Jeopardy! Season 33 (2016-2017)

[CarpeDiem54]

40 minutes ago, dcalley said:

Here's the pottery clue wording per a poster on JBoard. We messed it up at my house, too, and then Alex's correction wasn't clear.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potsherd

And I guess since the official, in-the-books state reptile for Wyoming is "horned toad," that's all they have to accept.

Boo hiss!

[Trey]

I am just dropping in tonight to wish everyone a very Happy Holiday!

[Clanstarling]

On 12/23/2016 at 7:55 PM, Pallida said:

My brother also thought AT said potter(y) or something similar. I believe it was potsherd. 

We rolled it back to listen again, because I knew it had to be potsherd - but it sounded to us Alex said potted or something like that, I did not recognize any sound that would make me believe he said potsherd. Maybe he slurred it because he wasn't sure how it was pronounced. ;)

I got Caruso, but it wasn't an instaget. I knew a survivor of the 1906 quake, and as a result was pretty interested in the era, so I'd heard of him, but it took a while to dredge his name out of the back of my mind.

As for the horned vs horney toad - I grew up calling them horney toads, and then was flabbergasted (and embarrassed) to find out their real name. Though they could have given him some slack, I don't mind that they went with the official name.

Hope your holiday(s) are wonderful!

Edited December 25, 2016 by Clanstarling

[Prevailing Wind]

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Maybe he slurred it because he wasn't sure how it was pronounced. ;)

It's not a French word.  Bwaahahahahaha.

[biakbiak]

The CC was also confused because it said pottered.

[peeayebee]

I wonder if he pronounced it pots-herd instead of pot-sherd. That's not an alternative pronunciation that I've found, but who knows. 

In school I had a teacher named Mothershead. I thought it was pronounced mother-shed, and I couldn't understand why everyone else was saying it differently. When I finally realized I was breaking the syllables wrong, it was like an epiphany.

[Clanstarling]

1 hour ago, peeayebee said:

I wonder if he pronounced it pots-herd instead of pot-sherd. That's not an alternative pronunciation that I've found, but who knows. 

In school I had a teacher named Mothershead. I thought it was pronounced mother-shed, and I couldn't understand why everyone else was saying it differently. When I finally realized I was breaking the syllables wrong, it was like an epiphany.

We have a theater chain here - the Coming Attraction Theaters, and their web address is catheaters.com. I always, always, see "cat heaters" instead.

[DaveA]

Well I guess that's better than catheter.

[secnarf]

Terry Fox came up on Jeopardy earlier this year, as well - I think someone ended up getting it right then, though. I was sad to see it as a TS today.

I was drawing a blank on FJ, but was kicking myself when the answer was revealed!

[Browncoat]

Well, I figured Stephanie would win, since she annoyed me -- first with the leaning and then with the not starting at the tops of categories.  Boo, hiss.  I felt bad for Wren.  She started off so well!

Not too many TS that I got -- just salinity and waif.  And I couldn't come up with anything for FJ, but like @secnarf, kicked myself when it was revealed.

[Trey]

"Speaking of going, that's what you have to do, Sam." That Alex - always has just the right thing to say.

I did not get FJ.  I was a couple of seconds late even seeing the clue so that tossed off my concentration - I don't think I would have gotten it anyhow.

[CarpeDiem54]

Sad to see Sam go.  I liked Wren.  Too bad Stephanie won.  She was very off-putting to me and started in the middle of categories.  Hopefully, she'll be a one and done.

I didn't get one danged TS or FJ.  Boo hiss.  I blame it on all the blood rushing from my brain being used to help digest mass quantities of food yesterday.

[whinewithwine]

10 hours ago, DaveA said:

Well I guess that's better than catheter.

Read my mind.

[peeayebee]

I got FJ. One of the few moons whose name I know is Titan.

For TSs, I got Vin Scully and Angelina Jolie. Well, I guess I can't really say that for Jolie -- I first said Clint Eastwood then immediately corrected myself. I disappointed myself by not getting any of the other Director clues.

[biakbiak]

Alex totally gave the other contestants a clue in the Birds of the Bible category when a Wren answered Solomon started to say yes because he thought she said Saul and than quickly changed it to no.

