Jeopardy! #43

Link to previous thread.

In answer to a question asked at the end of the last thread, no spelling doesn’t count in final.

Correct spelling is not necessary.

“Jeopardy! is not a spelling test — unless, of course, the category requires it,” it states on the show's website. “Written responses to the Final Jeopardy! clue do not have to be spelled correctly, but they must be phonetically correct and not add or subtract any extraneous sounds or syllables.”

Why didn't they show Drew's girlfriend in the studio audience? They showed his frat bros.

The show seems uneven as to when they show audience members.

Drew never said she was in the audience.

Would've preferred gay Andrew to Cat, but I'm fine with Drew's exit. Rather a lame night, no? Sad that Drew couldn't manage the obvious Final clue. Others I knew they didn't: San Francisco, Madison County, Joan Crawford, and Louisiana.

My local station ran Thursday night's show again (has happened before), so watched Friday's on Sat morning via You Tube.

Drew qualified for the TOC, but did not make near the cash haul of Adriana's $344K.

Drew should have his TOC ticket taken away for that shit show. It was fucking embarrassing from all three twelve year olds. Wicked Witch of the West????

I find it hard to believe Drew has a girlfriend. He’s so homely and dorky.

I’ll give you dorky, R10, but Drew is not homely.

Dorky Drew was so proud of actually having a "girlfriend," (likely the first time that had ever happened), he moved to Philadelphia to be with her.

Shirtless Drew . . .

I didn't need to see that!!!

That was a truly horrible game for all three. So many easy questions they all missed.

Drew has the biggest Adam's Apple I've ever seen.

Seriously Jeopardy. There’s gotta be better contestants out there than this velour-wearing Velma. Fucking moron.

Oh, Gaaahd, l guessed Muthuh Goose!🪿

Zoe!!!

The judges are so inconsistent in whether or not they rule mispronounced answers as correct. That guy Matt clearly said "larnyx" instead of "larynx," and his answer was ruled correct.

I was shocked at what I clearly heard as "larnyx" also! Final was easy, as were Yukon Territory and Yeoman of the Guard.

I'm pleased with the result as 30 minutes with Zoe was more than I could stans!

Zoe definitely seems to be "on the spectrum," and as far I can recall, she was one of the most bizarre contestants ever in the way she zig-zagged wildly back and forth between correct responses and really stupid, wrong ones.

BOTULISM !

Zoe kept distracting me. I kept wondering what her pronouns were.

R24, she must have felt really bad about that response, because she practically murmured the correct response before giving her final answer.

BIG MAC!

How old was that bizarre child?

FJ was easy, I guess, although I just said the Brothers Grimm, not the fairy tail part.

There was a part of me that wanted Zoe to win so that I could see the pressure take its toll on her. See her triggered right into the Alex Trebek wing of Institute of Living.

Yeah, I was curious how much of the final response was required beyond Brothers Grimm/Grimm Brothers....

I like the winner. Suspect he's a gay (or did I miss something in his mini interview?

[quote]Yeah, I was curious how much of the final response was required beyond Brothers Grimm/Grimm Brothers....

"Brothers Grimm" or "Grimm Brothers" was not the name of the anthology, and that was the response required.

But would Tales of the Brothers Grimm be acceptable? Or Grimms' Fairy Tales? Or....?

In German, it’s Kinder- und Hausmarchen, which translates as Children’s and Household Tales—the word “fairy” is not in the title. But most translations call it “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” or some variation, so as long as someone gave an answer that they knew it was a volume of tales collected (not invented) by the Grimm Brothers, I assume the judges would have accepted it.

So was that the season finale? My tv guide says repeats the rest of the week.

I was hoping Zoe would pull through and win just to see her have a meltdown in the next episode.

Grimm’s Fairy Tales seemed so very obvious, I’m surprised Kat didn’t know it.

My TV guide indicates a new episode.

R36, So does mine, and new shoes for the entire week.

^shows, LOL.

What sucks is that since 3/4 of the season was tournaments, that’s like what we’ll get for most of the summer.

Seriously. I tuned out for most of the tournaments. Why so many? It sucked.

I can only think the producers think audiences are more eager to tune in and watch contestants they already know.

We were all sick of it. Especially the second chance ones. I don't want to watch a bunch of losers again.

Honestly, why do some of you so dislike tournament games as opposed to regular game? Especially for rerun purposes?

It's like watching a repeat and filled with contestants everyone hated.

R40: The tournaments were the way the producers chose to deal with the strike early in the season.

so all those returning contestants were scabs?

[quote]Honestly, why do some of you so dislike tournament games as opposed to regular game?

Top three reasons…

1. Mattea Roach

2. Amy Schneider

3. Matt Amodio

I love my Matty.

The guy who wore the dresses bugged me.

Well, R47, I'll certainly agree that I had more than enough of Amy Schneider during that person's original run.

I liked the hot guy from Jersey I think. Maybe Chris? He was a huge winner and was a more likeable AI GUI. He would never explain his customer service job. He was hot as fuck.

Finally watched last night's episode.

