Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[chessiegal]

8 hours ago, Quickbeam said:

Pietà! My husband and I both said it at once. It was at the 64-65 Worlds Fair and I must have seen it 20 times. It was very memorable. I remember as a kid thinking “wow, that’s some talented sculptor!”. 🤣

Me too! Only I saw it once. My parents had no idea, but I knew my junior high art teacher would be glad I saw it. I saw it again when we were in Rome several years ago.

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, bad things are bad said:

I said, "Mary holding Jesus's body after he was taken down from the cross, like the Pieta." Does that count? 

Sure. 🙌

But for too many reasons I did not see the category of ITALIAN WORDS & PHRASES, so after reading the clue of

• This theme tackled in art by Bellini & Michelangelo isn't explicitly mentioned in the Bible, but is part of the "Seven Sorrows of Mary“

and not being familiar with the "Seven Sorrows of Mary,“ 
I spent the think music trying to come up with a “Sorrow” typified by Michelangelo’s Pieta and settled on Mourning.
“Pity” didn’t cross my mind; it doesn’t seem like a “Sorrow” to me.🤷🏻‍♀️

At least I managed to autopilot myself through NURSERY RHYME LINES, including the TS of Fiddlers Three.

[ams1001]

10 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

Felt very smug to have thought of acquit.

I did so badly at that category. If you don't just get it from the clue, then it's like anagrams with extra letters thrown in, and I already suck at anagrams when I don't have to figure out which letters don't belong.

9 hours ago, Bastet said:

The players not, well, playing into this nonsense makes me happy; thanks for the news.

I think when they selected the category they mostly just said "Iran" instead of reading the whole thing, too.

3 hours ago, bad things are bad said:

I said, "Mary holding Jesus's body after he was taken down from the cross, like the Pieta." Does that count? 

Hey, you got the word in there!

[proserpina65]

On 10/17/2024 at 1:49 PM, ebk57 said:

Angelos is gone, so it's safe to come back! 

And with that, I'll stop derailing this tread with baseball talk.  ☺️

I think I've just been gone too long to care anymore.  Plus, I have to listen to my mother complaining about Gunnar Henderson enough as it is.  Not sure what her beef with him is, but boy does she have one.

On 10/17/2024 at 7:34 PM, Katy M said:

I said Whistler.

The date and the fact that he did full-length portraits gave me John Singer Sargent right away.  Helps that I like his work a lot.

Friday's FJ was also an instaget despite my hating that book.

Last night's FJ took a moment longer but once I pictured the Michelangelo statue, pieta came to mind quickly.  Overall, it wasn't a great game for me, though.  Don't remember a lot of my answers, but I missed all the clues in the Investment category and only got pistachios and Farsi in the Iran category.  Should've at least gotten hijab but for some reason that word and I don't get along.  When I can remember it, I invariably say "hajib" instead.

I did get marine & Maine, witch & with, fiddlers three, oranges & lemons, the Cliffs of Moher, Big Sur, Cape Breton, and consulate, though.

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh were terrible clue presenters but at least that didn't keep the contestants from clearing the board.

On 10/18/2024 at 7:48 AM, SomeTameGazelle said:

I had no idea for FJ and was wondering whether there was any logical way to get to Sargent without recognizing the quote. Or was it just a gamble based on the date and currency? 

Without a decent knowledge of American art of that period, it would be pretty hard.  I wasn't familiar with the quote but am very familiar with his work.  This is his most famous portrait:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/madame-x-madame-pierre-gautreau/XQFBdVEh0NHo0A?hl=en&ms={"x"%3A0.5%2C"y"%3A0.5%2C"z"%3A8.934219644592948%2C"size"%3A{"width"%3A4.600645871815554%2C"height"%3A1.237541349988021}}

Whistler wasn't a bad guess, although he was earlier and less known for being a portraitist at the time, his most famous painting was the portrait of sorts of his mother.

14 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

Felt very smug to have thought of acquit.

I work in a court house.  I should've gotten it but of course I didn't.  <hangs head in shame>

18 hours ago, Bastet said:

Please tell me Ken didn't actually pronounce Iran like "I ran".  With the "so far away" part of the clue, I fear it's so, but I cannot stand when Americans mispronounce Iran (and Iraq) that way.

He did, but I'll credit him with it being in service of the pun in the clue title and not him not knowing better.

[dgpolo]

I thought it was pretty funny that Ken stated they wanted two words for the Lose a Letter category and Marcus, just a few minutes later, answered with one word.

