Jeopardy! #42

Link to the previous Jeopardy! thread.

Just to jump in, I'll say that Ken Jennings, who once seemed a terrible choice as host, has grown on me; he's lively and engaging. His and the contestants' asides and ad libs would probably have made Alex recoil, but I rather like them for the most part. (And he's so prefereable to Mayim.)

But I wonder: Alex used to walk to the winner to shake their hand. Why doesn't Ken? Hygiene?

[quote]But I wonder: Alex used to walk to the winner to shake their hand. Why doesn't Ken? Hygiene?

That all ended with COVID.

Alex used to stand in front of the contestants podium to interview them, but once COVID hit, that stopped. Host now stands at least 10 feet away at all times. Same thing at the end.

Although the host does still pose for photos with the contestants after the show. But that happens after the camera is turned off.

Marko's Vanna White story was awkward, don't think I really understood it. But, he's cute and pinged, so ... yay!

Connecticut seemed obvious to me.

Yay, Marco!! Way to go. He seems like a nice guy. I had a feeling that Allison wasn’t going to win it one more time because the DDs were not her friends tonight. She got the first one wrong and the two in Double Jeopardy went to each of her challengers. Plus, instead of remaining quiet and not venturing answers, as she had done previously, she seemed to get a few answers wrong.

Allison was "exposed" as a less than a great champion. She missed several easy answers (like thinking Arkansas was a state before Alabama). I thought FJ was really easy... CT pretty obvious.

Marco is cute as a button.

Alison was quite sporting to her fellow contestants, I liked her for that.

I, too, guessed Arkansas, even though I knew it was too far south to be correct.

Connecticut seemed easy in retrospect. But only then,

Finally a fun game with some decent competition. Go Marko!!

Farewell, Foghorn Leghorn. We hardly knew ye.

Good game. I like Marko, the new champ. He does have a math professor quality about him.

I said Delaware for Final.

. . .

So did I, R12! Didn’t even remember CT.

The new champ is a cutie.

Plus today’s FJ was ridiculously easy.

I’d be more embarrassed to have guessed Delaware than Arkansas. That FJ was ridiculously easy.

That was like Final Jeopardy for Juniors.

So glad to see Super Villain Molly go down in flames.

Her cockiness was annoying.

I'd love to make the new champ smile.

With your tongue, R18?

Sylvia Plath???

When a champ wears a tie after not doing so for several nights, he is going to lose. Seen this before.

I got Final, but it wasn't obvious.

I guessed Lorraine Hansberry, too.

I thought Hurston was pretty obvious, really the only answer considering a Black woman writer in the time period mentioned.

But, yeah....Sylvia Plath???? There is nothing remotely right about that response.

Nam looks to be around for awhile, I think.

I got Zora Neale Hurston at the last second.

R20 I though Marco was cute and I was sad when he looked like he was going to lose.... but then.... Plath. One of the craziest responses ever. (Although the image of her collaborating with Moms Mabley is pretty fun.) And with "Plath" all my interest in the lad went away. Funny how something stupid can extinguish affection.

R12 I guessed Delaware, too.

I knew it wasn't an "A" state, I just forget about fucking Connecticut when I was going through the alphabetical list of states. (Though to be fair to me, it's a very easy state to forget about.)

Go Nam! Bravo! I liked him instantly and also think he’ll be around for a while.

I guessed Hurston for Final. Couldn’t think of any other black female novelists and playwrights of that era, but figured it was wrong. Was surprised but delighted to learn it was right.

Plath was obviously a hail mary guess as time was running out. Marko knew it was wrong but Plath was better than leaving it blank.

R27, Leaving it blank would have been less embarrassing than offering a ridiculous response.

Cue all the Ben Franklin, Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker quotes.......

R27 There's Hail Mary (e.g. Tony Morrison) and then there's lunacy/shit-the-bed (a white privileged suicidal poet who wasn't born in 1932).

I agree Nam looks like he'll be around a while.

That was short-lived.

No surprise that he still lives at home with his parents.

Is “Nam” short for Vietnam?

No hug for the piano teacher?

I loved the piano teacher and was thrilled whenever she responded correctly (and slowly).

But at FJ I actually snorted, "yeah, right............" Wasn't I surprised?!

Respectfully, i don’t think there was a single moment tonight or last night when Nam looked like he’d “be around for a while”.

R35 At the start of the show Ken shared that Nam's 75% buzzing in/correct answer record the previous night was unprecedented. I guess you need to tell Ken and producers they were wrong and you knew it. Do it with respect though, eh?

r2, If they're worried about Covid, why are the contestants allowed to hug?

I was shocked that he recognized Buchanan immediately like that being Canadian.

The rumors about Buchanan have made him a gay pin-up boy.

Yea! Correct with FJ

The old winner seemed very low key.

I like the new lady winner.

I thought ginger was hot.

Good close game! Seemed through most of it like any one of them could have come out on top. I like the new champ.

All three got FJ right, it's been awhile since that has happened.

I foolishly guessed the Orient Express. The Hindenberg seemed quite obvious once revealed.

Look up “nonbinary” in the dictionary and it would just be an artist’s rendering of defending champ’s hairdo.

Orient Express, famous for its pressurization and need for air locks between cars.

One needs to know who the Montgolfiers are.

I want to be the meat in a Tyler/Justin sandwich.

JFC!

Tyler and Justin might as well have gone for coffee and let Amy play alone.

Even with Amy's skills, there were so many unanswered responses. Tyler seemed promising, but he just collapsed in DJ.

Not exactly a nail-biter tonight.

How could not one of them know “The Caine Mutiny”?

How could not one of them know Charles de Gaulle was President of France in 1967?

And Maybelline!!!!

The 3 of them just seemed too young for some of the categories tonight. And I can't remember an episode with so many unanswered questions at the end.

I knew obscure Woodrow Wilson question - yay, me! Although, folks here are by definition seriously above average intelligence as a group.

But that was a very hard FJ. I guess no surprise that that huge tacky statue is in Tennessee.

I guessed Georgia.

I got FJ because I immediately thought of the Parthenon copy in Nashville. I’ve always wondered what the fuck that is doing in Tennessee.

So many unanswered clues! I wonder if this was a record.

I figured out Final after thinking of the Parthenon replica.

I think I detected a bit of frustration on Ken's part with the contestants' ignorance.

I’m done with Amy and her blasé attitude. She’s boring and she’s slow. She’s becoming unwatchable.

No Jeopardy at the regular time tonight because of the NFL Draft. Instead, it’s been moved to 3:00 am. Ugh.

Where do you live, R61?

R60, Amy has the torso of a football player with those broad shoulders.

Amy = Born to be broad.

DC, R62.

Did anyone else notice the huge man boobs on Matt the bald guy tonight?

Why does Amy seem sedated?

She's a doctor. You know those doctors and drugs.

She lucks out once again.

FJ was one of the easier ones.

Lucked out? She had the right response. The guy with more money didn't. Even the gal with $800 had the right response.

Easy FJ, she lucked out that he didn't know it when most challengers would have.

The stupidity lately is maddening. As is the lisping.

Yes, she lucked out because if Ferdinand had gotten the correct answer she would have lost. His bet would have given him a greater total than Amy was able to garner. But, he didn’t know and she bested him — which was quite fortunate on her part.

That other woman couldn’t get it going. Poor thing.

I got FJ after a little bit of thinking. It was either going to come to you or it wasn’t.

Amy got very lucky.

Amy definitely is lucky. She's low-energy, seemingly sedated contestant who somehow manages to keep winning.

I thought Ferdinand was finally going to knock her out. Too bad he couldn't figure out an easy Final.

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Seeing him blow Lake Geneva like that was incredibly painful.

I want to see a battle of the Amys. "There can be only one!"

Cue the Amy is just lucky trolls!

There was no need for Bryan to bet it all on that DD.

A stupid mistake that he’ll regret forever.

I was really rooting for the older lady. Loved her spunk!

But she, like me, was far too old to make that Ninja Turtles connection. And because the category was Fictional Groups I assumed they were referring to characters from.....fiction. You know, like novels.

She is, dear R81. Lucky, slow and not terribly bright. If the kid gets easy easy easy Lake Geneva she doesn’t have a chance. Finishing in the lead with $7,600 is pathetic,

Except the kid didn't get easy easy easy Lake Geneva.

Comfortably numb Amy is one of the dullest champs ever.

There are zombies that are livelier than she is.

Yeah, that old lady certainly was spunky.

Bryan never recovered after that DD fiasco. Oh, and he had nice lips.

