# The Jeopardy thread \[was James Holzhauer\]\[contains spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** reality-or-game-show\ **Created:** [April 17, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696 "2019-04-17T21:53:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 101
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2001 "2021-04-13T04:17:25Z")
I don’t see how Germany became not-Germany just because of who was running it… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2002 "2021-04-13T13:41:31Z")
When I saw the category was “olympic hosts” I figured I could bet the farm. That’s a subject I’m very good at; think I know them all back to about 1960. Then I saw the clue and could only think of Australia, so I’m glad they only asked for one of the two. Off the top of my head, I can think of think of four countries that have hosted the Winter Olympics in two different cities, and the U.S. has had them in Squaw Valley, Lake Placid, and Salt Lake City. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2003 "2021-04-13T13:47:58Z")
Even though I’m a Bears fan, I have to say that Aaron Rodgers was a handsome and imposing figure, and that he should take the job permanently, starting before September! 😈 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2004 "2021-04-13T13:58:05Z")
Based on looks alone, he’s my choice, even above the hosts we haven’t seen yet. We need to see more of him during the 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:** [April 13, 2021, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2005 "2021-04-13T14:20:08Z")
I think Rodgers is doing a fine job. My only complaint is that he sometimes speaks too fast, but that’s a minor issue that can easily be corrected. He is certainly a welcome change from Dr. Oz. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2006 "2021-04-13T14:31:48Z")
Even more more technically, the text of the clue was “one of 2 countries with 2 different cities that have hosted the Summer Olympics.” Berlin and Munich are both cities that have hosted the Summer Olympics, and both of those cities are presently in Germany. So Germany is a country “with 2 different cities that have hosted.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2007 "2021-04-13T18:56:42Z")
Just out of curiosity, would the answer be “Russia” if they had been held in Moscow in 1980 and, say, 1900? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2008 "2021-04-13T19:02:46Z")
I can think of at least six million people who might disagree with you. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2009 "2021-04-13T19:23:15Z")
I don’t see why it would. Moscow is only one city. The clue was about two different cities. If there had been Olympics in, say, Moscow and St. Petersburg, then it would probably count, even if one of them had been during Soviet times and one not. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2010 "2021-04-13T19:33:08Z")
Good point. I forgot about the two different cities. What I was getting at is that some countries have gone through considerable changes in name over the last 100+ years. If someone wanted to contest a ruling, they could argue that Russia is not the USSR, just like Grossdeutschland was not the BRD (or the DDR, for that matter). How successful they might be would depend on the judges, I suppose. ---
**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:** [April 14, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2011 "2021-04-14T19:03:31Z")
We both laughed at Aaron’s pronounciation of the capital city of Germany. He pronounced it like the small town 70 miles SSW of Green Bay, that is BERlin, not like the correct BerLIN. Funny that WI has both a Berlin and a New Berlin, both pronounced different that the capital of Germany. Thank WWI for that. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2012 "2021-04-14T22:02:48Z")
I wonder how he’d pronounce “New Prague, Minnesota.” ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2013 "2021-04-14T22:04:22Z")
Technically the Mars probe unit SNAFU was not pounds vs kilograms, but pound(force)-seconds vs newton-seconds > **[Mars Climate Orbiter](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > The Mars Climate Orbiter (formerly the Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter) was a 638-kilogram (1407 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, to study the Martian climate, Martian atmosphere, and surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor '98 program for Mars Polar Lander. However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was permanently lost as it went into orbital insertion. The spacec... Brian ---
**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:** [April 14, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2014 "2021-04-14T22:05:35Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I wonder how he’d pronounce “New Prague, Minnesota.” I have the feeling I don’t know either! (prayg with a long A?) But I’ll trade you an Ashwaubenon and we’ll call it even. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2015 "2021-04-14T22:12:55Z")
Yes; rhymes with “Sprague,” as in “Howard the Barber.” I was on a roadtrip once with a guy from Lake Geneva when he told me we were stopping for lunch in “Lions.” I looked at the map and said “Oh, you mean _Lyons_.” He looked back at me and said “No, _Lions_. We’re in rural Wisconsin, not France!” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2016 "2021-04-14T22:31:11Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Yes; rhymes with “Sprague,” as in “Howard the Barber.”… Ohhh, @terentii…I hope that was just brain flatus and nothing more. Howard Sprague was the county clerk. The barber was Floyd Lawson. mmm ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2017 "2021-04-14T22:32:45Z")
Yes, I stand corrected! It was the mustaches that confused me! 😖 ---
**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:** [April 14, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2018 "2021-04-14T22:48:42Z")
Around these parts, we have LaFAYette County. It makes me cringe, but that’s the pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![Steven\_Maven](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steven_maven/32/3272_2.png) [@Steven\_Maven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steven_Maven)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2019 "2021-04-15T02:34:25Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I think Rodgers is doing a fine job. I find Rodgers adequate, serviceable, & workmanlike, but uninspiring. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696/2020 "2021-04-15T03:05:52Z")
As soon as Rodgers announced tonight’s FJ category was “Shakespeare,” I turned to my wife and said, “Hamlet.” 😁 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696.md?page=100) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jeopardy-thread-was-james-holzhauer-contains-spoilers/832696.md?page=102)