Jeopardy! Season 35 (2018-2019)

[Browncoat]

I actually thought of you, @M. Darcy, when the category came up!  I knew you'd get it!

[M. Darcy]

6 minutes ago, Sharpie66 said:

 I have the little-necessary-except-for-Jeopardy ability to recite the British monarchs and American presidents in order. 

I can do that with Monarchs also!

But only from Washington - Jackson and then McKinley - present day with the Presidents. I really need to work on Van Buren to Cleveland. 

[saber5055]

30 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

I had pennies in my penny loafers back in the day.

I have penny loafers that I wear when I mow the grass. No pennies though. We used to put dimes in them back in "the day" so we could call home/for a ride if we had to bail on a date. You know, when there were payphones.

So Trebek announces that the Big Tournament of Former Champions is going to be "more exciting than the World Series." I beg to differ, Trebek, if the Cubs are involved. There is nothing on any tv station that will be more exciting than that.

So many TSs. I got Buster Brown (yeah, I remember those shoes AND Buster's bug-eyed dog Tige), Sad Sack (there were Sad Sack comics that I bought for a dime. Another reason to put dimes in your penny loafers.), albatross, alpinist and Diamonds Are Forever (Bond fan here, books and movies).

Two GFYs, both to the woman player. I'm going to start storing up the drinks.

As a dues-paying member of the proletariat, there is no way in ech-e-double-hockey-sticks I would ever get any question about royalty. Can't tolerate any of them. Bunch of free-loading wankers.

[Browncoat]

26 minutes ago, BuckeyeLou said:

Wow, Browncoat how cool you took the tour to the Galapagos....bet that was so interesting!

It was awesome!  I loved every minute of it, and it's on my list of places to revisit sometime.

[Driad]

1 hour ago, saber5055 said:

As a dues-paying member of the proletariat, there is no way in ech-e-double-hockey-sticks I would ever get any question about royalty. Can't tolerate any of them. Bunch of free-loading wankers.

Some people call them the world's most expensive zoo.  I know a few names including Edward VII.

[whinewithwine]

1 hour ago, saber5055 said:

So Trebek announces that the Big Tournament of Former Champions is going to be "more exciting than the World Series." I beg to differ, Trebek, if the Cubs are involved. There is nothing on any tv station that will be more exciting than that.

Your Cubs, my Astros.......awesome!

I sucked at everything today....that's all I got.

[Clanstarling]

3 hours ago, illdoc said:

FJ: I knew it was Queen Victoria's son Edward who became king on her death in 1903 (thank you Victorian Slum House!), but I couldn't remember his number (I guessed 4--way off).

I knew it was Edward (thank you Upstairs Downstairs original version), but I also wasn't sure of the number, they are my weakness. I said Edward VII, and waited with bated breath - then fist pumped when I was right.

Edited September 25, 2018 by Clanstarling

[Sharpie66]

2 hours ago, M. Darcy said:

I can do that with Monarchs also!

But only from Washington - Jackson and then McKinley - present day with the Presidents. I really need to work on Van Buren to Cleveland. 

Yeah I can get a bit confused between 1844-1856 (I sometimes get Polk and Pierce mixed up), and then again after Grant up to McKinley, so 1876-1896, but I can get them right if I have some time to think about it.

I actually got all of the Brits down before I realized that I really should remember my own presidents as well. I blame the British Rulers Ruler my mom bought for me on her first trip to the UK—it lists all of them on one side and the centimeters marked off on the other.  

Edited September 25, 2018 by Sharpie66

[Grundoon59]

The saddest TS for me was Laurel and Hardy.  Long ago when I was in high school, one of my friends had a crush on a guy who started a Sons of the Desert club at our school.  She asked me to join with her so it wouldn't be too obvious.  Many wonderful viewings of L & H films ensued.  

[lb60]

Hey, Alex. Right about now, I would kill for a measly $3600 for 30 minutes work. Ass.

Tonight I got Buster Brown, Diamonds Are Forever, Hugo, and albatross.

FJ--starting out the week in the negative column.  

[Prevailing Wind]

I got FJ thanks to Murdoch Mysteries. Well, I had to guess at his number, but I knew the abdicator was E8, so Vic's son had to be E7. My mother always said the Duke of Windsor & his mess of a wife ("skanky" hadn't been invented yet, apparently) were the biggest wastes of human life.  I'm not sure why she hated them so much, but she was vehement about it.

[catrice2]

I can't remember the last time there were that many Clues left on the board and double jeopardy. I hate to say it but I'm kind of glad the champ lost. He played a heck of a game though when he won.