OK, Amy has secured a spot in the next Tournament of Champions. Congratulations to here.

Now its time for her to exit and let someone more interesting and exciting be champion for a while.

She is so slow to react when she is picking the next clue. She's an emergency room doctor. I want my doctors to think on their feet.

Stupid, lucky (yes, lucky R85) Amy from Milwaukee doesn’t know the largest park in Chicago is Lincoln Park. I am so done with this lifeless ass.

Is Amy short for Ambien?

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Know your opera, contestants! MADAME BUTTERFLY would have saved her!

And what kind of stupid ass name is "Wickea??" And she annoyingly kept repeating, "I'll take..." whenever she chose a clue. Someone should really coach these contestants before they appear!!!

Tonight’s FJ was super easy.

Cinchy FJ.

How did they all miss FJ?? It was incredibly easy. The CIA? NORAD?

Bye, bye, Amy.

I'm sure you're all going to love Wikkeakai.

Miss me yet, bitches?

Wikipedia is already super irritating.

What about poor Nils? He was kinda hot and ahead there for a quick minute.

R98, He reminded me of Howard Dean.

How could Ken not ask Waikiki about her name during the interview segment?

No one spotted Robert Mitchum?

FJ was very easy, but apparently everyone was thrown off by the date.

Was not rooting for Wikkeaka. I hope it’s short lived.

I was rooting for Nils, the pot luck dinner (and I presumed gay) guy.

Instead we got stuck with Caltiki - or whatever the hell her name is.

Well, at least Dr. Sleep is gone.

Easiest FJ in a long time. NORAD? I think NORAD already worked overtime, jeez.

Who won last night? I missed the show.

Wiki, R106.

I didn't know France had a space program in the 60s. But there weren't many countries to choose from -- France, Britain and China were the only real possibilities beside USA and USSR. And the name made it obviously French.

Miss Wikipedia is already getting old. And she's only two games in!

"France" would have been even more obvious, if they'd spelled the clue correctly using l'accent aigu in the satellite's actual name: Astérix.

Today is NOT a murderer’s row of knowledge. Dumb, dumber and dumbest.

And Henry is cringy gross.

R111, Haven’t watched tonight’s show yet, but judging from the site’s photo, is Henry trans?

Fj was super easy!!!

OMG, can’t believe Waikiki pulled it off!!

I couldn’t decide whether Henry was gay, trans, both, or a Paul Lynde impersonator.

R113, Not for me, I blanked and all I could think of was Lola from “Copacabana”, which I knew was wrong.

Yeah, good grief. Wackycaca is dull as dish water. I can’t imagine they’ll allow her to notch five wins. She’d be dead weight in ToC. She doesn’t have star quality like Rowan had.

I didn't catch the first round of watching the beginning of the second round I was certain that Henry was going to be constantly battling the wiki chick for the lead. But it seems like they were both so desperate to answer every clue they kept attempting and getting wrong answers. And then suddenly the lady in the middle Sparks to life and pretty much pounces both of them that was pretty cool.

I'm sad that the middle Asian. Lady didn't win. And while I'm not a fan at all of wacky head I'm really glad that Henry didn't win because I couldn't have stood watching another episode with that thing.

The lady from Hawaii seemed sweet and she was very delightful to watch. I was rooting for her. I thought when I saw her smiling before her FJ reveal that she’d clinch it, but alas. We’re stuck with Waka Flocka going into next week.

OMG I was so disappointed. I was so hoping Wikipedia would lose. The only champion I hate more than her is the guy who dresses up like a lady. The hula lady would have been a return to normalcy.

Wikikakai is even luckier than Amy.

Wackycaca, Wikipedia, Wikikakai, Waikiki, Wiki, Caltiki, Wikkeaka, Wickea . . .

No matter how you spell it, she's the very definition of lifeless.

Stick a mirror under her nose to see if she's still breathing.

Between her and previous champ Dr. Ambien, this has been Night of the Living Dead Week on Jeopardy.

I picture WickyWackyBowl with 3 therapy dogs, 11 cats, 6 goats, 2 ferrets and a pot-bellied pig named Pork Chop, and they all sleep in the same bed.

I can smell her through my tv.

"Weckiai" is a Comanche name. You can find her listed in obituaries for her Comanche relatives. "Rannila" is her husband's surname. On their wedding registry, she listed her surname as "Grandbergs-Duncan." She has a relative (possibly a sister) named "Weyodi" with that same surname, but as a Comanche author, poet, and painter, this woman goes by the name "Weyodi Old Bear."

Yes, I'm bored today.

She should should have just abbreviated it to Dead Inside. Fucking dungeons and dragons.

I needed Wiki’s creepy energy to leave my TV.

What is the fucking thing she does with her hands to her mouth when she wins? God she's weirder than the chowchow guy.

Wiki is having a very negative effect on me. It’s irrational, but I can’t help but be repelled by her.

We need star power goddamn it!

STAR. POWER.

Lucky Amy and Walla Walla just aren't it.

You know Wickerwork has at least one lampshade made from the skin of one of her dead cats.

Have I missed it or has Ken not asked her about the origin of her name? It seems so odd that it hasn't been addressed.

Ken knows she already made a voodoo doll of him. He's treading lightly.

Wow, two incredibly lucky and incredibly boring female contestants back to back. What are the odds of that.

How do you say “good riddance” in Comanche?

Wiki looked steaming mad.

Ken finally asked what her name meant.

Cool stuff.

And the fat queen woke up with five clues left. Bye bye WickyWackyBowl.

Yes, she flopped after saying she set her sites on TOC. Too bad.

☝️I knew instantly that she sealed her fate with that comment.

Bye, Wikipedia!

I thought "L'Etoile du Nord" for MN was obvious, along with Madame Secretary and Temple university.

Comanche champ outraged her welcome .

I never understand why contestants who are behind during DJ don't seem to search for the DDs. This was true of the lovely lady yesterday.

[quote]Wiki looked steaming mad.

How was that different from how she normally looked?

Anyway, The Wicker Woman was defeated by the chubby guy and that's all that matters.

The chubby guys speaks very quickly and adds lots of “Ken.”

Thought FJ was super easy, but only one of then got it. Everyone in fact was lousy throughout.

I was as shocked as the contestant who guessed right on FJ.

No one knew Jim Morrison?

Uranus always provokes laughter.

How cute is Ben?

So many unanswered clues!

The 2 time champ - now, she's indeed lucky.

Cuteness doesn't win you Jeopardy!

Ben was adorable. But, he didn’t really stand a chance having missed two DDs and not answering a lot of questions.

Too much Julia, too little studying.

How in the hell did Jennifer even qualify for the show? She knew so little and most of the questions that she answered she just guessed wrong — a few times horrendously wrong.

Got final right, these as well they didn't:

Beer barrel polka (they were probably just too young), Canadian shield, Leyden jar, and Basque (failing that huge giveaway clue was pathetic).

Champ's dress made her look fat, just sayin' ...

Isabella so greedy!

Some of Jennifer's responses were so goofy and idiotic, I felt embarrassed for her.

Can you imagine the intelligence level of the people who don't make it on the show?

And poor Isabella: I thought Basque was a giveaway as well, and she lost her step after that fiasco.

Oh well. Three fraus and the frauest of them all won.

Isabella was an idiot to bet it all on that DD.

FJ was an easy one for me.

Has Susan Dey commented about nobody getting the LA law clue?

The 3 of them were far too young for LA Law.

I guessed Beanie Babies for FJ.

I've now come to respect the current champ. She has an admirable steadiness. And sturdiness, too, lol.

Bet she has some nice cankles.

Yes, FJ was super, super easy. Too bad they were all to young to know the answer. 😛😛

R163, Allison responded correctly.

R161, Being too young no longer applies. The complete “L. A. Law” series is available on Amazon Prime as well as other streaming services.

Plus, boning up on movies and television series from the past should be part of a contestant’s preparation.

Shocking no one knew LA Law!

Final did seem easy but I guess you had to have lived through it.

Isabelle should have listened to her instincts. She was foolish to bet it all on the DD. She might have won if she’d bet more wisely

Andorra wasn't the worst guess. But it's not like she said San Marino.

But she should have known Basque.

I came to realize that even had Isabella not bet anything on that first DD she still would have lost. She really never rallied in DJ. Great with all the music categories but not so strong anywhere else. Allison is far more well-rounded (no jokes, please, bitches!).

At least they seem to be easing up on the freak parade. A little.

Top ten stupidest move in Jeopardy of all time today. Let me know when you spot it.

Fucking moron.

R170, Firestone?

R171

No, R170. But that was.a stupid answer.

