Official Jeopardy thread

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Fri Aug 20, 2021 8:37 pm

Comment at Defector that was too good not to share:

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tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Sat Aug 21, 2021 6:32 am

DSafetyGuy wrote: Fri Aug 20, 2021 8:37 pm Comment at Defector that was too good not to share:

Richards.jpg

That’s excellent

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:01 am

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/arts ... 21407e6b93

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:16 pm

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:54 pm

Need a cross post to the Men in Blazers thread

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Aug 31, 2021 1:03 pm

The crap part of Culver City!

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Tue Aug 31, 2021 7:05 pm

Just a series of steps showing why you can't take half-measures. I feel bad for the "minder" who had been assigned to him last week who just lost their job.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:11 pm

Epic battle tonight.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:56 pm

Pruitt wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:11 pm Epic battle tonight.

Shit yeah it was. I knew that FJ more from a Best Picture from the 60s than any other reason.

Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Mon Oct 11, 2021 8:37 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:56 pm
Pruitt wrote: Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:11 pm Epic battle tonight.
Shit yeah it was. I knew that FJ more from a Best Picture from the 60s than any other reason.

All about buzzer timing and Daily Doubles. That was a fun game.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:57 pm

Watching tonight’s game:

Her: That guy looks just like…

Me: John C. Reilly.

Her: No!

Me: The guy from Step Brothers?

Her: Yeah, that’s it!

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:24 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 6:57 pm Watching tonight’s game:

Her: That guy looks just like…

Me: John C. Reilly.

Her: No!

Me: The guy from Step Brothers?

Her: Yeah, that’s it!

And the kid from "Bad Santa"

And former Bills' center Eric Wood.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:56 am

The current champ is on a heck of a run. She's like the fourth player this season (around 2 months so far) who have put runs of 6 or more.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:53 pm

L-Jam3 wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:56 am The current champ is on a heck of a run. She's like the fourth player this season (around 2 months so far) who have put runs of 6 or more.

She's also a reader/commenter over at The Defector (can't remember her username).

There was a story about her in the Washington Post yesterday:

Amy Schneider has made ‘Jeopardy!’ history — and helped the show find calm after chaos

Schneider, an engineering manager who lives in Oakland, Calif., is also the first transgender contestant in “Jeopardy!” history to make the Tournament of Champions, where the top players from each season compete. During an episode last week, she wore a transgender flag pin and explained on Twitter that she specifically wore it around Thanksgiving because she wanted to show support for the “disproportionately high number of trans people” who are estranged or cut off from their families.

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Fri Dec 03, 2021 1:45 pm

She seems like a genuinely nice person. But she is an absolute killer in the Double and Final Jeopardy rounds

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:04 pm

Michael Davies (from Men in Blazers) about being the executive producer on Jeopardy.

A NOTE FROM JEOPARDY! EP MICHAEL DAVIES

Running “Jeopardy!” makes you think a lot about time. Partly because you have none: it is less a television program than a universe. And partly because one is constantly mentally switching between JPT (“Jeopardy!” Production Time), where we’re currently making shows which air in February ’22, and JAT (“Jeopardy!” Air Time), where we’re now just three days into our first-ever Professors Tournament, which has briefly interrupted the staggering run of 13 consecutive games won by our reigning champion, #4 all time, Amy Schneider (more on her below). There is also JFT (“Jeopardy!” Future Time), which we spend more time thinking about than anything else. Where do we take this magical franchise from here? How do we modernize and make “Jeopardy!” more accessible to all of our potential fans and viewers while preserving everything that is and has been so perfect about the show throughout its storied history?

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:21 pm

I forgot that he did Grand Slam - that was a really good concept

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:17 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:53 pm
L-Jam3 wrote: Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:56 am The current champ is on a heck of a run. She's like the fourth player this season (around 2 months so far) who have put runs of 6 or more.
She's also a reader/commenter over at The Defector (can't remember her username).

There was a story about her in the Washington Post yesterday:

Amy Schneider has made ‘Jeopardy!’ history — and helped the show find calm after chaos

Schneider, an engineering manager who lives in Oakland, Calif., is also the first transgender contestant in “Jeopardy!” history to make the Tournament of Champions, where the top players from each season compete. During an episode last week, she wore a transgender flag pin and explained on Twitter that she specifically wore it around Thanksgiving because she wanted to show support for the “disproportionately high number of trans people” who are estranged or cut off from their families.

