# 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:** 30
**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:** [February 15, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/582 "2023-02-15T07:26:02Z")
Did anyone else think it was odd that they had a clue about a car with a six-cylinder engine, but wouldn’t accept “what are pistons” as a valid response? Each cylinder has just one piston. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/583 "2023-02-15T07:29:37Z")
Yes, I was sure when they came back from commercial they were going to credit her with the answer. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2023, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/584 "2023-02-15T11:27:36Z")
Absolutely. I also expected a score adjustment. mmm ---
**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:** [February 15, 2023, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/585 "2023-02-15T12:09:30Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Did anyone else think it was odd that they had a clue about a car with a six-cylinder engine, but wouldn’t accept “what are pistons” as a valid response? Each cylinder has just one piston. > [@Turek](#): > > Yes, I was sure when they came back from commercial they were going to credit her with the answer. I thought so too, at first, but here’s the text of the clue: > Looking at a Hudson Super Six, named for its six of these, feel the presence of the Joads who converted one into a truck & piled in I think the judges would have said that, although it might have had six pistons, or six piston rods, or six frammistans, it was _named_ for the six cylinders. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/586 "2023-02-15T13:30:54Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Sure she hawks fake brain pills. Or did, I haven’t seen one in a while. Considering that one of Jeopardy’s regular sponsors is fake brain pill manufacturer Prevagen, I don’t think there’s a lot of room to complain about Mayim’s shilling for Neuriva. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/587 "2023-02-15T14:10:07Z")
She’s not known for her attractiveness, or her Oscar caliber acting chops. But she makes up for all that by being so famously _smart_. So, if she says her brain pills work who’s to argue? She is (or was?) personally vouching for this shit. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/588 "2023-02-15T16:20:45Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > I think the judges would have said that, although it might have had six pistons, or six piston rods, or six frammistans, it was _named_ for the six cylinders. Was it, though? I might say that my car has a 6-cylinder engine, but that’s just for convenience. Anyone who knows cars knows that it must also have 6 pistons, 6 connecting rods, etc. Is there any definitive source from Hudson that they named the car after its cylinders, and not the other mechanical pieces within the cylinders? ---
**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:** [February 15, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/589 "2023-02-15T16:28:10Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > > Bess TRUMP??!! > > > > He deserved to lose for that alone. > > Meh. That was just a simple verbal gaffe, the previous response had been Melania Trump. He was laughing when he realized what he did. There was another dumb one a couple of weeks ago. The clue was something about a place that people in Finland spend that’s 210 degrees and he guessed igloos, rather than saunas, as was the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/590 "2023-02-16T00:19:15Z")
Yeah. I would have accepted that. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/591 "2023-02-16T04:56:46Z")
Haha, when I was a kid and my dad first explained the rudiments of a car engine to me, I immediately thought it made no sense that we refer to engines by the number of cylinders rather than the number of pistons. A cylinder is just an empty space, I thought; the piston is what does the work! We should talk about 4, 6, or 8-_piston_ engines, not cylinders. Of course I’m accustomed to cylinders being the convention, but yeah, if I were the Jeopardy judges, I’d have given it to her. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2023, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/592 "2023-02-16T10:24:17Z")
Yes, it’s the piston that does the work. There is a reason they don’t call that basketball team the Detroit Cylinders. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/593 "2023-02-16T14:11:38Z")
That answer could work on a couple of levels: 210 degrees Kelvin (yes, I know this is a non-standard usage), or an igloo that was just over half-completed. I wonder if they phrased the question (answer) to exclude those possibilities? ---
**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:** [February 16, 2023, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/594 "2023-02-16T15:33:46Z")
While it is certainly true that the number of cylinders in an engine is equal to the number of pistons (and other components, for that matter), if this question is asked: What does the ‘8’ refer to in ‘V-8 engine’? Some number of respondents greater than 99% will answer ‘cylinders’. ---
**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:** [February 16, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/595 "2023-02-16T16:17:15Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > What does the ‘8’ refer to in ‘V-8 engine’? Maybe MPG? ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/596 "2023-02-16T17:52:25Z")
I agree, I’m just saying I would have given it to her. Looking back at Jeopardy Archive, I’m even more surprised than I am that she didn’t get credit for “pistons,” that it was a triple stumper. Neither of the other 2 contestants could think of cylinders? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/597 "2023-02-17T00:02:22Z")
Have you seen the Detroit Pistons play? Instead of going up and down, they kind of just roll around like Pringles cans. Maybe the Cylinders is a better name? 😉 There was a terrible Final Jeopardy question recently. It was worded so badly. A giant run-on sentence about Giotto and a certain comet from 680 years ago interpreted as a possible Star of Bethlehem. I knew the answer but the wording was so confusing I hesitated. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/598 "2023-02-17T00:39:55Z")
> A craft that visited it was named for Giotto, based on the story that 680 years earlier, the painter depicted it as the Star of Bethlehem Even though I also got it, I agree that it is not the clearest of clues. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/599 "2023-02-17T00:42:00Z")
I didn’t know the answer, but I wasted all the time just trying to understand the question. ---
**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:** [February 17, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/600 "2023-02-17T01:19:33Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > but I wasted all the time just trying to understand the question. That happens about once per game for me. I turn to my wife and say, “I don’t even know what their asking.” It’s rare for Final Jeopardy though. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2023, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/601 "2023-02-17T04:02:20Z")
> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > I’m always impressed when someone posts that they guessed the “answer” to FJ from just the Category. All I can usually manage is to rate how big or small the number of possible “Clues” is. For example, State Capitals has a maximum of somewhat above 50, due to changes. On the other hand, Literature approaches infinity. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=29) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=31)