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Season 41 Final Jeopardy Contest

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30 Helens
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1/5. You can find me at the popular Saved By Morticia table. Can I interest anyone in a slice of Cousin Itt cake?    (Don’t leave me in the Lurch.)

Clanstarling
Clanstarling

Are you ready for some Jeopardy??!! The Season 41 Final Jeopardy Contest starts on September 9th. I’m so excited, my spreadsheets are all set up and raring to go. If you participated last

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Bliss

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  On 1/4/2025 at 3:06 PM, Trey said:

 

I did get 'moons' for Thursday's FJ but never got to the 'of Jupiter' part.

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Ditto! I thought about claiming "1/2" but had a gut feeling our lovely Clanstarling would shoot me down for not followihg the rules (seems all our politicians get to do this! grrrrrrr)... but hey, if you do it and I do it, we'll have a whole 1 to share! LOL

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Mindthinkr

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  On 1/4/2025 at 5:16 PM, Clanstarling said:

You can sit beside me, I'm choosing between bagels and donuts (or doughnuts, whichever you prefer)

  On 1/4/2025 at 4:50 AM, possibilities said:
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I’m actually hungry for a jelly donut if there’s still room at your table. 
I also just got 1 and the * for pantomime. 
Happy New Year to everyone ✨

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Clanstarling

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  On 1/4/2025 at 10:39 PM, Bliss said:

Ditto! I thought about claiming "1/2" but had a gut feeling our lovely Clanstarling would shoot me down for not followihg the rules (seems all our politicians get to do this! grrrrrrr)... but hey, if you do it and I do it, we'll have a whole 1 to share! LOL

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Well that's sweet, but buttering me up won't work (at least this time). 😆 I mean, do we really want to sink to the level of politicians?

  On 1/5/2025 at 2:21 PM, Mindthinkr said:

I’m actually hungry for a jelly donut if there’s still room at your table. 
I also just got 1 and the * for pantomime. 
Happy New Year to everyone ✨

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Jelly's the best! I just realized that I've been going for "O" shaped treats, when we got ones. Oh well, guess I was just hungry for something round...and ya'll were too.

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Driad

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Thursday's FJ: the moons were named after some of Jupiter's many lovers.  The spacecraft Juno, named after Jupiter's wife, is orbiting Jupiter.  NASA explained: "Juno's name comes from Greek and Roman mythology. The god Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief, and his wife, the goddess Juno, was able to peer through the clouds and reveal Jupiter's true nature."

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30 Helens

30 Helens

Very busy week for me, so I had to do the week’s worth of shows in a marathon run. Now I know how the contestants feel (not really, from the comfort of my couch) because my brain was damn near fried by the end. So maybe not surprisingly, I ended up with a whopping

0/5 (no *).

And I can’t even blame it on New Year’s drinking! I should have at least gotten pantomime because, like secnarf above, I thought of “mime”. I was kicking myself after, because “pan” should have been the easy part. Hispaniola also should have been a gimme, but nobody told me Grant smoked cigars. And what do I know about moons? I can’t even keep track of geography here on earth!

I expect everyone has left the party by now, so I’ll just bring a broom to sweep up the crumbs. Hopefully someone left a donut for me on one of the tables. 😉

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shapeshifter

shapeshifter

  On 1/6/2025 at 6:50 AM, 30 Helens said:

Very busy week for me, so I had to do the week’s worth of shows in a marathon run. Now I know how the contestants feel (not really, from the comfort of my couch) because my brain was damn near fried by the end. So maybe not surprisingly, I ended up with a whopping

0/5 (no *).

And I can’t even blame it on New Year’s drinking! I should have at least gotten pantomime because, like secnarf above, I thought of “mime”. I was kicking myself after, because “pan” should have been the easy part. Hispaniola also should have been a gimme, but nobody told me Grant smoked cigars. And what do I know about moons? I can’t even keep track of geography here on earth!

I expect everyone has left the party by now, so I’ll just bring a broom to sweep up the crumbs. Hopefully someone left a donut for me on one of the tables. 😉

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Thanks for being our test case of how we would fare doing 5 games back-to-back.

A little sweeping can be therapeutic for me, so hand me the broom when you feel like you’ve sufficiently (metaphorically) self-flagellated yourself with it.🧹
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Grundoon59

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3/5 with no * - got Hispianola, Grant and Jonah - all lucky guesses.  Couldn't think fast enough for pantomime. Science is never one of my strong suits.  

Thursday reminded me of one of Father Grundoon's favorite final exam questions - he had an econ final and the first of about 100 questions was:  _____ is the ______ ______ of ______. 

To hear Father Grundoon tell it, some students ripped up their test papers and just walked out.  Others tried but got freaked out.  Some made it through by skipping the question, answering the rest and going back to it.  Father was in the third group.  BTW - the "answer" is money is the common medium of exchange.

