There was also one game where he read all the clues in a particular category, like they sometimes do with the Clue Crew. I was expecting that to happen more often, but so far it’s only been in one game. I agree, the publicity made it sound like he would be much more present than he seems to have been so far.
We’re only a couple of weeks into the season, and I think they’re not quite sure what role he’s going to serve. Is he the heir apparent? Or is he going to take over the executive producer? What it definitely means is that he’s never going to be a contestant again.
At least Phil Mickelson has a sense of humor about nobody getting it right.
Nothing to be ashamed of here. I know more about Rula Lenska than I do about this Phil Mickelson.
I was almost there; I guessed it was a golfer, and I know who Mickelson is, but I was struggling to pull his name out of my brain.
Then my wife (who is not a sports fan) piped up, “Is it Phil Mickelson?”
Jeopardy humbles us all at some point.
I was thinking Tiger Woods, but Googled to find he’s only 44.
That was my guess too.
Pardon me for asking, but since when is a Golfer an “athlete”?
Oy, you’re asking me? I should know?!? 
My wife, who is a decade younger than I am, also guessed Tiger Woods. But I am very close to Tiger’s age, so I knew he wasn’t old enough.
Right, good point. Which isn’t a big loss since there’s nowhere (as a contestant) to go but down after you have been awarded the title of GOAT.
I thought of Phil Mickelson first, but then I confused him with Jack Nicklaus and thought he was too old.
How many times in the past couple of weeks have 2 or 3 contestants got it wrong. Counting today, I think at least 4.
Today’s FJ was a tough one. I would have guessed “What is B.E.?” for “British Empire.”
I guessed the right answer - not a WAG, but an educated guess.
It took me several seconds to even parse the clue, but then when I put the pieces together I came up with it.
I think that kind of thing can be even more satisfying than just knowing the answer.
To be fair to 2/3rds of the contestants, they were thinking of the right entity (more or less).
Seems to me that U.K. and G.B. are equivalent for these purposes. There was no particular map in mind for the question, so they were just looking for the country that had x numbers of colonies in Africa. If they asked “A Country that was an ally of the U.S. in WWII and WWI?” it wouldn’t matter whether the contestant said Great Britain or United Kingdom would it?
They did indeed reference a particular map:
On the U.N. website’s map of the world in 1945, these 2 initials of a member state appear 13 times on continental Africa
Yes, it looks like this map: https://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/world45.pdf
The world looked different 75 years ago.
My mistake. Thanks.
They’re not exactly equivalent, either. “Great Britain” is an island, consisting of England, Scotland, and Wales. The full name of the U.K. is “the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”