Jeopardy! Season 33 (2016-2017)

[peeayebee]

That's how I got it out, too. I didn't think they'd been in any other movie together.

[Scott]

It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't Keanu's character the mayor's son, a Prince Hal sort, who is now spending time with a Falstaff-like character and his group, drinking and drugging and being generally disreputable? I think that's the loose connection. 

[dcalley]

5 hours ago, DrSpaceman73 said:

I've heard of a Sticky Wicket but don't even know what the phrase means.

It means a difficult situation and comes from the game of cricket. Something about the ground being damp making it tougher to bat, I think.

[Good Queen Jane]

3 hours ago, Scott said:

It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't Keanu's character the mayor's son, a Prince Hal sort, who is now spending time with a Falstaff-like character and his group, drinking and drugging and being generally disreputable? I think that's the loose connection. 

From Wikipedia, so it must be true.

[Browncoat]

Sorry to see Kevin go, and not just because Stephanie bugged me, though she does.  I would have been less sorry if middle girl (Robin?) had won, despite her guess of Picard.  Probably because I was thinking along the same lines!  Otherwise, I was clueless for FJ.

I did manage to get Batman, buckwheat and Marrakech, though -- all aboard that train...

 

ETA: Yesterday's show was on at 3:15 this morning, but I can't find tonight's show anywhere on my guide.  Grr...

Edited March 24, 2017 by Browncoat

[CarpeDiem54]

Jon!  Too bad he lost - nicely dressed, seemingly intelligent (until the end), and good looking.  I'm glad Stephanie flamed out.  Robert's probably a one and done.  Too hesitant in picking clues.

I got Voyager, Sermon on the Mount, oil derrick, and Halliburton.

FJ took me a minute but I came up with it in plenty of time.  Alexandria is a Native American word?  Who knew.

[Prevailing Wind]

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 Alexandria is a Native American word?

I had the same reaction, but I included "Toots" as in, "Oh, yeah, Toots, Alexandria's Native American, alright."

[peeayebee]

I didn't even think about Alexandria being a Native American word or not. I just knew I've been there without having to go thru security. Anyway, I didn't get FJ.

That Doris Kearns Goodwin clue was kinda weird. For a second I thought it was in a Stupid Questions category.

I got Voyager, Kagan, and promise/premise. I also said thumb drive instead of flash drive. That would have been accepted, right? Oh, and instead of oil derrick, I said oil rig. I'm not sure of the difference.

Like Stephanie, in her Greetings DD, I was thinking 4-letter greeting instead of 4-word greeting. I was thinking "Tata? What does that have to do with Africa." I'm not sure I would have gotten "Dr Livingston, I presume" even if I was correctly thinking of 4-word phrases.

[ottoDbusdriver]

6 hours ago, peeayebee said:

I didn't even think about Alexandria being a Native American word or not. I just knew I've been there without having to go thru security. Anyway, I didn't get FJ.

That Doris Kearns Goodwin clue was kinda weird. For a second I thought it was in a Stupid Questions category.

I got Voyager, Kagan, and promise/premise. I also said thumb drive instead of flash drive. That would have been accepted, right? Oh, and instead of oil derrick, I said oil rig. I'm not sure of the difference.

Like Stephanie, in her Greetings DD, I was thinking 4-letter greeting instead of 4-word greeting. I was thinking "Tata? What does that have to do with Africa." I'm not sure I would have gotten "Dr Livingston, I presume" even if I was correctly thinking of 4-word phrases.

So, was Alexandria in Egypt named after a Native American word ?

[operalover]

10 hours ago, peeayebee said:

I didn't even think about Alexandria being a Native American word or not. I just knew I've been there without having to go thru security. Anyway, I didn't get FJ.

That Doris Kearns Goodwin clue was kinda weird. For a second I thought it was in a Stupid Questions category.

I got Voyager, Kagan, and promise/premise. I also said thumb drive instead of flash drive. That would have been accepted, right? Oh, and instead of oil derrick, I said oil rig. I'm not sure of the difference.

Like Stephanie, in her Greetings DD, I was thinking 4-letter greeting instead of 4-word greeting. I was thinking "Tata? What does that have to do with Africa." I'm not sure I would have gotten "Dr Livingston, I presume" even if I was correctly thinking of 4-word phrases.

I thought it was 4 letters too! I was shocked that it was 4 words. 

Was the answer Alexandria? I thought it was something else. Because that is not Native American. Alexandria is a city in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great- named after himself. Unless he was named after a Native American.

Edited March 25, 2017 by operalover

[secnarf]

2 hours ago, operalover said:

Was the answer Alexandria? I thought it was something else. Because that is not Native American. Alexandria is a city in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great- named after himself. Unless he was named after a Native American.

The correct answer was Quantico.

[Browncoat]

What was the FJ clue?

