# 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:** 37
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/722 "2023-03-22T14:09:04Z")
Not shocked perhaps, but I did raise an eyebrow. (The Holy Sepulcher wasn’t a bad guess, though…although the connotations of “he won’t rise again” are much different. 🙂 ) ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/723 "2023-03-22T14:11:24Z")
Not me, 'cause I didn’t get it either. My wife remembered after they revealed the answer, but I wasn’t familiar at all with that incident in history. I also thought it had to do with the Crusades. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/724 "2023-03-22T14:11:58Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > Am I the only one who is shocked that none of them got the reference to St. Thomas Becket in yesterday’s final? Be more shocked: I didn’t get it, either. Not everyone knows everything, ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/725 "2023-03-22T14:48:44Z")
True, but I would have expected at least one of them to know it. It’s one of those things that come up somewhat regularly on Jeopardy. To be fair, though, the answer is usually a direct reference to Henry II and his (in)famous line “_Will no one rid me of this turbulent(or meddlesome) priest?_” ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/726 "2023-03-22T16:37:57Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > the answer is usually a direct reference to Henry II and his (in)famous line “_Will no one rid me of this turbulent(or meddlesome) priest?_” Ah, thanks for connecting the dots for me. I knew Henry’s line, but didn’t remember that the priest to whom he was referring was Thomas a Becket. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/727 "2023-03-22T17:32:21Z")
I also didn’t get it. The reference to knights made me assume that it would be a battlefield. Too late for Hastings, too early for Agincourt or Culloden. I had no guess. If I’d thought of it, I might have said Bosworth Field–even though that was the wrong date as well. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/728 "2023-03-22T18:14:49Z")
I said “where is Bosworth Field” while I was watching. Didn’t have much confidence, but it was the best guess I could come up with. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/729 "2023-03-22T18:17:35Z")
I did get it after a bit of thought (the Plantagenets are a bit of a hobby of mine), but I don’t think I would have had time to write the whole question. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/730 "2023-03-22T18:32:16Z")
Looking at the exact wording of the clue again, I suspect that calling it an “event” was meant to be a hint that it was something other than a military battle. ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/731 "2023-03-22T18:47:19Z")
I guessed a Becket, but I would have written Samuel a Becket, and that’s just stupid 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/732 "2023-03-22T20:24:07Z")
The year in the clue caused the Norman Conquest to pop into my head and I then blanked on what year that actually was (even though it was off by a century,) so I kept thinking it was some event related to that. Evidently the same thing happened to Charlotte, as it looked to me like she was trying to write “Hastings.” ---
**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:** [March 22, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/733 "2023-03-22T20:30:28Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > too early for Agincourt That’s the one I picked. What’s a century or two, from a thousand years? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/734 "2023-03-23T02:07:45Z")
Whoa! A Cliff Clavin DD wager tonight. Ouch! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/735 "2023-03-23T02:29:40Z")
Seriously! The total value of all the remaining clues on the board, added to the score of the contestant in second place, was still not enough to stop a runaway. So the appropriate daily double wager was $0. And it cost her the game!! ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/736 "2023-03-23T02:39:39Z")
To be fair, she did well on all the other Hans questions and it was a tricky one. Final Jeopardy was easy but obviously everyone has different knowledge of things. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/737 "2023-03-23T03:14:38Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > So the appropriate daily double wager was $0. Not allowed. Minimum wager for a DD is $5. Karen definitely let her big lead go to her head. There was only $2,400 left on the board when she got the second DD. She had $21,800 and Melissa, in second place, had only $7,100. If Karen had bet anything under $2,800, she would have held onto the lock and won. Melissa has now become a three-day champ largely by luck, despite her own bad bets and those of others. BTW, six months ago I wrote: > [@commasense](#): > > I forgot to humble brag after yesterday’s show. My wife and I play a little game: just before the last commercial break, when Ken announces the FJ category, we each try to guess the FJ response before even seeing the clue. (I think recent champ Cris mentioned that he does this, too.) > > The category for Monday’s FJ was “Authors,” and I immediately said “Hemingway.” > > The clue: > > > When Esquire began as a men’s lifestyle magazine in the 1930s, he was asked for manly content & wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues. Did it again last night! The FJ category was American Novelists, and as soon as I saw the clue I said, “Heller.” The clue: > He served with an airman named Yohannan in World War II & despite what readers might think, he said he enjoyed his service ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/738 "2023-03-23T03:39:29Z")
I knew that tonight’s FJ was a reference to Catch-22, but drew a blank on the authors name. I don’t suppose they would’ve given me credit for “that guy who wrote Catch-22”. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/739 "2023-03-23T03:51:02Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > I don’t suppose they would’ve given me credit for “that guy who wrote Catch-22”. Only if you add “…and has never been in my kitchen.” That was a horrible DD bet. The important thing is to win the game. Not everyone is James Holtzhauer and can survive a bet like that. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/740 "2023-03-23T22:00:22Z")
I was slightly off on the movie theme FJ. I guessed Norman Bates (jeek! jeek!) but I wasn’t sure how the sexiness part was supposed to work. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/741 "2023-03-23T23:56:51Z")
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