I erased Jeopardy! right before the final. The category was Long Running Movies. Can someone tell me what the clue was?
Playing in theatres since 1975, this film has had the longest continuous theatrical run in movie history.
What is the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
Did any/all get it right?
Everyone got it correct:
I can’t imagine any contestant getting that one wrong. My very intelligent 90 yr old father would have no idea, but any person that might be a contestant would not get it wrong.
I got it right! And yes, I’m surprised. 
I didn’t get it right. I guess Jaws knowing it was not right, but it was the only movie I could think of that came out in 1975
What does “longest continuous theatrical run” mean? It screens continuously? It screens at least once a day? At least once a week? In the same cinema? Somewhere in the world?
The Clinton St Theater In Portland, OR has been playing the Rocky Horror Picture Show every Saturday since it’s release in 1975.
We’re starting to run into the reverse problem. It stopped playing weekly (or at all) in Houston a few years ago due to a lack of popularity. It’s back up to monthly. It’s not a big stretch to think younger contestants might not reasonably get this one.
That was one of the easiest FJ questions I’ve seen. I wish they had some sort of standard for the FJ question that made it have some level of difficulty where you’d rarely see everyone get it right.
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IMO, putting a “random” degree of difficulty make the FJ more enjoyable. It puts an unknown when contestants are making their wagers. If it is tough question everytime, the leader can assume that this opponents will get it wrong, and wager accordingly.
Let me tell you, though, it sucks when you’re in second place and FJ is absurdly easy. That’s what happened to me when I was on the show. The answer was “Asked in 1966 to write a concise statement for arresting officers to recite, California D.A. Harold Berliner started with these 7 words.” Ugh.
How much would it have sucked if they asked something that was absurdly difficult, something that you didn’t know? (and you had something between 50%-66%) of leader’s total?
I think the ideal scenario is the degree of difficulty should be around:
25% that no player gets it right
25% that one player gets it right
25% that two players gets it right
25% that three players gets it right
I like categories that sound like they might be difficult and turn out to be easy, and vice versa.
Far less so, really. It’s less painful to lose because you didn’t know something hard than because everyone knew something easy.
Plus, with a hard question, there is still some chance that you could win (either because you’re within 2/3rds of the leader’s score or because you make a good educated guess), whereas with an easy question, there is basically no chance to win.
Well if questions vary in difficulty, a leader might guard against a tough FJ by not wagering enough to cover the double-up. (and yes it does happen, albeit not often).
With all due respect to you and your game, a leader should have the advantage going into FJ. I get little satisfaction from the 2nd (or 3rd) place player going into the FJ, backing into the win by wagering none or very little and getting the question wrong. Valid strategy, but it doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Scenario, going into FJ!
Leader 15K
2nd Place 12K
3rd Place 5K
2nd Place should assume that he cannot win if Leader gets FJ correctly But he can win if Leader gets FJ wrong (doesn’t matter whether 2nd place knows or doesn’t know). 3rd place cannot catch him.
2nd Scenario
Leader 15K
2nd 12K
3rd 10K
3rd place should assume that he cannot win if 1st and 2nd get the question correct. but he should win if everybody gets it wrong. (by wagering nothing or very little).
Well hang on. I’m not saying that the FJ should be so brutally hard that the 2nd place person actually has an advantage (in my game, it wouldn’t have worked that way; we were in your 2nd scenario). But certainly we can agree that the FJ clue shouldn’t be: “The only month that starts with ‘Feb’,” either, right? So there has to be some line where FJ is too easy, and we’re mostly just quibbling about where that line is.