Keep guessing.

JonnyGilbert or TomServo will know.

R170, Bronco?

Who is Chee?

The infamous “calzone” response has to be in the Top 10.

r170, do you mean when the chubby one didn't go for what was obviously the DJ DD on the board, leaving it for Allison?

Well, he won anyway.

I really loved the guy in the middle and thought he'd win. I hope they eventually bring him back as a Fan Favorite or 2nd Chancer or whatever they call it.

FJ seemed very obvious to me. Really surprised Allison didn't get it but she'd have lost anyway.

Will we ever see Chris Pannullo again? We had to wait so long for his reappearance and then - poof! He was gone with no fanfare.

bronco… corvette…. Jesus Christ.

I guessed Elantra.

Yes R178. He got very lucky fat champ lady is also not terribly bright and couldn’t think of any French tires. Been watching Jeopardy since it premiered with Alex. Not once have I seen a DD on the top row. Never. Turns out fat champ lady also knows nothing about Capote books, so it didn’t matter. Still, it’s one of the most idiotic moves I’ve ever seen on the show.

Anyone remember a former Jeopardy champ named Dennis. Older, tall, bald, long beard, great baritone voice. I think he may have been in the play-in tourneys earlier this season? I was watching a show called Switched on GSN and was surprised to see him as a contestant. It’s a show that starts with five consistently stupid people, with one contestant getting the boot after the first and second rounds. Dennis got the boot after the first round. How humbling.

R184 Sounds like Dennis Chase. He was on in 2021 (guest host Aaron Rodgers), and was back again in November 2023 for the Wildcard tournament.

I also have never seen the DD in the top row.

Allison bet way too much for a DD so late in the game. But she would have lost anyway since she didn’t know Final.

Final was so easy!

I liked both Will and Jonah. Congrats to Will for winning!

Bronco? Corvette? I’m not a car person, but even I knew Thunderbird.

Also knew Mary Kay and her pink Cadillac.

And of course I knew Desperately Seeking Susan. Was yelling the answer at the screen, but none of them heard me!

Is Will family? My gaydar went off as soon as I saw him.

Cris will likely be back for some future tournament since the show seems to like tournaments so much now.

Likely we’ll see Juveria and Yungshen invited back for a tournament too. Both were far too good to let them fade away forever.

That DJ was NOT in the top row, It was an $800 in the second row.

[quote] That DJ was NOT in the top row,

No one said it was. R183’s point in saying “Not once have I seen a DD on the top row” was that the chubby contestant bypassed the sole remaining $800 clue, which had to (and, in fact, did) contain the sole, remaining DD, and instead picked one of the $400 clues. His dunderheaded move was missing where the obvious DD was.

It's been years but the hottest contestant, since I don't remember his name, I call him Sweaters. He was from Vancouver, liked to Kayak, and wore these ugly/sexy sweaters on each appearance.

That’s him R185. How embarrassing to be a Jeopardy champ and then lose a very remedial trivia game show to complete morons.

[quote] Not once have I seen a DD on the top row.

Very rare, but it's happened. Example from a game in 2019 at link:

Was that Bartender Tom, R191? I remember the hot guy with those sweaters.

No. It was a bit before the bartender. The guy was an outdoorsy type.

Wasn’t Tom the bartender a one and done?

Three dumb contestants tonight. Michael in the middle may be one of the dumbest contestants ever.

A dull, dull game.

Who else laughed out loud when the chubby champ responded “Little Shop of Horrors” instead of “The Pawnbroker”?

I did, and I suspect Ken wanted to.

R197, I’d be so embarrassed, I wouldn’t want to come back out after FJ.

Will is a mouth-breathing moron, and he had a runaway game. The contestant coordinators need to be fired post haste!!!

I couldn't stay awake so I have no idea what happened like I kind of remember double Jeopardy a little bit and then immediately back to sleep.

R197 is correct. I try to be kind, but the guy pretty much disgraced himself.

And what about the contestant who was STILL in the hole and when told by Ken there were just 2 minutes remaining needed $800 to get out of the hole but kept going after the $400s when there were still $800s?

[quote] And what about the contestant who was STILL in the hole and when told by Ken there were just 2 minutes remaining needed $800 to get out of the hole but kept going after the $400s when there were still $800s?

That was the now DL-infamous "Michael in the Middle"...

That Little Shop of Horrors response was SO bad, the audience broke into laughter.

What the audience should've done was thrown things at the guy - or at the very least, maybe Ken should have gone over and just slapped him.

I liked both Will and Omar, either would've been OK as a winner with me. Final question was really clever, had no idea.

Augustus Gloop won again.

I thought it was some brand of Root Beer.

Omar was handsome, I wish he'd won, though he wasn't the greatest contestant.

I didn't think of FJ until time was called.

I also Omar was attractive, but he didn't have it in him to win.

The way Ashley talked early in the game made me laugh because it was like she was barely moving her lips.

I was thinking: is she practicing to be a ventriloquist?

R209 - the Augustus Gloop reference is better than the one I was thinking of: Newman, the cover boy from Mad Magazine.

Alfred E. Neuman

Wally Plumstead

I'm glad Grant won, I was tired of the other guy. I feel bad for these older woman who play as I'm sure they're intelligent to make it on the show but aging slows down your reflexes.

God I can't stand the guy that one tonight I hope he loses tomorrow.

Grant didn't strike me as the strongest player so I'll be surprised if he hangs around for long.

Frankly, I was very surprised that Ken (or the judges) ruled that "Lucy....Arnaz" was enough. But then, the former champ bet so little money I'm not sure he would have won in any case.

And HAS THERE EVER BEEN AN EASIER FJ???

As a LONGTIME Jeopardy fan (meaning I watched during the Art Fleming days when the clues were covered with cardboard!!) the problem I have with the show is the way the clues are being written!! They're all so wordy, with cutesy/jokesy references sprinkled in, and way too much "clever" wordplay. Ken reads them fast enough, but it sometimes takes a second or two to get the reference they're talking about! They have about fifteen writers listed in the credits, so they should be able to come up with COHERENT and FACTUAL clues.

I cannot account for the parade of weirdo nerds and dumbos who are passing for contestants lately.

I enjoyed Grant’s enthusiasm.

He didn’t come to play, he came to win.

I can't stand Grant either. Hairstyle indicates to me he's channeling his inner Fran Lebowitz.

And why is Grant in a high chair that swivels??? Can any dumbass just request a chair now??

R220, Injuries from his car accident?

Sirhan Sirhan???

Grant is obviously a serial killer. He hunts down prostitutes in his office chair with lumbar support.

This is the first time I’ve noticed a contestant in a chair.

Grant leans forward in his chair a lot so it's more obvious he's in a chair than other contestants who sit.

The Sun reports that Grant was on Reddit and answered the question about the chair, saying he has some kind of back arthritis that makes standing for long periods of time difficult.

(And no, he's not the first contestant to be in some kind of chair.)

God I can't stand him. It's too bad the other two are so awful but he couldn't help but win.

Is he on the spectrum?

Why so much hate for an arthritic grocery clerk?

It's the hair, r229.

Just remember: Sometimes in a clerk you find a Hercules.

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Oops!

R232/R233/R234

Anybody else see the Tiny Tim resemblance?

R236 yes absolutely. And does somebody else said above it's totally the hair I kept thinking he probably would be cute if he just f****** get rid of that hair. Can somebody summarize what can was explaining when they came back right before he read the final Jeopardy clue. I completely missed it because I was busy trying to find out if Ben folds five is a band known for having profane performances. The reason I was looking at this is because an amphitheater near me is having them in concert this year and somebody asked on their Facebook if this show would be PGm.

I knew FJ immediately only because I was born and raised in Massachusetts.

I have no problem with Grant, which places me in a minority.

R237,

In one of the clues, Tiny Tim responded with “Elixir of Life”, to which Ken said “yes”

After the break, and before FJ, Ken announced a scoring change because the correct response was “Elixir” as the judges determined “Elixir of Life” was different.

BTW, FJ was beyond easy for me as I grew up in Medford, one of the cities mentioned in the clue.

I like his Melissa Manchester hair, I think it’s the twisting about in the high chair in contrast to everyone else that, to me, casts him in the light of an enfant terrible.

R239 thanks I remember when he answered elixir of life that I felt pretty sure they'd overturn it but then I forgot about it.

The final Jeopardy was easy for me too because I saw the movie and I think about it a lot I don't know why exactly. But also dar Williams did a song that leads to mystic River or at least in my mind it does.

