Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[possibilities]

I caught up on yesterday's and today's episodes today, and was just coming over to say I liked Dan's earrings. I love earrings and frequently have earring envy while watching tv.

NBC cut off 10 minutes of the game today, because they thought we all needed to know immediately about Israel bombing Iran. I found the missed clues at the archive, but it's not the same as watching, especially now that everyone jumps around the board. I find it hard to remember which clues I missed so wound up playing the whole thing over.

I got Arbus yesterday, even though the photo was of her at a much younger age than the ones I remember seeing. She had very distinct facial structure. I also credited myself for the TS of "lark". I knew it was a lark, and I don't know if they would have asked me to be more specific. If so, I am not sure I would have guessed the correct kind of lark, so maybe I shouldn't consider it correct. I also knew "embedded" (missed Daily Double).

I'm pissed off at the show because of a discrimination case filed against them that I read about in the Race and Ethicity thread. I will try to post the link in the J Media thread, in case anyone else wants to know about it.

 

[MrAtoz]

On 10/24/2024 at 11:56 PM, Cotypubby said:

I think every time I say Weimaraner I call it a Weimar-rye-ner. That should be how it is, it sounds better that way! 😆

If Facebook is to be believed, a lot of fans are saying that Weimar-rye-ner should have been accepted, because "that's how everybody pronounces it!"

[SoMuchTV]

14 minutes ago, MrAtoz said:

If Facebook is to be believed, a lot of fans are saying that Weimar-rye-ner should have been accepted, because "that's how everybody pronounces it!"

IF?? Are you implying that Facebook might not be a trustworthy source??

[chitowngirl]

On 10/25/2024 at 11:59 PM, possibilities said:

I found the missed clues at the archive, but it's not the same as watching, especially now that everyone jumps around the board. I find it hard to remember which clues I missed so wound up playing the whole thing over.

At j-archive, the clues are numbered so you can read the clues in the order that they were played during the game.

[Browncoat]

33 minutes ago, chitowngirl said:

At j-archive, the clues are numbered so you can read the clues in the order that they were played during the game.

I never noticed that!  Thanks!

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, chitowngirl said:

At j-archive, the clues are numbered so you can read the clues in the order that they were played during the game.

Well, what do you know, they are! I never noticed the number before. Thanks!

[shapeshifter]

9 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

Well, what do you know, they are! I never noticed the number before. Thanks!

I've noticed those order numbers, but following them in order is too much for me.
This past week 2 games were preempted and I missed one entirely, so went to J-Archive, but realized I actually like watching it being played out on TV, LOL. 

[dgpolo]

2 hours ago, chitowngirl said:

At j-archive, the clues are numbered so you can read the clues in the order that they were played during the game.

Thank you for that! I went back and looked at the 10/21 game, that's the one with the Lose a Letter category. Ken said that each response would be two words and then the $400 clue was called third and Marcus only gave a one word answer. I know it's easy to forget things in the heat of the moment but I'm still kind of surprised that the 'two word response needed' was forgotten so quickly.

[possibilities]

I absolutely never noticed they number the clues in game order over there! 

[Driad]

When there is a DD, they make the clue smaller so they can show the contestant. That's OK except they make the clue much smaller than necessary, so I can't read it.  There is enough space next to the contestant to make the clue large enough to read, so I wish they would do that.

[Bastet]

When I "play" via the archive, I always use the numbers to go in the order the clues were chosen; it would be an advantage to go category by category, top to bottom, one that would probably lead to my archive games would often be better than my regular games.  While watching, I have to remember the category as they jump around.  Also, because they don't go in order, sometimes they miss out on the flow of a category that would have made the higher-valued clues easier had they worked their way down from the top to see it.  So if I read the clues from top to bottom, I'll see a pattern that I wouldn't have seen had I been watching the game.  So I always play the clues in the order they did, and give myself only a short time to answer, to make it comparable to watching.  (If I didn't keep track of my performance, I probably wouldn't bother replicating game conditions, but since I'm on what is apparently a fruitless quest for a perfect game, I do keep track.)

[proserpina65]

On 10/25/2024 at 1:52 PM, Shrek said:

How do you know he's not a pirate? He might identify as one 😜

Then he needs an eyepatch and a big hat.  And probably a parrot but that would be a bit distracting on Jeopardy, and who knows, the parrot might try to answer without ringing in first.

I knew that Friday's FJ referred to the Louisiana Purchase but I wouldn't have known Jackson Square if you'd hit me over the head with its street sign.  Never heard of it.

