I was of the same opinion, so I pulled up Genesis 19 and read the entire chapter. While most of the story focuses on Lot and his family while they are staying in Sodom, the text clearly states that both Sodom and Gomorrah were both destroyed. I wonder how an answer of ‘What is Gomorrah?’ would have been ruled?
(As an aside, the last few verses of that chapter describe how Lot’s two daughters got him drunk so they could have sex with him and become pregnant. Funny, I don’t remember that being taught in Sunday school.)
I dunno…I think the judges have to allow for contestants’ accents and possible speech impediments, and give some latitude.
When i was a contestant I knew an answer was Hugo Winterhalter, but I wasn’t sure if it was Winterholder or Winterhalter. I kinda landed on something in between and got away with it.
Other posters above say “don’t leave money in the table”. If the only way Leigh could win is if Robert got it wrong, then betting what she did nets her more moolah.
And I would have written “Sodom and Gomorrah”. They were a metroplex, like DFW.
But a small bet, as I explained above, also nets her the win if she also gets the answer wrong. When she bet it all, she gave herself no chance if she missed the question.
I always wondered if Gomorrah was like those all-Mormon exurbs whose inhabitants make their living from the liquor distributorship monopoly in Las Vegas.
It’s sometimes hard in the few seconds you have to read/hear the clue, to process the sentence correctly and realize what exactly the antecedent of “this.” That’s what it all comes down to. If the clue had instead been "Add a ‘B’ to this chess piece to turn it into a babbling stream,’ the correct response of course would have been “rook.”
This is one of the many ways in which Mayim sucks. Sometimes she hesitates for a long, awkward pause, presumably waiting for a cue from the judges, when a contestant has just given what should very obviously be ruled a correct response; then at other times she immediately rules on a response that should garner a “be more specific” or input from the judges.
There’s probably no way to find out, but I’d be surprised if she’s waiting for a cue. She has the answers right in front of her, and there’s no reason she should need help from the judges that often. Her pauses seem long because they’re longer than Alex or Ken usually took/take, but are probably only about a second. My WAG is that it takes her that long to glance down and check the answer before she speaks.
We’ll have to agree to disagree. Fortunately for me, I have the full force of the Jeopardy production people on my side in saying that “Bush” alone was sufficient.
Also over the past week: I too was hollering at the TV when no one could get the Bronx as the fifth borough of NYC. Regardless of whether ordinary mortals should know it’s a borough, when the three contestants together knew the other four but not a single one knew the Bronx, that’s just pathetic.
Manhattan is an island. Get over it.
I enjoyed Yungsheng Wang’s short run and wished we could have seen more of him. With his bow tie and facial expressions, he struck me as a Chinese Arthur Lake. Lake played Dagwood Bumstead in the Blondie movie series of the 1930s and '40s.
This morning I took the Jeopardy Anytime Test again. You can take it once a year. I’ve been doing it for I think three years now but never been called. They don’t reveal scores. I won’t say what the questions were, but there were two whose answers I knew but could not think of until it was too late. Still, I think I did okay. I’m sure I did better on the 50-question real test than I did on the 30-question practice test beforehand.
I wonder about this, too. If they are two separate cities and not a ‘metroplex’ as someone here waggishly suggested, shouldn’t either work as a response?
I could see why “Babel” seemed like a good response in the circumstances. It, at least, is a single city (or place, perhaps.)
Every time we get a ‘performing’ contestant such as Mr. Wang, I’m reminded of the 1984 movie Quiz Show, in which John Turturro’s character describes the coaching he was given in the display of fake emotion. (I’m not a fan of that sort of thing on Jeopardy!)
It’s not necessarily guaranteed that the five clues will be about five different boroughs. Even if you know that the Bronx hasn’t been mentioned yet, you’re taking a bit of a risk if you ring in based on nothing more than that.
Yeah. Maybe part of that is a preference for a show like Jeopardy! where the content is emphasized, as compared with shows that are mainly about people behaving ‘big’. In a lot of game shows the personality of the contestants is central to the entertainment value.
Probably we can all agree that our reactions to contestants have a large degree of subjectivity.