When I saw that there were 35 comments on this thread since the l time I was here, I presumed they were mostly about helium-voiced Zoe.

I was wrong - but still. What a weirdo!

Close your eyes when she speaks and it sounds like the voice of a mouse in an old Disney cartoon.

I really enjoy the tournament format on Jeopardy. I’m just beyond tired of them turning big winners into celebrities and shoving them into tournaments. Just stop Jeopardy!

No more Amy and her cohorts.

I never watch Jeopardy! repeats.

Why bother if you’re a nightly viewer?

It’s like watching a mystery movie when you already know the ending.

I never bothered with “Chicago”. I guessed Betty Boop.

[quote]Close your eyes when she speaks and it sounds like the voice of a mouse in an old Disney cartoon.

Absolutely, but also, didn't you think Zoe's seemed like she's "on the spectrum?" Her speech patterns reminded me a lot of Dustin Hoffman's character in RAIN MAN. Definitely, definitely!

R56, She appeared to be very nervous throughout the entire show.

Muscular Dystrophy???

oh god what a boring game.

FJ was so easy.

RIP - One day wonder Matt.

Oh, Matt.

Bodies buried at the Chrysler Building?

Jesus H. Chrysler.

I didn’t know Roxie’s last name.

😬😬

What a complete loser yesterday’s winner was.

I got Final easily enough. My DL homes ought to have gotten Doris Day day, too, I hope!

Doris Day Day!!!!! So easy.

I kept screaming at the TV to no avail.

Ah "Lake Day" - the star of Pillow Talk.

Isaac is quite likable and smart.

Yeah I like the new champ. He's nerd hot.

Doris Day Day was so easy!

Overall, a good game. I like the dorky new champ.

However I had no idea about Final.

Some on here were defending Drew not knowing Bob Hope, yet Isaac should have known Doris Day starred in “Pillow Talk”?

Pillow Talk is far more well-remembered than any film Bob Hope ever made and it's only one of several well-remembered films of Doris Day.

I got Mary Stuart, bitches.

R70, Bob Hope is much better known for his decades of work in television, entertaining the troops around the world and hosting the Academy Awards 19 times than for his movies, as popular as they were.

“Pillow Talk” was the only Doris Day movie cited in the clue, none of her others.

I got the Doris Day part but couldn't finish with the extra day.

Yes, dear r72, but the clue referred to one of her movies and even named it, hence my post.

I wish the contestants would go back to the tradition of going from the top to bottom. I hate the searching for the daily doubles.

And I'm actually constantly amazed by contestants who don't ever seem to be searching for the DDS.

[quote]I hate the searching for the daily doubles.

[quote]And I'm actually constantly amazed by contestants who don't ever seem to be searching for the DDS.

Can someone please explain to me as if I were an idiot: What exactly constitutes "searching for the Daily Doubles" as compared to not doing so? Since the players have no idea where the DDs are, how does it help them to skipping around the board rather than proceeding through one category at a time? The only exception I can think of is that, as far as I know, there can never be more than one DD in any one category., so if one has already been found in a particular category, a contestant search for the other one would of course want to go to another category than finish off the first one.

Is there something about this that I'm misunderstanding?

Yes, R77. 🙄

There aren’t DDs on the top line. Never. There isn’t more than one DD in any category. Also, lately, in the DJ round the DDs have tended to be under $800, $1,200 or $2,000.

[quote]Also, lately, in the DJ round the DDs have tended to be under $800, $1,200 or $2,000.

"Tended" is one thing, but of course, there's no sort of rule to that effect. So the only way one can "search for Daily Doubles" is to avoid the top line and to switch out of a category if a contestant has already found a DD in it. Correct?

Anyway, why do you suppose it is that the DDs are apparently never in the top line?

They were never in the top line so that they wouldn't be found right away when no one had any money and they would make no difference to outcome. Defeating their purpose. Until the last couple of years it seemed it was the norm to start at the top of the category and work you way down. Now the contestants jump all over. It seems to totally ruin the flow of the show. That's just me I guess.

Everyone put their novelty goofy teeth in this evening.

[quote]They were never in the top line so that they wouldn't be found right away when no one had any money and they would make no difference to outcome.

When you factor in all of the things that can happen with a Daily Double depending on when they're found, how players run through the board, etc., that makes very little sense to me.

It makes no sense to you that Daily Double would be of so much less importance if it was found at the top when everyone had 0 to 800 dollars? As opposed to it being a close match or someone betting it all to get back into the game? Jesus fuck. Stick with Wheel of Fortune.

The DD issue is really only confounding when there are, say about 6 possibilities left, and a contestant doesn't search for it. In other words, goes for a category where a DD has already been uncovered or goes for a top line category. Those both happen more than you'd think.

[quote]It makes no sense to you that Daily Double would be of so much less importance if it was found at the top when everyone had 0 to 800 dollars?

I understand that part of it, but if you're going to follow that logic to its extreme, then the Daily Doubles would only be hidden behind the highest dollar amounts of each category. In which case the contestants in search of the DDs when they wanted to find them would always choose the clues behind the highest amounts whenever they wanted to find the DDs.

