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You know what, let's just lock this thread. If I'm not keeping my own score anymore, then there's less for me to get frustrated about, and less to ask "but how did you even know this about", and less for LITERALLY EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM -- including the person whose name is in the thread -- to get s...

I've long thought that pangram should be replaced by the more elegant "Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz". Back in the 1990s, I would sometimes muck around in the System Folder on my old Mac. I found that if you opened up any of the fonts, it would display the sentence "How razorback jumping fr...

Loved the Johnny Gilbert tribute. I would hate to see him go almost as much as I hated to see Alex go, but I trust that any successor will be chosen with care in either case. Also loved seeing a clue about Cards Against Humanity. I miss playing that at Midwest FurFest with my friends. And then they ...

What are you trying to accomplish? I legit am trying to learn. Deep down, I do want to learn. Which is why I keep asking. I just can't ever seem to get out of my own way no matter how hard I try. Literally every method on the planet ends in abject failure and frustration for me and those around me....

No guess on the rest as usual.

I have bought Avon before. I used to use Skin So Soft for my eczema.

Ran Toys & Games and "Orial", but 0/5 in Numbers and Baseball Nicknames. NHO either of the Oxfords named in that clue for my only miss in that Road Trip category. Surprised myself by getting 3/5 in Opera. Said Aida for Carmen at $400, no clue on the DD. Also 0/5 in 17th Century Literature and got on...

Volante wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 25, 2021 10:54 pm

Explicitly saying there is a "long" version of the weapon means the more common version is "short"

Can't say I've heard of a short bow either.

To me, it just seemed like a descriptor.

People who are good at Jeopardy often get clues right where they don't actually know the answer because they can follow hints/guideposts in the clue. Or they're familiar with the general answer range that Jeopardy asks about. Very rarely could the answer be "literally anything." If that were the ca...

I assume Mike Richards wouldn't have to confer with the judges to give me credit for "The Tube" for "The Underground", since I think he studied in England at some point....although to be honest, I'm not 100% sure I'd get the non-colloquial response in time if I'd been BMSed. I don't think there's a...

Is 17 clues the most ever played before the break? Ran First Name's the Same and Chicken Nuggets. Businesses for $200 was EPIC negbait for Lysol, and of course I bit. Strangely 0/5 in "Round" the World. I don't know where the disconnect was, but I just couldn't piece the clues together at all. Histo...

Still nothing compared to this trainwreck of a round: Damn ... that's harsh. 'Button sky", sure, that's wrong, but most of the others were fair. I think at the end Pat just decided that "close enough" was finally reached. Counter argument: (6:45 if the timecode doesn't work) https://www.youtube.com...

I remember seeing a Wheel of Fortune episode almost 20 years ago where the answer to the puzzle was "Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola". The contestant had the whole puzzle filled in, but was ruled wrong because she said it "cuh-POH-la". Even at the time, I knew who both of the people in the puzzle we...

Mike felt a bit more animated today. I loved the "do a different category" exchange. Why do I keep thinking that Alexander Hamilton was a president? I make that mistake every time Burr comes up. "O ring" was my only NHOI/miss in Plumbing. 0/5 in Soldiering On. I got only $400 in Horse & Writer and P...

I remember seeing a Wheel of Fortune episode almost 20 years ago where the answer to the puzzle was "Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola". The contestant had the whole puzzle filled in, but was ruled wrong because she said it "cuh-POH-la". Even at the time, I knew who both of the people in the puzzle wer...

This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:48 pm

Steve Harvey's talents would be more or less wasted on Jeopardy!

He'd spend half the show ranting because somebody rang in and said "what is the penis?"

Not a glimmer of hope for me in TV Show Quotes. Can't say I've heard of Blacklist, Black-ish, or Silicon Valley (the show) before. Was also 0/5 in Swords. Critically acclaimed movie + critically acclaimed sequel is a match I can always make to the Godfather movies. It took me nearly the entire music...

I've seen Mike host before. He's pretty good. You can tell he's hosted game shows before and he seemed reasonably comfortable here. Ran Celeb Chef and Animals Within Words, but was 0/5 in Political Slang. I clammed on "Grass roots" since I thought it was one word, but had no idea on the rest. Was al...

Nobody goes 61/61 every night. Except LucarioSnooperVixey. :lol: However I encourage you to use these opportunities to learn stuff. You may or may not get better at this particular game, but knowing stuff is cool and good. That's what I've been doing since back before the old forums got hacked, and...

I still don't see why "first World's Fair" is "zomg super-easy baby's first trivia fact that literally everyone except the dumbass named TenPoundHammer knows" level though.

For the moment, set aside any thoughts about how often Jeopardy asks about it or when the last time was. The Crystal Palace was just a very cool feat of engineering for its time. Nothing approaching that scale had ever been made of glass before. It's very much worth knowing about - it just had a sa...