Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[Katy M]

It took me almost the entire time, but I got FJ.

I got the missed clues of The Glass Menagerie, Syracuse, fire plug, nickel, and Rochester.

I got the entire categories of hit makers and geology wrong.

Terrible game for me.

[Browncoat]

I can't believe I missed FJ, but I completely blanked.  I'm choosing to blame the snowstorm.

But I did get the TS of Glass Menagerie, Syracuse, fireplug, nickel, limestone, and foxhounds.

[shapeshifter]

Having lived in Rochester for 4 years now, and having been to the Eastman Museum, I would question my cognitive state if I'd missed the TS of “The Eastman School of Music's Kodak Hall seats about 2,300 for concerts at the university of this city.” IEIYKI

FJ of John McCain was an instaget. 

I'm glad Drew won. I want him to go on winning so we can see him compete against someone like Matt Amodio.

I'm also glad that the nerdier appearing guys got this far, but I have so much empathy (or maybe just sympathy?) for their awkwardness that I cringe. 
Sam answered 21 correctly in this game, so he should have some bragging rights.

The TS of “plug nickel" was appropriately assigned a lowly $200 value for me and any of my generation or older, but they may have to start re-evaluating such references, like they seemingly did by making Michael Landon a $1200 clue yesterday.

[SomeTameGazelle]

52 minutes ago, Katy M said:

I got the entire categories of hit makers and geology wrong.

I think Adele might have been the only hit maker I got.

I was glad that Drew and Sam made up some ground on Enzo on the second day, and any of the three would have been a deserving winner, but I was rooting for them in the order of Sam, Enzo, Drew. However since Sam's guess for FJ wasn't really an American, I am fine with Drew winning.

[SoMuchTV]

9 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

The TS of “plug nickel" was appropriately assigned a lowly $200 value for me and any of my generation or older, but they may have to start re-evaluating such references, like they seemingly did by making Michael Landon a $1200 clue yesterday.

Didn’t they very recently have a TS for “don’t take any wooden nickels”? Or was that on Celebrity J? Anyway, I guess potential contestants need to brush up their old-timely nickel expressions. 

[SoMuchTV]

14 minutes ago, possibilities said:

I got 3/5. I would have had 4, but I sself-doubted myself out of one of my answers. Alas!

Cornetto for everyone

 

Bringing this back over from the FJ contest thread. I thought that was a Nutty Buddy. Mr. TV thought it was a drumstick. Now that I’ve checked the category (“begins with a musical instrument”), I know I wouldn’t have gotten credit, but wouldn’t “drumstick”?

[Prevailing Wind]

But they had a drumstick clue withe the chicken leg.

When I see Drew, I think "Young Val Kilmer."

[shapeshifter]

7 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Mr. TV thought it was a drumstick.…the category (“begins with a musical instrument”), I know I wouldn’t have gotten credit, but wouldn’t “drumstick”?

7 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

6 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

But they had a drumstick clue withe the chicken leg.

Yes, “chicken leg” was the $400 clue for “drumstick” in the BEGINS WITH A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT category,
but that clue was the 25th clue revealed after the $2000 clue (#12) of:

• “In this Italian frozen dessert, a layer of chocolate insulates the cone from the ice cream.”

However, since the $2k clue specifies “Italian,“ the judges probably assumed that they would not have to accept “drumstick.” 

 …but, on the third hand, Wikipedia does include:

• ’Due to the historic popularity of this dessert, it is commonly called a "drumstick" even if it is manufactured by some other company and branded otherwise.… [citation needed]’
  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumstick_(frozen_dairy_dessert)#History).

…but note Wikipedia’s “[citation needed],” which I suppose would give the Jeopardy! judges an out, whichever way they would rule — if Drew had said “Drumstick” instead of “Cornetto.”

But it seems to me that the Clue Crew should have only picked one of those 2 clues for that category.🤷🏼‍♀️
Or maybe the Clue Crew likes to live on the edge.🤣
Perhaps the $2K clue would have been better worded:

• In this Italian[-named] frozen dessert, a layer of chocolate insulates the cone from the ice cream

I vaguely recall the pre-assembled and wrapped ice cream cone called “Drumstick” from my youth as being of inferior quality to freshly scooped ice cream cones.

…but I don’t think I’ve encountered the "Italian" (Unilever brand) of “Cornetto” (wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornetto_(frozen_dessert)).


…which is probably a geographic or generational distribution difference.

