Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[Katy M]

I thought I was wrong, but I did say black hole as my answer, so I guess it counts.

I got the missed clues of Reign of Terror, Melba, acupuncture (after alternative), Das Kapital, Bridget, Neil Simon, and the Blue Angel.

Had a terrible DJ, but the rest of the game was alright.

[Browncoat]

I did not get FJ tonight.  

But I did get the TS of acupuncture, republicans, All About My Mother, Das Kapital, St. Brigid, Neil Simon, and Blue Angel.

I kind of covet Erin's hair.

[Bastet]

I cannot believe no one could figure outThe Blue Angel.

I ran health & medicine, but that was it for the first round.  I got all but Doug Funnie in fun, all but Reign of Terror in getting started, and all but corpse flower in don't go, but missed two in Australian and a whopping three in TV (not typical for a first round category, but also pretty damn good for a category about current television given how little of it I watch).

I was terrible in religion (shocking, I know), only getting Shintoism, and somewhat meh in DJ overall.  I only ran rhyme time (that was fun!), although I got all but The Seventh Seal in films and all but prisoner's dilemma in theory.  I missed three in playwrights and two in bucket list.

I perked up for FJ, though -- that was an instaguess I felt confident was correct.

[proserpina65]

I had very low expectations when I saw the category, but FJ turned out to be an instaget for me despite being a science clue.  I'm casually into astronomy so I knew that black hole is the name given to a completely collapsed star at the end of its lifecycle.

[shapeshifter]

11 hours ago, Bastet said:

I cannot believe no one could figure outThe Blue Angel.

Even I got it. Maybe there was a minor earthquake or similar distraction at that moment on set?

I can understand how the "OM" in "AOM" might have given them pause for Acupuncture. 

FJ was a given. 
Probably Erin was self-doubting by that point.
I couldn't see what she had started to write.

I would vote for Scott Tcheng to be a Second Chancer.

Edited October 3 by shapeshifter

[proserpina65]

14 hours ago, Katy M said:

I thought I was wrong, but I did say black hole as my answer, so I guess it counts.

I got the missed clues of Reign of Terror, Melba, acupuncture (after alternative), Das Kapital, Bridget, Neil Simon, and the Blue Angel.

Had a terrible DJ, but the rest of the game was alright.

I didn't get Das Kapital (my answer was "not the Communist Manifesto, the other one") but did get the others.  Got all the foreign film titles except All About My Mother, which I got confused with E Tu Mama Tambien, a very different film, lol.

I'll confess to not know that Little Sheba was a dog.  Or that Inge wrote the play.  I did not do well in that category, only getting Sam Shepard and Neil Simon.  I've heard of Mother Courage and Her Children but did not know who wrote it.

I also ran Australian money.  Those years of being obsessed with all things Australian occasionally pay off.

I was surprised that none of the contestants got acupuncture.  It's the first thing I think of when I hear "Oriental medicine".

11 hours ago, Bastet said:

a whopping three in TV (not typical for a first round category,

I missed two in TV, mainly because I couldn't for the life of me remember Kiki Palmer's name and because I loathed Frazier and apparently had blocked it out of my mind entirely.

[Bastet]

I'm going to be watching football tonight, so just checked the archive.

I know Ken said in the Flip the First & Last Letter category that the last letter of one word is the first letter of another, not specifically that the last letter of the first word is the first letter of the second word, but I sure got in that groove in a hurry based on the first two clues, so when the third was the other way around, I had to give myself extra time to come up with it. 

I'm stunned Chekhov's gun was a TS with one of the contestants spotting the others Chekhov.  The blood transfusion TS surprised me, especially with transplant ruled out.  And I'm a little surprised drunk skunk was a TS (I wasn't sure what a polecat was, but an animal rhyming with drunk got me to skunk almost immediately, probably subconsciously helped by the phrase "drunk as a skunk"). 

I missed two each in sexiest men, papal, and kid lit, so not my best first round, but not a bad one as I ran the rest.

I only ran possessive (giving myself credit for Newton's Cradle, because I know I'd have responded correctly had I been able to see a picture of it), but I got all but Malay in archipelagos and all but terran & errant in letters.  I missed three in past (seeing the pictures wouldn't have helped), but two each in films and ancient, so DJ was a decent round for me.

FJ took a few beats to come to me, but then it did in a flash.

[ams1001]

October 3:

73% / 50% / 62%

Decent first round…ran Brand Mascots and It's Technical, missed one in Kiddy Lit and Beastly Rhyme Time, two in Also a Papal Name, and four in People's Sexiest Man Alive.

