# 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:** 74
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1462 "2023-11-16T00:20:25Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I did it once about 13 years ago when the category was “Alliterative Athletes”. Barry Bonds? ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1463 "2023-11-16T00:28:26Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Barry Bonds? I’ll spoiiler this in case anyone else wants to take a guess. I said “who is Mark McGwire? Oh, wait, it could also be Sammy Sosa.” The clue was: “In 1998 these two baseball rivals shared top honors as Sports Illustrated’s Sportsmen of the Year.” I actually got them both. ---
**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 16, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1464 "2023-11-16T00:41:49Z")
> [@K364](#): > > I can’t believe there was a triple-stumper on Garth Brooks. My guess is that made Garth Brooks a little sad. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1465 "2023-11-16T01:03:18Z")
So today had a clue about an absolute zero based temperature scale named after a British scientist. The obvious answer is Kelvin, but I assume they would also have accepted Rankine - it starts from absolute zero and was named after Scottish scientist William Rankine. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2023, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1466 "2023-11-16T03:08:24Z")
I thought of an alternate answer for one of the finish-the-bad-rhyme clues. ---
**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 16, 2023, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1467 "2023-11-16T14:52:17Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I had no idea on FJ; My “second guess” choice was right. Too bad that doesn’t count. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1468 "2023-11-17T01:54:16Z")
Whenever “American Authors” comes up, I always yell, “Faulkner!” A couple weeks ago, it actually _was_ Faulkner. I need to think of another author now. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2023, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1469 "2023-11-17T02:31:40Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > I need to think of another author now. I alternate between Twain and Steinbeck. ---
**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:** [November 25, 2023, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1470 "2023-11-25T04:15:35Z")
Anybody else notice the illegal castle on tonight’s episode? [https://youtu.be/CsQKvXM2yc0?si=gDbStc9gByjgEzox&t=713](https://youtu.be/CsQKvXM2yc0?si=gDbStc9gByjgEzox&t=713) ---
**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 25, 2023, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1471 "2023-11-25T05:51:05Z")
That’s funny. They should know better! ---
**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:** [November 25, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1472 "2023-11-25T11:43:18Z")
This episode was not shown locally and the link does not work. Explain, please? mmm ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1473 "2023-11-25T13:42:53Z")
Says “Private Video” ---
**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 25, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1474 "2023-11-25T15:42:55Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Explain, please? You can only castle if the king and rook have not moved. In the jeopardy! video, the white king is on a white square, meaning it has been moved. They set up their board incorrectly. Sloppy for Jeopardy! ---
**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:** [November 25, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1475 "2023-11-25T16:26:30Z")
It’s possible they set up the board incorrectly, with the white king on a white square, in which case castling would still be legal. Or the king has moved to the white square, in which case it couldn’t legally castle. Technically, there’s no reason you couldn’t play a perfectly valid game if the board was set up as seen in the video. All the pieces move the same way; it would just be a mirror image of the same game set up correctly. Anybody who had a record of the game and tried to replay it would need to know that the pieces weren’t in their proper starting positions. It would probably also drive an experienced player crazy. ---
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1476 "2023-11-26T01:04:53Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Way too easy of a clue for a Daily Double, IMO. It is my understanding that the DDs are positioned semi-randomly without knowing the “questions.” ---
**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:** [November 26, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1477 "2023-11-26T01:08:38Z")
> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > the DDs are positioned semi-randomly without knowing the “questions.” That’s certainly possible, although I don’t think I’ve heard that before. Can you provide a cite? It would also make sense then, that sometimes the DDs are incredibly hard and others are quite easy. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1478 "2023-11-26T02:56:22Z")
I’ve have always binged Jeopardy! and last Friday’s epidode (11/17) taught me that creator/writer of the Peanuts comic strip was Charles Schulz and not Charles Shultz. It was the last response of the Single Jeopardy board and when the contestant said “Schulz” instead of Schultz I thought they were going to correct the score when they returned from commercial break. Ignorance fought I don’t think the DD’s are placed randomly as I see them very infrequently in the second row and never in the 1st row. And of course someone has counted the DD frequency albeit from 2015. > **[Here's where all the Daily Doubles on Jeopardy! are](https://www.vox.com/2015/3/3/8140405/jeopardy-daily-double-statistics)** > > Finally, someone made a statistical map of Daily Doubles ---
**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 26, 2023, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1479 "2023-11-26T03:11:01Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I don’t think the DD’s are placed randomly as I see them very infrequently in the second row and never in the 1st row. It’s possible for the placement of the daily doubles to be random but _weighted_. ---
**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 2, 2023, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1480 "2023-12-02T14:13:57Z")
Evidently I’m old, or the Wednesday contestants (all former champs) have lived sheltered lives, because none of them knew that the album _Houses of the Holy_ was sung by Led Zeppelin. > “You have annoyed Led Zeppelin fans everywhere,” Jennings warned the stumped players. > **[‘Jeopardy!’ fans deem contestants ‘idiots’ for failing to recognize iconic...](https://nypost.com/2023/12/01/entertainment/jeopardy-fans-deem-contestants-idiots-for-failing-to-recognize-iconic-rock-band/)** > > Host Ken Jennings told contestants that they “have annoyed” the band’s fanbase by not knowing the legendary rockers. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2023, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-2022-23/971442/1481 "2023-12-02T14:18:31Z")
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