Season 38 Final Jeopardy! Contest

[ams1001]

1 minute ago, shapeshifter said:

Week 24: 1/5 
I really shouldn't, but, yes, please pass me just one of those caramel-filled churros.

I was sorely tempted to go get more on my way home from work..

[Toothbrush]

5/5 * I even pre-guessed Monday. 
It’s Mardi Gras weekend so dirty rice sounds like a plan. I’ll probably make jambalaya too. 
 

[SoMuchTV]

3/5 including the *, which is basically a 5 for me. Would have been 4/5 if I’d been paying enough attention to realize they wanted the character, not the play. Boo hiss. 

[Driad]

5/5 + 1 *.  
Total through week 24: 90/120 + 15 *.

Bringing Five Spice Chicken, enough for everyone.
 

[ProudMary]

Week 24:  3/5*

[Mindthinkr]

This week I got 2/5. I’ll have to come back and edit whether or not I got the *. I’m genuinely happy that so many of you did so well this week. 
 

I’m going to bring an apple pie and vanilla ice cream for a la mode. 
 

 

[zoey1996]

Week 24: 2/5, 1*

YTD: 54/120, 4*, 6A*, 2M*

[Clanstarling]

13 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

OMG!  5/5!!!

That's great! Good For You!

2 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

This week I got 2/5. I’ll have to come back and edit whether or not I got the *. I’m genuinely happy that so many of you did so well this week. 
 

I’m going to bring an apple pie and vanilla ice cream for a la mode. 
 

 

2/5 this week - that seems to be my typical level.

Yum, apple pie ala mode sounds wonderfurl

Hmm..what American dish goes along with that? Steak - that's pretty American. With roast potatoes.

[Trey]

Congrats @Prevailing Wind and our other brainiacs who got 5/5.

I got 3/5 and 1*.  0*

ETA: Edited to correct my score.  It's still 3/5 but I did not get the *.

Edited February 28, 2022 by Trey

[Prevailing Wind]

Thank you. I'm stunned.

[illdoc]

Week 24:  4/5  1*    Overall:  58/120  9*

[opus]

4/5. An all-time high for me I believe.

(To bring things back to reality, 0/2 during Tuesday's college final)

[M. Darcy]

4/5 with 1*

[PBnJay]

On 2/25/2022 at 7:09 PM, shapeshifter said:

I really shouldn't, but, yes, please pass me just one of those caramel-filled churros.

Not sure if I want churros after watching SNL last night.

Been off the grid due to Internet being out for multi days. Here are last week's clues for anyone who needs them.

WEEK 24 • Feb. 21, 2022 — ONE asterisk *  
116. Historic European Families. This family has been traced to the Mugello valley around the year 1200 & the name suggests the trade of physician.
* 117. American Women. In 1914 she received a patent on a trefoil emblem, which she would transfer to an organization a few years later.  *
118. Play Characters. A 1949 review noted the “wrong formulas for success” of this character & “fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things.”
119. Fictional Families. Introduced in the 1930s in The New Yorker, they’ve appeared on TV & Broadway & in live action & animated films.
20. Awards. These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel “The Sword in the Stone” & “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast.

[secnarf]

2/5

[Ailianna]

2/5

[Mindthinkr]

Of note to our statistics hero @saber5055 I didn’t get the asterisk. 
I hope you are well and I miss your posts. 

[PBnJay]

22 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

Of note to our statistics hero @saber5055 I didn’t get the asterisk. 
I hope you are well and I miss your posts. 

Someone needs to kick her butt and get her back among the living. 

[j5cochran]

Week twenty-four: four of five with the asterisk. I completely blanked on the Hugo Awards, which is annoying as I'm a huge SF geek.

I've been looking for Ukrainian national dishes, but I refuse to fix or consume borsht! (Beets! Ugh!) But I forgot about Chicken Kiev (or I suppose that should be Chicken Kviv these days).

From Wikipedia's entry on Chicken Kiev:

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Chicken Kiev is made from a boned and skinned breast which is cut lengthwise, pounded and stuffed with butter. Western recipes usually call for garlic butter, while in Russian ones regular butter is used. Herbs (parsley and dill) can be added to the butter.

I think I can figure that out! But I'm definitely going for the garlic butter version.

[labresq]

Former Girl Scout!  1 of 5 with the *.  I have one last sleeve of this year's Trefoils left so that's what I can contribute.

[Good Queen Jane]

4/5, no * since they won't accept "woman who founded the American Girl Scouts."

10 hours ago, PBnJay said:

11 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

Of note to our statistics hero @saber5055 I didn’t get the asterisk. 
I hope you are well and I miss your posts. 

