Pavlov revival

[opusthepenguin]

Just looking through my list of Pavlovs and this thread (though I may have missed something), but I don't think we have a "literature Pavlov". Would do me real good right now as The Test starts in 10 minutes, and I learned that's a subject I need to study up on, but, hopefully if the Jeopardy! Gods smile on me tonight, and I get and pass the audition, I'd need a Literature Pavlov before I get on the show ktnxbye

I don't have an organized list, but I'll throw you a few late bones.

Russian poet = Alexander Pushkin

Diarist = 1 of 3, depending on TOM(s)

• male and/or English - Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps)
• female and Jewish/teenage/Dutch/killed by Nazis - Anne Frank
• female and French/Cuban/married/erotic - Anaïs Nin

Johanna Spyri Novel/Heroine = Heidi

Norwegian Playwright/Author = Henrik Ibsen

Swedish Playwright = August Strindberg

Irish Poet = William Butler Yeats

Irish Novelist = James Joyce

Scottish Poet = Robert Burns (except for once in a category called "Jeopardy Booby Traps" where Walter Scott is the correct response. Also, please remember to call him "Robbie Burns" in a dopey accent that is presumably meant to sound Scottish. That way, Alex won't embarrass himself.)

Welsh Poet = Dylan Thomas, but...
Early Welsh Poet = Taliesin

Jazz Age Author/Novelist = F. Scott Fitzgerald

Colombian Author/Writer/Novelist = Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Chilean Poet/Writer = Pablo Neruda

Italian playwright = Luigi Pirandello
Play by Luigi Pirandello = Six Characters in Search of an Author

Italian sonnet writer = Petrarch (who wrote "Petrarchan sonnets" to "Laura")

Argentine Writer = Jorge Luis Borges (from Buenos Aires)

Sinclair Lewis - if main character is...

• Realtor - George F. Babbitt in Babbitt
• Preacher - Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry
• Doctor - Martin Arrowsmith in Arrowsmith (but there's also a doctor in Main Street)

Ok, bored now. Gonna do something else for a while.

[dhkendall]

I don't know if anyone else has seen this (I'd be very surprised, considering the source, if no one else here has), but I stumbled upon this on mental_floss, they have a group of articles called Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets, which are basically Pavlovs under another name. A must-visit for someone studying Pavlovs for the show!

[zerobandwidth]

"reclusive [American] author" [and "Glass" or "phony"]: J.D. Salinger

"reclusive [American] novelist": Thomas Pynchon

[whoisalexjacob]

"reclusive [American] author" [and "Glass" or "phony"]: J.D. Salinger

"reclusive [American] novelist": Thomas Pynchon

Seems a little dangerous. So Salinger wasn't a novelist?? Yes, Jeopardy has referred to Pynchon as reclusive, but that's not how you're expected to identify him. They'll almost always give you a title, often "Gravity's Rainbow". To me, a pavlov means you could answer Pynchon blindly any time you hear "reclusive American novelist", which I personally wouldn't recommend.

[zerobandwidth]

"reclusive [American] author" [and "Glass" or "phony"]: J.D. Salinger
"reclusive [American] novelist": Thomas Pynchon

Seems a little dangerous. So Salinger wasn't a novelist?? Yes, Jeopardy has referred to Pynchon as reclusive, but that's not how you're expected to identify him. They'll almost always give you a title, often "Gravity's Rainbow". To me, a pavlov means you could answer Pynchon blindly any time you hear "reclusive American novelist", which I personally wouldn't recommend.

Catcher in the Rye was Salinger's only novel; he was mostly a story author, and his other three books are anthologies of those stories. There should be enough other TOM-boosting context in the clue that if you see "reclusive" you can distinguish between the two. It's not like you can buzz in early and miss the rest of the clue anymore...

[seaborgium]

You must be must be thinking of another game show, or Quiz Bowl. Jeopardy clues have always been read in their entirety.

[Bamaman]

You must be must be thinking of another game show, or Quiz Bowl. Jeopardy clues have always been read in their entirety.

I think you posted in the wrong thread.

[dhkendall]

You must be must be thinking of another game show, or Quiz Bowl. Jeopardy clues have always been read in their entirety.

I think you posted in the wrong thread.

No, I think that was in response to this:

It's not like you can buzz in early and miss the rest of the clue anymore...

In the first season or so, you could ring in early on J! (so, zerobandwidth had that right), but the question was still read in its entirety (at least, as much as my memory serves), which makes Stefan right in that regard.

[whoisalexjacob]

"reclusive [American] author" [and "Glass" or "phony"]: J.D. Salinger
"reclusive [American] novelist": Thomas Pynchon

Seems a little dangerous. So Salinger wasn't a novelist?? Yes, Jeopardy has referred to Pynchon as reclusive, but that's not how you're expected to identify him. They'll almost always give you a title, often "Gravity's Rainbow". To me, a pavlov means you could answer Pynchon blindly any time you hear "reclusive American novelist", which I personally wouldn't recommend.

Catcher in the Rye was Salinger's only novel; he was mostly a story author, and his other three books are anthologies of those stories. There should be enough other TOM-boosting context in the clue that if you see "reclusive" you can distinguish between the two. It's not like you can buzz in early and miss the rest of the clue anymore...

When Pavlov rang the bell, the dogs didn't need TOM-boosting context to salivate

[zerobandwidth]

When Pavlov rang the bell, the dogs didn't need TOM-boosting context to salivate

Touché. (Droolé?)

