Jeopardy! Season 39 (2022-2023)

[illdoc]

3 minutes ago, Driad said:

does "English Literature" refer to works that were written in England, or in the English language? 

I believe it means "literature by English writers" ("English", I think, also includes "Irish" and "Scottish", but I could be wrong in that regard).

1 minute ago, bankerchick said:

I missed the first 30 seconds of today's show when Ken explained why there would be no 'scary defending champions' on tonight.

He said that Ben (the returning champ) "couldn't travel this week" and "we'll have him back".

[DrSpaceman73]

One of my favorite quotes for FJ

Also they stole my idea about full house of cards. Although I'd have made it fuller house of cards. 

[ams1001]

April 17:

80% / 61% / 71%

J!: Pretty good start to the week...ran Body Language, missed one each in Texas State Symbols, In the Bookstore, Rom Coms, and Ends in Silent E, and two in Measure for Measure. 

DJ: And then it was downhill from there… in DJ I ran TV Before & After and Gods & Myths (well, the four they got to at least), missed one in The 12th Century, two in Alphabetically First, three in World Geography, and totally failed 3-Syllable Verbs. What kind of upside-down day is it when I tank the vocabulary category and run mythology?

I got FJ but it was kind of a guess…(I have read Paradise Lost but it was a long time ago, and I have seen the quote elsewhere but was not confident it was from that.)

Got the TSes of Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 90210, laurel tree (DD), Alito (DD), and Khmer Empire.
 

10 minutes ago, Driad said:

As a Jeopardy category, does "English Literature" refer to works that were written in England, or in the English language?  (We have seen "American Literature" as a category, but Jeopardy is not always consistent.)

I tend to assume Literature written in English but then my college major was English Literature and that's what it meant as far as that was concerned. Written in England I would call British Lit (which is also a class I took - Modern British Lit, to be more specific; read plenty of British writers in other classes, too, of course). For J! purposes I guess it could mean either.

[Browncoat]

Did not get FJ tonight.  I spent two hours in the bank this afternoon, clearing up a few things, and it exhausted me.  That's my excuse for missing FJ, and I'm sticking with it!

And the only TS I got were Joule, Argentina, and Alito.

 

[annzeepark914]

I thought the continuing champ remained at the studio the whole time. Guess I'm totally out of the loop when it comes to how these winning champs manage their time in Los Angeles. Anyway, this new game with three new contestants was fun. I was pulling for Toni just because she's a Travelers Aid (that's what my husband loves doing at Dulles).  But congrats to the new champ!

[ams1001]

6 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:

I thought the continuing champ remained at the studio the whole time. Guess I'm totally out of the loop when it comes to how these winning champs manage their time in Los Angeles. 

Depends on where in the schedule they end up playing and how many games they win. They tape five games a day, so if a champ wins their first game on Friday, that was the last game they taped that day. Depending on when the next tape day is they might stay or go home in between. Wikipedia says they tape two days every other week.

[shapeshifter]

I loved Ken riffing on the new champ's childhood word for Jeopardy when he won. 

 

2 hours ago, annzeepark914 said:

I thought the continuing champ remained at the studio the whole time.

Friday's game was filmed January 18th, after which, I'm guessing Ben Chan, a philosophy professor from Green Bay, Wisconsin, caught the next flight out to be present for the first day of classes at the start of the Spring semester where he teaches. 
ETA: Apparently I'm wrong, and Ben is ill. 😟

Today I got the TS of Argentina, mostly because my daughter and I are still playing Globle.

Edited April 18, 2023 by shapeshifter

[BuckeyeLou]

I read that Ben had an 'illness" that affected his ability to travel back to LA.  I wonder if he was exposed to Covid?

[ams1001]

15 minutes ago, BuckeyeLou said:

I read that Ben had an 'illness" that affected his ability to travel back to LA.  I wonder if he was exposed to Covid?

That was my first thought, too. Hope he's okay.

[ProudMary]

Ben will return to Jeopardy! on Monday, May 15th. From the Green Bay Press Gazette:

TELEVISION St. Norbert professor Ben Chan's 3-game run as a 'Jeopardy!' champ has been temporarily delayed

 

[Bastet]

Well, boo, I was rooting for Toni.  But this was a nice, pretty evenly-matched game, with no real surprises among the TS and only a couple of weird wrong guesses.

I came close to running the entire first round - including running romcoms, which was surprising as that is not my genre (thankfully, it turned out I'd seen all of them [not liked, usually, but seen] except Forgetting Sarah Marshall and had picked up the name via cultural osmosis) - but I couldn't get Balanchine out of the recesses of my brain and missed retinue.

