Thanks again, y'all. Oh, HAZIE. I'd completely forgotten about this torso. BEAUTIFUL. How are you displaying her? Anxious to see your next one. I gathered lots of stuff yesterday at garage/estate sales all over town to add to my mannequin, which I'll be starting soooooooon. I have a "student" coming today. She was lost in my neighborhood and admired my gardens and came to knock on the door and saw the front walk and columns, and left a note on my door sorta pleading for me to sell, tell her where to buy or teach her how to do the column in the front garden. Ahhh, another life is about to be swallowed up into mosaics.

We are big Jeopardy! fans too, as are my parents. A friend of mine won one game and we attended a taping where another friend's mom played. In last night's game there was the cute young lady you mentioned and a woman who taught French was the third contestant As gazania said, the tutor who won last night, a big tall guy, beat the others by a mile. I really look forward to seeing him play again on Monday, because he had broad knowledge of many subjects, was fast on the buzzer, yet didn't seem to take himself too seriously. Ryan Chaffee is his name, and I'll put a link below to this week's contestants' page on the show site: Here is a link that might be useful: this week's players

I think I would do badly as a contestant, because I would probably be incompetent getting my buzzer to ring in fast enough, lol! Typically I do well with categories about Literature, Medicine, Geography, Movies/t.v. shows, and North American and European History (not knowledgeable enough about history of most other Continents.) Music and sports depend greatly on the era, regarding my knowledge level. I do okay at the 'Before and After' categories, but I'm downright horrible at categories connected to Mythology, Opera, Religion, Art History and Science Fiction. But oddly enough, even if I do pretty badly during the general game, I seem to have a weird knack of getting the Final Jeopardy response correct, which accomplishes nothing, if one doesn't accumulate enough money beforehand, to win the game!

Alisande, I'm sorry you missed the show. It was as Janie said, wonderful. Very informative on how it all goes together. From the team that makes up the questions to go with the answers to the much more than I imagined process for those aspiring to get chosen as a contestant. And Alex's part in the show confirmed with me that he is a gentleman and a genuine nice guy.