# 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:** 7
**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:** [November 4, 2022, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/121 "2022-11-04T00:11:28Z")
Getting a triple stumper is always fun, but when you get a triple stumper in Final Jeopardy, _Tournament of Champions_, you can crow. Caw! caw! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/122 "2022-11-04T00:37:07Z")
Did anyone else think that the wording of Yesterdays FJ was confusing? It could easily have been interpreted that the answer phrase they were looking for was something that generally meant “unfulfilled promise”. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/123 "2022-11-04T00:38:27Z")
Yeah, I never thought of it meaning that, but I got it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/124 "2022-11-04T03:51:56Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Did anyone else think that the wording of Yesterdays FJ was confusing? It could easily have been interpreted that the answer phrase they were looking for was something that generally meant “unfulfilled promise”. That’s exactly what I thought they were looking for so I didn’t how the answer fit. The clue was: “Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill that gave reparations to formerly enslaved people, hence this phrase for an unfulfilled promise” I can’t see how to read that as anything other than looking for a phrase that means an unfulfilled promise. 🤔 At least I got today’s correct! ---
**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:** [November 4, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/125 "2022-11-04T11:33:26Z")
As a white kid educated in the 1960-70s, I didn’t learn about it in school. I first heard the phrase in 1989, because it’s the name of Spike Lee’s production company, and that year he released _Do the Right Thing_, the first of his films I saw. It was some time later that I somehow found out about Sherman’s order (that Johnson vetoed). I didn’t realize that it is now commonly used as an allusion to a broken promise made to a minority group. > The phrase “40 acres and a mule” has come to symbolize the broken promise that Reconstruction policies would offer economic justice for African Americans.[251][252] [From this large Wiki entry.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_acres_and_a_mule#:~:text=Forty%20acres%20and%20a%20mule%20was%20part%20of%20Special%20Field,40%20acres%20(16%20ha).) ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/126 "2022-11-04T12:33:35Z")
I was a bit confused as well, but apparently it does mean “a broken promise,” at least sometimes. [This entry](https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/40+acres+and+a+mule) in The Free Dictionary gives “A promise or assurance that proves to be false” as the second definition of “40 acres and a mule” ---
**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:** [November 4, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/127 "2022-11-04T17:23:50Z")
Well, I thought people did actually get 40 acres and a mule. Chalk up one in the loss column for my grade school education. (no I didn’t get that FJ) ---
**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:** [November 4, 2022, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/128 "2022-11-04T20:34:40Z")
I may get yelled at, but i found that winner of Second Chance Tournamant VERY annoying. I’m glad she didn’t win. How can it be possible to be so perky and still be grating? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/129 "2022-11-04T20:43:59Z")
Was that Rowan? I didn’t like them either. ---
**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:** [November 4, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/130 "2022-11-04T20:51:49Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I may get yelled at, but i found that winner of Second Chance Tournamant VERY annoying. I’m glad she didn’t win. How can it be possible to be so perky and still be grating? Well, you won’t get yelled from _this_ household. We found them far too annoying. I found them even more annoying than What’s…Amodio, and that’s a high bar. And a shame, because they really were the best of the second chancers. Good knowledge and buzzer skills. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/131 "2022-11-04T22:12:25Z")
I was wondering how they were going to handle Amy and Matt in the ToC – answer: they and Mattea got a first round bye and are in th3 semi-finals along with the 6 winners of the quarter finals. 3 semi final games, the 3 winners go to the finals. Finals is first to 3 wins wins the ToC Handy chart here: > **[2022 Tournament of Champions | Jeopardy.com](https://www.jeopardy.com/contestant-zone/2022/tournament-champions)** > > Twenty-one contestants, including five super-champions, went head-to-head in the tournament, but only one claimed victory and the $250,000 grand prize. Brian ---
**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:** [November 5, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/132 "2022-11-05T01:14:58Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I may get yelled at, but i found that winner of Second Chance Tournamant VERY annoying. I’m glad she didn’t win. How can it be possible to be so perky and still be grating? I agree with you. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/133 "2022-11-05T18:37:36Z")
I don’t want any contestants to feel uncomfortable while they are on the show but for me at least it’s clearly possible for them to be so comfortable as to be offputting. There was just something about Rowan that telegraphed that they thought they were the star of the show, with the previous 38 seasons merely setting up the Rowan storyline. I always got this vibe from Mattea, too. I consider it bad form on my part criticizing these folks based on how they come off on TV; there’s no reason to believe they aren’t lovely people in the real world. But for _Jeopardy!_ viewing purposes I’m glad Rowan is out and I’m hoping Mattea gets bounced in the semis. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/134 "2022-11-05T19:43:33Z")
Rowan originally appeared on Jeopardy under a different name and gender, presumably the ones given at birth, and for the Second Chance Tournament chose to use their current ones. This was apparently a big step for them. I think that accounts for a lot of Rowan’s exuberance on the show: it was a very public affirmation of their true identity. I can find overly chirpy people annoying, but Rowan didn’t bother me much because I sensed that was the reason. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/135 "2022-11-05T22:54:42Z")
I was not drawn to the chirpiness, either. But in my view there have been contestants who were even more annoying than Rowan. The whole ‘being on Jeopardy!’ thing must be very stressful for a majority of contestants; I’m willing to be understanding. But it’s always a relief when we encounter contestants who are NOT ‘personality plus’ in their manner! ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/136 "2022-11-05T23:42:02Z")
I’m kind of sorry that Rowan lost, because I thought a match-up of Rowan, Mattea, and Amy would have been great; it would have been interesting to see them interact. It would have been a huge statement about what is the new normal. On the other hand, it might have caused a few people to throw stuff at their TVs or rant about the downfall of America; good grief, get used to it. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/137 "2022-11-06T05:00:38Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > I’m kind of sorry that Rowan lost, because I thought a match-up of Rowan, Mattea, and Amy would have been great; it would have been interesting to see them interact. It would have been a huge statement about what is the new normal. Sincere question, not snarking: What’s “new normal” about Mattea? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/138 "2022-11-06T05:11:02Z")
(Mattea) I just googled her and see she’s gay. That in itself strikes me as “old normal”, but I see your point about the statement an Amy-Rowan-Mattea game would possibly make. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2022, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/139 "2022-11-06T06:39:41Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > What’s “new normal” about Mattea? Tiny hands, 🙂 ---
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/140 "2022-11-07T18:39:53Z")
All my imaginary money on Amy in Tuesday’s exhibition game! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442.md?page=8)