[Toothbrush]

15 hours ago, CarpeDiem54 said:

Jon!  Too bad he lost - nicely dressed, seemingly intelligent (until the end), and good looking.  I'm glad Stephanie flamed out.  Robert's probably a one and done.  Too hesitant in picking clues.

ITA 

TS I got were Niagara River, Sermon on the Mount, beta decay, promise/premise, derrick, and the missed DD of Dr. Livingstone, I presume. I thought that JK Rowling & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were too easy for DJ, especially with Elementary! as part of the Sir ACD clue. JK Rowling was kids' week level. I don't think Stephanie should have been given credit for banishment, since the clue specified a punishment for students. Banishment (to my knowledge) does not commonly pertain to students. In the end it made no difference, but shows, again, the inconsistency in judging. 

Quantico did not even occur to me. My mind was set on MD rather than VA. I blame watching the RH of Potomac sneak preview (don't judge me!) prior to watching Jeopardy. 

[YoureSoUrban]

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Jon!  Too bad he lost - nicely dressed, seemingly intelligent (until the end), and good looking.  I'm glad Stephanie flamed out.  Robert's probably a one and done.  Too hesitant in picking clues.

Totally agree. I thought Jon was very impressive.

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I don't think Stephanie should have been given credit for banishment, since the clue specified a punishment for students. Banishment (to my knowledge) does not commonly pertain to students.

I'm so glad someone else caught that. That was a seriously bad call.

It was interesting that at the start of the show Alex jumped right in to the first round. No little warm up story about Stephanie or anything. I thought maybe that was to speed up the game but then he gave some long, unnecessary response to one of Jon's correct answers so maybe not.

For TS I got Kagan, promise/premise and The Doors. I had no clue on FJ but when it was revealed - doh!

[biakbiak]

15 hours ago, peeayebee said:

That Doris Kearns Goodwin clue was kinda weird. For a second I thought it was in a Stupid Questions category.

I seriously cannot get over how easy the question was, I thought it was easy even without her maiden name just because there aren't a ton of famous female historians.

[burner]

30 minutes ago, YoureSoUrban said:

Totally agree. I thought Jon was very impressive.

 

Also thought Jon was a great player. I know it's part of the game but I hate when an otherwise great player gets taken down in FJ. 

[dcalley]

4 hours ago, Browncoat said:

What was the FJ clue?

NATIVE AMERICAN PLACE NAMES

You have to go through military security to reach this town with a marine base on 3 sides & the Potomac on the other

 

I am creating a thread (edit: link below) to help people find missed Final Jeopardy clues. That way they can avoid being spoiled in this thread.

Some of you thought a clue asked for a four-letter word when in fact it asked for four words. Well, I mentally changed "5-letter" to "3-letter" in this clue, because I guess I really wanted the answer to be USB drive: WHAT'S IN YOUR POCKET? / One of these 5-letter drives so when we get to your house, I can show you thousands of photos of my cats

Edited March 25, 2017 by dcalley
added link to new thread

[peeayebee]

3 hours ago, Toothbrush said:

I don't think Stephanie should have been given credit for banishment, since the clue specified a punishment for students. Banishment (to my knowledge) does not commonly pertain to students. In the end it made no difference, but shows, again, the inconsistency in judging.  

This clue bothered me. I agree that students are not banished from school, they are expelled, but the wording of the clue is kind of ambiguous, I think:

Here Fra Angelico depicts THIS happening to Adam and Eve, like students who misbehaved at school.

Sometimes what happened to Adam and Eve is called banishment, sometimes expulsion. This particular scene is part of a fresco called The Annunciation, so you can't answer the clue based on the title. Yet since the clue refers to misbehaving students, you should probably say expulsion. But the scene itself can be called banishment. So... like I said, I don't like the clue.

[teebax]

17 hours ago, peeayebee said:

Like Stephanie, in her Greetings DD, I was thinking 4-letter greeting instead of 4-word greeting. I was thinking "Tata? What does that have to do with Africa." I'm not sure I would have gotten "Dr Livingston, I presume" even if I was correctly thinking of 4-word phrases.

This is a mistake I keep making when I play at home. The clue will ask for four words, and I'll think they want four letters, and vice versa. I don't know why I keep doing that!

[Prevailing Wind]

That picture of the Sermon on the Mount - the way Jesus has his head tilted & has his hand in the air, it looks like he's saying a dismissive, "Yadda yadda yadda."  (And I've looked a gazillion pictures on google trying to find this one. The j-archive gives me a 404 not found error.)

[Browncoat]

1 hour ago, dcalley said:

I am creating a thread (edit: link below) to help people find missed Final Jeopardy clues. That way they can avoid being spoiled in this thread.

@dcalley, you're the best!  Thanks!

