Borscht, and potato soup, washed down with vodka.
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…
I just watched Thursday’s episode. A triple-stumper on FJ, which I thought was rather easy.
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.
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.
Last night I was wondering if the judges would have accepted “what is the United ‘word I’d prefer not to repeat’ College Fund?”
“Negro” is not a slur.
“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)
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.
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.
I wonder if he thought UNICEF was actually the acronym for the United Negro College Fund.
That crossed my mind too.
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.
Used to happen all the time with Trebek. Ken moves the game along so efficiently that exceptions (like last night’s) are jarring.
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?
I enjoyed the woman who put “Springfield” without a state, which I assume was a joke. Very amusing. I didn’t know it either.
According to 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
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.”
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.
There may be many Springfields in the U.S., but only one is a state capital.
Which says absolutely nothing! I bet they leverage synergies and excite paradigms, too.