Season 40 Final Jeopardy Contest

[Driad]

4/5.  Today I said Taj instead of Mahal.  Shapeshifter, thank you for the cookie.

[Ancaster]

3/5

I'll bring custard creams for those of us who are also fans of Great British Bake Off.

 

[Mindthinkr]

3/5 To fit in with the cookie theme I’ll bring triple spice ones. Think of ginger cookies with a bit of extra punch. 

[Clanstarling]

Sorry to be late:

Week 6 – Oct. 16  

26.     THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS - Barry Barish, who shared the 2017 Prize for detecting gravitational waves, called his award "a win for" this predecessor (Einstein)
27.     MILITARY HISTORY - A 1918 article titled "Do Not Shoot at" these said hunters were interfering with the U.S. Signal Corps' training of them (pigeons <carrier or homing>)
28.     NATURAL LANDMARKS - The Washburn-Langford-Doane expedition happened upon it in 1870 & named it for the regularity of its activity (Old Faithful)
29.     NAMES - The name Jennifer is an alteration of this name that in early Welsh literature belonged to the "first lady of the island" (Guinevere)
30.     LANGUAGES OF ASIA - Meaning "palace", this word in the name of a UNESCO World Heritage Site follows Jal & Lal in the names of other historic structures (Mahal)

[Clanstarling]

3 hours ago, Ancaster said:

3/5

I'll bring custard creams for those of us who are also fans of Great British Bake Off.

 

Definitely watched this episode. Who knew the cookie (biscuit) could be so complicated? Or that there was a specific pattern.

4 this week - quite an improvement.

 

[SoMuchTV]

Week 6:  3/5; overall 13/30, 1*

I still beat the contestants this week - they had a total of 8/15.

[Shrek]

3/5 this week

[Trey]

3/5 for me, a definite improvement over last week.

[Bliss]

Stunned. 5/5 (I'm not sure I've ever done that before.)

Once I get over my shock, I'll bring some fancy beverages to wash down all the cookies.🥤🥂🥃🍻🍺🍷🍸🍹🧋🧃🧉🍶🍾🍵🫖☕🥛🐕<-my dog wants to come too! She 'loves' cookies!

[helpmerhonda]

Improvement for me - 4/5

[DXD526]

3/5, Tue/Wed/Fri. 

[secnarf]

3/5 for me - quite an improvement! Were there any *?

[zoey1996]

Week 6: 2/5, no *

YTD: 13/30, no *  

Good things in pairs: Chili and Cinnamon Rolls!

[ams1001]

1 hour ago, secnarf said:

3/5 for me - quite an improvement! Were there any *?

There were not.

[illdoc]

Week 6: 5/5 (the first of (hopefully) many this season). Overall: 16/30  2*   In honor of my first 5 this season, I will bring my 7 layer cookies (melted butter, graham crackers, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, walnuts, coconut, condensed milk).

[shapeshifter]

1 hour ago, illdoc said:

Week 6: 5/5 (the first of (hopefully) many this season). Overall: 16/30  2*   In honor of my first 5 this season, I will bring my 7 layer cookies (melted butter, graham crackers, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, walnuts, coconut, condensed milk).

These? 😋

thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a95422/7-layer-cookies

[Clanstarling]

5 hours ago, secnarf said:

3/5 for me - quite an improvement! Were there any *?

Nope.

1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:

These? 😋

thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a95422/7-layer-cookies

If only there were a yummy icon to select, in addition to thumbs up, fire, applause, etc.

[dankesean]

woooo, a season best week for me with 4/5.

I'll celebrate with a pigeon pie, army training be damned. (If someone wants to being along a bit of poison to take out a tyrannical teenage king, feel free.)

 

[Good Queen Jane]

3/5. 

The week started out so well…

[opus]

My best ever I believe. 4/5

[M. Darcy]

4/5!

[theartandsound]

Week 6 (16 OCT): 4/5.

[30 Helens]

1/5. I was very much off my game this week.

Not to worry, @Prevailing Wind, we still get a great table. I say let them eat cookies, we’ll have cake!

[Grundoon59]

They were all guesses for me, but I somehow got to 5/5 for the week.  I will add a Sanders Bumpy Cake to the dessert extravaganza. (Take pity if I goofed it up but I tried to include an image of it - this may actually be the first time i have done this for a post).  

 

[j5cochran]

Week six: three of five. My Einstein-Mahal became a Hawking Palace.

I'm hungry for Indian food. I want chicken tikka masala and garlic naan from The Sitar of India in Charleston, West Virginia!

[ams1001]

Week 7: 5/5*
YTD: 22/35 (63%) with 1*

TWO PERFECT WEEKS IN A ROW!!!!! 🤯 And my first asterisk of the season. 

Last week I found unicorn cookies....this week I present a unicorn cake.

[Browncoat]

4/5 for me this week.

[ProudMary]

Week 7:  4/5

 

 

[SoMuchTV]

Week 7:  4/5, no *.  Overall 17/35, 1/5*.

The only think keeping me from a perfect week was my misplaced trust that Columbus knew what he was talking about.

Tough week for the contestants - 6/15, so not even breaking 50%.

 

[secnarf]

4/5*

So close. I just missed Friday. A perfect week still eludes me.

