# 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:** 25
**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:** [January 25, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/482 "2023-01-25T17:53:27Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Not that every FJ is like this, but I have noticed, usually after getting one wrong, that yeah, I should have figured that one out. I can agree as far as _Lolita_ goes, but no amount of figuring would have led me to the author’s name, which I don’t think I ever heard in all my life. The ones I miss are either 1) “yeah, I should have known that,” or 2) “I never would have figured that out in a million years.” I suppose there’s a third option, for things I should know but just don’t. The capital of Pakistan, or Zimbabwe, for example. I assume most Jeopardy types would know that sort of thing and I just bow to their superior knowledge base. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2023, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/483 "2023-01-25T17:55:49Z")
> [@K364](#): > > And after seeing the clue "_ **In the 1950s the New York Times said this author “is writing about all lust” & his lecherous narrator “is all of us”** _ I was convinced I was correct. Honestly, I was thinking D.H. Lawrence (thinking of Lady Chatterley’s Lover), though the timing was off and “foreign-born authors” suggests someone in the US. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/484 "2023-01-25T18:06:32Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > > Not that every FJ is like this, but I have noticed, usually after getting one wrong, that yeah, I should have figured that one out. > > I can agree as far as _Lolita_ goes, but no amount of figuring would have led me to the author’s name, which I don’t think I ever heard in all my life. > > The ones I miss are either 1) “yeah, I should have known that,” or 2) “I never would have figured that out in a million years.” I suppose there’s a third option, for things I should know but just don’t. The capital of Pakistan, or Zimbabwe, for example. I assume most Jeopardy types would know that sort of thing and I just bow to their superior knowledge base. Ha ha, I happen to know both of those answers. Now, ask me my sister’s birthday and I’m stumped. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/485 "2023-01-25T18:11:30Z")
> [@K364](#): > > And after seeing the clue "_ **In the 1950s the New York Times said this author “is writing about all lust” & his lecherous narrator “is all of us”** _ I was convinced I was correct. Which Ayn Rand work convinced you of that? The word “narrator” is an essential part of the clue. AFAIK Ayn Rand only wrote one book with a first-person narrator, _Anthem_, and that narrator is not particularly lecherous. Edit: and of course as @The_Other_Waldo_Pepper points, out, the “his” in the clue refers to the author, telling us it must be a male author. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/486 "2023-01-25T18:15:28Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I can agree as far as _Lolita_ goes, but no amount of figuring would have led me to the author’s name, which I don’t think I ever heard in all my life. Bingo. I’m quite sure I’ve never heard that name either. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/487 "2023-01-25T21:00:08Z")
Just shows how even intelligent people can live in different worlds. For me, the answer was a gimme. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/488 "2023-01-25T21:14:37Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Honestly, I was thinking D.H. Lawrence (thinking of Lady Chatterley’s Lover), though the timing was off and “foreign-born authors” suggests someone in the US. That’s where my mind went too. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2023, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/489 "2023-01-25T21:19:55Z")
For some reason I got stuck on Norman Mailer. But he was born in New Jersey, and after reading his Wikipedia I realize he wasn’t the sort of author I thought he was. I might have been thinking of Phillip Roth, but the 1950s time frame wouldn’t have worked, and he was _also_ born in New Jersey. I my defense, either of those guys _could_ have been foreign-born, for all I know. But Nabakov never entered my brain, so I was way off no matter what. ---
**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:** [January 26, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/490 "2023-01-26T14:56:57Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I might have been thinking of Phillip Roth, but the 1950s time frame wouldn’t have worked, and he was _also_ born in New Jersey. My first guess was Portnoy’s Complaint, but I had no idea when it was written. It could have been the 50s for al I know. And New Jersey’s like a foreign country, innit? ---
**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:** [January 26, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/491 "2023-01-26T16:59:56Z")
I thought of Henry Miller. Didn’t know if he was foreign-born or not, and I couldn’t think of his first name so I just said “who is Miller?” ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/492 "2023-01-26T20:34:46Z")
Ditto. I’m not trashing anyone for not knowing it–apparently, I’m a hopeless ignoramus for never having heard of “Banksy”–but in my own mind, knowing of a book and knowing its author go hand in hand. It seems strange to me, personally, that you could go “oh! That sounds like a reference to _Lolita_! But I don’t know who wrote it.” Edit: also, _Lolita_ is one of those recurring topics you know come up every so often on Jeopardy if you watch it often enough. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2023, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/493 "2023-01-26T20:56:32Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > but in my own mind, knowing of a book and knowing its author go hand in hand. It seems strange to me, personally, that you could go “oh! That sounds like a reference to _Lolita_! But I don’t know who wrote it.” Really? I read tons of books, and I can’t remember all the authors. I didn’t get this answer either, but I also didn’t think of the title. I drew a big blank. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/494 "2023-01-27T01:37:57Z")
Yogesh Raut, the boastful three-time winner from a couple of weeks ago, [posted on Facebook](https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=pfbid02MzEJio1Xose4GwGzUpdSYv8dfa7iFf9GUGN2VJ6KskHnPx13oFV7AdUFgcxZbwuQl&id=203232) that Jeopardy! is overvalued in America, saying, “There never has been, and never will be, any justification for treating Jeopardy! as the Olympics of quizzing.” Of course he starts his statement by listing his quizzing accomplishments, doing nothing to convince me that he’s not a boastful ass. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/495 "2023-01-27T01:45:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn quoting Raut](#): > > “There never has been, and never will be, any justification for treating Jeopardy! as the Olympics of quizzing.” Well, it’s the only quiz show that has a mass audience, so in that way it’s like the Olympics. Sure, you can watch ice skating at other times, but how many do? ---
**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:** [January 27, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/496 "2023-01-27T02:55:51Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Yogesh Raut, Sour grapes. He didn’t win 50 games, so _obviously_ isn’t a valuable show, because if it were, he would have won 50 games. Ipso facto QED. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/497 "2023-01-27T04:43:39Z")
The date of the post is January 12th, the date his first win aired. Yogesh’s Comic Book Guyness is definitely on full display, though. ---
**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:** [January 27, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/498 "2023-01-27T13:40:05Z")
FWIW, everybody pronounces her name wrong. Nabakov said it should be like “lollipop”, but I always hear “Low-lita”. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/499 "2023-01-29T21:10:10Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Yogesh Raut, the boastful three-time winner from a couple of weeks ago, [posted on Facebook](https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=pfbid02MzEJio1Xose4GwGzUpdSYv8dfa7iFf9GUGN2VJ6KskHnPx13oFV7AdUFgcxZbwuQl&id=203232) that Jeopardy! is overvalued in America, saying, “There never has been, and never will be, any justification for treating Jeopardy! as the Olympics of quizzing.” Of course he starts his statement by listing his quizzing accomplishments, doing nothing to convince me that he’s not a boastful ass. Yogesh can kiss my shiny white ass. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/500 "2023-01-30T03:14:22Z")
The guy must have some sort of personality disorder. He’s scrubbed his Facebook page now, but he’d posted several lengthy rants about Jeopardy, how we don’t have a “healthy quizzing culture in this country,” claiming to be a victim of racism and lambasting Jeopardy for not being a force for “social justice,” mixed with petty squabbles from his personal life. On other fora, commenters have said he’s been banned from several bar trivias, and one guy who played against him once said he screamed and threw such a tantrum when his team lost that the other guy’s team asked the host to just give Yogesh’s team the win out of pity. ---
**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:** [January 30, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/501 "2023-01-30T03:26:26Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > He’s scrubbed his Facebook page now Including the post I linked to upthread, which is now broken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=26)