All in MPSIMS?
Well, that is the case, So I guess I’ll have to accept it.
However, my original answer would have been “What are all kinds of Dopefests?”
Shit…What is that they are all in MPSIMS?
Whew…does that mean I get to double my -$100 in Final Jeopardy? 
(That is my score now, right?)
Wait just a consarn minute, where were all the daily doubles? I could’ve come out of the hole with one! (Don’t they let you bet at least $1,000 not matter what your score is?)
Okay…
Scores are now
Iampunha 3600
Zakalwe 3400
Nightwatch 3200
Shibb 2900
Hal 1700
Stern 1400
fireman 1200
Peri 600
Kat 500
Nametag 400
Wolfstu 400
Kallessa 400
Lighting 400
Eureka 200
As in real Jeopardy, only those with a positive score amount may play Final Jeopardy.
So those participating in FJ will be:
Iampunha
Zakalwe
Nightwatch
Shibb
Hal
Stern
fireman
Peri
Kat
Nametag
Wolfstu
Kallessa
Lighting
Eureka
Here’s how it will work.
You will all email me at hunter85014@yahoo.com with your wager based on the Final Jeopardy category. However, beyond that, I have NO FREAKING CLUE how the scoring works in FJ.
It’s either you can only bet the points you’ve made, or you can bet up to 5000. Which is it?
Yeah, your final score was -100, but I don’t think that negative scores make it into FJ.
And no daily doubles. 
I really should add them in sometime…but after doing this on other MBs about 4 times, I have yet to.
Anyway…the Final Jeopardy Catagory is…
Initial Reaction.
I’ll give you the initials of a doper’s username and you tell me who it is.
Also, note: The number of initials signify the number of WORDS in the name separated by spaces.
Just be glad, Cisco, that you don’t have to pay it back like Marge Simpson did once. $7,000, yet.
I T, what’s with the $5K amount? In regular Jeopardy! the FJ contestants can wager any amount up to the amount they have earned. And only in Celebrity Jeopardy! do the losers get some positive money given to them at the end if need be.
And, once more, it’s spelled “category.” 
::group hug!::
I’d offer you some pizza, but I’ve been moving stuff to and fro (also driving a bit; see the D2 thread you cited earlier;)) for the past few, so I’s hungry. Plus, y’know, East Coast to West coast … the stuff would be kinda cold by the time it got to you:D
I’m ready for Final Jeopardy (iampunha at netscape SPAM CATCH dot net). Take the spam catch out.
Please disregard irrelevant parts of that post, Idle Thoughts
FTR, an easy way to do daily double would be to assign each category a letter, each dollar amount a number, put A-E and 1-5 in two hats or summat and draw out one of each. Then just do it twice (or as many times as you require for two unique Daily Doubles) for double jeopardy.
Do you think that is the way the Alex-crew does it, a random selection? I always assumed the doubles were chosen as the most clever, or by some other non-random critereon.
I have NFC how Jeopardy! does their Daily Double assignment. Some I’ve found ridiculously easy, some might as well have been in Linear B.
IIRC – but I have no hard data to back me up – that doubles occur more often near the bottom of the board. I can’t ever recall one at the top row. If one is easy for you, that might just be a personal thing, no?
According to Imponderables*, Daily Doubles are chosen at random.
And I even went back to fix my coding error. :smack: Imponderables.
What is imponderables? Link?
Yay! I made it back for Final Jeopardy!
I just emailed ya.
And, to rewind the discussion back to the question about question format…I saw an episode where they accepted, in Final Jeopardy no less, the format “Is it (answer)?” so it probably don’t matter all that much.
And Imponderables is a Q&A book series written by David (is it David?) Feldman. They’re not as good as the SD books.
Like Kat said, they’re books like Straight Dope, but not nearly as good; although if I remember right, Cecil does refer to David Feldman in his first book. I’ll have to go back and check on that, unless somebody else can validate that.
I thought the quote was “Gotcha ya!”