Jeopardy! Season 41 (2024-2025)

[Katy M]

I got FJ right.

I got the missed clues of bugles, Two and a Half Men, blind me, and Ansel Adams.

I got the entire category of albums wrong and the entire category of ends in Y right.

[ams1001]

December 3:

80% / 63% / 70%

Made up for last night's terrible game, at least in the first round…ran Britspeak and Occupational TV (pretty good considering I didn't watch three of the shows - never seen an episode of Scandal or Sex and the City, and could probably count on one hand the number of full episodes of Two and a Half Men I've seen), missed one in Walt Whitman and Sects, and two in Social Media and "N", the City (to my shame, one of them was the one in New Jersey...).

In DJ I missed one in Science, Italian Explorers, and 6 Letters Ends in Y, two in Admissible Edifice and Photography, and four in Artist by Albums (honestly surprised I even got one; I got Bruno Mars only because I knew he has a song called 24K Magic...which is now stuck in my head).

Did not get FJ; I also thought of A Tale of Two Cities but I knew the year was too late for that (it's set in 1775-1792); couldn't get my brain off Dickens but couldn't think of another likely title, either. I've never read War & Peace and would not have come up with it, regardless.

TSes: (J had 8 (and I got 7 of 'em!); DJ had 3 + 1 DD) I got bugles, prison, Two and a Half Men, Olivia Pope, tosh, blind me, spider, and lead.
 

9 hours ago, illdoc said:

I said Don Juan! And I also had no idea that The Pied Piper was a poem.

Same.

9 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

OMG, that was amazing. I came to love Evan by the end, loud voice and all.

Something about Evan reminds me of Penn Gillette. Mostly their build, I think, and the long hair...and I guess Penn's kinda loud, too.

Edited 15 hours ago by ams1001

[shapeshifter]

I did settle on War and Peace before the Think music ran out. 🙌
During the 30 years I chose not to own a TV, I read some classics, including War and Peace. 
I also got it because I thought about the category carefully during the commercial, and decided the "EUROPEAN LITERATURE" part of  "19th CENTURY EUROPEAN LITERATURE" was a hint that it was not the work of an English author. 
Did anyone else interpret the category that way? Or was I just lucky to have thought that was the hint? Ken didn't seem to make that leap since his remarks about the incorrect guesses seemed to focus on the date.

I figured out the TS of Blimey = Blind in BRITSPEAK.
I knew the TS of Two and a Half Men, but didn't come up with it in time. 
Same with some others in OCCUPATIONAL TV.

 

 

21 hours ago, possibilities said:

I was really impressed by Evan in the anagrams category. I'm generally pretty good at them, but he was lightning fast and i didn't even get to process the clue before he answered, most of the time!

7 hours ago, Clanstarling said:

OMG, that was amazing. I came to love Evan by the end, loud voice and all.

Evan's delighted smiles were endearing, and Evan was seemingly a savant in some areas, but just not in quite enough categories to continue. 

Even though Stevie didn't know War & Peace, he seems to have potential to break the one-and-done champ streak. 

Edited 17 hours ago by shapeshifter

[SomeTameGazelle]

44 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

During the 30 years I chose not to own a TV, I read some classics, including War and Peace. 
I also got it because I thought about the category carefully during the commercial, and decided the "EUROPEAN LITERATURE" part of  "19th CENTURY EUROPEAN LITERATURE" was a hint that it was not the work of an English author. 
Did anyone else interpret the category that way? Or was I just lucky to have thought that was the hint? Ken didn't seem to make that leap since his remarks about the incorrect guesses seemed to focus on the date.

I agree, European seemed to hint that it was not English. For some reason I tried (and failed) to think of something French and didn't consider other languages. And I was annoyed with Ken for saying that War and Peace was set in 1805 as if it didn't go on for years and years. But that is probably partly because my most recent experience of War and Peace is going to see Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of some year I absolutely know wasn't 1805. (I have read a significant chunk of War and Peace but gave up  on the translation coincidentally around the events of the Great Comet, and although I intended to carry on with the Maude translation have not made any further progress.)

Evan did his best but good for Stevie.

I got spider, prison, blind, Two and a Half Men, Olivia Pope, and Las Vegas.