[secnarf]

10 hours ago, Toothbrush said:

TS I got were Niagara River...

I was shocked that this was a TS!!

[ottoDbusdriver]

9 hours ago, secnarf said:

I was shocked that this was a TS!!

Or that one of the contestants looked at that map, complete with river highlighted and the length given in the clue and guessed "What is the St. Lawrence River ?"

[peeayebee]

I should have known that. I said Erie River. Doh.

[proserpina65]

On ‎03‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 9:11 PM, YoureSoUrban said:

I'm sorry to see the champ go but I enjoyed the game. I got Batman, recorder, buckwheat, and the Madrid DD.

FJ stumped me.

I got Batman and Madrid.  I've seen both The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, so FJ was a breeze for me.

I knew the one clue was looking for a Gus Van Sant film, but all I could come up with was Drugstore Cowboy, and I knew that wasn't correct.

Edited to note that I also got LBJ.

Edited March 27, 2017 by proserpina65

[proserpina65]

On ‎03‎/‎24‎/‎2017 at 8:35 PM, CarpeDiem54 said:

Jon!  Too bad he lost - nicely dressed, seemingly intelligent (until the end), and good looking.  I'm glad Stephanie flamed out.  Robert's probably a one and done.  Too hesitant in picking clues.

I got Voyager, Sermon on the Mount, oil derrick, and Halliburton.

FJ took me a minute but I came up with it in plenty of time.  Alexandria is a Native American word?  Who knew.

I got Voyager but said oil rig instead of derrick.  Maybe that would've been accepted.  FJ was a total gimme, but partly because I'd just seen a Pantene commercial with Priyanka Chopra, the star of Quantico, so it was fresh in my mind.  I knew St Lawrence river was wrong, but would never have gotten the right answer in a million years.  And I couldn't pull Sermon on the Mount out of my brain quickly enough.  But I did get "Dr. Livingston, I presume", so that's something.

[ABay]

Who does Adam look like? It's driving me crazy!

And I got FJ because of Stargate: Atlantis. Or SG-1. Definitely not that 3rd one that sucked.

Edited March 27, 2017 by ABay

[mojoween]

Adam looks like one of my exes and therefore I am not fond of him.

I wish I could remember the unique spelling of the girl on the end's name because I really liked her.

I got some TS, but now can't remember any of them.  I did not get FJ.

[Browncoat]

6 minutes ago, mojoween said:

I wish I could remember the unique spelling of the girl on the end's name because I really liked her.

I think it was Meral.

I am not fond of Adam because, well, y'all probably know why, since I've complained about it so much with other contestants!

It made me a little sad that no one knew Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs", and then it made me a little sad that I did know it.  And can sing it.  Oh, the 70s -- what an interesting time.  :)

I also got armadillo and oblate.  FJ was an instaget for me, but I'm a Biologist.  I'd have been embarrassed to have missed it.

[alias1]

My dream scenario would have been for Adam to bet zero, and Meral (?) to win by $1.  OK, not likely, but I'm not fond of Adam.

[CarpeDiem54]

Don't like Adam at all for several reasons.  I liked Meral. 

1 hour ago, ABay said:

Who does Adam look like? It's driving me crazy!

I think he looks like a less handsome version of a young Harry Connick, Jr.

I got avocado, armadillo, "I Write The Songs", and consequences.

I was clueless for FJ.

1 hour ago, ABay said:

I have no idea why this box ^ appeared.

[mojoween]

Armadillo and consequences were two of the TS I was thinking of.

Was Neptune ridiculously easy for a DD?  And one of the ones in DJ was too but, naturally, I can't remember it.

[Browncoat]

The DD that asked for the alphabetically last of the four states at Four Corners was way too easy for a DD.

[WhoisMark]

On 3/25/2017 at 1:55 PM, Prevailing Wind said:

That picture of the Sermon on the Mount - the way Jesus has his head tilted & has his hand in the air, it looks like he's saying a dismissive, "Yadda yadda yadda."  (And I've looked a gazillion pictures on google trying to find this one. The j-archive gives me a 404 not found error.)

I'm a regular on J!Board and only a casual visitor here, so just saw this now.

The artist is Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari. 

During the credits of J! at the end they will acknowledge the source for video clues and images.  For this painting it was Superstock that was listed.  I found this painting under Google images as well after scrolling down a bit and from there found a source that listed the artist.

Edited March 28, 2017 by WhoisMark

[mojoween]

26 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

The DD that asked for the alphabetically last of the four states at Four Corners was way too easy for a DD.

Yes!  That was the one I was thinking of.

[Kimmmmmm]

1 hour ago, SierraMist said:

My dream scenario would have been for Adam to bet zero, and Meral (?) to win by $1.  OK, not likely, but I'm not fond of Adam.

And I liked Robert more than both of them...

