MrAtoz

Whenever I have to think of the capital of New Zealand, the incorrect answer that I invariably come up with is Auckland.

I almost said Volga, based on the mention of the river being 1,500 miles long (turns out the Volga is even longer than that). But the mention of monuments saying Asia and Europe meant that it must have been at the dividing line between those two continents. I'd actually never heard of the Ural River, but I knew that the Ural Mountains are the traditional separation of Europe from Asia. So I guessed that there was probably a river named Ural as well.

Thank you for posting his obituary. I'm sorry that I wasn't able to get to know him better. It sounds like we would have gotten along wonderfully. Particular condolences to his mother. It must be a very difficult time for her.

@The Wild Sow I only just saw this. I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. I didn't know Jim well at all, but we did meet because we both taped on the same day. We happened to sit next to each other on the van that drove us to the studio, and only narrowly missed competing against each other. I remember that he seemed to have a great sense of humor, and I loved his bow tie. You and all of your family have my deepest condolences.

My recollection is that something would happen at the RAF base that reminded him of Darrowby, and then he would reminisce about an animal that he had cared for back home. Basically the war was just a framing device for more animal stories. I welcome correction if someone else had read the books more recently. Of course the older series pretty much leapfrogged over the war entirely. Wight didn't really write war stories, so there's only so much you can do with it.

That's impossible, because the 1980s was only a few years ago, I swear! To me, Michael Landon will always be the star of I Was a Teenage Werewolf!

Does anybody watch Master Minds, on GSN? Yesterday's episode (which my DVR said was a repeat, but I swear I'd never seen it before) featured a question about how Tinder was originally called Matchbox. Not the first time I've noticed a Jeopardy! question showing up very soon afterwards on Master Minds. I'm not suggesting anything nefarious, but it's a strange coincidence.

I don't think they've ever added a chyron for someone who has died between taping and airing (which, as we've all observed, happens with some frequency). I think they only do "taped on..." notifications if subsequent events have rendered the clue obsolete, or might make it seem insensitive. Edited to add: I also got FJ, although it wasn't by any means instant. And I also thought it was spelled Tindr. Luckily, I didn't have to write it down. Probably a good thing. My wife would kill me if she thought I knew too much about dating apps! 😀

I knew they were asking about Moby Dick, because the sermon scene is fairly famous (Orson Welles delivered it in the 1956 movie version), but I couldn't remember what prophet the sermon was about. For some reason, the terribly obvious Jonah and the Whale association didn't occur to me. So I guessed Ahab (even though the biblical Ahab was a king, not a prophet).

Not me. "Hawk" and "talk" do not rhyme.

Sorry to be "that guy," but it was Mae Clarke, not Jean Harlow.

That ("cran") is how I have always pronounced the word "crayon." I thought everybody pronounced it that way.

I finally got around to watching the first episode of Pop Culture Jeopardy! This was the first time I had ever seen Colin Jost in anything. And I'm sorry to say that I have no desire to see more of him. I found him immensely irritating, and will probably not watch any more episodes.

From the opening narration of Casablanca: "Here, the fortunate ones through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon; and from Lisbon, to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca... and wait... and wait... and wait."

1939-1962, according to Wikipedia, so a bit later than Brandeis. Interestingly, Frankfurter joined the court on January 30, 1939, and Brandeis retired on February 13, 1939. So their terms overlapped by 15 days.