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 9 hours ago 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:

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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 8 hours ago 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.