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Jeopardy! Season 38 (2021-2022)

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Prevailing Wind
Prevailing Wind

She's not a game-show host; she's an actor and it shows. She's acting the part of game-show host and she's not that good an actor. It has nothing to do with her sex. She's awkward, doesn't really KNOW

zapper
zapper

as an "older person" - about 60 - who was involved in the modern primitives body art movement back in the late 80s/early 90s, I have to ask you to consider apologizing for your statement as fact that 

saber5055
saber5055

Hoping Friday has the category "Last Day On The Job."

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MrAtoz

MrAtoz

15 hours ago, Driad said:

"Good Samaritan" is often used to mean "any helpful person" but the way I learned the story, Samaritans were discriminated against. My teacher compared the story to a Black person in the southern U.S. helping an injured white sheriff.

Not just discriminated against, but very hated.  My minister has said that if you want to know how that story would have landed to Jesus's listeners, imagine it as "the good Islamic fundamentalist."

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PBnJay

PBnJay

11 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

Not a good night here, but I did get terrier. Shout out to @saber5055

She thanks you @MINDTHINKR. She got a laugh that they showed a Bedlington, which almost no one has even heard of much less know it's a terrier. And again, it was in a pet clip. If anyone remembers sometime back, a Miniature Pinscher video was shown and the breed name for a "Min Pin" was a TS. The video was of a dog owned by a friend of @saber5055's, and THAT time it was a real and lovely show dog. And still a TS!

4 minutes ago, dgpolo said:

I did get FJ because of the rhyme.

I got FJ and didn't even notice the rhyme until reading about it here! Duh!

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Bastet

Bastet

Boy, that was all Mattea's game in DJ.

The carbon TS to start the game was a doozy.  I was a bit surprised no one guessed Serengeti, but carbon was shocking.

I just had an okay first round; I only ran names and - to my great surprise as I'd only seen one show - reality TV.  I got all but one in NASA and hundreds, but missed two each in the others.

In DJ, I ran currencies and movies, but missed two each in everything else other than fictional places, in which I missed three.

I am absolutely terrible at battle names, but got FJ thanks to the rhyme.

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WaitForMe

WaitForMe

On 5/3/2022 at 3:10 PM, bankerchick said:

It's not the strategy.  It's the exaggerated sigh, the mumbled 'I guess I'll take football' and the expectation that this will be treated as endearing (which I have to admit, it does appear to be to many here.)  It bugged me that I skipped a few episodes specifically because of her, so I thought I would try again last night and immediately had to listen to Ken recap all her boring stories and watch her reluctantly select the football category so by the time she got the Daily Double, I was out again.  Having said all that, I am clearly in the minority here so I guess I'll just shut up and put Jeopardy out of my mind until such time as she's gone or I find something else permanent to do at 7:30 each weeknight.

I agree with you!!  I watch until she’s ahead and then that’s all I can stand. I just hope she wins enough to buy her house very, very soon. Then I’ll start watching Jeopardy again. Until then I guess I’ll pass. 

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proserpina65

proserpina65

17 hours ago, Katy M said:

I got the missed clues of carbon, mirror, Stuyvesant, Artemis, euro, and Serengetti (sp?)

I did pretty well, although I did say Peter Minuet, not Stuyvesant.  Got the rest though.  I was surprised none of them got Artemis.

9 minutes ago, zapper said:

I remember all the hate/love/hate/love discussions during Matt's run (anyone remember the "Matt Imodium" jokes?)

I think, that at the end of the day, people just don't long runs of champions and want the 5 game limit to return.

This is part of it for me.  Although I'd problem put the limit at 10 rather than 5.  And I do make exceptions for champions I really like.

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Katy M

Katy M

24 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

This is part of it for me.  Although I'd problem put the limit at 10 rather than 5.  And I do make exceptions for champions I really like.

I would be OK with anything between 10 to 15.  Maybe even 20.  That's more than most long-terms go anyway, but at least you would *know* that it was coming to an end.

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Bastet

Bastet

Archive game for me.

The privileged TS surprised me a bit; obviously as an attorney I am biased, but I would think courtroom dramas on TV made that something at least one contestant would know (spousal privilege is a favored plot device, and attorney-client privilege gets referenced a good deal [often incorrectly]), with the "P" spotted.  Alpha Centauri surprised me a little bit, too; it seems like that gets asked about a fair bit.

This is the first time Mattea has not been in the lead heading into FJ, right?  She's lucky Sarah didn't know it; if she had, with her wager, she'd have won.