[ams1001]

October 22:

70% / 70% / 69%

Not a terrible game…In J I ran TV Transports, missed one in Selling Insurance and 6 by 6 Names, two in Part of the Story and Peninsula, and three in M before N. In DJ I missed one each in Pop Stars, Cultural 19th Century, and Chemistry, and two in Dutch Colonial Empire, French Words & Phrases, and She's a Saint.

Was not optimistic for the FJ category, and I was right not to be. I had no clue.

TSes: (J had 3 + the DD; DJ had 7) I got James Fenimore Cooper and amalgam.

I was expecting him to get on my nerves but liked Tristan so I was rooting for him. But I like Will, too, so good for him.
 

[Katy M]

Sometimes you don't know what you know. For FJ, I said who wrote the Maltese Falcon? I have no idea.  I'll just say Dashiell Hammett.  LOL.

I got the missed clues of The Fall of the House of Usher, St. Petersburg, James Fenimore cooper and Paramaribo.

I got the entire categories of TV and story right.

[Bastet]

"The Fall of the House of Usher" being a TS made me sad, not because of the original story, but because it means nobody watched the limited series by that name last year on Netflix; it's fantastic.

I ran the entire first round, so was off to a great start.

I didn't run a damn thing in DJ, though.  I got all but Renee Rapp in pop, all but thorium in chemistry, and all but chateau in French, but missed two each in the rest.  So, not a bad round by any means, but I had been on such a roll.

FJ was an instaguess I figured had to be right.

 

[ECM1231]

2/2 correct FJ this week.             It's exciting when a contestant comes from 3rd place to win. Wasn't sorry to see the current champ leave. 

[SomeTameGazelle]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

I got all but Renee Rapp in pop

I thought the photo looked like a blonde Billie Eilish but didn't think the rest of the clue fit.

4 hours ago, Katy M said:

Sometimes you don't know what you know. For FJ, I said who wrote the Maltese Falcon? I have no idea.  I'll just say Dashiell Hammett.  LOL.

Dashiell Hammett, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Raymond Chandler are names that are all jumbled together in my head and I am just lucky if I pull the right one out.

I did get "in good hands", St Petersburg, and James Fenimore Cooper.

[possibilities]

I want to read Stephanie's research about snake representation.

[30 Helens]

4 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

Dashiell Hammett, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Raymond Chandler are names that are all jumbled together in my head and I am just lucky if I pull the right one out.

Yeah, I was like “Sam Spade? No, an actual person. Raymond Chandler?” Meh. And I read all those books in my teens. 

[januaryman]

That was a surprise ending. Good for Will - I like quirky players but Tristan didn't do it for me this time.

[Browncoat]

9 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:

Dashiell Hammett, Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Raymond Chandler are names that are all jumbled together in my head and I am just lucky if I pull the right one out.

I did not pull the right one out.  And it was an archive game for me last night, too.

I did get the TS of good hands, Fall of the House of Usher, St. Petersburg, James Fenimore Cooper, and amalgam.

[SomeTameGazelle]

9 hours ago, possibilities said:

I want to read Stephanie's research about snake representation.

I desperately wanted to know whether she is familiar with Natalie Haynes' Stone Blind about Medusa.

[Clanstarling]

On 10/21/2024 at 4:47 PM, ams1001 said:

Pretty good first round…ran Pup Quiz (making Saber proud!)

I thought of  her when the category came up, but I did not do her proud. 😔

On 10/21/2024 at 5:00 PM, Browncoat said:

I actually got FJ -- it was a wild-ass insta-guess, but it counts! 

I kept thinking "he wrote Sam Spade stuff" and my brain chugged and chugged, nothing. Then I gave up, and it came to me just in time.

On 10/21/2024 at 8:58 PM, SomeTameGazelle said:

Never heard of Mary's Seven Sorrows before  but came up with pieta through sheet inability to think of any other artistic sorrowful Mary action let alone one with an Italian name.

I had never head of them either, and wracked my brain. Finally I said Pieta because I knew that was the name of Michelangelo's statue and was gobsmacked when it was right. Looked it up on Google Translate and it said "compassion", but looking up the 7 sorrows, the statue seems to represent the sixth sorrow:  "Mary receives the body of Jesus." So I'm not sure about the translation.