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Clanstarling

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Week 18 • January 6 - Second Chance Tournament – No Asterisks
86.     21st CENTURY BUSINESS - An early version of this app was called Matchbox but that name was too similar to another company that offered the same service (Tinder)
87.    FACTS ABOUT COUNTRIES - It has 40,000 people & a workforce of 42,000, more than half commuting from nearby, including Vorarlberg state in a neighbor country (Liechtenstein)
88.     AMERICAN HISTORY - The last claim awarded under this act was in 1988, 126 years after it passed, for a parcel of land in Alaska (Homestead Act)
89.     ANIMALS IN SCIENCE - The first mammal species sent on a rocket to space, it's perhaps more famous for an antigen in its blood (a rhesus monkey (rhesus macaque))
90.    NOTABLE AMERICANS - Saying he fell in love with his country while a prisoner in someone else's, he dedicated the rest of his life to public service (John McCain)

3/5 for me this week, a major improvement!

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shapeshifter

shapeshifter

  On 1/11/2025 at 2:59 AM, Clanstarling said:

89.     ANIMALS IN SCIENCE - The first mammal species sent on a rocket to space, it's perhaps more famous for an antigen in its blood (a rhesus monkey (rhesus macaque))
90.    NOTABLE AMERICANS - Saying he fell in love with his country while a prisoner in someone else's, he dedicated the rest of his life to public service (John McCain)

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Week 18: 2/5

I'm happy with my 2/5 because they were instagets after 3 games of should-have-gots.

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  On 1/11/2025 at 3:15 AM, possibilities said:

I got 3/5. I would have had 4, but I sself-doubted myself out of one of my answers. Alas!

Cornetto for everyone

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I confidently said "drumstick," I mean, that's what I've always called them. But I guess they needed that for the chicken question... Though I've just looked them up, and after a review, see that the Nestle drumstick is slightly different (though they do have a version that resembles a coronetto). That's why I watch Jeopardy, learn something new every day.

  On 1/11/2025 at 2:42 PM, Trey said:

Same for me. I got Wed, Thurs, and Friday.  I have never heard of Tinder as a matching site.

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I was scrabbling in my mind. I figured it was a matching site, but I knew it wasn't the one my child met their longtime partner on. At first only Grindr came to mind (I read a lot...lol), but then I decided Tinder, with absolutely no confidence. So I was pleasantly surprised.

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shapeshifter

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  On 1/11/2025 at 2:42 PM, Trey said:

Same for me. I got Wed, Thurs, and Friday.  I have never heard of Tinder as a matching site.

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  On 1/11/2025 at 4:41 PM, Clanstarling said:

…I knew it wasn't the one my child met their longtime partner on. At first only Grindr came to mind (I read a lot...lol), but then I decided Tinder, with absolutely no confidence. So I was pleasantly surprised.

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Yeah. My married daughter met my SIL on Bumble, and I could not get that out of my head in time.
I've heard lots of Late Night comic jokes about Tinder, but I've never actually been on any of those sites. 

 

 

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shapeshifter

shapeshifter

  On 1/11/2025 at 7:09 PM, secnarf said:

4/5 this week! Only missed Homestead Act, and I feel like, as a non-American, that is understandable. Still much better than normal for me.

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If you keep this up, you may need to replace your Eeyore avatar with Tigger or Roo, LOL.
4/5 is fantastic! 
I've had that just once.

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illdoc

illdoc

Week 18:  3/5    Overall:  43/90  7*

  On 1/11/2025 at 4:41 PM, Clanstarling said:

I confidently said "drumstick," I mean, that's what I've always called them. But I guess they needed that for the chicken question..

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I, too, said "drumstick", but since the clue said "This Italian frozen dessert", I think they needed the Italian name.

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Clanstarling

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  On 1/13/2025 at 3:05 PM, Grundoon59 said:

I managed 4/5 - couldn't get to Homestead Act which as a government/history major (albeit long ago), I was sort of embarrassed to miss.  

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As an lit major, I am always a little embarrassed to miss a lit question.  But, as a lit major, I was thrilled to get Homestead Act. I have no idea how it managed to get to my brain.  (probably because of a book I read - lol)

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SoMuchTV

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  On 1/13/2025 at 4:55 PM, Clanstarling said:

As a lit major, I am always a little embarrassed to miss a lit question.  But, as a lit major, I was thrilled to get Homestead Act. I have no idea how it managed to get to my brain.  (probably because of a book I read - lol)

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Pretty sure I got it from the Little House books!  

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Clanstarling

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Week 19 • January 13 - 2025 Champions Wildcard 3 Asterisks
91.    HISTORIC CURRENCY - Henry VII minted the first pound coin in 1489, which was called this, also a term for what Henry was (a sovereign (coin)
92.    *COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD - "Bilady, Bilady, Bilady", its national anthem, replaced a more militaristic one following a 1979 peace treaty (Egypt)
93.    BOOKS OF THE 1960s - In 1962 the New York Times said the release of this controversial book "presages a noisy fall" (Silent Spring)
94.    *TREES - Order Arecales, this tree gets its name from Roman times; a leaf from one was placed in a victor's hands after a contest was won (palm tree)
95.     *HISTORIC STATEMENTS - He wrote of his intent "to reserve & throw away my first fire, & I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire" (Alexander Hamilton)

2/5 1*

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