The official “Jeopardy!” parlance is to refer to the two parts as a “clue” and a “repsonse.” Although, as you said, the idea is that the clue is an answer to a question and the response is said question. (Although, as Alan Smithee said, many don’t make sense if you reverse them- if someone asked me “What’s Casino Royale?” I’d respond something to the effect of “A 1953 novel by Ian Fleming that was the first appearance of James Bond, which also inspired the 1967 spoof and 2006 Daniel Craig film of the same name,” rather than something about a martini recipe.)
Nowadays, yes, but I didn’t that change sometime in the 90s? I’m sure I remember Alex revealing clues with the words, “The answer is . . .” when I was a kid
Presumably, upcoming categories will include “Ow, This Hurts,” “Why Are You Doing This To Me?,” and “Please Let Me Die.”
Why weren’t they this relaxed about accuracy when I was on?
Okay, I’m now utterly confused. Bond drank “martinis” that were composed of gin and vodka??? My understanding of martinis is that they are composed of gin and vermouth. And if you want a vodka martini, you get vodka and vermouth – not vodka and gin. That is, VERMOUTH is a key component of a martini. Purists even claim that there is no such thing as a vodka martini, because you can’t call anything a martini that isn’t gin and vermouth. Even bigger purists proclaim that Bond was an idiot for wanting his martinis “shaken, not stirred” because shaking “bruises the gin.” (I, however, am a staunch lover of vodka martinis, which I make with vodka and vermouth, and without gin, which I dislike intensely.) Anyone care to help me out on this??
See Vesper Martini.
INGREDIENTS:
3 measures of Gordon’s Gin
1 measure of vodka
1/2 measure Kina Lillet
lemon peel for garnish
In that first novel, Bond ‘invents’ the drink described by the recipe in question. He doesn’t actually refer to it as a Martini. He names it, eventually, a Vesper, which also happens to be the name of the beautiful woman with whom he’s working his current case. Kina Lillet is (I’m told) vermouth, so really it’s the Vodka that makes it not quite a Martini.
Bind actually downs a number of different types of drink throughout the novels. His predilection for martinis is mostly a film invention. The thing I recall him ordering most often is Bollinger’s Champagne .
As is his fondness for gourmet foods. Novel-Bond describes himself several times as not a gourmet, and since he smokes ~70 cigarettes a day (and big unfiltered custom-blend cigs, at that) he seeks out sharp tastes rather than subtle ones, because the latter means nothing to him. After a few weeks of forced rehabilitation at the Shrublands resort in Thunderball, with a diet of carrot juice and whatnot, what he wants most is a trifecta of spaghetti bolognese, a really cheap Chianti, and the body of physical therapist Patricia Fearing.
Hi, I’m Bind, Jumes Bind.
Jeopardy isn’t always right. I remember a few years ago (nope, sorry, citeless here…) that they had a category where the clue was the first line to a famous song, and the contestants had to provide the second line.
This particular clue was a reference to a popular rock anthem by Neil Young, in which the first line was “My, my, hey, hey”.[sup]*[/sup]
The contestant answered, “What is ‘Rock and Roll will never die’?”
They gave it to him.
Now, needless to say, this was wrong.
[sup]*[/sup]The clue may have been “Hey, hey, my, my” and the contestant’s answer was “What is ‘Rock and Roll is here to stay’?”
I’ll admit, I don’t remember which, but at any rate, he got the answer wrong and they gave it to him anyway.
I agree with the OP, and with Smithee. The problem for me is that the question is poorly worded. It should have said “a part” of the recipe.