[mojoween]

"The Others" was another TS I got.  That movie scared me so badly that I never finished it.  

Edited March 28, 2017 by mojoween

[burner]

Also didn't like Adam. His obsession with having the lead (don't get me wrong, it's a game, I get it) seemed like it led to a lot of hasty wrong answers and then some serious DD chasing. Was thrilled when Meral got Linnaeus but bummed when he also got it right. I guess it's good he was at least smart and went ahead and wagered everything.

I'm still bitter about Jon not getting thru on Friday tbh. Robert bugged me a lot this game too.

[peeayebee]

His saying Pecos Bill for William Bonney was what sealed his fate for me.
 

44 minutes ago, mojoween said:

"The Others" was another TS I got.  That movie scared me so badly that I never finished it.  

Grrrr. I just couldn't pull that title out of my head! The only thing that came to mind was The Innocents, but I knew it wasn't that.

I did get I Write the Songs, silk, and Consequences. I didn't get FJ and was kicking myself for it because I learned the guy's name on Jeopardy. Or I thought I'd learned it. My guess was Liddle. At least I was around the ballpark -- not in it, but somewhere around it.

[Prevailing Wind]

Little known fact about "I Write the Songs" - Manilow *didn't* write it. He's written many others, but this one's a Bruce Johnston song.  I always thought that was funny.

Gonna miss tonight's show. Condo board is meeting with the lawyers tonight to have our docs updated. They were written in 1984 and have *never* been updated. Yikes.

[teebax]

11 hours ago, burner said:

Also didn't like Adam. His obsession with having the lead (don't get me wrong, it's a game, I get it) seemed like it led to a lot of hasty wrong answers and then some serious DD chasing. Was thrilled when Meral got Linnaeus but bummed when he also got it right. I guess it's good he was at least smart and went ahead and wagered everything.

I'm still bitter about Jon not getting thru on Friday tbh. Robert bugged me a lot this game too.

I wasn't sure if it was watching Jeopardy or The Price is Right!  

Robert was too slow picking clues. 

[proserpina65]

Science is not a good area for me, so I fully expected to have no idea on FJ.  Imagine my surprise when I actually was able to drag Linnaeus out of the recesses of my brain, and in time to have written it down, too.

I got armadillo, The Others (which scared the hell out of me, but I loved it) and I Write the Songs, and then had it stuck in my head for hours.

I don't mind Adam, but it wouldn't kill if he was a one-and-done either.

Edited March 28, 2017 by proserpina65

[illini1959]

1 hour ago, teebax said:

Robert was too slow picking clues. 

Agreed!

I got all of the 70s song titles, not to date myself ;)

[operalover]

1 hour ago, illini1959 said:

Agreed!

I got all of the 70s song titles, not to date myself ;)

same here! I enjoyed that category. My 20 somethings sons are impressed with my knowledge of 70s music. 

[Toothbrush]

19 hours ago, Browncoat said:

I am not fond of Adam because, well, y'all probably know why, since I've complained about it so much with other contestants!

It made me a little sad that no one knew Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs", and then it made me a little sad that I did know it.  And can sing it.  Oh, the 70s -- what an interesting time.  :)

I feel the same about Adam. "I Write the Songs" was the only TS I got. 

5 hours ago, teebax said:

I wasn't sure if it was watching Jeopardy or The Price is Right!  

LOL! 

4 hours ago, illini1959 said:

Agreed!

I got all of the 70s song titles, not to date myself ;)

I ran the category also, and I was born in the 70s. Thanks Mom & Dad :-) 

All DDs were way too easy - Neptune, UT, income tax? Please!

I did not get FJ. I was thinking Mendel, but could not come up with his name, so even if that were correct, I do not think "Who is that monk?" would have been acceptable. And Alex would have shamed me for being 100 years late. 

Edited March 28, 2017 by Toothbrush

[illini1959]

3 hours ago, operalover said:

same here! I enjoyed that category. My 20 somethings sons are impressed with my knowledge of 70s music. 

Those were my days, man :D Best music ever!

[illdoc]

Such an odd wager by the (new) champ. If the guy on the end had been correct, he would have won by $6000 (or so). I thought FJ was an insta get (there are 3 historic civil war years: 1861 begins, 1863 gettysburg, 1865 ends). The "math" wasn't even hard! (1938-75). No excuse!!!

[rubaco]

23 hours ago, ABay said:

Who does Adam look like? It's driving me crazy!

A young Troy Aikman?

[SeanC]

I only belatedly got the "my philosophy" hint included in the clue where the poison answer was hemlock.

[mojoween]

"Let's see 1938 minus 100 is 1838, add 25 and you get 63...it has to be Gettysburg."

I was so rooting for Julie.  I like her.

The DD's were crazy easy again today, at least the two I remember, one being shard and the other...something else.