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.
That was a weird moment. Usually something like that would be edited.
I wonder if the producers and editors thought it would make for more compelling television. It humanized the host a bit. Ken can make mistakes. Ken has made some funny gaffes. “What is a ho?” F bomb on prime time tournament (granted it was the exhibition game between Amy, Matt and Matea), and now this.
Did we see any televised mistakes Alex made? We did see him in his boxers.
We were watching a Password+ (1980) and in the middle of the game, someone in the audience shouted out the answer, so they had to throw out that game. How do I know? They left the unfinished game in the broadcast instead of just removing it and going to the next game.
I wonder why sometimes they are edited and sometimes not.
My local stations seems to showing reruns this week for some reason. Today (4/17/24) for example they’re airing episode 40-153 from 4/10/24. Are you seeing newer episodes?
Mrs Maven & I watch Jeopardy! on YouTube so we are not affected by such aberrations. Maybe your local station is protesting the end of Tournament-mania.
All new. Current mega-champ-of-the-future Allison cleaning up, although she did have a squeaker in there.
Today shows up as new but for some reason my DVR did not record yesterday’s but luckily I was able to find it on YouTube. I hate doing that because it’s hit and miss whether or not an episode will actually be uploaded to watch in a quality that is actually watchable and includes FJ.
Am I the only one whose jaw dropped at the responses to Tuesday’s FJ? I had it before Ken finished reading the answer.
I didn’t know it.
I didn’t know it, but I was mad that I hadn’t figured it out.
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I didn’t get it. I went for clever(?) alliterative world play involving Canada’s and the UK’s system of government.
It was an easy clue, but I could only think of Yalta. I wonder how I would have done, though, since in both other rounds there were only two clues I did not answer correctly (much easier in one’s living room). I was surprised at the many clues no one responded correctly to… probably since there were so many recent high calibre tournaments where someone knew the answer.
I didn’t get it ether. The only thing I could think of was Churchill’s invention of the term iron curtain.
Okay, so it wasn’t as obvious as I found it. My reasoning was along the lines of, “What did we call a meeting between the heads of a Western nation and the Soviet Union?”
I didn’t see the show last night, but when i saw the comments here I went to j-archive and read the clue. I thought of “detente”, used to describe the relationship between the Soviet Union and the West. I should have known Churchill wouldn’t use a French word.
Glad I wasn’t alone in my guess!
I went for alliteration: A parley at Pottsdam.
I didn’t get it immediately, but I worked it out with plenty of time to spare.
Lunch?