Edited Saturday at 10:43 AM by shapeshifter

[SomeTameGazelle]

2 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

…but I don’t think I’ve encountered the "Italian" (Unilever brand) of “Cornetto” (wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornetto_(frozen_dessert)).


…which is probably a geographic or generational distribution difference.

The only reason I have the word cornetto in my head is because of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's "Cornetto Trilogy". We never called the ice cream cornetto, always drumstick. I don't know whether cornetto is used in North America at all. But even though I occasionally indulge in a drumstick from my local convenience store nowadays I don't remember thinking of it as either a drumstick or a cornetto recently, which makes me wonder what is on the label. 

I do occasionally wonder why some of the clues seem extra British. 

I very confidently guessed Ghost for the 1990 movie with the tagline "His story will touch you, even though he can't"

Edited Saturday at 12:42 PM by SomeTameGazelle

[Trey]

2 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

I very confidently guessed Ghost for the 1990 movie with the tagline "His story will touch you, even though he can't"

So did I.

13 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Didn’t they very recently have a TS for “don’t take any wooden nickels”? Or was that on Celebrity J? Anyway, I guess potential contestants need to brush up their old-timely nickel expressions. 

Yes, they did.  I thought they also had a "plug nickel" lately too but the archives say not.

Instaget FJ for me.

I am glad Drew won but any of the contestants would have been fine with me.

[Shrek]

5 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

Yes, “chicken leg” was the $400 clue for “drumstick” in the BEGINS WITH A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT category,
but that clue was the 25th clue revealed after the $2000 clue (#12) of:

• “In this Italian frozen dessert, a layer of chocolate insulates the cone from the ice cream.”

However, since the $2k clue specifies “Italian,“ the judges probably assumed that they would not have to accept “drumstick.” 

 …but, on the third hand, Wikipedia does include:

• ’Due to the historic popularity of this dessert, it is commonly called a "drumstick" even if it is manufactured by some other company and branded otherwise.… [citation needed]’
  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumstick_(frozen_dairy_dessert)#History).

…but note Wikipedia’s “[citation needed],” which I suppose would give the Jeopardy! judges an out, whichever way they would rule — if Drew had said “Drumstick” instead of “Cornetto.”

But it seems to me that the Clue Crew should have only picked one of those 2 clues for that category.🤷🏼‍♀️
Or maybe the Clue Crew likes to live on the edge.🤣
Perhaps the $2K clue would have been better worded:

• In this Italian[-named] frozen dessert, a layer of chocolate insulates the cone from the ice cream

I vaguely recall the pre-assembled and wrapped ice cream cone called “Drumstick” from my youth as being of inferior quality to freshly scooped ice cream cones.

…but I don’t think I’ve encountered the "Italian" (Unilever brand) of “Cornetto” (wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornetto_(frozen_dessert)).


…which is probably a geographic or generational distribution difference.

I remember Wall's as a British ice cream company & that looks exactly like I remember the cornetto from when I was a teenager, the nuts were usually hazelnuts which are used a lot in the U.K. with Cadbury whole nut being my favourite chocolate bar.

Edited to add that I always remember the tv commercial being set in Italy & some of the song from it.

Here you go for those interested, from 1981

 

Edited Saturday at 03:54 PM by Shrek

[possibilities]

I felt some affection for Enzo, which was only increased by his thank you monologue. 

 

[Clanstarling]

On 1/9/2025 at 1:30 PM, Bastet said:

Yes, thank you.  All the fires have missed my neighborhood, so I've just dealt with power outages and a lot of smoke, but I know people who've lost homes and it's a sad, stressful time here.  We've had non-stop news coverage on all the local stations, of course, so no J! and when I tried to check the archive I couldn't manage to concentrate on it.  But I'll be back in the conversation soon, I'm sure.  Thank you for checking on me, and I hope any other L.A. posters are okay as well.

I'm so glad. I live in fire territory as well, and that's the worst I've ever seen. The winds, man, they are devastating and hard to fight. We had a much smaller version of what's going on in a town to the west of us a few years ago. Horrible. Hang in there.

On 1/9/2025 at 5:10 PM, Browncoat said:

I also got the TS of Pike's Peak, Ginsberg, Michael Landon, water, Wedgwood, and Family Ties.

Me too.

15 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

I think Adele might have been the only hit maker I got.