[proserpina65]

On ‎12‎/‎23‎/‎2016 at 3:52 PM, Sharpie66 said:

Carl Sandburg wasn't just a poet, btw--he also wrote an excellent multi-part bio of Lincoln, as well as being what many consider the first American urban folk singer.

I kinda remember the Lincoln bio, now that you mention it, but I had no idea about the folk singer thing.  He really was multi-talented.

 

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Missed FJ tonight -- that famous early 20th Italian singer ...... who I could not remember.

I am deeply ashamed, as a long-time opera aficionado, to not have gotten that one.  I knew exactly who they wanted, but could not drag Caruso's name out of the recesses of my brain in time.

Edited December 27, 2016 by proserpina65

[proserpina65]

14 hours ago, CarpeDiem54 said:

Sad to see Sam go.  I liked Wren.  Too bad Stephanie won.  She was very off-putting to me and started in the middle of categories.  Hopefully, she'll be a one and done.

I didn't get one danged TS or FJ.  Boo hiss.  I blame it on all the blood rushing from my brain being used to help digest mass quantities of food yesterday.

I was also sad to see Sam go, but don't mind Stephanie.  Not yet, anyway.  And I got a few of the stumpers (waif is the one I can remember at the moment) but could not come up with FJ at all.  I was going through the planets, but didn't remember that Saturn was the name of a titan so the clue helped me not at all.  The only planet whose moons I generally know is Jupiter, and even than not all of them.  Well, and Charon for Pluto, which doesn't count anymore.

edited to note that I did get all the director clues.

Edited December 27, 2016 by proserpina65

[PaulaO]

On 12/23/2016 at 7:27 PM, M. Darcy said:

I got FJ thanks to reading Betsy Tacy books. 

Happy holidays everyone!! 

And he ate an entire spring chicken!  I thought I was the only one who read those books  (I have them all).

[Fex]

Shocked that no one got Augustus. It's reasonable to not now his wife's name, or how he died, but the clue said it was the first Roman Emperor!!! Maybe that's not common knowledge, but it should be for Jeopardy contestants, or at least one in three.

I didn't have any chance at FJ. My answer was "maybe a submarine" which I doubt they would have accepted. 

[Spunkygal]

So after the lady challenger answers the Affordable Care Act and was wrong (can't remember the clue), the champ then rings in with Obamacare!!??? Uh, no.

[secnarf]

I wasn't paying much attention this game - electron volt was the only TS I got.

I had no idea for FJ, not really knowing anything about the American Civil War.

[ottoDbusdriver]

Got FJ within the time window, after cycling through both Monitor and Merrimack after thinking that I was pretty sure neither one of them sank 3 times.
But the cotton gin, really ?  Was there a lot of aquatic cotton that needed harvesting that I was unaware of ?  :)

Unimpressive win by Stephanie -- there was so many easy TS, and most were in the Jeopardy round.

I have to call bullshit on that LHC clue -- the 'C' stands for Collider, not collision or collide or whatever that contestant answered.

[Mondrianyone]

For the first time in recorded history, I sat down with a pen and paper beside me and listed every TS I got:

Black Hole of Calcutta, scow, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Elsinore, Henry Moore, Saint-Gaudens, and Rodang (just kidding, Alex).  I've never heard of Svalbar (sp?), didn't know electroVolt (sp again?), and wouldn't have gotten the Hunley if I were waterboarded.  Oh, and Augustus, if that was a TS.  Also got stoker and getting water--I obviously need a better recording system!  Or a secretary.

That seems like a lot of TSs for one game.  I wish Hallie had won, despite her very dumb answer for FJ.  She had me at Austin Boston.

Edited December 28, 2016 by Mondrianyone
forgot one--forgot two, no, three!

[CarpeDiem54]

Stephanie just bugs me.  Besides her habit of starting in the middle of categories, her self description of being a "stay at home parent" sounds like she's a pretentious hipster.  What's wrong with being a Mom?  Or is that now politically incorrect?  And the Obamacare answer was dumb considering the Affordable Care Act was already ruled incorrect.  I liked Hallie and her Austin Healey story.

