Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[Trey]

Nobody has mentioned Ken's joke at the end of DJ last Tuesday when their last category was Mary, Queen of Scots.  They got the second last clue in the category, the answer being Executioner, then the game ran out of time.  Ken says (probably not quite word for word) "We won't have time to finish off Mary, Queen of Scots but her executioner did."  I thought that was very funny.

[Clanstarling]

10 minutes ago, Trey said:

Nobody has mentioned Ken's joke at the end of DJ last Tuesday when their last category was Mary, Queen of Scots.  They got the second last clue in the category, the answer being Executioner, then the game ran out of time.  Ken says (probably not quite word for word) "We won't have time to finish off Mary, Queen of Scots but her executioner did."  I thought that was very funny.

I did miss that. Thanks for pointing it out. :)

[ams1001]

57 minutes ago, Trey said:

Nobody has mentioned Ken's joke at the end of DJ last Tuesday when their last category was Mary, Queen of Scots.  They got the second last clue in the category, the answer being Executioner, then the game ran out of time.  Ken says (probably not quite word for word) "We won't have time to finish off Mary, Queen of Scots but her executioner did."  I thought that was very funny.

I caught that, too. It was funny.

The exact exchange, per the archive, was:

Clue: It was customary for this person to ask forgiveness before doing his job; Mary forgave hers Feb. 8, 1587

Greg got the correct response of Executioner.

Ken: Yeah, that was nice of her.)
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(Ken: And we won't have time to finish off MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS the way the executioner did.)

[PaulaO]

Dear Rachel.  Stop with the “all right.”  You are not Matthew McConaughy.

[chessiegal]

29 minutes ago, PaulaO said:

Dear Rachel.  Stop with the “all right.”  You are not Matthew McConaughy.

I think it's just a nervous tic. Heaven knows what I would do. 😅

[Katy M]

I got FJ. never would have gotten it had I been on the show, though. I was randomly going through pres's names in my head.

I got the missed clues of Saturn, menorah, Nancy Reagan, Tabasco, and Where the Crawdads Sing.

i got the entire category of 3 letters right.

[illdoc]

7 minutes ago, Katy M said:

I was randomly going through pres's names in my head.

I was going thru dances---easier!

[Katy M]

8 minutes ago, illdoc said:

I was going thru dances---easier!

I don't think I would have ever thought polka.

[Browncoat]

Ugh.  Once again my lack of knowledge of history rears its ugly head.  I couldn't get to polka in time, and I couldn't get through the presidents I even remember.  To make matters worse, I once saw a play that included a song about how this particular president is always forgotten.

But I did get the TS of Topeka, cover crop, Nancy Reagan, "Where The Crawdads Sing", and coal mining.

[kathyk2]

I hope they invite Chris back for a second chance. His accent was delightful.

[SoMuchTV]

5 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Ugh.  Once again my lack of knowledge of history rears its ugly head.

On the other hand, I felt like my lack of knowledge helped me here. Dance that sounds sort of like on old timey president? Polk/polka?  Sure, why not? Maybe a century or so from now it’ll be Walz/watlz. 
 

[shapeshifter]

I got FJ. In 6th grade (I think LBJ was POTUS?) we learned a mnemonic that begins: When A Joke Made Me A Joker, Van Had to Polk The Fiery Poker, But Let Jokes Go, Hastily Galloping Across Country…
(that's as much as I recall, and am sketchy on some of the POTUSes they stand for).
Anyway, when I got to Polk, I wasn't sure if he was as late as the 19th century (turns out he was POTUS 1835-1839), and wasn't sure that "Polk" would be reason to make fun of his name sounding like a dance, but shrugged and went for it. 

My only TS was Poland, but I might've got a few more if I read the archive instead of watching (which distracts me, but is nevertheless fun). I "knew" them; but not in time (I had 2 wrong answers worth of time to come up with Poland).