Bad second round…missed one in Possessive Terms, two in Anciently Dramatic, and three in everything else.

Again, I got all three DDs, but I actually got FJ this time! (Near-instaget as I considered the year and city, then went back to auditory nerves and it was obvious….)

TSes: (J had 6; DJ had 12! + both DDs) I got drunk skunk, Winnie the Pooh, blood transfusion, Canary Islands (DD), Jacob's Ladder (DD), Latin, Chekhov's Gun, and sharp/harps.

Felt bad for Emily; I don't think she ever got out of the red.

24 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I'm stunned Chekhov's gun was a TS with one of the contestants spotting the others Chekhov.

I think they forgot it had to be a possessive phrase.

The middle guy's story made me go ask Siri "can I have a cookie"...he told me I had to turn on location services and then showed me five places I might get a cookie near me. (Oddly enough, not including the Crumbl Cookies that's ten minutes away.)

Edited October 3 by ams1001

[shapeshifter]

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

I'm stunned Chekhov's gun was a TS with one of the contestants spotting the others Chekhov.  The blood transfusion TS surprised me, especially with transplant ruled out

Either I'm getting slower or the time for Jeopardy! contestants to ring-in has gotten a few seconds shorter. 
I knew both of those but could never have buzzed-in in time.

That's 2 FJ near-instagets in a row for me. Most others folks here too?

Poor Adam didn't hear me yelling "Jacob's Ladder!" through the wormhole.
His Canadian accent became more pronounced after that to my ear, and he sounded defeated. The come-back can be a big part of winning Jeopardy!
It has been for the current champ. 
Champ Ryan's weekly trivia pub contest theme prizes are a lot like our Final Jeopardy Contest prizes. 
And his affection for his wife practically seared the camera lens after tonight's win. I guess as a systems admin he probably spends a fair amount of time in Zoom meetings, so knows how to communicate effectively via a camera.

And the Children's Librarian didn't even know Winnie the Pooh's real name? I guess most of those clues were for us older librarians?

Edited October 4 by shapeshifter

[opus]

3 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

That's 2 FJ near-instagets in a row for me. Most others folks here too?

Two in a row for me too but black hole was more of a last second attempt.

[SoMuchTV]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

I'm stunned Chekhov's gun was a TS with one of the contestants spotting the others Chekhov.

I had to rewind a couple of times before I could grudgingly accept that “Chekhov” by itself didn’t fit the clue. I still feel like he should have gotten a BMS, not that it would have changed any outcomes. 

ETA: okay, fine, it would have also helped if I’d remembered the category was “possessive terms”. 

Edited October 4 by SoMuchTV

[dgpolo]

2 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Felt bad for Emily; I don't think she ever got out of the red.

I felt embarrassed for her, to only get one of the Kiddie Lit clues? And it's not like she was beat with the buzzer, two of those were TSs.

[Mindthinkr]

I watched with a friend last night. Kudos as they didn’t try to chat as the game was going on. I got centrifuge, blood transfusion, Harry Hamlin, Canary Islands, Bahamas and FJ was an instaget. 

[MrAtoz]

13 hours ago, Bastet said:

giving myself credit for Newton's Cradle, because I know I'd have responded correctly had I been able to see a picture of it

I saw the picture, and I didn't get it. I don't think I ever knew that gizmo had a name other than "that swingy ball thing."

[Trey]

37 minutes ago, MrAtoz said:

I saw the picture, and I didn't get it. I don't think I ever knew that gizmo had a name other than "that swingy ball thing."

I thought it was called a "perpetual motion" thing, didn't know it had another name.

Instaget FJ for a change.

[proserpina65]

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

And I'm a little surprised drunk skunk was a TS (I wasn't sure what a polecat was, but an animal rhyming with drunk got me to skunk almost immediately, probably subconsciously helped by the phrase "drunk as a skunk"). 

Clearly the contestants weren't from the south.  Hell, I'm only south-adjacent and we out in the boonies call them polecats.

FJ seemed incredibly easy to me.

 

[chessiegal]

8 minutes ago, Trey said:

 I thought it was called a "perpetual motion" thing, didn't know it had another name.

I thought the same thing. Here are other names, according to Wiki:

Quote

The device is named after 17th-century English scientist Sir Isaac Newton and was designed by French scientist Edme Mariotte. It is also known as Newton's pendulum, Newton's balls, Newton's rocker or executive ball clicker (since the device makes a click each time the balls collide, which they do repeatedly in a steady rhythm).[1][2]

 

[Clanstarling]

14 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

And the Children's Librarian didn't even know Winnie the Pooh's real name? I guess most of those clues were for us older librarians?