[proserpina65]

17 hours ago, Katy M said:

Sometimes you don't know what you know. For FJ, I said who wrote the Maltese Falcon? I have no idea.  I'll just say Dashiell Hammett.  LOL.

I said Raymond Chandler.  Right time period, right kind of hard-boiled noir detective stories, wrong author.  But googling did tell me that Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, which is cool.

[ams1001]

October 23:

77% / 47% / 61%

Pretty good first round…ran Cliffs/Sands/Buttes and Be Witched, missed one in Quarter and two in everything else.

Pretty bad second round (but the players didn't do that well, either, so…). Missed one in Broadway Leading Ladies and Eponymously Yours, three in The Trojan War and 4-Legged Friends, and four in Quoth the President and "Ode".

No clue for FJ. Didn't know the church had a birthday. Starting to think about 🍩🍩 for Friday…

TSes: (J had 6 + the DD; DJ had 12 + both DDs) I got Comedy of Errors, John Sutter (DD, right at the last second), liberty, sea serpent, and squirrel.

[Grizzly]

Yes! This lapsed Episcopalian knew Pentecost!

[Katy M]

I knew FJ, but I totally blanked.  

I got the missed clues of Comedy of Errors, 1000 Splendid Suns (great book), The Red Pony, wine women and song, Sutter, yodeling, chameleon, and Troilus and Cressida.

I got the entire categories of buttes and bewitched right.

[PaulaO]

Wonder if FJ! is tied to the opening of Conclave on Friday.  As a Baptist/Methodist/Presbyterian, I had no clue.  I don’t know what Pentecost is.

[ams1001]

7 minutes ago, PaulaO said:

Wonder if FJ! is tied to the opening of Conclave on Friday.  As a Baptist/Methodist/Presbyterian, I had no clue.  I don’t know what Pentecost is.

Even when I went to church I didn't actually know what Pentecost was.

[Browncoat]

I didn't have the first clue for FJ.  As I suspected when the category was revealed.

But I did get quite a few of the many, many TS, including Comedy of Errors, A Thousand Splendid Suns, kiss him goodbye, The Red Pony (ugh, Steinbeck), wine women and song, Chita Rivera & Rita Moreno, Echinoderms, vole, Grant's tomb, and squirrel, though squirrel was a guess.

[chessiegal]

I could see a painting with the apostles and a dove (the Holy Spirit), but didn't make it past Ascension to the Pentecost.

[dgpolo]

40 minutes ago, Katy M said:

I knew FJ, but I totally blanked.  

Me too! I even knew it had to do with speaking in tongues and I still couldn't pry the word Pentecost from my brain.

[SoMuchTV]

I thought maybe 12 years of Catholic school would help me tonight, but no… It was somewhere back in the memory vault, and I’m pretty sure I could have picked it out of a multiple choice, but no luck here. 

[SomeTameGazelle]

2 hours ago, ams1001 said:

sea serpent

I thought of Stephanie from yesterday when the Laocoon clue came up. 

[Bastet]

I'm a bit surprised "Kiss Him Goodbye" was a TS.  The Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno TS was a bummer.

I ran Hello & Goodbye and español, but missed one each in all the rest of the first round -- Indonesia in cliffs, Lot in quarter, familiar in witches, and duty, honor, country in words.

I was terrible in presidents, only correctly guessing Teddy Roosevelt.  "Ode" didn't go well for me, either; I missed three (disappointing, as I usually kick ass in vocabulary categories).  So DJ was not good, but it wasn't terrible -- I ran Broadway and eponyms, and got all but chameleon in animals.  I missed two in Trojan.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, I did not know FJ.

 

[possibilities]

Watching the episode, I was thinking that Brett is a dead ringer for the actor who plays a character on the show "Family Law". 

I looked it up and in fact, it was him:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0962260/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t7

 

If they mentioned this on the show, it happened when I was distracted, so I missed it.

 

[chessiegal]

1 minute ago, possibilities said:

Watching the episode, I was thinking that Brett is a dead ringer for the actor who plays a character on the show "Family Law". 

I looked it up and in fact, it was him:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0962260/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t7

 

If they mentioned this on the show, it happened when I was distracted, so I missed it.

 

No, they didn't say he was an actor. As soon as I saw Brett, I thought, dang, he's a ringer for the kid in Bad Santa, and he is the kid!

[ECM1231]

I'm hanging my head in shame for missing FJ tonight, having been raised Roman Catholic. It was at the tip of my tongue, and I knew it was the holy day following Easter, but darn if I couldn't recall Pentecost in time. 

