MarkBarrett wrote:
In the past some players have been categorized as Subarus. What would be the automobile type for tonight?
Yugos?
Edsel?
I saw a guy driving an Edsel (still running, yes) at my post office a couple of months ago. He swears it's a good car, but the reason it didn't catch on was because the transmission was difficult to master and that it was a somewhat high priced car that came out right as a recession started.
doihavetoreally wrote:Preemption for me. Any pointers for the game ?
If you are in the contestant pool and had to watch this game - I am sorry, I can only imagine how that must have felt. The way the contestants were going, "twenty right, every night" would have gotten you a lock game.
I'm sure picking which contestants to have on the show isn't the easiest thing to do but the number of awfully unprepared contestants lately is growing.
Johnblue wrote:I'm sure picking which contestants to have on the show isn't the easiest thing to do but the number of awfully unprepared contestants lately is growing.
The place where I noticed that most last night was on the J! round DD. It's one thing not to come up with William Wallace, but if given "13th Century Scot" you don't at least try Robert the Bruce, you probably don't watch the show much.
I listened to Alex Jacob's appearance on the Yahoo! Sports Blog, where he talked about his planning and the learning of Pavlovs (though he didn't call that). I think that was the most obvious issue with these contestants; it feels like they went on the show relying on their natural ability, and didn't do any specific Jeopardy! training. Jarrett in particular had some really poorly thought out guesses.
Johnblue wrote:I'm sure picking which contestants to have on the show isn't the easiest thing to do but the number of awfully unprepared contestants lately is growing.
The place where I noticed that most last night was on the J! round DD. It's one thing not to come up with William Wallace, but if given "13th Century Scot" you don't at least try Robert the Bruce, you probably don't watch the show much.
What about one of the contestants guessing "noble gases" for a term that means "salt-producing"?
BTW, I came close to negging with Robert the Bruce on that DD. I was thinking "What was the name of the Braveheart guy?" Fortunately, Wallace came to me before the DD time expired.
hbomb1947 wrote:BTW, I came close to negging with Robert the Bruce on that DD. I was thinking "What was the name of the Braveheart guy?" Fortunately, Wallace came to me before the DD time expired.
If you take out the "came close" part (and everything after 'fortunately'), that was me. I don't recall ever hearing of that Wallace guy before.
Brian
...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.
If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
I was in Moscow at a time when, if you wanted to hail a cab, just anyone driving by would give you a ride for a few rubles. One of those times, someone driving a Trabant picked me up. It was pretty much exactly what you would expect.
MarkBarrett wrote:On another note I thought CBS (not that it matters for my market) was done with Thursday Night Football.
They have Week 17, too (01/03).
Last year, CBS had 7 Thursday night games in Weeks 2-8, plus a late-season Saturday game. This year, instead of giving CBS the Saturday game, they added the Week 13 Thursday nighter as the 8th game of their package. I've seen speculation about the reasons, but nothing concrete. The Wiz might have something to do with it, though I don't know if that was planned when the NFL schedule came out in April. Possible they just wanted to keep the NFL off CBS Thursdays during November Sweeps, to allow the Big Bang et al to post large numbers in the key advertising month, so the break from Weeks 9-11, plus Week 12 was Thanksgiving Night which belongs to NBC as part of the Sunday Night Football package.
Econgator is off the mark with Week 17. 1/3 is a Sunday, as all 16 NFL games are played on that day, no Thursday/Monday games in Week 17, so that any teams playing each other in the playoffs are on the same number of days of rest.
It really didn't matter if you watched Jeopardy or football last night: Richard Rodgers was very much involved in the conclusion of the game.
I almost put this in the "Aaron Rodgers watches Jeopardy" thread, but realized that it would still be a spoiler for some.
I used to be AWSOP but wanted to be more theatrical.
triviawayne wrote:Something I found interesting was the Chevy Chase category. He filmed those clues on the set of Community, he hasn't been on that show in three years.
I noticed this as well. It's extra ironic given the less-than-amicable circumstances under which he left the show.
Chevy Chase's clue reading was about as bad as the game play.
FJ was a guess for me and got lucky. I did not know that was a R&H musical, but do-re-mi sounds like something you'd teach someone just learning music.