In DJ, I only ran verbs and TV (that one was quite a pleasant surprise as there wasn't a single clue in which both shows were ones I've seen -- three cheers again for cultural osmosis).  I still would have done okay for a DJ round if not for the mythology category; I got all but one in 12th c. and missed two each in the rest, but I missed all but Rhiannon (thanks to the Fleetwood Mac song) in that one.  Only four of the five were revealed, but, let's be real -- odds are quite good I'll miss a $2000 clue in any religion/mythology category.

I had no idea for FJ, though.

[SHD]

Good save by Ken after the Dr. Who Wants to be a Millionaire answer - “Maybe he does! (pause) Or SHE!”

[Bastet]

45 minutes ago, SHD said:

Good save by Ken after the Dr. Who Wants to be a Millionaire answer - “Maybe he does! (pause) Or SHE!”

Yes!  I meant to mention that, but forgot.  Dr. Who is not my jam (I dislike most sci-fi, tried a few episodes of it during a BBC marathon while I was sick and bored and decidedly did not add it to my short list of exceptions), but I've read a little about the usual hyperventilating over one of the umpteen people playing the character being a woman (I just looked it up, and there have been 13 just on the TV series - it will be 14 when Ncuti Gatwa takes over - a whopping one of whom has been a woman), so I appreciated Ken correcting himself.

[ProudMary]

Ugh, I just realized that when Ben returns to Jeopardy! on May 15th, Ken won't be hosting. 😒

[Trey]

An okay game for me.  I got the ts's of Marathon and Argentina.

I did get FJ but it was strictly a guess.

[PaulaO]

Doctor  Who, not Dr.  Anywho (see what I did there?) I had no clue as to FJ!  The clue said “it”, not this play or this novel.  How will it work with Ben returning?  He is a returning champ and I assume there will be another champ.

[Welshman in Ca]

14 hours ago, illdoc said:

I believe it means "literature by English writers" ("English", I think, also includes "Irish" and "Scottish", but I could be wrong in that regard).

 

Couldn't be more pleased to be forgotten by you, not sure Irish should be included either as I think you mean Northern Ireland rather than the whole of Ireland.

English Lit is one I know very little about.

Edited April 18, 2023 by Welshman in Ca

[illdoc]

40 minutes ago, Welshman in Ca said:

Couldn't be more pleased to be forgotten by you,

Not really intentional---just that I could name Irish/Scottish literature, but not sure I could name any Welsh (I'm sure you'll come up with some).

[Clanstarling]

I was an English Lit major, and at my university it simply meant all lit written in English. I almost had FJ - I knew the source but couldn't quite get the name and then it simply vanished from my head and I spent the rest of the time trying to find it again. Frustrating!

It was an okay game. I ran Rom Coms (didn't know I liked them, but apparently I'm quite familiar with them). Almost ran Alphabetic First but the mister beat me to Cadmium (to be fair, I wouldn't have gotten it).

I did reasonably well on most categories and got Argentina (I'm "training" on Sporcle - which I like because it puts up the name of the country after I guess it). Though I tried Goble (while I was reading this forum, thanks @shapeshifter) and I've now bookmarked it as well. My geographical knowledge of the world is improving - and who knew that for me, Asia is my best continent?

Now if there's a similar tool for lakes and rivers, let me know!

Edited April 18, 2023 by Clanstarling

[Welshman in Ca]

44 minutes ago, illdoc said:

Not really intentional---just that I could name Irish/Scottish literature, but not sure I could name any Welsh (I'm sure you'll come up with some).

Dylan Thomas is probably the most well known.

Roald Dahl was also born in Wales to Norwegian immigrant parents.

Edited April 18, 2023 by Welshman in Ca

[proserpina65]

17 hours ago, Driad said:

As a Jeopardy category, does "English Literature" refer to works that were written in England, or in the English language?  (We have seen "American Literature" as a category, but Jeopardy is not always consistent.)

It usually means literature written in England/by English writers, not just in English.

I had a lousy game last night.  I completely whiffed FJ despite it being a good subject for me.  I knew the line was familiar and briefly thought of Paradise Lost (which I read in college) but for some reason I did not say it.

I only got two stumpers (Bill Murray and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills 90210).  I ran Texas State Symbols - even though I didn't realize it was all about Texas at first (missed hearing the category title) - and TV Before & After.  Got all but 1 clue in Body Language, Non-Bomb Rom Coms (couldn't come up with There's Something About Mary) and Ends In Silent "E".  I did get 3 of the 4 clues revealed in Gods & Myths though.