And all of that is assuming that contestants are going to run through the categories from the lowest dollar amount to the highest, which is no longer true even if that used to e the case.

Isaac has been on two previous game shows.

He sort of looks like that actor on The Equalizer.

Adam something.

I think Isaac would look better without the mustache.

.....and some better wardrobe.

Drew revealed that one of his reactions to winning had to be redone.

I guessed Portuguese as well, thinking of the roots of Papiamento.

I know my homies were shouting Bewitched! and Bonanza! along with me.

At first I liked the Borg Queen until she confessed to being a vegetarian.

I was ambivalent about Kim Il Jeopardy.

So I stuck with rooting for Isaac.

What was FJ?

My stupid local station cut away for some damn weather watch 😡

Isaac needs some new shirts.

.....or better yet, a complete makeover.

Isaac makes me moist - down there.

R93, Aruba has 4 national languages. Paiamento is one; what are the other three? (Paraphrasing, of course.) I knew one was Dutch, figured English had to be one of them, and guessed Spanish for the fourth.

Cool, thanks, R97.

Wouldn’t have gotten it. 😬

Easiest FJ, maybe ever. Madama Butterfly.

R93. I spent many Nights there

Yes, incredibly obvious Final.

Issac is definitely one of the dorkiest champs we've had on in a long time. But he's a very knowledgeable dork. He sure has a lot to rub in his dad's face now.

R101 Definitely dorky. I do find him pretty likable, and with a good sense of humor it seems.

I like dorky Isaac more than dorky Drew.

I like Isaac's sense of humor, too. Was put off by the gay Indian guy from Edison writing his name in Hindi, which seemed pretenscious. Final so easy I thought maybe, just maybe, they were looking for M Butterfly instead?

M. Butterfly is a 1988 stage play by David Henry Hwang, not an opera.

That's what I thought but wasn't sure as the Final music ticked down towards an answer.

I guessed Ali Baba for final, although I got some they all missed. Happy that mega-nerd Isaac will be in T of C.

I thought FJ was easy, if only because I thought of those Sinbad movies (like the 7th Voyage of Sinbad.)

I like that Dorky Isaac [bold]and[/bold] Dorky Drew will be in the ToC since I like them both.

I wouldn't mind Isaac hanging around a little longer since he's a pleasant enough guy.

I was amused that Karan, yesterday's Indian contestant, wrote his name in Hindi - if only because more than a few contestants in the past have used Chinese characters when writing their names.

But as to Stephanie, yesterday's other contestant - I got a kick out of her rolling her eyes each time she guessed a response incorrectly. (That would be the kind of thing my sister would do.)

Also guessed Aladdin and thought of Ali Baba as back-up.

Good game tonight. Nice to see some decent competition for a change.

Was it tonight or last night that someone thought Samuel Beckett had joined the French Foreign Legion?

Great game. Good to see Issac have some real competition.

I knew the book being referenced in Final was 1001 Nights, but I guessed Ali Baba.

I guessed Aladdin, but I knew it wasn't right.

For the life of me, I just couldn't remember Sinbad, even though it was on the tip of my tongue.

I thought Sinbad was a black comedian from the ‘90s. I didn’t know the name was pseudonymous.

7/10/24 Did Alex just refer to his husband or male partner in his story about meeting while both were in college bands? Together "10-ish" years.

Yes! They overcame Big 10 rivalry to find love 💕.

He did not know the Nile as the location of the Aswan dam. Bye bye.

I came here to post that, R115. Final was easy.

FJ was super easy.

That obvious Nile miss was tragic.

What happened in today’s game? The President was speaking and we didn’t get today’s show.

Same question as R119.

Tonight’s game.

Watch it soon before it’s deleted.

I watched it on YouTube.

Just watched it on you tube. Final was obvious (as was Dixville Notch). Actively rooted for Liz to lose.

I want the men in jackets and ties again. I also want those silly final jeopardy messages banned. Plus that bring it shit...ugh.

The Vegas James craps table motion (betting it all) I can do without.

YEAH.. that's the worst. I miss fully developed adults on Jeopardy!

Do they do teen or college championships anymore?

Final was obvious. I knew about Maria Tallchief, is that particularly gay of me?

whoissheba?

God it's like the third contestant wasn't even there. One of the easiest FJ ever.

Ashley, we hardly knew ye . . .

Misty Copeland on an American coin?? She's good but not that good!

I want Isaac inside me - quite deeply. He’s adorable.

R132 I sense that Isaac, once the bedroom door closes, is a submissive bottom. Very submissive.

R133, We need to see Isaac’s girlfriend who he said was in the audience.

As previously posted, that mustache does nothing for Isaac.

He’s not bad looking, just needs to shave it off, get a nice haircut, some contacts and better clothes.

Yeah. I hate smart glasses. The glasses probably aren't even prescription.

Did you all miss the mention of his beloved girlfriend?

R137, R134 didn’t.

