Jeopardy thread- LETITSNOW

**mcski** · 01-27-2022, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by AK47bp

It was in the front page of CNN yesterday before the show aired on the west coast.

Pretty annoying. I was watching thinking “how will she blow this lead?”

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Ya I was scrolling and saw a picture on my feed of glasses guy just as Jeopardy came on and didn’t even need a headline after that. I was glad she played well and lost only because of her achilles heal final history

**SumJongGuy** · 01-27-2022, 01:58 PM

Odd though I got the impression she totally killed it on most of the other geography questions..

**old goat** · 01-27-2022, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

It was? I look at the NYT website pretty religiously and didn't see it. I was pretty amazed I didn't get spoiled before the show.

Could've been WaPo. I'd better go back and check--maybe I need to resubscribe to the NYT and cancel WaPo. That would be good, because of the xword.

**Tele 'til You're Smelly** · 01-28-2022, 10:24 AM

Amy-killer bald glasses guy didn't know the Bette Midler question? Disappointing. You want to see a giant killer win at least one more after.

**old goat** · 01-28-2022, 11:19 AM

That game was a huge let down. Bring back Amy.

**The AD** · 01-28-2022, 11:25 AM

That Final Jeopardy clue was ridiculous (Gilbert Stuart). I doubt all three of the GOATs would have gotten that one right.

**mcski** · 01-28-2022, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by SumJongGuy

Odd though I got the impression she totally killed it on most of the other geography questions..

I think she killed everything but still got a disproportionate amount of finals wrong. It was a little weird

ya Gilbert Stuart? Without even a hint on painting makes that a real trivia stretch. I really think the new regime has increased the trivia difficulty. There have been quite a few esoteric questions that would have been unlikely to be used previously

**old goat** · 01-28-2022, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by The AD

That Final Jeopardy clue was ridiculous (Gilbert Stuart). I doubt all three of the GOATs would have gotten that one right.

Who knew Gilbert Stuart was Irish?

**The AD** · 01-28-2022, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

Who knew Gilbert Stuart was Irish?

Apparently he wasn't. He was American, but had gone to England and then Ireland to flee debtor's prison. That made it even more cryptic. WTF?

**Tele 'til You're Smelly** · 01-28-2022, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by mcski

I think she killed everything but still got a disproportionate amount of finals wrong. It was a little weird

true in the second half of her run, but she got almost all of them right in her first half (I think Ken jinxed her- he remarked on it right before her final jeopardys started to fall apart). She and other long-running champs have talked about the pressure of playing a long time- I think it messes with you after a while.

**old goat** · 01-28-2022, 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

Apparently he wasn't. He was American, but had gone to England and then Ireland to flee debtor's prison. That made it even more cryptic. WTF?

Ken threw that one in there to derail Amy, knowing that the only way she was going to be beaten was in FJ, and not knowing she would have already lost in taping earlier that day. It's pretty clear Ken doesn't want his record broken.

**mcski** · 01-31-2022, 09:08 PM

I don’t think Ken was worried his record was actually in danger yet. The grind of tapings must be pretty exhausting and eventually is gonna balance the buzzer experience advantage.

No back to Blossom after weeks of Ken is really bugging me now

This current guy w the HAIR went to the same school as me. Will have to see if we have any friends of hair cutters in common

The girl challenger has all the energy of Aubrey Plaza’s character on Parks n Rec

**The AD** · 01-31-2022, 11:19 PM

Originally Posted by mcski

The girl challenger has all the energy of Aubrey Plaza’s character on Parks n Rec

God, you're right. That's exactly who she was reminiscent of!

**Tele 'til You're Smelly** · 02-01-2022, 05:15 PM

The final yesterday (which no one got) was one of the hardest I can remember: "Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: “Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one.” Correct response: Gertrude Stein. So you had to have read her enough to recognize the writing style- yikes.

**old goat** · 02-01-2022, 05:23 PM

I got that one easily. But then Gertrude was the one who convinced me I had no future as a writer. She was a lot funnier than people think.
And if the only line of Gertrude Stein you know (like 99.999% of the English speaking world) is "A rose is a rose is a rose" that should have been enough.

**The AD** · 02-01-2022, 05:34 PM

I thought Friday's (Gilbert Stuart) was much harder.

**old goat** · 02-01-2022, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

I thought Friday's (Gilbert Stuart) was much harder.

I never met the man but he did a nice painting of my grandfather. I never knew the Irish connection.

**mcski** · 02-02-2022, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Tele 'til You're Smelly

The final yesterday (which no one got) was one of the hardest I can remember: "Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: “Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one.” Correct response: Gertrude Stein. So you had to have read her enough to recognize the writing style- yikes.

I thought it was actually kind of easy considering the timeframe they posted. Even not remembering anything about her writing from my Lit studies the timeframe really only fit her as the only writer that could match up w the quote

**The AD** · 02-02-2022, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by mcski

I thought it was actually kind of easy considering the timeframe they posted. Even not remembering anything about her writing from my Lit studies the timeframe really only fit her as the only writer that could match up w the quote

I said Dorothy Parker, although she would have only been around 19 at the time, so probably too young.

**old goat** · 03-22-2022, 08:35 PM

What's with all the attorneys?

**riser4** · 03-22-2022, 08:37 PM

Funny this thread got bumped. I wanted to find it. How long has Mayim Bialik been hawking snake oil on TV???

**The AD** · 04-20-2022, 09:10 PM

Anyone watch tonight? Win number 12 for Mattea and she was the only person who even got to play Final Jeopardy!

The next Tournament of Champions should be exciting.

**mcski** · 04-20-2022, 09:19 PM

Ya! I saw the neg scores as the questions were running out and was kind of rooting for a solo matea final. those two knuckleheads didn’t even try to answer the final question and just took the L. lol

**weibo** · 04-20-2022, 10:11 PM

Mattea is entertaining, especially the way she answers some of the obvious questions. I keep getting distracted by her tiny hands, I noticed now I can't un-notice.

**The AD** · 04-20-2022, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by weibo

Mattea is entertaining, especially the way she answers some of the obvious questions. I keep getting distracted by her tiny hands, I noticed now I can't un-notice.

I've noticed her hands, too.

She's 23 apparently. Kid's got some serious knowledge. I think what's going to hurt her in the tournament is her relative timidity. She never goes all-in.