In a recent podcast, unlikeable Drew Basile says the reason there was a backlash against him is that he is just too good, probably the best to play the game, and that old people who write in and gave negative comments are grappling with modern technology and don’t know how to use spell check. (huhn?) Yes, Drew, it’s that, and not that you’re an unlikable asshole. He “leaned in” to being annoying, because that’s what everyone remembers. I bet he was the kind of person that said “never trust anyone over thirty”.
Oh rats. I liked him fine until now.
Well, I would bet that Drew never heard that phrase. It was coined by in 1964 by one Jack Weinberg, a now largely forgotten leader of The Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley.
FJ 7/16
CHARLES MANSON…
Designed psychological tests?
Escaped?
REALLY???
I haven’t seen the latest show yet, but I hope Isaac is still on his winning streak. I really like him. Although yesterday I wouldn’t have been sad if the first lady won, because Weird Al once sat on her lap. (Note to self: get aisle seat at Weird Al show)
Yeah, that was a terrible guess, but my guess of Chessman was just as bad.
And some questionable wagering on FJ, methinks.
I didn’t have a clue for that. All I could think was one of the men who escaped Alcatraz.
I actually got the correct answer to that one right immediately. I have read Timothy Leary’s Wikipedia article a couple of times and I distinctly remembered that he managed to get transferred to a minimum security prison by manipulating the pysch tests he was given.
I guessed Leary, but wasn’t aware of his extensive run-ins with the Law. Just read the Wiki article on him - for over 10 years of his life he was in trouble with FBI, CIA, Narcs, etc. and spent time in prison and in exile abroad.
I didn’t see the show last night, but but when I saw this thread had been revived I went to j-archive and read the Final Jeopardy clue. The only person I could think of was Stanley Milgram.
FWIW I had no idea.
But I would never have said Manson.
Yes, one of the depressing things about being a regular Jeopardy viewer is that you learn how radically your own definition of “general knowledge” departs from reality.
In general it seems to me the last questions have been getting easier. But yesterday’s was hard (for me), and none of the players answered it correctly.
-The question:
In a 1980 National Book Award winner, we learn this title character gets his name from the rank of his late dad -Technical Sergeant
Didn’t see the show, but I know the answer.
I got last night’s Final, but I’m not hugely surprised it was a triple-stumper.
I thought the Double Jeopardy round was noticeably difficult. I should have got the final clue, but I forgot my First Rule of Jeopardy Opera Categories.
I was disappointed in myself when I didn’t know the answer. It was fairly obvious when it was revealed.
It wasn’t the type of answer you could guess if you didn’t know it cold.
I pride myself on general knowledge, and have worked to learn more about stuff the show likes to emphasize: rivers, mountains, flags, First Ladies, opera plots, Shakespeare, monuments, State minutiae of little interest to Canucks. I like wordplay. Usually at least four out of six categories appeal each round. There was a day last week where only one category each round appealed. But I still did better (from the ease of my living room) than the players (who had the difficulties of buzzing in).
I would have written “Who is Garp?” with under it
“It used to stand for “terribly shy”, but he changed it”.
I love the film, hate the book.
Don’t ask me any modern music questions!
This week’s FJs have all been really tough.
Another one tonight where I had absolutely no clue and couldn’t even come up with a guess.
Category “Show Biz Marriages”
Clue: Married since 1977, the year of this band’s 1st album, 2 members referenced another album with their 2023 “Remain in Love” tour
That IS a tough one but somehow I guessed it…1977 I was a 14yr old music geek & the “Remain in Love” ref. immediately made me think of Talking Heads’ “Remain in Light” album of that era & I knew drummer Chris Frantz & bassist Tina Weymouth were married so it seems my sub*conscious brain once more saved me for FJ! 
; the previous night’s FJ was from the same era => Technical Sergeant in the clue made me think “T.S. hmm…” oh yeah, T.S. Garp from John Irving’s “The World According to Garp” a great book of American lit. AND Robin Williams’ 1st movie. Ahh, the '70s 
