Season 41 Final Jeopardy Contest

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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.