[biakbiak]

I knew it was Queen Victoria’s son but there my knowledge stopped. 

[Sharpie66]

48 minutes ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I got FJ thanks to Murdoch Mysteries. Well, I had to guess at his number, but I knew the abdicator was E8, so Vic's son had to be E7. My mother always said the Duke of Windsor & his mess of a wife ("skanky" hadn't been invented yet, apparently) were the biggest wastes of human life.  I'm not sure why she hated them so much, but she was vehement about it.

Oh, the Windsors were complete wastes of space. They spent their lives flitting from one jet-set location to another, spending tons of cash on jewelry (Harry Winston looooved her), but the worst thing was his pro-Nazi sympathies in the pre-War period. (ETA: and not just before the war—he actually told a friend in the 1960s that Hitler was “not such a bad chap.”)

Edited September 25, 2018 by Sharpie66

[zoey1996]

6 minutes ago, biakbiak said:

I knew it was Queen Victoria’s son but there my knowledge stopped. 

I knew it was Queen Victoria's son Edward but wasn't sure of the number.

Wasn't walrus also a ts?  I knew that one, and Buster Brown (though Charlie first came to mind), and Laurel & Hardy.

[teebax]

15 minutes ago, zoey1996 said:

I knew it was Queen Victoria's son Edward but wasn't sure of the number.

Wasn't walrus also a ts?  I knew that one, and Buster Brown (though Charlie first came to mind), and Laurel & Hardy.

Someone got walrus after someone else, hilariously, guessed dolphin. 

[CarpeDiem54]

Not too thrilled with Nancy, but she certainly was better than the two alternatives, so GFY!  Add that to the two GFY's Alex gave her and I'd be drunk.  Rob was swaying like a tree in a hurricane and William was creepy (I don't know why).  His goofy guess of dolphin mustache was so wrong...  I had visions of Flipper with a Trebek porn 'stache.

I got Buster Brown, Sad Sack, Diamonds Are Forever, and Laurel and Hardy.

5 hours ago, illdoc said:

FJ: I knew it was Queen Victoria's son Edward who became king on her death in 1903 (thank you Victorian Slum House!), but I couldn't remember his number (I guessed 4--way off).

I, too, got Edward from Victorian Slum House, but said VI instead of VII and then kicked myself.

@Browncoat, I'm jelly regarding your Galapagos trip.  That's on my bucket list.

Edited September 25, 2018 by CarpeDiem54

[Sharpie66]

The Edwards are all interesting—#1 was “the Hammer of the Scots” and Wallace’s nemesis in Braveheart (his dad, Henry 3, named him after Edward the Confessor), #2 was the weak king who was rumored to have been killed by a hot poker up the backside, #3 started the Hundred Years War, #4 was the Yorkist king during the Wars of the Roses, #5 was one of the Princes in the Tower supposed to have been killed by Richard 3, #6 was Henry 8’s only son, and you know #7 and 8. 

[Mystery Author]

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I also had penny loafers as a kid...

As did I. And when I was really little, Buster Brown lived in my shoe. ("I'm Buster Brown. I live in your shoe. That's my dog Tige. Look for him in there, too" (or "he lives in there, too").

In 1878 George Brown invested his life savings to start his own little company to manufacture shoes. Headquartered in St. Louis, Brown Shoe Company grew to become a major corporation of over $2 billion.

The company became the Number 1 retailer of moderately priced shoes for the American family, with brands such as Naturalizer, LifeStride and Connie shoes for women and Buster Brown shoes for children.

Buster Brown was a popular cartoon character. He was a well dressed little rich kid. With his sister Mary Jane and his dog Tige (short for Tiger) they managed to get into the kind of trouble that delighted children. Tige, a Pit Bull Terrier (I think pit bulls get a bad rap!!), is believed to be the first comic strip pet that could talk, but I think only kids could hear him.

[PaulaO]

Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI.  I finally figured out the odd numbers come first, then the evens, but I have to start with Edward VIII and work my way up and down.  I recently read a work of “faction” (word courtesy of Alex Haley) titled The Royal Nanny, about the nanny to the G5 children.  I recommend it.

[Clanstarling]

10 hours ago, Grundoon59 said:

The saddest TS for me was Laurel and Hardy.  Long ago when I was in high school, one of my friends had a crush on a guy who started a Sons of the Desert club at our school.  She asked me to join with her so it wouldn't be too obvious.  Many wonderful viewings of L & H films ensued.  

