I know it from the Woody Allen book, “Without Feathers.”
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Ditto.
Just one of those things you either know or you don’t, and if you don’t, you’re never going to guess it. I’m familiar with “Because I could not stop for Death he kindly stopped for me” but had never heard of “Hope is the thing with feathers.”
The clue was:
I thought the reference to a poem might be “a wing and a prayer”, so I guessed “what is prayer?”
I got the next night’s Final Jeopardy correct, and none of the contestants did.
I can’t believe they had any trouble with the Beatles lyrics category. I feel so old.
The reply of “Something in the way she moves” should have been ruled incorrect. Since they demand 100% accuracy in titles.
Yeah, that was disappointing, to say the least.
And one they got right, they actually missed:
Interestingly enough, George got the title, and the first line, from a James Taylor song called…“Something in the way she moves”. And now you know the rest of the story. Good day!
Once again, the person in a distant third bets almost everything instead of standing pat, which could have cost her second place. It didn’t happen this time, but I just don’t understand why, after 40 years, people don’t bone up on betting strategy before going on the show.
Eh, if they were like me, they could continue the song from that point, but it takes a few seconds to figure out the actual title of the song. At least one person buzzed in and you could see her mentally running through the lyrics, but couldn’t get to the title.
Generally they don’t demand 100% accuracy in song titles. You are allowed to add additional lyrics to the title, as long as those lyrics are correct. So far as I know, that’s been the policy for a long time, precisely because it’s often difficult to know the exact title of a song if you’ve only ever heard it on the radio.
On the other hand, the category on California Missions from last week seemed really arcane, to anyone who wasn’t born in the state.
For us native Californians, it’s something we’re exposed to from birth. I think every 4th grader in the state is required to make a model of a mission out of popsicle sticks.
Most people probably believe that the key to Jeopardy is to get the answers right, and betting strategy is only of secondary importance. So contestants try to brush up on their trivia knowledge, not their math skills.
That’s certainly what I thought before reading this thread.
The third - arguably the most important - leg of that stool is buzzer speed/timing.
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Surely avoiding wrong answers is high in that list too.
I don’t know the actual amount of time that contestants have to write down their FJ bet, but assumedly it’s 60 seconds or more. (I read somewhere that it’s five minutes, but that seems incredibly long.) Regardless, you don’t need to be a math genius to determine what’s a proper amount to wager. Betting $0 when you’re a distant third, and the other two are neck and neck, is a no-brainer.
That, I don’t agree with. Even though the actual contestants mostly stared blankly at the clues, I thought most of them were quite straightforward, based on knowledge that Jeopardy contestants ought to have. Most of the clues didn’t really rely on in-depth knowledge of specific missions.
One of the clues mentioned “this royal road.” That’s El Camino Real. One of them wanted the only mission named after the cross. That’s Santa Cruz. One of them mentioned a fort in San Francisco. That’s obviously the Presidio. Even if you knew nothing about California missions, if you know a little elementary Spanish and some popular California tourist attractions, you could get them pretty easily.
Of course. You cannot succeed if you lack one of these skills (buzzing and answering).
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None of the contestants got it, and neither did I, but my husband did. I suspect he knew it because he likes Al Pacino.
Yes, as is usually the case on Jeopardy, the clues in a category don’t require specific factual knowledge about the topic of that category, but are a hodgepodge of clues about different things incidentally related to that category. I don’t know squat about the missions but I know the Padres play in San Diego, cruz is the Spanish word for cross and there’s a city named Santa Cruz, I’ve been to San Francisco and know the Presidio is a fort, I know that “neophyte” is a word for a new religious convert that comes from Greek, etc., and those are the things those clues were testing.