Season 36 Final Jeopardy Contest

[saber5055]

WEEK 4 — NO asterisk
16. Symbolic Objects. To complete one of its regular trips, in 1948 it took a boat across the English Channel; in 1952 it took a plane en route to Finland.
17. Mountain Ranges. A chain of volcanoes is named for this mountain range where the continental USA’s deadliest eruption took place.
18. Animal AKAs. It’s also called the czar fish.
19. Phrase Origins. The OED’s first citation for this phrase referring to a region of the U.S. is from a Durant, Oklahoma newspaper in 1936.
20. World Literature. Some parts were translated from a 15th century Syrian manuscript when this work was introduced to Europe around 1700.

[saber5055]

1 hour ago, peeayebee said:

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

I'm declaring 1001 Arabian Nights correct so your score is recorded as 2/5. Update your records folks.

Seeing @opus' avatar cheers up my day, which sorely needs cheering up. So thanks.

[Driad]

5/5 !  A couple of days I thought I had the wrong answer, but couldn't think of another one, so I "wrote" what I had.

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, peeayebee said:

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

If it was referenced that way on Jeopardy previously, I would say take the 2. 

You know, like @saber5055 already said (that will teach me to comment before reading everything. 😆)

Edited October 5, 2019 by Clanstarling

[illdoc]

Week 4:   4/5     Overall:  12/20   (2 *)

[Trey]

4/5

[DXD526]

2/5, which is getting redundant.

[zoey1996]

Week 4:  3/5

YTD: 11/20, 1*

[Minaboo]

4 out of 5

[PBnJay]

5/5

[M. Darcy]

3/5

[lb60]

Week 4: 2 for 5.

Things went steadily downhill after Tuesday.

Woe is me!!

[Fex]

3/5 for me 

[suebee12]

3/5 this week

[saber5055]

13 hours ago, lb60 said:

Things went steadily downhill after Tuesday.

Woe is me!!

“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Also:

“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.
"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

Edited October 6, 2019 by saber5055

[lb60]

If only I could like a post more than once.

:-)

[j5cochran]

Week Four: two of five. Argh!

[helpmerhonda]

3 out of 5

I'll take the progress.

[Good Queen Jane]

Woo-Hoo! 5/5. Of course, I'm still averaging under 50%.

[saber5055]

It's interesting how some weeks favor some people. While my score doesn't count, this was my best week yet with 2/5. Color me proud that I was able to answer not one but TWO! (Two! Two clues in one!*) last week.

*Ancient Doublemint reference.

[Clanstarling]

21 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

It's interesting how some weeks favor some people. While my score doesn't count, this was my best week yet with 2/5. Color me proud that I was able to answer not one but TWO! (Two! Two clues in one!*) last week.

*Ancient Doublemint reference.

Not only do I recognize the reference, I have been known to use it a time or two. 😆

[saber5055]

1 minute ago, Clanstarling said:

Not only do I recognize the reference, I have been known to use it a time or two. 😆

Speaking of ancient, how about "Ancient Chinese Secret?" I can't remember the product at the moment. Give me a couple hours and it will come to me. Then, or in the middle of the night.

[illdoc]

55 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

Speaking of ancient, how about "Ancient Chinese Secret?" I can't remember the product at the moment. Give me a couple hours and it will come to me. Then, or in the middle of the night.

Calgon (googled "ancient Chinese secret commercial): 

[saber5055]

1 hour ago, illdoc said:

Calgon (googled "ancient Chinese secret commercial): 

Thanks! I was thinking Calgon ("Take me away!") after discounting Rice A Roni (the San Francisco treat).

Those old commercial are golden. They should be a Jeopardy category.

Edited October 7, 2019 by saber5055

[illdoc]

1 minute ago, saber5055 said:

Those old commercial are golden. They should be a Jeopardy category

Can you still sing the Armour Hot Dog song????

[saber5055]

11 minutes ago, illdoc said:

Can you still sing the Armour Hot Dog song????

Yes! And the Oscar Meyer "My bologna has a first name ..." song, too. LOL!

[Clanstarling]

49 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

Yes! And the Oscar Meyer "My bologna has a first name ..." song, too. LOL!

That's how I learned to spell "bologna" (and was always confused that we said "baloney" - phonetically it just didn't work. LOL)

"But I like it too..."

[suebee12]

1 hour ago, saber5055 said:

Those old commercial are golden. They should be a Jeopardy category.

Some of the old commercials were great! And you didn't have to mute them so the kids didn't hear them...you can't say that now!