I did feel bad for her. Of course, though I was a children's librarian (in a school) for a bit, I got that bit of knowledge from my husband, as Winnie the Pooh was his favorite childhood book. (Mine was Velveteen Rabbit)

2 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

I watched with a friend last night. Kudos as they didn’t try to chat as the game was going on. I got centrifuge, blood transfusion, Harry Hamlin, Canary Islands, Bahamas and FJ was an instaget. 

I got blood transfusions and Harry Hamlin. FJ seemed so obvious that I thought at first it might be a trick. But as we say here, it's easy if you know it.

Quote

The device is named after 17th-century English scientist Sir Isaac Newton and was designed by French scientist Edme Mariotte. It is also known as Newton's pendulum, Newton's balls, Newton's rocker or executive ball clicker (since the device makes a click each time the balls collide, which they do repeatedly in a steady rhythm).[1][2]

The twelve year old in my ancient bones snorted at some of the Newton names.

[Bastet]

7 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

I saw the picture, and I didn't get it. I don't think I ever knew that gizmo had a name other than "that swingy ball thing."

I knew it was named after Newton (although I hear it referred to as Newton's rocker more often than Newton's cradle), so I already thought that was the response just based on the clue saying the toy demonstrated motion law, and being able to see the picture would have confirmed it for me.

[Browncoat]

Archive game for me last night, so I'm catching up today.  FJ was an instaget, and I also got the TS of Harry Hamlin, Winnie the Pooh, drunk skunk, blood transfusion, The Color Purple, Alfonso Cuaron, the Bahamas, Chekov's gun, and Terran errant.

I couldn't come up with the name of Newton's cradle -- I knew what they wanted, but just couldn't think of anything other than the swingy, clacky ball thing.

[PaulaO]

I cannot believe Mark was asked for a BMS in a DD in DJ!  He shouldn’t have been given the chance of extra thinking time.

[Katy M]

I got FJ.

I go the missed clues of Huckleberry Finn (I actually read that book, Finn, I mean, not Huckleberry Finn which I also read) and something I can't read which looks like Holey Dating and I'm sure that's not right.  Edit:  Hilary Clinton.  Not even close to Holy Dating, LOL.  I really need to work on my penmanship.

I got the entire category of metanyms right.

Edited October 4 by Katy M

[ams1001]

October 4:

77% / 70% / 72%

Good first round and a decent second, for once…in J I ran Lotion and Books Revamped, missed one in Quoth the Woman and Metonyms, two in Cities on the River, and three in Rodgers & Hammerstein. In DJ I missed one each in Historic Books of Science, US Museums, Tall Tales, and Movies Vamped, two in On "Foot", and three in British Monarch When He Became President.

Had no guess for FJ. But I got all the DDs again…I think that's four days in a row!

TSes: (J had 1 + the DD; DJ had 3) I got Huck Finn and Hilary Clinton (DD), .

LOL at Ken rolling his R at Mark. (I can't do it, either.) Sorry to see Ryan go, but I liked Mark, too.
 

[Browncoat]

Another instaget FJ for me tonight.  I even have a photo of the statue of Selkirk in Scotland.

But the only TS I got was Hilary Clinton.

I was rooting for Ryan or Anne.

[Clanstarling]

Never mind. Wrong thread. Thank you @shapeshifter and @Bastetfor having my back!

Edited October 5 by Clanstarling

[Bastet]

Psst, @Clanstarling - wrong thread.

I was off to a great start, only missing two in the first round -- Lorenz Hart, which I didn't know, and Uriah Heep, which I could not get from my brain to my mouth in time.

As the DJ categories were read, I groaned aloud at British monarchs, and, indeed, only came up with Queen Elizabeth II.  I was dreading vampire movies just as much, but "only" wound up missing three.

If I could have swapped those out for things in my wheelhouse, I'd have had a great round -- I ran foot (I wasn't sure pussyfooting was correct, because I associate it with evasion, not nerves [I learned it from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas -- "Enough of this pussyfooting, Governor, what do you intend to do ...?"], but stuck with it) and tall tales (the only one I'd ever actually heard of was John Henry, but successfully guessed the rest) and got all but Leibniz in science and all but Phillis Wheatley in museums.

