Jeopardy discussion

I had to draw the line somewhere. There are many others.

Gainesville is DEFINITELY in the South. It’s original name was Cowtown. Until they put the land grant University of Florida there, it was mostly farmland. Florida is “Southern” from the Panhandle down through the center of the state (excluding 60-70 miles from each coast inland) until you get to the Everglades (with the exception of Orlando - which is…Orlando). There are exceptions here and there, but that’s the general layout.

Zakalwe - 5th Gen Floridian reporting from Tallahassee.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen 3 identical wrong answers in FJ; or 2 players bet $0.

(And I thought the question was easy.)

Pretty sure I’ve seen both those things often enough that it didn’t strike me as odd in any way. And add me as another who guessed Byron. I had no idea.

Tennyson was a lucky guess for me, and I was very surprised that they all said Byron. I though everybody knew Byron died during the Greek Revolution. That ruled him out by the better part of a century.

Yeah, Byron’s death was way too early for that date. Plus, Byron was a pretty scandalous figure, unlikely to have been buried in Westminster Abbey. On the other hand, Tennyson was Poet Laureate, thoroughly respectable, and much admired by Queen Victoria. Plus he had the requisite title. Add the quotation from one of his better known poems (a quotation that included the title phrase), and I thought it was easy.

Not me. Nor did I know when the Greek Revolution was.

Actually, it was called Hogtown. Cowtown would have been preferable!

I knew that man-slut wasn’t buried at Westminster, but still didn’t guess the right answer!

Given the fact that my knowledge of 17-century British poets is limited to two men, I had a 50/50 shot at guessing the right answer. My guess was correct.

Or the right century!

Oops. 19th century!

Did anyone actually know today’s (Wednesday) FJ?? That was a really terrible FJ clue. One of the worst I can remember. Unless you were one of a very small group of people who had actually seen (and remembered!) that pilot episode, how the hell were you supposed to get that? First I thought the date was the clue and the show had something to do with the Moon landing, but couldn’t think of anything. Then I thought “OK, it’s a show with a famous character with a D name” but couldn’t think of anything in time either. Turns out neither of those parts of the clue had anything important to do with the answer.

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Sesame Street Test Show 1 was the first of five pilot episodes broadcast in July 1969 to test the show’s educational value and appeal to children. The shows were broadcast at 10AM over five days on the Philadelphia UHF station WHUY Channel 33, which was operated by the NET affiliate, WHYY. Researchers from the Children’s Television Workshop tested children before and after the week of broadcasts.(Sesame Street Test Show 1 | Muppet Wiki | Fandom)

I mean, there’s obscure and then there’s that. FJ clues should be possible to actually answer.

I didn’t know the answer but I guessed right. I knew that shows at that time didn’t start in the middle of the summer so it couldn’t be network TV. So probably a daytime show. Then the “D” thing made me think of Sesame Street. I was surprised I was right.

For me, the line is the Mason-Dixon. But then, I’m more likely to follow jazz than rock.

WHY did the “D” thing make you think of Sesame Street? Is that always in the opening?

I got it immediately. “This episode is brought to you by the letter D.”

Or it could’ve been Q or R or the number 6. Episodes were always “sponsored” by letters and numbers.

But I was surprised to learn that the pilot episode of “Sesame Street” aired the same day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

Actually…they did. Or, they could. There were a lot of summer fill in shows. And in some occasions, they’d get renewed in the fall.

JAQ, TVGuide collector and fan of The Mac Davis Show, debut 11 July 1974

Except Sesame Street didn’t actually start in the summer. It premiered in November 1969.

Yeah, the “pilot episode” premiered in a few cities on July 21. That part was a bit misleading.

(Kind of interesting that some viewers had a choice that day of watching Armstrong walk on the moon or a new TV puppet show.)