Not the meaning, but the pronunciation. The Final Jeopardy rule is that spelling doesn’t count, as long as the misspelling is phonetically the same. “Emancipatation” added an extra syllable to the word, so it was ruled incorrect.
I don’t have a big problem with the results, but I am surprised the judges weren’t more strict. To me, the question is asking for the English name of the element, not the symbol.
The judges on Jeopardy are not known for being strict. I’ve seen them give credit for Ivan the Terrible being Czar of the Soviet Union.
I do not bemoan this, BTW. Looser judging makes for a more fun game IMHO.
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Really? I guess I haven’t watched in ages, but my recollection was annoyingly nitpicky judging, especially when it came to pronunciation.
Ooops, someone has. :smack:
Thank you Cartoonacy. My apologies to borschevsky.
Appreciate that, Sean Factotum. As far as I can remember, the contestants yesterday were from '91, '92 and (I think) '97.
This. And whether they ruled his answer correct or incorrect had no bearing on the outcome of the game. I didn’t understand what the big hullabaloo was about anyway.
Interesting question. The answer given has just enough vagueness to to allow this (IMO wrong) answer to pass.
To me the desired knowledge is:
(a) There are symbols for elements that don’t match their English names (given in the clue, but the player should readily know some of them)
(b) Which one of these is first? (Ag)
© What element is that the symbol for? (Silver)
Not requiring step © makes it a much easier question. I, in fact, always confuse Gold and Silver (only figuring it out when I remember that Goldfinger’s first name was Auric). But I do know that there is an Ag and an Au and that Ag comes first.
Would those of you that accept Ag have accepted Argentum?
John, I believe you’re thinking of Chuck Forrest, who WAS on the show this week. Arthur Chu, the current returning champion, who has a 2-week break while this “80’s” tournament goes on, reference the “Forrest Bounce” as one of his strategies herein an interview with Mental Floss magazine.
I think what the OP is saying is that the player who answered “Ag” did not demonstrate his knowledge of the true answer. It’s like answering “Ac” instead of “Actinium” when the question is, “What element has the symbol Ac?” – or questioning “Ac” when the answer is…or whatever. :rolleyes:
Anyway, I’m going back to read some Rule 34 style Wizard of Oz porn where the Sn Man slips Dorothy the W…
You can’t get the Au if you don’t take the Pb!
How Fe-ick.
I don’t think so. It didn’t ask for an element’s name. Depending on how you chose to understand it, it either asked for “element”, or “element’s symbol”. As in either:
Of the elements whose symbols don’t match their English names, this element’s symbol comes first alphabetically
or
Of the elements whose symbols don’t match their English names, this element’s symbol comes first alphabetically
Ag is the answer to either of the questions. Silver is the answer to the first one only.
Doesn’t the first part of the clue imply that the answer has to be an element, though? An element can be “of the elements whose symbols don’t match their English names” (or, phrased less awkwardly, belong the category of “elements whose symbols don’t match their English names.”) But an “element’s symbol” can’t.
Ag is “the element”. So is “silver”. Both are the correct answer, the judges were right. If you disqualify “Ag” as not being “the element” but only a symbol for it, you have to disqualify “silver” as not being “the element” but only a name for it. Then only a physical chunk of silver would qualify.
Surely the only answer that would answer the hyper pedants would be “What is this?” and whip out a silver ingot that you happened to have secreted down your pants.
eta: Ninjaed!
Well, the chances to correct this mistake Ar.
I’ll give you a golf clap for that one.