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Jeopardy! Season 33 (2016-2017)

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12 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Had you been able to pay better attention, you likely would have been as astonished as I was when the woman guessed Fankfort as the capital of Ohio. There was even a map with a star in Ohio indicating which city they wanted. I'm still rolling my eyes over that one.

I have to admit that I blurted out Frankfort, mostly because they had the word Kentucky jumping right out at me.  I realized then that they wanted the capital of Ohio but  it was too late.

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Haven't posted in forever, but I must tell you how excited I am. Pat, the champ from tonight, is a dear friend of mine, and we have been waiting since DECEMBER to see how she did! And give her half a

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That was a bad game! You know it's bad when Alex is telling the contestants "if you don't know the category don't start at the bottom"! In the "makes sense" category, if the character's name is "Coach

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Not only that, but it's been discussed almost as much as Viraj flipping off the whole country.  From now on, next time I want to say "F you" to somebody, I'll just push my sleeves up at 'em.

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17 hours ago, tvaddict44 said:

Oh, you guys make me feel so much better!  Of course, a peacock does not call up the image of a turkey.  One is gorgeous, one is hideous looking.  Pheasants look like peacocks and I've heard are quite tasty also.  Bad clue.

I wouldn't say bad clue. After all, it was a quote from someone, so the only answer could be turkey. I can understand someone calling a turkey a peacock (of sorts) because of the tail display. The first thing that came to my mind was pheasant, but I was pretty sure they were in Europe as well, so then turkey sprung to mind. 

In yesterday's game, I got Jackie Kennedy and Coolidge (though I couldn't think of her first name), as well as the Japanese renouncing war, and Gloria Allred.

In tonight's game, the only TS I got was 'of mice and men.' I tried to guess what the FJ entertainer would be before the clue was revealed -- Sammy Davis Jr, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Danny Kaye -- then gave up. When the clue was revealed, I did not have a guess. I kept trying to come up with someone who hosted the Oscars. Briefly, I thought of Bob Hope, but his Oscar was honorary, and I figured he hadn't won a Tony. When Alec mentioned his "welcome" at the beginning of the show, I immediately knew it was Joel Grey.

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On 11/25/2016 at 3:27 AM, tvaddict44 said:

One is gorgeous, one is hideous looking. 

We have a large flock of wild turkeys that roam the neighborhood - and when the tail feathers are spread (in the manner of peacocks) it can look pretty magnificent. IMO.

6 minutes ago, tvaddict44 said:

I didn't think anything about Alex saying welcome at the beginning -- I just thought someone had told him to quit taking up so much time talking at random.

He's been doing it for so long, it seemed strange to me that they'd bother at this point. Or that they'd have much leverage over him after 30 years. Maybe it was because the other day on Final Jeopardy, he basically said if you didn't get this answer, you're stupid. (my take on his comment anyway - and I did have the FJ so it wasn't that I was personally offended). Which even for him, seemed a little over the top.

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2 minutes ago, teebax said:

No Jeopardy thanks to football yesterday and jboard hasn't been updated. What was the.fj question?

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ENTERTAINERS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
He won a Tony & later an Oscar for the same role & decades later, published a memoir called "Master of Ceremonies"
 

I did not get FJ.  I couldn't come up with even a guess.

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On November 24, 2016 at 9:21 AM, peeayebee said:

Seems like the show gives contestants more leeway when answering DDs. I guess Alex could have immediately said "No," when she just said "What is Prozac." It seems it's up to his discretion.

If you notice the contestants get the time until the lights on their podium go out to answer, so unless it's completely wrong, then they do get some time to answer. I know when I was on the show about a hundred years ago, I had a category "BC" where the answers were two words beginning with b and c. The clue that I missed was Bactrian camel but I just said Bactrian and stood there at what seemed like forever before they ruled against me. 

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57 minutes ago, mojoween said:

Out of curiosity because my mind isn't going there, how did you all get that they meant Cabaret! from the clue?

