What kinda Russky name is “Bagration” anyway?
Of course you know it’s Georgian not Russian
Except “Rosebud” is the most famous single line in movie history while “redrum”….isn’t.
Sure. But that’s because that’s part of the pop culture osmosis. The film reel that begins the film is not so much, and I suspect most people who have watched Citizen Kane did it once a long time ago. They’ll remember the general plot, but not the details.
I know that I can barely remember the contents of the newspapers that start the Rudolph special, and I’ve seen it dozens of times. And that movie has a simple, easy to follow plot, not a bunch of flashbacks and high art cinematography that often takes your attention off the action.
It looks like we went from a FJ that’s obvious to most, to today’s which seems, to me anyway, to be pretty obscure.
Indeed, it’s like no one could possibly answer it correctly unless they lived in that city… That would be pure luck if that happens.
She gambled:
- Her opponent would go for broke
- Her opponent would know the answer
- She herself would know the answer
Too many gambits. She could have made a tie-breaker the worse case scenario
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ETA: that’s long surpassed O’Hare in importance. Not super-obscure
She did remarkably well. But the Tournament of Champions may he more difficult.
A tough question. I knew it was Atlanta, and remembered one of the names of its airport. The contestant from Georgia got it and won. Good for her.
I guess it depends if you fly much. I do, and instantly knew the answer was Jackson and Hartsfield - and I don’t know who those men are, but two names plus the reference to Coca-Cola gave it away.
It’s very unlikely the second place contestant will bet the way today’s winner did, though; that’s a weird bet. They usually go balls to the wall.
Jeopardy! is an odd game in that the scoring system is, from a competitive standpoint, kind of broken; as we have now seen two days in a row, in can reward an inferior player with a lucky choice of question in Final Jeopardy. However, this system is terrific to the VIEWER, as it makes most games competitive until Final, and can even result in the “way behind in third place but takes the game because the two big scores are close together” win.
Totally agree. The only way she wins the game is if she gets FJ right and the leader doesn’t. In that case, bet it all so as to maximize your winnings.
Is that how the amounts made sense? It looked to me like they both bet completely random amounts that just happened to wind up n and n-1. Which looked extremely fishy.
Oh well. It’ll be interesting to see her non-strategy pitted against Matt Amodio’s over-strategy in the champions’ tournament.
Still better than that stupid Weakest Link, where without fail the smartest player in voted off by the remaining other two. No way to outplay that system unless there’s some level of lying doggo enough to not be a threat but not flubbing too many questions.
And there was much rejoicing!
Isn’t that always true for the player in second?
All in all, I’m very impressed with the fact that Mattea is only 23. Very much looking forward to this year’s TOC.
Not necessarily. If it’s a close game, second place could win by betting nothing, hoping that first place bets big and misses FJ.
As for Charles Foster Kane, I haven’t seen the movie in decades, and didn’t remember it starts with a newsreel. But I have been to Xanadu, I mean, Hearst Castle, which is how I got it.
I do think she flutters like a marionette, and she has tiny hands, but her over explaining is what bugs me. Still, much much less annoying than at least five other multi-champions.
At one point she exclaimed something like, “I learned something!” Like she was surprised that there was something she didn’t already know 
I’d read an interview where she attributed her success to just soaking up knowledge and from that context I thought she was just truly happy to learn a new item.