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2 hours ago, South said:
During Matt Amodio’s run, some of us were offering possible (and ridiculous)alternative ways to answer on J!
My personal favorite: "Could it be ...?"
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9 hours ago, ams1001 said:
I don't think the syndicated show is on demand; just the primetime tournaments. But yeah, google 'youtube jeopardy' and the date and you'll generally find 2-3 uploads on different channels. I don't know how long they tend to stay up, though. I once went to one of the channels I kept seeing pop up and it only had maybe the two or three most recent games on the videos page.
They do tend to get taken down pretty quickly, and the quality varies, but I remain incredibly grateful for them - living outside the U.S., it's the only way I can watch!
2 hours ago, Gemma Violet said:So if the response is a question, you don't have to phrase it as a question?
'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
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'What is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
Yup! It simply has to be a question. I've even heard that someone once gave "Who?" as an accepted response (as in the English rock band), although that could be an urban legend.
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11 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:
Jeapardy fans create scorecards? How do you do this?
I've always wondered this too! Please enlighten us!
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3 hours ago, Bastet said:
Well, Ken did his "Nnnnooo" like when an answer is close when Matthew responded, but this wasn't like Ellen's "Pantagonia" answer; I didn't know who the Avignon Popes are, or the antipopes, but looking them up very briefly they don't seem similar, and they certainly don't sound similar, so I don't know what Ken's reaction was about -- it was just a wrong answer. And I also don't know what Sriram thought Matthew said that was close but not quite right, that he'd say something he thought was different but was the exact same thing. Maybe someone with more Pope knowledge than me (i.e. virtually anyone) can speculate, because I found that an odd exchange all around.
I'm hardly a pope expert (a popephile?), but of the 7 Avignon popes, the last 2 were also antipopes (regarded as illegitimate by the official Catholic church, as opposed the popes who were legitimately elected), hence why there may have some confusion due to the overlap.
I believe subsequent antipopes did not reside at Avignon.
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22 minutes ago, South said:
I opted for the Brandenburg Gate. Though I’d have to look at the wording of the clue again to see if it would have been accepted.
I spent 4 years living in Berlin, so for once I had an FJ instaget. This was the clue:
In 2009, during a 20th anniversary celebration, it was called “an edifice of fear. On Nov. 9, it became a place of joy”
Definitely the Berlin Wall. The Brandenburg Gate was never an edifice of fear. The quote in the clue is actually a partial translation of what German President Horst Köhler said in 2009: “The wall was an edifice of fear. On Nov. 9, 20 years ago, it became a place of joy. For 28 years, East Germans could not even approach it. On Nov. 9, 1989, people danced on it – and the world looked different afterward.”
7 hours ago, dcalley said:Ben had a guaranteed 2nd place but bet a lot (why?!) and ended up in 3rd. He cost himself $1,000!
I thought the exact same thing! Like....why? Did he just do the math incorrectly?
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22 hours ago, PBnJay said:
Word a thousand times to this. Watch Mayim do an interview and her response is always "Awesome!" or something similar. Ken adds to the interview and, IMO, makes every player feel more important and welcome.
Never has a comment so directly spoken to my SOUL.
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10 hours ago, dgpolo said:
Thanks to a long ago brief stint collecting stamps I knew it was Switzerland and then my brain blanked while trying to remember cities there, it finally popped Bern out but I didn't think it was that, did very poorly today.
I'm Swiss and still got it wrong. I initially said Zurich, then corrected it to Lucern since that's the closest city to where modern-day Switzerland was founded and also sits on a lake. Blatant example of when knowing "too much" hurt me.
Dur indeed.
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6 hours ago, Packerbrewerbadger said:
I was rooting for Margaret, I think she would be a wonderful friend!
I adored Margaret during her original run, and have always wanted to just sit down with her and have a sweet tea!
I had high hopes she'd pull it off today - I felt like she played more aggressively than during her original run, when she sometimes came across as just a little too timid. Considering she didn't get any of the Daily Doubles, I actually thought she played better than Tyler overall. Alas....