Yeah because no one ever dabbles with the same sex if they have a girlfriend.

R128. A high school friend studied with Maria Tallchief, which is when I first heard of her. She was involved with the corps de ballet at the Chicago Lyric Opera, and my friend danced there while still in high school. Friend later went on to be a soloist with NYC Ballet.

How nice for you you.

Isaac would probably look like he's 17 if he ditched the glasses and mustache. Of course, some of you would just love that.

Couldn't get Final, but I do know about Middlebury, VT and Fort Lee, NJ.

Ethel Merman movies, Isaac?

Obviously, he meant Esther Williams.

Why didn’t Ken correct him?

Yes! I got FJ.

Performative.

Good game from everyone.

I went to Middlebury and somehow knew that there would be a question about it when I saw the category. It’s just sort of “off-the-radar” enough that some people have never heard of it.

My friend (who also went there) and I were both surprised by the current enrollment number which is much higher than it was when we went there.

My great aunt was a Middlebury grad 100 years ago, Phi Beta Kappa at that.

When will the tears stop?!

He had a hot ass but he couldn't last forever.

Until they got too big Middlebury was just about the prettiest school in the country. I would have loved to have been a student there in the late 40s to late 50s . It's still pretty but nothing like when I saw it from the way back seat of a station wagon in the 70s.

r150, if you'd been a Middlebury student in the late 40s to late 50s, you'd be dead now. Watch what you wish for.

I'd be OK with that.

I got final as a guess. Did anyone else know Iolanthe?

Isaac seems like a good boy. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he and his special lady haven’t gone all the way and are saving it for marriage.

I knew Iolanthe! I'm a G&S freak. Didn't know FJ.

Timothy Leary was the only 60s psychiatrist I could think, but I didn’t realize he had been in jail.

Guess he turned on, tuned in and dropped out.

Was stunned Leary was correct.

I like Jay, Glad he won.

What a bunch of dumb bastards tonight.

Only thing I could come up with for Final was T S Eliot (yeah , I know ...)

However, they missed these which I got: Suez Canal, hymnology, Tombstone, Dien Bien Phu, Indus, and lurk.

Jay has definitely "gay voice".

I guess if you don't know opera, you don't know opera but my god those were all very easy clues.

What the fuck did I just watch?? 15 unanswered clues in the DJ round. Seven in a row!!!!

I got the clue immediately just from 1980 National Book Award winner part.

Worst episode ever!!

I read a lot but didn't get FJ.

“Jay has definitely "gay voice".“

Is that why he knew which state Provincetown was in?

I got final Jeopardy and it was a miraculous feat of memory on my part. I haven't read Garp since the 90s

What a bizarre episode! So many unanswered clues.

Only thing I could think of for Final was the Great Santini, but figured it was wrong

Zach held my attention throughout the game.

R167, Even after he responded “Hitchcock” in a category requiring the name of a French director?

Zach is a fit fat frat boy.

Zach and the church lady got off to good starts so I thought there'd be some competition for our champ, but it was not to be.

R166, I guessed The Great Santini as well!

FJ was very easy if you’re a John Irving fan. They even gave you the first two initials of his name!

The only Irving book I've read was [italic]A Son of the Circus[/italic]. Never saw the Garp film.

The 1982 film version of “The World According to Garp” is wonderful. A great adaptation of the novel. There are so many good performances.: John Lithgow, Glenn Close (both nominated), Robin Williams, Swoozie Kurtz, Amanda Plummer, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn (who has one of my favorite lines in the film - “You raped a dying man!”).

I bet this is the race that Glenn Close got the closest to winning out of all her nominations actually.

R168: He can be forgiven with a little persuasion.

Thursday, July 18, 2024:

If "T.S. Garp" didn't do it, tonight's FJ did. Jumping the proverbial shark. Well, it is Shark Week, so....

I believe this "answer" is the nadir of FJ "answers" AND CATEGORY, ever.

Show Biz Marriages

Married since 1977, the year of this band’s 1st album, 2 members referenced another album with their 2023 “Remain In Love” tour

R177, I deliberately did not spoil anything.

But whatever.

R178, No answer, no spoilage.

"Casbah!" I screamed at my TV set.

Though I wasn't around when the film ALGIERS famously paired Hedy Lamarr with Charles Boyer, there were Saturday morning cartoons that always parodied them with Boyer's Pepe Le Moko murmuring "Come wiz me to the Casbah" to Hedy.

Easy as fuck questions. Except final. I guessed Blondie. The dude in the middle would have had a runaway victory if he stayed off his buzzer. He had a high total for someone who got so many wrong.

Micah billed himself as a Mental Health Crisis Therapist, but to me he appeared more like one of his patients.

Tonight's game stunk.

Looks like we can pull the plug on the “Is Jay gay?” talk.

His two sons in the audience were hot.

Doesn't mean he isn't gay. We can have children now, you know.

I thought Micah was having a heart attack. Or maybe a panic attack. He was a good player but I’m amazed he made it all the way to Final.

Had no idea about Final. Talk about obscure!

