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i know a little bit about grammer, but i wouldn't call it my most strongest subject. let's see: frasier crane, sideshow bob, ... down periscope? that's all i've got.

5th is also my best showing in a TD. i could have scratched out 3rd if i'd stay clean, but i can't be too upset. thanks to mujason for a very interesting set of questions and congrats to jeff on his nobel peace prize. (did i ever tell you guys i was once named man of the year by time magazine?)

mujason wrote:Norman Mailer (while "The Executioner's Song" won for fiction, "The Armies of the Night" won for general nonfiction; sorry)-jpahk

ouch! i had no idea that was nonfiction. it especially hurts because my second choice would have been a singleton (e.a. robinson).

lol @ n00bs

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Iron Man For All Seasons? Isn't it "A Man For All Seasons"? What happens to the "A"? That one seems like it's cheating the rules of Before & After, even if Jeopardy! doesn't usually care about leading articles. Have they ever done one like that before? That's a good question. I agree that it's chea...

ellen is a constructor, sort of. she has exactly one published crossword credit—and it was a puzzle she and i co-constructed, which ended up in a simon & schuster mega book of crosswords. i doubt you've seen it, but it's possible. (if anyone's interested, you can find it here by searching for "ripst...

Yeah, Ellen was in Wordplay and I think she may even have posted here before. Heck, jpahk's finished in the top ten at the crossword tourney and even he didn't choose it. i didn't choose it precisely because i thought plenty of others would know it. ouch. dan & ellen are, of course, both friends of...

i haven't done a ton of TDs, but the thing that struck me as unusually difficult about this one was its length—with 15 rather specialized questions and only 2 lifelines, almost everybody is going to be taking a neg somewhere. i'm more used to seeing 10-12 questions, or a third lifeline of some sort....

I was hoping that each contestant would have been exposed to at least one of these popular songs this year. exposed to? yes. (two of them, in fact.) but not enough to identify either from a lyric. very glad i chose to SHEEP this question. that said, i think the "mark of honour" sentiment is pretty ...

I pavloved Gehry last night. That's why I got it wrong! Welcome aboard, Eli. Any friend of Joon's is ... well, we'll let you stay anyway. And congratulations! welcome aboard indeed, and congrats! nice get on FJ—i certainly didn't recognize the name of the river, but "electrum" led me right to the a...

Sherm wrote:I can remember the FJ for Joon [in] his ToC quarterfinal win and semi loss

me too.

indeed, it never happened. i suppose i'm to blame, but our ToC's interest in scattegories seemed to wane rapidly pretty much right after i extended that invitation (and teapot accepted). oh well.

yes, he means tomorrow's. that's why he said tomorrow's.

i thought it was a great theme. the double-duty theme revealer clue at the end was the pièce de resistance. andy kravis is on a roll.

i don't think it counts unless it's written, signed, and notarized. standards, people.

linda sue park was on jeopardy?? whoa. we have a lot of her books. i knew she was a fan of the show, but didn't realize she had been a contestant. my wife's aunt met her at a bookstore signing event shortly after my run and apparently i was a subject of discussion. there was a guy on in season 28 wh...

i feel like being older and thus in possession of more knowledge is pretty much always going to be a good thing, david. more knowledge is a good thing, yes. and probably, if you remain intellectually curious, you learn more than you forget as you get older, although this doesn't absolutely have to ...

tjconn728 wrote:Although I am happy to hear that the TD was otherwise engaging!

definitely so. i enjoyed the set and i'm glad i participated.

this question is problematic on a definitional level... unlike the flood-risk question, which was non-ideal in terms of gameplay. (the lonely planet question is also bad for gameplay, i think. it feels like all of the wrong answers are gotchas.) they are blemishes on an otherwise very engaging TD.

Those looking at South America may not have been as wrong as they thought. Surinam and Guyana are CONCACAF countries, but neither has qualified for a World Cup. good point, although yeah, suriname and guyana would not have been good choices anyway. 1 point - Syria (ancient city of Aleppo, ancient c...

Soccer question ruined me (but then I know next to nothing about futbol, just figured that all soccer playing countries in the Americas would be in that group, woudln't have guessed at all that there was a second league for the Americas as well.) well, tjconn728 did helpfully spell out the acronym ...