Jeopardy! Season 33 (2016-2017)

[Trey]

27 minutes ago, Lizzing said:

Since when is Jim Gaffigan Canadian?  He was born in Indiana and lives in New York.  I expect more from J! fact checkers.

Did they say he's Canadian? I didn't hear that.  I heard "comedian" which could be misheard as Canadian.

Same as so many of you, Fred Mertz was my only ts.  Also sad he was a ts.

Oscar Wilde flitted through my mind first for FJ but the mathematician part led me fairly quickly to Lewis Carroll.

Jon reminds me somewhat of Hal Linden.

[mojoween]

I would have stood at the podium slack-jawed without ever coming up with Lewis Carroll.  First because I had no clue on FJ anyways and second even after Alex said Alice in Wonderland his name did not at all come to me.

I think I said Fred Merman, not Mertz, for some odd reason.

[Browncoat]

1 hour ago, mojoween said:

I said Fred Merman

Ethel Merman's husband.  :)

[mojoween]

What's a Bermuda crocodile?

I forgot that I was irritated yesterday.  Jon got that last DD that was Texas and Alex says "what else could it be" and I said to the couch "well if it was that frickin' obvious why was it a DD?!?"

[mojoween]

I can't believe "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Hall & Oates were TS.

For FJ I said "Georgia Maryland Tennessee Alabama Ole Miss ok Georgia" and did not get to Virginia.  I feel like my choices were way better guesses than Annapolis.

Edited May 30, 2017 by mojoween

[YoureSoUrban]

Really sorry to see Jon go. I thought Rand might pull off the win.

For TS I got Divorce, Avril Lavigne, Hall & Oates and Hyundai. I got UVA as a lucky guess.

[CarpeDiem54]

Darn, sorry to see Jon go.  I was hoping he'd make it to the TOC.

I got Divorce and Hall & Oates.

I figured FJ was in Virginia but incorrectly guessed Virginia Tech.

[Spunkygal]

The only state school I could come up with that might have been so popular at the beginning of the Civil War to suffer such a dramatic decline during the Civil War was university of VA since Jefferson founded it.

[jaybird2]

again,  i thought fj was not fj worthy.  i knew it immediately (but i'm southern). 

[teebax]

I thought Annapolis was a bad guess for FJ. Are the academies considered "state schools?" When I think of a state school, I think of a school run by state employees, like my alma maters, Penn State and the Univ. of Arizona. I wouldn't choose a military academy.

Other than the bad FJ guess, I liked Jon and will miss him. The new champ has a weird vocal tic at the end of her statements (is it vocal fry?) She also had a habit of reading full category names, which drives me crazy. I did like her story about how she met her hubby on a train. I once got stuck on a slow-ass train, the first and last time I traveled via Amtrak, and the only thing I got out of it was a backache.

Method of Modern Love is one of my karaoke jams. It's a favorite of the Hall & Oates catalog for me, but I often have people come up to me after I sing it and ask about it because they never heard it.

I also got D-I-V-O-R-C-E. 

[Bazinga]

I don't think "Fenway" is enough of an answer.  The stadium is named Fenway Park not just "Fenway."  Just because "baseball park" is in the clue doesn't mean "Fenway" is enough.  Just seems incomplete to me.  I think the answer needs the full name.  If the question were Yankee Stadium, is Yankee enough of a response?   Wrigley would be wrong for Wrigley Field, as would Dodger for Dodger Stadium.  And, no, I don't think I am nitpicking. 

Took an instant dislike to Rand.  Glad he didn't win.  My adverse reaction to him might influence why I think Fenway was wrong.

Edited May 31, 2017 by Bazinga

[secnarf]

I had no idea for FJ. "State school" is not a very common term in Canada, and if it is used, it refers to elementary/secondary schools that are government-funded (public or separate, rather than private).

[peeayebee]

I got Phoebe, divorce, Hall & Oates, and Sid Caesar.

I hope I don't sound too dumb, but for FJ I said Gettysburg. I thought maybe it was a university that disappeared after the Civil War.

[Prevailing Wind]

I was rooting for Rand, as he's from Decatur, GA, where I live.  Nothing like being geo-centric. Jon, however, while having a slight resemblance to Hal Linden, *really* looks like the husband of a friend of mine. I kept referring to him as Greg.

