I just checked the video. Today it was ‘wonderful’, followed by ‘awesome’, and then back to ‘wonderful’. Presumably she will be return to ‘great’ tomorrow.
Data cleaned up tonight. No surprise there.
The latest episode may have set a record for fewest correct responses.
For sure. That category on sports, they missed them all correct? How often does that happen?
I’ve seen it with more obscure categories. That one last night was not too tough. Especially baseball and boxing. Polo would have stumped me.
I think I got them all, but hey, I’m an old fart who likes to read. Jeopardy! has a way of finding blind spots in contestants’ knowledge. And these folks are clearly pretty driven students who may be focusing on one or two pretty narrow pathways of learning right now.
And don’t forget the famous Talkin’ Football thread a few years ago.
Early on it occurred to me that Watson spoke with more personality. I turned the sound off and relied on closed captions for the rest of the game.
ETA: Just as well, since hearing “Esyay” would have induced a screaming fit.
I knew it from chukker, but I don’t know where I picked up the knowledge.
How did Lucas miss the question “who is Lucas?” Has that ever happened before?
Yeah, she gave him the answer by calling on him!
I thought those clues were really tough. Most of the Jeopardy round was preempted by a news report on the Alex Murdaugh verdict, so I missed that whole category, but going through it on the Jeopardy Archive, the only one I could even guess was the baseball one. On the others I was completely stumped. Never heard any of those terms. Looking back, I can see how the boxing and hockey ones made sense, but I’m not sure I would have figured any of them out no matter how much time I took.
Oh the complete whiffing of the sport category was funny. (I got them all)
Contestants routinely get modern musicians I’ve never even heard of, know obscure English royalty, can tell they Greek from Roman gods, know poets that stump my poetry-loving wife, and yet…they whiff on sports. It’s like some form of snobbery. Didn’t any contestants play sports when they were kids? You can get a lot of them from osmosis. (OK not chukka - I got that from Higgins on Magnum PI, but that’s just one. My wife knew it from growing up in Argentina. At a baseball game she asked how many more chukkas before they could go home. 
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Chukker, maybe?
Depends on how much of a purist you are.
" chukka : A period of play in polo, also spelled chukker, which is 7 minutes long." - Wikipedia
"…7 1/2 minutes each, called chukkers, chukkars, or chukkas. " - Encyclopedia Britannica
I learned it as chukka. It comes from a Hindu word, so it probably depends on the translator.
Fair enough.
I’ve never heard ‘chukka’. Until now.
Ignorance fought, again.
I’ve only heard it as a type of footwear. Etymologically related, no doubt.
I have played elephant polo in Thailand, and I knew “chukka” from that. World Elephant Polo Association rules use it too.
Chukkar in Hindi/Urdu means a circuit or lap. The word for the polo period is the same in India and Pakistan.
Actually it’s pronounced “chaka” in Thailand. But the written rules in English spell it “chukka.”
I’m not a polo fan but I’ve always heard the word as “chukker” not “chukka.” However there are certain British accents that don’t pronounce final “r”s.