Season 41 Final Jeopardy Contest

[illdoc]

13 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

how many participants do we have in the FJ "contest"? 

I think it's 24.

[Grundoon59]

Got 1 which happened to be an *.  First ever cruise I went on stopped at Bergen, Norway where Grieg's home was.  Somehow, I never forgot that even though I was too sick with a cold to go on the planned excursion there.  I will blame the rest of the week on frozen brain cells from the cold snap - although I did get Lecarre but not Fleming (both were among Father Grundoon's favorite authors, but I am more familiar with the former than the latter). 

[possibilities]

I'm annoyed that I didn't get LeCarre. I've read his stuff (some of it! there's a lot!) and I really should have thought of him.

I bring carrots 

and 

T[r]oll House cookies

P.S. my monthly book club meets later today and we never have wine! Everybody seems very serious about talking about the book! And now I'm wondering if we're all just nerd anomalies, oe what!?

[Clanstarling]

On 1/25/2025 at 1:56 PM, DXD526 said:

0/5. At least I'm not the only one! On Monday, got as far as nuclear sub, but couldn't think of the name, like others here. It was a true SMH moment upon seeing the answer. Got Fleming on Wednesday, but couldn't come up with LeCarre. So, a half-point?

Not a good week 😩

Sadly, halves don't count. 

On 1/26/2025 at 1:03 AM, Prevailing Wind said:

Idle curiosity - how many participants do we have in the FJ "contest"?  Because, y'know, some of the food y'all bring - EVERYBODY's gonna want to be at the table. Just how big a table do we need?

We are rocking this week - so far a third of us are zippos.

17 hours ago, illdoc said:

I think it's 24.

Very good! I'd give you a point, but that wouldn't be fair. ;)

On 1/24/2025 at 5:54 PM, SoMuchTV said:

(Unless “what is the first nuclear submarine” counts, but I suspect not.)

You suspect correctly. If that was allowed, I'd have to sort through a lot of answers that were very nearly there (or there, but not the verbiage they want). Which is kind of my specialty - the legitimate, but not what they're looking for answer.

[shapeshifter]

3 hours ago, Grundoon59 said:

I will blame the rest of the week on frozen brain cells from the cold snap -

I could do the same, but are the clues and answers a bit harder during the tournaments? There are a lot of Zeros these last 2 weeks:

2 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

We are rocking this week - so far a third of us are zippos.

 

 

3 hours ago, possibilities said:

P.S. my monthly book club meets later today and we never have wine! Everybody seems very serious about talking about the book! And now I'm wondering if we're all just nerd anomalies, oe what!?

I got to attend my mom's book club with her one time, and it was very focused on the book. It probably helped that my mom was head of it at that time and made sure the local library had several copies each month purchased with the book club's dues. 

Edited January 27 by shapeshifter

[Good Queen Jane]

2/5 with 1*

Back from Wichita and the skating and finished going through the archives. Missed you all and the food selections.

[helpmerhonda]

Perfect score for the second glorious week in a row - 0/5

[Clanstarling]

On 1/28/2025 at 2:32 PM, helpmerhonda said:

Perfect score for the second glorious week in a row - 0/5

Welcome to the current cool table. 😉

[ams1001]

Week 21: 0/5 
YTD: 46/105 (44%) with 6*

Who wants a bagel?

 

[Browncoat]

2/5 this week -- bookends, Monday and Friday, and both gotten because of travel!  Oh, I think both were asterisks?

[SoMuchTV]

Whelp, apparently I am exactly as smart as a TOC contestant. At least in FJ!  I got the one FJ that was a triple get, and missed the 4 that were triple stumpers. I even got about as close as that one guy did to “Annus horribilis“, although I got it wrong in a slightly different way. (I settled on annus horrible. I think my high school French and high school Latin were battling it out .)

So, 1/5, no *. 

Edited Saturday at 06:30 PM by SoMuchTV
apparently I can't count, either

[ProudMary]

Week 21:  1/5 (Th)  Thanks to The Crown for that one!