I fully expected to run The 12th Century (even though the 13th-15th are more my period) but missed two.  I'm really pissed at myself for not getting courtly love because one of the lit classes I took for my major focused heavily on the subject.  In fact, I was required to read a lot of Chretien de Troyes' work.  Pooey.

I'm so glad I didn't have to watch Ben.  Not sure what bugs me about him but he does bug.

On 4/15/2023 at 11:30 AM, ABay said:

For a split second I thought Pirandello. And then realized that even if Pirandello wrote a play and was from the right time and country, this is J! so the answer must be Machiavelli.

There's a statue or bust of him on the outside of the Uffizi, by the way, among other Florentine worthies

Machiavelli was an instaget for me.

On 4/15/2023 at 12:50 PM, ProudMary said:

Me too! My immediate thought was, "What the heck rhymes with Cuba Libre?" 😄 My mind never went to daiquiri, and that's funny because years ago my drink of choice was a Bacardi Cocktail, which is basically a daiquiri with grenadine. 🤦‍♀️

When I was barely old enough to drink, strawberry daiquiris were my drink of choice, but no, I did not think of them.

[proserpina65]

17 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Depends on where in the schedule they end up playing and how many games they win. They tape five games a day, so if a champ wins their first game on Friday, that was the last game they taped that day. Depending on when the next tape day is they might stay or go home in between. Wikipedia says they tape two days every other week.

My game taped on a Monday.  The returning champ for the first game of that day had gone home over the weekend and been flown back at the show's expense.  Which they only did for returning champs at the time.  Everyone else had to pay for their flights to LA and their accommodations themselves.

13 hours ago, Bastet said:

Yes!  I meant to mention that, but forgot.  Dr. Who is not my jam (I dislike most sci-fi, tried a few episodes of it during a BBC marathon while I was sick and bored and decidedly did not add it to my short list of exceptions), but I've read a little about the usual hyperventilating over one of the umpteen people playing the character being a woman (I just looked it up, and there have been 13 just on the TV series - it will be 14 when Ncuti Gatwa takes over - a whopping one of whom has been a woman), so I appreciated Ken correcting himself.

And that one has been terrible, so it was a bad experiment, imo.  Had they cast a better actress, I'd probably feel differently.  It wasn't the concept which offended me but the choice of Jodie Whittaker whom I cannot stand as an actress.  Helen Mirren's probably too old for the role, but oh, how magnificent she would've been!

3 hours ago, Welshman in Ca said:

English Lit is one I know very little about.

When I took lit classes in college, American lit was a separate subject.  English lit was writers in/from the UK.  May depend on the college, though.  Plus, I wasn't a lit major, so I'm only going by what Towson called the individual classes at the time, not the degree or concentration.  But my default for Jeopardy is that English Literature as a category means by an actual English person, not just in the language, since they usually say "American Literature" if that's what they mean.  But possibly not always.  Obviously it didn't help me with FJ anyway.

 

[ams1001]

4 hours ago, PaulaO said:

How will it work with Ben returning?  He is a returning champ and I assume there will be another champ.

Unless they happen to have a three-way tie at zero (i.e., no returning champ) the day before I guess he just plays against whoever is champ at the time. Don't know who gets the champ podium in that case though. 

Edited April 18, 2023 by ams1001

[proserpina65]

8 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

Unless they happen to have a three-way tie at zero (i.e., no returning champ) the day before I guess he just plays against whoever is champ at the time. Don't know who gets the champ podium in that case though. 

They don't have ties anymore.  They do tie breakers.

[ams1001]

24 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

They don't have ties anymore.  They do tie breakers.

I know, but if they all bet everything, get it wrong, and end up at zero there is no returning champ. 

[proserpina65]

5 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

I know, but if they all bet everything, get it wrong, and end up at zero there is no returning champ. 

I'd forgotten about that.  Hasn't happened since 2016, but there's not reason it couldn't happen again.

[Bastet]

1 hour ago, ams1001 said:

I guess he just plays against whoever is champ at the time. Don't know who gets the champ podium in that case though.

Didn't they just flip a coin or something like that the last time it happened?

[heatherchandler]

Does anyone know the name of Daniel’s podcast about the world's fair?

[SyracuseMug]

4 hours ago, ams1001 said:

I know, but if they all bet everything, get it wrong, and end up at zero there is no returning champ. 

I would assume that if the existing champ wins the tie-breaker, that person will be a returning champ, who would then face the earlier champ who comes back. I believe this happened once before, where the "coming back" champ simply took the middle podium.

[Katy M]

I could not think of John Williams' name to save my life.