Someone needs to kick her butt and get her back among the living. 

I believe @saber5055 's absence is not her choice. But she is truly missed.

Edited February 28, 2022 by Good Queen Jane

[DXD526]

2/5.

[Prevailing Wind]

12 hours ago, j5cochran said:

I've been looking for Ukrainian national dishes, but I refuse to fix or consume borsht!

Pierogi!  I had bought some frozen pierogi last week and was quite happy to discover Ukrainians eat them.

[theartandsound]

Week of Feb 21st: 5/5, one *.

[helpmerhonda]

3/5, one*

[Grundoon59]

Somehow got to 5/5 with one*.  Monday and Friday were guesses but I was solid for the middle of the week.  Being a Girl Scout all the way from Brownie through Senior helped (had a discussion about it being an * while buying cookies this past weekend.)  Willie Loman and the Addams family were Instagets largely due to love of theater.  I am still recovering from the idea that the Von Trapps were fictional.

To celebrate Mardi Gras and the amazing generosity the Polish people are showing the refugees, I offer up a variety of paczki (ridiculously caloric donuts that are sinfully good).

[PBnJay]

1 hour ago, Grundoon59 said:

To celebrate Mardi Gras and the amazing generosity the Polish people are showing the refugees, I offer up a variety of paczki

And tomorrow is Pączki Day! Yeay! Help yourself, everyone!

 

[OperaLover1229]

2/5 - managed to come up with the Medici and WillyLoman.

[GrannySmith]

2/5

[Grundoon59]

Thanks for the picture @PBnJay!  My Monday/work-addled brain couldn't cope with looking for one and/or figuring out how to post it.  Happy Paczki Day all!

[Trey]

We will eat your delicious Paczkis but it is still officially Pancake Tuesday to us.

[Welshman in Ca]

Just now, Trey said:

We will eat your delicious Paczkis but it is still officially Pancake Tuesday to us.

 

It is St. Davids day today March 1st, patron saint of Wales.

[bybrandy]

I got 2/5 but I'm salty that I can't remember the name of the girl scout woman... I know it is in my brain somewhere... I've hit on every other woman with thee names...   

 

[bybrandy]

Juliette Gordon Low?   I know that isn't in time... but is it her name?   

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, bybrandy said:

Juliette Gordon Low?   I know that isn't in time... but is it her name?   

Yes.

[ams1001]

Week of March 4:

1/5

I just made a chocolate milkshake. I'll share.

Edited March 5, 2022 by ams1001

[Prevailing Wind]

2/5.

[shapeshifter]

Week 25: 0/5

Tuesday I was staring at Clark Gable's face in my mind, but could not bring up his name.

Wednesday I guessed correctly "Guggenheim" but last minute changed it to "MOMA." 

Friday for "Don Quixote" I said: "The guy who tilted at windmills."

My stomach is a little upset, so I'm making Chamomile tea.

[Browncoat]

2/5 for me this week.

[bybrandy]

4/5 for me but I missed Friday so no *.  Still, I'll take 4/5.   

[Toothbrush]

2/5 I guessed Kuwait City, “some city in Sicily”, & Dorian Gray. 

[Trey]

2/5 1*

[Mindthinkr]

2/5 and no *. I’m too tired to cook so I’ll go to this great place downtown that makes the best fried chicken you’ve ever tasted, and share take out with everyone. 

[Clanstarling]

1/5 - how the mediocre have fallen.

I'll take you up on the milkshake @ams1001, I was thinking of adding to that maple bars or hot dogs (depending if you want to go even sweeter, or have some savory 1's)

[zoey1996]

Week 25: 3/5, 1*

YTD: 58/125, 5*, 6A*, 2M*

[illdoc]

Week 25:  1/5  0*   Overall:   59/125   9*

[GrannySmith]

3/5 No*

[SoMuchTV]

2/5, no *

Can I swap it with my Wordle score?  Then they'd both look a lot better :)

 

[opus]

2/5

[PBnJay]

WEEK 25 • Feb. 28, 2022 — ONE asterisk *  
121. Modern War. Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996.
122. The Silver Screen. He was the first actor to star in 3 films that won the Oscar for Best Picture: those of 1934, 1935 & 1939.
123. Art Museums. Before its 1959 opening, 21 artists protested its design, saying it would make paintings look tilted & askew.  
124. European Cities. Pizzo means protection money; the Addiopizzo movement was founded in this city in 2004.
 * 125. Literary Characters. Dostoyevsky wrote that this title man in an earlier European novel is “beautiful only because he is ridiculous.”  *

Our Contest Host says anyone who answered "That Crazy Guggenheim" to question 123 gets extra credit.