Season 40 Final Jeopardy Contest

[helpmerhonda]

3/5 last week (Sorry - I was out of town and just caught up!)

3/5 this week also

[Browncoat]

Affirmative action kept me from a perfect week -- 4/5 this week.

[ProudMary]

Week 40:  2/5 (M, T)

 

[shapeshifter]

Week 40: 2/5

Mon. Lolita; Tues. New Mexico

[Clanstarling]

Week 40 – June 10 – No Asterisk
196.     NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS - In 1958 a review of this book now considered a classic called it repulsive, disgusting & "highbrow pornography" (Lolita)
197.     U.S. GEOGRAPHY - Of the 10 U.S. states with 2-word names, this one stretches the farthest south (New Mexico)
198.     FAMOUS NAMES - Vying with Eiffel, this engineer wanted to create big; an admiring account said the obelisk of Luxor is too short to be a spoke (Ferris)
199.     1960s BRITISH NOVELS - The author of this novel said of the last chapter left off U.S. editions, "My young thuggish protagonist grows up" (A Clockwork Orange)
200.     1960s AMERICA - Helping draft an executive order in 1961, Hobart Taylor Jr. almost used the word "positive", but instead chose this alliterative phrase (Affirmative Action)

[Prevailing Wind]

Three for me.

[secnarf]

1/5 for me.

[Driad]

Week 40: 4/5.
YTD: 134/200, 18 *.

[Trey]

1/5 for me too, 1 better than last week. 

[Shrek]

2/5 for me this week.

[SoMuchTV]

2/5 for me.  Woohoo - better than the last two weeks put together!  I'll treat everyone to a Ferris Wheel ride in New Mexico.

I'm starting to wonder if we need to start counting "A*'s".  If my search was accurate, Adriana has missed only 2 of 13 FJs, and one of them was a TS (Bryn Mawr on June 3).  For the record, I didn't get that one either.

Edited June 15 by SoMuchTV

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

2/5 for me.  I'll treat everyone to a Ferris Wheel ride in New Mexico.

I'm starting to wonder if we need to start counting "A*'s".  If my search was accurate, Adriana has missed only 2 of 13 FJs, and one of them was a TS (Bryn Mawr on June 3).  For the record, I didn't get that one either.

It seems like it would be easy to keep track of, especially at this point. 
Did Matt Amodio miss very many FJs? I don't think so?
(not counting the recent tournaments)

 

 

These biscottis would be easy to count — like one each per correct FJ.
I got the FJ of New Mexico because I could picture it on the paper road map I had on my first road trip to California from Illinois in the 70s.…

…During the 4 years I lived in Sacramento, I almost always had a Nonni's biscotti (or 2) dunked in my coffee in the morning before going to work for about 10 hours in the library of a college prep Catholic girls school. 

Edited June 15 by shapeshifter

[Bliss]

2/5

Still recovering from a cold, so I'll send New Mexican Ferris wheel cookies for y'all.

[SoMuchTV]

1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:

2 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

 

It seems like it would be easy to keep track of, especially at this point. 
Did Matt Amodio miss very many FJs? I don't think so?
(not counting the recent tournaments)

I still have a page in my spreadsheet for season 38, and he had 4 FJ misses in 21 games (through his last game on Oct 11).  But he had games in the previous season as well, and that was before I started keeping track.

According to TheJeopardyFan!, his career stat on FJ is 40/58.

Can you tell I'm trying to put off some home maintenance I really need to get to?

 

[illdoc]

Week 40: 3/5   Overall: 98/200 (49%)  10*  Shooting for 50% for the season (6 weeks (?) to go).

[Good Queen Jane]

3/5.

Started out strong but petered out the end of the week. 

[Clanstarling]

9 hours ago, Trey said:

1/5 for me too, 1 better than last week. 

That's the positive spirit!

8 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

2/5 for me.  Woohoo - better than the last two weeks put together!  I'll treat everyone to a Ferris Wheel ride in New Mexico.

I'm starting to wonder if we need to start counting "A*'s".  If my search was accurate, Adriana has missed only 2 of 13 FJs, and one of them was a TS (Bryn Mawr on June 3).  For the record, I didn't get that one either.

