# 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:** 22
**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:** [July 24, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/421 "2024-07-24T14:28:22Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > BTW, I had no clue on FJ. I guessed Old Lady O’Leary’s barn. Knowing that is part of the Arizona citizenship test. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 24, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/422 "2024-07-24T15:50:51Z")
I didn’t guess the Final Jeopardy! on the episode of Tuesday, July 23. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/423 "2024-07-24T16:03:22Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > BTW, I had no clue on FJ. I guessed Old Lady O’Leary’s barn. Me 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:** [July 25, 2024, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/424 "2024-07-25T13:25:31Z")
Another final Jeopardy! clue on Arizona. Yes I had an advantage, Mesa borders it. What next: FJ questions on Ernesto Miranda, Ira Hayes, Sheriff Joe, the Poston Internment camp, and how to pronounce Mogollon? 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/425 "2024-07-25T14:59:11Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Another final Jeopardy! clue on Arizona. I had no idea of the Apache meaning of that name. Nor that there was a national forest with that 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:** [July 25, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/426 "2024-07-25T15:02:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Nor that there was a national forest with that name. It’s not as forest-y as one would think. Typical scene: [![](https://blog-assets.thedyrt.com/uploads/2019/06/shutterstock_93275161-1.jpg) ](https://blog-assets.thedyrt.com/uploads/2019/06/shutterstock_93275161-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/427 "2024-07-25T18:35:59Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I had no idea of the Apache meaning of that name. It’s not the Apache meaning. “Tonto” means foolish, silly, or dizzy in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Possibly some other Romance languages as well, but definitely those three. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/428 "2024-07-25T19:02:29Z")
I thought to myself that Tonto must not be right; it’s a fake name! BUT then I remembered that I’ve been there; it’s one of the places with some cool cliff dwellings. And no, I didn’t get the OK Corral clue either. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/429 "2024-07-25T19:47:13Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > It’s not the Apache meaning. “Tonto” means foolish, silly, or dizzy in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Well, true, but the word may also have an Apache meaning, according to the clue. And I didn’t know either one. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/430 "2024-07-25T22:06:42Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > but the word may also have an Apache meaning, J! oversimplified it (only got so much room in the clue!). From the USFS website: "The expression ‘Tonto Apache’ is of Apache origin. The term for speakers of Western Apache in the more easterly Chiricahua Apache language is **binii?e’dine’** , and the comparable term in Mescalero Apache is **binii?e’dnende’**. These both mean ‘people without minds’, i.e., ‘crazy people’ or ‘wild people’. These or forms like them were rendered in Spanish as **tonto(s)** ‘crazy people’, a term which was gradually restricted to the Tonto Apaches, the westernmost of these Western Apache groups. It is possible that “This name may be an allusion to their different way of talking.” So, the _other_ Apaches referred to the subjects as “tontos”, but borrowing the Spanish, not Apache. ---
**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:** [July 25, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/431 "2024-07-25T23:32:58Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > It’s not the Apache meaning. “Tonto” means foolish, silly, or dizzy in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Possibly some other Romance languages as well, but definitely those three. Jeopardy! frequently has dubious (or worse) explanations of word or phrase origins. They use the Faux News weasel of “some people say.” ---
**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:** [July 26, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/432 "2024-07-26T23:30:44Z")
So today’s show was the last one of this season. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/433 "2024-07-27T04:20:56Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > So today’s show was the last one of this season Does anyone know when the new season starts? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/434 "2024-07-27T10:13:46Z")
Trial balloon here: Would it make sense to have Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune combined in one yearly thread? Are ye fer it or agin it? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/435 "2024-07-27T11:32:36Z")
Very much agin it. I have zero interest in Wheel of Fortune, Pat, or Vanna. I don’t even wanna buy a vowel. mmm ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/436 "2024-07-27T13:49:42Z")
> [@K364](#): > > Trial balloon here: Would it make sense to have Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune combined in one yearly thread? > > Are ye fer it or agin it? Hell no. I have no interest in the morons on Wheel of Fortune. Other than both being shows where you can win money the two have nothing in common. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/437 "2024-07-27T13:52:02Z")
I believe they said on yesterday’s show that Season 41 begins in September. I’d like to buy an N. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/438 "2024-07-27T20:47:44Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > I’d like to buy an N. And I will purchase the O. mmm ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/439 "2024-07-27T21:12:50Z")
Can I buy an exclamation point? (I have no idea if that fits as I’ve never seen an entire episode of _Wheel of Fortune_.) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-40/990427/440 "2024-07-27T21:58:57Z")
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