Oh I got Zep easily.
it’s bands like Tame Impala, Imagine Dragons, or Megan Thee Stallion that I go, “you’re making up those names, aren’t you!”
I’ve never heard of that album title. I know Led Zeppelin and I’d recognize some of their songs, but I didn’t have a clue for that one either. I’ve only heard their songs on the radio.
I was confused because in Wednesday’s episode, someone “won” the champions wildcard competition but the next night they had three new people competing. So I look at the J! Archive to confirm and learned that the champions wildcard isn’t over. Instead Nick Cascone only won the champions wildcard clubs competition and now the champions wildcard hearts competion is underway. (Previously the spades and diamonds rounds were completed.)
When was the last time we had a regular game?
These special tournaments are getting tiresome.
Before the writers strike
Ken said that episode is the start of the fourth & final Wildcard Tournament.
I may have missed that. To be honest, I’ll be glad when it’s all over.
The song Houses of the Holy is not on the album Houses of the Holy. That song is on their next album Physical Graffiti.
GO FIGURE!
Eh, it’s still a game of Jeopardy every weekday, and some of the games have been quite good. I’m fine with it.
My only small complaint is that there’s no difference between second and third place, rendering FJ in runaway games even more irrelevant.
We only watch for the questions anyway. In these tournaments it is really obvious how true that is, because we don’t recognize anyone!And we watch every episode. These could be regular episodes, as far as we are concerned.
Agreed. These folks are all 1- and 2-day champs from 2 or 3 years ago (I think), and I don’t recognize any of them!
Well, except for the guy with the purple mohawk.
To spare me from searching through the history of this thread, can someone explain what is going on with this tournament? And what that has to do with the writers strike?
The clues are not newly written but unused ones from prior shows. (As I understand it, six clues are written for each category but only five are used, so over the decades, there will be many unused.) The idea was that they would not be using non-union writers.
BTW, Sam Buttrey may have started it, but the whole “bring it” thing is old and needs to be retired, just like the stuff here that gets overused to the point of being tiresome.
They are reusing entire categories. The ‘literary email addresses” category a few weeks ago was a verbatim repeat from the show I was on in 2006
But why the “second chance tournament”? They could be using these recycled questions with the normal new-contestant format, right?
Thanks. I didn’t realize they were using categories that had previously been played.
Correction - they used four out of five clues in the category. Compare show #5042 (7/11/06) with show #8970 (11/10/23) in the Jeopardy Archive.
The “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” clue was different.
Perhaps that last clue was the unused one from that show?
And we’ve been getting Ken instead of Mayim.