On 10/25/2024 at 7:28 PM, ams1001 said:

I'm not a prude but do we really need ads for an "intimate pubic hair trimmer" that refers to men's "junk" at 7:25 pm?

I'm not a prude either but I don't need ads for that anywhere ever.

On 10/25/2024 at 8:00 PM, Browncoat said:

The only TS I got were rose, telemark, Inchon, Rapid City, and Arno.

I knew Incheon because I've seen enough Asian Air Disasters episodes to have learned that it's the home of South Korea's main international airport.  That show is so educational.  And at least mildly terrifying.

[proserpina65]

On 10/27/2024 at 9:50 AM, chitowngirl said:

At j-archive, the clues are numbered so you can read the clues in the order that they were played during the game.

I look at the archive all the time and never realized that.

On 10/27/2024 at 12:19 PM, shapeshifter said:

I've noticed those order numbers, but following them in order is too much for me.
This past week 2 games were preempted and I missed one entirely, so went to J-Archive, but realized I actually like watching it being played out on TV, LOL. 

I hate baseball for this very reason, although at least on Friday, Fox 45 actually ran Jeopardy in the wee small hours of Saturday.  The last time they pre-empted it for baseball playoffs, they didn't air J at all.  So I guess I really just hate Fox 45.

[chessiegal]

We usually watch J! on Baltimore Fox45 because it comes on at 7 pm. But we also get it on ABC DC at 7:30 pm, so when Fox pre-emps for sports or whatever, it only changes dinner plans. 😄

[Bastet]

4 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I knew Incheon because I've seen enough Asian Air Disasters episodes to have learned that it's the home of South Korea's main international airport. 

That's how I knew it, too.  I love that show.

[Bastet]

Archive game for me, since I'll be watching football tonight.

I cannot believe April, June, and November was a TS!  I say that in my head all the time rather than looking at a calendar.

I ran DEL, advertising, and nicknames, and almost ran phrases, but said "... without the rain" instead of "... without a little rain".  I missed two each in history (they both had pictures, but seeing them wouldn't have helped) and Arthurs, so a good first round.

This is shocking, I know, but I blew the mythology category entirely.  Other than that, I did great in DJ; I ran medical, caution, and words (fun category), got all but awesome sauce in exclamations, and missed two in Canada.

I initially only got as far as "the club in Cabaret" for FJ, but it came to me in time.  And now "Willkommen" is stuck in my head.

[Katy M]

I didn't know FJ.

I got the entire categories of Books & Arthurs World History and Medical right.

I guess I didn't get any missed clues. I've had worse nights.  Actually had I gotten FJ, it would have been fine.

[ams1001]

October 28:

67% / 73% / 70%

In J I ran Advertising, missed one in Books & Arthurs and "D-E-L", two in World History and Rhyming Phrase, and four in Musical Nicknames.

Bit better in DJ…ran Caution and Compound Words, missed one in Medical Matters, two in Extreme Canada and Mythological Resumes, and three in Exclamations.

I got FJ!

TSes: (J had 3 (all in the same category); DJ had 3 + both DDs) I got April, June & November; Isis; terra incognita (DD); Arctic Ocean (DD).

[opus]

Knew Caberne

26 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I initially only got as far as "the club in Cabaret" for FJ, but it came to me in time

I only got as far as the first part ☹️

[Browncoat]

31 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I initially only got as far as "the club in Cabaret" for FJ, but it came to me in time. 

Same.

31 minutes ago, Bastet said:

And now "Willkommen" is stuck in my head.

Also same.

The only TS I got were April, June, and November, terra incognita, and Ellesmere Island.  Interesting, autocorrect doesn't like incognita -- it wants to change it to incognito.

[SomeTameGazelle]

3 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Interesting, autocorrect doesn't like incognita -- it wants to change it to incognito.

Incognito is an English word at this point (from Italian). Autocorrect would have to be speaking Latin to think of incognita. 

[30 Helens]

I think "the club in Cabaret" should count. And no, it's not because that's what I said. (Yes, it is.)

After all the discussion about j-archive and the numbered squares, I had to go take a look. What do you know. Then again, I still can't remember to take notice of the new set, so observation is clearly not my strong suit.

[Bastet]

For those just now learning the clues are numbered on the archive according to how they were selected by contestants on the show:  Did you never notice the numbers in the upper right of each clue, or you did but didn't think about what they might represent?

When I first discovered the archive however many years ago, I saw the numbers right away but was mildly confused and ignored them.  It took a ridiculously long time  - several months - for me to realize, oh, there are 30 per round, that's what it means.  Embarrassing!  So I'm curious how many others, if any, noticed the numbers but didn't make the connection, compared to those who just never noticed the numbers in the first place.

