Jeopardy! Season 38 (2021-2022)

[853fisher]

Just to be cute, I said "Checking In" for Marla Gibbs.  That spinoff, with Florence as the housekeeper at a fancy hotel, lasted only 4 episodes in April 1981.  After it failed, Florence reappeared on "The Jeffersons" and it was said the hotel had burned down.  You know the show was a stinker when they had to kill it with fire.

I know nobody's come here to read my memoirs, but I had another fun recollection from Hatshepsut, who I first learned about from a Carmen Sandiego video game.  I think VILE's henchmen stole the Book of the Dead and I had to get it back with the help of ACME's operative Ann Tickwittee.  Kids today don't know what they're missing. ;)

They were definitely tough boards tonight for me as well as the contestants.  I thought Judiciary / Judicial Committee was just a bit evil to include, but fair's fair, Lucian picked the wrong one.  A win from the "fourth podium" would definitely have been possible today, for someone, but not for me the way I was playing.

[GreekGeek]

50 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

There were a LOT of Triple Stumpers!

IKR? I didn't bother writing them all down, but I did wonder if that was the lowest runaway score with the present day dollar amounts.

I was surprised by how many found FJ difficult. It was an instaget for me, but then I'm a faithful reader of MeTV's website. I find the evolution of the Addams characters interesting. I know they didn't even have names originally, but I wonder if they were imagined as a family before the TV series. Wikipedia has some answers. I did not know they were originally illustrations for a Ray Bradbury book!

[853fisher]

Christine shared on Reddit, very good-humoredly, that she doesn't recall seeing the photo of Madam C.J. Walker in the studio and would never have guessed "Mary Kay Ash" if she had!  That one had me giggling a bit.

I didn't love the recap.  That tiebreaker didn't really strike me as so "thrilling" that we needed to see it again.  They've been doing more of that kind of thing at the beginning and it's just a bit sport-y for me.  Not the end of the world but I could do without it.

I also think, while Ken often displays a gift for repartee, his response to some stories that offer a bit less potential for wit can seem disengaged.  "Shoutout to Northern Lights show choir," while looking down at his cards getting ready for the next story and sounding supremely bored, is a good example of what I mean.  Nobody's perfect!

[ams1001]

54 minutes ago, 853fisher said:

I didn't love the recap.  That tiebreaker didn't really strike me as so "thrilling" that we needed to see it again.  They've been doing more of that kind of thing at the beginning and it's just a bit sport-y for me.  Not the end of the world but I could do without it.

Yeah, I don't really need previouslies for Jeopardy.

[853fisher]

19 minutes ago, GreekGeek said:

I was surprised by how many found FJ difficult. It was an instaget for me, but then I'm a faithful reader of MeTV's website. I find the evolution of the Addams characters interesting. I know they didn't even have names originally, but I wonder if they were imagined as a family before the TV series. Wikipedia has some answers. I did not know they were originally illustrations for a Ray Bradbury book!

I was a bit surprised too.  I wonder whether one or more of the media mentioned threw anybody off.  The Broadway show, for instance, doesn't seem to have left much of a mark, although it ran almost two years.  It wasn't the best musical I ever saw but we enjoyed it plenty.  It was my chance to see Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth and this is the big showstopper I still vaguely remember.

[dgpolo]

6 minutes ago, 853fisher said:

I wonder whether one or more of the media mentioned threw anybody off.  The Broadway show, for instance, doesn't seem to have left much of a mark, although it ran almost two years. 

I guessed right but I was verrry iffy about it because I did not know they had been on Broadway.

Loved podium 3's necklace.

[Mindthinkr]

I try to keep my game on a piece of paper. I just added them up and counted 17 TS’s. Of them I got Baton Rouge, Lincoln, linebacker, Pasternak, the missed DD of Maria Theresa, The Jefferson’s, and hull. I said the Flintstones for FJ. Ah well lol. 

[zoey1996]

2 hours ago, Katy M said:

I said the Bumsteads for FJ.

As did I. They debuted in 1930, and I knew they’d had movies.

