Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[Good Queen Jane]

When I saw Harvey was featured on the ABC Evening News, I knew he was a goner. A Jeopardy Champ doesn’t get national attention until the end of the run. I also wondered about his stamina. He looked like he was having trouble with the buzzer in tonight’s game. But congratulations to him for being a Jeopardy Champ. We may see him again if there’s another Second Chance Tournament.

[shapeshifter]

22 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

it seems like Harvey's going to mop the floor with all contestants more than Matt Amodio or Amy ever did, for months, if not years.
Although, I noticed towards the end today, his voice was doing that thing my Dad's did.

5 hours ago, bad things are bad said:

My understanding is that even healthy contestants tire during filming.  I suspect it will catch up to Harvey at some point, but that was a helluva game 

Yeah. I should've seen it coming. But I was always in denial about my folks too.
I hope Harvey can come back some time for one of the seemingly infinite special Jeopardy! specials.

I'm glad Harvey had 2 worthy competitors. James seems like he could at least win 5. 
Is there any way Emily gets a second chance?

And now I sound like the Oprah of Jeopardy!: You get a second chance! And you get a second chance! Everybody gets a second chance!

 

I did get FJ, but I'm not sure I would have spelled Dalai Lama well enough to get credit.

 

Edited March 12 by shapeshifter

[SomeTameGazelle]

8 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

I did get FJ, but I'm not sure I would have spelled Dalai Lama well enough to get credit.

Obligatory Ogden Nash: "the one-l lama, he is a priest; the two-l llama, he is a beast. And I will bet a silk pajama, there isn't any three-l lama." (He does not address the spelling of Dalai.)

10 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

I'm glad Harvey had 2 worthy competitors. James seems like he could at least win 5. 
Is there any way Emily gets a second chance?

Not impossible. And based on the last couple of years, as a one-day champion maybe Harvey could return for Champion's Wildcard.

[SoMuchTV]

I spelled it Dali Lama, but I think that would count.  

Didn’t hurt that that was an answer on today’s Thrice - anyone else doing that?

https://thrice.geekswhodrink.com
 
ETA:  in case you haven’t heard of it and aren’t wild about clicking on random links, here’s a description from Thejeopardyfan:

Quote

My friends over at Geeks Who Drink have introduced a daily trivia game—Thrice!Existing to make daily clever trivia content accessible to a wide audience, it's a daily challenge that tries to get you to the answer via three separate clues. It has a shareable score functionality to challenge your friends and new questions every day will give you a new daily social ritual. You can find it at thricegame.com.

 

Edited March 12 by SoMuchTV
Adding description of the link for Thrice

[Bastet]

Great game by James and Emily in DJ; I was rooting for her over him, though, as I have a completely irrational hatred of bow ties with anything other than a tuxedo.

It always bugs me in categories like 3-named-people that all three names aren't required.

The abs TS surprised me.

I was terrible in chill, only coming up with "Riptide" (I almost got Sublime, but couldn't get it from brain to mouth fast enough), but if I could have swapped that out I'd have had a fantastic first round; I got all but Keith Haring in stamps and ran the rest.

Same with DJ -- books was my disaster category, in which I only got Rob Roy, but I ran everything else.

FJ was close to an instaguess, and I figured it had to be correct.

[ProudMary]

1 hour ago, SoMuchTV said:

Didn’t hurt that that was an answer on today’s Thrice - anyone else doing that?

Yes. I've been playing it for months now. Tonight's FJ came to me immediately and I'm sure a part of it was because Dalai Lama was a Thrice answer just a few hours before!

[30 Helens]

2 hours ago, Bastet said:

It always bugs me in categories like 3-named-people that all three names aren't required.

I just came here to pick this particular nit. Why even have a category called Three Named People if you’re not going to require all three names? Why not just call it People? (I was shouting out the other two names, BTW. Just because they needed to be said.)

Based on his performance yesterday, I was really surprised to see Harvey go so quickly. He wasn’t around long enough for me to really form an opinion, but he seemed to have the kind of dry, self-deprecating humor that I enjoy, so I think he would have grown on me. But based on the buzz he created, I think he’s a shoo-in for a wildcard slot in whatever tournament.

