Season 36 Final Jeopardy Contest

[opus]

2/5

[illdoc]

Happy New Year to me!  After last week's shut out, I'm   5/5 for this week (week 17)!!  Overall:  41/85 (3 *).

[saber5055]

WEEK 17 • Dec. 30 — NO asterisk
76. 1950s People. In a New Yorker profile, he said, “Where I like it is out west in Wyoming, Montana, & Idaho, & I like Cuba & Paris.”
77. Business & Innovation. Stuck with 260 tons of unused turkey in late 1953, this co. ordered aluminum trays & sold 10 million units of a new item in 1954.
78. Single-Named Performers. The last single-named actress to win an Oscar was this woman who won for her supporting role in “Precious.” Mo’Niqu
80. Scientists. About 100 years before Darwin, this naturalist put orangutans & humans in a group with the Latin name “Homo.”
81. Constitutional Amendments. Until a 1913 amendment allowed this, 1/3 of U.S. government revenue came from liquor.

[biakbiak]

3/5

[suebee12]

3/5

[Driad]

4/5.  I'm no good at popular culture.

In the early days of the income tax, (I read,) basically only high income people had to pay, so some folks bragged that they were so rich that they had to pay income tax. How times have changed.

[DXD526]

2/5.

[saber5055]

4 hours ago, Driad said:

In the early days of the income tax, (I read,) basically only high income people had to pay, so some folks bragged that they were so rich that they had to pay income tax. How times have changed.

And all the poor people were forced to eat lobsters, so plentiful that they were considered junk food. Those were great days to be poor!

[Driad]

23 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

poor people were forced to eat lobsters

Prisoners, in particular, got lots of lobsters.  Probably little or no butter, though.  Besides being plentiful, lobsters had a bad reputation as bottom feeders.

[saber5055]

6 minutes ago, Driad said:

Besides being plentiful, lobsters had a bad reputation as bottom feeders.

Lobsters and those darned catfish, scourge of the waters!

[Driad]

[Lawyer joke deleted]

[j5cochran]

Week 17: three of five.

[lb60]

Week 17: 4 for 5.

Stupid amendments.   

[Fex]

3/5

[helpmerhonda]

2 of 5

Seems nothing's changed in the new year!

[Sharpie66]

4/5. Had nooo clue on Mo’Nique.

[M. Darcy]

3/5! 

[Good Queen Jane]

4/5. Good thing I ran out of egg nog this week.

[PBnJay]

4/5

[saber5055]

4 hours ago, Good Queen Jane said:

Good thing I ran out of egg nog this week.

"No egg nog for you." --The Egg Nog Nazi

[Minaboo]

2/5

[saber5055]

Everyone has reported in this week, except @Toothbrush, who remains missing. Please let us know you are okay.

Congratulations to @illdoc for the highest score this week. Going backward, recognition also goes to these high-score week winners:

@Driad weeks 10 and 13, @Sharpie66 week 14, @PBnJay week 15.

[opus]

2/5

[Browncoat]

Perfect score!  0/5.

[saber5055]

WEEK 18 • Jan. 6 — NO asterisk
82. 1960s Novels. This book defines its own title as “concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers… was the process of a rational mind.”
83. International Sports Stars. Now with over 185 million followers, he surpassed Selena Gomez in 2018 to become the most followed person on Instagram.
84. European History. It took the French Army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason.
85. Law Enforcement. In 1892 Francisca Rojas became the world’s first person convicted on the basis of this kind of evidence.
86. Constitutions of the World. This country’s 1979 constitution forbids amendments altering its official ideology or religion.

[saber5055]

1 hour ago, Browncoat said:

Perfect score!  0/5.

I join you in your perfection!

[Driad]

3/5.  When did we last have an asterisk?

[Sharpie66]

Just 2/5 this week—blargh.

[saber5055]

9 minutes ago, Driad said:

When did we last have an asterisk?

It was our Christmas present, Dec. 24, "Historic American Cities. St. Augustine." It seems like it was longer ago than that.

[GrannySmith]

1/5. 🤪

[suebee12]

3/5 Mediocre at best

[peeayebee]

3/5

[Clanstarling]

3/5

 

[Trey]

3/5

[zoey1996]

Week 18: 2/5

YTD: 46/90, 6*

[illdoc]

Trudging along...Week 18:  3/5    Overall: 44/90  (3*)

[DXD526]

2/5.

[biakbiak]

4/5. 

[lb60]

Week 18: 1 for 5.

Yikes!

[j5cochran]

Week 18: four of five! Sports, as usual, is my worst subject.

[helpmerhonda]

2 of 5

[M. Darcy]

2/5

[Good Queen Jane]

3/5.

Note to @saber5055: I am going to be away next week (US Figure Skating Championships in Greensboro) so I won't be able to post my next two weeks' scores until January 28. I didn't want you to worry.

[PBnJay]

On 1/11/2020 at 11:34 PM, j5cochran said:

Sports, as usual, is my worst subject.

Same here. 4 of 5 for last week.

[saber5055]

4 hours ago, Good Queen Jane said:

I am going to be away next week (US Figure Skating Championships in Greensboro) so I won't be able to post my next two weeks' scores until January 28. I didn't want you to worry.

Thank you, Your Majesty, for letting us know. Yes, I do worry about ya'll when someone disappears, like our long-lost @Toothbrush. Still waiting for @Fex and @Minaboo to report before I name this week's unofficial winner.

Will we see you on teevee like last year when your group wore blue sweaters and sat in the second row (if I remember correctly)?

[Minaboo]

6 hours ago, saber5055 said:

Still waiting for @Fex and @Minaboo to report before I name this week's unofficial winner.

Oops....3/5

Thought I had already posted my results before hitting the sack late late Saturday night. Must have dreamed it!

[Good Queen Jane]

19 hours ago, saber5055 said:

Will we see you on teevee like last year when your group wore blue sweaters and sat in the second row (if I remember correctly)?

Yes, although what we wear are sparkly blue scarves. We should be in the first two rows this year, opposite the judges. I'll wave to you. 

[saber5055]

3 hours ago, Good Queen Jane said:

Yes, although what we wear are sparkly blue scarves. We should be in the first two rows this year, opposite the judges. I'll wave to you. 

I knew it was blue "something." So exciting! I'll watch for you; that will be me waving back. Have fun!

[Fex]

I'm so behind! 4/5 for last week!

[saber5055]

Scores for Week 18 are recorded, and I'm pleased to announce @Browncoat as this week's individual and very special winner.

Congratulations!