On today’s show they took the money back from the guy who answered with “rock lobster.” Please explain.
Thank you,
Saucy
He initially said just lobster and Alex asked him to be more specific at which point he said rock lobster. They took the answer away from him because rock had to be in the answer.
Thanks Ellen!
In past shows, when Alex asks a contestant to be more specific, and they give the correct answer, I don’t recall the money being taken back. Also, wasn’t the “rock” part a given, as it was in the title of the category?
even though it was in the title you had to say “rock” in your answer. Money doesn’t usually get taken back on “be more specific”, but Alex said that he never should have asked him for “be more specific” in the first place
on this same show I thought they should have accepted his answer of “Puritans” when they wanted “Pilgrims”
Ah!
Concerning your last sentence, I thought so too. Looked them up, now I know the difference.
Thanks for the answer and the history lesson.
And if you want to get REALLY picky, rock lobsters aren’t lobsters.
Thank you Flywheel!
I have to ask: What was the question (err…answer) ?
Anything to do with Fred Schneider or the B52’s?
watch out for that piranha! 
On THAT score, they were right not to accept that answer. Puritans and Pilgrims had much in common, but they were NOT the same thing.
Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans were Protestant Calvinists, and many people from both groups eventually settled in Massachusetts. The difference is, the “Puritans” were members of the Church of England while the Pilgrims were Separatists. Both groups thought the Church of England was still too Catholic in its rituals and theology, but the Puritans wanted to stay and fight for change from within the C of E, while the Pilgrims elected to break away from the Anglican Church entirely.
Today, the descendants of the Puritans are what we’d call “low church” Episcopalians, while the descendants of the Pilgrims are Congregationalists.
I still don’t get it. If Alex shouldn’t have asked him to be more specific, how was it the contestant’s fault? Alex should be penalized!
If “Rock” is in quotation marks in the name of the category, that means each correct response must have the word “Rock” in it. When the contestant gave a response without “Rock” Alex should have counted it wrong right then. Since he didn’t, he had to go back later and take the money away.
Peripherally. IIRC, the question went: “Down! Down! This spiny crustacean with no claws is often found in the Florida Keys.”
get outta my state…
Right. I don’t know what the actual question was but most people don’t know that the Pilgrims (in the American sense, the people that founded the Plymouth Colony) were a separate group from the Puritans that founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony slightly further to the north in and around what is now Boston. Furthermore, not all the Mayflower settlers had the exact same religious beliefs. The term Pilgrim just means a traveler in the general sense. Most, but not all, of the Mayflower settlers were Protestant fundamentalists but others were just tagalogs wanting to relocate to a new land.
It is incorrect to use the terms interchangeably even though it is extremely common. People have a tendency to think that different groups of people who came from England about 400 years ago to the same very general area were all the same and did it for the same reasons but that isn’t true.