When I heard the FJ Final category was Show Biz Marriages I figured, oh, this is going to be easy, thinking on the lines of Lucy & Desi and Tony & Janet and Liz & whoever. Had I been playing I would have bet all my money, confident that I'd know the answer.

But rock musician marriages?? Ick. WTF cares?

EXACTLY, R187!

This type of category and question, for lack of a better term, cheapens "Jeopardy!". I mean, I know there must be contemporary subjects as well as Ancient History, but this FJ was really not designed for intellectuals.

I'd like to have seen James and Crew try it.

R188, Some lowly intern probably worked all weekend on that Final Jeopardy.

Then there's the easy as pie history questions, like today's.

Can we have some consistency, Jeopardy writers?!

FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! FANNY....nobody knew!!!!

Okay ... final was a giveaway.

They didn't get the dormouse (French to sleep) pictured in a teapot! Henry VIII and Pope were huge pals: Enter Ann's Boleyn. I'm no film maven and I knew Bergmann. Forty ... quarantine ... one of them should have guessed right.

Jay CANNOT be gay if he didn’t know Fanny Brice.

And couldn't identify DL Fave Norma Shearer!!! And hubby Irving Thalberg.

That was a remarkable comeback by Neilesh after a very shaky start.

I wonder if any of the contestants would have been able to respond correctly if asked: "Who did Barbra Streisand portray in Funny Girl? Or if they simply didn't recognize Fanny Brice?

Neilesh doesn't look very happy. I hope he finds happiness.

I'm glad raj won I like a good comeback. He seems so down though. Like his mom beat him one too many times at the family customer service business.

Seems he might be on the spectrum.

Nelish definitely seemed to be on the spectrum. And determined to win.

He was down in the red in the first half then made an impressive comeback in the second

Once he figured out how to buzz in, he kept beating the other two, even though he kept answering wrong in the first half.

Yeah Nelish played pretty miserably during the first half of the game and I never would have guessed he'd come around and win it.

But he does come across as rather grim and joyless; he's the anti-Jay.

I thought he was suffering from stage fright.

R196 "Baby Snooks" was a pretty big clue, and after none of them being able to identify Norma Shearer/Irving Thalberg on top of that debacle, all their Hollywood cards are hereby revoked.

I thought Baby Snooks was Mary Tyler Moore.

I'd never heard of Norma Shearer and her husband.

What are you doing here, R205?

I had trouble pulling their names together in time, but you've never heard of the Irving Thalberg Award or the movie The Women?

I've never seen The Women, would never associate those names with the film. I suppose I've heard of Thalberg vaguely, but not really knowing anything about him. Their are gay guys who aren't film buffs!

“Their are gay guys who aren't film buffs!“

Oh, dear.

The charcuterie gay and the chubby lady were no competition for our Neilish.

I thought FJ was easy. Also, recognized the dogwood without even thinking of its 3 Os.

Neilesh seemed more relaxed for his second appearance.

WTF Tim. He’s worse than Thelma Harper. Deer caught in headlights but keeps pressing the damned buzzer.

We’ve seen some truly bad players the last month or so, but Tim has to be top 10 (possibly worst) all time. How in the hell did he pass the test?????

Got one clue right. One! Because he recognized Ava Duvernay.

How did Tim even get into a PhD program?

How does Tim not just walk out into traffic every day?

I was embarrassed for him. 😖

Yikes ! Tim was a deer in the headlights! I felt bad for him.

Meanwhile Lindsey was very impressive . I image she’ll be back for Second Chnances, if they do that again.

I had no idea on Final.

Tim was beyond bad. I would be embarrassed to get back home and face my family and friends after such a poor showing.

I thought for sure Lindsey, who played really well, would win.

FJ was easy because I immediately thought of both "Women in Love" and "Sons and Lovers" - thought I blanked out on Lady Chatterley.

FJ was cinchy. Couldn’t believe I out-thought the brainiacs! I wonder if Tim had been permitted to dance between rounds if he would’ve loosened up somewhat. Poor sap. At least he was the most dapper contestant.

[QUOTE] FJ was easy because I immediately thought of both "Women in Love" and "Sons and Lovers" - thought I blanked out on Lady Chatterley.

That was Monday’s FJ, not last night’s.

R221 - Oh you're right; I watched both episodes back-to-back last night and got the FJs mixed up.

I've never even heard of Tonto National Forest. It looks cool but it seems they're having fires there right now.

The new champ looks like Sarah Gilbert and Johnny Depp had an ass baby.

I really thought that Davey wrote What is TONTO??? as a throwaway joke because he couldn't come up with the right response.

I had zero clue.

Congrats to Davey.

I also thought his “What is Tonto???” was a throwaway joke. Amazed it was right.

Never heard of Tonto National Forest. Where is it?

Amazed Davey is old enough to know the name Tonto.

Gee, Davey, he knew about Tonto National Forest and he’s not even 60 years old or from Arizona.

Neilesh seemed mightily pissed at losing.

But then, Neilish always seemed mightily pissed at winning too.

