Jeopardy! Season 38 (2021-2022)

[ams1001]

3 hours ago, graybrown bird said:

From my long-ago Sunday School lessons, I remembered Sodom and Gomorrhah as a matched set  -- so hesitated to answer FJ with just one of the two.  Couldn't think of any other Biblical city that fit, though, so answered "Sodom."  A weird clue.

Yeah, I had the same thoughts, but I went with Sodom mostly because it's always listed first.

2 hours ago, Ailianna said:

I dislike the pregame recap of the last game, I dislike the longer interview segments, but I really dislike the scoring comments. Do I need her to tell me the scores when they are right there on the screen heading into the commercial break between the J! round and DJ! round? And I really don't need to hear her say it was such a "competitive" game when there are at least $6000 between each player and the next. It comes off as fake and condescending to me. 

Same. I don't need a "previously on" for Jeopardy, nor do I need to know who's in the lead at all times. The other thing she's done at least a couple times this week was using the contestant's name for no reason (after a DD, "That's correct, Leigh!"). I hate it when people use my name like that.

1 hour ago, Clanstarling said:

Got all the Jacksons except for the Olympian, and was sad to see no one knew Glenda.

I didn't know who she was, I was just going by what she was wearing; it seemed like the kind of tight bodysuit speed skaters wear. 

[ams1001]

Was just idly scrolling through the reddit thread for Friday's game and someone posted this:

Quote

I was wondering why Robert looks so familiar. Turns out I follow him on YouTube, where he does the NYT crossword every day. Check him out here: Robert vs the NYTXW

https://www.youtube.com/c/CrosswordRobert/videos

The puzzle he created ran on June 14.

https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=6/14/2022

[Mindthinkr]

On 7/9/2022 at 8:43 AM, shapeshifter said:

Perhaps Sodom is more well known than Gomorrah because it is easier to spell? 🙃

So of course I’d choose the latter word remembering that spelling doesn’t always count in FJ. 😂

I did get Edinburgh, YSL, Alan Jackson, Glenda and Jackson. 

Edited July 11, 2022 by Mindthinkr
Spelling as per Browncoat.

[PBnJay]

27 minutes ago, Mindthinkr said:

I did get Edinburg, YSL, Alan Jackson, Glenda and Jackson. 

This reminds me that I think a Country Singer category would rock, and end up being five triple stumpers like that famous Football category a while back. No one recognized Chris Stapleton and no one knew Alan Jackson yesterday. There are a ton of fun clues that could be written for that category. Keb' Mo' was recently mentioned here; he would make an excellent clue as well.

[ECM1231]

5 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

and was sad to see no one knew Glenda.

✋I recognized her from the cinema, although I had no idea she was involved in politics.

[Leeds]

3 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Same. I don't need a "previously on" for Jeopardy, nor do I need to know who's in the lead at all times. 

It's necessary filler because the amount of time actually spent asking and answering questions is negligible compared to the half hour TV time slot.  Presumably some study has shown that this is what the target demographic wants.  It's also one of the reasons I only watch sporadically - I'd much prefer the show if they actually just concentrated on the trivia.

[Browncoat]

2 hours ago, Mindthinkr said:

So of course I’d choose the latter word remembering that spelling doesn’t always count in FJ. 😂

I did get Edinburg, YSL, Alan Jackson, Glenda and Jackson. 

I’m going to pick a nit — it’s Edinburgh, with an h.

[ECM1231]

Mr. ECM usually reads the newspaper while I watch Jeopardy, but last night he was in an exceptionally chatty mood, for some reason, and I didn't have the heart to shush him. Especially since he's been working hard repairing the a/c in my vehicle. 

Besides YouTube, where can I find the game online? I see Archive game mentioned a lot, where can I find this? TIA

I was glad to see one of the contestants answered FJ incorrectly like me. I said Babel. 😂

Edited July 9, 2022 by ECM1231

[ams1001]

16 minutes ago, ECM1231 said:

Besides YouTube, where can I find the game online? I see Archive game mentioned a lot, where can I find this? TIA

Tha archive is here:

https://www.j-archive.com/

Click on the current season and it'll take you to the game list.