Tonight was a bit of a bummer. I tune in to see the rare glimmer of trans excellence we’re afforded on network TV, only to watch idly while Amy gets steamrolled in a coordinated attack by Cis, Inc.

A grocery clerk that can’t stand?

All of the clerks in my grocery (NYC) could do their work sitting on a chair.

Similarly, I think cashiers at Aldi are in chairs.

There was a walmart by my Dad's apartment that I would do his shopping at and one of the cashiers there was always sitting. However one evening she was in the line that sold cigarettes and I remember there were two people ahead of me and the guy she was checking out asked for a pack so she got up and grab them and then sat back down and finished checking him out. The next guy also ask for a cigarettes and that just set it off and before she got up to grab his she bellowed down the line asking if anybody else was planning to ask for cigarettes so she wouldn't have to get up more than once. Of course no one responded and I'm certain that the people after me we're planning to buy cigarettes but opted not to.

Champ gives flashbacks to the convenience store worker from Maine who told of designing his own independent study major in Sanskrit literature (or similar). Sum Ting Wrong there ...

Finally getting caught up on this week's games. Between work being busy and watching Masters, I've gotten behind on the daily game.

I also like Grant. Seems quite smart. Am enjoying him and his hair.

Will will likely be back in the ToC. With just four months of regular play this season, lots of 3-game winners will make it into the ToC. Will with his $70,000+ winnings most likely will be one of them.

Yes, there have been contestants sitting in chairs on stage before. And we've discussed them frequently. The most recent was Troy who lost to Yogesh in the ToC back in March.

As someone said upthread, Grant just makes it more obvious he's sitting on a chair because he leans forward a lot. Also tends to swivel around a lot.

Hats off to Grant for knowing the name of Frans Ferdinand's assassin in Final on Thursday. I knew what the clue was looking for, but don't think I had ever heard the name of his assassin before.

I had no idea about the Mystic River Final on Friday. Not a book I wold read or a movie I would watch.

FYI: The Jeopardy final credits list ten writers including executive producer Michael Davies.

R248, “Mystic River” is a very good movie, both Sean Penn and Tim Robbins won Oscars.

I didn't get Mystic River either, though I did see the film. Got Princip just in time before the buzzer.

Gregg . . . sigh.

[quote] Gregg . . . sigh.

Kinda hot — but what a fucking idiot.

Gregg bet too much on that failed DD, but then he didn’t get FJ, so he wouldn’t have won anyway.

Grant’s reaction at winning tonight was a bit off putting.

I think Greg is kind of sweet, and don't begrudge him one bit for being so enthusiastic at his win. Not many grocery clerks can claim to be FJ champs. (I also noticed he seems to have taken on Matt Amodio's style: Hesitate, pause, and say "what's . . .?")

I would have bombed with FJ. I thought the production of 12 Angry Men was a revival, not a debut.

His name is Grant, R254

I guessed FJ correctly even though I’ve never seen the film.

I guessed 1776 for FJ.

The FJ clue was confusing because it seemed to be suggesting a new play. I thought, could it be Take Me Out, but that seemed very obscure and I don't think the cast was as big as 14. And I think it debuted on Broadway in 2002 or 2003.

But 12 Angry Men was originally produced not as a stage play but on live TV and then as a small independent film, all that in the early1950s. It didn't debut on Broadway until 2004 though I think there were reginal productions of the play version before it hit Broadway (and then only at the Roundabout so not really Broadway Broadway).

I also crushed on Gregg and was really disappointed he didn't come through in the end after a very strong start.

Roundabout productions are usually Broadway productions.

I really thought Greg was going to pull off a win until he made that foolish DD bet.

Greg would have bet different in Final if he had been in the lead, but no idea if his missing Final would have caused him to loose.

But Grant pulled off another win. Bravo to him.

Only thing I could think of was Spamalot for Final since Monty Python has a history of having men play female parts. But I just looked it up and Spamalot opened in 2005.

I hope the champ stays on a long time and wins a bundle of money. Gets to do something besides checkout groceries.

Didn't the clue specify play, not musical?

I got “12 Angry Men” right away. Fairly easy FJ.

R261, Spamalot has a prominent female role. Sara Ramirez won a Tony for playing The Lady of the Lake.

R265

And a have a new candidate for dumbest fucker ever on FJ. How do these dregs keep getting cast??

“Bout Time!”

Fuck you Grant.

That Rachel Dratch woman in the middle was dreadfully embarrassing. I don't think Ken enjoyed this game at all.

But he was very encouraging about Grant being invited back. The winner is a bore.

I thought that was odd Ken telling Grant he'd be back because I thought one had to win five games for that to happen.

Anyway, I tried to like the guy, but for some reason the hair made it difficult for me - and the "Bout time" didn't help.

R269 - I was thinking the same thing re Debbie Downer.

The winner’s website game has crashed the internet. Solveandsmile.com

[quote]I thought that was odd Ken telling Grant he'd be back because I thought one had to win five games for that to happen.

You're guaranteed a spot in the ToC if you win 5 games. However, they've only got four months worth of regular games this year to find ToC players. And the Tournament has gotten so large in recent years -- 27 people in the most recent one -- that they will almost certainly pull some 4 game and 3 game winners in.

Grant won 4 games and over $80,000. I'd say there's a 99% chance he'll be in the ToC. That's what Ken was referring to.

It was a good game. Nice to Grant get some serious competition. But the new guy does seem boring.

Final was super easy. I've never seen the Shining, but the haunted twins are such a part of our culture here 44 years later, it seemed ridiculously easy. And it was since everyone got it.

R273, Even Debbie Downer got FJ.

How can you never have seen The Shining, R273?

I rarely watch horror films r275. There is nothing about that film that has every interested me.

Granny . . . Oy!

I guessed Guinea Bissau for final.

Dome of the Rock seemed obvious to me, along with 49th Parallel. Amer is second South Asian on the show from Parsippany, NJ almost back-to-back.

Secretly wanted Lady Ham to win.

I thought Ivory Coast.

🫣

I’m sad Grant lost. I liked having a slacker grocery clerk as a Jeopardy champion instead of the pediatricians, rocket scientists, business analysts, software engineers and professional sports gamblers who litter the Jeopardy playing field.

I wonder if he works at Trader Joe’s.

When did they start casting ventriloquist dummies on Jeopardy??

What a stupid woman!! Bet!!!!!!!

Any contestant has the option to sit.

They seemed like such a bright trio of contestants at the beginning of the show but that sure changed.

Ken seemed to lose patience with all of them, and with good reason.

There was a period during the middle of the game when I was wondering if everyone was going to end up being unable to play FJ because they'd wind up with either a negative score or $0.

[quote]Any contestant has the option to sit.

I noticed Amy was sitting in her final appearance, but I don't know if she sat during any of the other games because I never noticed her doing so before.

I was also hoping tonight that all 3 contestants would be ineligible for FJ to see what the producers would do and curious if it had ever happened before.

Lots of Yogesh BS going on. He went on another insane tirade after his second place finish in Masters. See the Masters thread if interested. But I'm not going to post it again here 'cause enough of that. Back to the normal Jeopardy! discussion.

For those who have found recent contestants disappointing, tonight’s game is more of the same.

The women of late have been embarrassing. Sam Kinison??

The bald lady didn’t ring in once in the DJ round. Nice job, casting team.

Had no idea of final, but did know a Victrola when I saw one! Vodafone?

Happy to see the "bro" challengers lose.

Sam Kinison was the best all time bad answer in Jeopardy! history.

Not sure I’ve ever watched a game before when was yelling the correct answer over and over while they stared blankly.

I got Brenda Lee. That was so easy, it was all over the news last Christmas

Like I imagine most here, I knew Brenda Lee and Victrola.

I really thought the middle guy was gonna trample Amar 10 minutes in but once he started flopping, he just kept flopping . Waiting room???? With a middle Y?? WTF?

I was hoping someone would guess Madonna for FJ.

Cher's stuffing her face with mini eclairs and crying after that final answer.

Jay-Z fathering two kids with Rihanna.

LOL

R293, Still not as bad as “calzone”.

Yes , I was screaming Victrola at the screen but none of them seemed to hear me.

Brenda Lee was simple if you follow the news.

I also thought Tim was going to beat Amar early in the match, but he sure lost his mojo.

I’m rather tired of Amar. Ready for a new champ.

Thank goodness no one said Diana Ross.

That "Middle Y" category was a bad idea.

Well, foYer was an easy one.

[quote]That "Middle Y" category was a bad idea.

Given how badly a number of post-tournament players have been doing, it seems that most of the categories have been a bad idea.