Maybe Joey will stick around a while since he's not another come-from-behind champ like the last 2. The timbre of his voice grates occasionally, but I can handle it.
Would that be weird for his wife seeing the stage where they got married every day at work?

A lot of the contestants‘ anecdotes have been kind of awkward lately.

Edited Tuesday at 01:43 AM by shapeshifter

[graybrown bird]

I was sad no one knew about the Katyn Forest massacre.  I was shouting "Poland" at the screen but nobody heard me.  For many years (decades?) the Soviets said it was another Nazi atrocity but it wasn't.  It was a deliberate massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and other Poles by Russian forces.

[ams1001]

November 11: 

63% / 63% / 64%

Got home late but watched on youtube. Not a great game but consistent, I guess. In J I ran All A Board!, missed one each in Rockets and Lawn & Garden, two in Alliterative Phrases, three in Sports Nicknames, and four in Time Person of the Year. In DJ I missed one in 3-Letter Responses and two in everything else (and I knew more Mexican states than I thought!). I got FJ after several seconds of thinking, and it was an asterisk!

TSes: (J had 5; DJ had 9) I got Topeka KS, Saturn, cover crop, menorah, and Tabasco.
 

40 minutes ago, kathyk2 said:

I hope they invite Chris back for a second chance. His accent was delightful.

I was rooting for either of the guys to win (I didn't hate Rachel but she bugged me just enough to root against her) but I was leaning toward Chris just for the accent.

[Prevailing Wind]

I remember The Sonny and Cher Show doing a big musical number about the James Knox Polka.  Still didn't get FJ.

[Bastet]

I'm watching football, but checked the archive earlier.

I'm not sure if the Corazon Aquino TS should surprise me, but just reading Ken's reaction to the Imelda Marcos response made me laugh.

The menorah TS blew me away, and the recipe TS surprised me.

The coal mining TS also surprised me, given that it had a photo -- was it really that hard to tell what the picture depicted that it's not surprising none of them got it?  (I'd read about the exhibit, so got it anyway.)

Giving myself credit for Jeter because I would have known it had I been able to see the picture, I ran the entire first round.

I kicked ass in DJ, too -- I missed two in beasts, got everything but Where the Crawdads Sing in bestsellers, and ran the rest.

FJ took me long enough that, without the Think music to go by, I'm not sure I got it in time, but I had such a fantastic game I'm going to go ahead and give myself credit to finish it off right.

[SoMuchTV]

6 minutes ago, Bastet said:

The coal mining TS also surprised me, given that it had a photo -- was it really that hard to tell what the picture depicted that it's not surprising none of them got it?  (I'd read about the exhibit, so got it anyway.)

That one just seemed like they were looking for something more specific; they were obviously coal miners but I didn’t think that was what they were going for. 

[ams1001]

53 minutes ago, Bastet said:

The coal mining TS also surprised me, given that it had a photo -- was it really that hard to tell what the picture depicted that it's not surprising none of them got it?  (I'd read about the exhibit, so got it anyway.)

This was the photo:

[dgpolo]

2 hours ago, illdoc said:

2 hours ago, Katy M said:

I was randomly going through pres's names in my head.

I was going thru dances---easier!

I was randomly going though pres's names also, but I was going through first names for some reason.

I figured out when it was over that I should have been going through dances instead!

[ECM1231]

3 hours ago, illdoc said:

I was going thru dances---easier!

Yep, that's what I did,too. Wasn't sure what years Polk was President, but knew it definitely was in the 19th century.

[Katy M]

9 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Anyway, when I got to Polk, I wasn't sure if he was as late as the 19th century (turns out he was POTUS 1835-1839), and wasn't sure that "Polk" would be reason to make fun of his name sounding like a dance, but shrugged and went for it. 

There were only 2 18th century presidents.

