The Jeopardy thread [was James Holzhauer][contains spoilers]

Still, that’s a lot of TMI.

I’m curious: How many of Shakespeare’s plays are actually centered around a battle?

Antony & Cleopatra, and Actium…

So we have Actium and Agincourt (in Henry V) … any others?

I took it to be she dropped the news that she was pregnant. He got two instances of big news on that day. Also, they should have called Alex’s twin sister Alexa. What could possibly go wrong?

That might depend on how you define “centered around” a battle. For example, Richard III’s plot certainly climaxes at Bosworth Field, but certain definitions of “centered” might lead to a decision that the play is more about a villain’s villainous machinations, and less about the battle.

“Taming of the Shrew?”

d&r

tee hee :grin:

Define “centered”
Anthony & Cleopatra
Richard III
Henry V
one of the Henry VI (don’t remember which)
Macbeth
King John
Julius Caesar

Not Macbeth. It starts with a battle over and ends with a battle over, but there isn’t any anywhere else in the play. Hardly the “center” of the play.

My go-to Shakespeare play when I don’t know the answer is Toilets and Cressida.

Then I guess you’re often shit out of luck.

Final Jeopardy tonight, the category was “official languages”:

My thought process was “Did the Cutch colonize any part of Africa? Maybe I’m thinking of Belgium. Or do they have some territory in the South Pacific, somewhere? South America, or is that all Spanish or Portuguese? Anything in the Caribbean? I better guess something.” And then I blurted out “what is Suriname?”

I was floored when it turned out to be right. I wasn’t even sure where Suriname is. I don’t think it was just a lucky guess, but I have no idea how I knew this.

Thanks for your comments. They’re very helpful.

My thought processes were similar, but Suriname was the first thing that came to my mind. I spent the remainder of the 30 seconds ruling out everywhere else on Earth in case I might be wrong.

On Shakespeare, I mean.

I knew about Suriname, but didn’t know it was the only one. I thought of Aruba and Curacao, but they’re not in the U.N.

I thought that there may have been an outside chance that Indonesia would have been right. Suriname was my top choice, though.

Same here. Somewhere in my brain the data must be there, but the index is damaged enough that all I had was “Dutch>Suriname”. No further data. Like Sherlock says to Joan in Elementary, trust your first instinct.

I have a friend who was married to a woman from Suriname for a few years so it occurred to me immediately.