I think they get around that by saying “may be the source.” Also, you’re source doesn’t really say why it’s called the windy city, just that it was first used in 1860.
Exactly how far into the future are you posting from?
POLITE RESPONSE
Oops! Typo. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Too bad I didn’t notice within the editable window. Of course that should have been “3/26.”
RETURNING SARCASM TO SARCASM
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miiiiles:musical_note:
In the first paragraph:
”The nickname is a reference to the winds off Lake Michigan”
TERENTII & PANACHE45:
Please explain what you had against Carter.
He was a moderate with executive experience as Governor of Georgia and no history of infidelity. He had served honorably in the military as commander of a submarine. I will stipulate that he did not do a very good job, but what about him upset you before his election?
I have been voting since 1968. In every Presidential election, I have voted against the other guy, not for the first guy.
In 1976, I voted against Ford because I did not want to ratify Nixon appointing his own successor.
I have voted “for” only 2 Republicans. I voted against the first Mayor Daley of Chicago in his last election shortly before his death. Today I am somewhat chagrined because his opponent was a fascist and racist, not that he had any chance of winning. I am proud that I voted against the re-election of Rod Blagojevich for Governor of Illinois 2 years before he was arrested.
Personally, I find it amazing that you even bother to vote. But that’s just me.
[Moderating]
This is the Jeopardy thread, in Cafe Society. If you want to talk about who you voted for and why, that’s GD.
Yeah, but they don’t provide any cite for that. The article they cite call Chicago the windy city of the west, but doesn’t reference why they’re calling it that.
My brother and I play a little side game, we try to guess the final Jeopardy answer based on the category. Every now and then, one of us will actually get it right.
I guessed it last night with “The Tempest” in the Shakespeare plays category. Granted, this was way easier than most of their categories because the amount of possible correct answers was really limited. But I DIDN’T get the final answer right, the one based on the actual question. I thought it was “The Merchant of Venice”.
A couple of months ago we each got one right, it in same week IIRC. He guessed Frost for American poets and I guessed the DMZ for Asian Geography. I got the final answer right that time as well.
Huh. I thought last night’s final was pretty easy.
That’s amazing and it makes your Jeopardy so interesting to watch and shout at the TV at. What seems so easy can flummox your people but there can be entire rounds that I know I have no chance at.
What are American rivers named after civil war generals with two syllables ending with Q?
What was the clue for it?
Good question Chronos and where can we watch it?
Ken Jennings has a website like people did in the old days. Also he or someone using his name does Ken’s Kennections like this:
“In Robert Ludlum’s Bourne novels, what’s the first name of the title assassin?”
To make it like Jeopardy you’ll have to imagine it’s a question but after 5 questions you get a chance to find the connection which is actually a Kennection because Ken made it. He connected Ken and connection.
But he should have said “titular” which connects titles and tits.
Dude from my alma mater, University of Minnesota, absolutely destroyed the competition this week! I was shocked, actually, when he went for a true daily double in the middle of the competition. I guess he just felt good about the category and wanted to put the game completely out of reach.
Then he went for the $5 Daily Double bet in another category. !!!
I was surprised that in Final, he had the correct answer written down (as far as I could read, anyway), but then crossed it out and wrote a message, instead. What was that about?
My brother and I do the same thing; we call it ”Psychic Jeopardy.” We have gotten a number of them right over the years. More often, a category will serve as inspiration for joke answers (e.g., “What is I’m a Jeopardy loser?”) Borglum and Kafka have become standard responses regardless of category when we are clueless. I think I psychically answered the Shakespeare one with “What is The Leech Woman?”, but the actual clue was rather obvious for those who know about the movie *Forbidden Planet *(1958) and its source material.
Too many times to count, I have answered FJ with “Well, it’s definitely not X” and then guessed something else. Of course, X was correct. I used to hate it when that happened, but I have gotten used to it.
He was guaranteed to win already (assuming he didn’t make a completely imbecilic wager). The winner of the tournament automatically gets $100,000, so no matter whether he got the question right or wrong, he leaves with $100,000.
Yes, and he wanted to prove that he knew the answer, which is why he still wrote it and crossed it out. I assume the reason he bet so small on the second double Jeopardy is that by that time he had such a huge lead it was mathematically impossible for anyone to catch him. I didn’t check the math but that seems right.
Sure, I realize he couldn’t have lost (unless he’d bet stupidly–and maybe not even that, given how huge his 2-day lead was). But “wanted to prove he knew the answer”–? And yet crossed it off to show…what?
Still seems odd to me that he’d cross it off; I’m not seeing a reason for that. Meh.