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Square brackets would be the natural way to do it in an academic paper. But that might seem too highfalutin for Jeopardy! "There wasn't any Democratic Party. There was just Willie [Stark]" Yeah, that'd be the Proper way, but it doesn't feel like J! I ruled that out right quick. I'm curious if any c...

Incidentally, one time cheezguyty pointed out a few players with three Z's in their full names. I specifically remember Melizza Zygmunt and Oz Vazquez being mentioned. Now I notice it whenever we get a new one, even if I don't remember all of them). Two I do remember are Liz Maziarz and Kids Week p...

The Jeopardy! Fan was right about no Meg Gardiner in the archive and a Google search shows that is Kate's mom. Andy later reminded me about there being a Meg Shreve in the archive who won three games in 1987. Meg Gardiner's Wikipedia page shows her husband is Paul Shreve. Doing some more research o...

I seem to recall a contestant coordinator or other member of TPTB once stating on the record (it may even be in that 25th anniversary book) that "we have never announced what a passing score is" or "we never announce a passing score" or something to that effect. You may be thinking of one of a numb...

AWARDS & HONORS

She won three medals at the 1924 Summer Olympics, but it was a feat accomplished two years later that led to her being the first individual woman honored with a ticker-tape parade in New York City

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Who is Gertrude Ederle?

[...] According to the American Bar Association, the other two biggies are McCullouch v Maryland (which I'd heard of but for some reason didn't think of) and Gibbons v Odgen, which is not part of J! canon as of yet as far as I can tell from an archive search of "Odgen", which only returns clues abo...

Alex opened on commenting about both challengers being "AA" names. Let's see cheezguyty find another set of "AA" players. The closest I can get is Show #5961 , when Aaron Wicks defended against Saad Hasan. Aanchal is now the first player alphabetically in the Archive, surpassing Aarin Martinez .

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Kevin had 14,401 possible wagers. [...]

Give or take a few...

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY THE AMERICAS FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE Home to more than 20 million people & 3 different official languages, this island is about 600 miles from the continental U.S. During the think music I recalled a clue from a few years ago ($800 in RECENT NONFICTION in this game ) where "Ha...

And in fake Nobel news, have a blockquote https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54509051 Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have won the 2020 Nobel Economics Prize for their work on auction theory. [...] This is the second Robert Wilson to win a Nobel Prize. The other one shares a middle and last name wi...

POP MUSIC

One a Brit and the other a Swede, these two men with the same last name have each produced more than 20 songs that have topped the Billboard Hot 100

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Who are George Martin and Max Martin?

Anyone watching closely on the Pippi Longstocking clue would have caught a rare glimpse of the ring-in indicators on the sides of the gameboard lighting up: https://i.imgur.com/EbaAvJW.gif (slowed to 0.25x speed) Someone in the J! contestants Facebook group has pointed out that San Francisco de Asis...

One of the great trivia facts of this age just got a little closer to being out-of-date. Leon Tyler, grandson of president John Tyler, passed away September 26 at the age of 95. John Tyler still has one living grandson, Harrison Tyler. (For anyone not familiar with this piece of trivia, these are p...

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READY FOR PRIME TIME, PLAYERS?

It's the smallest prime number that contains three even digits

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What is 2003?

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I see nothing outlawing leading zeros there, so how about 000 or 002?

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I'd say there's a 0.00% chance I would accept either of those.

READY FOR PRIME TIME, PLAYERS?

It's the smallest prime number that contains three even digits

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What is 2003?

Haven't asked cheezguyty anything in a while: How many winners (no matter the day) have won with $27,700? Like football scores that seem unusual today's winning total struck me as uncommon. Obligatory not cheezguyty (hope you don't mind me hijacking this query LOL): Here's the only one I dug up aft...

WORDPLAY

Add a letter to a region of the electromagnetic spectrum to get this adjective that has been used to describe such films as "The Wild Bunch", "A Clockwork Orange", and "Scarface"

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What is ultraviolent?

BOTH NAMES, PLEASE

This Belgian man first came to the isolated settlement of Kalaupapa in 1873, the same year that this Norwegian physician made a related discovery

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Who are Father Damien and (Gerhard Armauer) Hansen?

WORLD CAPITALS Five national capitals, four on islands and one on the southern coast of West Africa, begin with these four letters. What is Port? (Port-au-Prince, Port Moresby, Port of Spain, Porto-Novo, and Port Vila: capitals of Haiti, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Benin, and Vanuatu res...

PHOTOGRAPHY Florence Thompson and three of her daughters are seen here in 1979, 43 years after they were captured in a famous image by this photographer https://i.imgur.com/qIRv1jT.png close-up of Florence: https://i.imgur.com/IEGpzyC.png Who is Dorothea Lange? the original image: https://i.imgur.co...