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Hmm. This was an instaget for me. Pretty sure Sax was Belgian and not German or French. This may be a pretty obscure little fact but not of "Liederkranz" proportions. I had heard of the man and his instrument (probably because I've read a lot about music in Europe and in that era) so this was an in...

I joined Mark in a panicked race around the map Same story for me. Ain't gettin' this one unless I hit a lucky dart. There's obviously not enough time to run through 30+ States in 30 seconds, so for that, I think the clue stinks. There wasn't any T-O-M in it either, that I could see. I'm pretty ama...

At least I had a baseball novel for FJ, but my guess was Eight Men Out . Now THAT is not a bad miss. If I had thought of EMO I might have gone that way as well. But "say it ain't so" leads to baseball/black sox, and Roy (not Joe) leads to Hobbs, leads to The Natural. Yeah, too bad for Sam, not know...

Good to see three evenly matched contestants all do well enough to go into FJ over $10K. LT: pneumonic, crawdad, Henry Clay, Adirondacks. And instaget FJ. I was reminded in this game of the old joke (yeah, pretty much everything reminds me of an old joke): Why were all the other dinosaurs unable to ...

Was it just me or was this an unusually easy set of boards? I got 45-0 of the 60 clues (quite high for me) plus a Coryat over $40K, plus instaget FJ. LT: Underwood (deviled ham), Luther Burbank, lymph, Count of Monte Cristo, Maude (really? Maude, a TS? Has that much time passed?) Once again Conor ha...

Amen. Signed and shared.

Thank you.

Didn't expect Dana to go on a long streak of wins, but sorry to see her go. She went out the same way she always played, solid, and ending with another perfect FJ wager. And that's the same way Conor came in. His $400 may have seemed too small, and I imagine friends at his watch party will ask him w...

DBear wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2019 8:31 pm

I normally don't pay attention to the contestant interviews, but Josh's last words are particularly haunting given recent events.
Instaget FJ. I guess it does help to be of a certain age.

Yeah, that has to come in handy some times. Uh, doesn't it?

Dana's game-2 win via savvy wagering enabled her to play game 3 and double her winnings. You go, girl!!! Meanwhile, my dad the physics/chemistry teacher would be so proud that even his son who did not follow his footsteps into the sciences was able to pick up the LT on cesium. I'm watching games fro...

I was intrigued by the "Selkirk-Robinson Crusoe" clue (another TS). In a J! contestant quiz a few years ago they gave us a similar clue, asking which fictional character was based on the real-life shipwreck of Selkirk. I got this one immediately, largely from having learned it from that quiz. Ran th...

Amen to all of the above. This is the saddest thing I've heard in a long time. Prayers for Alex and his family, and I hope he feels the strength that is going his way from millions of us who love him.

Buzzer race? Uh, yeah. Looked as if Monica was going to break her wrist trying to buzz in some times. Disappointing to me to see it come down to that, but I'm not sure what clues they would have to put up there to differentiate among all these contestants and their collected brain power. Got my only...

I was amused by the discussion of the "opening collage." Every time I see that thing I crack up. I mean, let's face it, this tournament features 18 UBER-NERDS!!! And I say that with all the fondness in the world, because I have been a nerd since before the word was invented and I embrace my nerdines...

boson wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:58 pm

I wonder how the producers ensure the teams are all working fairly and individually without collusion? During regular play, the producers are quite scrupulous to avoid opponents who know each other.

NO COLLUSION!!!!!

CasketRomance wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 8:15 pm

Austin Powers wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:39 pm

The questions are too easy. It’s a buzzer race and honestly it’s not great viewing for that reason

you think? i might have got the least correct of any jeopardy episode in recent memory

Consider the source. Austin Powers (the boardie, not the movie character) is no mere mortal.

weird...triple stumper and this was an instaget for me....also marking the 1st final jeopardy solve during this tournament for me Also instaget here. I thought of Eisenhower immediately and had 1952 written down before he finished reading the clue, then spent 30 seconds trying to figure out how it ...

There seems to be a fair bit of interest in this tournament from board regulars. If so, good on you. Me? After 50 years of watching J!, I've become accustomed to a particular rhythm: intro, J! round, commercial break, interview, J! round (2), commercial break, DJ! round, commercial break, FJ!, end o...

what a waste of en episode...too much jibber jabbering...did they really need to go to a break, come back and interview and then go to another break? about as bad as an american football game...pure dull crap without much action Pretty much my impression as well. One third of an episode playing J! ...

Anyone else read the FJ clue, come up with the tune "London Bridge is falling down," and then start mentally humming/singing it to recall the last line? Yeah, for sure. OK, I use memory devices when needed. But I still thought this was a very nice FJ clue: not a softball, and not a Liederkranz. Nice...

I can only hope I do as well as I've done the past few years, but also get through the random selection afterward for the auditions. My luck, however, is abysmal. I'm curious to compare. Between 2009 and 2017, inclusive, I passed a J! online contestant quiz seven times without getting an invitation...