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TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:29 pm

Identify Colorado on a map, for $1,600, in a TOC? That may be too easy.

They clearly edited the audio after that clue reveal...

...to get rid of the dozen groans and eyerolls from one particular portion of the audience

RobW wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:20 pm

alietr wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 31, 2019 10:01 am

I've caught up on all of these.

well, almost. :) Mine is downright nonsensical at this point.
Maybe change it to:
Chump, chum for JH, or champ? TBD in Nov

(just the underlined bit if space is tight...)

<sigh>
let's go with "Boy, this was fun! :)"

Does anyone else wish they'd used another word besides "ostentatious" in WORDS THAT USE ALL 5 VOWELS? It seems a shame to start the category with a six-vowel word when all the other responses had exactly five. Yes, and I was also surprised that they avoided FACETIOUS and/or ABSTEMIOUS. (perhaps dee...

Dhruv's FJ! response made it difficult for Alex to speak as it was obvious the emotion was hitting him. There was also an audible "Aww" from the audience. Like the pro he is, Alex kept it together to conduct the rest of the round. For some chronological context, this was happening the day after Ale...

We in the peanut gallery that day were quick to agree on the brutality of the bugle category.
(except for Alan and Kyle...)

The producers will almost certainly do whatever maximizes the odds of James/Emma in the finals. I would expect that, subject to a couple of seemingly hard rules (no QF rematches in the SFs, and attempt at gender distribution), Emma will get one of the softer draws they could give her, James will be...

Pretty disappointing episode as there were a bunch of not so difficult misses including the three Daily Doubles. I agree with that first bit of your sentence, the last bit let's just agree to disagree. :lol: Metric System was a pretty bad neg... Ain't that the truth! As this point the panic was set...

Did anyone else take exception to Rob's placement of an S at the end of Cracker Jack Handey? I let it go because I thought there could have been a possessive in the latter part of the clue (like "writer whose 'Deep Thoughts' were...") and didn't want to go back and check, but with the game archived...

Johnblue wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:22 pm

Manx is Isle of Man. Mancs has never been an abbreviation for Mancunians that I’ve ever seen. J is getting sloppy.

well it was casual (impolite, even) usage but I had definitely heard the term "manc" referencing a Mancunian.
(Ricky Gervais's XFM radio show and subsequent podcast)

Was it just me or was there a big edit before Rob called Dark Ages for $1600? I agree there was a blatant edit there, but I don't recall anything unusual happening that forced them to stop the tape. My only "criticism" is that with 3 TSes before the DD, it didn't seem like you were comfortable enou...

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:23 pm

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2003: 0 & 0 wildcards - 0 alternate (Scores after DJ! mattered)
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And that was the only reason I didn't go with a joke/poignant answer in today's FJ.

("so you're sayin there's a chance..." )

Rob: To confirm, your miss on DD2 was Mrs. Ferkins, Mrs. Perkins, other? Thanks. The game is complete in the Archive: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6460 Let's go with Ferkins. Rather than jumping right to Great Expectations (if they'd mentioned "Pip" I would've gotten this...) I wen...

Daily Doubles Dhruv: 5800-3000 Rob: 5400 -5400 Rob: 0 -2000 Just call me "the anti-Roger-Craig" :roll: Can anyone confirm whether I'm the first to sequentially and spectacularly crater on DD2+DD3? (It's not the distinction I was hoping for) Coryats Rob: 7800 Dhruv: 16600 Rachel 10000 On the whole, ...

If Alex can't handle five shows in a taping day that will complicate things for the tournament quarterfinals since players are supposed to be sequestered until their QF is taped. (The upcoming ToC was presumably taped before the taping schedule changed, but this would apply for the other tourneys l...

Here are my predictions:


Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday:

My one flub on the night was mixing up Canada's two "colorful" territorial capitals, Whitehorse (Yukon) and Yellowknife (Northwest Territories). Any ideas on a mnemonic device for those two? Y does not go with Y has worked for me over the years including today. That's always been my goto, as well.....

It was surprising to see the return of "athlete's foot" as a response to "tinea pedis." This was pretty much the same clue that Gilbert Collins had when going for his 5th win, as a Daily Double with a $2,000 bet. He got negged when he answered "ringworm." I was one of the opponents, and when we bro...

RTFQ!! Saw "Titicaca" first, and my morning brain could only see Latin South America. THEN I go on to read "Roman engineer emperor " in the next clue, which sent me so far off track that the useful "famous drawing" hint did me no good. (Some famous drawing of Augustus??) RTFQ!! (thankfully my rage i...

alietr wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 31, 2019 10:01 am

I've caught up on all of these.

well, almost. Mine is downright nonsensical at this point.
Maybe change it to:
Chump, chum for JH, or champ? TBD in Nov

(just the underlined bit if space is tight...)

A spreadsheet with stats for the 2019 ToC players: https://i.ibb.co/3csMvNj/ToC2019.jpg Lots of numbers mean many ways to have something wrong so please let me know if I need to correct anything. As is tradition I will sort the players into Gold, Silver or Bronze groups prior to the ToC taping. Nam...