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Jeopardy! Season 35 (2018-2019)

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lb60

Last night, I got neonatal and Gaza.  I said Jules Verne for FJ.  I blame the dog, who for some unknown reason was going ape-shit crazy at the time, for distracting me. That's my story, blah, blah, blah.  And woof-woof!

Tonight, I got McCoy, Negro League, and gypsum.  I got FJ by singing the song.  Fine, I had to sing it twice, because the first time I totally whiffed on the last line.

Happy that crazy eyed Matt didn't win.

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Sp those weren't my categories, and the buzzer killed me, but it was better than I remembered. I played the oboe in orchestra and know it wasn't four feet freaking long. How embarrassing!  If I'd

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It had not. Jeopardy decided no longer to name our schools, and it was important to me that I mention mine. We're a small alternative public high school in a very large district, and very few people I

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This is a little off-topic, but I wanted all of you to see it. I made the Teachers Tournament for this year! I'm taping at the beginning of April, and it will air May 5-17th.

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biakbiak

5 minutes ago, Cotypubby said:

I call foul on Matt not getting credit for his answer of Labour and Torries. I heard him say

”’t’s the, uh, Labour and Tory?”

Him being penalized there cost him the win!

That’s not in the form of a question Who, what, why or when is needed even if you don’t use the correct one. 

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Bastet

Bastet

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Thanks to an ill-timed phone call, I missed the entire game, but thankfully the archive was updated so I was able to read all the clues.

I wonder if the clues in Alex’s Bucket List were true, because it’s hard to believe someone with his resources and love of travel hasn’t been to Australia by now.  (Please tell me the visual part of the clue, which I can't see on the archive, was a picture of someplace in Australia, not a world map with Australia highlighted!)

The Llasa TS in that category did not surprise me, even though it amounted to “Name the capital of Tibet," because geography clues are particularly prone to stumping contestants.  The Salinas TS somewhat surprised me; I thought that whole American Lit category was better suited to the first round.  Gypsum surprised me at first, but then I decided it didn’t.  The Negro Leagues TS just flat-out surprised me, though; Hank Aaron is obviously baseball, and with the team name it’s obviously not MLB, so look at the year and Aaron’s race, and what can it be?  I’d have thought at least one would get that.

*Speaking of over-valued clues, I can’t even with the Glinda = the good witch being a DD in DJ.  I don't even like The Wizard of Oz, but talk about cultural osmosis; references are everywhere!

I figured all three contestants would have time to sing in their head and come up with the last line in order to nail FJ, but apparently not.

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biakbiak

1 minute ago, Bastet said:

Please tell me the visual part of the clue, which I can't see on the archive, was a picture of someplace in Australia, not a world map with Australia highlighted!)

It was a picture of Uluru so almost though not the Sydney Opera House so I guess that’s good. I also was surprised he hadn’t been to Australia. 

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Toothbrush

Toothbrush

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Monday & Tuesday FJ were instagets. 

So grateful that the clown category did not have any scary clown pictures.

heehee to Alex' Bucket List being picked last.  

12 hours ago, Trey said:

So many really easy questions last night.  Like, what does AI stand for. 

And "Mommie Dearest" being a $1,000 clue!

Tuesday also, especially the DDs -  "Thank you"; "Glinda"; "McCoy (in a McPeople category). 

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Bastet

Bastet

10 minutes ago, Toothbrush said:

Tuesday also, especially the DDs -  "Thank you"; "Glinda"; "McCoy (in a McPeople category). 

I complained about Glinda being a DD, but I forgot about "Thank You" also being a DD; yes, that was just as ridiculous.  What the hell else was a two-word Oscar acceptance speech going to be,  "I won"?  "Holy shit"?  "Up yours"? 

McCoy was fairly easy, too, but those two are on another level.

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GenerationX

GenerationX

Some pretty unlikely TSs this week (my instaget TS was the Negro Leagues).  I doubt we'll see those kinds of misses in the All-Star tournament.

Despite my coulrophobia, I somehow ran the Clowns category.  It helped that one clue was baseball-related and another Simpsons-related, which are both dream categories for me.

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Browncoat

5 hours ago, GenerationX said:

Some pretty unlikely TSs this week (my instaget TS was the Negro Leagues).  I doubt we'll see those kinds of misses in the All-Star tournament.

Despite my coulrophobia, I somehow ran the Clowns category.  It helped that one clue was baseball-related and another Simpsons-related, which are both dream categories for me.