Like R302, I was hoping all three contestants were going to guess Diana Ross for FJ.

I’m over the contestants writing messages to their friends and family in FJ. Ken didn’t even comment on the one guy’s “I ❤️ my pregnant wife!” under his wrong guess of Parton.

Stephanie Groce seemed to drop the “Hi, Nora!” towards the end of Jeopardy Masters.

R306, Notice how the hugging has ceased.

The freak parades seem to be winding down too. The questions seem to be harder too. I remember when a 10K win was considered a very good win. Then everyone was finishing near 20K. Now it seems to be coming back down. Plus the double Jeopardy! questions seem to be getting harder.

Great finish . . . love when the third place contestant wins.

Anyone here know FJ?

I was very happy with the outcome. Nice lady!

For FJ I was thinking John Merrick (The Elephant Man) but, of course, he wasn't a scientist. That was really hard! Wonder if any of the big champs like Amy or Matt would have gotten it.

Congrats to Abby! From third place to winner.

It was a very good game. I really thought Steve was going to pull it off. He started off poorly, going into the red and staying there for a while. But once he got his sea legs, so to speak, he did great. All came down to that final bet.

I knew what Final was getting at -- someone who pioneered early genetics research -- but I blanked on that person's name.

Good for Abby for wagering correctly in her situation. The other two were close and had to wager nearly everything. Her only way to win was bet minimal or nothing and hope the other two get FJ wrong. It’s frustrating how often someone in Abby’s position bets it all.

Abby Mann was also the name of a well known writer.

And another in a long line of dingbats lately. This entire thread of people would crush the bow-tied idiot.

R316, Apparently, the “gifted specialist” isn’t very gifted or special.

Wow. Brian sure flamed out after starting off strong. Kept buzzing in without properly thinking out his answers or noting what the clue was asking for. Not as gifted as he thought he was.

Congrats to Andriana. Loved that pattern on her dress. It showed up well on camera.

Abby didn't think out her final wager well. She was depending on Adriana missing the question AND betting big.

I drew a blank on Final. Didn't realize they were building tourist traps back in the 1200s but now that I know the correct answer, it makes sense.

Another good game. Congrats to Adrianna.

I had no idea on Final, but then I'm not a New Yorker.

Final was quite easy — for a New Yorker. The Bowery Savings Bank! We would pass the main branch of it on the drive home from Sunday dinners at my grandmother’s house.

Attila the Hun???? Oh, gurl.

I took a wild guess and got FJ right.

That has to be one of the worst responses to a FJ of all time. Someone didn't pay attention in world history. She might as well have said Albert Einstein.

I mean, how does Ken keep a straight face sometimes?

I like Adrianna, but I would have been happy if fellow Bostonian Josh had won.

I also thought of the American flag for that DD, when draft card should have been the obvious response.

Has anyone tried to peel her face off? I think she's some sort of AI.

I could swear Adrianna said Hoak not Hoax.

Wanted the mail lady to win, so was screaming "Aqaba!" at her.

Had no idea of Final.

Odd game in which the challengers seemed so strong but finished with so little betting money.

The challengers started strong but ended haplessly foundering from one wrong guess to the next.

It was a good game. Glad to see smart players all the way around.

I also thought mail lady would be victorious. Too bad about DD falter.

I guessed Bryn Mawr for Final and was stunned it was correct.

I guessed Sweet Briar for FJ, thinking further South.

I thought “Mail Lady” was a hoot, too bad she flamed out in DJ.

Yet another frustratingly painful to watch game tonight.

I wish ABCwpuld put Jeopardy in their On Demand rotation so we can watch it later on if we missed it. I can’t even watch it on my phone if I’m away from home at the normal time.

Today’s FJ was so, so ridiculously easy.

Practically perfect in every way.

My god I love that woman.

R334 Probably not gonna happen, because it's not an ABC network show. It's syndicated to local stations by Sony Pictures. In some TV markets, it's not shown on ABC and airs on an NBC or CBS affiliate. There's even a Fox affiliate station here and there that has the broadcast rights.

R334, Each day’s Jeopardy! is posted commercial free on YouTube by around 4:00 PM ET.

I was left wondering whether back in Idaho "we" meant him and his husband?

The show is on an NBC affiliate here, with two of the gayest weathermen. One went on vacation, the other mentioned he was dogsitting for him.

Mr. Titlow might've done better if the questions were in Spanish, but then again he did badly with transportation, his supposed expert field.

Knew final before he finished asking the question.

Hard to go through life as a Titlow.

Not to be confused with . . .

Adriana is a force to be reckoned with!

Is it rare to have a champ who is so unannoying?

She is everything a good Jeop champ should be. All business, clearly in the zone when playing. No cutesy remarks like that hideous Victoria Groce. Smart. Unflappable. Just answer the questions and let the money add up.

Jeopardy: the Rorschach test.

Adrianna is just a LEEDDLE cccooooooolllllddd! The young goofus-faced kid raised his arms and wanted to embrace the Champ, but, oh no, no Adrianna. I'd cast her in Nurse Ratched.

Yeah Bath. Roman = Bath, you didn't need for the water feature.

I don't like strangers hugging me, a handshake is acceptable.

The elf in the middle was cute, but he made a lot of bad guesses.

When they asked the Peyton Place question it reminded me of how common it was in those days to refer to a workplace or neighborhood situation as “it’s a real Peyton Place there.”

“What’s it like working at the hospital?”

“Oh it’s Peyton Place, believe me. All the affairs, the rivalries, the doctors and nurses arguing, the supervisors looking the other way when it comes to their favorites…”

R347, Years later, “Melrose Place” was used to describe a hotbed community.

According to IBDB . . .

Lempicka (Apr 14, 2024 - May 19, 2024)

Co-Produced by Benjamin Nelson

I mean, c'mon, they never heard of the Scopes trial (Inherit the Wind)? I know what an ellipsis is, unlike the rabbi who worked in publishing!

R349, He told Ken he has two shows on Broadway, but IBDB only cites one.

Had no idea about FJ. I thought it had something to do with prohibition or maybe smoking.

That miss on ellipsis was an embarrassment. Obviously a reading comprehension issue in the heat of the moment of a DD, but she will rightfully be embarrassed for years.

If that producer character had somehow prevailed over Adriana, I don’t know what I would have done. I really liked the rabbi.

That he was a Lempicka producer speaks volume. He was a snappy dresser though.

So, is last night's episode online anywhere? I've looked on yoiutube and can't find it.

R356, Each day’s episode is available in the late afternoon on YouTube, but by evening it’s almost always deleted.

You Tube has totally cracked down on airing taped Jeopardy episodes as of a few months ago.

If YouTube is cracking down, it’s because Sony is pushing them to remove the episodes.

I watch each evening’s Jeopardy! on YouTube at 4:00 PM.

I was rooting for the pastor.

Go Andrianna!

But i would have been perfectly happy with the pastor winning.

Final seemed quite easy!

Final seemed shockingly easy.

YouTube cracked down a several months ago, but a some folks seem to have been able to slip in episodes lately. I watched most of this week’s episodes on YouTube. But, they don’t last long — a few hours at most.

I lost faith in the pastor when he failed on the Michigan category; it was obvious she beat him out on buzzer skills rather than knowledge alone.

R364, The pastor got several from the Michigan category.

His voice was most soothing.

What constitutes "several" out of 5?

Pastor Soothe Voice successfully buzzed in for only 2 of the 5 clues. And when you consider he picked the first one by prefacing it by saying he's from Michigan, that's not a lot.

It's interesting that even though Andrianna is on a roll and may be around for a while longer, she doesn't seem to be irritating any of us the way some past champs have.

In that regard, she somewhat reminds me of Julia Collins, the 20-time winner from several years ago - although I liked Julia much more and thought she seemed like a really sweet person.

If anything, I'm slightly frustrated that she's gotten so far as much due to weaker challengers than for having an awesome knowledge base. I'm ready for someone new.

R367, It bears noting that the pastor responded correctly to the two most difficult/valuable clues in the Michigan category.

BTW, he excelled in the religious category, naturally.

I'd say Adriana does have an awesome knowledge base. She surprises me constantly with correct responses to categories like rap music/musicians.

Adriana needs semaglutide. Once she loses 40 lbs she’ll get rid of that porcine face.

Did she lose yet?

No.

Have to give to Adriana. So many possibilities for that FJ (I guessed Tropic of Cancer) and she got it right. As much as I admire Adriana, I really wanted Josh to win and thought he had a chance but it was not to be.

I got FJ wrong as well, I guessed Peyton Place.

