I swear I used to know what a “scrum master” is…but I retired 2 years ago and purged all such useless information from my brain. I don’t miss it.
I am working on an explanation of Scrum Master. Patience please.
The final question was easy but some of the categories were weak or difficult. Not for me to say whether that also describes the contestants.
On 6/20 the occupation of the third contestant (red headed woman) was “Scrum Master.” I imagine that many people here (and elsewhere) were baffled by this term.
Permit me to elucidate. Forgive my oversimplification.
Agile Scrum is a Software Development Methodology introduced in 2001. The Scrum Master is the Team Leader.
The difference between Agile Scrum and traditional software development (derisively called “Waterfall”) is that a big project (all projects are big) is divided up into small pieces with short timeframes, and there are frequently checks (typically weekly) of progress, with reevaluation of each piece separately, depending on whether it’s early, late, or on schedule.
How do I know this? From 2012-2016 I was a Technical Writer at a software company (whose name I must not mention) which was an Agile Scrum Environment.
I thought it was something to do with Rugby.
Let me just say that I usually try not to actively dislike people I don’t know but rarely have I developed such an intense immediate antipathy as I did to Tym.
Strike one: he spells his name Tym. Probably not his fault. Blame the parents Should not use against him.
Strike two: his occupation is cryptocurrency investor and angel investor. So he is either a financial whiz making money off people who need his investments or are being told by him that they can get rich from cryptocurrency or he is an idiot living off his parents’ money.
Strike three: he kept answering before being called on. Not only rude but it could affect the game. I can understand doing it once if you are excited but he kept doing it.
Strike four: he anecdote was about climbing Everest and he laughed when talking about his respirator breaking in the death zone. I really don’t respect people who climb Everest anyway but you don’t treat it as a joke.
Anyway, I am a horrible person because I was happy to see him drop further into the red with every question. Incidentally, what is the most negative anyone has ever been at the end of double jeopardy? -$3800 is pretty bad.
Meanwhile, I only knew the final jeopardy answer because I was surprised a couple of years ago to find out that the sport mentioned had only been an Olympic sport since 1988 and not since the 1960s or 1970s.
Thank you, @psychobunny, for reading my mind about Tim…er…Tym. You saved me from having to cobble together my own post about him.
You did leave out how totally unenthusiastic and inert his personality is.
On another note, I was very surprised that table tennis was not universally obvious. Sumo wrestling? on a (approximately) 7 square foot mat?
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In 1988 I was playing table tennis regularly. And my wife could probably name most of the top 10 players in the world right now.
I missed it.
Worst score was - $7,400, two years ago, topping (bottoming?) the previous record of $6,800.
Right! You’d think Jeopardy contestants would be a little less innumerate than the average person.
Ben said handball (40x20 meters!) and Janie crossed out squash (9.75x6.4 meters) before changing it to sumo (14.3 square meters, 46.9 square feet), which is quite close to the right answer.
I didn’t get it. I don’t like the clue much, either. The table, itself, is 45 square feet, but the players have a lot more space than that to run around the table and make shots. Does “playing surface” mean just the table, or the full court?
I think you made a math error or misread your cite. A sumo ring has a diameter of 4.55 m, which gives 16.25 square meters or 174 square feet, much larger than the 45 square feet clue. But still tiny for the enormous athletes.
D’oh!
I stupidly used 2 Pi r instead of Pi r squared. (On mobile, so I can’t figure out how to insert Greek character for Pi.)
I thought there was something wrong, but I had just woken up. (I don’t drink coffee, so I don’t have that excuse.)
I guess I’m also very judgmental. As soon as they identified his occupation I muttered “asshole” and started rooting against him.
Some Mayim haters complain that she pauses too long before ruling a response correct.
Other Mayim haters complain that she doesn’t pause long enough before ruling a response incorrect.
Now that I’ve pointed it out, I’ll bet someone says they don’t like either.
I’ll be first. I don’t like either.
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I was surprised more people did not get the final jeopardy question about the 19th century literature author (from 1894) who inspired names for a spider and panther.
Well, I have never Kipled.
I was thinking Doyle (for Lost World) but wasn’t until 1912
Brian
I’m surprised the champ didn’t get that being a librarian! I thought it was so obvious.
(Btw “Only fans”!? Didn’t expect to see that referenced. I wonder what percentage of Jeopardy’s audience has no idea what that even referred to…)
Potentially revealing the winner, so I’ll spoil it: Is that the record for the biggest
change of scores, going from negative at the start of DJ to winning?
Until the FJ, I thought everyone was doing pretty good. It’s nice to see some close games for once.
I’m really sorry to see the librarian go. I thought she was charming and cute as a button.
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