I saw Laurel and Hardy in my head, I said "Abbott and Costello"...sigh....   Did you know there's a movie coming out soonish - Stan & Ollie. John C Reilly plays Hardy (JCR is unrecognizable) and Steve Coogan plays Laurel. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3385524/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4

9 hours ago, teebax said:

Someone got walrus after someone else, hilariously, guessed dolphin. 

I spent some time visualizing a dolphin with a mustaches (hmm...seems like I spent a lot of time looking at pictures in my head).

Edited September 25, 2018 by Clanstarling

[M. Darcy]

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I actually got all of the Brits down before I realized that I really should remember my own presidents as well.

The Brits are easier because there's a pattern!  Its easier to remember Henry IV,V,VI than Polk, Taylor, Fillmore.  I really do need to learn them - its come up a few times at trivia that we would have gotten a question correct if we knew the order of the Presidents.   Heh, plus, yeah, we should know our own Presidents. 

[illdoc]

2 minutes ago, M. Darcy said:

Heh, plus, yeah, we should know our own Presidents. 

I thank Square Pegs for knowing the first 5 presidents after Hoover: Rough Tots Eat Kool Jello: Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson (yes, I know cool isn't spelled with a K). I thank the Bushes for always wearing those stupid baseball caps with "41" & "43" on them for remembering which president is which number (I can identify the "presidential number" back to Hoover).

[peeayebee]

13 hours ago, Sharpie66 said:

I have the little-necessary-except-for-Jeopardy ability to recite the British monarchs and American presidents in order. 

I'm very impressed. I'm bad at both. For FJ I figured it was the son of Queen Victoria, but I said Edward... II. Stupid. I knew that number was way too low.

 

8 hours ago, Sharpie66 said:

The Edwards are all interesting—#1 was “the Hammer of the Scots” and Wallace’s nemesis in Braveheart (his dad, Henry 3, named him after Edward the Confessor), #2 was the weak king who was rumored to have been killed by a hot poker up the backside, #3 started the Hundred Years War, #4 was the Yorkist king during the Wars of the Roses, #5 was one of the Princes in the Tower supposed to have been killed by Richard 3, #6 was Henry 8’s only son, and you know #7 and 8. 

I recently watched The White Queen and kept going online to look at a British monarchs family tree. I don't know how anyone learns all these names and their order and such.

 

35 minutes ago, Clanstarling said:

I saw Laurel and Hardy in my head, I said "Abbott and Costello"...sigh....   Did you know there's a movie coming out soonish - Stan & Ollie. John C Reilly plays Hardy (JCR is unrecognizable) and Steve Coogan plays Laurel. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3385524/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4

OMG! Thanks for the link. I was sitting here smiling as I watched the trailer. I'm so excited for that movie. Looks great.

I thought I'd run the "For" movie category, but I got surprisingly few. 

For TSs, I got Honda, succulents, magnetic, and Laurel and Hardy. I kinda sorta got albatross, but backed off when Alex said something about its markings and its name. What does the name albatross have to do with its markings?

I thought Nancy's kindergarten valentine story was so sweet.

[Sharpie66]

When I was reading Alison Weir’s The Wars of the Roses, I relied on the multiple family trees at the end of the book, but there are so many names on them that they are really hard to read. It’s not just the direct line of descent for that era, but it’s the bastard line of the Tudors, all the Woodvilles (Edward 4’s in-laws, one played very entertainingly by Robert Downey Jr. in Ian McKellan’s Richard III), and all of Edward 3’s descendants. Very confusing!

[Prevailing Wind]

2 hours ago, illdoc said:

I thank Square Pegs for knowing the first 5 presidents after Hoover: Rough Tots Eat Kool Jello: Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson (yes, I know cool isn't spelled with a K). I thank the Bushes for always wearing those stupid baseball caps with "41" & "43" on them for remembering which president is which number (I can identify the "presidential number" back to Hoover).

It helps if you remember Clinton was 42, which is also the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

This may help: https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/name-us-presidents
I frequently forget Chester A. Arthur.

[proserpina65]

16 hours ago, illdoc said:

FJ: I knew it was Queen Victoria's son Edward who became king on her death in 1903 (thank you Victorian Slum House!), but I couldn't remember his number (I guessed 4--way off).

I said it was George IV.  He had to wait a long time for his father to die, but apparently not as long as Edward VII did.

[proserpina65]

16 hours ago, Browncoat said:

Anyway, in addition to Honda, I also got Buster Brown, Sad Sack, Hurricane Hugo, albatross, succulent, flinch, Latinate, and magnetic. 

