I was pretty happy to figure out “The Facts of Life, the Universe, and Everything Bagel.”
I mostly drew a blank on that entire category! :smack: 
Okay, I’ll admit that I did pause each clue for that one. I don’t know how they figure it out so fast.
The first game seemed as hard as a regular game, except for FJ! The second game was definitely tournament level hard. All the before and after type categories whizzed past me, and I never heard of the astronomer in FJ!
That category was fun but I needed more time to get each one.
Is there an archive for the GOAT tournament anywhere? I don’t see one on the regular website yet.
Did you try the J! Archive?
That’s what I meant when I said “the regular site.” I didn’t see the GOAT tournament on it when I first looked; maybe I just didn’t click in the right place.
Thanks for posting the link! 
Well…
According to The Futon Critic, which gets its information from ABC press releases, there is a new episode of The Goldbergs scheduled for the same time as Day 5 - but nothing is scheduled for Day 4’s timeslot on Tuesday. Read into that what you will.
Please, let’s not post any spoilers for the tournament, even in spoiler boxes.
I agree, and will have a finger poised over the Mute button, tonight.
Did they run through the first round without the commercial break? That’s what it seemed to me.
Yes. Since it’s network and not syndicated, there are fewer commercials needed.
Well, last night’s material was a lot harder (for me at least) than the first night’s. Although that Before During and After category on Tuesday was pretty hard (and clever).
It was interesting to see all three of them get clues, even Daily Doubles, wrong. But I still feel bad for Brad. The other two are beating him pretty badly. I suspect it’s a matter of reactions, and that they all know most of the questions, it’s just that James and Ken are quicker on average than Brad.
Yeah, I never do well with that kind of thing (which is also why, unlike other literate smarty-pants types, I shy away from crossword puzzles, the NPR puzzler segment, etc.). I need it to be a little more straightforward even if the information is obscure.
Does anyone else think it’s a little weird that this tournament is only for $1 million when one of the ones Brad Rutter won was for twice as much?
Yeah, I mean it hardly seems worth the effort, just for a measly $1 mil. 
I don’t recall what second and third place get. Anyone?
A quarter million each, according to an earlier poster.
I thought I had the final jeopardy question. I thought the answer was:
Alfonso Curan and Alejandro González Iñárritu
I did NOT remember that Birdman had won the Best Picture Oscar. Yikes, that did not deserve it!
I knew Del Toro had won with Shape of Water. I often think of Ang Lee as American even though he is not. Lee is often mentioned to be a US citizen, but I think he may not actually be a citizen of the United States. Kind of hard to remember that.
The clue said something like “foreign born” so it could be that Ang Lee is now a US citizen but still qualified for the correct response.
A clue on the Jeopardy! episode of Friday, January 10 caused controversy. The category was about the locations of various famous churches, and the contestants were meant to say the country in which each was located. One clue was “Built in 300s AD, the Church of the Nativity.” One contestant responded with “What is Palestine?” and was judged wrong. The second responded with “What is Israel?” and won the $200. This caused all sorts of controversy on and off line and yesterday, the show producers said the question was supposed to have been replaced with an alternate, but the version of the show sent out to the TV stations still contained the uncorrected version.
(It reminds me of how on the student newspaper in college, we ran a story about a protest by either the Turkish or the Greek student association over the Cyprus situation, and illustrated the article with a map of Cyprus, with a line showing the Greek vs the Turkish-controlled territory. That made one or the other of those groups very unhappy, because they didn’t agree with where the line was shown.)