[Cotypubby]

Wow there were some silly guesses today. President Muir? Betty Buckley in Wicked!? 😆

I had not one idea for FJ. I guessed All Saints Day just cause it has the word “saints.” Is it just me or are they really having way more religious, specially Christian, clues recently? Not a fan of this trend.

At least now I know that what I thought was “lau-koon” is actually “lay·aa·kuh·waan”! 
Same as yesterday with “terps-ih-core” really being “terp·si·ker•ee” 😄

[Bastet]

39 minutes ago, Cotypubby said:

Is it just me or are they really having way more religious, specially Christian, clues recently? Not a fan of this trend.

It has been a problem for years, especially the past several (there was a span of ten games a few years back where SIX of them had religion categories, almost all of which were about Christianity, and that doesn't even account for scattered clues within other categories), but it seems to have leveled off somewhat.  We'll have to keep an eye out, as it's an ongoing problem in how predominant one specific topic is the source of not just a clue but an entire category.

[ams1001]

10 hours ago, chessiegal said:

No, they didn't say he was an actor. As soon as I saw Brett, I thought, dang, he's a ringer for the kid in Bad Santa, and he is the kid!

He was introduced as an actor (that's how the archive has him listed) but they didn't talk about it in the interview portion.

[Trey]

15 hours ago, Grizzly said:

Yes! This lapsed Episcopalian knew Pentecost!

Sadly, this long lapsed Catholic didn't know it.

12 hours ago, possibilities said:

Watching the episode, I was thinking that Brett is a dead ringer for the actor who plays a character on the show "Family Law". 

I looked it up and in fact, it was him:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0962260/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t7

He looked so familiar to me but I couldn't figure out why - now I know.

Edited October 24 by Trey

[Clanstarling]

15 hours ago, PaulaO said:

Wonder if FJ! is tied to the opening of Conclave on Friday.  As a Baptist/Methodist/Presbyterian, I had no clue.  I don’t know what Pentecost is.

Me neither, but now we know it's the Roman Catholic church's birthday.

I went for Epiphany, because somewhere in my muddled mind, I thought it might describe the founders smacking their heads and said "We are now a church!"

Edited October 24 by Clanstarling

[secnarf]

Also a lapsed Catholic who didn't get it...although when the answer was revealed, I had immediate flashbacks to Confirmation prep classes titled "Confirmation: A Personal Pentecost".

[Bastet]

I won't be home tonight, so just checked the archive.

Ouch -- I almost blew the books category entirely, only correctly guessing amber.  If not for that, I'd have had a perfect first round, as I ran the rest.

In DJ, snakes was my terrible category -- I only got North by Northwest.  The only category I ran was opposites, but I got all but Kruger in parks, all but Diane Arbus in photographers (seeing the picture wouldn't have helped), and all but Guiteau in ballads.  I missed two in birds.

FJ was an instaguess I felt very confident was correct.

[Katy M]

At first I misread the question and thought the other song had to be from 1997 and all I could think of was Who Let the Dogs Out, which I'm pretty sure isn't British. But, then I realized all time and said Wake Up little Suzy. Which is not British or a question.  Then I said I don't know something about Scarborough Fair.  

I got the entire categories of bad and succession right and the entire category of snakes wrong.  I saw the Green Mile and probably wouldn't have gotten it but didn't understand the category so said Snakes on a Plane knowing that made nno sense, but was the only movie I knew that involved snakes (besides Raiders, which also no made no sense).

I don't think I got any missed clues.

Needless to say I lost quite a bit of money tonight.

[ams1001]

October 24:

73% / 67% / 69%

Decent first round…ran "Bad" Language, missed one in We Stand For Nothing and Parkway Rest Area Names (the one I missed was really a sports question, anyway), and two in Books, Vehicles, and Succession.

Meh in DJ…missed one in 4-Letter Opposites and Photographers, and two in National Parks, Ballad, Songbirds (yes, I knew the NJ state bird), and Snakes.

Did not get FJ. I hate that song and try to forget it exists. (Ethiopia's population is approximately 67% Christian; yes, they know it's Christmas.)

TSes: (J had 2; DJ had 7 + 1 DD) I got Kruger National Park, embedded photographer (DD), Diane Arbus, and Weimaraner.

Google says the Judy Blume Rest Area is about 20 minutes from me. I didn't know it existed…(despite the cliché Jersey joke, I hardly ever take the Parkway. I don't even know what "my exit" is). I liked Dan but his earrings were very distracting.
 