[Bastet]

Yikes; with all those TS, I thought I was watching a National College Championship game.  I cannot believe no one could manage to add 100 to 1776!  Ken's "The centennial was 1876" would have been much more snarky coming out of Alex's mouth.  But, even though there were so many TS (17!!), I didn't find too many of them surprising.

I could have sworn Valentina Tereshkova was a somewhat recent response and was a TS (like today), but checking the archive the most recent was two years ago and was not a TS.  So I had that all wrong (my memory, that is; I knew the clue, as her name is readily accessible to me thanks to an episode of Designing Women [in which knowing the first woman in space in a game of Trivial Pursuit was part of a great scene]).

I ran all the first round categories other than books, in which I missed three.  In DJ, I ran four categories, but was pretty terrible in the other two, missing three in constellations and four in lit (I'd have blown it completely, except Octavia Butler = sci-fi is something I learned from J! and discussion here of another episode; it stuck in my brain and I got that one, so thanks, all).

FJ took me a while, as I had no idea it had started as a cartoon or that early, so was just running through families that might fit based on the rest of the clue, but I settled on it as a guess just in time.

[Grundoon59]

I always try to remember that the players have accomplished more than I have just by getting there and that I have no idea what I would do if I really had no clue for FJ.  But Geez Louise, saying the Von Trapps were a fictional family made me want to throw something at my television set.  Maybe it is because I got to stay at their lodge in Stowe as a kid and meet Maria but that answer made me insane for a minute or two.  I apologize to anyone in the metro Detroit area who may have been disconcerted by my overly loud ranting.

[possibilities]

7 hours ago, chitowngirl said:

There were a LOT of Triple Stumpers!

And yet they did clear the board. I was expecting all those long silences to mean running out of time and many clues left unrevealed.

Edited February 25, 2022 by possibilities
typo

[Cotypubby]

Woohoo I managed to pull the correct FJ response from my brain within the 30 seconds! Funny I actually got it by thinking “what families in Broadway shows were in other media as well?” and got it because the Addams Family musical was recent enough.

And I am pleased with myself for remembering Valentina Tereshkova right before Ken gave the answer.

[30 Helens]

Christine, on playing violin for llamas: “They walked away, but they didn’t spit.”

Ken: “That’s kind of how I react to classical music!”

This had me rolling. Please, please, Jeopardy, hire Ken full time. You’re fools if you don’t. And be warned, I have no problem spitting on you.

I had a good day. Probably because a high percentage of the clues were vocabulary-based, which is my strong point (as opposed to geography, which is not.) I even ran a few categories, including 1970s TV, which I refuse to explain why.

4 hours ago, 853fisher said:

Christine shared on Reddit, very good-humoredly, that she doesn't recall seeing the photo of Madam C.J. Walker in the studio and would never have guessed "Mary Kay Ash" if she had!  That one had me giggling a bit.

I found that hilarious, perhaps because I live in Dallas and am very well aware of who Mary Kay Ash was and what she looked like. (Not like that!) I’m glad Christine is self-aware enough to poke a little fun at herself.

5 hours ago, Browncoat said:

I can't believe I missed FJ tonight.  I just couldn't get my brain engaged, but I knew it would be so obvious after I saw the correct response.  Indeed, it was.  I said the Flintstones, but knew it was so incredibly, horribly wrong wrong wrong.

Ha- me too! And also knew it was wrong wrong, but couldn’t think of anything else. The Addams Family made so much sense after I saw it, though.

[bad things are bad]

I got FJ from the combination of the New Yorker and TV show.  But we also had just attended a local production of the Addams Family musical,  so that sealed the deal. Didn't realize it had been on Broadway,  though. 

That game was a bit of a dud

[Prevailing Wind]

8 hours ago, Bastet said:

I could have sworn Valentina Tereshkova was a somewhat recent response and was a TS (like today), but checking the archive the most recent was two years ago and was not a TS. 

I felt that, too. This time, I came closer to getting her last name right, but the other time I totally did not know it.