Another positive spirit!

2/5 for me too.

Don't hate me, but I'd rather not include A*s in my spreadsheet - it's really not set up for that and as you might remember, I had a tough enough time last season when it came to the math.

Now, if any of ya'll would like to keep track, I'm up for that.☺️

[zoey1996]

Week 40: 5/5, no *

YTD: 85/200, twelve *

Goodness! Big surprise for me!

Otherwise, not a good week. I fell last Sunday and broke my scapula, right side! Why yes, I am right-handed, why do you ask? No surgery needed. Just time to heal.

[theartandsound]

WEEK 40 (10 JUN): 4/5.

[30 Helens]

1/5 (Lolita). Tues-Thurs answers were pure facepalms because they should have been easy gets, but apparently my brain was running a few beats slow this week.

I was going to bring a plate of inappropriate snacks to reflect my one get, but the photos were a little too NSFW. So instead, I'll play a CD of the creepy earworm that's been pestering me all week (Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen") and take a shot of Humbert Humbert's favorite drink, pineapple juice and gin. Join me if you dare.

[DXD526]

1/5, W only.

[opus]

1/5 this week

[M. Darcy]

3/5!

[ams1001]

18 hours ago, zoey1996 said:

Otherwise, not a good week. I fell last Sunday and broke my scapula, right side! Why yes, I am right-handed, why do you ask? No surgery needed. Just time to heal.

Ouch! Hope you heal quickly!

14 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

 was going to bring a plate of inappropriate snacks to reflect my one get, but the photos were a little too NSFW. So instead, I'll play a CD of the creepy earworm that's been pestering me all week (Ringo Starr's "You're Sixteen") and take a shot of Humbert Humbert's favorite drink, pineapple juice and gin. Join me if you dare.

I will pass on the gin, thanks.

[30 Helens]

7 hours ago, ams1001 said:

I will pass on the gin, thanks.

Don’t blame you. 😉

[Grundoon59]

3/5 this week but nothing else mattered for me except Vintage Base Ball started again this past weekend at Greenfield Village.  I am one happy Grundoon! 

[dankesean]

Week 40- 3/5.

[Browncoat]

Only 1/5 this week, but I did get the tiebreaker!

[ProudMary]

Week 41:  1/5 (F)

Thank goodness for a baseball question! I'll bring the hot dogs. 🙂 ⚾

[Clanstarling]

Week 41 – June 17 – One Asterisk
201.     2 LAST NAMES, SAME FIRST LETTER - Born 344 years apart, they are the 2 real people mentioned by name in the titles of 1990s Best Picture Oscar winners (Shakespeare and Schindler)
202.     GEOGRAPHIC NAME'S ALMOST THE SAME - Legend says in 1876 a dragon built for the first "Ring" cycle had its neck sent to this Mideast capital, not the right German city (Beirut)
203.     BRANDS - In 1978 a new cologne for men came out called this, what's being played in the company's iconic logo (Polo)
204.     *AUTHORS' WIVES - When asked if she was the inspiration for the wife in a 1922 novel, this woman replied, "No. She was much fatter" (Nora Joyce)
205.     SPORTS - 50 years ago Vin Scully announced he got "a standing ovation in the Deep South" for breaking a longtime record (Hank Aaron)
      a.    SCIENCE (TIEBREAKER) - This phenomenon named for a 19th century man is apparent in moving light sources as well as moving sound sources (Doppler)

Bonus Tiebreaker this week! So maybe someone will have a 6! (not me, never me)

[Prevailing Wind]

3 including the bonus. No asterisk.

[SoMuchTV]

Big fat zero! There were a couple where I mighta kinda coulda got it if my mind had gone in the right direction, but for the rest, I still wouldn’t have gotten them if you’d given me an atlas and a set of encyclopedias. 

But, hey, at least I got the tiebreaker!

[Driad]

Week 41: 2/5 (Monday & Wednesday), or 3/5 if the tiebreaker counts.  No *. Thursday I said Zelda Fitzgerald, and today I didn't know what they were asking for, so I was in good company. 

