Kass is almost a “celebrity Jeopardy!” contestant. She has a successful book series, with a 7-season TV show made from it.
Jackie Fuchs also could be classed the same.
I, for one, wouldn’t accept the Virgin Mary for the job.
Define “belonging to”. How much of that religion does he really believe? How much has he gone public with?
I had no clue about FJ - for some reason I was thinking movie characters from Disney, maybe Gepetto or something. Then my daughter said “it’s probably someone from one of those mob movies,” and then - bam - I got The Godfather and then Clemenza.
That was a very tough FJ, I thought. They could’ve mentioned The Godfather in the clue and I’ll bet most would’ve missed it.
I knew they wanted a character from The Godfather but that didn’t help. The only names I could think of were Vito or Fredo.
I was like “Tessio”? That doesn’t sound right. Luca Brasi, but if he was named for clemency it would have been the biggest irony ever. I couldn’t remember Clemenza, but if I had it would have been obvious.
It’s Clemenza who speaks the second-most-quoted line from the movie: “Leave the gun …take the cannoli.”
I got it instantly because of the name “Carlo.” Movie trivia. Don’t know if I would otherwise had arrived at the mercy-clemcy-Clemenza solution in 30 seconds.
I assumed right off the bat it was a The Godfather reference, but my familiarity with that movie is insufficient to even know any of the characters’ names except Don Corleone.
I knew “clemenza” from Mozart’s opera La Clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus).
That was a rough episode to watch. What with Mayim’s pauses, and the contestants not knowing any answers, it was a bit wearing on me.
Yeah, what is going on with those pauses? Is she waiting for confirmation in her ear from the judges on even the most basic, obviously correct responses?
Can’t they edit them out?
And how much time St. Alex would waste with unnecessary verbiage during the 6.5 minute rounds. “Oh, sorry, you picked the wrong one. You should have thought x, therefore y, equals z…”; in my OPINION the time he spent hogging the spotlight added up.
Nice to see Ryan win. And his Schwartzenegger impression was actually pretty good!
It was, and it was a lot of fun. The only thing that could have made it better was for him to look into the camera after winning, and say in his Schwartzenegger voice, “I’ll be back.”
Except that since For Whom the Bell Tolls deals with the Spanish Civil War, it could not possibly have come out in 1929.
I really don’t get the hate for Mayim Bialik. She’s just fine, and I’ll be happy to see her continue.
That’s easy for you to say since you know that For Whom the Bell Tolls deals with the Spanish Civil War, and that said war took place after 1929.
It doesn’t bother you that, when a contestant states their Daily Double wager, she just repeats whatever they said in a sing-song, talking-to-a-preschooler voice? No color commentary like “all right, that’ll put you at 7400 if you’re correct” or “a gutsy move, let’s see if it pays off for you” or anything? Just “a true Dail-y Doub-le! Here is your clue.”
Nope, not the least bit.
Also Trebek was on the last episode of The Colbert Report. Maybe that counts for something.
Today I learned how to pronounce Tupelo. Would have pronounced it slightly differently. Though in fairness Elvis predates me.