I tried very hard to talk myself out of FJ, because I was convinced that it was a different spiritual leader who kept elevated quarters. But in the end, whatever mysterious prophet I was trying to summon did not appear, so I got it right by default.

 

[proserpina65]

11 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

I spelled it Dali Lama, but I think that would count.  

That doesn't change the pronunciation, so it should.

11 hours ago, Bastet said:

Great game by James and Emily in DJ; I was rooting for her over him, though, as I have a completely irrational hatred of bow ties with anything other than a tuxedo.

I was rooting for James because he's from Maryland (my home state) but Emily was really good in DJ so her winning would've been quite merited.  I like a game when it's an actual contest.

11 hours ago, Bastet said:

It always bugs me in categories like 3-named-people that all three names aren't required.

Me too.

[ams1001]

13 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Didn’t hurt that that was an answer on today’s Thrice - anyone else doing that?

Never heard of it, but now I've added it to the "Play" folder on my bookmarks bar. Thanks!

[Clanstarling]

On 3/10/2025 at 6:39 PM, ams1001 said:

That was pretty much my thinking. I looked up the flag after and it's very similar to the US flag. Only 11 stripes and one star, and the blue square is smaller.

I should have gotten it - but I didn't. Especially that I find it amusing that the Liberian flag emoji is often mistaken for the US flag in texts and posts.

11 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

I just came here to pick this particular nit. Why even have a category called Three Named People if you’re not going to require all three names? Why not just call it People? (I was shouting out the other two names, BTW. Just because they needed to be said.)

We were complaining about that too. The only way the last name should be acceptable is if the first two names are in the clue. (which would, of course, tend to ruin the clue, but still...)

[ams1001]

March 12:

73% / 63% / 69%

Had a pretty decent first round…ran Bestselling Fiction (despite never having heard of The Vegetarian), missed one in Eat Like a Brit, Movie Title Roles, and From the Greek For…. In DJ I missed one in Tech of the Time, As Seen on TV, and Big "W", two in Historic Actors & Actresses, and three in Revolutionaries and Myth Buster.

FJ was an instaget.

Glad to see James coming back but I would have been good with Kristen winning, too.

TSes: (J had 5; DJ had 1 + 1 DD) I got Blackbeard, The Apprentice, dialogue, Metropolis, Netscape.

Had to go look for that Mary Shelley story ("The Mortal Immortal").

LOL at Ken's response to Kristen's story about saving a drowning man while skinny dipping: "That's amazing…mostly for him."
 

[Katy M]

I got FJ.

I got the missed clues of dialogue and Metropolis.

I got the entire category of fiction right and tech wrong.

I'm not liking this new trend of mine where if I manage to get an entire category right, I get another entire category wrong.

[Browncoat]

Instaget FJ for me tonight.

I also got the TS of Blackbeard, pig's feet, Metropolis, Young Italy (thank you, college Italian), and Netscape.

I liked James' shirt and tie combo.

[ams1001]

23 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

I liked James' shirt and tie combo.

He's a snazzy dresser.

[possibilities]

You can tell the Tournaments are over because I got 2/3 FJ right so far this week.

I liked the purple floral tie James was wearing today. 

Disappointed about Harvey not winning again, but I also think he was tired-- thus slower on the buzzer. He seemed to be trying to ring in just as much as before, but the others got there first.

The skinny dipping rescue story was great.

 

[ams1001]

32 minutes ago, possibilities said:

You can tell the Tournaments are over because I got 2/3 FJ right so far this week.

At the risk of jinxing myself, I've gotten all three so far...I was lucky to get one during the tournaments.

[Bastet]

Good lord, they ask about Trump a lot; this is supposed to be my nightly escape.

I missed three in fiction and two in movies, but ran the rest of the first round.

I expected to blow the myth category as per usual, but got all but Anansi.  TV turned out to be my bad category; I missed three.  But I still did very well for DJ; I got all but Young Italy in revolutionaries and ran the others.

FJ was an instaguess, and I never came up with another one, so I was pretty confident that was it.

[The Wild Sow]

On 3/11/2025 at 10:15 PM, SomeTameGazelle said:

Obligatory Ogden Nash: "the one-l lama, he is a priest; the two-l llama, he is a beast. And I will bet a silk pajama, there isn't any three-l lama." (He does not address the spelling of Dalai.)