59 minutes ago, Bastet said:

all but Diane Arbus in photographers (seeing the picture wouldn't have helped),

I really don't know how I got that one...it wasn't from the picture.

Edited October 25 by ams1001

[Browncoat]

I am having a terrible FJ week -- didn't get tonight's, either.

And the only TS I got were skylark, embedded, Diane Arbus, Weimaraner (before it was mispronounced and missed), and warbler.

[ams1001]

52 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

I am having a terrible FJ week -- didn't get tonight's, either.

Same.

52 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Weimaraner (before it was mispronounced and missed)

Also same, just for the record. 😜

[Cotypubby]

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! 😆

[proserpina65]

On 10/23/2024 at 10:31 PM, Bastet said:

I'm a bit surprised "Kiss Him Goodbye" was a TS.

I've heard it sung at football games but they never used the "kiss him" part of the lyrics.  Just "hey hey hey, goodbye" so I had no idea.  And as someone who is at least next door to being an atheist, that FJ was a complete blank for me.

Last night's FJ, on the other hand, was an instaget.  That's the one which surprised me when only one contestant got it.

I'm not digging Will.  I don't hate him and won't stop watching because of him but I won't be sad when he loses either.

16 hours ago, ams1001 said:

I really don't know how I got that one...it wasn't from the picture

I got it because I know exactly four female photographers: Arbus , Dorothea Lange, Margaret Bourke-White and Annie Leibovitz, and I knew it wasn't one of the latter three so it had to be Arbus.

17 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Google says the Judy Blume Rest Area is about 20 minutes from me. I didn't know it existed…(despite the cliché Jersey joke, I hardly ever take the Parkway. I don't even know what "my exit" is). I liked Dan but his earrings were very distracting.

I went to my uncle's funeral in NJ and we stopped at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area on the way.  Was kinda disappointed his wasn't among the clues.

And yes, those earrings were seriously distracting.  I kept thinking "Dude, you're not a pirate!".

I was very proud of myself for pronouncing Weimaraner correctly.

 

[Shrek]

59 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

 

And yes, those earrings were seriously distracting.  I kept thinking "Dude, you're not a pirate!".

 

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

[Bastet]

I'll be switching between baseball and football tonight, so another archive game for me.

I only ran retronyms and Seoul in the first round, but was it was still a fairly good round -- I missed two in botany (technically three, but I know what a date palm tree looks like, so am giving myself credit that I'd have got it had I been able to see the picture), but only missed one each in the rest.

I did not know a damn thing in art, but otherwise did well in FJ; I missed two each in lakes and reading, but ran the rest (in the case of Rocktober, giving myself credit for Zevon, as I'd have known him from his picture).

FJ was an instaget.

 

[Prevailing Wind]

6 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I've heard it sung at football games but they never used the "kiss him" part of the lyrics.  Just "hey hey hey, goodbye"

One year (early 70s, I think) Alabama was playing in the Orange Bowl. As a young adult, I went with my parents to the Orange Bowl Parade on New Year's Eve. The sidewalks were packed with Alabamans singing, "Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na; Hey, hey, hey, ROLL TIDE"

[ams1001]

October 25:

73% / 47% / 59%

I felt like I was not doing well in J but I actually didn't do too bad…ran 90s Movies, missed one in Afternoon "T", Retronyms, and Seoul, two in Botany, and three in Searching.

Actually did not well in DJ…missed two in Rocktober, Space Hall of Fame, and Reading, three in Quick and European Lakes & Rivers, and four in Art & Artists.

Did not get FJ (I knew it was the Louisiana Purchase, at least?)

TSes: (J had 5; DJ had 8 + 1 DD) I got Robusta, Carl Sagan, and Why I Am Not a Christian.

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?

22 minutes ago, Bastet said:

(technically three, but I know what a date palm tree looks like, so am giving myself credit that I'd have got it had I been able to see the picture)

It was a picture of Methuselah here (though at a different angle, I think).

[Katy M]

I got FJ.

I got the missed cclues of hasty pudding, Tagus, Arno, and a Christian.

I got the entire categories of 90s movies and retronyms right. (I just realized I ran the categories where it helped to be, shall we say, a certain age.  LOL).

[Browncoat]

31 minutes ago, ams1001 said:

Did not get FJ (I knew it was the Louisiana Purchase, at least?)

Same. 

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