# 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:** 15
**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 8, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/281 "2022-03-08T18:32:42Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > 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. Yeah, it’s gonna take a long time for him to live that down. ---
**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, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/282 "2022-03-08T18:58:07Z")
Really, if you want to market yourself as “the guy who got a perfect score on four college entrance exams,” finishing Double Jeopardy in the red and not getting to play Final Jeopardy is a disaster for the reputation you’re trying to cultivate. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/283 "2022-03-08T21:31:31Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > 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](#): > > Really, if you want to market yourself as “the guy who got a perfect score on four college entrance exams,” finishing Double Jeopardy in the red and not getting to play Final Jeopardy is a disaster for the reputation you’re trying to cultivate. Especially since a great deal of doing well on college entrance exams is understanding what the question is asking for while pressed for time in a high stress situation. But he can tell kids that they can always retake the SAT… ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/284 "2022-03-08T23:34:28Z")
SWILL? I bet it’s SWILL. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/285 "2022-03-10T15:58:57Z")
The fact that the Apollo category was entirely triple stumpers, whereas I ran the category, probably just means that I’m really old. ---
**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 10, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/286 "2022-03-10T16:40:09Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The fact that the Apollo category was entirely triple stumpers, whereas I ran the category, probably just means that I’m really old. They left the $200 one unopened. I hope we see it in potpourri some day. Though Descartes was a tough one, perfect for the $1000 (yes I got it, too.) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/287 "2022-03-10T18:23:03Z")
I sucked at the Apollo category, but I knew cat’s paw! ---
**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 10, 2022, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/288 "2022-03-10T21:35:52Z")
I aced the Apollo category (I’m old), and got cat’s paw too. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/289 "2022-03-10T21:59:49Z")
I didn’t get cat’s paw, though once I heard it, I realized I had heard it before. I went 3/4 in the Apollo category by educated guessing. “Saturn rockets” was somewhere in the back of my mind so I guessed that, I correctly guessed Genesis (I don’t think that clue was mean for you to know the answer as a historical fact, but rather to surmise “what’s a famous book of the Bible that’s foundational for not just Christians?”,) and I guessed Decartes because it sprang to my mind probably on the basis of a meaningless association (Cartesian plane, Cartesian plain.) Just checking the Jeopardy Archive now, I see, and recall, that when everyone was stumped by the clue about the name of the rocket, Ken revealed the correct response as “the Saturn V.” I guessed just “Saturn.” I wonder whether that would have been accepted, or if they would have said “be more specific?” If the latter, that doesn’t seem fair. Who can remember such things? They’d be veering into my much-lamented monarchs territory there. ---
**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 10, 2022, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/290 "2022-03-10T22:09:39Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > I guessed just “Saturn.” I wonder whether that would have been accepted I think it would have needed to be Saturn V, because while the Saturn 1B “lifted Apollo missions”, those 1B missions weren’t “towards the moon” but only low earth orbit. Unless you’re speaking metaphorically, as Apollo 7 was a mission “towards the moon”, ie, as a step in a sequence towards a moon landing. But Jeopardy! isn’t poetic like that. > [@Arcite](#): > > Who can remember such things? Me. 🙂 But don’t ask me any questions about monarchs. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/291 "2022-03-10T23:25:15Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > (I don’t think that clue was mean for you to know the answer as a historical fact, but rather to surmise “what’s a famous book of the Bible that’s foundational for not just Christians?”,) I knew it as a historical fact. Lots of documentaries on the space program have included it. ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/292 "2022-03-12T01:06:56Z")
Anybody else surprised Maureen lasted as long as she did? She seemed pretty ditzy to me. It was annoying the way she would laugh or sigh or make comments at times when contestants wouldn’t typically be talking. Tonight’s performance was much more like what I would expect of someone like her. ---
**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 12, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/293 "2022-03-12T01:09:31Z")
I didn’t mind her a bit. She looked like she was having fun. ---
**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 12, 2022, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/294 "2022-03-12T02:38:07Z")
I’m not sorry to see her go. She acted like she was half-drunk all the time 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/295 "2022-03-12T05:37:14Z")
> [@Arcite](#): > > Ken revealed the correct response as “the Saturn V.” I guessed just “Saturn.” I wonder whether that would have been accepted, or if they would have said “be more specific?” If the latter, that doesn’t seem fair. Who can remember such things? Me. I’ve only ever heard of the Saturn V rocket, it’s not like any others are well known, so that was easy and I was born way after all the Apollo missions. I liked Maureen in her other games but I was so glad she lost tonight. She seemed drunk or something. Her constant comments when she’d get something wrong got really annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/296 "2022-03-12T05:49:26Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But don’t ask me any questions about monarchs. Rulers or busterflies? ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/297 "2022-03-12T21:58:35Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > I’m not sorry to see her go. > > She acted like she was half-drunk all the time Yes. zzzz ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/298 "2022-03-12T22:10:16Z")
Oh, monarchs are my favorite categories. I once participated in the trivia contest at our library on the same day William and Kate got married. The question I answered for the team, and for some reason few others got. boiled down to "What was the family relationship between George III and Queen Victoria? ---
**Author:** ![Arcite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@Arcite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arcite)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/299 "2022-03-12T23:00:08Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Me. I’ve only ever heard of the Saturn V rocket, it’s not like any others are well known, so that was easy and I was born way after all the Apollo missions. For me, it’s more a matter of the fact that unless it’s a topic I’ve studied or read up on in detail, these numbers don’t stick in my mind the way names do. I knew I’d heard of “Saturn” rockets before, so I guessed that, and in retrospect, I assume that in whatever context I have heard of Saturn rockets, it was a discussion of the Apollo program, and the speaker/writer did in fact include the “V,” but that’s just not memorable to me. It’s just a number. So I guess in a sense you could say I have heard of the Saturn V rocket, and looking it up now, I see that no others are well known, but it’s the “Saturn” that sticks in my mind and not the “V.” It’s the same problem I have with monarchs–how the heck can you remember the difference between Richard II and Richard III, or Louis XIV and Louis XV? It’s just some random number. They might as well be Louis the negative two hundred forty-seventh or Louis the eight thousand nine hundred thirty-third as far as I’m concerned. > [@](#): > > I liked Maureen in her other games but I was so glad she lost tonight. She seemed drunk or something. Her constant comments when she’d get something wrong got really annoying. Yes, only I’d say that I think she was like that in all her games. I believe it was in an earlier game where another contestant rang in and responded correctly, and you could heard her say “I knew that!” This isn’t Celebrity Jeopardy, lady. The point is to keep the game moving; no one wants to hear your little comments. ---
**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 13, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207/300 "2022-03-13T00:29:31Z")
Just FYI, in case anyone goes on Jeopardy. The Saturn 1 was a cluster fuel tank configured rocket with a lift capacity of abut 30K lbs. There were ten launched, all unmanned. It was used to test the command module and launch satellites in support of the lunar missions. The Saturn 1B was an improved version of the 1. It was man rated. It was used as the launch vehicle for Apollo 7, all the Skylabs, and Apollo Soyuz. It was so short it had to have a platform built on the main launchpad to make the command module the same height as the Saturn V [![](https://media.wired.com/photos/5933242f26780e6c04d2e81b/master/pass/ASTP_Saturn_IB.jpg) ](https://media.wired.com/photos/5933242f26780e6c04d2e81b/master/pass/ASTP_Saturn_IB.jpg) Saturns 2-4 were never built. Saturn 3 was a movie with Farrah Fawcett. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-discussion/957207.md?page=16)