Kaylasdad - the live NFL draft pre-empted the normal 7PM PT airing of Jeopardy, but they pushed the scheduled time back to 9PM (after the planned 830 local news). Even though the draft ran past 9PM, they cut the news entirely and then joined Jeopardy in progress. My memory is unclear but I think they did something similar on Friday.
A related local Jeopardy oddity was the next day when they came back from the break after Double Jeopardy for final Jeopardy, they re-ran DJ from the top (it was much easier the second time, LOL) but then just stopped the replay at the end of the time slot, so we had to look up to learn that Sarah Jett Rayburn won - they never showed the actual Final.
I have never seen that mistake before and honestly am not sure how it would happen - I wouldn’t expect each segment to be a separate file that gets replayed individually
On today’s show, we had three strong candidates until FJ, where two of the guesses were really weak (one was in French, and one had no article in the name at all!). Nice haul for the winner though.
I was baffled too. “El Salvador” might be the name English-speakers use (as does the rest of the world), but it’s not English. It’s Spanish. I can’t recall ever seeing another clue so badly worded.
The person who answered “Belize” may have an argument, because it does have “el” in its name. The question wasn’t worded clearly enough to exclude such answers, IMO.
To be precise, the wording (from J! Archive) was, “On the English-language list of member states at un.org, it’s the only nation with a Spanish-language article in its name.”
Yep, it was a very clumsy clue. Mrs. Cretin was baffled by it, yet oddly enough I had no trouble figuring it out and immediately knowing the solution. But especially in FJ the clue shouldn’t require deciphering.
I didn’t think there was anything confusing about the clue, they wanted the English name of a country with “El” or “La” in it. I just couldn’t come up with the answer in time.
The clue specified “the only nation…” By your interpretation, correct answers would also include Belarus, Belgium, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Seychelles, Venezuela and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (all with -el- somewhere in their names); and Finland, Guatemala, Iceland again, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ireland again, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Latvia, Malawi, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palau, Poland, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UK again, Venezuela again (all with -la- somewhere in their names); and Brunei Darussalam, Burundi, Hungary, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, UK again, United Republic of Tanzania, and United States of America (all with -un- somewhere in their names). That’s a lot of only’s.
Those countries don’t have a Spanish-language article in their name. They have the letters that form a Spanish-language article, but that’s not what those letters are in that context.
Guess it was into May. Or else they feel more shorter periods of repeats are a better idea than one long one while they ramp up to start filming again and are holding onto the new episodes.
I hadn’t watched the show for years before Ken’s streak started getting some notice, and I didn’t remember it, either. But yeah, there is way too much going on on that set. And I found it much harder to tell who had rung in.