I hate them both, but anagrams are much worse. I can only get those if the clue makes it obvious. I cannot unscramble letters for the life of me.
Back to the Walt Disney FJ
https://torontosun.com/entertainment/television/jeopardy-fans-miffed-by-simple-final-jeopardy-clue-easiest-question-ive-ever-seen
What a dumb “article.” Why is posting random cherry-picked people’s Twitter comments considered journalism? IMO last night’s FJ was toddler level easy. Way more obvious than the Disney one.
I guessed Tutu but could not come up with Mandela in time-- “that anti-apartheid guy who was imprisoned” probably would not cut it.
I KNOW who Mandela is, but for some reason I blanked on him (the other Mandela effect 
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I do that all the time for movie stars :“Who played Trinity in The Matrix” (2 hours later) "oh Carrie-Anne Moss of course)
Brian
Just and “and who has never been in my kitchen”
I was exactly the opposite…I guessed Mandela but completely blanked on Tutu.
My last-second guess was Gandhi, because I knew from the movie that he spent time in South Africa, as @Procrustus mentioned. I thought it was a good guess, but that opinion is obviously not shared by others on this board…
Apparently everybody except you and me knew Ghandhi never won a Peace Prize. I guessed Ghandi and Tutu.
Well, by Gawd, I know that fact now!
My impression is that Tutu was kind of famous in the 1980s, but isn’t talked about nearly as much as Mandela anymore. Thus I thought of Mandela but Tutu never even occurred to me.
If I were taking a test and there were a T/F question on it “Gandhi won a Nobel Peace Prize,” until this thread, it would have been a total guess on my part.
That was Kenya silly, not South Africa.
I agree, but that’s been the norm for years now. Take a random topic, copy random people’s tweets about it, and you’ve got an article!
At least Jeopardy fans were only “miffed” in that headline. Usually the headlines say that they’re either “outraged” or “in shock.”
It’s not a spoiler to say Ken helped out a player on one answer. Guess which one.
I got the final question though was not completely sure of my answer. I felt bad for the contestant who basically answered two questions right but missed some trivial nits.
But those two clues were both titles. One was the state song of Kentucky “My Old Kentucky Home”. She answered “Old Kentucky Home”. The other was the title of a poem called “Metamorphoses”. She answered “Metamorphosis”. Jeopardy is quite strict when the answer is a title.
I’m not saying I disagreed with the decisions. I am saying I felt sympathy for the contestant.
Fair enough.
Can you explain?
It just seemed like, in the “Fish out of water” category, he filled in the “Salmon” when the contestant just said “Chase”. He should have named the fish, imo.
I haven’t watched that episode yet, just looked at it on the Jeopardy Archive, but was it explicitly announced at the beginning of the round that “we need the name of a type of fish in your response?” If not, just “Chase” is an acceptable answer. It’s often been discussed that on Jeopardy you’re better off referring to a person with their last name only, and waiting for a “be more specific” if necessary.
Yes, the last name will always suffice unless there is room for ambiguity, such as when the answer is a president (which Adams/Johnson/Bush?).
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