Three-L Lama?  Sure there is!  It's a really big fire -- in Boston! 

[proserpina65]

I had a pretty crappy game last night.  Only ran 2 categories (Eat Like A Brit & Revolutionaries) and only had 3 where I got all but one clue (Water Everywhere, Movie Title Roles & As Seen On TV).  Only got 3 stumpers/missed DDs (pigs' feet, The Apprentice and Young Italy).  And I had a lot of stupid things I blurted out, like Oedipus instead of Odysseus and bay instead of firth.

I should've gotten FJ.  I've read Frankenstein and the date + the genre of the story absolutely should've lead me to Mary Shelley.  But did it?  No, all I could come up with was Charlotte Bronte, and I knew that wasn't correct.

Oh well, at least good looking James won again.  Although I'd have been fine with Kristen, too.

[Katy M]

I got FJ right.

I got the missed clues of Great Smoky Mountains (after Everglades), flounder and Thomas Wolfe.

I got the entire categories of beastly verbs and mallet right.  

I ended my streak of having to balance out running a category with totally bungling a category. Whoo-HOO!!!!!

[ams1001]

March 13:

60% / 77% / 67%

Did better in the second round than the first today. In J I ran Feetnotes in History, missed four in Beastly Verbs, and two each in everything else.

In DJ I ran Hand Me a Mallet and Scientifically Titled Movies, missed one in That's Quite a 'Stache!, A Bit of Lit, and Begins & Ends with A, and four in National Anthems.

Did not get FJ. Guess I jinxed myself, after all. But I did get all three DDs.

TSes: (J had 3; DJ had 2) I got height, Leoncavallo (but only after Liz got it wrong).

I was rooting for James to keep going, but I liked both challengers tonight so I'm happy for Jack.

 

[Bastet]

Archive game for me, as I'll be watching Top Chef tonight.  Thankfully, not being able to see the pictures wasn't an issue.

I almost ran the entire first round, getting everything but Pope Francis and Kings. 

I kicked ass in DJ, too; I ran mallet and movies and got all but Leoncavallo in 'stache (seeing the picture wouldn't have helped), all but Thomas Wolfe in lit, all but South Sudan in anthems, and all but Andromeda in A.

And FJ was an instaguess, so I had a great game all around.

[Browncoat]

Instaget FJ for me tonight.

I also got the TS of Great Smoky Mountains (I live nearby!), flounder, height, and Wolfe.  

I was rooting for Liz.

[SomeTameGazelle]

1 hour ago, Browncoat said:

Instaget FJ for me tonight.

Me too. I didn't think Liz' guess of hula hoop was terrible -- I could see how it could both scandalize the puritanical and affect some spines -- but I remained confident in Twister. 

 

[Driad]

Jack's buzzer thumb: guessing he's right handed. Many lefties could handle a buzzer with either hand.

When I was taking my last piano lesson before a big recital, my teacher got a call and told the caller, "It had better be your left leg."  It was; the other student arrived at the recital with their left leg in a cast and played fine.

[30 Helens]

2 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

I didn't think Liz' guess of hula hoop was terrible -- I could see how it could both scandalize the puritanical and affect some spines -- but I remained confident in Twister. 

 

I can see the hula hoop hip gyrations as being scandalous to some… but I can’t see it being called a game. It’s a toy, really. Or maybe an exercise device if you’re trying to build balance or coordination?

Twister was an instaguess for me. There’s a reason it was a staple at 1970s adult parties… and not just ones hosted by chiropractors looking for patients.

3 hours ago, Bastet said:

I'll be watching Top Chef tonight. 

Oh! Thanks for the reminder. I forgot that was back. Now I need to check my DVR and see why it’s not recording.

[Clanstarling]

On 3/12/2025 at 7:47 PM, Bastet said:

I expected to blow the myth category as per usual, but got all but Anansi. 

I was going to say Anansi, but for some reason believed that was a Native American myth and didn't say it.  (Ah, looked it up, Anazazi is a Navajo word, so that explains it.)