 

[Grizzly]

I like Stevie but he talked so fast, I couldn't understand some of his answers. I knew prison, Two and a Half Men, spider, and Ansel Adams.

[Bastet]

I apparently know fuck all about Walt Whitman, as the only one I got (and it was a guess) was Leaves of Grass.  I expected to also suck in social media, but I got everything except Telegram.  (If I'd been in the game, I might have refused to answer the Elon Musk clue even though I knew the correct response.  I refuse to call it anything other than Twitter; that asshole deadnames his own child, so I will keep on deadnaming his stupid site.)  And I surprised the hell out of myself by running sects.  I ran the rest, too, so it was a good first round despite that one disastrous category.

In DJ, artists was my terrible category; I blew the entire thing.  It was not my round in general -- I ran the vocabulary category, but missed two each in everything else.

And, for the second night in a row, I had no idea for FJ.

[ams1001]

5 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I apparently know fuck all about Walt Whitman, as the only one I got (and it was a guess) was Leaves of Grass. 

Any time there's a clue about a "collection" by Whitman, it's Leaves of Grass. Especially for $200.

[Browncoat]

Greetings from somewhere off the coast of the southern island of New Zealand!  We boarded our ship this afternoon, and set sail shortly afterwards.  If you go to Cornell's bird cam site and look at the Northern Royal Albatross cam, we went right by that place -- and yes, we saw the Albatross!  They're enormous!  We had a spectacular sunset as well.

And it's a good thing I had that going for me, because I had absolutely no clue for FJ for Tuesday's game.  I am batting zero for the week so far.

[30 Helens]

14 hours ago, possibilities said:

All I could think of was Yankee Doodle Dandy. 

Let the laughter commence.

That actually flitted through my mind, too. But not a poem.

13 hours ago, Quickbeam said:

Hey, I said “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” which earned me disdain from my spouse ….not a poem. He said Daniel Boone. 

And Daniel Boone is a poem? I hope you swatted that disdain right back over the net.

9 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Any time there's a clue about a "collection" by Whitman, it's Leaves of Grass. Especially for $200.

Yep. From another room, all I heard was “Walt Whitman” and “collection”, and I shouted “Leaves of Grass!” No more information necessary.

4 hours ago, Browncoat said:

 I am batting zero for the week so far.

Me too. But at least you’re having much more fun in the process!

[Clanstarling]

19 hours ago, The Wild Sow said:

I thought the outfit was why he was "Pied."

True. But I was young and didn't know the meaning of that then. :)

17 hours ago, dgpolo said:

I think of quaint as old fashioned.

Which is why I chose Rip Van Winkle (waking up after, what 20 or 30 years).

13 hours ago, shapeshifter said:

During the 30 years I chose not to own a TV, I read some classics, including 🙌War and Peace.

Evan's delighted smiles were endearing, and Evan was seemingly a savant in some areas, but just not in quite enough categories to continue.

Even though I was a lit major, I never took a semester of Russian lit. My reason at the time was that I was never cheerful enough to risk depressing myself. 😄

His smiles were the reason I started to like him, and was disappointed when he lost.

11 hours ago, ams1001 said:

Any time there's a clue about a "collection" by Whitman, it's Leaves of Grass. Especially for $200.

As Leaves of Grass is the only one I know, it's my go to. If it's an individual poem, I'm lost at sea.

[chessiegal]

A reminder: Evan uses they/them pronouns.

[dgpolo]

Secondary definition for quaint: b : unusual or different in character or appearance : odd

From the poem:

And in did come the strangest figure!

His queer long coat from heel to head

Was half of yellow and half of red;

And later on in the poem:

(And here they noticed round his neck

A scarf of red and yellow stripe,

To match with his coat of the self-same cheque;

And at the scarf's end hung a pipe;

I don't know if I would even have known it from all that. Without a mention of Hamelin or rats I'd probably not guess.

[The Wild Sow]

I wondered if maybe 1805 was the year Jean Valjean stole that bread! Or maybe was paroled after the 19 years.  I knew the barricade part was the June Rebellion of 1832 but wasn't sure how long he might have lived as  M. Madeleine before meeting Fantine and Cosette.

Anyway, I guessed  Les Misérables.