[soxfan99]

With all the talk of the audition test, and some new people in those discussions, I figure it's about time for this to get a bump. Any new additions to the list?

[cinemaniax7]

Thanks for posting these. I had linked to the threads on the old Sony board, but I hadn't got around to printing them out. And of course they no longer exist.

[phi]

Just compiled this myself. It's not comprehensive, but all of these have been asked in previous games. Some seem to get asked about a lot more than others; I generally put the lower-frequency questions after the break. Included nationalities because these are given in clues fairly often.

INVENTIONS, INVENTORS, PATENTS

Thomas Edison - Lightbulb, phonograph, kinetoscope, Wizard of Menlo Park, Lived in West Orange, NJ, Inventor's Day is on his birthday, Invented everything

Pasteurization - Louis Pasteur (French)
Polaroid - Edwin Land
Steamboat, some submarine stuff - Robert Fulton (first steamboat: Clermont)
Dynamite - Alfred Nobel (Swedish)
Simple machines, law of hydrostatics - Archimedes
Long distance radio transmission, telegraph - Guglielmo Marconi (Italian)
Liquid-fueled rocket - Robert Goddard
Helicopter - Igor Sirkorski (Russian)
Elevator brake - Elisha Otis
Film consumer camera - George Eastman
Telegraph - Samuel Morse
Sewing machine - Elias Howe
Cotton gin - Eli Whitney
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell, born in Scotland
Variety of potato, peach - Luther Burbank
Vulcanized rubber - Charles Goodyear
Railway air brake - George Westinghouse, competitor of Edison
Revolver pistol - Samuel Colt
Steel plow - John Deere
Disposable safety razor - King Camp Gillette
Railway sleeping car - George Pullman
Automobile assembly line - Henry Ford
Steam engine - James Watt
Post-It Notes - 3M
Movable type - Johannes Gutenberg
Electric razor - Jacob Schick
Mechanical seed drill, Ian Anderson rock group - Jethro Tull
Aqua lung - Jacques Cousteau (France)
Steel-making process (pig iron --> steel) - Sir Henry Bessemer (English)
Daguerreotype, photography - Louis Daguerre (French)
Temperature scale, help w/ transatlantic cable - Lord Kelvin (English)
Condensed milk - Gail Borden, Jr.
Raincoats - Charles Macintosh (Scottish)
Iconoscope (TV camera), kinescope, "Father of TV" - Vladimir Zworykin (Russian)
TV - Philo Farnsworth
Mechanical reaper, McCormick Harvester Company - Cyrus McCormick
Organ - Laurens Hammond
Peanuts - George Washington Carver
AC current, Tesla coil - Nikola Tesla (Serbian-American)

Frozen food - Clarence Birdseye
Weaving loom - Joseph Jacquard
Cyclotron - Ernest Lawrence (Scottish)
(Moog) synthesizer - Robert Moog
Supercomputers - Seymour Cray
Cinematographe - Lumiere brothers (French)
Early pioneers of auto industry - Druyea brothers
Dial-operated combination lock for bank vaults - Linus Yale
Jet engine - Frank Whittle
Air conditioning - Willis Haviland Carrier
Geodesic dome - Buckminister Fuller
Carpet sweeper - Melville Bissell
Diesel engine - Rudolf Diesel (German)

[seaborgium]

Steel-making process - Sir Henry Bessemer (English)

Probably a good idea to include "pig iron" on this one; it's what his process makes into steel.

[bpmod]

Automobile - Henry Ford

This would be a big no.

Jeopardy! does, however, consistently refer to him as the first automaker to use an assembly line. This, too, is incorrect, as that would be Ransom E. Olds.

Brian

[dhkendall]

Thomas Edison - Wizard of Menlo Park, Lived in West Orange, NJ, Inventor's Day is on his birthday, stole everything

Fixed that for you.

(Runs search command. Types "Tesla". "Tesla not found". Uhhh-HUH!")

[the_phil]

(Runs search command. Types "Tesla". "Tesla not found". Uhhh-HUH!")

Another Oatmeal reader here on the board? Excellent.

[phi]

Automobile - Henry Ford

This would be a big no.

Jeopardy! does, however, consistently refer to him as the first automaker to use an assembly line. This, too, is incorrect, as that would be Ransom E. Olds.

Brian

Yeah, I was being a bit facetious there, but you are of course correct. Fixed. I'm not going for accuracy in life, but for accuracy according to the Jeopardy! clue-writers, so I'll stick with assembly line.

Regarding Edison: I like The Oatmeal too, and I'm aware Edison has a bad rap there. My point is only that if Jeopardy! asks a generic question about someone who is the father of invention, or who holds 1,093 U.S. patents or whatever, it's gonna be him. I did add in Tesla though . Feel free to suggest other corrections / additions!

My list was compiled from Google + j-archive; I *just now* discovered j-archive has a built-in search feature, which probably would have made my life a lot easier. Will use that in the future.

[DDG]

These Pavlovs are incredibly useful! Thanks to those who have taken the time to compile these.

What I would find most useful, and I think I may be speaking on behalf of a few of my Canadian compatriots when I ask, is whether anyone knows of a reliable Pavlov list or other resource for Americana / American presidents / American history / American literature / etc?

[DDG]

I would add one more subject to that desired Pavlovs list: The Bible. I am consistently stumped on what I am sure are relatively straightforward Bible questions, and I'm not sure of a useful resource with which to study the subject "broad and narrow" for Jeopardy! and general knowledge purposes...