[ams1001]

March 14: 

Happy Pi Day! 🥧

80% / 47% / 64%

I had a really good first round…if only "New Jersey" wasn't a sports category I might have had an excellent round. I ran four categories - Alliteration, Potato, Mid-Atlantic Travel, and Virginia & Mary-Land; missed two in Yesterday's News and four in New Jersey.

Not so good in DJ (okay, terrible); missed one in Writers in Books, two in If These Walls Could Talk and Solar System, three in Celebrity Hometowns and Triple Rhyme Time (my brain just wasn’t working quick enough), and all five in Inn the City. 

FJ was an instaguess that I was 99.9% certain was correct.

Despite the mustache (not a fan of facial hair but I guess it works on him), Jack is very cute, and I, too, enjoy some Good & Plenty now and then, so I was rooting for him to keep winning, but I liked the others, too, so good for Alex (who is also pretty cute).

TSes: (J had 2; DJ had 3) I got Virginia Johnson, Northern Pacific (guessed after the first wrong response), Nantucket (a guess, based on vaguely picturing book covers I've seen; I think I have one of Elin Hilderbrand's books that I picked up at Book Expo America years ago that I've never read), and sportswriter (also a guess, but the category was writers in books and the clue implied someone writing about sports, so...).
 

[Browncoat]

Instaget FJ for me again tonight.  I tried to second-guess myself, though, because  I wasn't sure when the show's run started, thinking it might have been in the 20th century.  But I stuck with it, so yay, me!

I also got the TS of Virginia Johnson (surprising TS!), Northern Pacific, and Nantucket.  I've read a lot of Hilderbrand's Nantucket books.

[shapeshifter]

I was so close to getting my first week's worth of FJs, but then all I could keep saying to myself was: The one about the Mormons.

Wednesday I got the TSs of The Apprentice (I watched The Oscars) and Netscape.

[ams1001]

48 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Instaget FJ for me again tonight.  I tried to second-guess myself, though, because  I wasn't sure when the show's run started, thinking it might have been in the 20th century.  But I stuck with it, so yay, me!

Premiered on Broadway on March 24, 2011.

[30 Helens]

5 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

I was so close to getting my first week's worth of FJs, but then all I could keep saying to myself was: The one about the Mormons.

You got closer than me. I knew what the clue was referring to, I just couldn’t pull the name (or the religion) out of my brain nooks. At least I’m not staring blankly like I did for most of the tournament games.

Black licorice makes my tongue angry.

Edited March 15 by 30 Helens

[Bastet]

I watched with friends, so didn't keep track, but we made it an early night so I remember more of it than usual.  FJ was an instaget for all three of us, and none of us could believe Johnson was a TS.  The triple rhyme time category was hella fun, especially for me as the only one to run it.  I was terrible in writers within books, only correctly guessing sportswriter and Margaret Atwood.  But otherwise I did quite well.

[gonzosgirrl]

Team Black Licorice!!!

I got all the FJs this week - not sure that has ever happened before. I saw Book of Mormon for the first time last year -a touring production- and was amazed that there were more than a few people who left at or before intermission, clearly scandalized. I just kept thinking, it's been out for 13 years. How did you not know what to expect? (Thus knowing it was a 21st Century production.)

[Browncoat]

5 hours ago, gonzosgirrl said:

Team Black Licorice!!!

I got all the FJs this week - not sure that has ever happened before. I saw Book of Mormon for the first time last year -a touring production- and was amazed that there were more than a few people who left at or before intermission, clearly scandalized. I just kept thinking, it's been out for 13 years. How did you not know what to expect? (Thus knowing it was a 21st Century production.)

I can see people not being aware of the language (one song in particular comes to mind), even if they are aware of the general plot.  I was shocked that no one walked out of the touring production I saw near where I live.  Or maybe I just didn't notice.

[Katy M]

I almost said Rubik's Cube, but I said something else insteead.  Not wanting to look stupid, I won't share my answer.

I got the missed clues of harpy, Pleiades, desert, Omega Man, fiddle and Mecca.

I got the entire category of nebula right.

and I know they are very different things, but I am constantly getting Jimmy Neutron and Napoleon Dyanmite mixed up.