I didn't get any - I'm a classic, you know. Old and not seen/heard as often. 😄

12 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

When I see Drew, I think "Young Val Kilmer."

I can see that - though Drew is cuter, imho.

[Prevailing Wind]

8 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

I very confidently guessed Ghost for the 1990 movie with the tagline "His story will touch you, even though he can't"

I went with "The Boy in the Bubble."

 

[illdoc]

22 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I went with "The Boy in the Bubble."

I think it's "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" (I went with "Ghost", myself, but I did briefly think of "Bubble" until I remembered it was in the 70's (John Travolta)).

[30 Helens]

23 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I went with "The Boy in the Bubble."

 

Ha! My husband went with the Broadway musical version, “Bubble Boy!”. I laughed at him.

I was pulling for Drew and am glad he won. Not only do I like his personality, he seems like someone who really could have been a multi-day champ if things had gone his way back when. (And if he had studied his Taylor Swift board.) I did feel bad for Enzo, who had such a strong first game. That had to be extra disappointing for him.

[Prevailing Wind]

11 hours ago, illdoc said:

think it's "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" (

You are correct. However, imdb says there IS a "The Boy in the Bubble" and it stars Alan Rickman (one of my faves!)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1990340/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_2

[proserpina65]

Friday was a so-so game for me.  I got FJ, although I did think of Lafayette first (I blame the book about Lafayette laying on my best friend's coffee table for that), then realized he wasn't American and changed it in time.  I only ran President's Sibling and Plug.  Got all but one clue om "Ulu", Play, National Parks, Musical Instrument and Ships.  The stumpers I got were nickel, fireplug, Rochester and Syracuse, and I did get the missed DD of The Glass Menagerie.

I should've done better in Tate Expectations but I had no idea about the Kandinsky clue because I hate modern art, and also somehow "beagles" came out of my mouth when I went to say "foxhounds".

Side note: if you ever have the chance to visit the Tate Britain, go see the Turner collection.  It's located in its own group of galleries by the requirements of the bequest which led the Tate to acquire the collection, so it's all together and one of the few collections they didn't screw up when they did that stupid thematic "realignment" back around 2000.  (Don't know if the museum is still arranged that way.  Hope not because I hated having to hunt for the Pre-Raphaelites.)

 

Edited Monday at 05:59 PM by proserpina65

[proserpina65]

On 1/10/2025 at 8:28 PM, SomeTameGazelle said:

I think Adele might have been the only hit maker I got.

I got Espresso, Chappell Roan and Billie Eilish, mainly because I listen to a pop station at work.  Wouldn't have gotten Megan Thee Stallion in a million years since I've never heard the song quoted.  Should've gotten Adele because I love her version of Make You Feel My Love, but had a brain fart and said Dolly Parton instead.

On 1/10/2025 at 10:35 PM, SoMuchTV said:

Bringing this back over from the FJ contest thread. I thought that was a Nutty Buddy. Mr. TV thought it was a drumstick. Now that I’ve checked the category (“begins with a musical instrument”), I know I wouldn’t have gotten credit, but wouldn’t “drumstick”?

Cornettos are much less common in the US than the Drumstick.  I only know about them because of the Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg film trilogy.  Apparently they have fewer toppings than Drumsticks which makes me wonder what's the point.  I'd have argued for Mr. TV's answer being acceptable.

On 1/10/2025 at 11:07 PM, Prevailing Wind said:

But they had a drumstick clue withe the chicken leg.

When I see Drew, I think "Young Val Kilmer."

They hadn't gotten to that clue yet, so I think they might've had to give it if a contestant had answered drumstick.  I guess you could argue that isn't Italian, but we've seen them accept less accurate answers.

On 1/11/2025 at 10:29 AM, Shrek said:

the nuts were usually hazelnuts which are used a lot in the U.K. with Cadbury whole nut being my favourite chocolate bar.

Okay, that would make it better than a Drumstick, imo.

 

[ams1001]

January 13:

67% / 63% / 64%

Meh. In J I ran That Phrase is Money, missed one in Latinas and Science, two in 2015, and three in Other Uses of Texting Abbreviations and TV This Century. In DJ I missed one in Anatomical Song Titles and MacArthur Fellows, two in Are You Surreal?, There in the World is That, and Ends in UE, and three in People of the Book.

Edit: Oh, yeah, I didn't get FJ.

TSes: (J had 2 + the DD; DJ had 3 + both DDs) I got antimony, Paraguay (after Uruguay was wrong), Lady Chatterley's Lover (DD).
 