[dankesean]

Week 41: definite 2/5 (Polo & Doppler) and a potential third with the *, if and only if 'Mrs. Joyce' would be considered an acceptable answer. (Probably not.) Knew it was her, didn't know her first name.

[ams1001]

Week 41: 1/5 (Polo) plus the Doppler tiebreaker
YTD: 102/205 (50%) with 8*
 

In honor of Monday's candy category, lollipops for everyone!

Edited Saturday at 12:52 PM by ams1001

[Trey]

0/5 but I did get the tiebreaker.

[Shrek]

A measly 1/5 this week but it looks like I have some company.

[Bliss]

3/5 + Doppler ...although I got Beirut through the chimney ;-)

I'm bringing ice cream because it's too damn hot to cook anything. As my friend says, "we all wanted summer and now it's a hundred and f*** degrees outside."

[ams1001]

12 minutes ago, Bliss said:

3/5 + Doppler ...although I got Beirut through the chimney ;-)

I'm bringing ice cream because it's too damn hot to cook anything. As my friend says, "we all wanted summer and now it's a hundred and f*** degrees outside."

I did not ask for summer, thank you. It's 85° now at just after 10am; it was 83° when I first looked about twenty minutes ago, with an expected high of 95° and heat index of 103°. Pass the ice cream. 

[Good Queen Jane]

2/6, no *.

Friday was an archive game for me as I went to a MLB game, so FJ was very appropriate. I’ll bring peanuts and Crackerjacks straight from the ballpark.

[zoey1996]

Week 41:3/6, no *

YTD: 88/206, twelve *

[shapeshifter]

Week 41: 0/6

Back at work to lower the curve! 

When it's hot I like either cherry tomatoes or pineapple tidbits with cottage cheese, but those who did not grow up with pineapple & cottage cheese might prefer to do something else with these pineapple slices in ZERO shapes: 

Edited Sunday at 12:57 AM by shapeshifter

[Clanstarling]

15 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Big fat zero! There were a couple where I mighta kinda coulda got it if my mind had gone in the right direction, but for the rest, I still wouldn’t have gotten them if you’d given me an atlas and a set of encyclopedias. 

But, hey, at least I got the tiebreaker!

Then you got 1.

12 hours ago, dankesean said:

Week 41: definite 2/5 (Polo & Doppler) and a potential third with the *, if and only if 'Mrs. Joyce' would be considered an acceptable answer. (Probably not.) Knew it was her, didn't know her first name.

Last names are generally acceptable - but I'm not sure about this one. After checking it out - he only had one wife, so I'm going to allow it.

Just to be clear, folks. The tiebreaker counts as an extra point this week - so if you got them all, you'd have 6/6.

If any of you left it off your post, let me know and I'll update your score.

[Browncoat]

2 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

Just to be clear, folks. The tiebreaker counts as an extra point this week - so if you got them all, you'd have 6/6.

Oooh, then I got 2/6!  (Like that's so much better than 1/5.)

[illdoc]

Week 41:  3/6 0*  Overall: 101/206  10*

[ams1001]

1 hour ago, Browncoat said:

Oooh, then I got 2/6!  (Like that's so much better than 1/5.)

Me, too!

I wasn't sure how to incorporate the tiebreaker in my scorecard formulas...

Week 41: 2/6

YTD: 102/206 (50%) with 8* 

I'll have to remember to change it back when I set up for next season...I highlighted it in bright blue so at least that should remind me to look at why that is...

Edited Saturday at 10:21 PM by ams1001

[helpmerhonda]

3/6

[DXD526]

1/6.

[shapeshifter]

7 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Week 41: 0/6

Back at work to lower the curve! 

When it's hot I like either cherry tomatoes or pineapple tidbits with cottage cheese, but those who did not grow up with pineapple & cottage cheese might prefer to do something else with these pineapple slices in ZERO shapes: 

@Clanstarling, please note I just corrected my numbers to 0/6 not 1/6!

Sorry about that.

[theartandsound]

WEEK 41 (17 JUN): 4/6, one *.

Edited Sunday at 02:06 AM by theartandsound