Season 36 Final Jeopardy Contest

[Good Queen Jane]

1/5, no * (and I'm ashamed to admit that the only one I knew was about garden gnomes. My friends tease me about my collection.)

[Clanstarling]

12 minutes ago, Good Queen Jane said:

1/5, no * (and I'm ashamed to admit that the only one I knew was about garden gnomes. My friends tease me about my collection.)

There's no shame in loving gnomes. 🙂

[saber5055]

3 hours ago, Good Queen Jane said:

My friends tease me about my collection.

I think it sounds awesome and now I want to see a picture. I'd love to steal someone's g. gnome and take it on a vacation and send photos. Such a fun prank.

Now watch, one of Her Majesty's gnomes will disappear and I will be blamed.

[PBnJay]

4/5 one *. I thought Niagra would have better lighting than Buffalo. 

[Good Queen Jane]

2 hours ago, saber5055 said:

I think it sounds awesome and now I want to see a picture.

Sorry, they're all in hibernation for the winter. I'll send a picture in the spring, assuming they don't disappear on a walkabout in the meantime.

[Prevailing Wind]

4 hours ago, saber5055 said:

I think it sounds awesome and now I want to see a picture. I'd love to steal someone's g. gnome and take it on a vacation and send photos. Such a fun prank.

Now watch, one of Her Majesty's gnomes will disappear and I will be blamed.

I took my RBG Action Figure on my Road Trip. It was great fun!  Strangers in restaurants would come & talk to me about her as she judged my meal choices.

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I took my RBG Action Figure on my Road Trip. It was great fun!  Strangers in restaurants would come & talk to me about her as she judged my meal choices.

Were you able to write a dissenting opinion?

[Prevailing Wind]

5 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

Were you able to write a dissenting opinion?

There was no need to. Her judgments of my food were mostly spot-on. Here she is throwing her hands up in dismay as I chow down on truck-stop hot dogs.

Edited November 26, 2019 by Prevailing Wind

[saber5055]

14 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Here she is throwing her hands up in dismay as I chow down on truck-stop hot dogs.

That is the most hilarious thing I have seen in a long time. Thanks much for posting that photo. Give us more, if you have them. Saber could use some laughs.

p.s. Your truck-stop dogs look delicious, but I can see RBG disagreeing.

[Prevailing Wind]

1 hour ago, saber5055 said:

Give us more, if you have them

https://pitchafitontheroad.wordpress.com/

(PitchaFit is the name of my car.)

Edited November 26, 2019 by Prevailing Wind

[saber5055]

Thanks PW. I've been waiting for your road-trip recap.

[Sharpie66]

Just got caught up. For the past two weeks, matching scores: 3/5*. I usually don’t get asterisks, so two in a row is really good for me!!

[saber5055]

Thank you Sharpie66! Everyone is now caught up in Contest totals.

Happy Turkey Day to American contest players and lurkers, and Happy Thursday Day to everyone else!

[saber5055]

@Prevailing Wind, I gave myself a vacation for a few hours so spent my lunchtime reading your trip report, and I enjoyed every word and every photo, and was only disappointed the few times you did not have a photo to illustrate your words. I LOL'd at several of the RGB photos, like her on the bell and on the foot of the puffin to name only two. She was an excellent travel companion and it was nice she approved of all of your meals, but hot dogs two days in a row seemed to press even her good nature. Your neon-red 'dogs would have benefited from some of the day-glo green relish popular on Chicago dogs. Very Christmassy.

Big Guy needs to be a future avatar. Just sayin'.

Meanwhile, thanks for the vicarious trip. I always planned a honeymoon camping in Maine in October. I'm still waiting.

[Prevailing Wind]

Thanks, Saber. Glad you enjoyed it! It was, by far, the best vacation I ever had.

[Trey]

1/5

[zoey1996]

Week 12 1/5, 0*

YTD: 30/60, 5*

[Browncoat]

1/5.  

[illdoc]

Recovering my mojo a bit! Week 12:  3/5  1*   Overall:  27/60  (3 *)

[saber5055]

WEEK 12 — Nov. 28 — THREE asterisk *
56. Business 2019. The New York Stock Exchange allowed jeans on the trading floor for the initial public offering of the stock with this 4-letter symbol.
* 57. Political Phrases. Speechwriter Samuel Rosenman said FDR “attached no importance to” this phrase, “two monosyllables” in a 1932 speech.  *
* 58. Movie Quotes. The 2 single-word quotes on AFI’s list of the top 100 movie quotes; 1 is from 1941, the other from 1967.  *
59. Word Origins. From a Sanskrit word for “descent”, it’s the form a god takes on descending to Earth.
* 60. Classic British Novels. The title character of this novel says of his home, “The wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements.”  *

[biakbiak]

2/5 with 1* I will blame the tryptophan.  