I got Augustus, stoker and stopping to get water.

I guessed Old Ironsides for FJ but knew I was hideously wrong.  Wrong war!

51 minutes ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

I have to call bullshit on that LHC clue -- the 'C' stands for Collider, not collision or collide or whatever that contestant answered.

I agree.

[ottoDbusdriver]

22 minutes ago, Mondrianyone said:

For the first time in recorded history, I sat down with a pen and paper beside me and listed every TS I got:

Black Hole of Calcutta, scow, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Elsinore, Henry Moore, Saint-Gaudens, and Rodang (just kidding, Alex).  I've never heard of Svalbar (sp?), didn't know electroVolt (sp again?), and wouldn't have gotten the Hunley if I were waterboarded.  Oh, and Augustus, if that was a TS.

That seems like a lot of TSs for one game.  I wish Hallie had won, despite her very dumb answer for FJ.  She had me at Austin Boston.

Here's some info on Svalbard --  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard -- and electron volt (eV) --  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt  -- if you are curious.

I guessed Octavian for the first Roman Emperor, which might have been accepted.

[Fex]

1 hour ago, ottoDbusdriver said:

I have to call bullshit on that LHC clue -- the 'C' stands for Collider, not collision or collide or whatever that contestant answered.

I can't recall the exact working of the clue, but I remember thinking that the phrasing was confusing. The 'C' stands for a noun - Collider - but the clue seemed to be asking for a verb. I am in no way certain of this, though!

[Grundoon59]

I will always remember "I, Claudius" and Livia describing rubbing poison on the figs to kill Augustus so her son could become emperor.  I knew FJ wasn't the Monitor or the Merrimack but couldn't think of Hurley.  I would rather have left a blank than said cotton gin since I would have been thinking of what will the previously forum say.  

[secnarf]

1 hour ago, Fex said:

I can't recall the exact working of the clue, but I remember thinking that the phrasing was confusing. The 'C' stands for a noun - Collider - but the clue seemed to be asking for a verb. I am in no way certain of this, though!

I remember thinking the same thing, and how it was lose-lose, since the wording of the question didn't match with what the 'C' actually stood for.

Also, regarding the 'stay at home parent' descriptor rather than 'mom', I don't think it is anything new or anything to do with political correctness. Plenty of moms work outside the home. A stay-at-home parent by definition does not. IMO it's more to do with clarity than anything else. It's hardly the first time a contestant has referred to themselves as a stay-at-home parent.

[peeayebee]

1 hour ago, Grundoon59 said:

I will always remember "I, Claudius" and Livia describing rubbing poison on the figs to kill Augustus so her son could become emperor.

Ah, I forgot about that scene. I gave Claudius as the answer. For some reason I confused Livia with Messalina. 

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 I knew FJ wasn't the Monitor or the Merrimack but couldn't think of Hurley.  

Hurley and his VW bus!

I guessed the Merrimack, wondered if it was the Monitor, then thought that maybe it was that sub from the movie with Matthew McConaughey. Which was U-571, not The Hunley that I was trying to remember.

I think the only TS I got was about the train stop to get water.

[YoureSoUrban]

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I will always remember "I, Claudius" and Livia describing rubbing poison on the figs to kill Augustus so her son could become emperor.

I said the same thing tonight to my visiting Mom. I watched that entire series with my parents as a kid -- some of it went over my head but I remembered the major figures and it served me well in high school and college. And I totally geeked out when in came out on DVD.

I've been on holiday travel and off Jeopardy! since last Thurs and don't know how the current champ came to be but I'm over her already. She seems bored and as others said the Obamacare response was ridic.

[Trey]

12 hours ago, Fex said:

I didn't have any chance at FJ. My answer was "maybe a submarine" which I doubt they would have accepted. 

Exactly what the Trey household came up with.  I don't know if I've ever heard of that particular submarine but I figured a whole ship couldn't have been made out of a boiler, so a small submarine sounded logical.

I did fairly well on the ts's with Black Hole of Calcutta, stoker, take on water, scow, Elsinore and the missed DD of Prussia.