Or this link will take you to the categories for the most recent game:

https://www.j-archive.com/showrecentcategories.php

Click on the show date at the top and it'll take you to the full game. Hover over the dollar amount for the clue in the grid to reveal the answer (or tap it if you're on mobile). (Unfortunately you can't see images/videos in clues.)

Edited July 9, 2022 by ams1001

[ECM1231]

13 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

Tha archive is here:

https://www.j-archive.com/

Click on the current season and it'll take you to the game list.

Or this link will take you to the categories for the most recent game:

https://www.j-archive.com/showrecentcategories.php

Click on the show date at the top and it'll take you to the full game. Hover over the dollar amount for the clue in the grid to reveal the answer (or tap it if you're on mobile). (Unfortunately you can't see images/videos in clues.)

Thanks so much!

[dcalley]

Speaking of J! Archive, it says July 7 was "Jimmy McGuire's last game as a member of the Clue Crew."

[Prevailing Wind]

8 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Perhaps Sodom is more well known than Gomorrah because it is easier to spell? 🙃

And it has a so-called sin named after it.  Although, I have a friend who used to think gonorrhea was named after Gomorrah.

[Trey]

13 minutes ago, dcalley said:

Speaking of J! Archive, it says July 7 was "Jimmy McGuire's last game as a member of the Clue Crew."

I found this:

Clue Crew

Very little actual news but info and conjecture can be found in the comments.

I didn't find any sort of official announcement.

Too bad nothing was announced on air.

Edited July 9, 2022 by Trey

[ams1001]

43 minutes ago, Trey said:

I found this:

Clue Crew

Very little actual news but info and conjecture can be found in the comments.

I didn't find any sort of official announcement.

Too bad nothing was announced on air.

He's still stage manager, as far as I can tell...

edit: J! wiki says Clue Crew from 2001-2022 and became Stage Manager in season 38 after the previous SM retired.

https://jeopardyhistory.fandom.com/wiki/Jimmy_McGuire

Edited July 9, 2022 by ams1001

[MrAtoz]

Sodom and Gomorrah are always mentioned together, but if you read the whole story leading up to the destruction, Sodom is the city that's more prominent.  Lot lives in Sodom, the angels come to visit him in Sodom, it's the men of Sodom who come to Lot's house and demand that he send the angels out to them.  Lot and his family flee from Sodom when the fire and brimstone come down.  Sodom is where everything happens.  Frankly, it's weird that Gomorrah gets destroyed as well.  As far as we're told in the Bible, Gomorrah didn't do anything! 

[Montreal Meany]

Possibly the contestants were expecting Staten Island to be the bottom-row answer so when it appeared out of position, they figured bottom row must be something they'd never heard of. 

[possibilities]

Maybe I'm just too much of a local, but I'm surprised no one seemed to think of the Bronx. Even if you don't know there are 5, isn't the Bronx widely known, enough so that you'd expect it to be mentioned?

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, possibilities said:

Maybe I'm just too much of a local, but I'm surprised no one seemed to think of the Bronx. Even if you don't know there are 5, isn't the Bronx widely known, enough so that you'd expect it to be mentioned?

Well, once the answer was established as the Bronx, I smacked my head and said "of course, the BRONX" - but I didn't come up with it. I've never paid much attention to the 5 boroughs, though I am very familiar with their names (Staten Island threw me though, didn't know it was one of them.)

So the short answer is yes, I agree that it should be expected, but for me at least, I didn't even get the answer to the one borough with which I have a personal connection.

[Welshman in Ca]

2 hours ago, possibilities said:

Maybe I'm just too much of a local, but I'm surprised no one seemed to think of the Bronx. Even if you don't know there are 5, isn't the Bronx widely known, enough so that you'd expect it to be mentioned?