I knew Relish wasn't going to get that one. But yeah he did seem angry.

Neilish went home and punched a cow.

GASP

Wavey Davey is “adorbs”. The perfect summer “bop”.

Well apparently some former contestant has been arrested for child porn. 😖

He won two games about 10 years ago.

Yikes! Was Phil one of the worst players ever?

Couldn't believe no one could complete the lyric "How deep is the....ocean?"

I did not get Final. But, got these they didn't as obvious to me: Canada (the clue said Western Hemisphere!), parchment paper (I don't even bake myself!), James River (site of ... Jamestown!), finally, the clue was looking for the name of a Philadelphia River related to a state, yet they all missed Delaware River?

Poor Phil didn't get the Dickens references AT ALL.

Well, it is the last of the season, so they must be scraping the bottom of the barrel for these contestants.

FJ was easy. (Harriet Beecher Stowe??)

IIRC Harriet Beecher Stowe never sank.

Only one more game before the summer break.

So many missed questions that seemed rather easy as Mister Cocoa pointed out above. I got all those he mentioned as well as all the Dickens ones (and I’m not especially a Dickens fan).

Yes. Phil completely missed the point of the Dickens category.

However I missed Final, guessing Calamity Jane.

Just getting caught up. I can't believe no one knew Keith Haring on Thursday! Makes me sad. Also, I hope Jeopardy! had a mental health care professional standing by for Neilish. Yikes.

They didn’t know The Carol Burnett Show. 🙄

I forgot what one of the Double Jeopardy questions was but it was so easy. I said the answer and laughed because I thought I would be so wrong cause it was too easy. So many of today's questions were so easy.

It wasn't on the Boston channel today or their backup channel.

Pre-empted here for Olympics, but managed to catch it on YouTube. Sorry the Big Guy didn't make it. Will have to recall in Sept. it was the gal who won.

He really should have gotten hubris. Knew chum and otoscope also. What do we think is on tap for next week?

Reruns

I believe they're re-running The Tournament of Champions next week.

Who is the current champ before reruns begin? Davey Wavey?

No, Davey lost. The woman won.

Congrats to Rachel for closing out the season as champ. See you in September.

I liked Davey. Sorry to see him go. I doubt if the $31,000 total he made during his three games will qualify him for the ToC.

I miss nervous Neilish.

For some reason I'm beginning to miss AI.

I hate the word-puzzle clues.

Is Jeopardy EVER COMING BACK!

See You in September.

New episodes should begin airing on Sept. 9 or Sept. 16.

I will be glad when I don't have to look at "Amy's" mug any more.

Season starts tomorrow, Sept. 9th

Really? Fantastic!!

Jeopardy has finally returned with a new season and Lt. Commander Adam is just the hunky winner we need. Go Navy!

Go Navy indeed!

I thought he was gay until he mentioned (indirectly) being a dad.

The old champ was SO off her game. Hardly recognizable. Adam said he had lots of dad jokes. Don't we all?

Adam is a hot dad. Married with children.

Adam reminds of all the hot, Navy DILFs of my youth in San Diego. Go, Navy! Go, Adam!

What wax FJ answer?? ABC broke in with breaking news that James Earl Jones died at the exact moment they were going to reveal answers.

My guess was Madeline Albright.

Anyone else think the questions were oddly worded last night. They didn’t have the Jeopardy feel to them.

You are correct, R269. Very easy FJ.

I missed Monday's return episode due to a power outage in my neighborhood. By the time power was finally restored 12-hours later, Monday's episode has been removed from YouTube. Arggg!!

Then on Tuesday, the post-debate discussion ran long, so when they finally started airing Tuesday's Jeopardy, it was joined in progress on my station in California.

So, I didn't get to see Adam in his glory on Monday, but did see him on Tuesday where he missed all three Daily Doubles, all of which I thought were quite easy. Very cute, but I was turned off once the wife was mentioned.

But Will, the new champ, was handsome and smart. I liked him a lot. Look forward to seeing him tonight.

Johnny - shut up and go away. No one cares.

Ben was HOT AF!

Now you know ...

Adam, Will and Ben - 3 out of 3 good looking contestants so far this week.

What’s with Will holding his buzzer so strangely?

New champ iz hawt! Thought Lafayette too obvious, so was going with Kościuszko.

New champ is a homosexual. Imagine that!

He really does look like Freddie Mercury. 😛

Charcuterie is a thousand dollar answer?

Too easy.

Apparently not, R278. That's A LOT of gay voice for a straight guy.

Same with the last champ. He has a wife??

So yesterdays game was pretty good.

These 3 dudes aren’t lighting up the night. Sort of dumb. All three of them, especially in the beginning.

Hello, hello, is this thing on??

Is there another thread?

This is still the official DL Jeopardy! thread for discussing each day's game.

However, no one seems to feel compelled to post much of anything.

So far, I'm fairly unimpressed with the games and the contestants. Others apparently feel the same way given the dearth of posts since the new season began.

