Season 40 Final Jeopardy Contest

[M. Darcy]

4/5 with 1*

[Grundoon59]

Stumbled my way to 5/5 with 1 * with some lucky guesses (notably Dylan and Columbus).  Kennedy and Franklin came pretty easily. 

As a Detroit native born the year Motown was founded, I would have lost any credibility I ever had if I had gotten that one wrong.  I drove by Hitsville, USA on Saturday and passed along greetings from this forum.  

I will bring melt in your mouth quiche lorraine that I picked up at the farmers market on Saturday morning (also honoring the French) but with Shaw and Kennedy in the clues this week, I thought about something Irish as well.  

[30 Helens]

Another for the 2/5 table. (Motown, Kennedy.) I was seduced by Magellan and Jefferson into thinking they’re something they’re not. 

Since I’m late to the party again, I’ll just being a broom to sweep up the debris from the wonderful time I’m sure everyone had.

[Clanstarling]

13 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

Another for the 2/5 table. (Motown, Kennedy.) I was seduced by Magellan and Jefferson into thinking they’re something they’re not. 

Since I’m late to the party again, I’ll just being a broom to sweep up the debris from the wonderful time I’m sure everyone had.

You're not the latest...there are a few others. Everyone partakes and the party goes on until we hear from every last one! Sometimes it goes right up to the next one. 😉

Edited October 31, 2023 by Clanstarling

[dankesean]

I'm late too! Please accept this box of Andes after dinner mints.

Week 7: 3/5, no *.

[Prevailing Wind]

I'm going to bed early, so I checked thejeopardyfan.com. Damn. Four this week. I don't know if any were asterisks, but they were Mon-Thurs.  I'll bring some hot Ovaltine to induce sleep.

Don't forget to change the clocks this weekend. Use that extra hour to re-set all the clocks & change the smoke alarm batteries.

G'night.

[secnarf]

5/5**

I did it! My first ever perfect week!!!!!

And probably my last ;)

I made steamed custard buns for the first time this past week, so I will bring plenty to share.

[ams1001]

Week 8: 3/5 with 1*
YTD: 25/40 (63%) with 2*

I haven't even figured out what I'm going to eat let alone virtual food...I've got some tortilla chips and pretzels...
 

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I'm going to bed early, so I checked thejeopardyfan.com. Damn. Four this week. I don't know if any were asterisks, but they were Mon-Thurs.  I'll bring some hot Ovaltine to induce sleep.

Asterisks were Tuesday (Archie) and Friday (Richard III).

Edited November 4, 2023 by ams1001

[Browncoat]

3/5 for me this week, with one asterisk.

[GrannySmith]

3/5, 1*

[ProudMary]

Week 8:  3/5, 1*

[theartandsound]

WEEK 8 (30 OCT): 4/5, 2 *.

[Bliss]

It happened again... was having a perfect week until Friday!

4/5* (Archie)

I'm somewhat confused whether to be happy or sad that I was a ts. (Bliss)

My food contribution is cabbage roll soup. If you love cabbage rolls, you'll love my soup!

[Clanstarling]

Week 8 – Oct. 30   Two Asterisks
36.     DRIVING THE USA - It's the state with the most miles of Interstate Highway, more than 3,200; one Interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage (Texas)
37.     *NAMES'S THE SAME - This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne (Archie)
38.     21st CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS - It was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent vice president was a candidate (2008)
39.     ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY - Britain became an island less than 10,000 years ago, as warming weather & melting ice filled in this sea (the North Sea)
40.     *BRITISH HISTORY - At Leicester Cathedral in March 2015, the Archbishop of Canterbury led a religious ceremony for this deceased English monarch (Richard III)

[Driad]

4/5 + 1*.

[shapeshifter]

5 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

Week 8 – Oct. 30   Two Asterisks
36.     DRIVING THE USA - It's the state with the most miles of Interstate Highway, more than 3,200; one Interstate accounts for 1/4 of that mileage (Texas)
37.     *NAMES'S THE SAME - This first name is shared by a character introduced in 1941 & a member of royalty who is sixth in line to the British throne (Archie)
38.     21st CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS - It was the first election since 1952 in which neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent vice president was a candidate (2008)

Week 8:  3/5, 1*
(Mon., Tues., & Wed.)