I got all of those except Latinate and flinch (would cringe have been acceptable?).  Plus I got Diamonds are Forever.

One of my party tricks is naming every English monarch from Edward the Confessor to Elizabeth II, so I would've bet everything on that FJ.  And gotten it wrong, of course.  The Victorian period about a few hundred years after my specialist era, unfortunately.  Edward VII would've been my second choice if I'd remembered him.

Edited to note that I got Laurel & Hardy too.

11 hours ago, CarpeDiem54 said:

Not too thrilled with Nancy, but she certainly was better than the two alternatives, so GFY!  Add that to the two GFY's Alex gave her and I'd be drunk.  Rob was swaying like a tree in a hurricane and William was creepy (I don't know why).  His goofy guess of dolphin mustache was so wrong...  I had visions of Flipper with a Trebek porn 'stache.

I liked Rob, so I'd rather he'd won, but I'm fine with Nancy.  Glad it wasn't William.  He seemed slow to pick clues.

Edited September 25, 2018 by proserpina65

[proserpina65]

12 hours ago, Prevailing Wind said:

I got FJ thanks to Murdoch Mysteries. Well, I had to guess at his number, but I knew the abdicator was E8, so Vic's son had to be E7. My mother always said the Duke of Windsor & his mess of a wife ("skanky" hadn't been invented yet, apparently) were the biggest wastes of human life.  I'm not sure why she hated them so much, but she was vehement about it.

Well, Edward the VIII was a bit of a Nazi sympathizer, so just as well he abdicated.

2 hours ago, peeayebee said:

I recently watched The White Queen and kept going online to look at a British monarchs family tree. I don't know how anyone learns all these names and their order and such.

Practice, lots and lots of practice.  (Medieval and Renaissance Studies was my major at college.)

[opus]

44 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

and flinch (would cringe have been acceptable?)

After giving flinch, Alex said cringe would have been accepted

[proserpina65]

2 minutes ago, opus said:

After giving flinch, Alex said cringe would have been accepted

Thanks, I missed that.

2 hours ago, Sharpie66 said:

When I was reading Alison Weir’s The Wars of the Roses, I relied on the multiple family trees at the end of the book, but there are so many names on them that they are really hard to read. It’s not just the direct line of descent for that era, but it’s the bastard line of the Tudors, all the Woodvilles (Edward 4’s in-laws, one played very entertainingly by Robert Downey Jr. in Ian McKellan’s Richard III), and all of Edward 3’s descendants. Very confusing!

When I was at college, I had a big poster of the kings & queens of England and Scotland, and their progeny.  It filled most of a wall and helped a lot.

[saber5055]

1 hour ago, Prevailing Wind said:

It helps if you remember Clinton was 42, which is also the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

This made me laugh. And also made me want to thank you for all the fish. (No, I don't have a mustache.)

13 minutes ago, proserpina65 said:

I had a big poster of the kings & queens of England and Scotland, and their progeny.  It filled most of a wall and helped a lot.

By covering the holes in the wall?

[proserpina65]

13 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

By covering the holes in the wall?

Now that made me laugh! :-)

[Browncoat]

3 hours ago, peeayebee said:

I kinda sorta got albatross, but backed off when Alex said something about its markings and its name. What does the name albatross have to do with its markings?

This was the clue:

"Darwin's finches writ large" is how Carl Safina describes this soaring bird; the waved type here in the Galapagos is the only truly tropical type, & it has evolved distinct markings that help provide its name"

And the bird is the Waved Albatross.  They're pretty cool, and are huge!

[opus]

16 hours ago, saber5055 said:

So Trebek announces that the Big Tournament of Former Champions is going to be "more exciting than the World Series." I beg to differ, Trebek, if the Cubs are involved. There is nothing on any tv station that will be more exciting than that.

Wow, horrible mistake for a Jeopardy fan. You misspelled Yankees as Cubs.

[saber5055]

Edited September 25, 2018 by saber5055

[M. Darcy]

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thank Square Pegs for knowing the first 5 presidents after Hoover:

I admit, I know Taft-Eisenhower because of Backstairs at the White House.  I was obsessed with the tv series when it originally aired. 

[Driad]

"The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen" has also been used as a definition of hash.

[Sharpie66]

I did not do well today. I did get two DDs (Charlotte and rainbow) and Adam Lambert, as well as FJ. Btw, I was happy to see that wonderful photo of the cloch, my very favorite hat style.