[Prevailing Wind]

I noticed the numbers and figured out what they meant fairly early.

[30 Helens]

You know how you see something and you don’t know what it is, but it’s not what you’re looking for so you dismiss it? And although it’s always there, after awhile you stop seeing it at all? Then one day you’re prompted to look at it and you say, “huh! Where did that come from?” I’m sure I have some unopened boxes like that. And probably some food in the refrigerator. 

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I noticed the numbers and figured out what they meant fairly early.

Same.
FWIW, I am not a strong Jeopardy! player. Maybe that correlates somehow to my spending more time looking at the J-archive grid?

 

 

11 hours ago, Katy M said:

I didn't know FJ.

I got the entire categories of Books & Arthurs World History and Medical right.

I guess I didn't get any missed clues. I've had worse nights.  Actually had I gotten FJ, it would have been fine.

Didn’t you get “April, June & November”?

I knew all the correct responses for the categories of Books & Arthurs World History and Medical, but was a second too late for 1 or 2 of them each.

 

What is the likelihood of 4x winner Will Wallace being included in the TOC? It depends on how many 5x champs there are, right?

[Browncoat]

If I noticed the numbers, I ignored them until I didn't notice them anymore, so now they seem new!  I suspect I just never paid attention to them at all, though.

[Shrek]

5 hours ago, Bastet said:

For those just now learning the clues are numbered on the archive according to how they were selected by contestants on the show:  Did you never notice the numbers in the upper right of each clue, or you did but didn't think about what they might represent?

When I first discovered the archive however many years ago, I saw the numbers right away but was mildly confused and ignored them.  It took a ridiculously long time  - several months - for me to realize, oh, there are 30 per round, that's what it means.  Embarrassing!  So I'm curious how many others, if any, noticed the numbers but didn't make the connection, compared to those who just never noticed the numbers in the first place.

Never noticed them at all. 

 

And for FJ I said the club from Cabaret but having only seen parts of it I had no idea what it was called.

Edited October 29 by Shrek

[MrAtoz]

I found out about the numbers at J-Archive quite some time ago, but before then, I had never even noticed they were there. Somebody told me you could follow the order of clues by following the numbers. My reaction was "What numbers? There are no numbers."

In my defense, they are very tiny numbers.

I did get the "Thirty days hath September..." rhyme, but here's my hot take. That rhyme is useless as memory aid. It requires you to already know the thing you're trying to remember in order to get it right. If you get the months wrong, there's nothing to tell you that you're wrong.

Consider this:

Thirty days hath September/May, July, and December.

That scans perfectly, and rhymes perfectly. But it's wrong. The only way you can know it's wrong is if you already know what the months are supposed to be. And if you already know that, why are you reciting this little poem?

[chessiegal]

I memorized the months rhyme decades ago. I use it to quickly remember, so it works for me.

[possibilities]

I never noticed the numbers at all.

 

[Bastet]

3 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

The only way you can know it's wrong is if you already know what the months are supposed to be. And if you already know that, why are you reciting this little poem?

Because I know immediately off the top of my head "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November".  I do not, on the other hand, immediately know off the top of my head how many days there are in January.  So by quickly reciting the poem in my head, I know by its absence that January has 31 days.

[ams1001]

14 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I noticed the numbers and figured out what they meant fairly early.

I did, too, I think, but I never play in order if I have to use the archive. I just go top to bottom in each category.

[Katy M]

I got FJ right.

I got the missed clues of like a leaf, Sitka, ethno, baseball and Jay Leno.

 

[ams1001]

October 29:

67% / 52% / 60%

In J I ran Fast Food (I don't even eat at any of those places), missed one in Singing, two in Alaskan Cities, Reality & Competition TV (I could picture Holey Moley but couldn't think of the name), and No Shake, and three in The Machine's Broken. In DJ I missed one in Historic Women and "A" in Psychology, two in Join Up, three in Drama and Prefixes, and four in Movie Outlaws.

My extremely rusty high school Spanish got me my second FJ of the week! I was 83% sure Nieves meant snow, that combined with the fact that she was born on a "base" made me figure it must be Antarctica.

TSes: (J had 8 (I missed 'em all, too) + the DD; DJ had 13! + 1 DD, but only on a technicality because he forgot the "what is") I got Sappho (DD), aphasia (with proper phrasing; DD), baseball, affect, bowling, ethno-, and ultra-.

