That’s tonight and tomorrow’s excitement. Followed on Monday by the return of Julia Collins, who is two wins away from being the third best* contestant since the five-game limit was dropped in 2003. (* Most consecutive “regular” game victories.)
As things now stand, here are the rankings:
Ken Jennings (74 wins)
Dave Madden (19)
Arthur Chu (11)
Julia Collins (10 so far)
As I mentioned in my DOA Jeopardy thread of May 5th, I like her. At first I found her unassuming and a little goofy, took me a few games to notice how good she really is.
Also- Wife and I still remember how much we liked Chuck Forrest in his first run of games in '85. It was gratifying to see him give Ken Jennings some real competition the other night.
Damn. For reasons I can’t even remember I’ve known JL’s identity most of my life, and that made DC obvious. But I had to give up on JJPR and really want to know how you did it. I love these kind of things.
I don’t know the answer, and won’t look up JJPR. But I did recognize “Dino Crocetti” as Dean Martin…I think. If that’s right, then “Joey Levitch” is probably the real name of Jerry Lewis. So if we’re talking lateral thinking, John Joseph Patrick Ryan…would be someone associated with Martin & Lewis…hmn…Martin was part of the Rat Pack (not so much Lewis, though). So maybe JJPR is Joey Bishop…?
Maybe that’s lateral thinking, and maybe it ain’t…:o
I don’t think such a coincidence is even rare. It’s obvious that many of the contestants are making educated guesses all the time, and would have a hard time remembering how they know certain things. Even playing at home, I’m often getting the correct response, and totally baffled as to what dusty corner of my brain it came from.
“Dude is famous … obviously Irish … John … Maybe … Jack? Played an Irishman? What famous characters are known for being Irish? Aha! An Irish Jack … must be…”
Jack Lord, aka Steve McGarrett on the old Hawaii Five-O!
Good thinking, actually, but remember that the names were picked at random. No one had to be associated with anyone else (in fact, only one name was given out every evening).
One reason I was so confident of my answer was that I watched the show religiously from 1968 to around 1976, and I knew the character was Irish. So background experience did help a little, but mostly it was pure deduction.
I took the online test a couple years ago. At work, I make cations and subtitles for TV. I had just finished a Behind The Music: Carrie Underwood two hour special.
First clue was : This country western singer’s first hit was Jesus, Take the Wheel.
I stared blankly at the screen for 15 seconds. I KNEW it was her, whatshername I just spent 6 hours on her background…
My only qualification in this area is a fascinated amateur interest in the idea of language families… but I thought Hungarian was one of the Uralic languages.
My only Jeopardy miracle came a few years ago. I usually like to play “blind no-peek Final Jeopardy,” which is, guess the answer when they give the category before the commercial. So if it’s British Monarchy, I’ll blurt out “Edward VII” without knowing the clue. Once, several years ago, I hit it … and it would be much more impressive if I could remember what it was I said! :rolleyes:
Back in the VCR days, I taped an episode of Jeopardy. That evening we had friends over and I played the episode. Everyone thought we were watching live television. Then I started answering correctly question after question, often before even half of the clue was given.
