On a slightly different topic—that of the dangers* of Jeopardy! staff making any suggestions to contestants—I’m pretty sure that someone on staff must have told current champ Jake to STOP POUNDING ON THE PODIUMS.
He pounded, hard, several times, on the middle one during his first game, and on the champ’s podium during his second game. But today: no pounding.
There has got to be a lot of delicate wiring involved with the embedded screens—I bet they worried he’d break something.
*for fear of running afoul of laws relating to game shows, I mean.
If you’re referring to the January 30th episode, it was a triple stumper that almost wasn’t. The cheerleader in third place started writing the correct response but time ran out; it was very generous of Ken to acknowledge her attempt. I was hoping she would win, just to end a string of nerdy men winners.
Thank you. I’m glad I’m not the only one who has noticed that. His speed is disturbing. Ken barely finishes saying “Correct” before Jake’s in there with “Great Lakes for $300,” or "“State Capitols for $1200.” Heck, he rarely even adds the hundred: “State Capitols for three.”
Jake reminds me of Mattea Roach. He does that O thing with his mouth, and his leaning over with his fist on his chin vaguely reminds me of her for some reason. He’s just too proud of himself. I bet he’s insufferable in regular life.
Jake speaks so rapidly that I can’t understand what he’s saying most of the time. This lessens my enjoyment of the game, because if I didn’t know the correct response, I don’t learn it from him. Part of my enjoyment is learning new things, and he’s not helping me with that!
Yeah, that part of the clue could have, and should have, been left out:
5 U.S. states have 6-letter names. These two border each other.
Perhaps they put ‘Mississippi River’ in the clue to narrow it down for the contestants. If so, it didn’t do the job. I thought it was a rather easy clue.
I think that was it. So that they wouldn’t waste time going through the names of states in the east trying to find one with six letters. They only had 30 seconds, after all.
The weird thing was, I kind of misread the clue and the “west of the Mississippi” part gave it to me. I read it as there being 5 states with 6-letter names, 2 of which were west of the Mississippi and bordered each other. I thought of Oregon, and so there had to be another that bordered it. Washington? No. California? No. Idaho? No. Nevada? Oh, yeah, that does have 6 letters.