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Ouch.

I only partly heard the clue and thought "You've Got Mail." Then the answer was Jimmy Stewart and I got rather confused. I guess I was the only one. Well, besides the three players.

OH WOW! I just went to the Jeopardy website and the Teacher's Tournament is a promo at the top of the page, including a pic of all the teachers with our @teebax right there in the front row! SO EXCITING! ETA: Thanks for the FINGER GUNS, @teebax! You rock.

Lack of oxygen is a common problem with me. Do people still ask, "How's the air up there?"

YES! Bless your heart. And, of course, it doesn't fit the FJ category either. But thank you very much for giving my brain cells a break.

I won today's game by 20 points, a vast improvement over last week, which means either the board was easier today or I will eventually be able to leave my death bed. Take your pick. Trebek corrects the pronunciation of Guernica. *sigh* Jasmine gets a GFY. It's been a while since we had a drink. I did not care for Trebek doing his Borat impression to help players come up with the Sacha Baron Cohen answer. I surprised myself getting the DD answer of Beowulf, even though James also got it. It was strictly a guess, grabbed it out of the air as it flew by. I missed hearing the Jimmy Stewart question but reading here, I wouldn't have gotten it. I've never heard of that movie, and I'm a fan of old movies. Go figure. For FJ all I could come up with was DeMolay, and I was trying to think of that high school group/club, where the kids make up a business and sell things, as my second answer. I still can't come up with that name. Too funny the answer was the very simple Chamber of Commerce. Duh!

LOL! You don't have to wait much for that, do you!

You must have been on a raised platform behind your podium during the game, too, I am guessing. I hope you were careful and didn't "step off!" Alex would have to be on the raised platform if he took a photo with me.

Five shows are taped in one day, two days in a row, so 10 episodes are played per week over two days. While challengers might be "fresh," the champion has the advantage of knowing how to use the buzzer and is familiar with the cadence of Trebek's reading and how to time the lights so he/she can buzz in first. The champ is also more comfortable being in a teevee studio with cameras in his/her face so that Deer In Headlights feeling has (mostly) gone away. No, and for this reason I copied from TheJeopardyFan.com: "This is the kind of game that people use to make an argument that runners-up should also receive their final score as prize money. What these people don’t realize is that the fact that the scores are points and not money until the game is won is the very reason why people are able to play the game as aggressively as they are. If all players were always in jeopardy of losing actual money if they were incorrect in Final Jeopardy or on Daily Doubles, do you actually think most players would be willing to bet nearly $27,000 in this spot? You’d see significantly more $0 wagers, and the game would actually be boring." This is also from TJF: "Adam’s $53,999 is the highest-ever regular-play non-winning score in the history of the show, and is the 21st-highest final score of all time." Note that Adam was in "contestant's row" at last week's taping so watched James play; therefore, he was familiar with his style and game play which is why he was able to give him a good run for it.

Yeay, you look WONDERFUL, @teebax. How tall is Mr. Trebek do you guess? He has to be the most photographed host in the world. It's also the coolest souvenir in the world, one only a very select group of people have. Congratulations.

I found a great place to stay for anyone heading to Boise. It made me think of @Prevailing Wind. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/32011367?guests=1&adults=1

As one poster upthread said, she was cured through The Power Of Dance. I was for Poppin John all the way. I thought the chick in the tight red leotard was all gymnastics and sexual moves, no dancing. I can see NeYo and Derek liking it though, who needs dance moves. Shawn Johnson or Nastia Liukin could win this show since all you seem to need is a floor routine with a box prop. And it beat the talented Poppin John. *sigh*

LOL because I just got done hacking a stack of frozen ribs apart so I could cook a few. It took me forever, and I was considering getting a hammer and chisel. If they had been frozen via liquid nitrogen I guess I could have just tapped them and gotten the ones I was after.

I had never heard the "meaning" of those numbers either, which, IMO, means I deserve a Good For You. Now, however, they will creep me out.

I would like to win trips too, but the ones on games shows are so inflated. Like a trip to Phoenix is priced at $25,000 or some crazy amount. And one would have to pay taxes on $25,000, even if you could do the same trip to Phoenix for less than $1,200. (I picked rando numbers for those prices just as an example.) As did I! And I knew how to start my car that way if it got pokey about it. (Oldsmobile 442, quite the dude magnet back in the day.)

@M. Darcy beat me to it. I always figure what anyone wins on a game show or in the lottery, they lose approximately half in taxes. So that third-place $1,000 comes to somewhat more than $500. Viewers tend to forget that and dwell on the big amount that winners never get to take home. I've heard people can go broke when they win big items like cars on Wheel or TPIR, they have to pay taxes on everything. One guy I know won a car on TPIR and, after the show was over, refused to accept it for that reason. I'd think it would be easy for the Jeopardy back office to give people their checks (minus taxes!) the day they are sent home from the show. But there must be some financial benefit for the show to keep that money longer and pay out after some certain time has passed. Hey, we need to entertain ourselves somehow. My complaint with Trebek's French is he overworks it to death and turns a one-syllable word into five. I can't imagine he could speak French quickly and fluently in a conversation. I'm a Midwestern hayseed, and I say yeero. I thought the Seinfeld jiy-ro episode was even funnier due to the mis-pronunciation, although now I know that is the New York way!

I am putting my trust in this man from Greece. He makes gyros for a living. (Just not in New York.)

I found this interesting link that applies to your post. The name says it all IMO. www.quora.com/Why-do-New-Yorkers-still-pronounce-gyro-wrong

Sometimes it's nice to lead a more secluded life! ETA: Looks like it's okay to bet $8,645 though.

Did anyone else notice James' incorrect pronunciation of gyro? It's Greek, and said "yeer-ro" with a rolled r. Maybe James is a Seinfeld fan which is why he called it a jiy-ro (TM Kramer). What's up with Trebek missing an opportunity to correct him?

That's a new one for me.

Celebrity Bowling would be hilarious. I must search for that.

So now there's some guy who has vowed to always protect Katarina, and Red has vowed to always protect Lizzie. Where does someone find a dude like that, besides on The Bachelorette (Kasey)?

I think you are correct, and it is weak tea. It's like Spader's character is really Leon Trotsky, regenerated back to life by that Blacklist doctor, and Lizzie is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, also regenerated. Because otherwise, who gives a care who Red is, really, and what difference does any of it make, what rando spy from decades ago would be so important that he has to kill everyone to protect that weak-tea secret. Just buy some 23andMe DNA kits, Cooper, and get this over with.