I hope we see more difficult clues in the All-Star tournament!

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DrSpaceman

7 hours ago, Bastet said:

I complained about Glinda being a DD, but I forgot about "Thank You" also being a DD; yes, that was just as ridiculous.  What the hell else was a two-word Oscar acceptance speech going to be,  "I won"?  "Holy shit"?  "Up yours"? 

McCoy was fairly easy, too, but those two are on another level.

I thought "Thank you" was obvious as well, but didn't even consider what other two word speeches might consist of. 

Peace out!

I won?

Why me?

For an Emmy, a good Three word speech would, "Suck it, Trebek"

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Clanstarling

Clanstarling

9 hours ago, Bastet said:

I complained about Glinda being a DD, but I forgot about "Thank You" also being a DD; yes, that was just as ridiculous.  What the hell else was a two-word Oscar acceptance speech going to be,  "I won"?  "Holy shit"?  "Up yours"? 

McCoy was fairly easy, too, but those two are on another level.

I think I'd love an actor who said "Holy Shit"

As for DD's - are they assigned by the question, or does Jeopardy just randomly assign them to a category (or column) and value?

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Julia67

18 hours ago, saber5055 said:

This photo is very close to the runcible spoon my mother had and showed me so I would know what one was. She is the one who taught me The Owl and the Pussycat. So I'm chosing her opinion over anyone else's. It's big, like a serving spoon, with three tines that are broad and sort of fancy.

I have one of these in my kitchen!  Used it for dinner last night, in fact.  Have never heard of the term "runcible".  Learned something new today!

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teebax

teebax

Last night I had McCoys and Salinas as my only gets. I missed FJ and said Brigadoon. I think I was somehow thinking of a recent episode I watched and didn't even think of the lyrics to the song; I thought about the bridge part. I've probably watched 200 episodes over the past two weeks, so I'm going to stop watching for a few days; I have a four-day weekend from school for Rodeo Days, so I'm going to decompress.

I felt bad for Matt. He started really strong but faded in DJ. His facial expressions were freaking me out though. That's a face with a lot of character!

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illdoc

This is NOT a spoiler but.....what should we do about the contest due to the All-Star games? Again, not a spoiler but there was NO FJ today. Should we just count this week as a "short week" (score X/2) & pick it up again when the A-S games are over (with another short week X/3)? I'm sure there may be FJ questions during the A-S, but when? how many? etc.

saber5055

saber5055

9 minutes ago, ABay said:

As far as I'm concerned, a runcible spoon is just a big ol' spork, and I think the contestant who said spork should've been given the points.

Well, then the Lear poem would have to be rewritten so:

They dined on mince, and pieces of pork, Which they ate with a cheap plastic spork;

Not not quite the same panache if you know what I mean.

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Roaster

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Today I got FJ after only a little thought, so I was surprised all three missed it.

HOWEVER, I had to smile at Dana's excellent FJ wager.  Usually if you enter FJ in third place, you're going to lose, but sometimes you have a chance if everyone gets it wrong AND you wager correctly.  Which she did, winning by 1 dollar.  (It's a pet peeve of mine when people over-wager.)

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mojoween

mojoween

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I think it’s going to be from now until the end of time before I get over that guy answering “Lawrence Thomas”.  It was wrong on so many levels.

And the real LT is such a part of my fandom that I automatically typed out Taylor and had to back up.

Backlash came to me right before the last bong of the song so I don’t know if I would have had time to write it down.  The other answers were...interesting.

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2 minutes ago, secnarf said:

 I did notice however that for the Anne Boleyn clue, I didn't actually know the answer (I'm terrible with history) until I noticed her necklace with a 'B' in it. I wonder if that was intentional.

That’s a fairly well-known portrait of Anne Boleyn.  The necklace was (If I remember correctly) a gift from Henry VIII.

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saber5055

saber5055

Welcome back to clues left on the board, Good For You interviews, four-digit final $ totals and any DD wager more than $2,000 is daring and oh-so bold. Hope everyone who hated the All Stars is happy.

Interesting the engineer contestant didn't know the "engineering term for a jolt caused by a gap in machine parts."

First regular game this week, first asterisk this week.

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SHD

4 minutes ago, saber5055 said:

Welcome back to clues left on the board, Good For You interviews, four-digit final $ totals and any DD wager more than $2,000 is daring and oh-so bold. Hope everyone who hated the All Stars is happy.

But on the plus side, this game made me feel smarter than any of the champion games did. So there’s that.

