They were two of a set of 19 children born at the same time, all identical. Each day of their appearance on Jeopardy?, they would send two of them to the studio, one to pretending to be the one on the stage and one pretending to be the one in the audience. In a few years, another one will qualify to be a contestant and will announce that they are actually one of a set of triplets.
“Yeah, we forget we were triplets instead of twins…”
He topped it tonight with “It took a little time but you got there” (the correct response was “Viagra”). Hilarity ensued in our household.
In something Jeopardy!-adjacent, I see Wheel has found the old ceramic dalmatian and put it front and center of their holiday set decoration. I guess no one ever claimed it. Vanna ever read a children’s book about it, how it only comes to life on Christmas.
That was excellent. The $99 ceramic Dalmatian that everyone had to buy is definitely a humorous child memory. But that couldn’t have been the original, it was made of wood, not ceramic:
Ah, Vanna and Ryan were arguing about that.
She said she had an original one at home that she would check, and Ryan replied “Did you steal it?”
Please keep Wheel of Fortune stuff out of this thread. There is probably a thread for it.
Moderating:
It’s my thread. A lot of people have wheel right before Jeopardy!, and I was only commenting on the end of the episode.
Please don’t argue moderation in thread. Also please take Wheel of Fortune posts to here:
Also it is not your thread, you are the OP, but this is the SDMB’s Jeopardy thread.
Moderating:
Word! 
Did any of y’all get the Final Jeopardy yesterday? It was a triple-stumper to the contestants, but I knew it. 
In fairness, I believe they knew it too, but didn’t read the question carefully enough. In the category Literature:
IN A 21st CENTURY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, THIS CHARACTER INTRODUCED IN AN 1876 WORK IS BIRACIAL.
The answer: Huck Finn. He was a character in Percival Everett’s book James.
I didn’t. I wasn’t even in the right area code.
I correctly guessed it.
I was nowhere near getting it, and had no awareness whatsoever of the Everett book.
At first I thought it might have something to do with “Wicked,” but I figured that had never even sniffed a Pulitzer, and wasn’t sure about the 1876 part. (I checked afterward - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900.)
So as time ran out, I blurted out “Sherlock Holmes.” Closer, as he debuted in 1887, but still a very wrong wild-ass guess.
I was bracing myself for a “Randy Marsh on Wheel of Fortune” moment…
I usually get bored with all of these championships games (what the heck are regionals, anyway?). But they’ve been worth watching to see the winner’s reactions at the end. Each and every one has been quite emotional, which is really touching.
Me too!
Is this really fair? Until recently, nearly everyone treated Huck as purely white. It was only recently that some people have claimed that we were supposed to consider him as biracial.