Edited November 4, 2023 by shapeshifter
Silly autocorrect

[j5cochran]

Week eight: five of five with two asterisks!!! Two perfect weeks in a row! I need to retire. Right. Now.

[Mindthinkr]

3/5 +1* 

I’ll come back and edit when I figure out what to bring to the table. 

[Trey]

Congrats @secnarf!

3/5 1* for Richard III

[Clanstarling]

15 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I'm going to bed early, so I checked thejeopardyfan.com. Damn. Four this week. I don't know if any were asterisks, but they were Mon-Thurs.  I'll bring some hot Ovaltine to induce sleep.

You got one!

15 hours ago, secnarf said:

5/5**

I did it! My first ever perfect week!!!!!

Way to go!

14 hours ago, GrannySmith said:

3/5, 1*

I don't have last week's score - did I miss it?

I'm pulling down the average this week - I got zip (with a number of smack my head's). Oh well...

14 hours ago, GrannySmith said:

3/5, 1*

Found it - my mistake!

Edited November 4, 2023 by Clanstarling

[Shrek]

3/5 this week after a bad first 2 days.

[zoey1996]

Week : 2/5, no *

YTD: 17/40, one *  

After 3 for week one, I've been very consistent with 2 per week. Hope I can improve!

[Good Queen Jane]

4/5, 2*.

Thanks to The Royals thread discussion of the discovery and burial of Richard lll. In their honor, I’ll bring scones and clotted cream.

[helpmerhonda]

4/5, one *

Good rebound for me from last week.

[illdoc]

Thank you zoey1996! I was afraid I would be all alone at T42. Week 8:  2/5  1*  Overall: 20/40 (50%)  3*

[SoMuchTV]

Week 8:  2/5, no *.  Probably could have gotten a couple more if I had extended time.  Where do I apply for that?  Overall 19/40, 1/7*.

Contestants got a paltry 4/15 (though in their defense, a couple of the misses were shout-outs where the outcome wasn't in question).

[DXD526]

Was happy to be 2/3 after Wednesday's game, and thought maybe there would be a repeat of last week's 4/5!...but alas, crickets for the rest of the week, so 2/5 😶

[opus]

1/5 . Back to normal after two strong weeks.

[30 Helens]

3/5 with 2**…. which, for me, is not too shabby!

In honor of my home state, I will bring a big pot of our most decadent entree: Texas Brisket Chili Frito Pie. With extra cheese and sour cream, of course.

 

[dankesean]

Week 8: 3/5, 1* (Richard III)

While I normally try to make my dining contributions thematic with questions from the week, I've had a giant roast marinating in wine & vinegar for about six days, as the prep stage of a sauerbraten for tomorrow night. It's a big chunk of meat, so everyone can dig in!

 

[Mindthinkr]

18 hours ago, Good Queen Jane said:

4/5, 2*.

Thanks to The Royals thread discussion of the discovery and burial of Richard lll. In their honor, I’ll bring scones and clotted cream.

I’ll bring chicken salad tea sandwiches. I have leftovers from making a batch for our block party. 

 

[M. Darcy]

3/5 with 2*

[Shrek]

On 11/4/2023 at 8:25 AM, Shrek said:

3/5 this week after a bad first 2 days.

As I got Wed, Thu & Friday I guess there was an * in there somewhere.

[Clanstarling]

19 hours ago, Shrek said:

As I got Wed, Thu & Friday I guess there was an * in there somewhere.

Yep, on Friday!

[Grundoon59]

5/5 with 2 * - I think every question this week was a guess (some educated and some very lucky).  Closest I came to being sure was on Friday (Richard III has been an interest of mine ever since I first read Josephine Tey's " The Daughter of Time" and Elizabeth Peters' "The Murders of Richard III".)

I will bring tea (hot, iced and Long Island) to go with the other tea party offerings.  

 

[Clanstarling]

On 11/3/2023 at 7:18 PM, Bliss said:

My food contribution is cabbage roll soup. If you love cabbage rolls, you'll love my soup!

I'm thawing out my own cabbage roll soup for lunch - I couldn't stop thinking about it since I read your post! Don't know if mine is as good as yours - but it's pretty darned good. Yum! (still think we need a icon!)

[Prevailing Wind]

Yaay!  I finally got one this week.  That's it. One. No *.  Put me at the breadstick table.

 

[ams1001]

10 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Yaay!  I finally got one this week.  That's it. One. No *.  Put me at the breadstick table.

Right there with you...

