In this case, the Wikipedia entry is taking the old Eurocentric view that has been debunked. Instead, it is pretty accepted that Britain did not have control (real control) of the area and its inhabitants during that period and that they knew that the tribes would not accept either British or rule by the Confederation of States/US. The area remained embattled until after Jefferson’s term was over.
Just the other day, on a real episode, I saw a column: Three People Who Have Never Been In My Kitchen
Alex smiled coyly and I pooped my pants.
Trick Rider said:
Wait, so you’re saying the contestant should guess wrong and lose money and perhaps the game to ensure that they protect the possibility they will be allowed to come back? The issue is that the “answer” was wrong and misleading, so there was no right “question”.*
It’s the age-old question of if there is a penalty for incorrect guesses. On Jeopardy, there is. Don’t make a weak guess unless you’re already way behind and the only way to have a chance is bold moves. Note also this is a Daily Double. That means it is in regular round play, and the results can affect your position for the rest of the game.
If Jeopardy is going to do something to make up for their own mistakes, then they should do something regardless of how you answered. The only reason they shouldn’t is if it makes no difference in the outcome. If it’s Final Jeopardy and you only have $200 and the next contestants have $15,000 and $25,000, then it doesn’t matter whether you bid $200 or $2000, you can’t win unless the other two royally screw the pooch. But a Double Jeopardy question early in the game that you think can get and bet $1000 and that hole affects your play through the rest of the game, then it made a difference.
Justin_Bailey said:
They shoot the contestant, dispose of the body, and nobody mentions it ever again. (They’re coming for you now.)
The Other Waldo Pepper said:
[/Cliff Claven] 
Alex Trebek: “That guy - he scares me.”
*Except in the OP, the question was clear and just misunderstood by the poster.
However, in a Daily Double, you place your bet before seeing the question and noone else gets a crack at answering. Therefore, in this situation, your penalty for guessing incorrectly is exactly the same as your penalty for not guessing at all.
So what would happen if Chuck Norris were ever a contestant?
Or is that what’s going to happen in 2012? Cosmogenesis.
What happens when Jeopardy is wrong?
You say, “NOT so fast, Trebek.”
It would mean Celebrity Jeopardy has become dumbed-down to point of feeling the warmth of Earth’s mantle.
The Wikipedia article “History of Indiana” features the line, “Britain ceded the entire trans-Allegheny region to the United States—including Indiana—in the peace treaty negotiated in Paris” and then gives a link to the complete text of the Treaty of Paris, the second article of which gives a long-winded account of the official boundary of the United States.
Mother’s Day was made a national holiday in 1914 and is codified as a national holiday under the United States Code, Title 36, Section 117. A postage stamp depicting Whistler’s Mother with the text “In memory and in honor of the Mothers of America” was issued on May 2, 1934 (and later reissued unperforated and ungummed among other issues the next year due to a large controversy involving Postmaster General James Farley giving uncut sheets of stamps as “gifts” to government officials).
They got one wrong tonight, although it was not answered correctly nor incorrectly, but Alex’s answer was wrong. They showed the North American Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) and asked for its name in French. Alex said “merle”, which is the French name for a completely unrelated bird of Eurasia, commonly called ‘Eurasian blackbird’ in English. The French name for the bird that was shown is “Carouge à épaulettes”.
A couple of years ago, I was watching Family Feud, which is generally pretty good about righting wrongs by giving contestants a second chance.
I forget what the question was, but the woman speaking for the white team (all sisters, I think) gave the answer “In the pictures,” clearly meaning “In the movies,” which is what my response would have been.
Steve Harvey called out “In pictures,” omitting the article. The judges apparently missed the distinction, and of course it wasn’t on the board.
The black team immediately pounced on this, and gave the answer “In the movies!” Of course, that **was **on the board, and they won the game. From the looks on their faces, you could see the white team was really pissed off.
I’ve always thought they got a really raw deal. If I ever get the chance to talk to Steve Harvey, I will definitely ask him if the sisters were ever invited back on the show.
I *swear *they let a contestant get away with a wrong answer tonight. I may have misheard, but I thought she got it wrong. The category was something about photographers, and they talked about Joe Rosenthal being the photographer who shot the picture of the raising on the flag on Mount Suribachi. And I swear she said, “What is Hiroshima”?, not “What is Iwo Jima”?
Yesterday they asked about the capital of New Brunswick, and the contestant said “What is Frederictown”? And I immediately said, “No, that, wrong.” But Alex let it go, only to be overruled during the commercial break.
I watched regularly with my roommates when I was in college. We were pretty competitive about getting who shouted out the right answer first and I was typically the best. There was an answer one evening that showed a picture of a bird and the question was about the origin of the bird, “Where is New Zealand?” Alex added as an aside that it was a emu. But he was wrong and I said so because the picture showed a kiwi. The roommates all told me how full of shit I was and that I couldn’t have caught an error. At the end of the episode, there was a quick little add on where Alex said, “before were get ten thousand letters, I made a mistake. The bird was a kiwi.”
I heard Iwo Jima.
I did like the other night when the answer was NASA, the contestant said NSA and Trebek said “yes, NASA.” The audience audibly gasped and he immediately caught it (or someone in his ear did).
There has been at least one family in the Steve Harvey era that I’ve seen invited back because of an error like that. GSN airs shows a few hours of FF every evening, often chronologically. It was very jarring one evening to see the same two families competing against each other on consecutive shows, but that was the explanation he gave.
As did I.
I heard “Iwo Jima” as well.
Interestingly, I don’t think it was really necessary. The clue said something like “this event on Mount Suribachi.” I think “raising the flag” would have been enough. They were after the event, not the location.
Of course the contestant lost points for her incorrect response; but Trebek’s mistake prevented the other contestants from giving their own (correct or incorrect) subsequent responses.
Years ago, I caught a mistake on Jeopardy and wrote to them about it. The answer was “Mushrooms are a member of this kingdom.” The question they gave was “What are Plants?” but the correct question was “What are Fungi?” I sent a letter to them pointing out the error, and got a very nice signed postcard response from Alex Trebek thanking me and acknowledging their error. It said something like “luckily our error didn’t cost the contestant any points.” They didn’t really say so, but I got the impression that had it cost the contestant points, it would just be his bad luck. No do-overs.
I got something like that when I wrote to them in the '80s. The category was “Hoosiers,” and the correct response was “Who are the Wright Brothers?” I pointed out that Wilbur and Orville were from Dayton, Ohio.
Around ten years later, I found out the Wrights did live in Indiana for a time before relocating to Dayton. So*** Jeopardy!*** was right after all! :smack:
As said earlier, you do get a do-over if their mistake costs you the game. Happened to a good friend of mine a couple of decades ago. He flew back from Boston to tape another game.
The error was caught by viewers when the game aired. He said he got the call from the Jeopardy! office at about 8:00 P.M. EST – the episode hadn’t even aired on the West Coast yet.