I thought FJ was fairly easy - "The New Yorker" gave it away to my mind.

[DrSpaceman73]

7 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I felt that, too. This time, I came closer to getting her last name right, but the other time I totally did not know it.

I thought FJ was fairly easy - "The New Yorker" gave it away to my mind.

Really?  I got FJ but I never knew it started out in the new Yorker. 

[Katy M]

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I felt that, too. This time, I came closer to getting her last name right, but the other time I totally did not know it.

Ha, ha. You shoul dhave heard what I said. I think it was something like Tershkevoya.  I mean, come on, that was a good try.  

[Clanstarling]

11 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Yeah, I don't really need previouslies for Jeopardy.

Since our broadcast was interrupted  by a special news report, I appreciated the recap of the tie breaker. How fortuitous that they did that back in December (?) for those of us who were impacted by the news report.

I had an okay game, but I did run The 70's show, which was the heyday of my teens and early 20s. I'd have been embarrassed if I'd missed any of them.

I got as far as "ova" for the first woman in space. 😂

Had absolutely no clue about the Addams Family - though maybe tucked deep inside there was something, because the Munsters came to mind (though I was absolutely sure it wasn't them.) I vaguely knew there was a movie - had no idea there was a musical. Oh well.

[Trey]

11 hours ago, Bastet said:

I could have sworn Valentina Tereshkova was a somewhat recent response and was a TS (like today), but checking the archive the most recent was two years ago and was not a TS.

I thought that too, and think it was within the last few months.  I even commented on it to my son.  However, I didn't get it last time or last night.

I didn't realize there were so many ts's.  I didn't write mine down but know I got quite a few of them.

FJ was not an instaget but I got it pretty quickly.  I was pretty sure it was a cartoon (not the animated kind) first before it was a tv show.

Edited February 25, 2022 by Trey

[M. Darcy]

So many TS that they should have gotten.

I would have been deeply upset if  no one had done the snaps when the answer for FJ was revealed.  And, yes, I did them at home :-) 

[Trey]

2 minutes ago, M. Darcy said:

I would have been deeply upset if  no one had done the snaps when the answer for FJ was revealed.  And, yes, I did them at home :-)

I really liked that Ken did the finger snaps!

[dgpolo]

 

11 hours ago, Bastet said:

I could have sworn Valentina Tereshkova was a somewhat recent response and was a TS (like today), but checking the archive the most recent was two years ago and was not a TS. 

On 6/23/21, so only 8 months ago, this was the final Jeopardy clue in Famous Women: In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin

One person, Sandy got it right and won.

[Welshman in Ca]

I almost talked myself out of the Addams family as I couldn't remember there being a Broadway show but stuck with it as I couldn't even come up with anything else so yay me.

[Browncoat]

4 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I felt that, too. This time, I came closer to getting her last name right, but the other time I totally did not know it.

My response to that clue was, "Oh crap, it's that Russian woman whose name I never can remember."

[proserpina65]

18 hours ago, Katy M said:

I said the Bumsteads for FJ.

I got the missed clues of ethics, 1876, 1916, Edgar Allen Poe, Maria Teresa, even keel, and The Jeffersons.

I got the entire categories of inner ear and '70s TV right.

I thought of the Bumsteads but did manage to come up with the Addams Family just in time.  I got a lot of the TS clues but somehow managed to miss both even keel and bulkheads, which made me feel very ashamed as Nautical Lingo should've been a great category for me.

17 hours ago, GreekGeek said:

I was surprised by how many found FJ difficult.

I think maybe a lot of people were thrown off by it starting in the New Yorker.  That part of the clue was why it took me so long to figure it out, because I did not know that.

18 hours ago, 853fisher said:

I know nobody's come here to read my memoirs, but I had another fun recollection from Hatshepsut, who I first learned about from a Carmen Sandiego video game.

I first learned about Hatshepsut from an Isis comic book I had back in the 70s.  Not sure how many I had, but I wish I still did because they're worth about $20 each in good condition.

