Knowing that is part of the Arizona citizenship test.
I didn’t guess the Final Jeopardy! on the episode of Tuesday, July 23.
Me too.
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?
I had no idea of the Apache meaning of that name. Nor that there was a national forest with that name.
It’s not as forest-y as one would think. Typical scene:
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.
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.
Well, true, but the word may also have an Apache meaning, according to the clue. And I didn’t know either one.
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.
Jeopardy! frequently has dubious (or worse) explanations of word or phrase origins. They use the Faux News weasel of “some people say.”
So today’s show was the last one of this season.
Does anyone know when the new season starts?
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?
Very much agin it.
I have zero interest in Wheel of Fortune, Pat, or Vanna.
I don’t even wanna buy a vowel.
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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.
I believe they said on yesterday’s show that Season 41 begins in September.
I’d like to buy an N.
And I will purchase the O.
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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.)
Punctuation marks are free.