# Jeopardy discussion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [January 4, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207 "2022-01-04T18:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/261 "2022-03-03T12:57:13Z")
She’s like a glamourous Martha Raye. ---
**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:** [March 3, 2022, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/262 "2022-03-03T21:10:25Z")
LOL, that’s true. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/263 "2022-03-03T22:10:07Z")
Hope she has a good run, I await with anticipation as to what she’ll wear next. She’s a smart cookie regardless. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/264 "2022-03-04T02:19:14Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Anyone else totally put off by the current champ’s jewelry and “upscale” appearance? I keep hoping she’ll lose, for no other reason. That’s what’s considered upscale these days? I didn’t notice any jewelry, but the retro eyeglasses made me think she was an insecure housewife trying to look her best on TV. I kind-of feel for her. She reminds me of my Aunt Marie ca, 1966. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2022, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/265 "2022-03-04T07:47:52Z")
She seems uncomfortable on camera. She certainly knows her stuff, but I found it telling when host Ken informed us all that she asked, “Does it stop being scary?” after a game. She was clearly uncomfortable during the contestant chat segment tonight, speaking about Mississippi and her travels. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/266 "2022-03-05T21:20:42Z")
I like her and am rooting for her. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/267 "2022-03-06T03:00:05Z")
Watching the College Championship, having saved it for weekends, I’m finding myself really annoyed by this one quirk of Mayim’s: when a contestant gives their Daily Double wager, she just repeats it verbatim, often in that sing-song, overly-enthusiastic-like-you’re-talking-to-a-preschooler voice. “I’ve always wanted to say this: I’ll make it a true Daily Double.” “A TRUE DAIL-y DOUB-le!” “Hmm… just one thousand.” “Just one thousand, all right.” It’s really irritating. I wish the producers would talk to her about it; maybe tell her to say something meaningful like “okay, that’ll put you at eighty-six hundred if you’re correct.” ---
**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:** [March 6, 2022, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/268 "2022-03-06T03:53:35Z")
There have been a lot of easy triple-stumpers lately. Lots of yelling at the TV here. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/269 "2022-03-06T06:10:56Z")
I miss my fair share of regular clues, but for some reason I get an inordinate number of triple stumpers. I really expected one of them to get Don Quixote. Seemed pretty logical. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/270 "2022-03-06T15:56:16Z")
It made perfect sense in hindsight, but I didn’t think of it in the allotted time. That happens to me often, and it certainly happens to the contestants, who are under much more pressure, don’t get to hit pause to think about it some more, _and_ have to physically write down their answers. I never judge anybody for missing an easy-after-the-fact FJ. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/271 "2022-03-06T16:06:22Z")
I didn’t get FJ either. I’ve never thought of Don Quixote as “beautiful.” ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/272 "2022-03-08T00:53:07Z")
Huh. I never knew Wyoming was once part of Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/273 "2022-03-08T02:00:20Z")
He’ll be given shit about that 'til his dying day. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/274 "2022-03-08T03:14:14Z")
He also responded to “The government of Reza Pahlavi chose March 21, 1935 as the day for changing the country’s name from this to this” with “What is India?” So, what, he thought India changed its name from India to India? There’s been a lot of that lately, the failure to process how the question is worded and what it’s actually asking, so you get people responding with the title of the novel when they’re asking for the author, the name of the river when they’re asking for the city it flows through, etc. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/275 "2022-03-08T04:55:26Z")
I presumed he answered Wyoming because of the “second letter y” category. (And TBF I think there might have been a chunk of Wyoming in the borders of of the Republic of Texas when it was annexed into the United States.) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/276 "2022-03-08T15:22:30Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > There’s been a lot of that lately, the failure to process how the question is worded and what it’s actually asking, so you get people responding with the title of the novel when they’re asking for the author, the name of the river when they’re asking for the city it flows through, etc. Yes, or they forget the category is five letter words and say “West Virginia” (not a real example) In their partial defense, some clues are so convoluted I’m yelling at the TV “what is the question here?” ---
**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:** [March 8, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/277 "2022-03-08T15:58:57Z")
At least they get to see the category when they choose a clue. Those of us at home forget, or miss is. So I might answer West Virginia for a five letter answer, but at least I’m not on TV. No one but my wife can laugh at me. 🙂 But, I did feel bad for the four-time perfect college entrance test taker - man he blew far too many clues, not by not knowing the question, but by not understanding what the the clue was looking for. > [@Arcite](#): > > So, what, he thought India changed its name from India to India? I was thinking it was something to do with East or West Pakistan, so we were both in the same subcontinent, but I wasn’t sure enough so I wouldn’t have buzzed in were I there. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/278 "2022-03-08T17:03:28Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > (And TBF I think there might have been a chunk of Wyoming in the borders of of the Republic of Texas when it was annexed into the United States.) Absolutely correct. See a map [here](https://www.drtinfo.org/education/republic-of-texas-2/boundaries-of-the-republic-of-texas) . ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/279 "2022-03-08T17:04:20Z")
Yeah, or giving a response that doesn’t start with/contain the letter/letters in quotation marks in the category title. I do that myself sometimes (did it on a couple clues in the “Y is the second letter” category) but I use the excuse, as @Just_Asking_Questions said, that I can’t see the category, compounded by the fact that so many contestants these days do the Forrest Bounce, making it extra-difficult to keep track of what category we’re in. It’s also tough when the category has a “gimmick” to it that they don’t explicitly explain, like with the “Elements of Literature” category a few days ago. This is one reason the Holzhauer-inspired style of clue-choosing makes the game less fun. It often takes a clue or two to figure out what the gimmick is, and it’s much harder to do that when you don’t start with the easiest clues. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/280 "2022-03-08T17:06:34Z")
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