Edited December 28, 2016 by Trey

[M. Darcy]

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Shocked that no one got Augustus. It's reasonable to not now his wife's name, or how he died, but the clue said it was the first Roman Emperor!!! Maybe that's not common knowledge, but it should be for Jeopardy contestants, or at least one in three.

It is common knowledge!  Who hasn't watched I Claudius  - well, apart from those three :-)  Seriously, though, besides really great television, its an easy and fun way to learn about Roman History.  Plus, it has Patrick Stewart with curly hair.

I can't believe none of them got Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  She was all over the news during the summer.

So, I didn't get any of the railroad questions but got all the 114th Congress ones.  Which means, I'm paying attention 50% of the time at work I guess.

[Browncoat]

I got Svalbard because I really want to go there and see the polar bears.  There were probably others, but I didn't write them down this time.

And even though I knew it was wrong, I said Monitor for FJ.  I didn't even think of the submarine. 

I was disappointed that Hallie lost -- mostly because I was done with Stephanie yesterday.

[peeayebee]

1 hour ago, Trey said:

I don't know if I've ever heard of that particular submarine but I figured a whole ship couldn't have been made out of a boiler, so a small submarine sounded logical.

It's an interesting story. As the Jeopardy clue said, it sunk three times. Each time it lost crew members. The third time it sank, it was not recovered until 1995.

 

17 minutes ago, M. Darcy said:

Who hasn't watched I Claudius  - well, apart from those three :-)  Seriously, though, besides really great television, its an easy and fun way to learn about Roman History.  Plus, it has Patrick Stewart with curly hair.

I know! I'll always remember the scene where Tiberius is looking at some pedophilic pornography, and the camera pans up to Sejanus' (Patrick Stewart's) face, staring at Tiberius with disgust.

 

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I can't believe none of them got Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  She was all over the news during the summer.

Right. I admit I could only come up with Wasserman. Stupid addled brain.

[DXD526]

Add me to the list of those who were obsessed with "I, Claudius" back in the day and can't understand how anyone wouldn't know Augustus was the first emperor. 

The champ totally lost me with her Obamacare guess. After a guess of the ACA was ruled incorrect? Huh??

A photo and some facts about DWS and silence from the contestants? And no one knew Roxy Music? Boo hiss. 

[PaulaO]

I knew FJ! was a submarine and answered Nautilus.  I' m one of the few who has never seen I, Claudius 

[proserpina65]

18 hours ago, Spunkygal said:

So after the lady challenger answers the Affordable Care Act and was wrong (can't remember the clue), the champ then rings in with Obamacare!!??? Uh, no.

Maybe he's like a lot of voters who didn't realize that Obamacare is the Affordable Care Act.

Edited to note that I wish I was joking, but I've read multiple stories about people who were all for getting rid of Obamacare but are now discovering that they're going to lose benefits they've been receiving as a result of the ACA - they thought these were two different things.

Edited December 28, 2016 by proserpina65

[proserpina65]

18 hours ago, Fex said:

Shocked that no one got Augustus. It's reasonable to not now his wife's name, or how he died, but the clue said it was the first Roman Emperor!!! Maybe that's not common knowledge, but it should be for Jeopardy contestants, or at least one in three.

I didn't have any chance at FJ. My answer was "maybe a submarine" which I doubt they would have accepted. 

I missed Jeopardy last night, but I do know that allegedly Augustus' wife Livia poisoned him (by poisoning every fig on the tree in the courtyard according to I, Claudius).  And I knew the Hunley.

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 I've never heard of Svalbar (sp?),

I've only heard of Svalbard because one of the trips during one of Jeopardy's contests was to Svalbard to see polar bears.

 

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So, I didn't get any of the railroad questions but got all the 114th Congress ones. 

I missed a railroad category?!?!?!?  My dad would be kicking my butt for not taping last night's game!

I would've gotten the Roxy Music answer - Love is the Drug is one of my favorite songs.

Edited December 28, 2016 by proserpina65

[illdoc]

Re: the "stay-at-home parent". I wonder why she's never referred to as a "stay at home mom". It's always "stay at home parent". It seems so .... PC (?) to say "parent" rather than "mother" (which, granted being a female parent she is a mother, but it just seems odd).

