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I remember seeing this post a few weeks back! I guess it's safe for me now to say best of retroactive luck with last week's taping!! And don't doubt yourself, on any given day any player can beat any champ! After all, you know your sports to be a contestant on the show!!sherder wrote:Time to out myself: I get to play Sports Jeopardy! in a few weeks. I needed some time to stop hyperventilating and put a study plan in place. Thanks to DoT for getting the ball rolling on questions. Mark, I will find Stump the Schwab on YouTube, although I have a feeling it will make me more anxious. I'm currently hoping that I won't see Vinny there. I love watching Vinny, but he would wipe the floor with me.
The good news is that I feel like my strengths are in what are hopefully less common areas: NASCAR, horse racing, Olympics and the like. However, I have huge gaps to fill in college football, the NBA, and recent events. I think being a parent of a child with a sleep disorder means I have a hard time remembering recent sports. I remember lots of stuff from the 80s and early 90s. I've been playing Sporcle quizzes for things I would like to commit to memory, and I've started a notebook of general timelines for different sports and names I should recognize or know just enough about to get the TOM.
I appreciate any help I would get. Also, if any of you would like to see the taping, it's the second week of February. My husband can't come, and I can bring 6 guests.
Thanks to DoT and heels for keeping my secret for a few days.
Here's a new Final J! clue:jlgarfield wrote:Here is a new FJ! clue:
THE 1990s
On November 19, 1995, the Baltimore Stallions and Calgary Stampeders squared off in the first Grey Cup game held in this Western Canadian city1987: THE YEAR THAT WASSpoiler
What is Regina, Saskatchewan?
250 - In September, this league declared its second strike of the 1980s; however, this strike only lasted several weeks, and used replacement players
500 - Future Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Jerome Brown, asked this at their Fiesta Bowl luncheon between these two colleges: "Did the Japanese go sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed them?"
750 - The year's World Series, won by the Minnesota Twins, had the distinction of being the first one where this was accomplished
1000 - His chip shot at that year's Masters made him the first Augusta native to win the tournamentSpoiler
Been a while, no one has given answers to the other ones, so they are:
250: What is the NFL?
500: Who are the University of Miami and Penn State?
750: What is the home team winning each game?
1000: Who is Larry Mize?
Was itjlgarfield wrote: Here's a new Final J! clue:
THE 500 HOME RUN CLUB
Of all the members of the 500 home run club, he's the only one who hit an HR in his last career at-bat
jlgarfield wrote: Here's a new Final J! clue:
THE 500 HOME RUN CLUB
Of all the members of the 500 home run club, he's the only one who hit an HR in his last career at-bat
Congrats and thanks for sharing the good news.Peachbox wrote:I just received an invite to be on Sports Jeopardy!. I've read this thread; thank you to all who've contributed to it. Any advice or last-minute questions/answers would also be most appreciated.
Congrats and good luck!!!!!!!Peachbox wrote:I just received an invite to be on Sports Jeopardy!. I've read this thread; thank you to all who've contributed to it. Any advice or last-minute questions/answers would also be most appreciated.
arekp01 wrote:Super late on this, but had a fun idea...
MLB First to First: "Name the #1 overall MLB Draft pick who would go on to win a World Series with the drafting team"
5: A rookie on the Braves' 1995 championship team, he would man the hot corner for the next 17 seasons in Atlanta.
10: AKA "The Bat", he hit 33 homers for the 2008 Phillies before hitting free agency that winter.
15: He's the most recent #1 pick (and only pitcher) to accomplish the feat: coming out of the bullpen for the 2015 Royals.
20: At Nebraska, he won a national championship as a punter for the football team. In Anaheim, he booted very few balls in center field for the 2002 Angels.
Except...
Spoiler
Didn't ChipperLarry Jones spend a few seasons in left field?
Pat Burrell
Luke Hochevar
Darin Erstad
Congrats on the first step. Not sure if your audition already took place, but the main thing to remember is just have fun out there. You probably know the material, so why stress over it? Enjoy the moment and hopefully it works out for you!Peachbox wrote:I just received an invite to be on Sports Jeopardy!. I've read this thread; thank you to all who've contributed to it. Any advice or last-minute questions/answers would also be most appreciated.
Oh wow, that's some deep level insight on the show lol. Resources like Sporcle are great for testing your ability to come up with answers quick. But to be honest, since there's been over 75 episodes of SJ that have aired, you have so much knowledge you can pick up by watching the shows. Binge watch to the max!Cat Hammarskjold wrote:It appears that the episodes since Vinny left have been rewarding breadth of knowledge more than the depth of niche areas like they had previously. Maybe this is just an outlying trend and they'll go back to asking deeper stuff about specific teams, but the advice I would've given a contestant in season 1 or season 2 through Vinny's run would be, "deepen the knowledge in the areas you know and hope they come up", while the advice I would give to you is "shore up the weaker areas in your sports knowledge through sports almanacs, sports-reference.com, or Wikipedia."
Pretty sure Bubba Watson is going as well, no? I could see them doing a question along the lines of "Of the four male golfers who represented the USA at the 2016 Summer Olympics, he was the only one to have previously won a major championship". Hoping that changes this weekend though!MarkBarrett wrote: Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed and Matt Kuchar will be the three golfers representing the U.S. in Rio for the Summer Olympics.
Yes, Bubba Watson is the 4th. And it's not like I don't know that since I commented in the regular game thread this week about the writers catching a break using a golfer who was still planning to go to Rio.arekp01 wrote:Pretty sure Bubba Watson is going as well, no? I could see them doing a question along the lines of "Of the four male golfers who represented the USA at the 2016 Summer Olympics, he was the only one to have previously won a major championship". Hoping that changes this weekend though!MarkBarrett wrote: Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed and Matt Kuchar will be the three golfers representing the U.S. in Rio for the Summer Olympics.
He already has the All-Star Game MVP award named after him.Bamaman wrote:The AL award should have been named for Ted Williams.