My first thought was Tropic of Cancer and then I realized [bold] 1958 [/bold] - it had to be (correct answer).

Adriana's now within striking distance to make the Top 20 list in Winnings during regular play. (She only needs to win more than another $25,101.)

He really should've known King Khalid was Saudi. Others they missed: sulfa drugs, mule, Age of Anxiety, and Victor Emanuel was Italian.

Final seemed fairly obvious.

Who the fuck wouldn't get Lolita?

Right? I’ve never read the book and still figured it was Lolita.

I even started singing the Police song. 😬😬

Also guessed “Peyton Place” for FJ.

"Just like the old man in that book by Nabokov"

I knew it wasn't Peyton Place because the book was never taken seriously as literature years after its publication. And compared to lots of the books of the 50s, it wasn't even really that salacious.

I thought Adriana was just a bit off her game tonight, with several wrong responses. But her opponents had even more wrong responses. She knew her bunnies though.

R382, For 1956 it was. Have you read it?

I have, and compared to European literature of the decade Peyton Place was just a silly small town soap opera.

As well as some American novels. Coincidentally, I happen to be reading 1956's Compulsion, Meyer Levin's fictionalized best-selling account of the 1924 Leopold/Loeb murder trial right now and it's shockingly frank about homosexuality, masturbation and a whole range of sexual situations that would shock Grace Metalious off her town square.

I’ve never read it but Lolita seemed obvious to me. I knew it was the answer before Ken finished reading the clue.

I liked Josh. He likely be back for some future Second Chances tournament.

Congrats to Adrianna.

My mother would not allow “that filth in my living room.” We were not allowed to watch Peyton Place. I didn’t care, but it was rough in my older sister because Peyton Place was *the* show for adolescent and teen girls. They all swooned over Rodney and they all wanted to be Allison.

just realized it’s my mother’s birthday. She was a devout Catholic so wherever she is now, she’s not watching reruns of Peyton Place.

...or IS SHE?

I won't spoil whether Adriana wins again or not, but today's Final Jeopardy is from Kindergarten Jeopardy.

I'm a day behind since I just watched yesterday's game.

But I wasn't exactly rooting for "JOSH!" - if only because of the all-caps and that exclamation point.

Maria Mitchell again, pronounced correctly by Ken (not by Alex). Assumed you all knew Brunhilde as well?

Yeah, it was pretty easy FJ.

Go Adriana!

New Mexico. What was this retard night? Why didn't they just ask what game show are you on right now?

Do super easy FJs mean that the producers want Adriana to keep winning? Obviously, they can never absolutely predict how much she'll bet but it easy FJs safeguard her wins.

Adriana has ten wins, does that qualify her for TOC?

Two of them, Rose.

Has there ever been an easier Final?

Congrats to Andriana on crossing the 10 game mark and officially becoming a super champion .

The final seemed too easy, that it made me second guess myself. It was weirdly phrased, also. Spread across?

R373 Tropic of Cancer was written the 1930s.

Good guess though!

Maine!

Five clues in, and I hate Enzo.

Enzo bore an uncanny resemblance to Matt Jackson - ugh!

For a hot minute there, I thought Enzo would take the win.

He seemed oddly compelling.

Had no idea about FJ.

[quote] Adriana's now within striking distance to make the Top 20 list in Winnings during regular play.

With today's win, she not only made the Top 20, but zoomed into 16th place.

Enzo has an unfortunate last name.

No reaction to Connor's cuteness? And he knew his food!

Connor would have swept the category "Treasured Trails."

Great game! Adriana continues her impressive run.

I liked Enzo but he kept looking away from Ken and the board and looking directly at the camera. What was that all about?

I had no idea on Final.

I guess Ferris because of the "spoke" in the clue.

Also thought Caller and Cellar was pretty easy and surprised no one got it.

And yes, Connor was very cute and sweet, too. I noted his wedding band but wondered to who.

Enzo’s responding “Bottom” during the Shakespeare category was fitting.

R407, And his rappers.

I figured he'd inspire "Mama's mussy" among many here - ha ha!

I agree with Connor being cute.

R412 - I think the only time Enzo smiled was when he responded "Bottom."

I just can’t picture Connor as a lawyer.

Not even a lawyer in a small Michigan town?

His Linked indicates corporate law located in Detroit.

Not all lawyers are Perry Mason. ;)

Another kindergarten FJ today.

But is Connor married to a woman or a man?

I knew the answer as soon as I saw the final Jeopardy category “1960s British Novels/Literature”

The IBS anecdote, oy! I mean, I wish her all the best with it, but still.

I saw a Jeopardy repeat on a Saturday evening and Mayim What’s her face was hosting. She was terrible. Ken is a million times better. (I only started watching Jeopardy again a couple of months ago after years of not seeing it)

It was preempted tonight in South Florida (Miami/Fort Lauderdale) because of a Stanley Cup pre-show.

No one could identify Leon Panetta?

R422, You have to wonder what were her other anecdotal options rather than announcing on national television that she has loose bowels.

Clockwork Orange is another topic that writers return to often.

And no one recognized Sontag?

R425 As you age, names become more difficult to remember but I shouted out "Begins with P!" I was closer than they were.

R429, I did the same thing! I was saying, “Something with a P!”

Adriana is just a steamroller. Continues to be impressive.

I knew Final before Ken finished reading the clue.

I like how cool, calm, and collected Adriana is. She reminds me of one of my academic rivals from college who always pushed me to be better by simply being brilliant and unflappable.

Although I’m surprised how many questions that *I* think of as almost throwaways she tends to miss (Joseph Heller?) I think she has long-term potential as a super champ but there might be areas that are weaknesses.

She is excellent at any category that has a “game” to it and tends to go to those first. I also appreciate starting with a $200 clue to warm us up and see what the category is about. I hate the players who try to scrap up all the $1,000 clues at the beginning of the game.

I don't know why I hate the champ. She seems nice. Not too weird. There's just something about her that rubs me the wrong way. I really could have done without the shit story. BUT I was crossing my fingers that she would dump one right there on the ALEX TREBEK STAGE. I had no idea about the final.

R433, How do we know she didn’t? They could have stopped taping while she was ushered to the nearest toilet.

Agree, r433. Has it already been suggested she's an AI creation?

Adriana's obviously looking to be the commercial spokesperson for one of the IBS meds advertised on Jeopardy! by one of the show's Big Pharma sponsors. Now, all that's needed is a catchy tune like the one used in the Jardiance ads, and she can dance around happy that she's not crapping her pants.

R436, Wrong colon. Hakme was Miss IBS.

It was classy of Ken not to raise a stink about Hakme's tasteless "take me to your toilet" romantic fan fic. I hope they add her to their commercial about how it takes all kinds to make a Jeopardy contestant and label her "scat freak".

Wonder what Halme's other anecdotes were, the ones they rejected in favor of this one.

I have to say the look on Ken's face and his OK was worth it. I mean seriously? They wouldn't let her talk about her herpes?

R439, Can you not see R426?

Excellent competitive game tonight.

I was Team Kaitlin until she gave that idiotic “Truman” response instead of “Houdini”.

She really thought Truman died in 1926???

Great game! All three went into final with 5-figures!

I was rooting for Kaitlin, but was just rolling my eyes at the Truman response.

I had no idea on Final. Had no idea affirmative action dated back to 1961. Always assumed it originated in the 70s.

Yeah that was a tough FJ after a few easy ones.

Does anyone know where our lovably AI Bot stands in the all time money list? Upthread someone says she was already number 16.

FJ came to me at the last second, I never would have had enough time to write it down.

This guy was on Season 30, ten seasons ago.

Jeopardy! champ? He was only on for two games.

With the three that were on last night....well I'm glad AI won.

FJ for Friday, June 14:

"Affirmative action" was the answer for an "alliterative phrase."

"Alliterative" refers to "alliteration," which is the repetition on stressed syllables of a consonant sound.

A similar repetition of a vowel sound is called "assonance."

So the clue led me astray and ticked me off!

Don’t overthink it, R448.

R448. Me, too!! My prosody class from 1977 kicked in.

Stupid Shit.

I’ve reached the “enough already” stage with Adriana.

Yeah. AI needs to go. I'm laughing at how many people I know hate her for no real reason.

No, r451. But neither is your signature. 😛

Much as I admire Adriana I was rooting for handsome Troy but just knew, in spite of his relatively strong showing, would be beaten.

I found FJ very hard. Thought maybe.....Silkwood? And....and....... but couldn't even remember if that was the 90s or 80s.

Ugh! My DVR cut off FJ!

I assume our Favorite AI Bot won?