YTD:  52/105, 9* (49.5%) 

[Clanstarling]

Week 21 • January 27 - 2025 Tournament of Champions quarterfinals – Four Asterisks (!)
101.     *WORLD CAPITALS - Home to more than 400,000, it's the only world capital in the "Roaring Forties" latitudes (Wellington, New Zealand)
102.     *PALINDROMIC DATES - This 7-digit date saw the premiere of Handel's "Water Music" (7/17/1717)
103.     ENGLISH LITERATURE - Part II of this 17th century work says, "I see myself now at the end of my journey; my toilsome days are ended" (The Pilgrim’s Progress)
104.     *LATIN PHRASES - After Camillagate, a fire at Windsor castle & marriage problems in her family, Queen Elizabeth II dubbed 1992 this (annus horribilus)
105.    *U.S. PLACE NAMES - Before 1867, this city that lends its name to a type of tree was known as Novo Arkhangelsk (Sitka)

1/5 and one * for me this week. Almost a weekus horribilus.

[possibilities]

I got plenty of nothing!

 

Goose egg!

Ahem. 0/5 for me this week.

 

[opus]

7 minutes ago, possibilities said:

I got plenty of nothing!

 

Goose egg!

Ahem. 0/5 for me this week.

 

 Me too.

Which, considering the price of eggs around here, I’ll take the eggs.

[Trey]

2/5 and 2*

I got Thursday and Friday.

[Prevailing Wind]

Goose Egg for me, too.  I'll take it sunny side up.

[30 Helens]

They’re stacking up! That makes three 0 weeks in a row for me.

On 1/27/2025 at 9:22 AM, possibilities said:

P.S. my monthly book club meets later today and we never have wine! Everybody seems very serious about talking about the book!

Next time, bring a bottle. You’ll be a hero. 😉

[secnarf]

1/5* - annus horribilis was an instaget for me. I'd had low hopes for a category about Latin, but here we are.

[Good Queen Jane]

1/5 with 1*.

And none of the contestants I was rooting for moved on. Grrr!

[Shrek]

16 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Whelp, apparently I am exactly as smart as a TOC contestant. At least in FJ!  I got the one FJ that was a triple get, and missed the 4 that were triple stumpers. I even got about as close as that one guy did to “Annus horribilis“, although I got it wrong in a slightly different way. (I settled on annus horrible. I think my high school French and high school Latin were battling it out .)

So, 4/5, no *. 

Either my reading comprehension is getting worse or that's 1/5 not 4/5.

[SoMuchTV]

36 minutes ago, Shrek said:

Either my reading comprehension is getting worse or that's 1/5 not 4/5.

Ummm, I thought we were counting how many we got wrong...?  Yeah, that's my story.

Fixed, though.

[Driad]

Sorry about this ... Week 21: 4/5 + 3 *.
I hadn't heard of cioppino but it sounded good so I'll bring a batch.

[Shrek]

1/5 for me to stop my awful run of zeros, oh & it was a *.

[Bliss]

2/5 and 2*

Wellington was a guess (been there + I love geography) as was 7171717 (I'm a numbers person) so I feel just a tad guilty as I didn't "know" the answers.

I do remember the Queen talking about her horrible annus 😇... and I also remember giggling with my Dad about Latin jokes - his favourite verb conjugation was po: po, pis, pit, pimus pistus pants. No, that isn't real latin - but my Dad's sense of humour was legendary. I'm just so grateful he isn't here anymore to witness what's happening in our world.

[shapeshifter]

Week 21: 1/5
Wed: Pilgrim's Progress, my first FJ in 2½ weeks!

(Recipe: kitchenfunwithmy3sons.com/marshmallow-snowman-hot-chocolate)

 

 

15 hours ago, possibilities said:

I got plenty of nothing

 

But you brought plenty of something to me! Loved it.🎶

 

Edited Saturday at 09:54 PM by shapeshifter

[Clanstarling]

21 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Week 21: 0/5 
YTD: 46/105 (44%) with 6*

Who wants a bagel?