[GrannySmith]

2/5 and 1*. Started off the week great, but it was all downhill. 

[DXD526]

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2/5 and 1*. Started off the week great, but it was all downhill.

Ditto! Do I get anything for getting the 1941 part of Wednesday's clue?

[helpmerhonda]

3 of 5, 1*

[Clanstarling]

2/5 one * 😞

[Sharpie66]

3/5, 2 *s, although I still don’t get how “deal” is considered a monosyllable (it’s dee-uhl, thus two syllables).

[saber5055]

15 minutes ago, Sharpie66 said:

I still don’t get how “deal” is considered a monosyllable (it’s dee-uhl, thus two syllables).

I wondered if that would come up, so had this ready. It's from Andy, who runs TJF.com:

"I have a feeling that I’m going to get commenters in here disputing the word “monosyllabic” in the clue. Here are a couple of things: 1) Merriam-Webster gives the pronunciation as “dēl”, which as you can see by the lack of syllable breaks, makes it a monosyllabic word; 2) the clue is a direct quote from speechwriter Samuel Rosenman, and the clue was transcribed correctly from the quote."

One poster made this comment on Andy's site: "And finally, I have to agree with Andy that “deal” is a monosyllabic word. Nobody says “DE-AL”. Well, maybe in the deepest south where “do” has 5 syllables……just kidding, no offense to the south. In Boston they pronounce the city as “Baastn”, not to mention the varieties you hear where N.O. is concerned."

[saber5055]

2 hours ago, DXD526 said:

Do I get anything for getting the 1941 part of Wednesday's clue?

It is my privilege to extend a laurel and hearty handshake to you for your half-baked answer.

[Sharpie66]

Thinking about it, I guess “deal” is more a diphthong than two syllables. (BTW, I’m from Chicagoland.)

[saber5055]

30 minutes ago, Sharpie66 said:

I’m from Chicagoland.

The city that's pronounced Sh-CAAAW-go.

[GrannySmith]

4 hours ago, DXD526 said:

Ditto! Do I get anything for getting the 1941 part of Wednesday's clue?

I had the 1941 part too!

[Minaboo]

3/5, 1*

[Driad]

2/5, 1*.  My station bothered to show Jeopardy only twice this week, so I read the other clues on line.  Did Alex use a Transylvanian accent on Friday?

[Trey]

No, he did not or I would might have got it. 

Edited December 1, 2019 by Trey

[opus]

1/5

[saber5055]

13 hours ago, Driad said:

Did Alex use a Transylvanian accent on Friday?

I get the FJ clue in the morning on TheJeopardyFan.com. There was a discussion there as to whether Trebek would use one of his accents to read the clue. He did that last season on a FJ I did not get by reading, but would have gotten easily if read with the give-away accent, as all three players did. So I'm glad he refrained.

Is anyone else seeing all post text centered instead of flush left?

[Prevailing Wind]

I'm seeing flush left.

[Driad]

38 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

Is anyone else seeing all post text centered instead of flush left?

For me it was centered a couple of hours ago, but back to flush left now.

[Trey]

It was centered but it's back to normal now.

[saber5055]

58 minutes ago, Trey said:

It was centered but it's back to normal now.

Thanks. It's FL now for me as well. This site is so whack lately. Some days the ads on the right are gone and text extends so far to the right, I have to scroll to read a sentence, and I'm on a 20-inch monitor. The rest of the time, I open a thread to continue reading where I left off, and the page starts auto-scrolling up until I stop it and manually scroll back down again. Just more of life's little inconveniences.

[peeayebee]

2/5 with 1 *

[M. Darcy]

3/5 with 1*. 

[j5cochran]

Week 12:  3 of 5, with two asterisks!  History and classic movies are two of my favorite categories.

[lb60]

Week 12: 1 for 5.

Awesome!

[Good Queen Jane]

3/5 with one *.

[Fex]

3/5 one *

For me, deal is definitely one syllable. But now that it's been mentioned, I can kind of recall hearing it as 2. (East coast, Canada)

Edited December 2, 2019 by Fex

[PBnJay]

3/5 one *  What a short four day weekend.

[Trey]

2/5

[zoey1996]

Week 13 3/5, 1*

YTD: 33/65, 6*

[opus]

3/5