[Trey]

4 minutes ago, illdoc said:

Re: the "stay-at-home parent". I wonder why she's never referred to as a "stay at home mom". It's always "stay at home parent". It seems so .... PC (?) to say "parent" rather than "mother" (which, granted being a female parent she is a mother, but it just seems odd).

I thought so too.

[Prevailing Wind]

Maybe she's a stay-at-home-step-mom.

[PaulaO]

I said Nod for FJ! but given how often the writers use C.S.Lewis, I should have known better.  So glad Jason won, as one of my things to do when I retire is to volunteer with therapeutic riding.

[Browncoat]

I called Narnia as soon as the category was revealed.  I had to laugh out loud when it was right.  :)  It doesn't hurt my feelings that Stephanie lost, and I'm good with Justin winning.  He reminds me a bit of Daniel Radcliffe.  Mike was killing me with the not phrasing his responses in the form of a question.

I also got gas leak, Tony Nelson, belles lettres (and "loved" Alex's pronunciation of that), and Civil War.  I came up with Rhoda, but Phyllis eluded me.

[Trey]

It wasn't a bad game and I'm glad Justin won.

I was mostly a spectator tonight since my brain has been slowed down by the nasty cold Mr.Trey gave me for Christmas.  Brain is so slow that it actually took a few seconds to get Narnia which would have been an instaget any other time.

[M. Darcy]

Narnia! I'm surprised that only one of them got the answer right. 

[Mondrianyone]

On 12/27/2016 at 9:20 PM, ottoDbusdriver said:

Here's some info on Svalbard --  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard -- and electron volt (eV) --  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt  -- if you are curious.

Thanks for the links, Otto!  When I'm done reading, I'll know everything there is to know about Svalbard--and still nothing about electronvolts.  ;o)

21 hours ago, YoureSoUrban said:

And I totally geeked out when in came out on DVD.

We have the entire I, Claudius set on videocassette.  And we still have the technology to watch it, scary as that is.  Never throw out any electronics unless they explode on you, that's our motto.

10 hours ago, DXD526 said:

Add me to the list of those who were obsessed with "I, Claudius" back in the day and can't understand how anyone wouldn't know Augustus was the first emperor. 

The champ totally lost me with her Obamacare guess. After a guess of the ACA was ruled incorrect? Huh??

A photo and some facts about DWS and silence from the contestants? And no one knew Roxy Music? Boo hiss. 

Well, this is a first.  When I clicked to like your post, DXD526, I got a message saying, "You are not allowed to like posts by this poster."  I think I did it anyway.  Someone is really trying to keep us apart, apparently.

1 hour ago, Trey said:

I was mostly a spectator tonight since my brain has been slowed down by the nasty cold Mr.Trey gave me for Christmas.

Some husbands don't give their wives anything for Christmas.  (Feel better soon!)

I liked you, Mike, but come on with the no questions on DDs.  You've watched the show before, right?

[opus]

19 minutes ago, Mondrianyone said:

 

Well, this is a first.  When I clicked to like your post, DXD526, I got a message saying, "You are not allowed to like posts by this poster."  I think I did it anyway.  Someone is really trying to keep us apart, apparently.

 

After reading this I had to check, and it seems I am allowed to like posts by that poster. So I did :)

[YoureSoUrban]

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I called Narnia as soon as the category was revealed.  I had to laugh out loud when it was right.  :)

Same here and I haven't read the books or seen the films. It just seemed right and the show seems to love C.S. Lewis. For TS I got Garth Brooks, Rhoda & Phyllis and belles-lettres.

I'm glad neither Mike nor Stephanie won. Both took too long to select (and called out the category name when there's only one left -- gah!) plus Mike couldn't remember the basics of the game. I also think he was too late for the correct phrasing of Folies Bergère. 

[peeayebee]

I've never read the Narnia books, but I saw the first movie and remembered the lamppost, so FJ was easy and obvious to me.

For TSs, I got Phyllis & Rhoda and the Bering Sea.

[alias1]

I was so happy Mike didn't win, and ditto for Stephanie.  Yay, Jason for being the only one to get FJ!  I wasn't sure of FJ, but Narnia just sounded right to me so that's what I guessed.