FJ was an instaguess I wasn't sure about -- nautical + island told me it had to be a castaway, but did I have the right one or is he just the only one I could bring to mind and it was going to be hideously wrong?  I lucked out.

[30 Helens]

RLS (Real Life *Stuff, yeah, that's it) prevented me from watching most of this week, but I just caught up in a 3-day binge. The good news is, I got 3 FJ's in a row!

Other things that stuck out:

For Thursday's rhyming clue of "a pocket burrower's slip on shoe", the accepted answer was "a gopher loafer". Do you think they would have accepted my answer of a "mole sole"?

On 10/3/2024 at 9:50 AM, proserpina65 said:

Got all the foreign film titles except All About My Mother, which I got confused with E Tu Mama Tambien, a very different film, lol.

I was led down the same wrong path. I guess all "mother" films are not created equal, right?

On 10/3/2024 at 6:09 PM, Bastet said:

The blood transfusion TS surprised me, especially with transplant ruled out. 

I couldn't decide which it should be, but blurted out transplant. When that was ruled incorrect, I immediately corrected to blood donor. Second guesses are just as good, right? ;)

On 10/3/2024 at 6:31 PM, ams1001 said:

The middle guy's story made me go ask Siri "can I have a cookie"...he told me I had to turn on location services and then showed me five places I might get a cookie near me.

Lol because I also thought the kid made a mistake in asking Google. I said "He should have asked Alexa!" and then immediately asked Alexa if I could have a cookie, just to see what she would say. Her response: "Everyone deserves a treat sometimes." So next time, kid, ask Alexa. 

15 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

I saw the picture, and I didn't get it. I don't think I ever knew that gizmo had a name other than "that swingy ball thing."

Don't feel bad, I didn't know it was called Newton's Cradle, either. I only know it as "desk click-clacks".

4 hours ago, ams1001 said:

LOL at Ken rolling his R at Mark.

When Mark said he couldn't roll Rs, the first thing I did was "rrrrrr". I spit out a very big laugh when Ken did the same thing.

2 hours ago, Bastet said:

(I wasn't sure pussyfooting was correct, because I associate it with evasion, not nerves [I learned it from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas -- "Enough of this pussyfooting, Governor, what do you intend to do ...?"]

Such a fun movie. And now you have me dancing a little sidestep (now they see me, now they don't) in my head. 

Friday's game: I got all the Hammerstein clues, but the one about the only musical made for TV confused me. I said "Cinderella" because I know (and LOVE) the version with Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon, but I had no idea there was an earlier version. I wonder why it was remade such a short time later?

Any scientific clue with "cat" is bound to be Schrodinger, no need to think any further.

I didn't know the Hillary Clinton clue, but I guessed it based on context. And what a great comeback.

I can't say Ryan made a big impression on me, in fact, I'm sure I will have forgotten all about him by week's end. But he did have great love for his wife, and that's pretty endearing. So I won't be mad when he gets a tournament wild card entry.

 

[Bastet]

52 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:

And now you have me dancing a little sidestep (now they see me, now they don't) in my head. 

For those who have sadly missed out:

 

54 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:

For Thursday's rhyming clue of "a pocket burrower's slip on shoe", the accepted answer was "a gopher loafer". Do you think they would have accepted my answer of a "mole sole"?

I don't think so as the sole is a part of any shoe while the loafer is a type of shoe as described by the clue as a slip-on, indicating gopher, plus, upon a cursory search, while there is a pocket gopher, I don't find reference to a pocket mole.

[Browncoat]

Thanks for posting that @Bastet!  I love that.  The thing he does with his hat cracks me up every time -- where he puts it on sideways, then turns his head so that it slips on the right way.

[ams1001]

3 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Thanks for posting that @Bastet!  I love that.  The thing he does with his hat cracks me up every time -- where he puts it on sideways, then turns his head so that it slips on the right way.

I laughed at him forcing the other guy to move down a step so he's not taller than him.

[Clanstarling]

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

Psst, @Clanstarling - wrong thread.

Thanks!

[MrAtoz]

On 10/5/2024 at 1:19 AM, 30 Helens said:

I said "Cinderella" because I know (and LOVE) the version with Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon, but I had no idea there was an earlier version. I wonder why it was remade such a short time later?

The original version, with Julie Andrews, was broadcast live on NBC, in color. There was no color videotape in those days, so the only recording that survives is a black and white kinescope. Kinescopes, for those who don't know, are made by pointing a film camera at a television monitor during the broadcast. In the old days, it was often the only way to preserve live TV broadcasts. 