Yes you are.

As has been shown time & time again not everyone knows everything no matter how obvious it may be to you or I, which it wasn't in this case for me.

[proserpina65]

I started out strong on Thursday, running Borough, blank&blank, Salad Dressing & Rhyme, and getting Bronx (it was the only one left, for freak's sake!) and Winston.  And while I had no chance of running Hemingway, I could've gotten the DD if I'd said For Whom The Bell Tolls instead of A Farewell To Arms, but I always say the wrong one.

Then it went downhill in DJ.  I only ran "G"eography, although I did get Vienna and Gothenburg.

I said Scrooge for FJ.  I thought the date might be too late, but couldn't think of anything else.

Friday was better.  I ran Scandinavia, Weather, Cold War, Extinct and Jacksons, and got Edinburgh, both Alan and Glenda Jackson (I was bummed no one got her), Mary Todd Lincoln and Yves St. Laurent.  I would've run Crosswords "C" but couldn't come up with cassowary, and I misunderstood the mercury clue and thought they wanted another kind of fish, d'oh.

I said Babel for FJ.  I can never remember which book has Sodom and Gomorrah in it, and besides, I always think of them together, so since the clue only wanted one city, I didn't think it could be one of them.

[Driad]

Do you consider Yves St. Laurent to be three names?  I would count "St. Laurent" as one name.

[proserpina65]

On 7/7/2022 at 10:31 PM, Bastet said:

since "not Amy Adams, the other one" would not have counted for Isla Fisher

I said Isla Blair, which would also not count, although she is also a redhead.

[proserpina65]

On 7/8/2022 at 10:25 AM, Trey said:

My only ts was MacBeth.  I thought it very odd that the contestants didn't get it, given Duncan as the predecessor.

I should've gotten that one, but was too busy trying to think of who came after MacBeth to realize that they wanted MacBeth.  I didn't get to Malcolm in time to say that either, though.

On 7/8/2022 at 9:51 PM, SomeTameGazelle said:

The one I had doubts about was Rick and Elsa instead of Rick and Ilsa.

I questioned that as well.  It's Ilsa, but maybe pronounced Elsa?  It's been a long time since I've seen Casablanca.

On 7/8/2022 at 10:31 PM, Bastet said:

But other than that, I only missed Morbius (never even heard of it) in the first round.

I said Moebius.  Close, but no strip, alas.

On 7/9/2022 at 10:19 AM, Clanstarling said:

I said Jericho because it was the only "single" city I could think of (as opposed to Sodom and Gomorrah), but I knew it was wrong because I was pretty sure the walls didn't come tumbling down in Genesis. (as for the meteor vs an earthquake - if it wasn't a direct strike, I would assume it felt like an earthquake)

I eliminated Jericho precisely because I know Joshua got there after the Exodus from Egypt, so it was too late for Genesis.

On 7/9/2022 at 10:19 AM, Clanstarling said:

True, but without the knowledge about the study, you're left to simply pick and choose one of the two cities. Which seems poorly designed to me.

I agree.  I think it was a poorly written clue.

On 7/9/2022 at 4:18 PM, Leeds said:

It's necessary filler because the amount of time actually spent asking and answering questions is negligible compared to the half hour TV time slot.  Presumably some study has shown that this is what the target demographic wants.  It's also one of the reasons I only watch sporadically - I'd much prefer the show if they actually just concentrated on the trivia.

This is why I often watch a recording of Jeopardy - I fast forward past pretty much everything but the game itself.

[proserpina65]

On 7/9/2022 at 5:11 PM, Prevailing Wind said:

And it has a so-called sin named after it.  Although, I have a friend who used to think gonorrhea was named after Gomorrah.

There's an early SNL sketch about the Sodom Chamber of Commerce trying to come up with a non-sodomy publicity campaign which references Gomorrah selling itself as more family friendly.  I remember thinking "but what about the gonorrhea?".  Needless to say, your friend was not alone, but in my defense, I was a kid when I saw it.