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Bastet

Bastet

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My cat would like to know why I was hollering LaDainian Tomlinson at the TV, since our deal that I could yell at football players on TV while she's on my lap did not extend to randomly yelling a football player's name during the off-season.  I loved that category.  As a Scrabble player, and someone who loves vocabulary categories, I loved the Scrabble words category, too.  I was bummed they didn’t get to the last My Songs clue, as I really enjoyed that one, too.

My LT yelling had nothing on the volume I got with tsunami.  Jeez, people, especially with two wrong answers.  Un-break My Heart surprised me, too, but not to that degree.  FJ being a TS was somewhere in the middle on my surprise meter.

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1 hour ago, Browncoat said:

I also got tsunami (also a surprise TS)

I was thinking tsunami after the first two wrong guesses. Seems strange for an acronym to use a letter that is silent in the word.

My TS was Unbreak My Heart.

I got FJ. I immediately thought 'backlash' but kept trying to think of other options because it didn't seem quite right.

I don't think I've heard of a forecastle.

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teebax

teebax

2 hours ago, saber5055 said:

Interesting the engineer contestant didn't know the "engineering term for a jolt caused by a gap in machine parts."

He was from Tucson, so I was definitely rooting for him. I hope he doesn't catch too much flack from his coworkers for missing that one. 

I'm glad to have regular Jeopardy back. The All Star clues were shaking my confidence! I did well today but missed FJ and was too emotional about Alex to think to write down my gets. 

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Tabasco Cat

3 hours ago, mojoween said:

And the real LT is such a part of my fandom that I automatically typed out Taylor and had to back up.

I immediately went there and then remembered how LT ended Joe Theisman's career on Monday Night Football all those years ago. NOPE NOT HIM! LT PLAYED DEFENSE! Then I got to the right answer.

2 hours ago, saber5055 said:

Interesting the engineer contestant didn't know the "engineering term for a jolt caused by a gap in machine parts."

That semester of Machine Dynamics decades ago paid off in instaget fashion for me LOL.

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Fex

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

My cat would like to know why I was hollering LaDainian Tomlinson at the TV, since our deal that I could yell at football players on TV while she's on my lap did not extend to randomly yelling a football player's name during the off-season.  I loved that category.  As a Scrabble player, and someone who loves vocabulary categories, I loved the Scrabble words category, too.  I was bummed they didn’t get to the last My Songs clue, as I really enjoyed that one, too.

My LT yelling had nothing on the volume I got with tsunami.  Jeez, people, especially with two wrong answers.  Un-break My Heart surprised me, too, but not to that degree.  FJ being a TS was somewhere in the middle on my surprise meter.

I was yelling Rhodes. With "scholar" in quotations marks, it seemed so obvious to me!

I was disappointed they didn't finish My Songs, too.

1 hour ago, peeayebee said:

I was thinking tsunami after the first two wrong guesses. Seems strange for an acronym to use a letter that is silent in the word.

I thought tornado was a strange guess. The question was about the Pacific ocean! I thought typhoon and tsunami right away, but I don't know which I would have gone with in a game.

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Tabasco Cat

Tabasco Cat

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1 hour ago, saber5055 said:

Maybe because it's pronounced foke-sul?

Oddly weird... I was scanning YouTube for old episodes of Jeopardy! with Art Fleming and found one from 1974. It's here. At 17:46 in the Double Jeopardy round, the $100 clue in the "Odd Lots" category was:

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A RAISED FORWARD DECK; ORIG., WORD REF. TO TURRETS FOR SHIP'S FIGHTING MEN

A triple stumper that Art reveals is the fo'c'sle. A duplicate answer 45 years later! I was really surprised to see that. That's some coincidence.

Another coincidence: Art Fleming died of pancreatic cancer.

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1 hour ago, Tabasco Cat said:

Oddly weird... I was scanning YouTube for old episodes of Jeopardy! with Art Fleming and found one from 1974. It's here. At 17:46 in the Double Jeopardy round, the $100 clue in the "Odd Lots" category was:

A triple stumper that Art reveals is the fo'c'sle. A duplicate answer 45 years later! I was really surprised to see that. That's some coincidence.

Another coincidence: Art Fleming died of pancreatic cancer.

I knew Ladainian Tomlinson and Unbreak my Heart. I got backlash from the first part of the clue. Alex to the average person six thousand dollars is a lot of money. I also wish him luck in his cancer fight.

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