# Jeopardy! Season 40 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [September 20, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427 "2023-09-20T16:35:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/221 "2024-04-18T17:04:52Z")
> [@gregorio](#): > > Lunch? Borscht, and potato soup, washed down with vodka. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/222 "2024-04-18T18:13:48Z")
The G7 meetings are still called summits, so it wasn’t an entirely archaic term. “Aegis:” the memory cell holding that one shot a message straight into my brain’s speech center. 2020 pop tunes OTOH… ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/223 "2024-04-18T21:02:26Z")
I just watched Thursday’s episode. A triple-stumper on FJ, which I thought was rather easy. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/224 "2024-04-18T21:11:50Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Ken made a rare mistake on last night’s episode. Especially something that he clearly would have gotten right when he was a contestant - the Ponte Vecchio in Venice! But even with that mistake Alison Betts is chewing up the competition. My first thought was the admittedly overly-personal one that Mrs. Jennings should be concerned. (As in, Ken was enthralled and so dropped his concentration.) Not that it’s any of my business. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/225 "2024-04-18T23:50:13Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “Aegis:” the memory cell holding that one shot a message straight into my brain’s speech center. 2020 pop tunes OTOH… I’m reading (or trying to read) the new translation of _The Iliad_ where that word shows up often. I had to look up Aegis, since it’s not a word I use often. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/226 "2024-04-24T20:18:08Z")
Last night I was wondering if the judges would have accepted “what is the United ‘word I’d prefer not to repeat’ College Fund?” ---
**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:** [April 25, 2024, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/227 "2024-04-25T05:08:06Z")
“Negro” is not a slur. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/228 "2024-04-25T14:33:36Z")
“You are correct, sir!” According to Wikipedia: “From the 18th century to the late 1960s, _negro_ (later capitalized) was considered to be the proper English-language term for people of black African origin.” They characterize the term as archaic. (My paraphrase) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/229 "2024-04-25T17:36:06Z")
I’m enjoying once again getting some clues that no contestant answers correctly. The tournament players were so good essentially someone answered almost all the clues correctly. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2024, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/230 "2024-04-26T11:30:59Z")
I agree that it can be fun to think I could have beat them all, but it felt like yesterday’s contestants were sub par. I mostly disliked that there were four answers left at the end of Double Jeopardy. Fifteen triple stumpers, including final Jeopardy. I didn’t know about the statue of Athena, but the Parthenon in Nashville isn’t exactly obscure. I admit I thought briefly that it might be Olympia, not knowing anything about that town except the name. But the real (Ancient, Athenian) Parthenon was known for the statue, so Nashville it was. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/231 "2024-04-26T13:36:21Z")
I wonder if he thought UNICEF was actually the acronym for the United Negro College Fund. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/232 "2024-04-26T13:43:56Z")
That crossed my mind too. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/233 "2024-04-26T13:52:41Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > I mostly disliked that there were four answers left at the end of Double Jeopardy. And two were rock and roll questions. I wanted to try those. I guess we’ll have to wait for the net potpourri category, but it’s not the same. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/234 "2024-04-26T17:51:06Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > I mostly disliked that there were four answers left at the end of Double Jeopardy. Used to happen all the time with Trebek. Ken moves the game along so efficiently that exceptions (like last night’s) are jarring. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/235 "2024-04-28T00:44:55Z")
One of last night’s contestants was introduced as a “Democracy Entrepreneur.” Any guesses as to what sort of shady racket that’s a euphemism for? ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/236 "2024-04-28T22:42:47Z")
> [@Bayaker](#): > > I didn’t know about the statue of Athena, but the Parthenon in Nashville isn’t exactly obscure. I admit I thought briefly that it might be Olympia, not knowing anything about that town except the name. I enjoyed the woman who put “Springfield” without a state, which I assume was a joke. Very amusing. I didn’t know it either. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/237 "2024-04-28T22:49:46Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > One of last night’s contestants was introduced as a “Democracy Entrepreneur.” According to [https://keseb.org/](https://keseb.org/) “Democracy entrepreneurs are innovators who build 21st century civil society organizations/efforts by employing a range of approaches, including community organizing, narrative change, policy advocacy, strategic litigation, civic education, and developing new civic technologies.” See also > **[Democracy Entrepreneurs — What is Democracy Entrepreneurship?](https://www.democracyentrepreneurs.org/what-is-democracy-entrepreneurship)** > > Our democracy needs creative “doers” making change (often at the local or state levels) within the force of a broader movement. And we need to support these capable leaders with a thriving ecosystem of funders, peers and organizational knowledge... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/238 "2024-04-28T22:59:30Z")
And that specific contestant was introduced as Matt Mawhinney. Googling the name results in a Linkedin page for someone who co-founded something called “Generation Data” and who is described as a “non-profit entrepreneur training and helping advance the careers of diverse technologists strengthening American democracy.” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/239 "2024-04-29T00:00:50Z")
Interesting. I was thinking he was a lobbyist or worse. He may actually be doing (or at least attempting to do) some good in the world. > [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > I enjoyed the woman who put “Springfield” without a state, which I assume was a joke. There may be many Springfields in the U.S., but only one is a state capital. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/240 "2024-04-29T17:03:10Z")
> [@Steven\_Maven](#): > > “Democracy entrepreneurs are innovators who build 21st century civil society organizations/efforts by employing a range of approaches, including community organizing, narrative change, policy advocacy, strategic litigation, civic education, and developing new civic technologies.” Which says absolutely nothing! I bet they leverage synergies and excite paradigms, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427.md?page=13)