[MrAtoz]

I wonder what Rachel was thinking of with Rutherford B. Hayes? Maybe just a random 19th century president to avoid putting down nothing. There is at least a dance called The Madison, although it wasn't created until the 1950s, so Joey's guess wasn't entirely unreasonable. It was probably a particularly difficult clue for Chris. If they said where he was originally from, I didn't catch it. But given his accent, I'm guessing he didn't grow up in the U.S., so 19th century American presidents are probably not something he would have learned much about.

I thought it was one of the easier FJ clues in awhile. Polk=Polka popped into my head immediately, and I never thought about anything else.

[dgpolo]

2 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

wonder what Rachel was thinking of with Rutherford B. Hayes? Maybe just a random 19th century president to avoid putting down nothing.

I think maybe, because it also crossed my mind, she was trying to think of First Ladies who would be against dancing? Lemonade Lucy might have fit that part? I was trying to remember if any were Quakers or something else very conservative, before I went to first names, duh! Really should've focused on dances. I'm half Polish and the first dance I ever remember was a polka at my Aunt's wedding when I was a flower girl.

[Clanstarling]

I've been doing Sporcles Presidents quizzes specifically to familiarize myself with the order of presidents for Jeopardy. So I managed to go through the list in my head in time to get to Polk. Yay!

I do other Sporcles quizzes for other Jeopardy areas (world capitals, countries, bodies of water). They have helped some, it depends on whether my brain is sluggish that day or not.

 

Edited Tuesday at 05:28 PM by Clanstarling

[30 Helens]

17 hours ago, Katy M said:

 I was randomly going through pres's names in my head.

17 hours ago, illdoc said:

I was going thru dances---easier!

I did both, and still got nowhere. (I got stuck on waltz for a few seconds, which made me sad, which broke my concentration, so that didn’t help.) The reveal was a true slap-your-forehead “of course!” moment. I hate it when I miss those.

Not sorry Rachel’s gone. I wouldn’t have minded hearing some more of that charming Aussie accent, though.

[proserpina65]

On 11/7/2024 at 8:00 PM, Browncoat said:

Has styrofoam or WD-40 saved lives?

Maybe?  I don't remember what I said but it definitely wasn't kevlar.

On 11/7/2024 at 8:09 PM, SoMuchTV said:

So many reasonably decent choices for FJ!  My guess was super glue.

THAT was my answer!  Thanks. 🙂

I wasn't sure that the decade was correct, but I knew from watching Dog Soldiers multiple times that super glue was used on the battlefield for temporary wound repair.

On 11/7/2024 at 7:12 PM, Bastet said:

The Michelango TS surprised me, but I'm not sure it should have -- I saw it while I was in Bruges, but I can't remember if I knew about it before then.

I might've read something about it in art history classes, but I mostly know it from the movie The Monuments Men.

I didn't get kevlar, Vespucci (said Columbus) or Polk, so I'm on a wrong FJ answer streak.

[proserpina65]

17 hours ago, graybrown bird said:

I was sad no one knew about the Katyn Forest massacre.  I was shouting "Poland" at the screen but nobody heard me.  For many years (decades?) the Soviets said it was another Nazi atrocity but it wasn't.  It was a deliberate massacre of more than 20,000 Polish officers and other Poles by Russian forces.

Russian only officially acknowledged their culpability in 2010, 7 months after the then president of Poland, his wife and many other Polish officials were killed in a plane crash on their way to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the massacre.  Which only adds to the sadness.

16 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

That one just seemed like they were looking for something more specific; they were obviously coal miners but I didn’t think that was what they were going for. 

I said mining.  I'm assuming I would've gotten a BMS for that.

4 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

I thought it was one of the easier FJ clues in awhile. Polk=Polka popped into my head immediately, and I never thought about anything else.

I was trying to come up with a 19th century president whose FIRST name was similar to a dance.  All I had was Chester Arthur being sort of semi-close to the Charleston.  Which was a 20th dance.  Oy.

 

[ams1001]

5 hours ago, MrAtoz said:

If they said where he was originally from, I didn't catch it.

