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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Final Jeopardy 5-30-2018

May 30, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

American Composers

Final Jeopardy Clue:

His works are the only ones in the National Recording Registry that are preserved on piano rolls

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Nathaniel Mauger







Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Scott Joplin

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Final Jeopardy 5-29-2018

May 29, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

British Commonwealth

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Of the 16 Commonwealth nations with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, this one is farthest from the United Kingdom

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

New Zealand

Monday, May 28, 2018

Final Jeopardy 5-28-2018

May 28, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

19thCentury Authors

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a “Miracle Worker”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Mark Twain

Book Review: Only Human. (2018). Sylvain Neuvel

Only Human(2018) Sylvain Neuvel


Book three of Neuval’s Themis Files series.  My least favorite. (Sleeping Giants and Waking Gods)  This is basically a family affair with Victor and Eva (and Rose as a surrogate mother) trying to work out what actually happened on the world of Esat Ekt.  Eva’s alien boyfriend, Ekim, becomes a casualty of their escape back to Earth with itself has become a world dominated by the remaining giant robot, Lapetus, which the USA is using to dominate the rest of the world.  When Victor, Rose, and Eva return with Themis it is the Russians that take control of them and it is game on.  Of course Rose figures it out with the help of Mr. Burns who is not in jail for his sin of alien heritage.  

It is an interesting concept but I had hoped for a little more imagination in books two and three rather then just dragging out a really good book one idea.  Of course the is the standard for SF now a days.  Take a good book and stretch it to 3 -  maybe 5 or 6.   Hopefully Sylvain Neuval will come out with something new soon. 

Friday, May 25, 2018

Final Jeopardy 5-25-2018

May 25, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Oscar Winning Actors

Final Jeopardy Clue:

He was nominated twice for playing Oscar winners–a real one in a 1992 biopic & a fictional one in a 2008 combat comedy

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Robert Downy Jr

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Final Jeopardy 5-24-2018

May 24, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Geography

Final Jeopardy Clue:

For a link between oceans, the U.S. signed an 1859 treaty with Mexico giving us rights to this 2-syllable strip of land “of Tehuantepec”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Isthmus

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Final Jeopardy 5-23-2018

May 23, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Greek Mythology

Final Jeopardy Clue:

This pair who accompanied their father into battle were called Timor & Formido, “Fear” & “Terror”, by the Romans

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Phobos and Deimos 

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Final Jeopardy 5-22-2018

May 22, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Famous Russians

Final Jeopardy Clue:

In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:

Aleksander Pushkin