Did y’all notice the contestants played the game old-school, taking the board almost sequentially? Weird.
Make that 5.
I did the exact same thing.
Then, later, watching the episode, I resisted the urge to act like I knew the FJ answer (I would have had no clue had I not stumbled upon it earlier).
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I saw the clue and said, “I’m going to kick myself when I see the question,” because I was 12 in 1967 and watching plenty of TV. And Star Trek was my favorite show. And I read The Making of Star Trek (50 years ago).
And I couldn’t come up with the response. 
I missed Chekhov too. Not proud of that. However, seems I am in good company.
Well, in company. No so sure about the “good” part.
I’m really surprised this one was so difficult; a triple stumper on the show and at least five here who missed it. I thought it was almost obvious. The year was about right for Star Trek, and I’d read that Chekov was introduced in order to show a Russian character among the crew.
I never claimed to be in smart company. 
I’d read that too (a long time ago), and forgot. As I do so many things these days.
Time Is On My Side is not a Rolling Stones lyric. It’s a Jerry Ragovoy lyric.
I saw the Rolling Stones lyrics category and thought, man, I would run that category top to bottom.
Then, of course, I blanked on a couple of them even though I’m very familiar with the songs.
Reason #64 that you have not seen me on Jeopardy.
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Apparently they meant RECORDED (not WRITTEN) by The Rolling Stones
I’m yet another for the “guessed Ilya, not Chekov” list.
I think there may have been something in all our minds along the lines of ‘who was first’ (and Ilya definitely came before Pavel—though NOT in the right year for the clue, of course).
His name was Pavel? It never even occurred to me that he had a second name. Was it ever said on the show?
Pavel Andreievich, to be exact. His full name was mentioned in “The Way to Eden” (the notorious Space Hippies episode).
That’s right. (There has been some criticism over the years that ‘white guy’ Chekov was given a first name during the run of the show, while the ‘ethnic’ characters Uhura and Sulu were not. Of course they did acquire first names in the course of the movie follow-ups to the series.)
Back to the argument that contestants are getting worse, or questions tougher. Or both.
Today’s final scores were 10k, 0, -600
Tonight I’d put more of the blame on the clues. There were several really terrible categories, I didn’t really know much of the ones they all missed either.
I did guess FJ correct though!
19 Triple Stumpers, according to The Jeopardy Fan.
You mean like Let’s Make A Movie Crossover! or First Speeches In Shakespeare???
Totally agree!
The only thing I know about King Lear is that it begins with Lear dividing his kingdom into 3 parts. So I got that triple stumper.