The archive just says he's from Washington, DC.

 

[Bliss]

4 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

(I got stuck on waltz for a few seconds, which made me sad, which broke my concentration, so that didn’t help.)

Ditto with the stuck on Waltz... and the sad...

Luckily, I flew through tango/foxtrot/jive/lindy hop and then thought of polka and I could have had a V8! Slap on the forehead moment ;-)

I'm a jetpunker, so coming up with pres' names is easier now.

[ams1001]

November 12:

77% / 47% / 62%

Pretty good first round, terrible second. In J I ran English Literature (I've even read three of the works*) and We're Salutin' Gluten, missed one each in World of Leaders and Wheels, two in Music, and three in Rhyme Time. In DJ I missed one in US History, two in Science and Transportation, three in Ends in CH, and four in Rivers (anagrams and geography...oh, c'mon!) and Heist Films.

I did not know such monument existed but FJ was basically an instaget (Spanish character pair...who else would it be?). I also got all the Daily Doubles.

TSes: (J had 6; DJ had 9) I got Keir Starmer, durum wheat, wiser kaiser, prayer wheel, Ocean's 11.

I liked Jonathan but his sweater was making my eyes go buggy.

(*Lady Chatterley's Lover, Dover Beach, and A Room With a View)

[Katy M]

FJ was an instaget.  Although I did almost want to second guess myself and think it might have something to do with the awful Hemingway.

I got the missed clues of immortal portal, Ocean's 11, Atchafalaya, DC-3 (pretty impressed with myself on that one), and Columbia.

 

[shapeshifter]

I ended my longest ever FJ streak of 6 in a row, but made myself laugh at myself (so it's all good) by declaring aloud:

• Oh! The guys tilting at windmills. Not Pancho and Lefty, but…
  [ᴀꜱ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴍᴜꜱɪᴄ ᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜᴏᴜᴛ ᴀ ᴄʜᴀɴᴄᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ʟᴀᴜɴᴄʜ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴀɴʏ ᴠᴇʀꜱɪᴏɴꜱ ᴏꜰ ɪ'ᴍ ᴀ ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴛᴇᴀᴘᴏᴛ]

TSs were Columbia River and Oceans Eleven.

[dgpolo]

1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:

Oh! The guys tilting at windmills. Not Pancho and Lefty, but…

I actually got Sancho Panza, a character I never think about but despite knowing who it was supposed to be only got Don, even though 'Quixote' is probably the most famous part of the those names. Such is the state of my brain these days.

I was rather sad no one knew the Bandersnatch, even with the frumious given. Along with that I got Immortal Portal, and Ocean's Eleven.

[Bastet]

The Keir Starmer TS surprised at first, since this was taped not even three months after the election, but, then again, the UK has gone through PMs like tissue in recent years, so maybe they just couldn't keep track.  The durum TS also surprised me a little, as did no one guessing Ocean's Eleven.  The only one that truly surprised me was order; I would think at least one of the contestants would have memorized a taxonomy mnemonic before competing if they hadn't previously learned one in school.

I almost ran the entire first round, getting everything but prayer wheel.

I did really well in DJ, too; I missed two each in rivers and films, but ran everything else other than transportation, in which I got all but velocipede.

FJ was an instaguess I was confident was correct, so that's two fantastic games in a row for me.  So watch the rest of the week will be all about religion/mythology, opera, war history, art, today's music, royalty, superheroes, and sci-fi.

[The Wild Sow]

Taxonomy, people -- taxonomy!  King Phillip Came OVER For Good Sex! (Or Good Soup if you're teaching it to children 😄!)

 

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, ORDER, Family, Genus, Species!

[Bastet]

28 minutes ago, The Wild Sow said:

King Phillip Came OVER For Good Sex! (Or Good Soup if you're teaching it to children 😄!)