Ingredients to the silence: 1) the summer hiatus, 2) really mediocre contestants since the new season opened, 3) the election for many is all absorbing

I know you guys are losing your collective minds over Father Steve

Father Steve, I have a confession. I’ve been having impure thoughts- about you!

Johnny Gilbert drives everyone away. He’s annoying as fuck!

The pretty ones rarely win.

R287: headed to this thread as soon as I saw him. ☺️

Has SayUncle contacted Father Steve yet to star in the studio's "Yes Father" series?

No one posts here for days.

Then Fr. Steve shows up - and just like that, posters' peckers perk up again across the land.

R290 - ain't it the truth!

Ken was certainly flirting with him. Gave Father Steve far more attention than the other two contestants.

Today's Jeopardy had the easiest questions.

That has got to be the most plain, non-descript person ever.

But I’m glad she won 😀

The middle dude was good but, alas, he fell apart at the end.

Is "lantern jaw" applicable for the current champion?

[quote] Ken was certainly flirting with him

Tell me, what color is the sky in your world?

I really really can't stand the woman who won. I like her describing for school is diverse there's a code word for teaching in the ghetto I guess she thinks she's cut right out of the mold of Michelle Pfeiffer in dangerous minds.

Also I'm pretty sure the only reason her students were in shock at her telling them that she doesn't eat meat is that it wasn't the first thing out of her mouth.

[quote]That has got to be the most plain, non-descript person ever.

When I saw her in that outfit on Friday, I thought the only thing missing from it was an accompanying Amish bonnet.

Quentin Tarantino's sister.

New champion, Mr. Erb, the puzzle designer from Seattle, has a really strong-featured face (handsome by most definitions), seemed smart and strategic... and an energy that he might have some disturbing secrets you really don't want to know about.

The strong science background - I predict he's champion for at least a week.

Does current champ David remind anyone of Clint Eastwood?

I don’t know about Eastwood, but his handwriting is barely legible chicken scratches. No, I agree with the Vulcans. Barely legible handwriting is a form of insanity. Good on the Canadian to know who Dianne Frankenstein was.

Fascinating that he's married to the author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY.

Drew!

Is Drew a queer?

Drew, we hardly knew ye.....

Drew is a DC gay. I recognize a lot of his friends in the link at R306.

You could see his hard nipples through his shirt last night. Sexy guy.

This new champ really has staying power but last night revealed that there are vulnerabilities.

Poor Drew. I was sorry to see him go because he seemed really nice and he certainly was an attractive guy.

Like R303, I think David reminds me a little of a younger Clint Eastwood. But there's something about his smile and the fact that his eyebrows are a little darker than his hair that makes him comes across as - I don't know - sinister is way too strong a word. But he seems like somebody you wouldn't was to mess with.

"wouldn't want to mess with" was what I meant above.

Drew should certainly be Second Chances material.

Such an easy peasy final and they all friggin’ missed it? Unbelievable! Didn’t they watch the Ann Jillian made for TV biopic?

Drew certainly seems to pursue a clothing optional way of life.

It just came on 10 minutes late due to a CBS Special Report on Hurricane Helene.

I’m just catching up on the weeks worth of shows.

The Eastwood-looking dude was great but he sort of petered out.

The mousy girl was a surprise. So was the Friday winner.

Good games all week. Mostly competitive.

Good stuff.

Drew looks like Hermey from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Super easy Final.

Was Mike doing a shout out to his boyfriend/husband with his “❤️ Dave ❤️” in his Final answer?

So, is this the current nightly Jeopardy thread?

I've missed the show, couldn't bear to watch the reruns.

Goodness! Just started watching the show again and according to this thread I missed quite a few hotties.

Ugg, I was hoping Scott would knock out Ryan. Maybe tomorrow.

Had no idea on Final. but in hindsight. the answer was so obvious.

Ryan is a boring champ. I was also hoping to see him go.

Ryan is boring and a bit smug. Not a great combination. I too was rooting for Scott to defeat him.

Adam, the DLF in the center, just seemed to lose steam midway. Too bad.

I was wild for DILFy Adam and thought he was gonna kill Ryan but that missed DD was the end of him. I kept screaming at my screen: JACOB'S LADDER!!!! It seemed easy to me.

Disappointing Adam lost his mojo after that DD. Was hoping he’d knock off Ryan.

Super easy Final.

I was rooting for cute Mark and thrilled that he won. He seemed very dear and nervous. I'd love to comfort him. Nevertheless, couldn't believe that he didn't know Hillary Clinton was the obvious response to his first DD. I thought for sure after that he was going to lose.

Ryan seemed very low energy tonight. Well, actually he seemed very low energy every night. At least we won't have to see him return for ToC.

I liked the sweet lady from Williamstown, would have even been happy if she beat Ryan.

HILARY CLINTON!!!

Great game!! Best game of the season so far. Games like this are why I love Jeopardy.

Go Mark!!! I instantly liked him. Impressive comeback after missing a very obvious DD about Hilary Clinton. Guess early jitters were to blame. I chuckled when he knew all the British monarchs except the easiest one - Victoria.