Here in LA, my DVR also cut off the final minutes, so I missed Final Jeopardy! But I went to YouTube and watched Final.

Even though full episodes of each day's Jeopardy! are quickly taken down from YouTube, the clip of the day's Final always remains posted. The one I watched was posted by Sony as it had a clip at the end of Mayim and Ken saying to subscribe to get the latest updates.

It was a good game, Troy made an impressive comeback.

As for Final, I'm a movie buff but I was drawing a blank of the Best Picture winners of the 1990s.

What a bizarre category name -- Two Last Names, Same First Letter. That sounds more like a Wheel of Fortune category than a Jeopardy! category.

I got FJ!

I remembered Shakespeare in Love and then tried to recall another S Oscar winner: Schindler's List.

By the time I could unravel the answer, it was too late.

FJ was easy for any true Oscar queen/completist. Just zip led through the winners in my head until I got to Shakespeare in Love.

Seems a lot of easy questions for an archivist over the last couple of weeks.

When Ken announced what the FJ category would be I assumed the correct response would be something like John Singer Sargent.

She’s a very bright, but very boring champion. I’m ready for someone new—she’s earned her spot in the TOC .

I had absolutely no idea about FJ

I didn’t even know what the hell they were looking for. I didn’t understand the clue. ☺️

Adriana has no personality. She’s good but she’s a snooze to watch.

I got FJ, but again put the show on pause till I figured it out. If I were a contestant I'd have been too late.

Adriana had some competition from the other female contestent. She actually looked unnerved for a bit.

Close game... Adriana is really good. She wrote the FJ answer at the absolutely last second. I got FJ.

Another Wheel of Fortune-like category name? Geographic Name’s Almost the Same. Have WofF writers joined the Jeopardy! staff?

Good game. I liked both challengers, especially Mark.

I figured out Final almost immediately.

The 90s Oscar FJ was unnecessarily complicated.

"Category: Academy Award Winners."

"The titles of these two 1990s 'Best Picture' winners begin with the surnames of real people."

I also thought Silkwood. But wrong decade.

R471, And not an Academy Award winner.

And it didn’t win Picture (wasn’t even nominated).

Great game tonight.

Team Drew, every inch of him.

Oh no!

Yay!!!!!! Thank you, Drew!! Goodbye Adrianna.

Team Drew all the way.

New champion mostly due to him betting big on a daily double and getting it right.

I didn't get to see it tonight! I missed AI losing. FUCK. I rejoice anyway.

FJ - I guess Adriana and Drew aren't familiar with Ralph Lauren.

Awkward handshakes after Drew dethroned Adriana.

Oh god.. She let someone touch her. You know she took a Silkwood shower when she got home. Either that or she had to reboot. Update her firmware.

They didn't know Vitamin C = Linus Pauling?

I’d rather have AI than this guy. I don’t like him. I’ve taken against him, yes I have.

Fucking Howdy Doody asshole.

😡

He kept pointing at the screen for each answer. Then he stopped. Wonder if the show asked him to stop.

Can anyone post revealing pictures from his "Survivor" jaunt?

I like AI and found this winner annoying. I hope this is short-lived.

Tonight’s entire set of clues was unusually easy, including FJ. Also not a fan of Drew. Seems like a total douchebag. I agree that producers told him to knock it off with the pointing at the board.

6/19: Another poorly-worded FJ. Who's writing these now---AI? An intern? Jeez Louise.

"...what's being played...." A song? A game? The TV? A sucker watching 3-Card Monte?

Wow. Adriana just quit trying once Drew got that Daily Double. Apparently she just lost her mojo because almost everything she answered after that DD was wrong.

Those were very awkward handshakes at the end. She was clearly unhappy.

Drew doesn't annoy me too much, but I suspect I will tire of him after 2 or 3 games, if he goes that far.

I agree, Final was poorly worded. I was unsure what it was referring to being played. Consequently, I had no idea for Final, but then I'm not a cologne person.

I kinda wanter her to get top ten all time.

Oh well.

She'll be fine with her winnings and TOC in a bit.

Just how tall is he?

“Drew Basile is a 23-year-old who stands tall at 6 feet and 2 inches. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. While he hails from the state of Michigan, he shifted his life to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to work when the pandemic was ongoing.“

Looks taller than 6'2"

Oh God. I'd rather have Drew Barrymore. And I loathe her. Still hate AI though.

Why all the Drew hate on here?

Because he was on “Survivor”?

Not usually a Jeopardy viewer, but I liked Drew on Survivor, so I’ll tune in. Was his Survivor background mentioned on the show?

Bless your heart, R497.

I thought FJ was ridiculously easy.

And how could Adriana have guessed Endeavour instead of Bounty? She really was ready to go home I think.

I like Drew, look forward to more of him.

Jesus. I'm 6' 4", Are people calling me Gigantor behind my back?

R500 - maybe Goliath. Or Lurch. (I'm joking.)

Anyway, I didn't mind Drew. Anyone who uses the word "noggin" is OK with me, although he did have a weird habit of always looking to the right (his left) quite a bit.

[quote]although he did have a weird habit of always looking to the right (his left) quite a bit.

He was looking at the scoreboard.

The players scores are posted on a tote board to the left of the clueboard.

They never show the scoreboard on TV, but its there.

Settle in, 6' 6' Drew is clearly brilliant and apt to be here for a spell.

6'6" ^

With a giraffe neck!!

Nope. Don’t like Drew. He’s a narcissistic douche.

Back to the antiquated maps room for AI

He’s 23?!

In what Blanche? Dog years?

Sorry.

What are dog years?

Would Chris Panullo be the only longtime champ everyone here liked?

His bro in the audience was kinda hot.

[quote] His bro in the audience was kinda hot.

Was it Austin, with whom he had a Survivor bromance?

Friday, 6/21:

Do NOT get me started on the egregiously INCORRECT and thus MISLEADING grammar of today's FJ!!

Here's that FJ QUESTION if you want.

Then DO NOT SCROLL FURTHER, if you want to avoid the SPOILER.

I like Drew!

“I’ve been watching Jeopardy all my life.”

Consistently does not answer in the form of a question, then looks at everybody like “What?” In the past people were fucking declared wrong when they didn’t phrase it in a question. Guy finally says, “What is the correct answer?” and then looks around like “I can’t believe I had to say that.”

One of the last parts of the multi-part try-out back in the day was a practice game, showing correct buzz-in timing and correct answer phrasing. Maybe that's now omitted.

Great finish tonight.

When was the last tie?

FJ was easy for me, only because I’m 72.

Re: r513.

The clue read, "....Vin Scully announced that he....."

In my world, the antecedent of a pronoun is the closest preceding noun, in this case "Vin Scully." Now, I've been familiar with who Scully was since forever, but I thought, maybe he broke some kind of record? And got a standing ovation for it!

Would it have been so hard to write "this man" instead of that initial "he"? WOULD IT?!

I miss Alex Trebek and Johnny Gilbert. AI technology could bring them back so to speak but the producers clearly have no interest in making that happen.

I’m not dead!

My apologies, Mr. Gilbert. You're 95 though.

My apologies Mr. Gilbert. You are aware you're 95 though right?

At least I don’t repeat myself.

Final was incredibly easy to me. And I'm not a sports person.

However, I did not get the tie breaker. I think its been about two years since we had a game decided by tie breaker. Definitely since Alex's death because I remember Ken kinda stumbling through how to handle it.

I agree that Final was worded poorly and the "he" came across as Vin Scully doing something.

Would have been better if the "he" had been "this person."

The real Johnny Gilbert is 95 and still alive. He came out on stage at the end of the show a few weeks ago when they were celebrating the 9,000th episode. He talked about when Jeopardy began in 1984, producers were so unsure if it would work in syndication, it only had a 13 week commitment. Johnny was shorter than I imagined but he looked fairly healthy for a 95 year old.

So, my question is: was the wording of that Vin Scully clue INTENTIONALLY trying to make it harder?

There have definitely been at least a couple of tie breakers since Alex died.

Are Alex Trebek’s widow and children okay with his face not appearing on his just issued postage stamp?

I also wracked my brain trying to figure out when Vin Scully was given a standing ovation in the Deep South.

Speaking of the Deep South, color me stunned when I heard what Mr October, Reggie Jackson said when ARod, perhaps naively, asked about his experiences whilst in that particular park.

I chuckle every time I remember how the ‘81 Dodgers beat those damn Yankees. Fun times!

Since it was the deep south, and I interned there, I was racking my brain for a football player.

I thought it was Carl Lewis.