I got the missed clue of Wars of the Roses.

I got the entire category of postal codes right.

I was very ashamed that I didn't get Red Sox.  What was I thinking?

[ams1001]

April 18:

57% / 67% / 62%

Not a great night, but I was tired and a little distracted. In J! I ran Postal Abbreviations, missed two in Horoscopes and __&__, and three each in Elephants, Guess Your Wait, and OK Millennial. In DJ I ran Devil's Dictionary, missed one First Novel, two in Savoir Fair, Otto Club, and TV Moms, and three in Old War.

FJ was beyond an instaget (John Williams was on The Late Show along with Stephen Spielberg about a month ago, and, well, if you say 'movie music' he's the first person that comes to mind).

My TSes were heels, novel, and Wars of the Roses (DD).

I think (John) Green should have been a BMS; while not as well known for it, his brother Hank is also a novelist.

1 hour ago, heatherchandler said:

Does anyone know the name of Daniel’s podcast about the world's fair?

I did some googling and I'm not sure it has a name yet.

Found his site here: https://reedsy.com/dan-ciarrocchi. It says "...he wrote— and is currently producing and directing—a nine-episode, historical-fiction satire podcast about the 1893 World Fair." The last line refers to "future" plans to release his podcast. But no title.

Edited April 18, 2023 by ams1001

[truthaboutluv]

I've found many of the recent entertainment-related FJ questions very easy. That John Williams answer was a very easy get. Not least of all that this year's Oscars was barely a month ago, where John Williams was nominated again and all the media mentioned multiple times about his being nominated 53 times.

Edited April 19, 2023 by truthaboutluv

[ECM1231]

Hallelujah, I finally knew FJ.  John Williams and I are from the same hometown! 

[Browncoat]

I am finding that FJ are either instagets or I-will-never-gets.  Tonight was an instaget of the highest order -- I finished writing it down before Ken finished reading the clue.

But the only TS I got were heels and novel, and I only got novel after novella was ruled incorrect, as novella was my first thought as well.

[chicagofan]

Missed the first half of the J round since ABC couldn't wait half an hour to announce the settlement between Dominion and Fox - curse you David Muir. Went to the J Archive to see what I missed. Liked the Postal Abbreviations category, probably in part because I ran it. Elephants not so much since I only got one right there.

Did o.k. today - got 19 correct in both the J and DJ rounds. TS were heels, Grenoble and Wars of the Roses (DD). Embarrassed that I didn't get FJ - knew it had to be for music but couldn't pull John Williams out of my brain. All I could think of was Henry Mancini which I knew wasn't right. Also embarrassed that this Cubs fan missed the Red Sox clue - fellow long suffering fandom at one point.

Edited April 19, 2023 by chicagofan

[zoey1996]

1 hour ago, ams1001 said:

April 18:

2 hours ago, heatherchandler said:

Does anyone know the name of Daniel’s podcast about the world's fair?

I did some googling and I'm not sure it has a name yet.

Found his site here: https://reedsy.com/dan-ciarrocchi. It says "...he wrote— and is currently producing and directing—a nine-episode, historical-fiction satire podcast about the 1893 World Fair." The last line refers to "future" plans to release his podcast. But no title.

I read the book about the world’s fair of 1893 and the serial killer, The Devil in the White City. Might be interested in the podcast, though I seldom listen to podcasts.

[ams1001]

10 minutes ago, zoey1996 said:

I read the book about the world’s fair of 1893 and the serial killer, The Devil in the White City. Might be interested in the podcast, though I seldom listen to podcasts.

I read that a long time ago. I listen to a lot of podcasts but I've never gotten into the scripted/fiction ones.

[Bastet]

The heels TS surprised me, but that was it.  Nice surge by Deb in the second half of DJ; they almost made it a runaway.

The postal abbreviations category was fun.

If not for horoscopes, I'd have had a great first round, but I missed everything but Scorpio in that.  (If I'd had just a few more seconds to think, I'd have come up with a couple more.)  Other than that disaster, I got everything other than Miss USA (I said Miss America).

Novels was my terrible category in DJ; I only knew Anne Rice.  Other than that, I did well; I ran Ottos, definitions, and TV moms (thanks in part to cultural osmosis -- and, in the case of Ginny & Georgia, to Celebrity J! as the actor presenting the clue competing in that was the only reason I'd heard of the show) and missed two each in the others.

FJ was an instaget.

[ams1001]

12 minutes ago, Bastet said:

and, in the case of Ginny & Georgia, to Celebrity J! as the actor presenting the clue competing in that was the only reason I'd heard of the show)

Same here, except I couldn't think of the character's name. I was 97.5% sure it started with a G...