I honestly don't even remember what King Phillip version I learned in school, as it has long since been replaced in my mind by "Kinky People Come Over For Group Sex".

[Browncoat]

It was an archive game for me last night, and I left my notes at home.  I do know that FJ was an instaget, but I don't remember all the TS I got.  I definitely got order, though -- I'd have to give my BS in Biology back if I missed that one!  I never had a mnemonic for it, though.  I just remember it.

I'll add my TS after I get home from work.

[MrAtoz]

No King Phillip, or any other foreign potentates, and their sex lives for us. Instead it was food-based clothing vandalism:

Kim Put Candy On Fred's Green Suit.

[Clanstarling]

FJ was an instaget for me. Not sure why, I haven't even read it. Maybe because I still have my mother's wooden Don Quixote and Sancho Panza spoons she got when we were stationed in Spain. They're about two foot long and are meant to hang on a wall. Not on mine....but I can't seem to get rid of them.

Otherwise, my game was so-so.

Edited 17 hours ago by Clanstarling

[Prevailing Wind]

Kids Play Catch Over Farmer Green's Shed.

[proserpina65]

16 hours ago, Katy M said:

FJ was an instaget.

Was for me, too.  I remember seeing that monument the first time I was in Madrid.

13 hours ago, Bastet said:

The Keir Starmer TS surprised at first, since this was taped not even three months after the election, but, then again, the UK has gone through PMs like tissue in recent years, so maybe they just couldn't keep track.

Hell, I didn't even realize they had a new one.

23 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

FJ was an instaget for me. Not sure why, I haven't even read it.

I've never read it, but I've read about it.  And I've seen the episode of Quantum Leap where Sam leaps into a drunken actor playing Quixote in a production of Man of La Mancha many, many (many) times, so I'm familiar with the characters.  Scott Bakula singing Dulcinea - dayum!

11 hours ago, The Wild Sow said:

Taxonomy, people -- taxonomy!  King Phillip Came OVER For Good Sex! (Or Good Soup if you're teaching it to children 😄!)

 

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, ORDER, Family, Genus, Species!

I've never heard that in my entire life.  I guess my teachers weren't big on mnemonics, because I didn't learn one for the colors in the spectrum or for the Great lakes either.  And biology class was decades ago so I also wouldn't remember taxonomy.  Might've come up with order but probably not.

14 hours ago, Bastet said:

o watch the rest of the week will be all about religion/mythology, opera, war history, art, today's music, royalty, superheroes, and sci-fi.

I'd do fantastic with mythology, opera, war history, art, royalty and sci-fi, and have a fighting chance with the other 3.  So they'll be math, science and politics of some sort, lol.

I did okay but not great last night.  Ran English Literature, Nice Wheels, Music Miscellanea and US History, and got all but 1 clue in Heist Films (knew what they were looking for but couldn't come up with Inception) and Ends in "CH".  Should've run that last one but missed bandersnatch, which I should've gotten even though I haven't read Jabberwocky in decades; the Bandersnatch ends up featuring in one of the books in Roger Zelazny's Second Chronicles of Amber and I read that last year.

I did get 6 stumpers: prayer wheel, durum, wiser kaiser, gold, Pliocene and Ocean's Eleven.

 

[The Wild Sow]

19 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

12 hours ago, The Wild Sow said:

Taxonomy, people -- taxonomy!  King Phillip Came OVER For Good Sex! (Or Good Soup if you're teaching it to children 😄!)

 

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, ORDER, Family, Genus, Species!

I've never heard that in my entire life.  I guess my teachers weren't big on mnemonics, because I didn't learn one for the colors in the spectrum or for the Great lakes either.  And biology class was decades ago so I also wouldn't remember taxonomy.  Might've come up with order but probably not.

Roy G. Biv for the rainbow. I once used "Who is Roy G. Biv?" in a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-style trivia quiz I wrote. One of my distractors was "Barbara Walters' husband"!