You had to know the Vin Scully was an announcer for Major League Baseball to get to the Hank Aaron answer.

Scully was best known as the Voice of the LA Dodgers. When he died in 2022, the Dodgers renamed the road leading to Dodger Stadium to "Vin Scully Way."

He also occassionally announced football, golf and some other sports, but baseball was where he achieved his fame.

Anyone who was alive in 1974 would know the correct response was Hank Aaron.

His quest to break Babe Ruth’s home run record that season received as much media coverage as every move Taylor Swift makes today.

I’ve only watched Jeopardy in the last few decades when they have had a long-running champion who became water cooler talk. So only Ken & James. I’m watching now because I liked Drew on Survivor. I had no notion that there is now a tie-breaker question. About how long ago was that introduced?

I thought Delta Airlines was obvious, had no clue about final. HATE this tie-breaker shite! Why can't they just bring both back next day?

R533, Funny you should say this. I was 24, no doubt read of the April 1974 home run record and headlines, but went right back to my teaching job and summer vacation planning. MLB didn't loom large in my existence.

As I indicated, I got hung up on the egregious syntax of the "answer," and couldn't turn it around.

How much you wanna bet Drew beats Adriana's record?

Hope so! Poor Erin. That's gotta hurt.

I don't get how Erin passed the qualifying test?

Ceres was my final guess, too. Drew hasn't mentioned a girlfriend yet, just his "bro's". Like my pals in this thread, I don't know about het life first-hand. But, he seems dedicated to not going "there" to me.

Once upon a time I taught a semester class in Greek and Roman mythology to high school students.

So I know the myth of Persephone and her kidnapping to the Underworld. What planet is remotely associated with the Underworld? Pluto.

Knowing nothing else, I guessed "a moon of Pluto."

😀 💅

I am extremely uninterested in, perhaps even repelled by the thought of, Drew’s orientation and proclivities.

Is Erin’s $7,200.00 in the red a Jeopardy! record?

He would have been a good Kelpian friend for Star Trek Discovery's Saru.

I enjoy Drew’s enthusiasm after weeks of Adriana’s catatonia.

Just $200 shy of the record, r542. Humiliating nonetheless

The lighting designer was a hot daddy bear. Sorry to see him go. Every time it seemed like he was gaining on Drew he flubbed.

I am a bad human. I want to slap Drew.

(ha, no one knew Brandi Carlyle.)

Erin, yikes! But she had nothing to loose trying to get out of the red.

I liked Graham. Sorry he couldn’t give Drew a run for his money.

I had no idea on Final.

lose, Johnny, not loose!

Johnny’s a dumbass.

Good for Drew!

I hated Drew's "oh, I missed it and am going to lose" acting on FJ. Just play the game young man.

I bet Drew has a huge cock. I hate Ken Jennings.

Are those two thoughts connected, r583?

^Miss Cleo

Jeff Probst is Team Drew.

Drew blushed like a schoolgirl over those Probst compliments.

Can you blame him, r557?

It kills me how close to Literature the c Clue Crew hems.

As a math teacher, we can do a bit less than having 60% of categories tied to antiquated literature.

"You should read more!"

Yes, because most Americans are familiar with 18th Century British Impressionism....

Not only did I not get FJ I answered hardly any of the questions in the other rounds. The champ is growing on me He may have upped his dose of Adderall.

No one knew Bob Hope?

Drew is one knowledgeable 23 year old.

All I could think of was Charge of the Light Brigade. Didn't think tonight's question were easier or more difficult than usual.

Did Drew say "Back when I was a batchelor"? The idea of him roaming around in the dark with a can of tuna was pretty funny.

His "Achtung" was cringe-worthy anemic.

I got FJ immediately but I could never remember the poem's title, though I always remember it begins with an "O." (In fact I've forgotten the title already and I just finished watching the game.)

I lost track of the number of times Drew kept adjusting his pants.

And about yesterday's game: that guy at the end - Deputy Droop-a-Long - was about as unenergetic a contestant as I've seen in a while.

Saw this on the Jeopardy website: a Pride Month quiz.

Drew’s height made me wonder, has there ever been a “little person” Jeopardy! contestant?

Yes.. Ken. He's a very little person.

Drew's run out of clothes. I suspect he just bought that purple shirt and those pants in LA that he wore tonight on the show, hence his constant tugging.

They were all way too young to have heard of Bob Hope or even "ski-nosed" as an adjective.

I never knew the name for that 2-sided Scottish hat was a glengarry.

As long as “Johnny Gilbert” stays away from here. He’s useless.

I remembered Ozymandias, but couldn't recall Shelley.

They should've recognized trachoma as an eye disease.

Bullshit, R569, Bob Hope is legendary.

At only 23, Drew has already achieved some fame on both Survivor and Jeopardy. Where does he go from here?

r573, where would anyone under 35 have encountered Bob Hope?

What would you suggest they watch to understand his "legendary" status?

R575, Bob Hope died in 2003, not that long ago in the world of popular culture.

He and Jack Benny are probably the two most famous known comedians.

Bob Hope is all over YouTube, recent biographies have been published and as previously stated, he is a true legend.

Drew had no problem knowing the movie “Gigi” was released in 1958, which is a lot more obscure than knowing that Bob Hope was known as “Ski Nose”.

Contestants prepare for the show and knowing popular culture is a must.

I like watching the videos of Hope performing for the soldiers during WWII. For his time he was rather subversive. Then he just shit the bed after the war.

The film of GIGI is still shown constantly on TV. The films of Bob Hope, not so much anymore.

R578, His films are probably what Bob Hope is known for least.

Nice try, but no, sorry.

That Bob Hope is so little remembered, if at all, is quite a shock to the system.

Bob Hope hosted the Academy Awards nineteen(19) times and all of them are on YouTube.

He took a group of stars with him every Christmas to entertain troops for many years.

His television specials were highly rated for years.

He lived to be 100. He’ll never be “forgotten”.

First of all, I'm a fan of Bob Hope. Loved watching his Road movies when I was a teenager but that was back in the 1970s.

Nevertheless, I can't imagine any twenty-something today being curious about him or invested in finding him on youtube. I think if they even watched a minute of him in one of his films, entertaining the troops or hosting the Oscars, they'd quickly be bored or perplexed. Call me a cynic.

I'll still give Drew and the other players a pass for not coming up with his name.

R582, If you’re about to be a contestant on a game show that specializes in knowing much about a lot of topics, one of them being popular culture, you read, you study, you cram, you try to soak up as much information as possible from various sources.

Knowing the identity of one of the most famous show business personalities of the last century is not asking too much.

I was screaming and screaming the FJ question at Drew!

Big dummy.

Had no idea of Final, but did get navy bean soup and Doris Kearns-Goodwin.

R584, Not dumb, he won.

I liked Jagger and was impressed he knew Final. I sure didn’t know Final.

Sorry Jagger lost his mojo after missing that Daily Double.

I grew up in Kentucky, my father is an honorary Kentucky Colonel, and I didn't think of Colonel Sanders for the final. How did you know Navy bean, r585?

Because navy bean soup has come up before, R588.

This thread is almost full. We filled it up in just 10 weeks.

Here's the link to a new Jeopardy! thread.

Good god!! I need a lozenge from yelling “moron!” at the screen.

Drew was really off his game and deserved to go home.

I wonder if he assumed Helen Keeler was just too obvious a response (as I did, but I couldn't come up with anyone else).

I have a feeling the new Monkey Girl champ won't last long.

Drew knows Rin Tin Tin but not Bob Hope? Bob's estate handlers need to work on getting his visage into video games or something. As soon as Drew began flaunting his heterosexuality, I kind of guessed it was time for him to go. And the audience seemed overjoyed that Cat ate the canary. Was Drew considered an unlikeable champ? I sensed no issue with his streak, beyond his being emotive at times, but at least he wasn't in the swinging chair like the one guy.

Cat wrote “Hellen Keller” and it was accepted?

Isn’t correct spelling usually a must?

What a stinker! It looked for a while like they were all going to finish the Jeopardy round in the red.

I guessed Anne Sullivan for Final since I thought Helen seemed to obvious.

Drew was completely off today. How do you not write Helen Keller for an answer??

That was so, so easy.

I can only think that a Swiss ancestor might have thrown Dew off.

I thought it was Anne Sullivan too since she was also a teacher to a deaf woman which made that part of the clue make more sense to me than Helen Keller. But I knew that Sullivan was mainly Irish so was not confident.

I guessed Helen Reddy

This thread is done. See you on the next one.

Ken, I'll take "Bob Hope's Extra Marital Hook-Ups for $1000."