Two [edit: three] pages ago you had no idea how logic could be applied to that clue.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2017 3:03 pmOr even if you don't know about skipped numbers, you still expect a trap, and thus think that VI is the wrong answer.seaborgium wrote: ↑Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:24 pm If you don't know the history of popes, you don't know about skipped regnal numbers, and you Occam's razor your way to the one that doesn't render either of the other two impossible. It's farther down on the board because hey, moon logic.
The Official TPH Education Thread (POTENTIAL GAME DAY SPOILERS)
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I'm still always expecting some kind of trap or catch.
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Now you're just making excuses. There's a huge difference between "there's no logic to this" and ""this is the red herring answer".
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Wouldn't it be "Qu'est-ce que c'est Francais?"
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While that is more technically correct, in any episodes of Jéopardy! from Québec that I've ever watched the contestants omit the "c'est".
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Okay. Haven't had a conversation in French in 25 years, and that was, surprisingly, in Sweden.alietr wrote: ↑Sun Jun 25, 2017 5:09 pmWouldn't it be "Qu'est-ce que c'est Francais?"
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Parks and Recreation didn't help?
The curvy bone, that's a distinctive feature of a lamb chopTenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2017 10:09 pm WLT lamb at $200? That was my only miss in the category.
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The show rewards you for knowing things. If you don't know things, you don't get rewarded. I didn't recognize that as lamb either, but I didn't go on a message board and complain about it.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:17 amWhich you would know only if you've ever seen a lambchop before.
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Again with the fancy-schmancy foods. I've checked every butcher and grocery store within an hour of me, and not a single one of them has lamb.
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Didn't look too hard then. (Or, more likely, didn't Google well enough.)TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2017 12:43 am Again with the fancy-schmancy foods. I've checked every butcher and grocery store within an hour of me, and not a single one of them has lamb.
Never had lamb here, didn't recognize it as lamb, but figured lamb was an Easter thing based on the connotations of lamb and easter (people who don't live in backwoods Michigan often see easter scenes with cute little chicks and ducks and lambs on them, not to mention the nickname "lamb of God" for Jesus, who the holiday is about).
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I didn't associate lamb at all because "blah blah blah meat eaten at Easter" pavlov'd to ham for me, and that didn't look like a ham, so I was stuck.dhkendall wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:41 am Never had lamb here, didn't recognize it as lamb, but figured lamb was an Easter thing based on the connotations of lamb and easter (people who don't live in backwoods Michigan often see easter scenes with cute little chicks and ducks and lambs on them, not to mention the nickname "lamb of God" for Jesus, who the holiday is about).
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I got lamb from an early episode of M*A*S*H.
In the episode, the unit had treated a Greek unit so the Greeks gave them a lamb as a thank you present. (I'm not really sure why a military unit in Korea would have a lamb handy, but I digress). So the MASH (or should I say field hospital) gang decides to kill it and eat it. (I doubt a small lamb would feed everyone in the unit. But I guess as long as the half-dozen or so main characters got to feed their fat faces, they didn't really give a damn about anyone else. But again, I digress). But Radar foiled their plans by shipping the lamb to his family farm in Iowa. (Which would seem to violate a lot of custom laws about shipping live animals into the country, but once again, I digress).
Anyway, while they were waiting for the right time to slay the lamb, they had a scene where they were talking about eating it. Trapper mentioned he lived next door to a family when he was a kid that would roast a lamb every Easter. That is how I made the Easter connection and got this one.
Other than that, I have never heard of eating lamb at Easter. Yes, I've seen pictures of Jesus with baby animals, but I don't think of them getting eaten. We have always had ham or turkey if we were doing a big meal, never lamb.
I don't think I've ever eaten lamb. I have heard of people having a "leg of lamb". I agree it was a bit hard for the top row. If they'd had thrown in a bit about it being served with mint jelly, that would have made it easier.
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In the episode, the unit had treated a Greek unit so the Greeks gave them a lamb as a thank you present. (I'm not really sure why a military unit in Korea would have a lamb handy, but I digress). So the MASH (or should I say field hospital) gang decides to kill it and eat it. (I doubt a small lamb would feed everyone in the unit. But I guess as long as the half-dozen or so main characters got to feed their fat faces, they didn't really give a damn about anyone else. But again, I digress). But Radar foiled their plans by shipping the lamb to his family farm in Iowa. (Which would seem to violate a lot of custom laws about shipping live animals into the country, but once again, I digress).
Anyway, while they were waiting for the right time to slay the lamb, they had a scene where they were talking about eating it. Trapper mentioned he lived next door to a family when he was a kid that would roast a lamb every Easter. That is how I made the Easter connection and got this one.
Other than that, I have never heard of eating lamb at Easter. Yes, I've seen pictures of Jesus with baby animals, but I don't think of them getting eaten. We have always had ham or turkey if we were doing a big meal, never lamb.
I don't think I've ever eaten lamb. I have heard of people having a "leg of lamb". I agree it was a bit hard for the top row. If they'd had thrown in a bit about it being served with mint jelly, that would have made it easier.
I did not get Rob Lowe. I have heard of him, but I don't think I've ever seen anything he was in, never watched The West Wing.
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What about those DirecTV commercials? That's pretty much the only place I know him from, other than an Austin Powers deleted scene.
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There is an American West narrative that cattle ranchers hated sheep because they ruin the pastures by eating the grass to the nub and killing it (as opposed to cows, I assume). So Scottish immigrants and their sheep were harassed and even killed if you believe some of the Westerns.Bamaman wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:07 am I got lamb from an early episode of M*A*S*H.
I don't think I've ever eaten lamb. I have heard of people having a "leg of lamb". I agree it was a bit hard for the top row. If they'd had thrown in a bit about it being served with mint jelly, that would have made it easier.
I did not get Rob Lowe. I have heard of him, but I don't think I've ever seen anything he was in, never watched The West Wing.
So, as a result only a few of us Midwesterners or Southerners have ever eaten lamb, and the reason I never will is in the spoiler. Don't read it if you ever want to eat lamb, you can't un-read it
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(It's supposed to be the meat that tastes the most like human
we just say we don't like it because it tastes too much like cat
I've heard of Rob Lowe only because of some controversy with a young girl and a video camera but I'm terrible at celebrity face recognition anyway. I wouldn't even recognize Alex Trebek if I saw him at the hardware store in a t-shirt.
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In 1964 he embraced Sunni Islam & changed his name (again) to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
Malcolm X's wife was Betty Shabazz. Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X. 1964 black Islam man go for Malcolm X in the top box.
Previous Malcolm X hits for this season:
#7357, aired 2016-09-13 AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: In 1953 this Nation of Islam leader founded & was the minister of Boston Temple No. 11
#7461, aired 2017-02-06 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence"
Malcolm X's wife was Betty Shabazz. Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X. 1964 black Islam man go for Malcolm X in the top box.
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#7357, aired 2016-09-13 AFRICAN AMERICANS $200: In 1953 this Nation of Islam leader founded & was the minister of Boston Temple No. 11
#7461, aired 2017-02-06 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE $2000: (Alex delivers the clue from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.) The tape recorder was used by this man, whose ideas for black activism couldn't be contained by the Nation of Islam, leading to the sad correctness of his prediction in his autobiography that, "I, too, will die by violence"
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Italian.
Not surprising from someone who can't give the Emmys or current events even a once over...NHO "The Crown" or "sanctuary city".
I hope you weren't expecting sympathy from that...
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If they ask for a Black Muslim in the 60's on a low-value question, it's probably Malcom X. "He changed his name AGAIN" was hinting that it's someone you know best by an assumed name, such as "Malcolm X."
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