Poor T.J.'s coryat score was -$3600.  Ouch.

Speaking of ouch, I blew the art category entirely, and doubt very much being able to see the paintings in two of the clues would have changed that.  I missed two each in sports and wars.  I ran the other three categories in the first round (giving myself credit for pie chart, knowing I'd certainly recognize that, and for Wil Wheaton, whom I'm pretty sure I'd have recognized).

In DJ, I only ran trust and IT, but I got all but one in everything else other than Pulitzer winners, where I missed three.

FJ was an instaget.

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catrice2

catrice2

5 hours ago, zapper said:

I remember all the hate/love/hate/love discussions during Matt's run (anyone remember the "Matt Imodium" jokes?)

I think, that at the end of the day, people just don't long runs of champions and want the 5 game limit to return.

This right here is why I side eye the "ken was the best."  He was the best under he current rules.  Who really knows who was the best to play the game?  All things were not the same. Back then they did not have this high dollar tournaments and people were limited to 5 days.  This is why in sports I also side eye the GOAT (an acronym I have come to dislike) debates when equipment is different, rules are different, even the way and access they have to take care of their bodies is different.  In general I don't like comparing people that way but I hate how everyone pretends that some of the whiny NBA  players could have made it back in day when every scratch was not ruled a foul and you didn't have all the flopping and acting.

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853fisher

853fisher

Ah, poor Sarah!  If she had decided to take a wild guess in the last few seconds, it's not inconceivable she might have landed on the correct answer, sine it's one of "the" movies on every list she might have studied, even if she hadn't ever seen it.  I'm not unhappy to see Mattea continue (I think my friend could beat her tomorrow!), but what a finish it would have been for Sarah to pluck a win from thin air. 

3 minutes ago, Bastet said:

The privileged TS surprised me a bit; obviously as an attorney I am biased, but I would think courtroom dramas on TV made that something at least one contestant would know (spousal privilege is a favored plot device, and attorney-client privilege gets referenced a good deal [often incorrectly]), with the "P" spotted.

I thought that too.  I also recall several mentions of various types of legal privilege in the news recently WRT the workings of our government.

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Katy M

Katy M

34 minutes ago, Bastet said:

The privileged TS surprised me a bit; obviously as an attorney I am biased, but I would think courtroom dramas on TV made that something at least one contestant would know (spousal privilege is a favored plot device, and attorney-client privilege gets referenced a good deal [often incorrectly]), with the "P" spotted.  Alpha Centauri surprised me a little bit, too; it seems like that gets asked about a fair bit.

I knew both when I heard them but I couldn't think of them.  I think I'd pretty muchjust given up by the time we got to Alpha Centauri.

Browncoat

Browncoat

I've never seen Citizen Kane either, but took a guess.  It's a well-known movie, and considered by many to be the bestest movie evah! (no idea, since I haven't seen it!), so I figured why not guess that one.  Yay, me.

The only TS I wrote down were Spirit of '76, and Rubens.  I got distracted by something shiny in the middle of the show.

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SomeTameGazelle

SomeTameGazelle

1 hour ago, Katy M said:

I had no idea for FJ. I said Genghis Khan, which of course meant no sense.  What i really waned to say was Xanadu.  

I got the missed clues of Austria and Rhine.

Bad night.

My dumb FJ answer was Gunga Din, I assume on the theory that one poem is pretty much like another. I have seen bits and pieces of Citizen Kane but I have never watched it attentively.

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shapeshifter

shapeshifter

Since I share with Mattea the seeming necessity of using vocalizations and hand gestures to trigger thought processes to locate data stored in my gray matter, I must always forgive her these tics, even when I too find them a little irritating, along with my attending feelings of empathetic embarrassment. 
Today that paid off for me with a big vicarious thrill at her surprise win against seeming unbeatable odds. Yeah! We won!

That said, I would have been very happy to have Sarah Snider, a middle school humanities teacher, as the new champ, and would have enjoyed seeing her break records too. It could have been fun to hear Ken make punny Dad jokes based on her last name being almost the same as JeopardyAmy's. 
And, Sarah, I feel a variation of your humiliation in that I can't even remember if I've seen Citizen Kane. Fortunately, I will also quickly forget this humiliation. 