[ams1001]

2 hours ago, chicagofan said:

Missed the first half of the J round since ABC couldn't wait half an hour

Interesting...I turned it on to find a breaking news story about a parking garage collapse in lower Manhattan; had to switch to the Philly ABC station (which I don't like because it's not in HD here) for the first part of the game. (I switched back after the first round ended and caught the last several clues again so it seems they just started it late.)

(oops, sorry for the back to back posts...I thought it was quick enough that they would merge.)

Edited April 19, 2023 by ams1001

[SoMuchTV]

27 minutes ago, Bastet said:

 

If not for horoscopes, I'd have had a great first round, but I missed everything but Scorpio in that.

Ha - in horoscopes, I think I got everything except for “my” sign. 

[chicagofan]

Since I'm in Chicago we're on the early shift for Jeopardy - it's on at 3:30 p.m. CDT on ABC - followed by local news. I assume that whatever was on at 4:30 p.m. EDT on ABC was interrupted as well by ABC News. We had coverage on the parking garage collapse, but it was part of the local news after Jeopardy.

Edited April 19, 2023 by chicagofan

[30 Helens]

Not sorry Daniel lost. The tsunami hair was too much; I couldn’t take him seriously. Today’s wave was possibly even higher than yesterday’s— I think I might have seen a tiny surfboard in there. (I generally dislike commentary about people’s appearances, but he chose that style.) Step away from the hair gel, Daniel. It’s not too late.

Movie music= John Williams. Instainstaget.

3 hours ago, zoey1996 said:

I read the book about the world’s fair of 1893 and the serial killer, The Devil in the White City. 

Good book. Although I’m not sure how the world’s most murderous fair lends itself to satire. Guess I’ll just have to wait and see.

 

[MrAtoz]

For Final Jeopardy, I said (with great confidence!) Randy Newman.  John Williams didn't even enter my mind!  Newman's only got 22 Oscar nominations--still a lot, but not as many as Williams.  I had thought Newman's father was also a musician, but he was a doctor.  Three of Randy Newman's uncles were also film composers, which is probably what I was thinking of.

[PaulaO]

I’m sorry to see Daniel go.  I loved his hair and he came across as a nice guy.  One of my bizarre fascinations is the Chicago World’s Fair, aka The Columbian Exposition so I will gladly listen to his podcast.  I’ve read Devil in the White City a few times and it is truly scary.

[Clanstarling]

15 hours ago, ams1001 said:

FJ was beyond an instaget (John Williams was on The Late Show along with Stephen Spielberg about a month ago, and, well, if you say 'movie music' he's the first person that comes to mind).

Even before that appearance, my husband and I were discussing how he's basically the king of movie soundtracks - so many of our favorite films were scored by him. He's remarkable.

14 hours ago, zoey1996 said:

I read the book about the world’s fair of 1893 and the serial killer, The Devil in the White City. Might be interested in the podcast, though I seldom listen to podcasts.

I didn't read that one, but I did read a time travel book that used the serial killer as an antagonist for the time travelers, so I told my husband about the serial killer and it took a while for him to understand how a serial killer related to the world's fair (I probably was too enthusiastic about the topic). I don't remember the name of the book, sadly.

12 hours ago, ams1001 said:

(oops, sorry for the back to back posts...I thought it was quick enough that they would merge.)

Don't you just hate that? When I rely on it and it doesn't merge, it ticks me off as much as when I don't want it to merge and it does.

I almost ran a couple of categories (Wait, Zodiac).  I did okay, but it wasn't a great board for me. Instead of "Oil and Water" I said "Oil and Vinegar"...I laughed out loud at my mistake. Must have been thinking of salad dressing.

Williams was an instaget.

 

[ABay]

14 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

I didn't read that one, but I did read a time travel book that used the serial killer as an antagonist for the time travelers .... I don't remember the name of the book, sadly.

Are you sure it was a book? It sounds like an episode of Timeless.

[Trey]

21 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

Instead of "Oil and Water" I said "Oil and Vinegar".

Me too.  They should give it to us. Unless you add a little Dijon mustard they never will mix.

I got the ts's or missed DDs of novel,  Wars of the Roses, and John Le Carre.

Instaget FJ.

[Clanstarling]

8 minutes ago, ABay said:

Are you sure it was a book? It sounds like an episode of Timeless.

Definitely a book. And yeah, it does sound like an episode of Timeless. 😉

[Welshman in Ca]

So happy that this won't be another zero on the FJ scorecard but I almost changed my mind thinking that it was too easy.