For the Great Lakes, do people here use HOMES, or Super Man Helps Every One? I prefer the latter, especially since it has them from left to right (west to east.)

[Scott]

Kings play chess on fine grain sand, for me.  

I knew the PM was Keir, but couldn't remember the last name.  I doubt I could have convinced Ken that we were on a first-name basis.

Figured the monument had to be to Cervantes, and that one of the statues would be Don Quixote, but debated whether the second was Sancho Panza or Rocinante (his horse).  Went with Sancho, partly because I thought that would be it, but also partly because I wasn't sure if I remembered Rocinante's name correctly.

[Clanstarling]

For you, @proserpina65

 

[proserpina65]

36 minutes ago, The Wild Sow said:

Roy G. Biv for the rainbow. I once used "Who is Roy G. Biv?" in a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire-style trivia quiz I wrote. One of my distractors was "Barbara Walters' husband"!

For the Great Lakes, do people here use HOMES, or Super Man Helps Every One? I prefer the latter, especially since it has them from left to right (west to east.)

I've seen them here but I never remember them.  For me it's just easier to remember the names of the Great Lakes since there are only 5.  And the colors I just guess.

 

[proserpina65]

10 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

For you, @proserpina65

 

Thank you!!

And this reminded me that Sam leapt into the understudy.  John Cullum played the drunken star.

[Browncoat]

I got more TS last night than I remembered!  They include prayer wheel, durum, gold, Columbia, Atchafalaya, order, Pliocene, Ocean's Eleven, and Bandersnatch.

Prayer wheel always makes me think of this:

 

 

[Katy M]

I got FJ, but I call fowl 🐔 on highland being accepted. The clue asked for the word from a work of poetry.  It needs to be exact.  And leaving off an s doesn't fall into an acceptable spelling mistake that doesn't change the pronunciation (maybe if you're french).

I got the missed clues of YooHoo, EL James, Colleen Hoover, technicolor (and my response to getting that right mirrored that daily double reaction for Emma Thompson), and irony.

I got the entire category of warm wrong and the entire category of nothing right.

[ams1001]

November 13:

80% / 57% / 69%

Good first round, bad second round, again.

In J I ran Also a Beverage Brand and After All, missed one in Contemporary Lit and Keeping Warm, and two in Women in Sports (I recognized the names but I would not have come up with them) and It's a Small World. 

In DJ I ran From the Greek, missed two in Nothing to See Here and Adapt, and three in History, Colleges, and Minerals.

But I got all the DDs and FJ (after a short think; Scottish poet, geographic term associated with Scotland…must be Highlands).

TSes: (J had 10; DJ had 4 + 1 DD) I got Sue Bird (wasn't sure from the picture since I've mostly seen her dressed for things other than a basketball game, but I guessed her because she and Megan Rapinoe were on one of the late night shows somewhat recently and she's the only female basketball player that came immediately to mind), Yoo-Hoo, space heater, E.L. James, Colleen Hoover, Technicolor (DD), irony, and box.
 

2 minutes ago, Katy M said:

I got FJ, but I call fowl 🐔 on highland being accepted. The clue asked for the word from a work of poetry.  It needs to be exact.  And leaving off an s doesn't fall into an acceptable spelling mistake that doesn't change the pronunciation (maybe if you're french).

Yeah, I was iffy on that. I just looked up the poem to see if the word appears without the S at all, but it doesn't. Then I reread the clue and it asks for the word in the title so it wouldn't matter, anyway.

[dgpolo]

5 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

Yeah, I was iffy on that. I just looked up the poem to see if the word appears without the S at all, but it doesn't. Then I reread the clue and it asks for the word in the title so it wouldn't matter, anyway.

They ask for the Geographic Word in the title, if -highland- is a geographic word then I can see the wiggle room. Highland is a word within the word Highlands. They did specifically ask for a word from the title, just a geographic word that was in the title. Sorry, probably not explaining well but I can see the wiggle room.