Everything has a price to pay, I suppose.
I actually guessed the FJ answer. It was just a guess though (High School French may have helped)
The dish that includes the month’s name may have helped too.
Brian
I just finished watching it on YouTube (it was right after 02:00 in Moscow, so someone must have posted it on Atlantic Time). I thought it was easy. Even if I didn’t know my European history, I would have gotten it just from the word “heat” in the clue. (And yeah, I know about the dish and its origins too.)
I was astonished, though, that Matt missed it. That encyclopedia he reads must have some blank spots.
I was also amazed he missed the one about what happens to mercury at low temperatures. I thought the response was obvious.
Well maybe the Supreme Court said it was a peninsula, but who else would think that?
A weird one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Maine
maybe your mom sold my set to my grandparents back in 86 lol
But yeah I used to read them from front to back. I was the jeopardy fan in the house and unless it was anything math or technical English (which the sdmb informs me I’m the worst at … although I do try ) id run the board…I miss hard-back encyclopedias…
I don’t know why Long Island is considered a peninsula if Manhattan is considered an island.
Anyone else surprised they didn’t ask Matt to be more specific with his “what’s Adams?” response? Don’t they always do that with the Presidents Adams?
I have to admit, for a while it was fun to watch each night hoping Matt would lose, this is getting boring. If this goes on much longer, I might just stop watching until I hear that he’s lost.
I had no idea LI is considered a peninsula. They should at least change the name to Long Peninsula. I would have guessed Manhattan before I guessed LI.
It was right on the tip of my tongue, and then I remembered it at the last second…Humidor!
Never would have come up with FJ. That was pretty obscure. I was trying to come up with something that sounded like “calor,” (knowing that is Spanish but thinking French may be similar and looking it up now, the French word for heat is “ la chaleur” so I wasn’t too far off) but the answer appears to have nothing to do with the French word for heat so no idea how you’re supposed to figure that one out.
I got FJ. First, it was the mention of Messidor and the French Revolution–and thanks to my high school European history teacher’s enthusiasm for the French Revolution, we learned that the French had redesigned their calendar in its wake. We didn’t learn all the months by name, but we did learn the correct response, and the “-dor” part of Messidor reminded me of it. I wasn’t a hundred percent sure, but I was pretty sure.
As for the French word for “heat,” the correct response has nothing to do with “chaleur.” Rather, it comes from the Greek. Think of the now-generic brand name for a vacuum bottle that keeps hot liquids, such as soups and coffee, hot; and that you might take to work.
Yeah, it helps if you know something about languages too. The clue was
Following Messidor, this summer month in the 18th century French Revolutionary calendar had a name meaning “heat gift”
The Greek word for “gift” is doro (δώρο). So “therm” + “doro” = Thermidor. Easy-peasy!
(The name “Doris” is derived from doro too.)
I don’t understand how Matt could have gotten “Mercurial” but not “Saturnine.”
And yes, I was waiting for Mayim to say “Be more specific” on the “What is … Adams?” response. Maybe the “1801” was enough to differentiate John from John Q. (On the other hand, I laughed out loud the other day when Angie Givant said “Agincourt” instead of “Hastings.” Apparently the year 1066 didn’t ring any bells with her.)
I know the Bronx is the only part of NYC to be “attached” to the continent of North America (or so I was once told). I guess that makes it a peninsula (“almost an island”), but I don’t think it’s 118 miles long.
I remembered from Geography class that peninsula and islands are sometimes named incorrectly. The historical name stuck and never changed.
I didn’t know for certain Long Island was the answer. But what else in the NYC area sticks out over a 100 miles into the sea? Long Island seemed like the only logical answer.
Plus causeways/canals can eliminate/create islands.
Wikipedia also says that the Supreme Court ruling
“In the popular media this has been often misinterpreted as a ruling that Long Island is legally not an island.”
Brian
Long Island is completely surrounded by water.
I got Thermidor without even thinking. It was just ‘obvious’. And I don’t speak French.
But, I’ve never even heard the word saturnine.
If they make you clarify TR from FDR, they most certainly need a clarification of which President Adams you’re talking about,
Yes, it extends into the Atlantic Ocean, but it’s divided from the rest of New York by a river. I always wondered if that was part of the justification for calling it a peninsula.
The East River is not really a river.
Technically, the East River, the body of water that separates Long Island from Manhattan and the Bronx (on the New York mainland), is a tidal strait, rather than a river. Since the East River is relatively shallow, difficult for ships to navigate, and not an outlet to the sea, it doesn’t count, the Court essentially argued. Newsday points out that scientific experts don’t support this argument—geologically, the two islands are made of very different kinds of rock that formed at millions of years apart. But, as a matter of political expediency, it’s more convenient for Long Island to be a peninsula so New York can exercise jurisdiction over it (and reap whatever natural resources it can from that).
I’ve never heard either of those words. It would not have been a good day for me to be a contestant.
You’ve never heard of Lobster Thermidor? I’ve never eaten it, but I’ve heard of it.