

[GrannySmith]

3/5. 2*, 2A*

[opus]

2/5

[labresq]

3 of 5, with * for Tues and Fri.  Love the asterisk cookies!  Love that Amy beat James' record!

[Trey]

1/5 1* 1A*

[Mindthinkr]

2/5 with 2* The weather has been cold so I’m going to bring a pot of chili. There will be choices for toppings (cheddar cheese, onions, sour cream, and extra hot sauce) on the side. 

[Clanstarling]

1/5 No asterisk. Oh well...sometimes you break the tape, sometimes you're the back of the pack.

[Trey]

46 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

2/5 with 2* The weather has been cold so I’m going to bring a pot of chili. There will be choices for toppings (cheddar cheese, onions, sour cream, and extra hot sauce) on the side. 

Chili sounds wonderful.  It's so cold here that my son's truck wouldn't start.

[ams1001]

14 minutes ago, Trey said:

Chili sounds wonderful.  It's so cold here that my son's truck wouldn't start.

It's 14°F here right now (at 10 am and sunny). My new glasses came in yesterday and I don't want to go out there to pick them up...

Edited January 15, 2022 by ams1001

[zoey1996]

Week 18: 3/5, 1*, 2A*

YTD: 39/90, 2*, 4A*, 2M*

I'm making a chicken and lentil stew this week, so I'll bring some.

Edited January 15, 2022 by zoey1996

[secnarf]

3/5 - got Wednesday through Friday! 
One * and two A*. 

[ProudMary]

Week 18:  3/5 w. 3*, 3A*

[helpmerhonda]

3/5, 2*, 3A*

[M. Darcy]

2/5 with 2 * and 2 A*

[OperaLover1229]

2/5. I bookended the week, getting Monday and Friday right. 

[Ailianna]

4/5, 3A* and 2*.  Really good week for me. Very happy for Amy. My family is just having Christmas, and we just made our first Yule Log (my 14 year old niece and I). I'll bring that for everyone to share. (It's a magic Yule Log to feed however many we are!)

[Toothbrush]

4/5 2* and 4A*
I like the look Amy gets when she’s not sure about her FJ answer. She sort of tilts her head and has a questioning smile. I’m probably not explaining well, but it was on full display this week.  
Thank you for all the birthday wishes. 
I’ll bring king cake. 

[Clanstarling]

13 hours ago, Toothbrush said:

4/5 2* and 4A*
I like the look Amy gets when she’s not sure about her FJ answer. She sort of tilts her head and has a questioning smile. I’m probably not explaining well, but it was on full display this week.  
Thank you for all the birthday wishes. 
I’ll bring king cake. 

I think you explained it fine - I knew exactly what you were talking about. I like it too.

[DXD526]

Another rough week, 1/5. Did get a A*, though!

[Grundoon59]

3/5 - all A*.  Monday and Tuesday were Instagets - I had recently watched a show telling the story behind one of Van Gogh's paintings so he was near the front of my brain.  I had just heard SJP on Sirius On Broadway on my drive home Tuesday so maybe that helped prod me and I grew up on Merman albums.

Wednesday and Thursday were foggier days for me and I didn't come anywhere near either answer although I knew they would be "Duh" moments when revealed and they were.  By Friday, I was again in my tired, cranky mindset where I said if it isn't Hawaii, I give up. 

Can I freeload on food for one more week?  I truly thought I would be back to full energy by now but I have spent most of the long weekend crashing after testing my limits of doing things.  Everything described above sounds terrific. 

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, Grundoon59 said:

Can I freeload on food for one more week?  I truly thought I would be back to full energy by now but I have spent most of the long weekend crashing after testing my limits of doing things.  Everything described above sounds terrific. 

I'm glad to read your appetite is back!🙌

Here are some gender-neutral grand-baby announcement cookies to share, which IRL I will likely never make nor eat:

[theartandsound]

Week of Jan 10th: 5/5 including 3 *s and 3 A*s!!!!

Edited January 18, 2022 by theartandsound

[Good Queen Jane]

4/5, 2*, 3A*. 

Scoring is getting complicated, but I can't complain since I did better than Amy on FJ this week!

[PBnJay]

4/5 + 3* and 3A*

[ams1001]

3/5 for week 19.

37/95 (39%) for the season so far.

[Prevailing Wind]

2/5 for week ending 01/21

[Browncoat]

Amazingly, 4/5 this week.  

[Toothbrush]

3/5 1 A*
Chicken & andouille gumbo and crusty bread. It is gumbo weather on steroids here 🥶

[ProudMary]

Week 19:  2/5, A*

[shapeshifter]

Week 19:  2/5

[PBnJay]

WEEK 19 • Jan. 17, 2022 — NO asterisk TWO A*
91. Scientific Names. The 1905 paper that gave this its name also referred to it as “Dynamosaurus Imperiosus.”
A* 92. Awards Around the World. France’s national theater award, it’s named for a man who died in Paris in 1673.  A*
A* 93. Films of the 2000s. One of the screenwriters of this 2001 film described it as “‘Clueless’ meets ‘The Paper Chase.'”  A*
94. Words in American History. The 1890 Census reported that “the unsettled area has been so broken into…that there can hardly be said to be a” this. 
95. Mountains. First scaled in 1829, this 17,000-foot mountain has caused excitement by the supposed discovery of wood high up on it.

[Trey]

3/5, 1A*

[GrannySmith]

1/5. No *

[Driad]

Week 19: 3/5, 1 A*.
To go with the winter food: hot spiced cider.

[secnarf]

1/5. 
I’ll bring poutine. 

[Ailianna]

3/5, 1A*

Beignets and a range of coffee and cocoa products for all. Though I love gumbo and hot cider. I'm not sure why that specific combo is so good, but it is.