[Bastet]

4 hours ago, dgpolo said:

On 6/23/21, so only 8 months ago, this was the final Jeopardy clue in Famous Women: In 1983, 20 years after her famous first, she was honored on a one-ruble coin

I'm glad to know my sense of time was not completely off; I knew it was fairly recent, but my archive search didn't show anything between two years ago and now.  Looking today, I see that's because the results are for first round, DJ, or tie-breaker clues; FJ clues aren't included.  So that explains the discrepancy.

[proserpina65]

16 hours ago, 853fisher said:

The Broadway show, for instance, doesn't seem to have left much of a mark, although it ran almost two years.

I had no idea it ever existed, so yeah, that probably didn't help.

15 hours ago, Bastet said:

I could have sworn Valentina Tereshkova was a somewhat recent response and was a TS (like today),

I always feel sad when she's a TS.  She really is an amazing woman.  Her trip in 1963 lasted longer than all of the Americans who'd been to space by that time, and she orbited the earth 48 times.

 

[Prevailing Wind]

I have no problem remembering her name is Valentina. It's the last name that always throws me.

[dgpolo]

 

32 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I'm glad to know my sense of time was not completely off; I knew it was fairly recent, but my archive search didn't show anything between two years ago and now.  Looking today, I see that's because the results are for first round, DJ, or tie-breaker clues; FJ clues aren't included.  So that explains the discrepancy.

I didn't find it using the archive search either, but when you google j archive it comes up as a hit with a search window, when I put her name in that window I got some hits and looked for the most recent (aside from yesterday) then I took that date to the archive and looked for it in that game. I'm anal like that.

 

35 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

I think maybe a lot of people were thrown off by it starting in the New Yorker.  That part of the clue was why it took me so long to figure it out, because I did not know that.

Actually the New Yorker was the only reason I got it. I knew it started there, I had no idea about Broadway.

[ams1001]

Ran Kinds of Care and How Pungent….failed Geography completely. TS were soybeans and Nancy Reagan. No FJ. I'm glad this week is over...

[Katy M]

FJ was an instaget.

I got the missed clues of soybeans, Iowa City (after Des Moines), Nancy Reagan, and Herbert Hoover.

I go tthe entire category of First Ladies right.

Not a great night

[Browncoat]

Instaget FJ for me tonight, although I really thought I was wrong.  But I couldn't think of anything else that fit, so I stuck with it.

I also got the TS of Columbus, Hamlet, soybeans, and Nancy Reagan.  Assuming they would have counted me correct for Nancy Reagan instead of Nancy Davis.

[possibilities]

Amy's engaged:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/trans-jeopardy-champion-amy-schneider-just-got-engaged/

Article shows off Amy's smile and both women's rings.

--

I got off to a bad start tonight, but did better in DJ. 

I knew FJ would either be the Hugos or the Nebulas, and was glad I didn't have to actually pick between them.

[Prevailing Wind]

Good for Amy!!

 

[BuckeyeLou]

55 minutes ago, possibilities said:

Amy's engaged:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/02/trans-jeopardy-champion-amy-schneider-just-got-engaged/

Article shows off Amy's smile and both women's rings.

--

I got off to a bad start tonight, but did better in DJ. 

I knew FJ would either be the Hugos or the Nebulas, and was glad I didn't have to actually pick between them.

Congrats to Amy & her fiancee!  I notice their nail polish is the Ukraine colors...

[secnarf]

7 hours ago, Bastet said:

I'm glad to know my sense of time was not completely off; I knew it was fairly recent, but my archive search didn't show anything between two years ago and now.  Looking today, I see that's because the results are for first round, DJ, or tie-breaker clues; FJ clues aren't included.  So that explains the discrepancy.

The FJ clues are at the bottom. There were a couple of other more recent clues also outside of FJ.

Not that I have managed to remember her name any of the times she has come up, but at least now I know who they are referring to!

[Bastet]

Jeez, writers, can you please not give any publicity to the pseudoscience cesspool that is Goop?