From what I understand, the script was later produced as a stage musical in London, and the success of that prompted NBC to produce a new TV version with Lesley Ann Warren, who was 18 years old at the time. That one was not done live, but was produced on videotape. As a result, it got shown more because it's much better quality than the old kinescope.

I wish Rodgers and Hammerstein (or musical theater in general) had been a category when I was on the show. I would have rocked it.

[juniorasparagus]

I would love to see this.  Any idea where one can?

 

[Clanstarling]

15 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

The original version, with Julie Andrews, was broadcast live on NBC, in color. There was no color videotape in those days, so the only recording that survives is a black and white kinescope. Kinescopes, for those who don't know, are made by pointing a film camera at a television monitor during the broadcast. In the old days, it was often the only way to preserve live TV broadcasts. 

From what I understand, the script was later produced as a stage musical in London, and the success of that prompted NBC to produce a new TV version with Lesley Ann Warren, who was 18 years old at the time. That one was not done live, but was produced on videotape. As a result, it got shown more because it's much better quality than the old kinescope.

I wish Rodgers and Hammerstein (or musical theater in general) had been a category when I was on the show. I would have rocked it.

And we can thank Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball for starting filming television shows.

[proserpina65]

Had to go to the archive for FJ because my satellite did something weird right before the clue was revealed.  It was an instaget, though.

I have nothing against Mark, but I'm sorry Ryan didn't get his fifth win and automatic entry into the TOC.

On 10/4/2024 at 8:03 PM, Browncoat said:

But the only TS I got was Hilary Clinton.

I was surprised by that triple-stumper.  There have only been 3 female Secretaries of State so you'd think Mark would've at least guessed one of them.  And to be fair to whoever asked Hillary that question, it's not like her husband didn't have some familiarity with international politics.

[shapeshifter]

On 10/4/2024 at 8:03 PM, Browncoat said:

But the only TS I got was Hilary Clinton.

21 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

I was surprised by that triple-stumper. 

Actually it was the new champ's DD, worded:

• A retort from her was "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state"

Usually when I'm yelling the answer at the player, I'm just frustrated that they can't hear me through a wormhole. But in this case, Mark was pretty much dead to me until somewhere near the end of the game, when I decided to forgive him.

 

Unless there is a sudden flurry of 5-day champs, 4-day champ Ryan is a shoe-in for the TOC, right?

[proserpina65]

19 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

Actually it was the new champ's DD, worded:

• A retort from her was "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state"

Yeah, I know, I just count unanswered DDs as stumpers.  And I was very surprised that Mark didn't come up with one of the three female SoSs.

 

 

[Katy M]

I had no idea on FJ, but was obvious once he said it.  

I got the missed clues of dregs, Cheng/Eng, coddled, al forno (after her mispronunciation), coddled Ken Follett, probation, insider, and rue.

I go the entire category of nouns right and directors wrong.

[Grizzly]

I can't believe none of them got FJ, I thought it was an instaget. Mark rocks back and forth a bit so not crazy about him. I also ran NFL addresses and knew dregs and Ken Follett. 

[SoMuchTV]

28 minutes ago, Katy M said:

I had no idea on FJ, but was obvious once he said it.  

 

26 minutes ago, Grizzly said:

I can't believe none of them got FJ, I thought it was an instaget. 

I was desperately trying to think of a brand with two c’s in a row!

[Browncoat]

Almost instaget FJ for me -- the year plus two script Cs gave it to me.  I suspect no one got it because no one calls it by its complete name anymore.  Woo hoo, asterisk!

I also got the TS of La Boheme, barbells, Cheng & Eng, trussing, coddled, Ebenezer Baptist Church, probation, insider, and rue.

[ams1001]

October 7:
63% / 48% / 57%

OMG such a terrible game…In J I ran Opera (of all things!), missed one each in At the Gym, You're Gonna Have to Share, and Plural-Only Nouns, three in the Middle East, and (unsurprisingly) all five in NFL Team Addresses. In DJ I missed one in Law, two in National Historic Parks, Cooking Terms, and Diminishing Returns, three in Spy Novels, and all five in Foreign-Born Director (three of them were in my brain somewhere but I didn't find them in time). 

But FJ was an insta-instaget; I thought it was beyond easy, and it was an asterisk!

TSes: (J had 4; DJ had 11 + 1 DD + one clue left over) I got dregs, La Boheme, barbells, Chang & Eng, al forno (after she got it wrong), coddled eggs, probation, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and unrest.

I liked everyone today but I was rooting for Daniel; he's adorable and I want to see him dressed for Elton John.
 

