As did I. It was written by Stan and Jan Bearenstein, wasn’t it?
I guessed correctly on today’s FJ. My second guess was the wrong answer given by two contestants.
The current champ, Cris, is on a major roll. With today’s win, he’s now won 13 games and $416,102.
Same here.
I was slightly amazed by the opera category today. When Jeopardy! does an opera category, there’s almost always a clue about Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio. Tonight’s category was “‘F’ in opera” and Fidelio wasn’t one of them.
When they said the F in Opera category I told my wife the correct response was “Figaro” - I was right!
(Typing this out, I wonder if “f in” was a sly way to say something naughty?)
That was certainly my first thought…
I thought the FJ that Cris didn’t know was relatively easy. Andy was negative after the Jeopardy round, but managed to nearly equal Cris.
Brian
It took me a while to get that question. Given the year, one immediately thought about Shakespeare. Maybe the bit about Bulgaria distracted Chris? He’s a great competitor, look forward to seeing him in the future.
I thought of The Tempest immediately. BTW, at least twice Cris found both of the daily doubles in the second round back to back, bet aggressively on the first one but very timidly on the second one. Last week, for instance, he bet $7000 on the first one but I think $100 on the second. Had he been more aggressive, his final total would have been higher.
Tiredness could have played a role; for all we know this was the end of a 5-shows-filmed day for him (and after several days of such in a row).
And yes, he’ll be hard to beat in the next Tournament of Champions.
Although I was kind of getting tired of seeing him day after day, at least he didn’t have any annoying quirks like some other recent multi winning champions. I look forward to seeing him in future TOC shows.
He seemed to get very focused on the game, which may be why he had no quirks (well, aside from the thumb’s up during the contestant introductions).
BTW, he was a former professional poker player. I wonder if that background helped him?
The correct phrase is “Who is John Galt?”, dammit. “Close enough”, my foot.
I was shocked by that. They didn’t ask for the name of the guy, but the first line of the book.
Yeah, I’m still amazed that the answer was accepted.
And the response needed to be
What is “Who is John Galt?”
Dammit, that was really wrong.
This is the text of the clue: “He is described as 'Prometheus who changed his mind”; now you say the first sentence of ‘Atlas Shrugged.’"
So yes, they did ask for the name of the guy. In a clue structured like that, the contestant’s task is to identify the “he.”
It was a badly written clue, because the second clause asks for a different thing than the first clause does.
Agree with this. I wasn’t crazy about it, but I think they had to accept “Who is Galt?” because the main clause of the clue, structured like a traditional Jeopardy clue, was “He is described as ‘Prometheus who changed his mind.’”
I was shocked that the FJ from the same match was as triple-stumper, but I was aided by my remembrance of the fact that Jeopardy! writers love referring to Manhattan as an island.
Got 12/12’s FJ - thank you, Dr. Lecter!
You mean, Manhattan Island? I wonder why.
We’ve had this discussion before.