Color me completely surprised at AT's lack of French exaggeration during the category "From the French" - when I saw that, I groaned, but he did remarkably well not using his accent.

Being the huge Jefferson fan that I am, I'm embarrassed that I didn't get FJ. I just didn't think that in the 40-odd years of its existence, UVA would've been that large. (And would "UVA" have been an acceptable response?)

[Toothbrush]

On 5/30/2017 at 1:03 AM, Toothbrush said:

Jon's doing great! 

Quoting myself after Monday's game. Evidently my J! superpower is to jinx contestants that I like. Sorry Jon! We never did find out why you are a former lawyer.

Of the 3, new champ was my least favorite, and I just knew she was going to answer Rachel for the biblical DD.

TS I got were Phoebe (DD), Avril Lavigne, Hall & Oates, Hyundai. Both Dr. Toothbrush & I guessed West Point at first for FJ, but then I changed to UVA because I did not think West Point was a state school. I was waiting for R-E-S-P-E-C-T in the lyrical spelling category. 

9 hours ago, teebax said:

Method of Modern Love is one of my karaoke jams. It's a favorite of the Hall & Oates catalog for me, but I often have people come up to me after I sing it and ask about it because they never heard it.

This makes me sad. 

10 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

Color me completely surprised at AT's lack of French exaggeration during the category "From the French" - when I saw that, I groaned, but he did remarkably well not using his accent.

(And would "UVA" have been an acceptable response?)

Same thoughts & groans regarding the French category in the Toothbrush house. I also wondered if UVA would have been acceptable. 

Edited May 31, 2017 by Toothbrush

[Browncoat]

OF COURSE I miss an episode of J! where FJ is something about my home state!  I hope it gets posted to j-archive later.

[DXD526]

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 I got UVA as a lucky guess.

I got it, too, but I prefer to think of it as an *educated* guess!

"Method of Modern Love" was a big hit. How quickly they forget.

Was waiting for a BMS on 'Fenway'. It definitely needed it.

The new champ has a bit of a vocal fry, as well as somewhat of a swaying thing going on. Doesn't annoy me too much yet. We'll see what happens today...

[Mystery Author]

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...for this ginormous M*A*S*H fan

I promise I'm not blatantly promoting my books, but I can't resist a cue line :)

The protagonist in my Diet Club Mystery series is a ginormous M*A*S*H fan (also a Kevin Bacon 6% separation fan, LOL) and the second book in the series revolves around someone murdering Hot Lips and Frank Burns look-alikes. The killer is called 'The Masher' (heh!) and there's a group that gets together once a week to watch M*A*S*H reruns. Could one of the members be the perp...?

[Prevailing Wind]

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Was waiting for a BMS on 'Fenway'. It definitely needed it.

I just watched the film "Spotlight" which takes place in Boston. Some guy (I forget who) mentions going to "Fenway."  ...and I immediately thought of PTV.

[proserpina65]

My father would've returned from the grave if I hadn't known that Matthew Ridgway was the commander of the 82nd Airborne.

[proserpina65]

On ‎05‎/‎26‎/‎2017 at 11:18 PM, Roaster said:

Yes, Herodotus.  Surprised Jon missed it.  Liz missed it too, but she said Thucydides, which was an OK guess (at least he was a historian).

All I could think of was Homer, and I knew that was wrong.

[proserpina65]

On ‎05‎/‎29‎/‎2017 at 8:16 PM, Roaster said:

I thought Lewis Carroll was easy - surprised by the wrong guesses.  Swift was wrong century and not a math guy.  Wilde was a humorist, I suppose, but I'd be surprised if he wrote limericks.  Math and logic = Lewis Carroll.

All I know about Lewis Carroll is that his relationship with the little girl who inspired Alice was highly suspect.  I said Swift, but didn't really think it was correct.

17 hours ago, mojoween said:

I can't believe "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Hall & Oates were TS.

For FJ I said "Georgia Maryland Tennessee Alabama Ole Miss ok Georgia" and did not get to Virginia.  I feel like my choices were way better guesses than Annapolis.

I've never heard that Hall & Oates song, but D-I-V-O-R-C-E as a TS was unforgivable.  And yes, I spelled it out.

For FJ, I said West Point first, then realized that wasn't a state school and said UVA in plenty of time to write it down.

