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  1. 05-20-2023, 08:20 #1
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    Default The easiest Final Jeopardy ever! (Friday, May 19)

    The category was "The USA," the question was:

    People going north on this route say they’re traveling “GAME”, an acronym regarding their beginning & ending points.

    All three contestants got the right answer!
    "Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence." John Muir on expedition planning
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    That's cool but also odd I never once heard anyone say that or even of the saying
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    We put GAMEer and MEGA in the first AT vocab list done by the good ol' at-l back in the 90s. That list is on here somewhere.
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    "Trail Slang"

    Needs updating.
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    "[ATers] represent three percent of our use and about twenty percent of our effort," retired Baxter Park Director Jensen Bissell.
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  5. 05-20-2023, 20:29 #5
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    My wife thought I was a genius for knowing this. I let her believe it.
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    I actually never knew what this acronym meant lol..Only seen it written online, never heard someone say it.
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    I knew the answer immediately, and it brought a smile to my face.


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