They almost got him today. Good game.
Today’s Final Jeopardy was Celebrity Memoirs.
I love when I get one right that none of the contestants do, especially when it’s in Final Jeopardy. Even Jamie Ding missed it, although he still won his eleventh game in a row.
Can’t he just lose already? It’s like watching a guy read trivial pursuit cards.
Yes, I was rooting for Brent. He had a chance for a while.
Seriously. I’m not a big fan of runaway players and, all due respect to Jamie, but the games this week have been boring af!
It’s really funny when they get, you know, something like “the king of Upper Plotsovania in 330 BC”, or “the largest 4 digit prime number”, but then miss “car wax”, “Chamois”, “steam cleaning”, “touchless” (seriously, does no one there ever wash their cars? 4 out of 5 were triple stumpers!), “Springer spaniel” (in the “spring” category, no less), “intern”.
To be fair, I didn’t get Kawasaki. I thought that was a person not a city. Or Lances and the British library. But there were a high number of triple stumpers yesterday.
Plotsovania, is that anywhere near Pottsylvania?
I agree about some of the questions they get right, and the easy ones they all miss. The final was a pretty easy guess for me, Judi Dench being English.
It’s an easy mistake to make, cornfusing them.
The show & the email newsletter say that 5 days of reruns are available on Hulu and Peacock. On Peacock I can find the recent reruns, but on Hulu all I can find are 3 episodes from 1999 (Season 16) with Eddie Timanus, the first blind contestant.
Does anyone have any better luck with Hulu?
Jeopardy has repeatedly said that they randomize the selection of contestants, question packets, and Daily Double locations to avoid even a hint of scandal or collaboration.
Then they need to find some better contestants. Because for a lot of Jaime’s run the disparity is shocking. I joke, but 50000 to 1000 to -500 going into final about sums up what it looks like.
OK, seriously, how many of Ken’s games were blowouts? Not just a runaway, but a curb stomping of the other two.
There have been some close games with Jamie, at least going into Final Jeopardy.
Brian
Spoilered for those who haven’t watch Monday’s game yet:
Jamie secured his 12th victory on the 3/30 game. 8 of those, including Monday’s, have been runaways.
Yes. A respectable handful of recent episodes including the previous day’s are there to be found. It did take me a couple of clicks to figure out where they were. Hulu’s site is not the most intuitive.
To be precise, I believe the five most recent syndicated episodes are released on Hulu or Peacock.
Woo hoo! Just watched yesterday’s game and got Final Jeopardy right, though it was a triple stumper for the contestants. Category: Fictional Characters. I bet all my imaginary money because I know about lots of stuff that never happened. And then I didn’t know the answer but they gave you the puzzle pieces to figure it out.
“Literary theories say the first name of this 1847 title character is meant to evoke plainness while the last name hints at a bequest”
Who is Jane Eyre?
Good for you! I was, per usual, clueless. Until I heard the answer, and then it was, per usual, a ‘Duh’ moment.
I didn’t guess it either.
A quick nitpick about Monday’s game:
There was a clue about a “swimming stroke,” with the answer being “What is freestyle?”
Freestyle is not a stroke. It’s a race (or leg of a race) in which you are allowed to do any stroke you want. The fact that everybody uses the front crawl because it’s the fastest has led most people to believe “freestyle” is the actual name of the stroke. It’s not.
This is a tiny tiny nitpick, yes, and it was obviously the response they were going for (the clue was about a same-named swimming stroke and rap style) — and I truly don’t care if people are mistaken about it in general — but still, I expect Jeopardy to be more meticulous than this.
In the words of Ken Jennings & Alex Trebek, “Please be more specific.” Please tell me EXACTLY what to do, because I couldn’t find anything.