I also liked Anne and would have been happy to see her win. Anybody who knocked out Ryan would have been fine with me!

How weird. Out of the blue, the 70s band Uriah Heep which was named for the Dickens character, popped in my head this afternoon. And here it was an answer in Jeopardy tonite.

Final seemed rather obvious but oddly Mark was the only one who got Robinson Crusoe.

I thought it might be Captain Ahab. My hubby guessed Friday, so he was closer.

And yes, also thought Queen Victoria was the easiest monarch to put into American history. Fun category, I got most of them.

I couldn't think of Final Jeopardy today, for some reason, although now it seems obvious. Cute queen on today's show.

All I could think of was Crisco. I wonder if I'd have had the nerve to respond with it.

Yay Mark! I don't think he's really the strongest player, but I do hope he sticks around for a while. Handsome dude. There's something about his manner that's very appealing.

Was that "cute queen" once a lady? My husband and I couldn't decide.

Weird game. So many unanswered questions.

But Mark proved to be quite competent and got a good lead early on. Young queen Daniel/Elton was cute but apparently nervous and/or not fast enough on the buzzer.

I was stumped on Final. And it's bizarre that I was stumped because I recently watched The History Channel's "Foods That Built America" episode devoted to Coca Cola and Pepsi, so Coke should have been in the forefront of my mind.

I couldn't think of Coca Cola either and guessed Castle & Cooke, since I knew they started in the 19th century, but figured it was wrong.

got it in the nick of time when I concentrated on the swirl.

I thought FJ was one of the easiest in months. Chanel? In 1886?? Kids these days.

Mark is the kind of shy guy you went to college with, purportedly straight, who you just knew you get into your bed with enough beers.

It never happened.

I take issue. A "Seinfeld character" is not the actor who played him. That response was wrong. This is a no spoilers post!

Good game. I liked Gino. Would have been fine if he had won, but Mark's luck continues.

I didn't have the slightest idea on Final.

I knew Final immediately, because of all the coverage about you know who staying or leaving.

Go Mark! Hope he gets his fifth win tomorrow.

I instantly knew Final, but apparently no one else knew The Pathfinder.

Very few folks read Fenimore Cooper these days and probably haven't ever. I don't read him now, but recalled an American lit course I had in college and got it right.

I thought Final was The Deerslayer.

But something about how the clue was phrased made me think it was a Native American word, so I wasn't sure. And then was surprised by The Pathfinder.

Go Mark! Why do we never get much about his "romantic" life in his interviews?

Another great game. I love it when there's some serious competition.

Yeah, Mark! You got that ticket to the Tournament. And doing that DD for everything was sure gutsy.

Final took me a moment to figure out that it was GoodFellows.

Would "Goodfellows" have been allowed as a correct response?

Absolutely not, R345.

There is something just so dreamy about champ Mark. I can't quite put my finger on it.

Mark wants to open an Irish Pub in Mexico City. Sorry homos but this seems like something a straight buy would do.

*guy

Glad to see Mark is now the first official ToC player. I wonder how much longer his winning streak will continue.

We already know the guy is straight because he mentioned his wife a couple of episodes ago.

That doesn't change the fact that I think he's a really good looking guy. And I like the fact that he has a low key personality, which adds to his attractiveness.

BTW I'm surprised no one here mentioned Colleen from the other day when she was described as "a girl between gigs."

Hello Eamonn!

The asshole Johnny Gilbert can die now. Please & Thank you!

When did Mark ever mention a wife? I don't remember that.

Clearly, Mark was ready to get back to Mexico City tonight, with or without his wife.

Bye bye Mark. You were clearly ready to go tonight. But you earned your ToC ticket, so look forward to seeing you again.

Eamonn was a good player. Wonder how far he will go.

I really had no idea on Final.

Ugh, playwrights was not a good category, for any body.

The foreign film titles sucked as well.

Edward Bear?? Winnie the Pooh?? I had no idea.

That librarian was embarrassing .

The FJ of Beethoven was pretty easy.

That Coca Cola FJ was difficult.

Good games these past two weeks. Somewhat competitive.

Too bad the guy lost, he did qualify for the tournament, though.

Everyone loves Eammon now, man.

Eammon is husband material.

Stanford, Columbia Law, U.S. Senate Judiciary Clerk, Attorney at O'Melveny & Myers NYC

BUT jJACK11

Is Eamonn on the spectrum?

Had no idea of final, but knew these answers they didn't: Spinning Jenny, wild rice, oasis, Amman, and Japan.

Will Eamonn ever relax?

Apparently, they rebuilt the stage so Ken could go chat with the contestants in front of their podiums. Ken started doing with Monday’s show

Previously, there was a step in front of the podium. Wonder why they made that change 5 weeks into the season.

I could picture the character being referenced in Final, but couldn’t think of the character’s name or the chain.

Is that a new thing, r362? Or something that was stopped during Covid?

What a cavalcade of autistic awkward contestants today. All gay or trans?

Is Eamonn gay? I can't tell from that hiking group photo upthread.