For lack of anything else airing at the time I've watched most of the episodes and can recommend it as a weird cross between Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and The Tudors.

"That Roman Numerals category…"

As much as I'll miss many of the commenters, I'll miss most of all Zack's insightful, sympathetic, and nuanced reviews that remind me why I love the series so much despite and even because of the tropes that we fans sometimes take for granted.

After that reply by Pam Mueller I fell just a little bit more in love with her.

Watching this Battle of the Decades is a little like ToC on steroids, or rather Adderall, and seeing such masterful playing not only in contestants' command of trivia and esoterica but their rational wagering does my heart good, especially after so many games of weak opponents trying and failing to unseat Julia…

I'd been actively rooting for Julia's downfall for a while because despite her impressive knowledge base her clue-picking and wagering strategies left a lot to be desired, and she also took down Aimee.

If you're into sunny personalities you're in for a treat in today's game.

Trebek's response to Frederique's charming little story about losing her shoe while getting on a train to Italy made it so painfully clear that he really is from another era and probably should be moving on.

"At that point, instead of moving to one of the two other remaining categories to shop for the last DD, both Frederique and E.A. stayed in the category where the first DD was found until the end. Then, when last-place Jake had the chance to look for the DD he desperately needed with just one full category left, he…

Also, O'Hara.

"When I want to listen to something that thick, I reach for Richard Strauss instead."

Poor Annalisa fell victim to Trebek's need to show off his knowledge of the answers despite knowing all of them beforehand by butting in with "sodium" at the end of her response "salt" rather than asking her to be more specific, thus putting her in the position of having won the money and then having it snatched away.

She ate up too much time with her slow enunciation of categories, so much so that Alex would jump in with the clue before she even finished speaking, so I was glad to see her lose.

The clue high in calcium and vitamin E should have eliminated most fleshy fruits since biologically calcium is found mostly in metabolically active cells and vitamin E is fat soluble.

Going into FJ:
Nancy Akerman: $13,200, wagered $10,401
Derek Arnold: $11,800, wagered $11,800
Joe Morse: $6,400, wagered $6,400

Also new episode of the CW's The 100, another YA adaptation of a group of teens in a Lord of the Flies-like scenario on a post-apocalyptic future-Earth who try to escape a brutally authoritarian society only to face unknown dangers in a strange land.

Karine Vanasse is reportedly 30, and Olivier Martinez 48, so if one is being very generous it could work, especially if Margaux was the product of a particularly youthful fling.

He's been known to suck the marrow out of life.

Brian May of Queen, however, who actually has a PhD in astrophysics and whose thesis was titled A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, would be a good person to go to for those problems.

"As part of the gun crew, he had helped to fire one shot in anger-from a 57-millimeter antitank gun. The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty."