# Jeopardy! 2022-23 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [September 12, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442 "2022-09-12T14:46:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/282 "2022-12-14T14:11:22Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > I was shocked that the FJ from the same match was as triple-stumper, but I was aided by my remembrance of the fact that Jeopardy! writers love referring to Manhattan as an island. I actually like that one. I got it, but not right away, so I’m not too surprised it was a triple-stumper. My first thought was “bikini”, since I know that term comes from an island. But the rest of the clue didn’t work, so I kept thinking, and got “Manhattan” If the clue has said “…also a type of clam chowder” I think that would have been too easy. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/283 "2022-12-14T16:01:00Z")
Oh, I liked it too, I just can’t believe none of them got it. Using “island” to allude to Manhattan is one of their favorite little points of misdirection. If the clue said “a borough of New York City” instead of “an island,” that would have been too easy as well. They know that when most people hear the word “island” without context, they start thinking middle-of-the-ocean, tropics, especially the Pacific when you mention WWII, as evidenced by the fact that two of them wrote “Mai Tai.” On Jeopardy, if the clue references “island,” you just always have to consider whether Manhattan fits the bill. It also helped that the Manhattan is one of my favorite cocktails. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/284 "2022-12-14T17:10:26Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > Using “island” to allude to Manhattan is one of their favorite little points of misdirection. I’ve never noticed that, but probably will the next time. The one quirk I have picked up is how often _Fidelio_ shows up in opera categories. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/285 "2022-12-14T17:19:42Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > The one quirk I have picked up is how often _Fidelio_ shows up in opera categories. I see the Adriatic Sea come up a lot. And Don Quixote related questions. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/286 "2022-12-14T18:40:35Z")
If there’s an African country question it’s always Chad (its hardly ever Chad). If it’s the Great Lakes it’s always Superior (it’s . . . never mind). ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/287 "2022-12-14T21:07:01Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I see the Adriatic Sea come up a lot. Yes, definitely. If the clue is asking for an arm of the Mediterranean sea, and you don’t know, guess “Adriatic.” You’ll be right 95% of the time. I was compiling a list of these at some point. They like Langston Hughes. I don’t know Jack about Langston Hughes, but I do know that if a Jeopardy clue says “Harlem Renaissance poet,” the correct response is “Who is Langston Hughes?” They also like to test the fact that George III was the King of England during the American Revolution. The Manhattan Project comes up a lot, but I don’t think there’s one particular factoid about it they like to test. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/288 "2022-12-14T21:13:01Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > It also helped that the Manhattan is one of my favorite cocktails. This is exactly why I was able to guess the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/289 "2022-12-15T05:15:40Z")
Tonight’s FJ was basically a reworking of the FJ I bombed on when I was on the show, 35 years ago. The way it was worded then: “One of the two presidents who were widowed and remarried while in office.” Naturally, I got it right this time. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/290 "2022-12-16T03:47:54Z")
I did it again! As soon as Ken announced tonight’s FJ category, Action Movies, I said, _Die Hard._ I don’t know why, it just came to me, maybe because some people, including Ken, think it’s a Christmas movie. (It isn’t.) And a few weeks ago the FJ category was “Flags of Our Hemisphere,” to which I immediately said Brazil, because it has a relatively well-known and distinctive flag. The only other likely one was Canada, but I thought that would be too obvious. The clue was > The stars on this country’s flag represent states, 26 of them; unlike the USA’s, its “federal district” gets its own 27th star. I’m pretty impressed with myself. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/291 "2022-12-16T14:39:36Z")
On the clue where you combine the band names, it seemed kind of arbitrary. I think one answer was ‘Florence and the Machine’ or something like that, but there’s been many bands with ‘Machine’ in their name … Tin Machine … Music Machine … etc. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/292 "2022-12-16T14:57:22Z")
I’m assuming they would have accepted any band name that fit the clue? They’ve done this before; someone gives an unexpected response and they rule that it fits the clue. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/293 "2022-12-16T17:21:05Z")
The clue was “Daft + _the_ Machine” (emphasis mine,) so presumably a correct response would include a band in whose name the “the” was present. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/294 "2022-12-18T20:05:59Z")
I am pleased as punch that Ken Jennings has correctly identified _Die Hard_ as a Christmas movie. (It is.) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/295 "2022-12-18T21:09:50Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > correctly identified _Die Hard_ as a Christmas movie. People believe many things that aren’t true: the earth is flat, the Loch Ness monster is real, Die Hard is a Christmas movie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/296 "2022-12-18T21:18:08Z")
Agreed. Just because a movie is set at Christmas time doesn’t mean it’s a Christmas movie. (Says this Jew.) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/297 "2022-12-18T22:05:27Z")
It is every bit a Christmas movie as _It’s a Wonderful Life_. And you would have to be a hardcore Scrooge to deny that _It’s a Wonderful Life_ is not a Christmas movie. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/298 "2022-12-18T22:08:52Z")
Ken has spoken. He can make Xmas decrees just like the judge with the mailbags in Miracle on 34th St. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2022, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/299 "2022-12-18T22:16:58Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Ken has spoken. Ken can make things happen just by thinking it. Just like…oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/300 "2022-12-19T18:01:25Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > It is every bit a Christmas movie as _It’s a Wonderful Life_. And you would have to be a hardcore Scrooge to deny that _It’s a Wonderful Life_ is not a Christmas movie. This is bizarre…I just recently had the completely original idea, that Die Hard and IAWL are both dramas set at Christmas time that would work equally well if they were set on the Fourth of July. So if IAWL is a Christmas movie, so is Die Hard. Apparently my idea, while original, is not unique. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Paxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Paxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paxx)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/301 "2022-12-19T21:08:13Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And the response needed to be > > What is “Who is John Galt?” > > Dammit, that was really wrong. Actually, if the clue was “The first sentence of Atlas Shrugged” then a correct response could be “Who is John Galt?”, which is already phrased in the form of a question. When the clue is “He is described as ‘Prometheus who changed his mind’”, then a correct response could be “Who is John Galt?”, which also happens to be the first sentence of the novel, or “Who is Galt?” It seems that the writers did not anticipate an answer with just the last name, even though that’s usually acceptable. Still, it seems strange in this case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=16)