Pretty much as @HelenBaby said, and for me the title of the book clued me in  to Cabaret!, I knew Joel had been in both the Broadway production and in the film, so it led to him for me. If the Oscar had not been in the clue, I might have gone for Cummings (who I haven't seen in the play, but I imagine he's wonderful).

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For those of you who loved Ben Ingram (TOC 3 or so years ago) Liz is his wife.

I had just gotten home an hour ago from visiting my brother for T'giving. He lives just across the state line (in NC) from Lake Wylie, SC, so I was giggling a lot over that (turkey high...my SIL had sent a bunch of leftovers home with me.)

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4 hours ago, tvaddict44 said:

For those of you who loved Ben Ingram (TOC 3 or so years ago) Liz is his wife.  You may remember how sweetly Ben talked about his grandmother and his fiancee when he was on.

Cool! I had to google his image to put the name with the face.

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I had just gotten home an hour ago from visiting my brother for T'giving. He lives just across the state line (in NC) from Lake Wylie, SC, so I was giggling a lot over that (turkey high...my SIL had sent a bunch of leftovers home with me.)

Wait, is Ben Ingram your brother?

 

1 hour ago, Clanstarling said:

Pretty much as @HelenBaby said, and for me the title of the book clued me in  to Cabaret!, I knew Joel had been in both the Broadway production and in the film, so it led to him for me. If the Oscar had not been in the clue, I might have gone for Cummings (who I haven't seen in the play, but I imagine he's wonderful).

I love him. He released a fragrance called Cumming followed by Second Cumming. :D

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Wait, is Ben Ingram your brother?

No. Ingram lives in Lake Wylie, SC; my bro lives in Charlotte, NC, in a part of town that's lakefront property on Lake Wylie (the lake). It's so close to LW, SC, that's where his nearest Walmart is.  They might bump into each other in the Walmart or at the gas station...(SC gas is SO much cheaper than NC or GA.)

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44 minutes ago, peeayebee said:

I'm wondering if I would have gotten it without the Master of Ceremonies clue. I focused on that too much. 

It would have had to have been written completely differently without the MoC clue because several people have won a Tony and Oscar for the same role. Jose Ferrer, Rex Harrison and Yul Brynner come to mind.

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I had no clue for FJ, and said France.  I figured England was too obvious.

I really wanted to like Allison when she was first introduced, since I have been a research microbiologist, too, but then she went and started at the second clue down.  What really ruined her for me, though, was her admiration of the movie "Outbreak".  The science in that movie is so so bad.  So it doesn't hurt my feelings that she lost.

TS I got include The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (which was a surprising TS!) and 3 Musketeers.

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Congrats again to Justin.  I liked Hobie, too, but Allison annoyed the hell out of me by always starting on the second clue.  By DJ, I was actively rooting against her.

I have some kind of brain fog tonight*.  I didn't get any TS and was totally clueless on FJ.

*Proof of brain fog - I forgot to turn on my oven and was wondering why my dinner wasn't cooking.

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biakbiak

biakbiak

FJ was an instaget for reasons even I don't understand. Though when he guessed France it reminded me of a story that Seth Meyers told about his mother who was a French teacher for a 20 years realized when she visited him when he was living in Amsterdam that she had the Netherlands flag on her desk not the French flag and no one had ever noticed.

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I too was bugged by Allison refusing to start at the top of categories. 

I got The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, 3 Musketeers, and Hadleyburg, the last of which surprised me. How did that manage to stick in my mind?

I could not remember Hustle & Flow at all.

I guessed The Netherlands. I wasn't sure of the colors of the Russian flag, and obviously I don't know Finland's, Norway's, and Sweden's colors either because I was thinking they were combos of baby blue, white, and maybe yellow, and I didn't think Russia was those colors. So, in short, I stumbled into The Netherlands.

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9 hours ago, teebax said:

I got FJ immediately and was surprised it was a TS. I also got Hustle & Flow.

Agreed on both counts. Hustle & Flow picking up that Oscar was one of the two surprise stories of that Oscars night and if you know your Oscar or movie trivia, it seemed like an easy one to me. And yes, I got the FJ though I do think that one was much harder.

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