Anybody else find the 1/11 FJ clue confusingly worded? Here it is:
What does that mean?
The first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 album since the 1980s (in other words, before her, the last time a Billboard Top 10 album was by a woman was in the 1980s?)
The first woman to have a run of 5 straight decades in which she had a Billboard Top 10 album in each decade, and BTW, that run just happened to start with the 1980s?
Other women have had a run of 5 straight decades with a Billboard Top 10 album in each decade, but of those, she’s the only one whose run started with the decade of the 1980s?
Looking back, #1 is pretty unlikely, but even now, knowing the correct response, I’m still not sure I understand what they were asking.
Yes. They should have had the word “consecutively” in there.
It did make me pause for a moment in confusion but since obviously women have had top ten albums I knew what they meant and did think of the correct answer.
I was quite proud of myself for nailing FJ yesterday (1-16), when all three contestants whiffed.
And there was some interesting (small) wagering in FJ yesterday. I didn’t quite understand the reasoning, but it worked out for the challenger, who had the lead going into the final round.
I was bummed that Beauteous Hair Man lost, but cheered right up when Yogesh lost as well. I gave the same FJ answer as the lady that won; I say we ought to get half credit.
Yogesh bet to hold onto second place if Jimmy, in third, bet everything (which he did) and was right (which he wasn’t). That made sense, since Yogesh couldn’t win if he and Katie were both right.
What isn’t quite so obvious is why Katie bet what she did. Her obvious choice was to bet enough to beat Yogesh if they were both right (>$23,800). Instead, she appears to have bet enough to hold second if she was wrong and Yogesh was right (<$2,800), which since they all got it wrong, and Yogesh didn’t bet it all, gave her the win.
It doesn’t seem that this was a carefully planned strategy on her part, but the important thing is that she won. Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than right.
What I don’t understand is why, when the category was “Business Milestones,” two contestants gave responses relating to the government.
Actually, the way she bet he could have won if they were both right if he had bet more. She looked completely surprised when they announced she won. I don’t think she had the math figured out.
Yes, sorry, I was assuming both are right and he bets everything and she bets to top him. But clearly neither of them was confident about the category. I think she may have expected Yogesh to go big, and when he didn’t and was wrong, she was a little confused as to how the math was going to work out. Perfectly understandable under the circumstances.
Someone didn’t look too happy when he didn’t win, even with that strategic bet. Usually the losers applaud the winner and often even smile, but not this time. Bye bye!
Sometimes when you’re under that high-pressure time crunch, a certain word or phrase takes your mind in a certain direction and you don’t think to take a step back and ask yourself, “what does this really mean?” I’m thinking “business” → “economic” in the minds of those two contestants.
For me personally, the word “business” locked my mind into products for businesses (e.g., “International Business Machines”) so although I knew the year was too late, all I could think of was a typewriter. It didn’t occur to me in time that they could be asking about any product.
I know it’s pointless to brag about our couch performances, but I confidently knew the answers to both back-to-back triple-stumper Final questions (Model T, Louisiana and Arkansas). I doubt that I’m alone, though, I thought they were very get-able.
And Yogesh is getting slammed on social media for his apparent poor sportsmanship. His defense/explanation only makes him come off as even more jerkish, in my opinion.
He was not my favourite competitor by any means. But I don’t expect people who do well on Jeopardy! to necessarily be highly charismatic or even extremely normal.
Go ahead and brag, and I will join you! I thought yesterday’s FJ answer was incredibly easy, as it was practically given in the mnemonic. But perhaps a rudimentary knowledge of US geography was needed, something the contestants didn’t appear to possess. Alabama? Really? And Illinois?
I was stunned that nobody got Tuesday’s FJ. Even if you’ve never heard the mnemonic (I hadn’t) or seen the picture (I had), just completing the list of states from north to south should have made it obvious.
Alabama does not border Missouri!
Yeah, i wasn’t a fan of Yogesh, but he seemed to me more an autistic, socially awkward nerd than anything else. Kind of a Milton from Office Space/Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
I wonder if Jeopardy tries to screen such people out? You would think that as a TV show, they would want people with charisma. Inevitably such people will be overrepresented amon trivia buffs, but many of the big champions (e.g., Ken) haven’t been that way.