I pulled “Agee” out of somewhere, and he’s not even a playwright. Got Frost though.
Perhaps you were thinking of Carl Sandburg.
Matt Amodio AMA on Reddit. Done on Monday, with a nice turn out of questions. Matt was generous with his time.
This is very, very interesting. The show added a extra rehearsal after the season break.
Whoops that link doesn’t go directly to the quote from Matt. That thread is very long.
It’s interesting because there has been questions about changes to the game. I’d assume adding a 2nd rehearsal is a long term change. It wasn’t done just during Matt’s streak.
Quotes from. Matt.
Yes, buzzer skill really is key. It doesn’t matter how well-informed and quick-witted you are, if you can’t buzz in at the right time.
I think so.
I remember one contestant saying he practiced buzzing at home with one of those toilet-paper rollers. You know, with the spring action.
I got the FJ today when none of the contestants did. Love it when that happens.
Don’t gloat too much. Those three missed lots of no-brainers.
Retractable pens are usable for that purpose, too.
I had no idea of the name of the bit you click on, and found:
So now we’re all ready in case Jeopardy! does a question on the topic!
That reminded me of a clickbait I clicked of a slideshow of what things look like sliced in half. Some were interesting, some were lame, but I closed it in disgust when they showed a sliced tomato. So that’s what they look like! Assholes.
Is it me, or was tonight’s Final Jeopardy well-nigh impossible to know for sure? Two of the contestants obviously misread the question and/or had no sense of how far 7000 miles is, but ISTM that even if you were good with geography, you’d only be in the right ballpark, and still have to take an educated guess. Just look at a map of the Earth–unless you had somehow previously come across the extremely obscure piece of trivia that Santiago is closer to 7000 miles east of Sydney than 7300-7400, and/or the 1/2 degree of latitude thing, how would you know it wasn’t Buenos Aires or Montevideo?
Because part of the clue said, “this capital, also on the Pacific.” Neither Buenos Aires nor Montevideo is on the Pacific.
I believe the question specifically mentioned the Pacific Ocean, which lets out Buenos Aires and Montevideo. I took an educated guess and was right, but if you look at an actual globe, it’s blindingly obvious.
I really had no idea that Santiago was on the coast, although it certainly makes sense that it would be located there. I guessed Lima, because I was aware that it was on the coast, although I thought it was farther north than Sydney.
It was actually the exact opposite. The clue said “near the Pacific,” and Santiago is about 60 miles inland. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are both on the coast, but it was the specificity of Pacific I missed. I was just thinking “ocean” and forgot that Buenos Aires and Montevideo are on the Atlantic.
Agh. I got caught up in the words of the clue and totally spaced on the number. I thought, “Is this clue just ‘What’s the capital of Australia?’” and didn’t even consider what 7,000 miles looks like.
And I also somehow pictured Sydney on the west coast of Australia. So I’m stupid, and I would have written Canberra and shown my stupidity to the world.
I figured “near the Pacific” was a hint, of a sort. If you know South American geography, just about every place in Chile is near the Pacific. I said “What is Santiago”; wasn’t certain, but thought it was a good guess.
There was another clue in the category “Science” that I was wondering about.
I said “what is carapace”. Mayim said the correct response was “exoskeleton”, but I hope I would have been ruled correct.
I said “carapace” too, but apparently that is only the dorsal section of the exoskeleton.