On 7/9/2022 at 8:25 PM, MrAtoz said:

Sodom and Gomorrah are always mentioned together, but if you read the whole story leading up to the destruction, Sodom is the city that's more prominent.  Lot lives in Sodom, the angels come to visit him in Sodom, it's the men of Sodom who come to Lot's house and demand that he send the angels out to them.  Lot and his family flee from Sodom when the fire and brimstone come down.  Sodom is where everything happens.  Frankly, it's weird that Gomorrah gets destroyed as well.  As far as we're told in the Bible, Gomorrah didn't do anything! 

I avoid reading the Bible like the plague.

2 hours ago, Welshman in Ca said:

Yes you are.

As has been shown time & time again not everyone knows everything no matter how obvious it may be to you or I, which it wasn't in this case for me.

Anyone who watches Law & Order should know about the Bronx.  Apparently it's quite murder-y.  Or roots for the New York Yankees.  That's pretty much how I know about it.  I tend to think most Americans SHOULD know the 5 boroughs of NYC simply from watching television; it's not particularly specialized knowledge.

[dcalley]

27 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

I questioned that as well.  It's Ilsa, but maybe pronounced Elsa?  It's been a long time since I've seen Casablanca.

I hear both, depending on who's speaking.

[Welshman in Ca]

16 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

Anyone who watches Law & Order should know about the Bronx.  Apparently it's quite murder-y.  Or roots for the New York Yankees.  That's pretty much how I know about it.  I tend to think most Americans SHOULD know the 5 boroughs of NYC simply from watching television; it's not particularly specialized knowledge.

Of course I know of the Bronx but I had no idea there were only 5 boroughs or what they were and in my defense I'm not American, so I'm sticking with that one.

[proserpina65]

5 minutes ago, Welshman in Ca said:

Of course I know of the Bronx but I had no idea there were only 5 boroughs or what they were and in my defense I'm not American, so I'm sticking with that one.

I grant you an exemption from my looking askance. 😀

[Mindthinkr]

On 7/9/2022 at 4:20 PM, Browncoat said:

I’m going to pick a nit — it’s Edinburgh, with an h.

That was my fault for not proofreading. It auto worded me and I should have corrected it to Edinburgh. Thanks for pointing that out. It made me look stupid. 

[Leeds]

1 hour ago, Mindthinkr said:

That was my fault for not proofreading. It auto worded me and I should have corrected it to Edinburgh. Thanks for pointing that out. It made me look stupid. 

As long as you don't pronounce the G I think you can be forgiven!

[PaulaO]

I said “hoes before bros” instead of “sisters before misters.”  And I was serious.

[ams1001]

Meh. Ran nothing tonight. TSes were South Dakota (DD), dead, Marquis de Sade, W. S. Burroughs. Could not come up with FJ and felt really stupid when it was revealed. Gah.

Once again...rooting for the champ, but liked new guy, too.

Might have to root for the Jersey boy tomorrow. He's not too far from me.

Edited July 11, 2022 by ams1001

[Browncoat]

I couldn't come up with FJ either.  It was so far off my radar that I'm not sure I ever would have thought of it.

And the only TS I got were "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood," Marquis de Sade, and "Saving Private Ryan."

[Katy M]

I didn't have a clue about FJ.

I got the missed clues of South Dakota, dead and Marquis de Sade.

I got the entire categories of Great Britian and familial prhases right.

Great first round, OK second round, lost FJ, ended up in the red.  Again.  I hope nobody ever comes after me for my Jeopardy losses.

[stonehaven]

I got South Dakota because the slogan was part of a tourist commercial in the 80s.

[shapeshifter]

I did get FJ, probably because the Porgy & Bess song "Summertime" is one I still sing to fussy babies or in the shower or when walking on a beach alone with waves crashing.

And also probably because, like @mertensia mentions below, it is set in the South.