I ran geography, care, and commodities, and only missed one in words.  But I stank up the joint in the other two first round categories, missing three each.

In DJ, I only ran verbs, but I still did well (thanks to cultural osmosis when it comes to the TV catchphrases category, since I only missed one despite not watching any of the shows) - except in empires, where I missed all but one. 

I had no idea on FJ, though.  I know I've learned about the Hugo Awards on this show before (sci-fi is not my jam, so J! is my only exposure to them), but for some reason it doesn't stick.

Edited February 26, 2022 by Bastet

[SoMuchTV]

4 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I had no idea on FJ, though.  I know I've learned about the Hugo Awards on this show before, but for some reason it doesn't stick.

Same here. The word “retro” in the clue sent me down some unhelpful paths. Ken clarified that it meant retroactive but I don’t think that would have helped. 

[Driad]

The Hugo Awards.  Everyone who is a member of a World Science Fiction Convention is eligible to nominate and vote.  If you like to read SF, the list of finalists has good examples of current (and some older) works considered to be worthwhile.

[Browncoat]

7 hours ago, Bastet said:

Jeez, writers, can you please not give any publicity to the pseudoscience cesspool that is Goop?

I rolled my eyes so hard at that clue that I almost missed the next clue.

[Mindthinkr]

   I didn’t get to the game until late last night as I had both Mahjong (I won one with a particularly hard combination of tiles) and cards yesterday. I think my brain wanted a rest from thinking. I did get Managed Care, battery and the FJ of the Hugo Awards. It was a guess I blurted out, but it counts. 
  My best wishes to Amy and her fiancé. 

[DrSpaceman73]

I know the hugo awards but did think of it. Best I could come up with was the grammys. 

[Clanstarling]

I didn't have a particularly great game, though I almost ran First Ladies, TV Catch Phrases, Shakespeare, and Colorful words. Hmmm, maybe I had a better game than I thought... (well, that was balanced by a few categories where I didn't get a single clue - so maybe it wasn't a particularly great game after all)

Got the Hugos, sci-fi is my jam (one of many).

[Cotypubby]

Ken: “It’s easy to remember because Nubia was known as Kush.”

…what? 🧐 Why is that easy to remember? The only thing I think of with the word “kush” is pot.

[Welshman in Ca]

3 minutes ago, Cotypubby said:

Ken: “It’s easy to remember because Nubia was known as Kush.”

…what? 🧐 Why is that easy to remember? The only thing I think of with the word “kush” is pot.

My first thought was "what does weed have to do with it?".

[ams1001]

15 minutes ago, Cotypubby said:

Ken: “It’s easy to remember because Nubia was known as Kush.”

…what? 🧐 Why is that easy to remember? The only thing I think of with the word “kush” is pot.

I didn't get it because the "easy job" word is cushy, not kush, and yeah, the first thing that comes to mind when I hear the word kush is not a former name of a country (although I did know that somewhere in the recesses of my mind, I didn't know which current country it was so I wouldn't have come up with it.

[SHD]

I can't help but think of Rachel Harris every time I see Christine!

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, Cotypubby said:

Ken: “It’s easy to remember because Nubia was known as Kush.”

…what? 🧐 Why is that easy to remember? The only thing I think of with the word “kush” is pot.

And maybe that's exactly what he meant. I think I'll remember it more easily now that it has a more current reference point. 😉

Edited February 26, 2022 by Clanstarling

[possibilities]

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

Jeez, writers, can you please not give any publicity to the pseudoscience cesspool that is Goop?

I bet that was paid product placement. I was still annoyed, though. I mean "self-care" isn't exactly a concept exclusive to goop. There was no reason whatsoever to associate the two for the game, other than if goop paid for them to do it.

[Prevailing Wind]

6 minutes ago, possibilities said:

I bet that was paid product placement. I was still annoyed, though. I mean "self-care" isn't exactly a concept exclusive to goop. There was no reason whatsoever to associate the two for the game, other than if goop paid for them to do it.

...or one or more writers have a crush on Paltrow for god only knows what reason.