# Jeopardy! Season 41: Begins September 9, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [September 19, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487 "2024-09-19T20:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/61 "2025-06-28T23:35:35Z")
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance!” - Lloyd Christmas ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/62 "2025-06-29T02:16:48Z")
Not 2my mind - I thought it was an instance of "on any given day any player/team can beat any other player/team.‘’ Jeopardy has a lot of specific variables in play - buzzer speed, strength/weakness in particular categories, when to bet big or small, the psychological effect of early dominance or falling behind other players and then there’s the inherent unpredictability of games. And while I enjoy when someone has a nice 2-6 day run [like young Liam a few weeks ago] it’s also cool to see new players every night. After all, it’s just a game 🤩 👍 ---
**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 1, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/63 "2025-07-01T21:02:30Z")
Today, July 1, a Jeopardy record was tied. For the 13th game in a row, a new champion was crowned. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/64 "2025-07-03T19:30:53Z")
Book designer? How do I get that job? ---
**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 3, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/65 "2025-07-03T20:13:49Z")
First, you can’t be a writer. or an artist. Otherwise, other people would be designing your books. It sounds like a middle-management function in the publishing world. “I hire artists for other people’s books. And I get paid for it!” ---
**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 3, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/66 "2025-07-03T20:36:46Z")
Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but: I’d be astonished if Book Designer is a job within a couple of years. It’s something AI will be tasked with doing. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/67 "2025-07-03T20:40:27Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > First, you can’t be a writer. or an artist. See, I’m perfect for this job! I was glad Jason won after he flubbed so many “Overlap” questions and Jeff picked them up. Suck it, Jeff! ---
**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 3, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/68 "2025-07-03T20:57:50Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > It’s something AI will be tasked with doing. That’s ok. In a couple years only AI will be reading books. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/69 "2025-07-04T19:03:01Z")
Is it just me or did anyone else think Jeff was braggy in both of his “talk to Ken” mini-interviews? ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Finn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/70 "2025-07-11T23:53:36Z")
Three big wagers in FJ on tonight’s (July 11) episode. They were all correct, with the sums totalling close to $89k (of course - #2 only gets $3k, and #3, $2k). I guessed correctly, but the “1600s” in the clue was a little confusing for me. Skip ahead to 17:20 if you only want to see FJ. [JEOPARDY! 07/11/2025 FULL Episode 720HD || Jeopardy! July 11, 2025 Full Episode 1080HD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_xGK87lec) ---
**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 12, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/71 "2025-07-12T00:04:14Z")
The object in question is very famously blue. ---
**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 13, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/72 "2025-07-13T22:38:06Z")
Last week one of the clues was about the first line of _Atlas Shrugged_. (I really don’t need to spoiler this, do I?): _Who is John Galt?_ The response was correct, as in _What is Who is John Galt_? BUT… would have they accepted just _Who is John Galt?_ It IS a question, and if it has the correct inflection, is that good enough? (My user name was because I had just started reading the book for the first time, not realizing what a jerk he is. Oh well.) ---
**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 13, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/73 "2025-07-13T22:43:32Z")
I don’t think inflection is necessary as long as the response is in the form of a question. So Who Is John Galt? would be acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/74 "2025-07-13T22:55:06Z")
I’ve long wondered if the category were Classic Rock, and the clue was “band that recorded Pinball Wizard,” would a contestant be correct in saying…“Who?” Would that technically be “in the form of a question”, or would the contestant have to say “Who is The Who”? ---
**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 13, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/75 "2025-07-13T23:02:52Z")
Actually I don’t think “Who” would be correct since it’s “The Who”. ---
**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 13, 2025, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/76 "2025-07-13T23:51:03Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > BUT… would have they accepted just _Who is John Galt?_ It IS a question, and if it has the correct inflection, is that good enough? Yes. They recently had a category where all of the answers were already in the form of a question, and the category name made it clear that they wanted the contestants to _just_ say the titles. I think one was “Who’s Afraid or Virginia Woolf?” ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/77 "2025-07-13T23:55:36Z")
I don’t think the “Atlas Shrugged” clue was part of it (maybe it was), but at some point last week there was an entire category whose correct responses were already questions. For instance, one was “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?” Ken said something at the beginning like “Your responses will _already_ be in the form of a question!” As I recall, however, only one response came without an extraneous “what is.” (It was, of course, accepted.) Edit: Oops, ninja’d. ---
**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 14, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/78 "2025-07-14T00:43:24Z")
I think we’re all conditioned to say, “What is” so it’s a struggle not to. (I’ve done the “What is” when playing other trivia games.) ---
**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 14, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/79 "2025-07-14T02:06:11Z")
Yeah. In “Win Ben Stein’s Money” you had to wear a dunce cap if you used the Jeopardy! style answer. ---
**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 14, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487/80 "2025-07-14T21:15:29Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > They recently had a category where all of the answers were already in the form of a question, > [@Wheelz](#): > > at some point last week there was an entire category whose correct responses were already questions. For instance, one was “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff?” I’m guessing that the question-writing crew is well aware that fans discuss this issue (‘do you have to add ‘what is’ when the answer itself is a question?’) _a lot._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeopardy-season-41-begins-september-9-2024/1007487.md?page=5)