Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[kathyk2]

20 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:

Same here. He annoyed me all the way through, though. At one point I yelled at him, “stop PERFORMING and start PLAYING!” If he had spent less time auditioning for (whatever), I think he would have done much better.

Do you think they would have accepted my answer of just “eggs”? I hate French Vanilla; the yolks make it taste funky and who wants yellow ice cream anyway.

I thought that was fair. “Boise, Idaho” is a capital. Obviously they were looking for just the city name, but the clue did not specify that, so giving the full place name fit the clue as presented.

”Banana Pudding” made me miss Souper Salad. I don’t know if it existed outside my region, but it was a buffet-style restaurant that consisted of a giant salad bar (and a couple of soup options). At the end of the salad bar were a few desserts, one of which was always banana pudding with vanilla wafers. Probably from a can, and nothing special, really, but it was childhood nostalgia-style delicious. They went out of business during Covid, like all the other self-serve restaurants with only a sneeze guard standing between you and crippling disease, and I haven’t had banana pudding since. Probably for the best, but still.

That’s what confirmed it for me. I’ve never read the book (and wouldn’t have expected them to have personal manservants), but the fact that there were three of them led me to think Musketeers. And then Ken’s full-on French pronunciation removed all doubt.

I rarely dislike contestants but Brian was over the top.

[Bastet]

57 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:

Do you think they would have accepted my answer of just “eggs”?

I'd hope not, but it should have yielded a BMS prompt which would have led most responding that way to narrowing it down to egg yolks.

57 minutes ago, 30 Helens said:

“Boise, Idaho” is a capital.

No, Boise is a capital; a "state capital" is a city, which is what the clue sought.  "Boise, Idaho" is a capital, state compound answer which is virtually never sought -- there's no need to specify just the city in order to make clear the city is the proper response, because the city is the logical response.  Add in that the clue specified the correct response was the only U.S. state capital - in other words, city - to fit the category of 5, 5, making clear the city had to be two words, five letters each, I'd maybe entertain her response for two seconds of deliberation before kicking it to the curb, but, as written, nope.

[DaveA]

6 hours ago, kathyk2 said:

I rarely dislike contestants but Brian was over the top.

When we saw Brian being introduced we both commented about Jeopardy turning into Let's Make A Deal.

[chessiegal]

10 hours ago, GreekGeek said:

I wonder if it was pity on the judges' part,

There is no pity in J!ville. The FCC won't allow it.

[laredhead]

9 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:

Baton Rouge was obviously what they were going for, but to be fair, the quote that got attributed to me was actually from someone I was responding to. 

So sorry SoMuchTV.  I wasn't paying enough attention when I posted my comment.  I'm blaming it on the time change.

[Cotypubby]

8 hours ago, Bastet said:

Add in that the clue specified the correct response was the only U.S. state capital - in other words, city - to fit the category of 5, 5, making clear the city had to be two words, five letters each

Well, Boise, Idaho is the only other capital that does fit the “5,5” category. I think the writers just didn’t think of that interpretation when they wrote the clue, but it is correct as to what was written. I think it’s fair they gave her the money.