Edited September 26, 2018 by Sharpie66

[YoureSoUrban]

I can't believe I've missed 2 weeks on my fave board because the new season just happened to sync w/ super crazy days at work. My main takeaways after a binge watch over the weekend were that I liked Alex's beard and Kyle seemed nice.

Anyway, YAY Vincent is off my TV for good now. He earned way too much money w/ easy clues (the Falklands in 1982 as a DD?) and I don't think he needed to be brought back anyway since the other two contestants saw the same board he did and weren't confused but that dead horse has already been beaten. Wish I could have seen the look on his face when Nancy ruined his comeback. I had no clue on FJ myself but got three TS: Adam Lambert, Hell's Canyon and escalator.

Edited September 26, 2018 by YoureSoUrban

[saber5055]

It was nice to see Vincent back, but I wish he would have won since, if I remember correctly, he would have won if the FJ board hadn't done a goof during his original run.

Trebek likes Nancy. She got another GFY today after two yesterday.

I got the missed DD of Charlotte (wild guess) and also the canyon TSs of Zion (been there) and Hell's (going there).

If Adam Lambert wouldn't keep changing his look, I would have recognized his photo. Although I did know he was playing Freddy Mercury's part with Queen, so I get a BFM: Bad For Me.

It was nice that Nancy didn't go all spazwadden when she won again. That was a refreshing change.

45 minutes ago, Driad said:

"The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen" has also been used as a definition of hash.

I love me some corned-beef hash. That's what you meant, right?

[Fex]

I did a project on George Bernard Shaw in Junior High, so FJ was easy for me. 

Glad they didn't leave five clues on the board again! That was frustrating yesterday.

[GreekGeek]

Just now, saber5055 said:

Trebek likes Nancy. She got another GFY today after two yesterday.

 

Yes, he waited until FJ to comment on how little she won yesterday. Usually he leads off with that.

I did not remember Vincent at all, nor the problem with the board. I did know his two missed DD's, plus escalator, Zion, and alacrity.

I wondered if someone would say My Fair Lady for FJ. The quote from Shaw's prologue was incorporated in slightly altered form in Henry Higgins' "Why Can't the English?" song. Waiting for Godot was a strange answer; I'd love to know what the reasoning behind it was.
 

[Grundoon59]

The quote used for FJ was basically used as a lyric for "Why can't the English?" in My Fair Lady (which is now an ear worm for me) plus Shaw is a favorite playwright  - if you ever get the chance, visit the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake Ontario - so FJ was an instaget for me.

Also got Charlotte and rainbow but only came up with that Adam dude for Lambert.  

[SHD]

3 minutes ago, GreekGeek said:

I wondered if someone would say My Fair Lady for FJ. 
 

*raises hand*

I feel like in the Teams category, they should've made them answer with the city, too - not just Jets and Sharks.

I got Adam Lambert and was SUPER happy that the category in DJ wasn't another royalty category.

[Kathira]

I got rainbow, Adam Lambert, escalator, Zion and alacrity. I went with Look Back in Anger for FJ. Oh, well. I got yesterday's FJ, anyway.

Glad Nancy beat Vincent. I didn't think he really deserved a do-over.

[Browncoat]

Woo hoo!  I got FJ right tonight!  Actually, I thought it was an easy one, and would also love to know what the woman on the end was thinking with “Waiting For Godot”.  

I remember the Vincent controversy, and am not sad he lost.  Again.

TS/missed DD I got include Maple Leafs, Charlotte, rainbow, and Hell’s Canyon.  I probably should have gotten escalator, but I tend to associate Otis with elevators, and I just couldn’t make that fit the category.

Edited September 26, 2018 by Browncoat

[lb60]

I missed half of tonight's show due to a tornado warning in a different county that the tv station in a different state felt the need to go on and on about. Since they already pre-empted GH today for the Cosby verdict, 6abc is currently on my shitlist.

<rant over>

Tonight I got Adam Lambert.

Yay, me!

[CarpeDiem54]

Nancy's growing on me.  She got rid of Vincent the Whiner.  GFY!  ?   I liked Courtney, too.

To refresh your memories:  http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-ent-jeopardy-vincent-valenzuela-20180716-story.html

I got Charlotte and Zion National Park.

Yay!  I got FJ!

[Spunkygal]

1 hour ago, Sharpie66 said:

I did not do well today. I did get two DDs (Charlotte and rainbow) and Adam Lambert, as well as FJ. Btw, I was happy to see that wonderful photo of the cloch, my very favorite hat style.

I definitely was not paying attention when I read this post because I thought it said “I was happy to see that wonderful photo of the crotch!” (Referring to Adam’s tight red leather pants!)