[GreekGeek]

I could have sworn the Coca Cola font appeared in FJ before, so I was surprised it was a TS. I was right, but I was shocked by how long ago it was: June 19, 2008. The clue was "Registered in 1893, this product's trademark is written in the Spencerian script of bookkeeper Frank Robinson." (Source) There was also a question about its "Georgia green" glass bottle almost a year ago.

[Bastet]

I checked the archive at halftime since I'm watching football tonight.

The trussing TS surprised me, but it became clear as the category went on that these people don't cook.  I've got nothin' on the probation TS; I was not expecting that.  Nor did I think FJ would be a TS (or that two of them would go with Coco Chanel; they had to know that was wrong!).

I missed three in opera (no surprise) and two in Middle East, but ran the rest of the first round (giving myself credit for plank and Venn diagram, as I know I'd have got those correct had I been able to see the picture (the others I didn't need to see the picture to get them).

In DJ, I dreaded spy novels, but "only" missed three.  Other than that, I had a great round; I missed two in directors, got all but Ebenezer Baptist in parks, and ran the rest.

FJ was an instaget, so my J! week is off to a very good start.

[ECM1231]

Off to a good start this week with the correct FJ that came to me in an instant for some reason. I knew Coca Cola had been around a long time. I did get the TS of coddled egg but I was preoccupied on my phone helping a friend out, so I was not paying much attention to the game tonight.

[SomeTameGazelle]

I was surprised that Ken accepted just Johnson for the president when there was no timeline or other apparent justification that it could only be LBJ and not Andrew. 

I felt bad for Amanda with all of her wrong guesses after a middling start. 

1893 seemed early for Chanel who didn't even cross my mind. Luckily I pictured Coca Cola and settled on that quite quickly.

3 hours ago, Katy M said:

I got the missed clues of dregs, Cheng/Eng, coddled, al forno (after her mispronunciation), coddled Ken Follett, probation, insider, and rue.

Same except for Ken Follett. I was annoyed with myself for not thinking of suet.

[30 Helens]

Wow, if I counted correctly, there were 17 triple stumpers!

I got 7 of them: dregs, Chang & Eng (heh, "Ang and Kang". Aren't those the drooling aliens on the Simpsons?), unrest, insider, coddled, probation, and Ken Follett. I also ran Foreign Directors and Law, and got 4/5 out of some others. So, a pretty good day for me.

FJ was an instaget. I kind of understand the Chanel responses, since the company logo is two interlocking C's 

but I'd be hard pressed to describe them as "flowing script". I guess they just got stuck on the C's and couldn't think of anything else. 

I did not think Daniel looked like Elton John at all. I did think Amanda bore a strong resemblance to Mattea when she smiled, and when she told her costume story I thought, well, there was a missed opportunity!

 

[Bastet]

26 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:

I kind of understand the Chanel responses, since the company logo is two interlocking C's 

Having two C's is the one element of the clue that is met by Chanel, but it fails every single other element.  First and foremost, a bookkeeper coming up with the name is obviously false since Chanel was named after a person, plus the year is too early, and there's no "flowing script" in the logo since Chanel is an interlocked pair of C's and the standard cursive C is the same as its print counterpart.  I understand reading about a brand with two C's and thinking Coco Chanel rather than Coca Cola, but I did not anticipate two J! contestants thinking that's correct or even having an "Eh, probably not it, but better to toss it out there than put nothing and kick myself if it's correct" guess -- one, I wouldn't have thought a thing of, but two raised my eyebrows.

[Katy M]

4 hours ago, Bastet said:

Having two C's is the one element of the clue that is met by Chanel, but it fails every single other element.  First and foremost, a bookkeeper coming up with the name is obviously false since Chanel was named after a person, plus the year is too early, and there's no "flowing script" in the logo since Chanel is an interlocked pair of C's and the standard cursive C is the same as its print counterpart.  I understand reading about a brand with two C's and thinking Coco Chanel rather than Coca Cola, but I did not anticipate two J! contestants thinking that's correct or even having an "Eh, probably not it, but better to toss it out there than put nothing and kick myself if it's correct" guess -- one, I wouldn't have thought a thing of, but two raised my eyebrows.

It was better than my answer of 'uhhhhhh?????"

[Prevailing Wind]

Living in Metro Atlanta, i'd be tarred and feathered if I didn't get FJ, but I *did* second-guess myself with "Canadian Club."  No, stick with your breakfast beverage, woman - Coca-Cola all the way!!