Edited Yest. at 02:40 AM by ams1001

[Katy M]

FJ was an instaget.

I got the missed clues of antimony, Paraguay and Lady Chatterly's Lover.

I got the entire category of money phrase right and the entire category of TV wrong.

[Browncoat]

Almost instaget FJ for me tonight. 

I also got the TS of momentum, Paraguay, and Lewis Carroll.  

[SomeTameGazelle]

I don't know how well-known Ron Sexsmith is in the US, but it took me a moment to get past the thought "I don't believe Ron Sexsmith is from Alberta" on that clue. 

I got all of the book category but couldn't access the name of Henry Louis Gates.

That Nicobar Pigeon was beautiful.

FJ was an instaget.

[Browncoat]

9 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

That Nicobar Pigeon was beautiful.

I agree!

[bad things are bad]

Aaaahhh! Lady Chatterly's LoverS!

Damn, was rooting for him

[possibilities]

I remembered Jen! First returning contestant I remembered. 

I'm a little confused about these tournaments, though. I take it that Second Chance and Wild Card are different competitions, but I would swear Will is competing in both? 

I wish they would just do regular games.

[SomeTameGazelle]

16 minutes ago, possibilities said:

I'm a little confused about these tournaments, though. I take it that Second Chance and Wild Card are different competitions, but I would swear Will is competing in both? 

The second chance winners are then eligible for the wild card. And the wild card winner or winners will advance to the TOC. (Second chancers are people who came close but didn't win their regular game. Wild cards are otherwise champs who didn't automatically get invited to the TOC.)

[proserpina65]

52 minutes ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

The second chance winners are then eligible for the wild card. And the wild card winner or winners will advance to the TOC. (Second chancers are people who came close but didn't win their regular game. Wild cards are otherwise champs who didn't automatically get invited to the TOC.)

Otherwise known as people who do not belong in the TOC, imo.

Damn it, Jen!  You almost took out Will!  I was so hoping you would after Paul self-destructed.

[ams1001]

January 14:

63% / 53% / 57%

Bleh. In J I missed one in Lit-Pourri and Icelandia, two in Movie Profession, As They Say, and Cold, and three in Monster Trucks. In DJ I missed one in American History and Botany, two in Fashionable Names, three in Hercules and Wild Song, and four in Crossword Clues O.

Did not get FJ (but I also guessed Iran so at least I'm not alone there).

TSes: (J had 4; DJ had 6 + 1 DD) I got Isaac Mizrahi.
 

[Katy M]

I said Afghanistan because 1979 just made me think of Russian invading Afghanistan and I didn't figure the answer was Russia.

I got the missed clues of Blue Thunder (not sure where it came from), Priam, stag, and occult.

I got the entire categories of Hercules and botany (of all things) right.  I thought I was going to get all of cold truth, but I missed the $200. Hate that when they go backwards and I think I've got it all sewed up and I mess up the easy clue.

[Grizzly]

I recognized all of them. Knew Blue Thunder and Priam. Due to all the news about Carter, I was traveling towards  Egypt. But didn't get there in time to write it down.

[SomeTameGazelle]

I assume they would have accepted hind as well as stag. I was trying to think of the boar and thought I was smart to eventually recall the epithet Calydonian ... only to look it up and find that Hercules' boar was Erymanthian.

I remembered Stevie and was hoping he would do better, but Evan played very well and I was pleased for him. Davey was probably right to take the risks he took but unfortunately they did not all pay off.

Edited 9 hours ago by SomeTameGazelle

[Bastet]

I was pleased with myself for finally recognizing someone, Stevie, and then I saw on the archive that's because his episodes just aired last month. 

I only ran cold in the first round, but I got all but accountants in movie professions, all but sweeps clean in sayings, and all but Althing in Iceland.  I missed two each in lit and trucks (every single one of the three I got in that last category was a guess, but they count).

I only ran one category in DJ, too (botany).  I got all but Manassas in history and all but DJ Khaled in songs and missed two in fashion, but the rest sucked.  I did better in Hercules than anticipated -- which is to say I got one.  I missed three in crossword clues.

I got FJ, but might not have it not for Jimmy Carter's recent death putting the year of the Camp David accords fresh in my mind.

[30 Helens]

I knew it had to be the Camp David summit, but could not remember the participants. Israel and…. Begin and… arrgh. My brain is officially mush.