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by Sage on the Hudson
Sun Jul 23, 2023 4:11 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Monday, July 10, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 63
Views: 6255

Re: Monday, July 10, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Bamaman wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:37 pm
econgator wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:32 pm These clue writers need to be fired.
Can you legally fire someone who is on strike?
Not without cause, but there’s nothing in U.S. labor law that says you may not strangle them.
by Sage on the Hudson
Sun Jul 23, 2023 4:10 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Monday, July 10, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 63
Views: 6255

Re: Monday, July 10, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Bob78164 wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 8:32 pm I object to Question 9 of the Double Jeopardy! round. The two words described there are not homophones. --Bob
Which two words? Knotty (NAH-tee) vs. naughty (NAW-tee)? Wail (wayl) versus whale (whayl)?
by Sage on the Hudson
Sun Jul 23, 2023 4:06 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Monday, July 10, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 63
Views: 6255

Re: Monday, July 10, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

econgator wrote: Mon Jul 10, 2023 7:32 pm These clue writers need to be fired.
I’ve been saying that since Steven Dorfman died.
by Sage on the Hudson
Sun Jul 23, 2023 4:01 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, July 7, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 36
Views: 3466

Re: Friday, July 7, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

If there are discrepancies between novel and movie, it’s incumbent upon them to make it clear to which they’re referring. Far more people have seen the films than have read the books.
by Sage on the Hudson
Sat Jul 22, 2023 6:45 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, July 7, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 36
Views: 3466

Re: Friday, July 7, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Mindreading note of the day: Racquel knew about Enigma, but couldn't retrieve the actual name. The problem wasn’t that she didn’t know the response, but with the inaccurate clue, itself (not that she would’ve gotten it if the clue had been accurate): the device serving as the Maguffin in “From Russ...
by Sage on the Hudson
Sat Jul 22, 2023 6:39 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, July 7, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 36
Views: 3466

Re: Friday, July 7, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Ken pays attention to the game. Mayim pauses and reads the card as if it was her fast time (maybe). Don't think she ever gets it when a player has run the entire category. Biyalik is a horror, utterly unqualified to host the game. Alex understood that he was the host of the show, not its star, and ...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:24 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 62
Views: 6762

Re: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

I'm surprised that no one's brought up the matter of that wretched clue about what powers "Star Trek"s Starship Enterprise, the response they were looking for being dilithium crystals. Wrong. Federation starships are actually powered by the mutual annihilation of matter and antimatter ; di...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:15 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 62
Views: 6762

Re: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

I've always associated John Barry with the Bond theme. Norman's name was new to me. Still, the elements in the clue pointed to no one else but 007. The authorship of the theme has been the subject of lawsuits. The final disposition of the case assigned it to Norman, but the matter remains a bit fuz...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:13 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 62
Views: 6762

Re: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Some accidental knowledge: There are 8 elements named after countries. Or five. Or seven. The internet can't decide. One list includes scandium and one includes even beryllium with the weirdest explanation. One I didn't know is Copper is credited to cuprum and Cypress somehow, which is probably leg...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:08 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 62
Views: 6762

Re: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

FJ was an instaget for me based solely on Monty Norman's name. It's a standard credit in nearly every Bond film: "James Bond Theme by Monty Norman." However, I would not characterize it as a theme song . A better name for the category might have been MOVIE THEME MUSIC or MOVIE THEMES or s...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:01 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 62
Views: 6762

Re: Thursday, March 23, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Really wanted to see Melissa pull off the win, but she did get here in part due to at least two lucky breaks: surviving a poor wager and surviving someone else's poor wager. I guess if nothing else, her loss makes it easier to root for idearat tomorrow (good retro luck!), though I like Alec. (This ...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Feb 01, 2023 6:45 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, January 27, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 70
Views: 7341

Re: Friday, January 27, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

The Final Jeopardy clue relied on knowledge so esoteric -- either you knew intimately the history of this little-seen film, or you didn't -- that it was all but unsolvable (no shock that it was a triple-stumper, and deserved to be). There is no line of reasoning or knowledge of the French language t...
by Sage on the Hudson
Tue Aug 02, 2016 8:02 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, July 28, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 83
Views: 20054

Is Jar-Jar Binks on the "Jeopardy!" payroll?

Very confused by the Star Wars Palpatine, 7 Hills of Rome Palatine, and I swear the contestant's response of Palantine. Yes, that's exactly what she said, but confusing isn't the appropriate adjective -- idiotic is. The other five responses were the precise same names as the Star Wars characters re...
by Sage on the Hudson
Sat Jul 30, 2016 4:14 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 71
Views: 16060

Any resemblance to the Statue of Liberty is purely COIN-cidental

Lord Carnavaron for FJ :oops: There's no way you'd have passed muster with the judges with that. But returning to more important matters, the 1946 Roosevelt dime was preceded by one with Lady Liberty on the obverse? Have the writers never seen the coin? While something of a misnomer, it's still cal...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Dec 30, 2015 10:04 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 108
Views: 25782

Idiomatic idiots

I wonder if anyone asked Jesus for clarification at the time. "When you said you will rise on the third day were you counting the current day as the first day, or did you mean the next day?" Since there's no proof that it ever happened, only an anecdote written long after it was supposed ...
by Sage on the Hudson
Wed Dec 30, 2015 9:49 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 108
Views: 25782

Putting the ZERO in "zero-g"

It really doesn't seem worth it to do some quick math in your head and wager correctly, does it? For some reason I thought the question excluded Collins because he didn't go down onto the moon, so I went with Aldrin. Knowing the female pilot would have helped, of course. I feel extra bad about miss...
by Sage on the Hudson
Sun Dec 27, 2015 3:12 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 48
Views: 11481

The Jeopardy! writers give birth to bad clues via the Lamasery Method

The clue asked for a novel written by James Hilton and the correct response was "What is Shangri-La?" But the novel was Lost Horizon where Shangri-La appears. While it doesn't affect the fact that the clue was very poorly worded (gee, another sloppily-written clue. Who'd have expected tha...
by Sage on the Hudson
Sat Nov 21, 2015 5:48 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, November 20, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 145
Views: 30905

The time of the PUN far

If you call Matt's daily double celebrations unsportsmanlike, than you also have to call Alex's stalling unsportsmanlike. Matt's histrionics weren't unsportsmanlike because they were clearly spontaneous and not calculated, or done with any strategic gain in mind. That said, they were somewhat juven...
by Sage on the Hudson
Sat Nov 21, 2015 5:34 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, November 19, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 133
Views: 34514

Triple turn'ed stumper!

dirkgonnadirk wrote:btw, we need to stop calling it a triple stumper when one person has no intention of trying to answer the question
He may not have wanted to wager much, if anything, but of course he wanted to give a correct response. He didn't because didn't know it.
by Sage on the Hudson
Fri Nov 20, 2015 5:33 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, November 19, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Replies: 133
Views: 34514

What's the Zip Code for Chateau d'If?

I know it was only a top-of-the-board clue, but the North Pole clue in the DJ round doesn't make any sense to me. The clue read, "This location of Santa's workshop has a zip code, 12997." First of all, to fit within the category ("'North' and 'South' America"), they must have be...