Week 9: 1/5
YTD: 26/45 (58%) with 2*
 

I'll bring caramel-chocolate-covered pretzel rods.

[Browncoat]

I bookended the week -- 2/5.

[shapeshifter]

I'm back to my usual role of lowering the curve:
Week 9: 0/5

I did read a biography of Joan of Arc when I was a young teen, so it probably didn't have anything about her mother or anything too heavy on the Catholic Church, and, anyway, that was way too long ago for me to recall anything except that they burned her at the stake. 
But I just skimmed the Wikipedia article, and decided I want to read it in its entirety. 

[ProudMary]

Week 9:  2/5. (No *)

[Driad]

Week 9: 3/5.

Tuesday was painful: I knew it was Ethiopia but couldn't remember the capital in time.  Wednesday I at least knew it was too early to be Lewis or Clark.

Bringing 3 breadsticks (plus a basket of them) and appropriate dips etc.

[Clanstarling]

Week 9 • Nov. 6    One Asterisk
41.     MUSIC & LITERATURE - John Steinbeck called this "one of the great songs of the world" & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels
42.     WORLD HISTORY - This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico's WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation (Addis Ababa)
43. *    EXPLORERS - Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" (Captain James Cook)
44.     AMERICAN AUTHORS - In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" (William Faulkner)
45.    THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - The 1456 posthumous annulment of this woman's sentence by the Church was witnessed by her mother Isabelle (Joan of Arc)

Edited November 11, 2023 by Clanstarling

[secnarf]

2 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

Week 9 • Nov. 6    No Asterisks
41.     MUSIC & LITERATURE - John Steinbeck called this "one of the great songs of the world" & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels
42.     WORLD HISTORY - This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico's WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation (Addis Ababa)
43.     EXPLORERS - Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" (Captain James Cook)
44.     AMERICAN AUTHORS - In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" (William Faulkner)
45.    THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - The 1456 posthumous annulment of this woman's sentence by the Church was witnessed by her mother Isabelle (Joan of Arc)

I believe James Cook was an asterisk - one contestant didn't participate and the other two said Magellan and Lewis.

I got James Cook and Joan of Arc, this week.

[j5cochran]

Week nine: two of five, with the asterisk that @secnarf correctly pointed out. I got Jim and Joanie, and totally blew that two-week stretch of perfect weeks. Well, pooh.

 

[opus]

1/5. Just Joan.

[GrannySmith]

3/5. One *

[SoMuchTV]

Week 9: 2/5, no *.  Definitely finished the week better than I started. 

Overall 21/45, 1/8*.

The contestants beat me, percentage wise, this week, at 7/14 (one was in the red for FJ!)

 

[Trey]

2/5 0*

I'll bring some dips for the breadsticks that aren't already coated in chocolatey goodness.

[Bliss]

10 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

Week 9 • Nov. 6    No Asterisks
41.     MUSIC & LITERATURE - John Steinbeck called this "one of the great songs of the world" & wanted the music & lyrics printed in one of his novels
42.     WORLD HISTORY - This African capital renamed an area Mexico Square to honor Mexico's WWII-era support of its sovereignty during Italian occupation (Addis Ababa)
43.     EXPLORERS - Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later, in 1774 he wrote that he was headed "farther than any other man has been before me" (Captain James Cook)
44.     AMERICAN AUTHORS - In 1950 the Swedish Academy said this Nobel Prize winner "is a regional writer" but called "his regionalism universal" (William Faulkner)
45.    THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - The 1456 posthumous annulment of this woman's sentence by the Church was witnessed by her mother Isabelle (Joan of Arc)

Mon - said Grapes of Wrath. At least I was on the fringe. Sort of like starting with a zero because now I'm stress free for the week.

Tue - gapped totally. Oh oh... 2 zeros so far... looks like I might be bringing donut holes...

Wed - OMG Said Cook as a total guess and only because I'd just been talking to Mr Bliss about my waking to roosters every morning when I had the privilege of vacationing at Cook Islands.

Thur - decided on Faulkner because I'd just finished reading a book in which he was featured as a theme, and mentioned it to a friend on the phone... this sort of freaks me out. Is J! listening to my conversations?

Fri - instaget. Don't ask me how I knew that. It was one of those, "I didn't know I knew it" blurts.

FJ total: 3/5

@Clanstarling - thank you for posting the summary! Much appreciated 😍