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7 hours ago, ams1001 said:
Youtube game for me tonight...got out of work late because I needed to finish something since I'm off tomorrow and on vacation next week, then since I wouldn't get home in time, anyway, I went to the grocery store so I don't have to do it tomorrow. (Not a great recording...the first one I tried skipped from Mayim greeting the players to the response to the second clue, so I tried another that seemed okay, but it skipped a couple clues later in the round (also had a little inset window in the corner of some guy sitting at a keyboard, seen only from the shoulders down, which was kinda weird and pointless).)
Ah, I'm well aware of Keyboard Guy since I have to watch every game on YouTube (would that Jeopardy aired in Germany). I've taken to nicknaming him Stanley - modifications like that help prevent the uploader from getting a copyright strike from YouTube.
I couldn't believe nobody guessed Juliet, or the Rocky Mountains for that matter. Utah is right next to Colorado - what other mountain chain could it be?? And isn't that line from Juliet one of the most famous in all of Shakespeare?
Or maybe I'm just trying to make myself feel better since it was a decidedly unimpressive game from me. Literally the only thing that came to mind for FJ was "Remember the Alamo?" And yes, I knew it was tragically incorrect, and yet, once there it refused to leave.
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7 hours ago, Quickbeam said:
Hi….the 6/15/22 show was pre-empted here in southern WI for tornado and hail alerts. Can anyone recap for me? Thx!
I see that @853fisher has already gotten you a helpful recap, but just for future reference if you miss an episode you can usually find a pretty good recording on YouTube the next day (I live in Germany, so that's the only way I can watch.)
Just type "Jeopardy June 15 2022" into the search bar, and make sure you pick a video that's roughly 19 minutes long (shorter ones suggest a couple clues have been edited out.)
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On 6/10/2022 at 5:25 PM, Leeds said:
An unfailingly courteous elderly Indian man, who learned his English during the Raj, once asked me whether I was a virgin. When I looked at him quizzically, he clarified, "A maiden?" Another pause. "Unmarried?" Ah, got it. I was glad I could answer yes to that one.
My French-speaking father, who has an interest in astrology, once asked my little sister's best friend (15 at the time), "So, Kelly, are you a virgin?" Yeah, he meant virgo.
As a native French speaker, The Little Prince is my favorite book of all time, and I reread it at least once a year. I have read it in English as well and while it's still lovely, I do think it's hard to capture the original beauty and tone.
Topic? I too am baffled at Mayim's continued non-improvement. The difference between her hosting and Ken's hosting isn't exactly subtle. Not only do her stumbles (why DOES is take her that long to say "...yes" on so many clues?) take away from my enjoyment of the game, but her interview segments are terrible. It honestly seems like - no matter the contestant's story - she responds in the same way.
Just got married? "That's awesome!"
Dreaming of traveling to Antarctica? "That's awesome!"
Came on Jeopardy to make your recently-deceased grandmother proud? "That's awesome!"
I gave her the benefit of the doubt initially too. But at this point, she's either not being given any notes, or she's ignoring them.
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3 hours ago, 30 Helens said:
Ryan made a calculated gamble with his final wager, and it paid off, but he got lucky.
I was thinking about that too. I think I'd have done the same because I'd rather be guaranteed a tie and a shot at a tie-breaker than risk losing outright if I hadn't known FJ and Bonnie had.
So unless Ryan had been uber-confident about the Middle Ages category, that seems like the smartest move to me. Anyone say differently?
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4 hours ago, 30 Helens said:
I knew the Velveteen Rabbit. Because I like rabbits, and I like cheese.
I see what you did there.
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8 hours ago, 853fisher said:
There was an odd moment in the Gulf of Tonkin clue when the scores briefly displayed were all wrong, reflecting Jackie's winning total and Amie's consolation prize. I assume they had to retape something there, but it's just sloppy, and they have the resources to do better.
