Jeopardy Answers

Sad week for Jeopardy!  Matt Amodio lost, but I guess winning over $1,000,000 makes up for it.

 Answers to last week's questions:

This state is south of Kentucky.  What is Tennessee?

Tbe two female founders of Hogworts were Helga and this witch. Who is Rowena Ravenclaw?

Egg whites and sugar are made into this goo that is an ingredient of Snickers and Kit Kat bars.  What is nougat?

The museum for this female artist also maintains her home Abiqulu, New Mexico, sixty miles away.  Who is Georgia O'Keefe?  (And by the way, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts has just opened an O'Keefe exhibit.

Her 1944 debut included this line:  "You know how to whistle, Steve.  Just put your lips together and blow."  Who is Lauren Bacall?

South Africa's Goolslang is a horrific cave beast that is part serpent and part this trumpeteter.  What is an elephant?Y

FYI:  Jeopardy is on ABC at 11:30 am, Central Time.  See how many questions you can come up with.

This is Jeopardy!

 I've always been a Jeopardy fan.  When I worked in the Medical Center, we watched the show during our lunch breaks.  I've had two writer friends who were contestants.  After Alex Tribek died, my enthusiasm waned, but now that Matt Amodio has become the second highest winner, my addiction has reappeared.  So here are some Jeopardy answers.  Questions will be in next week's blog post:

This state is south of Kentucky.

The two female founders of Hogwarts were Helga and this witch.

Egg whites and sugar syrup are made into this goo that is an ingredient of Snickers and Kit Kat bars.

The museum for this female artist also maintains her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, sixty miles away.

Her 1944 film debut included this line:  "You know how to whistle, Steve.  You just put your lips together and blow."

South Africa's Grootslang is a horrific cave beast that is part serpent and part this giant trumpeter.

Answers next week.  No fair Googling.

Books of August and September

 The Third Pole:  After the North and South Poles were reached, what was left?  Scaling Everest/  Some referred to it as the third pole, hence the title of this fascinating book about an expedition to find the body of Sandy Irvine, the climbing companion of George Mallory and to locate Irvine's camera.  Did the two reach the summit?  Perhaps the camera could answer that question.  Besides the tale of this expedition, there is much about people who climbed and the many who died on their way.  Fact:  Mt. Everest is named for a man who was mapping longitude and never climbed a mountain.  

Peril.  Yes, I read Bob Woodward's latest book, which is about 50-50 between Trump and Biden.  Interesting.

The Maidens.  A student at Cambridge is murdered and the aunt of a fellow student who comes to comfort her tries to find out who did it.  Like those kids in horror movies, she visits the home of the potential killer--poor motivation.  I would give this book a C.

It Ends with Us.  Another book with poor character motivation and weird backstory.  I don't recommend it at all.

Apples Never Fall.  I give this one an A.  It's the story of the missing mother of four grown children.  Has she met with foul play?  If so, who did it?  And what about the young girl who once showed up at their house and became the mother's buddy?  Engaging and funny.