# Jeopardy! champ Austin Rogers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996 "2017-10-05T02:35:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/21 "2017-10-05T18:31:24Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > One vital part of the clue that you didn’t recall was the mention of “the narrator.” That’s one of the things that made it obvious to me. Relatively few plays have narrators. “New Hampshire” was also a dead giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/22 "2017-10-05T19:13:08Z")
Love him. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/23 "2017-10-05T19:30:54Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > So why did Wilder get the coordinates wrong? It’s not like it mattered - he didn’t have to give geographic coordinates. No one would have cared. The line is: “The name of the town is Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire just across the Massachusetts line: latitude 42 degrees 40 minutes; longitude 70 degrees 37 minutes.” I have no idea how one would have determined lat and long in 1938. Perhaps the map or whatever was not exact enough. An absolutely beautiful play, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/24 "2017-10-05T19:54:27Z")
I really like Austin. Yes, he mugs during the intros, but he settles down during the actual play. With an occasional finger point, whatever. The man is smart and has betting guts. And no, he is not on the spectrum. Just because someone is animated or a little quirky does not mean there is something wrong. I shouted out the correct answer as soon as the FJ! clue was revealed Wednesday. Sometimes I impress myself. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/25 "2017-10-05T23:40:00Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I have no idea how one would have determined lat and long in 1938. Latitude you can determine by measuring the altitude of Polaris above the horizon. For longitude, you need two clocks, one set to your local mean time, the second set to Greenwich mean time. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/26 "2017-10-06T03:46:38Z")
10/5/2017 episode spoilers: Austin had some good competition tonight. He was looking vulnerable there for a while–trailing much of the first round and the beginning of the Double Jeopardy round. I thought this might be it for him. It felt like he was guessing too often when he wasn’t very sure of his answer, and losing a lot of points that way. But then he surged with that last Daily Double and a strong run of answers after that. Regarding Final Jeopardy, my own thought process before the contestants’ answers were revealed was “Kenneth Branagh? No… Anthony Hopkins? maybe… Oh! Laurence Olivier!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/27 "2017-10-06T04:58:57Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Regarding Final Jeopardy, my own thought process before the contestants’ answers were revealed was “Kenneth Branagh? No… Anthony Hopkins? maybe… Oh! Laurence Olivier!” I knew Olivier was in two out of three. The “1940s” remark confirmed I was right before they revealed the question. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/28 "2017-10-06T06:40:03Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Latitude you can determine by measuring the altitude of Polaris above the horizon. For longitude, you need two clocks, one set to your local mean time, the second set to Greenwich mean time. Or you could look at a map. I mean, he was close. It isn’t like he used latitude 110, longitude 360. My complaint is, why use wrong coordinates, which are distracting, when not using coordinates at all would be easier and not noticed. When people came to my house I didn’t say I live at 44°4′17″N 89°17′23″W. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/29 "2017-10-07T20:48:53Z")
Friday 10/7/2017 episode: Another good game where he had some tough competition, and he pulls it out again. A big bet and miss on a Daily Double set him back early, but he rallied and had the lead going into FJ, where he was the only one to come up with the correct response. I had come up with Mongolia, but couldn’t think of the corresponding 'Mon-" country in Europe. :smack: Here is a brief Washington Post article on Austin and the reactions of Jeopardy viewers to him: > **[The ‘Jeopardy!’ contestant some people love to hate can’t stop winning](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/10/06/the-jeopardy-contestant-who-some-people-love-to-hate-cant-stop-winning/)** > > Austin Rogers extended his run of wins to nine and boosted his total winnings to more than $332,400. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/30 "2017-10-07T21:20:18Z")
Aside from how viewers feel about Austin: my impression is that Alex\* really\* likes him. (Looking for a hosting-heir, perhaps???) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/31 "2017-10-08T01:07:33Z")
Bozo won again? Maybe I’ll just delete last night’s from the DVR. I don’t know why Alex would like him. He hates anyone showing him up. It’s like his biggest fault. I think Alex is just being a good host. He’d never let his true opinion of a guest be known. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/32 "2017-10-08T03:18:56Z")
“Sherbert” in not a New York thing. I lived in and around NYC for 25 years, and I pronounce it “sherbet”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/33 "2017-10-08T03:46:15Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Aside from how viewers feel about Austin: my impression is that Alex\* really\* likes him. (Looking for a hosting-heir, perhaps???) “I’m sorry; the correct answer was ‘Ra’. _Ra_. [beat] But, hey, who frickin’ cares?” ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/34 "2017-10-08T19:27:17Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > “I’m sorry; the correct answer was ‘Ra’. _Ra_. [beat] But, hey, who frickin’ cares?” It certainly would represent a major change in direction for the show. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/35 "2017-10-08T20:34:56Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > “Sherbert” in not a New York thing. I lived in and around NYC for 25 years, and I pronounce it “sherbet”. On the other hand, I think everybody in Minnesota calls it “sherbert,” just like they call caramel “carmel.”\* I presume this extends to other parts of the Upper Midwest as well. \*At least they did when I was growing up there. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/36 "2017-10-08T20:37:29Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Or you could look at a map. How do you think the mapmakers did it? :dubious: > [@](#): > > When people came to my house I didn’t say I live at 44°4′17″N 89°17′23″W. Nowadays, you can with GPS. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/37 "2017-10-08T20:51:45Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I had come up with Mongolia, but couldn’t think of the corresponding 'Mon-" country in Europe. :smack: Problem is, I don’t think most people realize Monaco is a country. Like Wales, it’s a principality. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/38 "2017-10-10T12:52:37Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > “Sherbert” in not a New York thing. I lived in and around NYC for 25 years, and I pronounce it “sherbet”. It is pronounced (and sometimes spelled) “sherbert” in much of New England. I would guess that fair amounts of New Yorkers and New Jerseyans also say “sherbert”. I was sure that they would come back from the commercial break and announce that the judges had decided that “sherbert” was an acceptable dialectical pronunciation. I suppose they didn’t allow it because the question was specifically about the spelling of the word. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/39 "2017-10-10T13:50:46Z")
Looks like Austin found a barbershop over the weekend. Doesn’t seem to have messed with his Sampson-like powers much. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996/40 "2017-10-10T16:10:05Z")
He’s still kind of a mix of slightly funny, slightly annoying. I did LOL when he told that stupid joke and got Alex to give him five up high. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-champ-austin-rogers/797996.md?page=3)