BTW, I had pre-guessed Cats.

The final scores were kind of crazy pants, but I guess Steve knew the formula:
https://www.j-archive.com/wageringcalculator.php?a=23000&b=13800&c=7400&player_a=Robert&player_b=Steve&player_c=Aleithia
🤔

Edited July 12, 2022 by shapeshifter

[Prevailing Wind]

I got two right that I didn't know that I knew - I don't remember the second one, but how the hell I knew to say "Cicero" is beyond me.

[mertensia]

I got final Jeopardy because it was the only one I could think of set in the South.

[SoMuchTV]

I pre-called Evita. The mr called Porgy and Bess. So through sheer dumb luck, he gets a win. 
For what it’s worth, I pre-called Sherlock Holmes a few days ago. 

[IdEatThat]

I missed final jeopardy because my mind seized up at the mention of opera and South Carolina in the same sentence (I have family there).

[kathyk24]

I follow Jeopardy on Twitter and they said that starting next month the show will be in front of a live audience.

[possibilities]

5 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I said “hoes before bros” instead of “sisters before misters.”  And I was serious.

I really want to know more about your family, since it was a family word category... 

[South]

5 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I said “hoes before bros” instead of “sisters before misters.”  And I was serious.

As did I.

[South]

3 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I got two right that I didn't know that I knew - I don't remember the second one, but how the hell I knew to say "Cicero" is beyond me.

I felt the same!   I was snapping my fingers “ oh fuck, fuck, fuck…Cicero!”  Absolutely no idea in which dusty corner of my noggin that was lurking about.  “Thank you” to whomever the awesome middle or high school teacher was that managed to etch that into my memory. 

[Prevailing Wind]

19 minutes ago, South said:

“Thank you” to whomever the awesome middle or high school teacher was that managed to etch that into my memory. 

I can't even claim that. It must be that I learned "Cicero" from watching Jeopardy!

They showed a promo during tonight's show, showing the empty studio seats and announcing that tickets for Season 39 are now available on the website.

And I got to thinking... would Mayim be any better in front of an audience?  I hope to high heaven we don't get to find out.

[Caoimhe]

9 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I got two right that I didn't know that I knew - I don't remember the second one, but how the hell I knew to say "Cicero" is beyond me.

I knew that one!  But I’m currently re-reading Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series so…

[Trey]

Not a great game for me.  My only ts's were dead, Cicero, and Saving Private Ryan.

Porgy and Bess never entered my mind, nor did anything else.  Later in the evening I turned on my golden oldies station and there was Sam Cooke, singing a lovely rendition of Summertime. If only I'd heard that earlier.

Can we blame the Jeopardy! curse for the sequoias being in danger from forest fires?

[zoey1996]

Porgy and Bess was an insta-get for me! I lived in Charleston a few decades ago, and the setting for Catfish Row intrigued me.

[Good Queen Jane]

I got Porgy and Bess but I call foul because it is done more as an opera than as a Broadway show. The clue says "most revived show in Broadway history" so I feel that the revivals should be on Broadway not the Met.

Edited July 12, 2022 by Good Queen Jane

[Welshman in Ca]

14 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I said “hoes before bros” instead of “sisters before misters.”  And I was serious.

You were not alone in coming up with that answer.

[SoMuchTV]

9 hours ago, kathyk24 said:

I follow Jeopardy on Twitter and they said that starting next month the show will be in front of a live audience.

We also had an announcement/ad during the show airing.  I forget the exact wording but they panned the camera over the empty seats and said something like "it's not the same without you" and said something about the live audience coming back.

14 hours ago, PaulaO said:

I said “hoes before bros” instead of “sisters before misters.”  And I was serious.

9 hours ago, possibilities said:

I really want to know more about your family, since it was a family word category... 

Isn't "bros before hoes" the original version of that phrase?  And "sisters before misters" is a later version (which actually fits the clue)?  So I can see how some version of the former would come to mind.