Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[ams1001]

18 minutes ago, dgpolo said:

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.

Yeah, me too. That's why I was iffy and not totally against it.

[Browncoat]

Ah, Rabbie Burns -- it could only be the Highlands, of course.  Instaget FJ for me.

And I got the TS of YooHoo, Monaco, Pendleton, space, corundum, and box.

[Bastet]

The space heater TS surprised me, as did no one guessing box.

I fully expected to blow the lit category entirely, but I managed to correctly guess Icebreaker.  Other than that disaster, I had a great first round, getting everything else but Pendleton.

I had a great DJ, as well; I missed two each in colleges and history, got all but corundum in minerals, and ran the rest.

I groaned when I saw the FJ category, and indeed didn't know the poem being quoted, but because Burns was Scottish, the description made me think Highlands, so that was my guess, having no idea if he had a poem with that in the title.  Lucked into that one!

[possibilities]

22 hours ago, Bastet said:

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".

Damn! I learned some garbage about Kathy Poured Coffee....

I knew order, but I didn't know I had been raised by Puritans.

[Prevailing Wind]

Now that Pluto isn't a planet, Mary's Virgin Excuse Makes Joseph Suspect Upstairs Neighbor instead of Many Visitors Enjoy Mostly Just Sitting Under Nice Palms.

[possibilities]

My very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins.

 

I apparently was educated by people who thought women were always serving food.

[ams1001]

3 hours ago, possibilities said:

My very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins.

 

I apparently was educated by people who thought women were always serving food.

It was pickles for me.

[The Wild Sow]

2 hours ago, ams1001 said:

5 hours ago, possibilities said:

My very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins.

 

I apparently was educated by people who thought women were always serving food.

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It was pickles for me.

Pizzas.

[30 Helens]

I feel cheated. I was never taught any of these pneumonics. I only learned the Great Lakes one in recent years, but I can never remember that the word is HOMES, so it’s of no help. But the next time I have to think about taxonomy, I’ll try to remember that some king had sex? With his family? And there were pumpkins involved? Oh, never mind.

I had no idea for the Robert Burns clue, other than they wanted a place in Scotland, obviously. The only Burns poem I know is about the mice and their men, and how their schemes gang aft agley.

[shapeshifter]

Regarding planet mnemonics:

6 hours ago, possibilities said:

My very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins.
I apparently was educated by people who thought women were always serving food.

I am older than dirt, so it was:
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles.
Not even Educated. 
But Mom (born in 1928) could've been a Jeopardy! champ even today if she was still here and physically able. In Latin, Literature, History, Pop Culture and some others, she'd have mopped the floor with her fellow contestants (graciously and with a smile).

 

Re:

13 hours ago, Bastet said:

The space heater TS surprised me, as did no one guessing box.

I thought box and then second guessed myself because there were a lot of distracting words in the clue that I thought I should check and so ran out of time.

Same with space heater. 

Maybe if I'd read them in the archive without contestants buzzing-in I'd have got them?

ETA: Or if they'd just leave the clue on the screen as an inset.

Edited 2 hours ago by shapeshifter

[Trey]

24 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

Maybe if I'd read them in the archive without contestants buzzing-in I'd have got them?

Yeah, those contestants really get in the way sometimes😆

Re FJ, my first thought was loch as in Loch Lomond but that didn't sound right. Then I thought of highland(s) and figured it was at least a good guess with Robbie Burns being the poet and mountains in the clue.  I have heard the poem before but it was buried very deeply in my mental filing cabinet.

[ams1001]

1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:

Regarding planet mnemonics:

I am older than dirt, so it was:
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles.
Not even Educated. 

Yeah, that's how I learned it, too. (I'm 49, for what it's worth.)