[OMG I am so sick of political ads. Not sure I saw ads for anything else during the entire show (and most of them aren't even for people I could vote for if I wanted to since I'm not in NY). Next Tuesday can't come soon enough.]

I was a little annoyed that John won because he forgot the phrasing twice.
 

[possibilities]

That was a lot of TS, wasn't it? 

Edited October 30 by possibilities

[chessiegal]

28 minutes ago, possibilities said:

That was a lot of TS, wasn't it? 

8 TSs in the first round and 13 in the second. (looking at the archive).

[SoMuchTV]

I wonder if they would have accepted “south pole”?

[Browncoat]

Instaget FJ for me tonight.  Also an archive game -- "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" finally made it to the backwater in which I live, and I had to go see it.  I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it already.

Anyway, I played the archive clues in the order they were played in the game, and it was a little tedious, searching for the numbers.  I'm not sure I'll do that again.  But I did get several TS, including like a leaf, come out fighting, Sitka, Gold Rush, ultra, Klamath, grapefruit, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, conquer, ethno-, and baseball.

[Ancaster]

$2000 for recognizing a publicity shot for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"?

Oy, I feel old.

[Quickbeam]

I just weep that no one got Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She’s the reason I get to vote on Tuesday. Sad. 

[30 Helens]

3 hours ago, ams1001 said:

I was a little annoyed that John won because he forgot the phrasing twice.
 

Same here. I gave him a stern talking-to after the game. Hopefully that put the fear of Ken into him. Or, you know, whoever he worships.

My rudimentary Spanish knowledge failed me, because I was trying to translate the FJ location to “New” something. (That would be Nuevo, not Nieve.) Maybe tomorrow.

[ams1001]

9 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:

Same here. I gave him a stern talking-to after the game. Hopefully that put the fear of Ken into him. Or, you know, whoever he worships.

He got a "come on, man!!" from me after the second one.

Edited October 30 by ams1001

[Bastet]

I was a bit surprised no one guessed baseball as the sport for a story titled "Fences" ("Swing for the fences", anyone?) and more so that no one guessed Jay Leno for a comedian really into cars.

OMG, I had a dreadful first round.  I was absolutely terrible in singing, only coming up with Gregorian.  I figured reality TV would be just as bad, but I "only" missed three.  Same with fast food -- dreaded it, but correctly guessed on all but two.  I didn't run anything, although I can console myself I did get all but Sitka in Alaska, all but shamrock in shakes, and all but claw in machines.

I did much better in DJ; I ran women and psychology, got all but conquer in drama, all but hatha in join, and all but ultra in prefixes, and missed two in outlaws.

I came up with FJ, but never would have if I didn't know nieve meant snow -- I'd never heard of Esperanza Base, but someplace snowy and very sparsely populated with a base made me think it had to be Antarctica.

[Shrek]

My first thought was Antarctica because of it being a base & then I spent the rest of the time trying to talk myself out of it because it came so easily.

Edited October 30 by Shrek

[chessiegal]

My husband learned a J! rule last night. Contestants get a prompt in the first round when they forget their phrasing, but not in the second. John paid for that mistake in the second round.

[dgpolo]

13 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

I wonder if they would have accepted “south pole”?

I doubt it, the base is not really near the South Pole which is just a little dot sort of in the middle of the continent.

If you answer a DD and Ken stands there like a statue, say something! even if you just repeat what you just said, maybe it will kick your brain into gear.

[ams1001]

BTW, the 99% Invisible podcast has an episode (narrated by Jon Mooallem, who also did a very good one called Wild Ones, based on his book by the same title) about the Anchorage earthquake.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/chance-anchorwoman-great-alaska-earthquake/

Highly recommend.

[Clanstarling]

2 hours ago, Shrek said:

My first thought was Antarctica because of it being a base & then I spent the rest of the time trying to talk myself out of it because it came so easily.

I didn't get so far as Antarctica, I just saw snow...and then I went and  chose the opposite - Tierra del Fuego. Sheesh.

2 hours ago, chessiegal said:

My husband learned a J! rule last night. Contestants get a prompt in the first round when they forget their phrasing, but not in the second. John paid for that mistake in the second round.

Me too, the mister schooled me on it. A bit offended, I was, given that I was the original (and long term) Jeopardy watcher in our household. But you know, I was wrong...sigh...but now I know.

[Katy M]

I got FJ after first saying Gutenberg printing presses.  LOL.

I got the missed clues of GM (after Ford), Nod, damage (I ask my cat what her damage is all the time, she doesn't answer), Hans & Frans, boron, Big Rig Veda and Marquis de Sade.

I got the entire category of Go where right and songs wrong.