Season 41 Final Jeopardy Contest

[illdoc]

Week 17: 2/5 0*  Overall: 40/85  7*

[DXD526]

Another 2/5, no *.

[Bliss]

7 hours ago, Trey said:

 

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

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

[theartandsound]

WEEK 17 (30 DEC): 2/5, no *.

[Mindthinkr]

21 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

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

On 1/3/2025 at 11:50 PM, possibilities 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 ✨

[M. Darcy]

4/5 with 1*

Almost a perfect week - I got the right book but wrong person. 

[Clanstarling]

18 hours ago, 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

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?

2 hours ago, 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 ✨

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.

[ams1001]

42 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

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.

Sorry, but glazed and chocolate frosted are the best.

O for One, of course.

[opus]

1/5, Grant

[helpmerhonda]

1/5 - just Hispaniola for me

[Good Queen Jane]

3/5 with 1*.

i knew Thursday’s FJ was moons of a planet but I thought the planet was Saturn, not Jupiter. Those Roman gods!

[Driad]

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."

[secnarf]

2/5 for me. Was sooooo close on pantomime. I got the "mime" part and blanked on the Greek word for all, or how to make "mime" fit the clue.

[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. 😉

[shapeshifter]

6 hours ago, 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. 😉

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.🧹
😉

[Grundoon59]

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.

[Browncoat]

4/5 this week.

[SoMuchTV]

4/5 for me as well! If my brain had kicked in enough on Monday to realize that matchbox=tinder, then even more places would now be frozen over. 

[ams1001]

Week 18: 4/5 
YTD: 44/90 (49%) with 5* 

54 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

4/5 for me as well! If my brain had kicked in enough on Monday to realize that matchbox=tinder, then even more places would now be frozen over. 

Same..

[Clanstarling]

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!

[Mindthinkr]

3/5 for me and I’m kicking my own butt as I should have known the other two. 

Here are some Berry Pavlovas for anyone who fancies something light. 

 

[possibilities]

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

Cornetto for everyone

 

[shapeshifter]

39 minutes ago, 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)

Week 18: 2/5

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

[Driad]

Week 18: 5/5.  Bringing latkes and all the trimmings.

[Prevailing Wind]

Three for me again.

[ams1001]

1 hour ago, Mindthinkr said:

3/5 for me and I’m kicking my own butt as I should have known the other two. 

Here are some Berry Pavlovas for anyone who fancies something light. 

 

Are they Beastie Boysenberries?

[opus]

3/5. Tinder, Homestead, McCain

1 hour ago, 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

 

No nuts, please.

[Trey]

11 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

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

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

[Shrek]

3/5 for me this week.

[Clanstarling]

13 hours ago, 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

 

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.

1 hour ago, Trey said:

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

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.

[Good Queen Jane]

0/5.

Obviously I need  a Third Chance.

[Clanstarling]

14 minutes ago, Good Queen Jane said:

0/5.

Obviously I need  a Third Chance.

You have all the chances you want here with us. 💗

[zoey1996]

Week 18 4/5, no*

YTD 33/90, five*

Best week this year! Also best week this season! How about some four-cheese mac and cheese? 

[shapeshifter]

3 hours ago, Trey said:

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

1 hour ago, 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.

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. 

 

 

[secnarf]

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.

[shapeshifter]

1 minute ago, 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.

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.

[ProudMary]

Week 18:  2/5 (Tu, W)

YTD:  48/90, 9*

 

[DXD526]

1/5, W only. 

[illdoc]

Week 18:  3/5    Overall:  43/90  7*

4 hours ago, 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..

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

[helpmerhonda]

5/5!! Yay!!

[M. Darcy]

3/5!

[Bliss]

4/5

Will have to bring more snow (no time to bake)... IKEA snowmen!

[30 Helens]

2/5. I bookended this week with Tinder (not Tindr!) and McCain. Should have gotten the rhesus monkey, too, but my brain blurted out “chimp!” and promptly stopped thinking.

I will bring some cactus cupcakes to honor the home state of one of my all-time favorite legislators.

 

[Grundoon59]

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.  

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, 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.  

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)

Edited Monday at 04:56 PM by Clanstarling

[SoMuchTV]

2 hours ago, 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)

Pretty sure I got it from the Little House books!  

[theartandsound]

WEEK 18 (06 JAN): 4/5.