[proserpina65]

2 hours ago, DXD526 said:

"Method of Modern Love" was a big hit. How quickly they forget.

It came out after I got tired of H&O, apparently.  Out of Touch is the last hit of theirs that I remember.

[Pallida]

I was going to snark on Trebek's Frenchified pronunciation of Malheur for the Wildlife Refuge in Oregon - and then I remembered Oregonians argue about how to pronounce it, so I guess he gets a pass...this time!

[Browncoat]

9 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

And would "UVA" have been an acceptable response?

It certainly should be.  No one calls it by its full name -- it's either UVA or just Virginia.

[Trey]

It is not, however, William and Mary. Somehow I missed the "state" part of the clue.  At least I was in the right state:)

I am sorry to see Jon go.  I didn't notice any voice fry on the the new champ but her swaying was fairly irritating.

[Browncoat]

51 minutes ago, Trey said:

It is not, however, William and Mary.

Not even close!  Although Jefferson probably got a lot of his ideas for UVA when he was a student at W&M, so there's that.  And while W&M is not a land-grant type state school, it is a state (i.e. not private) school, though it has never and will never be the largest state school in Virginia.

[Roaster]

Seemed to be a lot of edits today (Wed), as if they were conferring with judges after responses - and a lot of those responses came from Lisette.

As far as Lisette's FJ wager - I just don't know what goes through some people's heads.
 

[mojoween]

It was all bad.  And you could hear chatter behind her Louis & Vuitton response and then she fixed it and I don't think she should have been allowed to.

Emojis.  Pssh. Shut up, show.

[Browncoat]

36 minutes ago, Roaster said:

As far as Lisette's FJ wager - I just don't know what goes through some people's heads.

That was mighty boneheaded of her.  She was a slow picker though, so I can't get too worked up about her loss.  Not a big fan of Joe, either, but I guess somebody had to win.

Good grief on FJ -- I don't even use the bloody things, and it was an instaget for me.

[Miss Chevious]

Congrats to the gent on the end. He didn't dither around and no annoying mannerisms. I got the TS of Dante and Okinawa and the DDs of Frost and transatlantic cables. 

And even I knew emojis immediately and I'm usually technologically challenged. :-)

[CarpeDiem54]

What a meh bunch of contestants and a weird game.  Swaying Kerry, Slumping Lisette and Slurring Joe.  I didn't want any of them to win.  Joe looked like he wanted to punch Alex at the end when he erroneously announced Lisette was the winner.  That would have been the most exciting part of that dull-ass game.

I got wind, Herbert Hoover, and Okinawa (Ernie Pyle was my Granddad's cousin).

I'm ashamed to admit that I actually had to think about FJ before I got it.

[DrScottie]

24 minutes ago, mojoween said:

It was all bad.  And you could hear chatter behind her Louis & Vuitton response and then she fixed it and I don't think she should have been allowed to.

I would have marked that wrong too. 

31 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

That was mighty boneheaded of her.  She was a slow picker though, so I can't get too worked up about her loss.  Not a big fan of Joe, either, but I guess somebody had to win.

Good grief on FJ -- I don't even use the bloody things, and it was an instaget for me.

Lisette bet against Kerry going all in to win by a $1, but forgot about Joe. Oh well. 

2 minutes ago, CarpeDiem54 said:

I'm ashamed to admit that I actually had to think about FJ before I got it.

I wouldn't be. It took me about 10 seconds before I realized it too. I wasn't thinking about pictorial communication to start with. 

[PaulaO]

I didn't get FJ! at all.  I could stand at that podium for a year and not come up with the answer.  Glad Lisette didn't win.  I couldn't deal with her flat affect.

[Miss Chevious]

The ending was the best! Alex almost Steve Harveyed himself by announcing the wrong winner at first. 

[teebax]

I had to wait until they showed the category again before I got FJ.

How did they miss Hoover????

I guess the former champ can't go home since she missed a history DD. That pre-game chatter put me in a sour mood.  If I married a heart surgeon, no one would expect me to be able to perform bypass surgery!

It was a bad game culminated by bad wagering. Boo hiss indeed. 

[peeayebee]

I was so glad they finally ruled against Joe's half-hearted pronunciation of 'primer.' He was just hunting for some other way to pronounce the letters. Pree-mer?

