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Outsourcing is taking certain functions out of an organization and hiring an external company to do those jobs. A minority of the time the jobs leave the country, but most outsourced jobs move to a domestic company without leaving the U.S. The actual correct answer to the clue would be "offshoring,...

It very well could be Beijing. "Sounds Chinese" and "Sounds Japanese" aren't miles apart. Actually, they kind of are. Or it could be in another big country such as Brazil. "Narita" sounds totally plausible as Portuguese to me. Again, sometimes you just have to know things. Brasilia, a capital found...

I always thought of the sun belt being only the southwest, didn't realize it was a lot of the south. That makes more sense than the Bible belt I guess as well, since the Bible belt intersects the sun belt, at least in my mind. There's some overlap, but the Bible Belt basically doesn't extend furthe...

Rust and uhhhh... ARE there any other belts? No, I can't think of any. NHO "sun belt". https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNT1-Fc7StV0ZS_eTlRlBxSiEDybZg%3A1573608828022&ei=fF3LXfhVkabnAq2RnPgJ&q=%22sun+belt%22&oq=%22sun+belt%22&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i67i70i249j0i131i67j0j0i10j0i10i67j0j0i67j0j0i67j0...

I got an FJ right that James missed! It was only his 2nd incorrect FJ response in 35 games including this TOC. Emma was very strong yesterday . . . and then there was James today. IMO he showed why he's still the clear favorite in the dream rematch in the final round. Even looking a ittle shaky at t...

Quothed from the 2018 SHC: Anyone who hasn't heard Ma Vlast in general and "The Moldau" specifically is missing out IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kqu2mk-Kw Thanks for this. Smetana, the subject of the hardest clue according to this poll, isn't totally obscure, with dozens of Archive name-...

Monday: Emma, Dhruv, Kyle Tuesday: James, Steven, Rachel Wedesday: Francois, Gilbert, Lindsey https://www.jeopardy.com/contestant-zone/2019/tournament-champions In other words, pretty much what most of us were expecting after an image showing Monday's contestants went up on the J! website a couple o...

Got to Jungle Book but didn't remember Shere Khan's name, despite (i) exposure to Jungle Book in my childhood and (ii) that character coming up on J! as recently as March of this year.

That was a TOC FJ? I would expect that to be a trigger in a college tournament. Surprised at the number of posters who already said they missed it. :o I was grateful for it -- it saved me an oh-fer on TOC FJs so far. YMMV. I hadn't read or seen The Jungle Book since I was a kid, and although I got ...

ToC minisite seems to show an image of one of our SF matchups. With Emma (W3), Dhruv (W4) and Kyle (WC2) in that image that would likely leave: James (W2) / Steven (WC1) / Rachel (WC4) Francois (W1) / Lindsey (WC3) / Gilbert (W5) Of course, nothing has been confirmed yet, but these seem like fairly...

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I'm honestly surprised at how hard this FJ played. A 20th century art movement named after a description of a shape? WECIB?

Best I could come up with was surrealism.

Leaving aside the "shape" TOM, surrealism was eliminated by the clue about Miró already having appeared in the DJ round.

I only got charge in "bugle calls," and I negged with Myrtle Beach for Hilton Head.

I'm honestly surprised at how hard this FJ played. A 20th century art movement named after a description of a shape? WECIB? Well, the match of death lived up to expectations with all 3 players playing well, although props to Emma for standing out even against 2 great opponents. It's a shame that mis...

Andorra.

King James is back! He did exactly what I expected him to do and showed why he merited the designation of platinum going into this TOC. A Coryat higher than his record regular-play average, despite facing two strong opponents (one of whom will likely also advance to semis), is most impressive. Someo...

I have a problem with the Dark Ages $1200 clue: "Dark Ages guys Methodius & Cyril went down in history as the fathers of this system" Alex said (according to our crack archivists) that the correct response is "(what is) the alphabet". Surely the ancient Phoenicians invented the alphabet, and what M...

I only got Utah, the Cyrillic Alphabet, and the 2 DJ-round DD's

]obvious. I don't think Anneke should have been BMS'd for her response of Guyana in the $2,000 "To the Stars" clue asking for a South American territory. French Guiana isn't a more specific version of saying "Guyana"; Guyana is an independent country and I think the response should have been treate...

$9,400 but missed the DD.

I don't think Anneke should have been BMS'd for her response of Guyana in the $2,000 "To the Stars" clue asking for a South American territory. French Guiana isn't a more specific version of saying "Guyana"; Guyana is an independent country and I think the response should have been treated as incor...