Nope. I was also trying to think of some kind of fairy tale/fable type woman. When the correct answer was revealed it made total sense but I never ever would have gotten to that.
Huh. I got it almost immediately and then like @N9IWP panicked about how to spell it!
If you recognized that the mention of “1000” was actually the most important part of the clue, then that could lead you there. I just read it as “someone stops speaking once the sun rises for a very long time.”
I got it too, but I knew it would do me no good to brag about it here. Although I think I could have spelled it too!
Funnily enough, playing the “Guess the answer based only on the category” game, I called out “The Little Mermaid.” I’m not terribly familiar with the original classic story, but I know the Disney version had Ariel losing her voice for a bit, so when the clue came up I thought I might actually have it. (And that’s what Suzanne came up with as well.)
Sadly, though I’ve heard of both 1001 Arabian Nights and the name Scheherazade, I don’t know enough about either to have put the two together, even if the clue had been more obvious about the story to which it referred.
Did all notice that the potpourri category had a variation of “tic” in every question. Jumping around like they do, maybe no one noticed.
I missed FJ, annoyingly, because about an hour before I watched it, we listened to the music, and I told my wife I wanted to see the sequel, where the titular character kills the monarch to avenge all the women he killed.
News (from here):
Jeopardy! is raising the stakes to determine the best contestant in any given year beyond the Tournament of Champions.
Jeopardy! Masters will air in primetime with Amy [Schneider] (40 wins and the 2022 ToC) Matt Amodio (38 wins), Sam Buttrey (2022 ToC finalist), Andrew He (2022 ToC finalist) and Mattea Roach (23 wins) competing in the first go.
According to Deadline, Ken, 48, is hosting the hourlong episodes and while there is no official air date or prize amount yet, it’s happening.
The game show sealed the deal with a photo teasing the special’s six stars and wrote: “The stakes have never been higher.”
And this update, contradicting the reports from last summer I linked to above:
Regular host alongside Ken, Mayim Bialik, 47, will stick to hosting Celebrity Jeopardy! as her primetime spinoff which execs have hinted will be renewed next year.
She’s also hosting a smaller tournament of college students in February as former contestant Ken will hold court with the big winners.
I don’t think I’ve done it before, but I knew the answer to all 61 questions tonight. They must have been easy, at least one player also answered every question correctly (though only one knew the Final Jeopardy answer). Some topics are just up your alley.
Is it just me or is the current champion just too boastful?
“Liberty Enlightening the World”. Really? At least Ken called him out on it.
Well, he’s…something that rubs me the wrong way.
I am hoping he doesn’t repeat his arch-enemy’s run. I might have to quit watching if that happens.
I think he’s going to go a long way. I’ll predict right now that he gets past 10 games.
Celebrity Jeopardy has always had its fair share of “not too bright” players. That’s what SNL’s Celebrity Jeopardy sketches were based on, after all. But the current iteration does seem more heavily weighted with less talented contestants. Occasionally you’ll get someone like a Wil Wheaton, an Andy Richter, or like Patton Oswalt last night, but a lot of them are just embarrassing. Making it an hour long doesn’t help matters, either.
I need to record Celebrity Jeopardy, if just for the cringe factor! I’ll find it streaming somewhere.
I avoid watching Celebrity Jeopardy. Obviously, you and a whole lot of other folks enjoy it.
It’s available on Hulu the next day.
Thanks, I have Hulu.
I doubt I would do very well on regular Jeopardy. What I need to do is become a celebrity. Then my chances of winning on Jeopardy would increase exponentially.
Damn. You’ve hacked the game better than Holzhauer.
I cannot stomach this newest champion, Yogesh. A smug, arrogant bastard. He acts like he should already be considered The Greatest Jeopardy Player Of All Time, just hand him the title and bow down before his majesty. I was really hoping he would go down Friday and be just a two-time champion – no small feat, I would love to be a two-time champion myself – but Yogesh would have suffered great humiliation. It almost happened – Alas! The challenger choked in Final Jeopardy. A tricky clue, but I got the answer right myself.