Season 36 Final Jeopardy Contest

[opus]

2/5

[saber5055]

@opus gets extra credit for being the 100th post in this thread.

[helpmerhonda]

1/5

I'll chalk this week's poor performance to "under the influence of cough syrup." Sure, that's it.

[M. Darcy]

1/5 😞 

[biakbiak]

3/5 with 1 *

[Fex]

Phew, much better this week! 4/5, two *

Friday was a successful wild guess. Love it when that happens!!!

[lb60]

Week 2: 2 for 5, 1*.

[Toothbrush]

2/5 one *

[Clanstarling]

Finally caught up - 3/5.

[PBnJay]

4/5 and 2 **. That darned Tolstoy ...

[Minaboo]

Correction: I actually got 3/5, 1* this week, forgot to count my right answer of Tolstoy. Yay, me!

[Good Queen Jane]

1/5 but at least the 1 was an *.

[j5cochran]

Week 2: three of five with one asterisk! I know the soundtrack of Hamilton by heart, and knew that it couldn't be Jefferson and his puny little two dollar bill!

[Prevailing Wind]

My impression is the lower the denomination, the more important the POTUS, i.e., Washington on the $1.  😉

I take $2 bills on my Road Trips & use them as tips for hotel maids, tour guides, etc. Some of the younger ones have never seen a $2 bill!

[zoey1996]

4 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

My impression is the lower the denomination, the more important the POTUS, i.e., Washington on the $1.  😉

I take $2 bills on my Road Trips & use them as tips for hotel maids, tour guides, etc. Some of the younger ones have never seen a $2 bill!

If you visit Monticello, they use $2 bills for change when possible.  When I worked at a Williamsburg gift shop and we got $2 bills as payment, the customer usually had visited Monticello before coming to Colonial Williamsburg.

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, zoey1996 said:

If you visit Monticello, they use $2 bills for change when possible.  When I worked at a Williamsburg gift shop and we got $2 bills as payment, the customer usually had visited Monticello before coming to Colonial Williamsburg.

The mister gets a kick out of being the Johnny Appleseed of $2 bills. He's been spreading them around for years, startling a lot of people. It has not made him popular with cashiers. LOL.

[zoey1996]

3 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

The mister gets a kick out of being the Johnny Appleseed of $2 bills. He's been spreading them around for years, startling a lot of people. It has not made him popular with cashiers. LOL.

Mr. Zoey is obsessive about using dollar coins.  I just roll my eyes. Though they do come in handy for leaving tips sometimes.

[Toothbrush]

On 9/25/2019 at 7:17 PM, zoey1996 said:

Mr. Zoey is obsessive about using dollar coins.  I just roll my eyes. Though they do come in handy for leaving tips sometimes.

My husband too. He rarely uses cash, but when he has a dollar coin he uses it. 

$2 bills get put into the kids' banks. Besides change from Monticello, my FIL found 43 $2 bills when going through his dad's desk after he died, & he gave them to us. 

[opus]

0/5

[GrannySmith]

3/5

[Browncoat]

2/5.

[peeayebee]

Zeeee-ROH!

That's 0 for 5.

[saber5055]

WEEK 3 — ONE asterisk *
11. Musical Theatre Inspirations. The title of this musical that opened on Broadway in 1964 was inspired by a Marc Chagall painting.
12. American Colleges & Universities. The 1862 Morrill Act gave states federal acreage to sell for school funds, leading to the creation of 69 of these.
* 13. Natural Geographic Features. Timely for 2018, in 1866 Mark Twain wrote of this landmark’s “sputtering jets of fire” & “heat from Pele’s furnaces.”  *
14. World Landmarks. “The Eighth Wonder”, by composer Alan John & librettist Dennis Watkins, is about this building that opened in 1973.
15. Epitaphs. From his own 1898 poem, the epitaph of this Irish-born man ends, “his mourners will be outcast men, & outcasts always mourn.”

[Driad]

3/5, 1 *.

[suebee12]

Horrible week 2/5(but I did know it was a volcano in Hawaii, just didn't know the proper name!)

[biakbiak]

5/5 and an *! Woot!

[Browncoat]

I forgot I had an asterisk!  Please amend my score to 2/5 with one *!  🙂

[Trey]

1/5

[zoey1996]

Week 3:  2/5

YTD: 8/15, 1*

[Fex]

3/5

No *

[Clanstarling]

2/5 no asterisk. Didn't do well on the boards either, not my week. 😞

[DXD526]

Finished strong, 2/2! Unfortunately, started the week at 0/3, so...2/5. 

[illdoc]

Week 3:   2/5   1*     Overall: 8/15    2*

[j5cochran]

Week three: 2/5 with no asterisk.  I sat there saying Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa.

I need to get off the pain pills!

[helpmerhonda]

1 of 5.

Super.

[Minaboo]

2/5, no *

Tough week for the boards for me, 

[M. Darcy]

2/5

[saber5055]

I think all of you are doing great, I am very proud to be your Contest Host, I feel like the mother hen to a bunch of brainiac little chicks. You all are ahead of me in score, even @Brookside, who hasn't posted last week yet. It's too early to bail, Brookside! Get back in here.

[lb60]

Week 3: 2 for 5.

[Good Queen Jane]

1/5.  I sense a trend; a very bad trend.

[PBnJay]

4/5 and one *. I lucked out last week, I was in a local rendition of Fiddler, I studied a while in Hawaii, I was at the Sydney Opera House two years ago  (it's so beautiful!), and I named one of my cats Dorian Gray. I did learn a new term, land-grant universities! I had never heard that term before.

[zoey1996]

I didn’t even remember that Wilde wrote, The Picture of Dorian Gray!

[Sharpie66]

1/5 for last week—thank Dog for Oscar Wilde...

[Toothbrush]

3/5 one *

[Browncoat]

4/5 for this week.

[opus]

2/5

[GrannySmith]

4/5!

[biakbiak]

Thanks to pulling today out of my ass I am 5/5!

[Clanstarling]

4/5! Above average for me. 🙂

[peeayebee]

I guess I'm 1/5 if 1001 Arabian Nights is wrong. 😞