My wrong guess for FJ was The King and I, which apparently isn't too bad, given that Xanadu is "also known as Zanadu or Shengdu, is a mythical place that is rooted in an actual area of Inner Mongolia" (languagehumanities.org/what-is-xanadu.htm). 
I'm not sure how my mind or memory works these days. 
But @Prevailing Wind, I do recall watching Lost Horizon on a tiny kitchen TV about 10 years ago, and I think that wasn't a bad guess either.

Wednesday I did get Antietam for FJ because of the rhyme, which is probably a good memory trigger (thanks, Jeopardy! clue writers!) for most people? Or is that only for those whose first language is culturally Western?
I also got the Wednesday TSs of carbon and The 900s (only the last 17 years of my librarian career was in academia with the Library of Congress classification numbering system; before that it was all Dewey Decimal).

 

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bad things are bad

bad things are bad

I was sure Mattea was gone, but when I saw Sarah's face during FJ, it was clear she had no clue.

I thought it was a super easy FJ, figuring anyone who got on the show would have some familiarity with Citizen Kane. We covered it in my film class in college and it gave me quite an appreciation for its place in cinematic history 

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Katy M

Katy M

10 hours ago, dgpolo said:

Xanadu was in the clue, hey, that rhymes! I knew Kane's mansion was called Xanadu so I got that FJ.

I knew it was in the clue (which also rhymes).  It's why I couldn't get it out of my head.  But, I didn't know that Kane's mansion was called anything and that would probably be the last movie I would have guessed.

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ABay

ABay

I could hear the OTT newsreader saying "In Xanadu..." It's a shame Citizen Kane doesn't run on TV like Casablanca or The Wizard of Oz so more people would see it. I didn't see it until I was in college, even though by then it was available on VHS, because it was a classic and therefore had to be dull. But it's not, it's really quite fun and clips along nicely.

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Kimmmmmm

Kimmmmmm

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20 hours ago, zapper said:

I remember all the hate/love/hate/love discussions during Matt's run (anyone remember the "Matt Imodium" jokes?)

I think, that at the end of the day, people just don't long runs of champions and want the 5 game limit to return.

I don't... enjoyed Matt, Amy and James during their runs. But just want Mattea and her posturing gone, along with Ken's slobbering.

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Shermie

Shermie

Yay for Mattea for pulling back from the brink. I think she’s ready to go at this point, based on her casual “oh well” attitude. She’s already broken records with her run, and she’ll be back in the tournament of champions. 

I’ve tried to watch Citizen Kane, but no. I find a lot of old movies are just too hokey for me. The acting is so stilted; often I think “this won a best acting Oscar?” when I’m watching a classic. Plus, I think everybody knows the secret of CK by now, so it wouldn’t have the big surprise at the end anymore.

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zapper

zapper

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Something that gets comments is the characterized slobbering/fawning/summarizing over the current champ which occurs at the beginning of episodes. I don't think it has as much to do with a champion idolization but that it is more of what I call the "Previously of Jeopardy!" segment. I noticed it way back at the beginning of the season, perhaps before Matt's run.

The problem I see, is that this "previously on Jeopardy!" segment is strained as it tries to find interesting summations of ever increasing runs. I imagine there is a similar challenge in finding tidbits for interview number infinity+1 with a champion ("and then when I was six, I ate a spark plug" - "gee, that must have given you a charge" - pause for laughter).

So I don't see the problem as being champ worship, I see the problem being the whole 2 or 3 minute segment for "previously on Jeopardy!"

Back in the day, Alex would give a one-sentence welcome/summary and off we'd go.

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Katy M

Katy M

2 minutes ago, zapper said:

Something that gets comments is the characterized slobbering/fawning/summarizing over the current champ which occurs at the beginning of episodes. I don't think it has as much to do with a champion idolization but that it is more of what I call the "Previously of Jeopardy!" segment. I noticed it way back at the beginning of the season, perhaps before Matt's run.

The problem I see, is that this "previously on Jeopardy!" segment is strained as it tries to find interesting summations of ever increasing runs. I imagine there is a similar challenge in finding tidbits for interview number infinity+1 with a champion ("and then when I was six, I ate a spark plug" - "gee, that must have given you a charge" - pause for laughter).

So I don't see the problem as being champ worship, I see the problem being the whole 2 or 3 minute segment for "previously on Jeopardy!"

Back in the day, Alex would give a one-sentence welcome/summary and off we'd go.

I agree. Unless something truly interesting happened the game before, there's no need to mention it.  Like a 3 way tie, they all bet it all and up at zero, that would be worth commenting on, while at the same time explaining why there's no returning champ.

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