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.

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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.