Monday’s was hard (I’ve never heard of the Spingarn Medal) but the others were *incredibly *easy. I was shocked no one got the Kentucky Derby or Eli Whitney. They were the obvious answers! I knew them both before Alex even finished reading the question!
And IIRC, the category for the Guggenheim one was “Museums,” so yeah that was also blatantly obvious.
Wolf Blitzer was so bad, he aspired to terrible. I think he broke the record, by several thousand dollars, for the lowest negative score in Jeopardy’s history.
In this game, it was mind-numbing to watch one easy clue after another, with none of the three even ringing in.
And yes, in all fairness, the Final answer could have been Fulton or Carver as well.
I think they all answered “100,” which just blew me away. Aside from actually being old enough to remember when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union, and what a big deal it was at the time (I wish I still had the giant “Dennis the Menace Goes to Hawaii” comic that came out around then), I must have learned about the 1912–1959 business around the time I was in sixth grade. It seemed to me that all three of the pundits were roughly in my age cohort, which surprised me all the more!
BTW, 1957 was the International Geophysical Year, another big event at the time, especially with the Space Race just getting underway.
I’m placing a side bet with you that you know where Donald Fagen mentions that!
The Nightfly. It’s the lead song.
Sorry, who? 
silenus got it! Donald Fagen I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)
You had me stumped on that one! Obviously another Fail Final Jeopardy question… :smack:
Nope. Just highly esoteric. Even so, a thread on that album a while back drew a bunch of replies. I was betting you’d have known, but it’s not a major thing.
I’ll swap you your long-lost giant Dennis the Menace Goes to Hawaii comic for my long-lost giant Little Lulu goes to Alaska comic.
The Guggenheim is so famous for its architecture, I don’t know how those guys could have missed it. I didn’t get the Kentucky Derby one, but I knew it wasn’t the US Open. 1875 would be way to early. I was sort of thinking The Game (Harvard/Yale), but wasn’t sure if that was considered “major” and wasn’t sure it went back to the 1870s. The category was a bit misleading, since “major sport” typically means baseball, football, basketball, with the possible addition of tennis, golf and hockey.
Both Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and David Faber got that correct.
I’m continually amazed by armchair Jeopardy contestants who think skill at quickly answering trivia questions is some kind of indicator of intelligence. Nearly everyone in this thread would be shitting their pants if they had to participate in an actual Jeopardy taping under real-life conditions. (Shouting out occasional answers in your living room doesn’t count.)
Well hell, now I wish I hadn’t been so humble (post right before yours) because you just wrote exactly what I was really thinking.
Not all of us do. Just so you know.
You’re absolutely right.
Then again, the number of people on the board who have actually competed on Jeopargy! is rather large. So any assumptions, shitting or otherwise, are unwarranted at best, and a reflection on the poster at worst.
Change your own diaper. Some of us don’t freeze on TV.
“Freezing” has nothing to do with it. It is the implication that a person is stupid because they are not good at a trivia game that is obnoxious and contemptible.
Less contemptible than whining because some people are better at that game than you?
Here’s an idea, for you: if you find Jeopardy “obnoxious and contemptible” then don’t read the thread.
Answer: “A dark reddish brown to dark purplish red.”
She went to Alaska?!? Damn, I don’t remember that one, and I’ve always been a huge fan of Little Lulu.
I DID have the one where they went to Australia to visit Wilbur’s uncle Crispy Bacon, though. It was great…
No offense, but I think he’s referring to the implication, not the game show.
Question: “What is sanguine?”