The other thing I miss are theme songs for TV shows! Heck, sometimes the songs were better than the shows! I think Rob Reiner was the person who used to be on Johnny Carson and could remember so may theme songs it was amazing. Now sadly, not many shows have good songs to go with them!😥

[saber5055]

1 hour ago, Clanstarling said:

That's how I learned to spell "bologna" (and was always confused that we said "baloney" - phonetically it just didn't work. LOL)

I emailed someone last week about being full of baloney, then in the middle of the night I realized it should have been bologna. Then I wondered if what one is full of is indeed baloney. Anyone know the facts on that?

The Flintstones just started reruns here, and I was disappointed that I didn't remember that theme song at all. It's an instrumental while I remembered a song, "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, they're a modern stone-age fam-il-lee ..." Maybe that came later.

Turns out the local NBC affiliate changed its power/tower direction so I no longer get any NBC shows, so no more Jeopardy or any other NBC shows I like. I'm down to getting only ABC and Fox. At least I can keep up with the contest via TheJeopardyFan.

Edited October 7, 2019 by saber5055

[Driad]

A friend and I once had a discussion about whether the lyrics to the Batman TV theme song are copyrighted.  (Here are the lyrics: Batman Batman Batman Batman ... Batman)

[Prevailing Wind]

14 hours ago, saber5055 said:

I emailed someone last week about being full of baloney, then in the middle of the night I realized it should have been bologna. Then I wondered if what one is full of is indeed baloney. Anyone know the facts on that?

I don't know about the two spellings, but I do know it's what I call my cat, Bosco: "Bosco-roney, full of baloney" and then I get a craving for a fried bologna sandwich.

Edited October 8, 2019 by Prevailing Wind

[saber5055]

3 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I don't know about the two spellings, but I do know it's what I call my cat, Bosco: "Bosco-roney, full of baloney" and then I get a craving for a fried bologna sandwich.

A while back I had a dog registered as Macaroon but I called him Macaroni. I would bounce him on my knee and sing "Macaroni, ride a pony, full of baloney ..."

Well, he seemed to enjoy it.

[Toothbrush]

5/5 for last week! yay! 

[saber5055]

All are accounted for on the tally sheet now, except @Sharpie66 and @Brookside. Don't be missing out on all the fun you two!

[Brookside]

5 hours ago, saber5055 said:

All are accounted for on the tally sheet now, except @Sharpie66 and @Brookside. Don't be missing out on all the fun you two!

Sadly, I'm going to have to bow out again Saber.  Too many sandwich generation demands.

[saber5055]

18 minutes ago, Brookside said:

Sadly, I'm going to have to bow out again Saber.  Too many sandwich generation demands.

Well, bummer. Stop in when you can, and keep us company. I'd kind of like to be part of the sandwich generation though!

[Brookside]

3 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

Well, bummer. Stop in when you can, and keep us company. I'd kind of like to be part of the sandwich generation though!

Sounds tastier and cuddlier than it is!  Should really be the "constantly pulled in all directions at once" generation.

[Clanstarling]

14 hours ago, Brookside said:

Sadly, I'm going to have to bow out again Saber.  Too many sandwich generation demands.

Been there. Try to do a little something for yourself, even if it's only Calgon taking you away.

[saber5055]

On 10/9/2019 at 7:49 AM, Clanstarling said:

Try to do a little something for yourself, even if it's only Calgon taking you away.

Calgon ... that ancient Chinese secret.

[Browncoat]

3/5 this week.

[biakbiak]

5/5! Woot woot! 

[Trey]

3/5

[GrannySmith]

1/5. I knew last week was too good to be true. 

[peeayebee]

3/5 with an asterisk!

[Clanstarling]

2/5

[saber5055]

WEEK 5 — ONE asterisk *
21. Observances. Washington made the very first Presidential proclamation in response to a request for “a day of public” this.
22. Last Words. In 1876 in the Dakotas this American said, “The old duffer broke me on the last hand.”
23. Hit 1980s Albums. This American singer-songwriter briefly landed on the U.N.’s apartheid blacklist for his 1986 multi-platinum album.
24. English History. In 1600 a royal charter authorized it to set forth to “parts of Asia and Africa” in search of “trade and traffic.”
* 25. American Playwrights. In 1963 the Pulitzer Advisory Board vetoed his controversial play & gave no award; he would go on to win 3 Pulitzers.*

Edited October 12, 2019 by saber5055

[Driad]

2/5, making up for last week.  My station preempted two games for people yammering about f**tb*ll.  They have another station that airs sitcom reruns, but didn't bother to put Jeopardy there.  Thanks again to the people who posted useful links in the "What was FJ?" thread.

[illdoc]

Week 5:  1/5   (0 *)  Overall:  13/25   (2*).

[DXD526]

2/5, again.

[Minaboo]

2/5  meh