 

I do, even if I'm not at the table. I'll take poppy seed and....hey, where's the sesame??

5 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

They’re stacking up! That makes three 0 weeks in a row for me.

Next time, bring a bottle. You’ll be a hero. 😉

That's a delicious looking set of zeros.

5 hours ago, secnarf said:

1/5* - annus horribilis was an instaget for me. I'd had low hopes for a category about Latin, but here we are.

Me too, we've since used it during our own annus horribilis. Which, thank goodness, is a few years in the past now.

[DXD526]

0/5. Again.

Quote

Who wants a bagel?

It's unhealthy for me to be eating bagels two weeks in a row 😐

[ams1001]

54 minutes ago, DXD526 said:

0/5. Again.

It's unhealthy for me to be eating bagels two weeks in a row 😐

Donut, then? 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩

[DXD526]

The way I've been playing FJ lately, I deserve a diet of bagels and donuts 🍩

[Mindthinkr]

I’m at the bagel or goose egg table this week 0/5. 
I'll bring cream cheese and olives. It tastes great on a bagel. 

[ams1001]

Some cute unicorn donuts for the 0 table.

(by Christina's Cupcakes via Cakewrecks Sunday Sweets)

[shapeshifter]

1 hour ago, ams1001 said:

Some cute unicorn donuts for the 0 table.

(by Christina's Cupcakes via Cakewrecks Sunday Sweets)

Can the 1's join, since unicorns are famous for having only 1 horn?

[ams1001]

1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:

Can the 1's join, since unicorns are famous for having only 1 horn?

With that logic, how can I say no? We can be the binary code table. 1010101010

[SoMuchTV]

45 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

With that logic, how can I say no? We can be the binary code table. 1010101010

Could we make that 1010101?  Just to keep it a palindrome, you know.

[M. Darcy]

2/5 with 1 *

[illdoc]

Week 21: 0/5 (expect to see this score again this coming week (still ToC)).  Overall 46/105  9*

Oh, and if something goes horrifically wrong with the forum update on Monday and I can no longer access the forums, I just want to say I'll miss you all.

Edited Sunday at 07:16 PM by illdoc

[helpmerhonda]

2/5, one * for me.

Hey, it's an improvement over last week, so I'll take it.

[illdoc]

18 hours ago, illdoc said:

Oh, and if something goes horrifically wrong with the forum update on Monday and I can no longer access the forums, I just want to say I'll miss you all.

I'm here, but that may be because I actually never logout of the forums, so no need to login? But I figured the "update" might have forced a "cookies removed. you must login to reauthenticate your account" situation.

[zoey1996]

Week 21 1/5, one*

YTD 36/105, six*

[Grundoon59]

1/5 with one *.  So many of the others made sense when I saw them but the only one I got was "annus horribilis" (as long as you are generous with spelling).  

Father Grundoon had more of a Latin education than I did but his favorite "Latin" aphorism was not a real translation.  Illegitimi non carborundum (don't let those not born within wedlock grind you down) has gotten me through some dark days.  

[theartandsound]

Been incredibly lazy abt posting scores. Apologies!

WEEK 19 (13 JAN): 3/5, one *.

WEEK 20 (20 JAN): 3/5, no *.

WEEK 21 (27 JAN): 3/5. three *.

[Clanstarling]

On 2/2/2025 at 11:12 AM, illdoc said:

Week 21: 0/5 (expect to see this score again this coming week (still ToC)).  Overall 46/105  9*

Oh, and if something goes horrifically wrong with the forum update on Monday and I can no longer access the forums, I just want to say I'll miss you all.

Hope you're still here. I've already forgotten how the login went for me.

On 2/3/2025 at 12:28 PM, theartandsound said:

Been incredibly lazy abt posting scores. Apologies!

WEEK 19 (13 JAN): 3/5, one *.

WEEK 20 (20 JAN): 3/5, no *.

WEEK 21 (27 JAN): 3/5. three *.

Thanks. I was getting a bit worried about you. Not to guilt trip you or anything. 😉