I did like the clue about Swarovski -- "It's crystals!" Alex even said it the way the women on the SNL porn stars do.

[DrScottie]

1 hour ago, peeayebee said:

I did like the clue about Swarovski -- "It's crystals!" Alex even said it the way the women on the SNL porn stars do.

In case you didn't know, Swarovski Crystals was one of their sketches. I'm going to miss Vanessa Bayer doing that. 

[Fex]

2 hours ago, peeayebee said:

I was so glad they finally ruled against Joe's half-hearted pronunciation of 'primer.' He was just hunting for some other way to pronounce the letters. Pree-mer?

I did like the clue about Swarovski -- "It's crystals!" Alex even said it the way the women on the SNL porn stars do.

I had no idea that the school book "primer" was pronounced differently! I'm guessing I've only read it in novels.

[Clanstarling]

8 hours ago, forumfish said:

I am surprised no one has mentioned Lisette's comment about her age. Talking about how long she's played the French horn, she said she "doesn't look" 49, right? Was it a conceited remark, or a failed attempt at self-deprecating humor?

I don't know, but it struck me negatively. I thought it was odd, though I think it was probably a clumsy attempt at self-deprecating humor.

[Spunkygal]

2 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

I don't know, but it struck me negatively. I thought it was odd, though I think it was probably a clumsy attempt at self-deprecating humor.

I could never be on this show because I hate attention, but there is no telling what stupid, inane things would blurt out of my mouth during the interview. I'm happy just showing off my Jeopardy skills for friends and family.

[ABay]

From midway through DJ, the show was hijacked by the weather guy. A screen crawl or a brief "hey! bad weather! more at the break!" cut in would've been more than sufficent. 

[PaulaO]

Prim-er and prime-er.  But I hate prim-er so say prime-er.  Anywho, we should start a thread of "things every Jeopardy! contestant should know."

Edited June 1, 2017 by PaulaO
Because spelling counts

[proserpina65]

15 hours ago, teebax said:

How did they miss Hoover????

The same way I did, by not knowing diddly-squat about Herbert Hoover?

[Scott]

18 hours ago, mojoween said:

It was all bad.  And you could hear chatter behind her Louis & Vuitton response and then she fixed it and I don't think she should have been allowed to.

Is that what she said?  This game didn't hold my interest for some reason, so I really wasn't paying close attention, but I couldn't tell why there was the pause and clarification.  I thought maybe her Vuitton wasn't French enough for Alex.  

[Trey]

I said emoticons for FJ.  Apparently they are not the same as emojis so I would have lost.

1 hour ago, PaulaO said:

Prim-er and prime-er.  But I hate prim-er so say prime-er.  Anywho, we should start a thread of "things every Jeopardy! contestant should know."

I hate it too.  If they wanted it pronounced that way they should have spelled it "primmer".  I did not realize they ruled against his pronunciation but I'm glad they did.

I said Wilson instead of Hoover.

My only ts was paratroopers.

I thought the woman who said Louis & Vuitton should have been ruled incorrect right away.  But they let it go because she corrected it in time.  One of our cats is named Louie and her favourite spot to sleep is on the futon so, of course, it is known as the Louie Futon:).

Edited June 1, 2017 by Trey

[peeayebee]

33 minutes ago, Scott said:

Is that what she said?  This game didn't hold my interest for some reason, so I really wasn't paying close attention, but I couldn't tell why there was the pause and clarification.  I thought maybe her Vuitton wasn't French enough for Alex.  

She said "Louis & Vuitton" but there's no 'and.' It's just Louis Vuitton.

[illdoc]

1 hour ago, Trey said:

I thought the woman who said Louis & Vuitton should have been ruled incorrect right away.  But they let it go because she corrected it in time.

Sure, she corrected it in time, but they gave her an awfully long time to correct it!! Longer than they give other people. Fortunately, it was moot, since she lost.

[ottoDbusdriver]

How does Monrovia fit the FJ clue ?  Other than it's a city in Africa.  Plus Monroe wasn't an explorer (as far as I know).

I guessed

Spoiler

Brazzaville

before AT finished reading the clue.

Edited June 2, 2017 by ottoDbusdriver

[secnarf]

'Trudeau' really needed a BMS. I was glad that at least 'Bush' required one.