She wrote an article for Defector today

https://defector.com/how-i-got-smart/

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 3:53 pm

Michael Davies for President

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:56 pm

A_B wrote: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:17 pm
She wrote an article for Defector today

https://defector.com/how-i-got-smart/

A legend.

This year's Tournament of Champions should be epic.

Maybe we should do some kind of pool?

rass · Post by **rass** » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:53 am

Yesterday's second-place finisher (1/20 - Patrick Lackey) was an old school Pirates blogger back in the day - WHYGAVS (Where have you gone Andy Van Slyke)

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Wed Jan 26, 2022 9:12 pm

[+] spoiler: Stunning end of the reign. That was a relatively simple question as well.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:30 pm

Mattea Roach is killing it currently. 17 wins and nearly $400k so far.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:55 pm

It’s probably happened before, but all three contestants yesterday (4/26) were part of the LGBT community. Mattea is openly gay, and her two opponents, the dude with the pink hair and the woman who had a passing resemblance to Ariana DeBose, were referred to with the “they” pronoun. It genuinely makes me pleased to see people living their truth.

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:22 am

L-Jam3 wrote: Wed Apr 27, 2022 8:55 pm It’s probably happened before, but all three contestants yesterday (4/26) were part of the LGBT community. Mattea is openly gay, and her two opponents, the dude with the pink hair and the woman who had a passing resemblance to Ariana DeBose, were referred to with the “they” pronoun. It genuinely makes me pleased to see people living their truth.

It really shows how far (intelligent) people have come in the last couple of decades.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:48 am

Oh jeez. The contestant in the center who was in the red and not in FJ! is from Milwaukee. That’s some bad luck, man.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu May 05, 2022 7:19 pm

Mattea!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu May 05, 2022 8:25 pm

govmentchedda wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 7:19 pmMattea!

World peace!

pruitt2 · Post by **pruitt2** » Thu May 05, 2022 8:43 pm

A_B wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 8:25 pm
govmentchedda wrote: Thu May 05, 2022 7:19 pmMattea!
World peace!

Awesome!

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Thu Jun 16, 2022 7:02 pm

“random website” wrote:A contestant on Monday night's episode of Jeopardy! had an answer that was so wrong it went viral on social media.

Mazin Omer selected the $400 question in the category "Knight After Knight" during the opening round. He was asked to identify which star was knighted in their birth name, Sir Maurice Mickelwhite.

This question should've been an easy one because Jeopardy! showed a picture of the star that Omer needed to identity. The right answer to this question was English actor Michael Caine.

In a stunning turn of events, Omer answered the question with: "Who is Mick Jagger?"

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 8:09 am

So the current champ. He's probably a perfectly fine gentleman, and he's localish to me so I'm following. But because of his deep set eyes and eyebrows, and his five-o'clock shadow, he has a total Resting Douche Face. Similar to Eric Hosmer.

Pruitt3 · Post by **Pruitt3** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 2:06 pm

He is an odd one, but could start an epic run.

I was just happy that the squeaky-voiced Episcopalian Priest lost. Fuck that guy.

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:53 pm

The current champ is just a machine. I don’t know what it will take.

I hate the way the game is played now. They should start sticking the Daily Doubles on the $200 line just to get some semblance of a normal game again.

I’ll hang up and listen.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:05 am

Yesterday's leader going into FJ, Emily, was an amazing watch. Lots of good faces and apparent troubles with her buzzer. Also, the current champ is pretty great.

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:36 am

govmentchedda wrote: Fri Dec 30, 2022 11:05 am Yesterday's leader going into FJ, Emily, was an amazing watch. Lots of good faces and apparent troubles with her buzzer. Also, the current champ is pretty great.

I really wanted her to win.

Nothing against Toronto's own Ray LaLonde.

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:50 pm

I'm going to say it - Ken Jennings is a better host than Alex was.

At least Alex of the last few years.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:59 pm

Whoa! He's miles better than Mayim, sure. He's surpassed the GOAT? And this opinion comes from a Canadian?

Pruitt IV · Post by **Pruitt IV** » Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:49 pm

govmentchedda wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:59 pm Whoa! He's miles better than Mayim, sure. He's surpassed the GOAT? And this opinion comes from a Canadian?

The last couple of years Alex was good, but it wasn't until Ken Jennings hit his stride that you realized how disengaged Trebek could be. Fully understandable, but yeah...

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:24 pm

Thanks to Jeopardy I now know the first recognized use of NSFW was on a Dave Matthews Band Usenet newsgroup.