I noticed that too, but thought it was a YouTube glitch since that's where I watched. I even rewound to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. Really weird moment.
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49 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:
And I would have said, and believed, exactly that until, in my daily lessons (which I'm proficient enough to mostly blow through). I started encountering certain sentence constructions that use "der" for a feminine noun. They were nouns that were definitely feminine - for which I used feminine declension that proved to be wrong. Hence my frustration. I will suss out the sentence construction eventually.
Maybe this can help: Feminine nouns in German take "der" in the dative and genitive cases. Meaning the feminine noun has to be either the indirect object ("Ich gebe der Frau die Tasche" = "I give the bag to the woman") or possessive ("Das ist die Tasche der Frau" = "That's the woman's bag" or more literally, "That is the bag of the woman.").
Certain verbs are automatically dative, like "helfen" or "danken" (as in, "I provide help to the woman" rather than simply "I help the woman.") Basically if you can throw an "of" or a "to" in front of it and it still sounds OK in English, you're likely looking at "der."
So it's still a declension issue rather than the gender changing, but I'll grant you it's mighty confusing!
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24 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:
Same with French. A pencil is male but a pen is female? Whyyyy?
Suggested tip: Stick with "un stylo" for "pen," that way they're both masculine. I'm guessing you were thinking of "une plume" as the female word, which no one really uses anymore unless you're talking about a fountain pen. And roughly 80% of French words ending in "e" are feminine, so that's why.
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13 hours ago, Driad said:
Contrast Switzerland, where they say, "If the ten o'clock train doesn't arrive at ten o'clock, it's either not a Swiss train or not a Swiss clock."
I'm Swiss and I'd never heard this before. Absolutely love it. 😂
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15 hours ago, possibilities said:
I think it would be a disadvantage for a player to have to use a new or unfamiliar-to-them nickname during gameplay. It would slow down the realization that you were being called on, or increase the incidence of a contestant answering when they were not called on.
Totally agree. I wonder if you'd be given the option. Like a) You can go on, but we'll call you by your middle name, or b) You can wait until the champion with a name like yours loses.
11 hours ago, ams1001 said:One perk of having a "different" name is there's never another one in your class. The downside is no one pronounces it right (and you can never find it on a mug or a Christmas ornament).
Yup. And if there's no one famous with that name, and it doesn't rhyme with anything, you're doomed to a life of correcting people. My name is Joëlle, which in English I typically spell without the diaeresis, but even so I get a lot of, "what's those two dots for?"
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4 hours ago, 30 Helens said:
I enjoyed reading Matt’s blog entries about his experience (thanks to Bastet posting a link on the “What Is…In the Media” page), and was hoping the story would have at least a few more chapters. Oh, well. In today’s entry, he noted that Amy impressed/ scared him with her skills in pre-game rehearsal. Also that she was scheduled to play a long time ago, but had to wait because the producers didn’t want two Amys in the same game.
That's interesting, I've always wondered what they do to avoid having two same-named contestants in a game, especially since names like "Amy" and "Matt" aren't all that unusual.
Have they ever had two names that might get confused for one another? Like, "John" and "Jonathan," or "Larry" and "Barry"?
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18 hours ago, kathyk24 said:
I agree regarding ROY G BiV I also would have asked Christine to be more specific on the Law and Order clue. I was impressed with her knowledge of opera. Does anyone else think Margaret has a southern accent?
I thought the host isn't allowed to prompt for a BMS in the DJ round, which is why Ken remained silent. Similar to how they don't accept responses not in the form of a question in that round. Is that wrong?
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22 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:
I couldn't think of "class" - I kept saying, "It begins with a 'C' " - because Kids Play Catch Over Farmer Green's Shed.
See, I learned this one as "Kinky People Come Over for Great Sex."
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Jeopardy! Season 39 (2022-2023)
in Jeopardy!
I did wonder about that too, but in his defense, he could still have won if Kendra had missed and wagered more than $100 (and if he'd gotten it correctly).