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  1. My thought process was something like "1623, so not ancient, meso- like mesoamerican, hm, but onox doesn't ring any geographical bells, wait, nox for night (so Latin was some use after all) -- but 'middle of the night' is more than one word, whatever shall I do?" [Dramatic pause] "oh, midnight, of course." I knew theremin easily (highly recommend the documentary about its inventor) but did not come up with John Brown or Steppenwolf.
  2. In Henry V, Shakespeare uses both Crispin and Crispian in the speech. Ken could have acknowledged that when he delivered the decision. I didn't go back to check Priyanka (I heard Priyankar) but they claimed Mackenzie had said Priyankra which would be consistent with their pronunciation rulings (no extraneous letters in the wrong place).
  3. I had a look and I have no recollection of ever having seen that one before. I probably would have stood a better chance if the clue had mentioned Agatha Christie.
  4. I was rooting for Arthur to win and was so disappointed in that second DD. I know I was trying to think of the name of an instrument and not just a characteristic of the instrument shown. The wording of the clue was a trifle misleading: I am also mad that I didn't think of vicar, but in my defense I don't associate the term vicar with Monty Python at all. I can't even think of any sketch with a vicar.
  5. I don't think I knew that Al Capone had the nickname Scarface. I thought of the Al Pacino movie which I have never seen and gave up on trying to think of the name of that character. Well of course not, it was a lie. 😀 I would have guessed sunfish even though the fish I knew as sunfish were little and we used to throw them back when we caught them. I was surprised no one came up with Mamma Mia. Very glad to see Amy cruise to victory, especially with such good Latin.
  6. I was unable to think of any lyrics other than "under pressure" which aren't even in this song. I also could not think of the name of the Alan Turing movie even though I saw it with my mother and she brings it up all the time whenever she is struggling with her crossword puzzle.
  7. According to this it was Pete's decision rather than the network's. Good for him.
  8. I didn't know it but I was just unburdened by knowledge enough to reason that Ulysses was the only thing stylistically notable enough to consider. If I had known too much I probably would have been overwhelmed by all kind of experimental possibilities. I was cheering for Larissa, so yay!
  9. I do not often listen to the Inside Jeopardy podcast, but I did happen to listen to one recent episode where Michael Davies mentioned that asking the contestants to say the whole category helps the person whose job it is to launch the correct clue. That is a more persuasive reason than what I had heard before, that they thought it helped the home audience to follow. I am fine with abbreviating the categories but I would like to see them on the screen with the clue because when I am playing at home with my parents, by the time the clue fills the screen we have probably forgotten what category it is already.
  10. My jaw dropped when I saw the pre-FJ scores and realized that for the second time Ben's score doubled would be $1 more than Troy's score if he bet to beat Yogesh if he doubled. When Ben was right and Yogesh was wrong I hoped history would repeat but Yogesh was too smart to wager everything when he could clinch only if Troy was wrong. It would have been more satisfying if the winner had also had FJ correct but Yogesh did what he needed to win.
  11. My assumption would be that even if there is no obviously assigned mod for a forum or thread, if you submit a report then someone will review it. How quickly they review it might depend on how many reports there are vs how many mods, but it should get reviewed even if it takes a couple of days.
  12. After TOC we have to get through the Jeopardy Invitational Tournament (which will take 14-16 episodes) before they go back to regular games.
  13. Very pleased to see Chuck Forrest. I remember enjoying him in his original run.
  14. I got the TSs of Adam and crescent moon and was surprised they were TS. Levi came into my mind quickly but I had to start listing Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus to get FJ.
  15. The games before the final are outside the set of possible 7, so I don't think this is the answer really. I think that they are using "best of 7" as a short efficient way of saying that they will play no more than 7 games in the final and the winner will be the person who will have won the most games at the point when they stop. In theory the best of 7 sounds like there could be a situation where player A wins the first 3 games, but player B wins the next 4 and player B should then be the best. However I think they are trying to avoid the scenario where player C is out of contention altogether but has to keep playing. It would be clearer to say first to 3 and add the clarification "which means a max of 7 games" but I think best of 7 is so common in 2 team matchups they are using that as oversimplified shorthand and have forgotten it's not accurate. Maybe we can get James to poke them, he seems smart enough to get it.
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