Scott

Kings play chess on fine grain sand, for me. I knew the PM was Keir, but couldn't remember the last name. I doubt I could have convinced Ken that we were on a first-name basis. Figured the monument had to be to Cervantes, and that one of the statues would be Don Quixote, but debated whether the second was Sancho Panza or Rocinante (his horse). Went with Sancho, partly because I thought that would be it, but also partly because I wasn't sure if I remembered Rocinante's name correctly.

And the smugness, and the chest-thumping, and the need to respond to every one of Ken's asides...just off the top of my head.

My four sisters were Mount Holyoke, Wellesley, Radcliffe, and, thankfully, Bryn Mawr, although I really wanted to spell it "Brwn". Didn't know over-Welshing was a thing.

Finally caught up with the tournament (this really is just too much Jeopardy). Basically can summarize my viewing experience in one sentence: Yogesh is a ****.

This new champion's shtick is going to get annoying really fast...oh wait, it already is!

It's stupid and completely unfunny, so definitely an April Fools joke.

At least I don't have to listen to any more smarmy jackassery for a while.

I just caught up, watching the three finals games back to back. I know I'm predisposed to dislike the guy, but it really did seem like every single attempt at humor, or humanizing himself, or whatever you want to call it, just seemed smarmier and more tone deaf than the previous one. I suppose it's a no-win situation for him now, at least on the personality front. (One can hope it's a no-more-win situation on the Jeopardy! front as well...)

Getting caught up in what feels like the thirty-seventh consecutive tournament, and at least they finally brought back people that I remember! Of course, nobody that I actually wanted to win has won any of the games so far, so ... yay.

I like that "The Little Foxes" popped up in a clue without any reference to Lillian Hellman.

Ah, I've missed the site. So many contestants who annoyed me, and nowhere to complain about them! 😁 I don't mean to be nitpicking, but since we all presumably do enjoy trivia: the California Institute of Technology gets very fussy about their nickname, and "Caltech" is the preferred spelling. A few years ago, the city of Pasadena put up some new decorative signage, and the school was referred to as "Cal Tech" on the signs. Evidently a stink was raised, and shortly thereafter corrections were applied to all the signs

...which still only brought it from a 1/10 to a 2/10. I mean, I'm not going into these expecting anything more than fluff, but this season hasn't even been holding my interest when I try to watch. I hope that changes soon...

Ugh...hate the new opening, hate that they still seem to be encouraging people to be over the top in their intros, hate that we have another batch of Losers' Week games. Other than that, though, things are going pretty well.

I would have had no idea when Fahrenheit 451 was published, but I can remember Nineteen Eighty-Four's publishing date from the (probably apocryphal) story that Orwell got the title from flipping the last digits of 1948, when he was writing it.

I'm guessing not, because the clue referred to "a union of these", and if the captains are even members of that union, I can't imagine it's exclusively them.