# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/261 "2024-05-01T20:45:03Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > But then, two of the kids figured out that “Bernini” FJ and I blew it. I guessed _Spinal Tap_, but probably because I know nothing about those turtles. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2024, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/262 "2024-05-01T20:59:41Z")
Well, another triple stumper on FJ today. I thought it was rather easy. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/263 "2024-05-01T21:01:43Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I know, as a Gen Xer I was feeling pretty smart regarding pop music. But then, two of the kids figured out that “Bernini” FJ and I blew it. I figured it out, but I don’t know if I’d have had time to write the full question. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/264 "2024-05-01T21:08:18Z")
I’m not sure I could write “Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles” legibly in 30 seconds ---
**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:** [May 1, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/265 "2024-05-01T22:40:36Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > > [@Sherrerd](#): > > > > Not to mention a country mile. > > Or metric miles. I hadn’t known about metric miles (a term, I learn, used in track and field for 1500-meter events). Ignorance fought! ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/266 "2024-05-03T01:01:15Z")
What was the point of the category name on Wednesday’s game, “redone-dancy”? Other than the reference to Hugh Dancy, we could not figure out the connection to the clues. I guess it was too meta for us. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/267 "2024-05-03T15:03:47Z")
The key is “redone” The dancy is a red herring, except for the Hugh Dancy clue. From top to bottom: Redone TV show. Redone song which happened to double up geographically. Restarted long running TV show. Redone TV show. Redone song originally written by a band with a redundant name. ---
**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:** [May 3, 2024, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/268 "2024-05-03T16:55:32Z")
Thanks. I still submit it was too clever by half. Even if I did get a few without understanding the category. 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 8, 2024, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/269 "2024-05-08T11:57:22Z")
Twenty triple-stumpers in yesterday’s game! That’s got to be close to a record. To be fair, a lot of them were popular culture answers about which I had no clue either. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/270 "2024-05-10T01:23:27Z")
Be honest: Did _anybody_ get the “Rhyme Time: Opera Version” FJ correct? In the same game, the category was “Words with silent consonants.” When the clue came up: “Each of your fingers had three of these; your thumb has two,” I confidently shouted “phalanges!” The correct answer, of course, was “knuckles.” I spent some time wondering if my answer would have been accepted, and concluded that it would. _Much_ later, it dawned on me that the P is not actually silent, but part of the digraph making the F sound. D’oh! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/271 "2024-05-10T01:27:06Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Be honest: Did _anybody_ get the “Rhyme Time: Opera Version” FJ correct? Ha! I bet all my imaginary money because I figured a category with such a scary specific name would be spoon-fed to us. No. 😔 ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/272 "2024-05-10T01:40:18Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Be honest: Did _anybody_ get the “Rhyme Time: Opera Version” FJ correct? Usually I can hazard what I would consider a semi-intelligent guess. Not this time, however. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/273 "2024-05-10T02:31:13Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Be honest: Did _anybody_ get the “Rhyme Time: Opera Version” FJ correct? If you have basic knowledge of famous operas, then “Duke”, “Jester”, and “Daughter” were a gimme, giving you Rigoletto. Remembering the category “Rhyme Time” would then give you Libretto. So, yeah I got it, just barely though. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/274 "2024-05-10T02:32:26Z")
Isabelle had a very impressive start. One risky bet can make a big difference. It seems to have become fashionable to “bet it all”, but not everyone is a Holzhauer. The final question seemed easy. So did many of the triple stumpers. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/275 "2024-05-10T03:20:12Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > One risky bet can make a big difference. And she was never the same after missing that DD. Which I thought was rather easy. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/276 "2024-05-10T14:21:28Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Be honest: Did _anybody_ get the “Rhyme Time: Opera Version” FJ correct? I thought it was a rhyming title, or two different operas that rhymed. I didn’t get what they were going for at all. And I had no clue about Rigoletto. ---
**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:** [May 10, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/277 "2024-05-10T14:43:07Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Did _anybody_ get the “Rhyme Time: Opera Version” FJ correct? I thought it was “poorly worded” as Michael Feldman used to say. “Written” didn’t imply “script” to me, but saying something closer to “script” might have been too obvious (or not). I know a smattering of Opera, but not enough to get the title from the list of characters. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/278 "2024-05-10T23:49:32Z")
I didn’t get it either, although I did recognize the plot description as being Rigoletto. Here’s the path I think you were _supposed_ to take: The clue said that it was “written by poet Francesco Maria Piave.” That meant they couldn’t have been asking about the opera itself. Operas are invariably attributed to their composer. So if you wanted the opera as a whole, you would say it was written by Verdi. What aspect of an opera would be written by a poet? The words, of course. The words of an opera are called the libretto, and libretto rhymes with Rigoletto. So, if you can work all that out in 30 seconds, and have enough time left to write it down, you’re golden. Like I said, I didn’t get it, and I wasn’t even sure exactly what they were after. I think it was a VERY tough clue. As contrasted to the ridiculously simple Cabbage Patch Kids Final Jeopardy from last night, which still managed to stump two of the contestants! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/279 "2024-05-11T00:12:05Z")
OMG. Tamagotchi? Pet rock? 🤦‍♀️ ---
**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:** [May 11, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/280 "2024-05-11T17:05:48Z")
I don’t think missing the Cabbage Patch question is terribly egregious. I got it right, but then I actually gave one as a gift back in the day, plus I remembered when Pet Rocks were a thing. I have no idea what a Tamagotchi is, so if that had been in the answer I would have guessed some random fad like Pokemon - and I really have no idea when that was popular. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427.md?page=15)