July 31, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Americana
Final Jeopardy Clue:
It was constructed in the Paris foundry of Gaget, Gauthier &
Co. from 1875 to 1884
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Final
Jeopardy Answer / Question:
The
Statue of Liberty
Monday, July 31, 2017
Sunday, July 30, 2017
Super Sales on Super Heroes (2017) William D. Aurand
Super
Sales on Super Heroes (2017) William D. Aurand
I didn’t think I would like it. Bought the audio book on a whim. Amazingly found it pretty funny and enjoyed
it not a little.
There
is one element that I find repellant
and will describe that late in this review.
The
basic premise is that the world is dominated by super heroes and villains (with little separating them). Our hero (Felix Campbell) is not much of one.
The only “power” he has is the ability
to improve the things that he owns.
Unfortunately for him he does not have enough points to do anything with
and these points reset every day. He has
saved up money to buy some metal in hopes to slowly convert it to gold but
instead gets a mostly dead super hero.
He decides to keep the super hero and finds out since he “owns” it as a
“slave” he gets to use their super hero points which are much higher than his.
He gets the opportunity to buy two others that are equally damaged and uses
their points to repair them. Once this
is done he goes on a hero / villain buying spree and develops an organization
based on using his points and the powers of the group to create money and
upgrade the “slaves” as rewards for services.
This group - incorporated “We are Legion” (see “We are Bob”) - is on constant active from the Legion of
Heroes. Finally with his back against
the wall Felix must his enemies himself to preserve his slaves and his way of
life.
Lots
of fun in here - Andrea – who can
multiply herself, is part wolf, and loves pancakes, Lily – the soul eating
demon, and Kit – the mind reader are his chief companions and consultants in
this venture.
My
big problem with this book is the picture of the big-hearted slave owner. I do not think they exist. It trivializes the whole American nightmare
that slave-holding brought over us. I wish
Aurand had found another conveyance such as indentured servant – which he does
use. Of course, Felix is ultimately a villain (has the souls
ripped out of his enemies before they are sent (still alive) to the sausage
machine. His slaves then eat the sausage
to get increased power. Sounds like a villain to me. As long as the villains
eventually loose or are sanctified and reborn.
Friday, July 28, 2017
Final Jeopardy July 28, 2017
July 28, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
21st Century Thought
Final Jeopardy Clue:
The title subject of a 2007 bestseller, it was discovered in
Australia where today it’s a state emblem
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Black Swan
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Final Jeopardy June 2017 Review
Final Jeopardy Category:
World Transportation
Final Jeopardy Clue
It traverses hundreds of bridges, the longest stretching 2 miles
across the Amur River
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Trans-Siberian Railway
Final Jeopardy Category:
Oscars
Final Jeopardy Clue:
This man received 2 honorary Oscars in his career, & the actor
who played him on film received a 1992 nomination for the role
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Charlie Chaplin
Final Jeopardy Category:
British Kings
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Bearing Roman numeral I, he subdued Wales & was called the
“English Justinian” for his legal reforms
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Edward I
Final Jeopardy Category:
World War II Heroes
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Credited with saving thousands of lives before his disappearance,
in 2016 he was officially declared dead by Sweden
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Raoul Wallenberg
Final Jeopardy Category:
Constellations
Final Jeopardy Clue:
The brightest star in Scorpius is named this, meaning “rival” of
the god equivalent to Mars
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Antares
Final Jeopardy Category:
Geography
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Cross the Strait of Bonifacio & you go
between the 2nd- & 4th-largest Mediterranean islands & between these 2
countries
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question
Italy and France
Final Jeopardy Category:
16th Century names
Final Jeopardy Clue:
In his 1557 almanac this French
doctor predicted, “Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so”
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Final Jeopardy Answer /
Question:
Nostradamus
Final Jeopardy Category:
Books and Authors
Final Jeopardy Clue:
His first novel, from 1920,
incorporated some of his pieces from the Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine
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Final Jeopardy Answer /
Question:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Final Jeopardy Category:
Recent Oscar Winners
Final Jeopardy Clue:
For his portrayal of a famous man born in the
1940s, he was the first actor born in the ’80s to win the Best Actor Oscar
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Final Jeopardy Answer /
Question:
Eddie Redmayne
Final Jeopardy Category:
Classical Music
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Scholars think this 1810 piano piece was dedicated to Elisabeth
Rockel or Therese Malfatti, a student of the composer
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Fur Elise
Final Jeopardy Category:
Airlines
Final Jeopardy Clue:
On June 17, 1929 this airline’s first passenger flight left
Dallas, making stops at Shreveport, Monroe & Jackson
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Delta
Final Jeopardy Category:
Shakespeare titles
Final Jeopardy Clue:
The verse from the Sermon on
the Mount following “judge not, that ye be not judged” inspired this Bard
comedy title
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Measure for Measure
Final Jeopardy Category:
Sports and Politics
Final Jeopardy Clue:
After moving to Johannesburg in 1903, he formed the Passive
Resisters Soccer Club
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Mohandas Gandhi
Final Jeopardy Category:
Europe 1962
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Rudolf Abel & this American are most associated with Germany’s
Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Gary Powers
Final Jeopardy Category:
1960 Books
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Wherever I sat… I would be sitting under the same glass this, the
title of the author’s only novel
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
The Bell Jar
Final Jeopardy Category:
Oscars
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Later an Oscar winner, she appeared as the child baptized towards
the end of “The Godfather”
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Sofia Coppola
Final Jeopardy Category:
Literary References
Final Jeopardy Clue:
An homage to a 1953 novel, this
number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with
censored content
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
451
June 28, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Entrepreneurs
Final Jeopardy Clue:
In the 1960s M.T. Lott was one of the fictitious names he used to
buy 27,000 acres in Florida
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Walt Disney
June 29, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Nations of the World
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the
longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area
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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:
Chile
June 30, 2017
Final Jeopardy Category:
Plants
Final Jeopardy Clue:
Made
famous by a 1959 musical, the flower seen here graces a coin of this European
country
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