[Clanstarling]

Week 7 – Oct. 23   One Asterisk
31.     MUSIC MEN - Before creating this record label in 1959, its founder worked on a Lincoln-Mercury assembly line (Motown)
32.     AWARDS & HONORS - As of 2023 the only 2 to win a Nobel Prize in Literature & an Academy Award were George Bernard Shaw & this singer-songwriter (Bob Dylan)
33.     *HISTORIC LETTERS - A letter from him begins, "On the thirty-third day after I had left Cadiz, I reached the Indian Ocean" (Columbus)
34.     FAMOUS FAMILIES - In 2020 a former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, the last of 9 siblings in this dynastic family, died at 92 (Kennedy)
35.     FAMOUS AMERICANS - On March 23, 1779 he became the first U.S. diplomat to serve overseas by presenting his credentials to a foreign government (Benjamin Franklin)

Edited October 28, 2023 by Clanstarling

[Driad]

3/5.  Debating between spinach salad and pea soup.

[Prevailing Wind]

Four for me, no asterisk. Damn that Columbus.

I'm suffering through a bout of gout, so I'll bring tart cherry juice.

[Trey]

12 hours ago, secnarf said:

A perfect week still eludes me.

Ditto!

I came close this week with 4/5, 0*.

There's a lot of us with 4/5.  I think all those cookies last week bumped up our brain cell count.

[Clanstarling]

4/5 1* (my first * of the season.

@Trey, I like blaming (or giving credit to) the cookies. Let's have more this week!

So for no particular reason than I love them, I'm bringing chocolate chunk cookies!

[Shrek]

4/5 this week only spoiled by Friday, I guess that must include an * .

[DXD526]

Best week this season for me (though it's a common score this week, I see!), 4/5 with the *.

[opus]

Ended up 3/5 this week (and had briefly considered both Kennedy and Ben Franklin before rejecting them Thursday and Friday respectively, so almost.....)

[Mindthinkr]

I must not have eaten enough cookies. 2/5 with no * 

[helpmerhonda]

An embarrassing 1/5 over here.

I don't deserve any treats.

[illdoc]

Week 7:  2/5   0* (thanks Mindthinkr. I was afraid I would be all alone at T42)   Overall:  18/35    2*

[GrannySmith]

4/5. One *

[Bliss]

 

Going into Friday's game, I was feeling smug... I was 9/9 running... Plus an * for Columbus. [I honestly thought everyone was taught that in grade 5 history (or thereabouts) that the reason the islands are called the West Indies is because Columbus thought he'd reached the Indian ocean!]

Then came Friday's game.  sigh

So... 4/5*

I'll bring smug pie. (my version of dutch apple with freshly whipped cream)

[Good Queen Jane]

4/5, no *. 
 

There seems to be a lot of 4/5’s. We may have to divide into asterisk and no asterisk tables.

[j5cochran]

Week seven: five of five! With the asterisk!! 

I have a dear friend who lives about 50 miles away. We trade texts with our Final Jeopardy guesses every evening (no requirement to phrase it in the form of a question). I was so busy taunting Tim for missing Dylan that I didn't notice I had a perfect week.

I'm thinking I want something French, in honor of our first diplomat. Perhaps some French onion soup, with a crusty baguette?

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, Bliss said:

Going into Friday's game, I was feeling smug... I was 9/9 running... Plus an * for Columbus. [I honestly thought everyone was taught that in grade 5 history (or thereabouts) that the reason the islands are called the West Indies is because Columbus thought he'd reached the Indian ocean!]

Yes. And we were also taught that's why the North American "Indians" were not called something else.
Columbus must not have been very imaginative (in addition to being genocidal).

I did think of Columbus, but then fell off the edge of the world with Magellan. 🙃

So:
Week 7: 3/5 
Tues. Bob Dylan; Thu. Kennedy; Fri. Benjamin Franklin

Thanks to the 1's and 2's this week for holding down the curve while I am still sort of flying high among the 3's.

It's getting cold tonight. I'll bring tea and cocoa.

[theartandsound]

Week 7 (23 OCT): 5/5, one *.

[zoey1996]

Week 7: 2/5, one *

YTD: 15/35, one *  

I been re-reading David McCullough's John Adams biography, and I'm just at the part where Adams is in Paris with Franklin and Lee, so that one was an instaget. I should have known Kennedy, but I blanked. I should also have known Motown, but I inexplicably said Mercury.

How about more chili and brownies? I made my first batch of chili for the fall season for supper tonight. What a treat!

[shapeshifter]

11 minutes ago, zoey1996 said:

I should also have known Motown, but I inexplicably said Mercury.

Same. I never owned many 45s with actual labels. I thought "Motown" was just a "sound," as in "Motown Sound."
I used to tape songs off of my transistor radio onto my pocket-sized cassette player. No stereo was involved, LOL.

 

11 minutes ago, zoey1996 said:

How about more chili and brownies? I made my first batch of chili for the fall season for supper tonight. What a treat!

I left my daughter's just as the chili she was making was starting to smell really good.
But virtual chili and brownies with zero heartburn? Sign me up!

 

Edited October 29, 2023 by shapeshifter

[Clanstarling]

19 hours ago, helpmerhonda said:

An embarrassing 1/5 over here.

I don't deserve any treats.

Nonsense, you deserve all the consolation treats!