Just saw a jeopardy question on British Cuisine which stated that a certain dish with sausages is called “this reptile” ‘in a hole’. The answer was “toad”. Last I heard frogs and toads were Amphibians. So I quickly checked Wikipedia to make sure, since things may have changed in the world or biology since I went to college, but wiki said they are indeed still amphibians. So what’s the deal? It seems odd that Jeopardy would mess that up.*
This is even worse than that episode of Full House that kept referring to a tortoise as an amphibian. You expect that kind of no fact checking crap from Full House though, not Jeopardy.
*Apologies if this has been brought up before, I have no idea if this was a repeat and I wasted my one search not being specific enough and got too many hits on “Jeopardy” to check them all.
yeah, this struck me as odd too. also, the marine biology category seemed absurdly easy and really gave the bearded guy a huge (and unfair) leg up. that poor guy in the middle for final jeopardy was really rattled at the end when he answered asia huh?
i’ll spoiler box the specific questions i’m talking about (paraphrasing):
millions of these animals grow in the waters of antarctic waters, up to a density of 35lbs/cubic meter
krill
daily double: this type of brown seaweed off the coast of california can grow up to a foot a day
kelp
final jeopardy: category: tony awards. clue: These two continents are the only continents where a tony award-winning play is not set in
antarctica and australia. the guy answered Asia and Australia
That was my thought. The point of the question isn’t, “what kind of an animal is a toad?” it’s “what’s the name of this English food?” I can easily see the fact checker making sure that “toad-in-the-hole” is a real food, and totally glossing over the fact that toads aren’t reptiles, simply because that’s not what the question is about.
How was the clue worded? I was out of the room and missed it. If it’s exactly as stated here and didn’t specify that it was a best play or best musical winner, there’s also Aida, which is set in Egypt, and won 4 Tonies in 2000 - not best musical - Contact won that that year - but best score, best actress, and best scenic and lighting design.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! I’m not the biggest game show watcher, but I’ve missed Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune since moving to Internet only TV. I’ve searched for episode, but the one place I didn’t think to check was YouTube.
Also, man does the set look over wrought and I hate that they remixed the Final Jeopardy theme.
Thanks. Guess that put my play out, then. Still, it would have let me eliminate that continent. (Not that I got the question right…I thought of the obvious one…the other one didn’t occur to me. :smack: )
I’m a big Jeopardy fan, but sometimes the clues are wrong. Tonight’s episode had a category for British Cuisine, and the question was about a certain dish of sausage in Yorkshire pudding called “this reptile in a hole”.
The first contestant said “snake”. Wrong. Correct answer : Toad.
Except a toad is not a reptile, it’s an amphibian. How does this get past the editors?
Wow… not a Jeopardy watcher but that seems like a pretty simplistic mistake to make. I thought they had stricter standards than that. That’s first grade biology right there.
ETA: Though considering the amount of questions they must come up with, it was probably an honest mistake.