[ams1001]

March 17 🍀:

80% / 57% / 67%

Had a pretty good first round and a pretty bad second round. In J I ran Mergers & Acquisitions and Also a New Wave Band, missed one in Bird/Plane/Nebula and I Said What I Said, and two in "Bad" Entertainment and Common Bonds. In DJ I missed one in Instruments, two in Book Report, Dancing in Non-Musical Movies, Greek Alphabet, and Yves Dropping, and three in Around the World.

Did not get FJ. Rubik's Cube vaguely flickered through my brain but I can't actually say I got it.

TSes: (J had 4 (the archive had Android marked as a TS but it wasn't); DJ had 5 +  both DDs) I got harpy eagle, Mecca, fiddle, Tequila, alpha particle (but only after he was wrong; I also guessed beta first), and Omega Man (not even sure where that one came from…).
 

[opus]

Ugh. I was torn between Tetris and Rubiks Cube. I went with Tetris. If the category had just been ’Toys’ it would have been way easier (I consider Rubiks Cube a toy, Tetris a game). ‘Toys And Games’ left me at 50/50.

[Browncoat]

Instaguess FJ for me tonight.  I tried to second-guess myself, but couldn't think of anything else that was plausible.  Good start to the week, but we know how that often turns out!

I also got the TS of Harpy Eagle, deserts, Omega Man, Mecca, and Tequila. 

[Bastet]

I ran bands, but otherwise the first round was a tale of "Oh, so close!" -- I missed one each in all the rest.

DJ's tale, however, was of disaster.  I missed all but Pulp Fiction in movies, three each in world and book report, and two each in the rest.

I rebounded to get FJ as an instaguess.

[SoMuchTV]

2 hours ago, opus said:

Ugh. I was torn between Tetris and Rubiks Cube. I went with Tetris. If the category had just been ’Toys’ it would have been way easier (I consider Rubiks Cube a toy, Tetris a game). ‘Toys And Games’ left me at 50/50.

I was in the toy camp but I went with Silly Putty. Because, it’s a solid, it’s a liquid…

[bad things are bad]

I was trying to think of a toy that incorporated all the solid forms. Had nothing 

[Grizzly]

Not sure if I would've gotten Rubiks Cube for FJ, but if I had paid attention to the category, I would not have guessed periodic table.

[shapeshifter]

FJ Rubik's Cube made sense to me (for once!) given the clue of:

• Preparing for a course on descriptive geometry & researching the 5 Platonic solids led a professor to invent this

But then I f'loved geometry in high school, and spent several days on a couch in the 80s lieu of $1K medical treatment doing this:

…although I haven't solved it since then. It's in a drawer where nobody can mess it up, LOL.

No TSs for me, just a few "oh yeahs."

[The Wild Sow]

16 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

I was in the toy camp but I went with Silly Putty. Because, it’s a solid, it’s a liquid…

Yeah, I thought for a minute of Slime for the same reason, but went with Rubik's Cube.

[Katy M]

I got FJ, but was in no way confident in my answer. I don't remember ever seeing that sign. I toyed with Alice.  Thought maybe Barney Miller. Unlike Ken, I don't think Mash was a good guess at all.

I got the missed clue of moose. Boy those contestants were obsessed with elk.

[illdoc]

20 minutes ago, Katy M said:

I got the missed clue of moose. Boy those contestants were obsessed with elk.

Fraternal Order of {blank deer}---elk was the first one that came to mind for me. Moose when elk was incorrect. 

 

22 minutes ago, Katy M said:

I don't remember ever seeing that sign

I didn't even notice a sign, but I thought "what would have a maximum capacity?" and figured "restaurant/bar". Cheers was my first thought. Alice is a good answer.

[Browncoat]

1 minute ago, illdoc said:

I didn't even notice a sign, but I thought "what would have a maximum capacity?" and figured "restaurant/bar". Cheers was my first thought. Alice is a good answer.

That was my thought process as well, and I also thought it had to be someplace with basically one set.  MASH is a terrible answer.

I got the TS of deadly nightshade and moose.

[SoMuchTV]

I’ll stick up for the MASH answers not being terrible guesses. They had various things around camp to remind them of home (main thing I can think of are the signposts with mileage to various cities) so I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had a sign like that in the operating room or the showers or something. 

Cheers just seemed a little more likely, even though I wasn’t 100% sure I remember the sign. 

[opus]

Above Norm….