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Maxwell only. Iago crossed my mind, but over-TOMed it with Polonius. Curtains! (Literally, for Polonius.)

Ran mythology - "Between a Scylla and Charybdis" is a common way of saying "Between a rock and a hard place" I'll be the first to admit that my immediate recall of Charybdis came not from Homer, but from that great 20th century poet, Sting ;) Honestly, given my love of 80's music, I'm about 99% cer...

The Gangsta Rule told me I might wrong because "Queen Mother" is a (possibly informal?) title It's a formal title, although many do not use it (most just use Her Majesty Queen [name]). For Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, while George VI was alive, she was Her Majesty The Queen. When George died, she would th...

It wasn't really pinned... if the Duke of Edinburgh can be used then presumably any of his children or grandchildren can be used, as well. Then it becomes a game of "who is most likely to have consented to donate their DNA" and I would pick a younger person over an older person in a heartbeat. The ...

Personally, enough already with the special tournaments. GOAT was wonderful. Let's bask in its beauty for a while. I agree with this. If you exclude "regular" tournaments/events (ToC, Kids, Teen, Seniors, Teachers, Celebrity, Power Players - some of which may be defunct or on "indefinite hiatus"), ...

I psyched myself out on FJ!. I figured it couldn't be as simple as the "last" Central American country you hit traveling from the US to Colombia - but, apparently, it is. I don't know why, but the fact that it was a FJ! clue made me think that Central America did some weird boomerang thing, so I wen...

I've been to enough tapings to know that there's no way to do it live. Way too many things go wrong in a typical taping that take time to resolve. Never been to a taping of a game show, but I have seen the movie “Game Show”, and S&P is absolutely critical - nobody wants a game show scandal part deu...

No idea for FJ. Said The Phantom Tollbooth just to say something. That's a really good guess. There's not a whiff of quantum theory in The Phantom Tollbooth ...Milo wouldn't have been able to follow it. He's no Meg or Charles Wallace... :) True, but I’d have to agree that it’s a decent guess. I don...

The other solution would have been to do it live. I’d love that, but I’ve heard that they spend 15-20 minutes sometimes with contestants’ backs to the board before finally adjudicating. Sports refereeing has a constant tension: Get it right or get it done. People complain about “lengthy” delays in ...

Good on Veronica for taking a risk. I have absolutely no problem with any Clavin-proof wager in this situation. Bet 0 if you hate the category - we all have blind spots, and recognizing them is good, even if some categories aren’t always indicative of the subject matter or difficulty. Bet 0 if you h...

There's a simple way to eliminate spoilers for a 7-game series and keep "branding" consistent without having to burn off sitcoms that don't get their time slots advertised until 1 day before their airing. I'm surprised they didn't think about it: Celebrity Jeopardy!. Tape 4 double episodes with cele...

The Adam Schiff stumper was interesting. I wonder when this show was taped? I came here to say the same thing. I ran the category (or, at least what was available - I did bomb the J!6 question sans options, which would be the J!5 question), but Schiff was a gimmie to anyone watching the impeachment...

Haven't seen the episode yet, but I spied the FJ! clue while wager-snooping, so I played it. Almost an instaget for me, because I remember reading and loving the book in fifth grade, and reading a few other Madeleine L'Engle books. I even saw the critically panned Oprah movie a year or two ago. Hadn...

Now, with most cable/fiber optic/satellite companies offering their own DVRs, and the elimination of VCRs, it's back to either "record", or occasionally "DVR", so DVR should now be on the tip of the tongue for a modern TV recording device, not TiVo. My mom used to say that she would "tape" somethin...

I don't understand Ken betting 0 in a wheelhouse category (Shakespeare). It was no secret what James was going to bet. Why should Ken bet? He couldn't catch James. Bet zero and hope he gets it wrong. James was "in control of his fate" - he can amass about 122K points, while Ken can only get about 1...

I need to think more on FJ!. I was going for quantity of islands over size - for some utterly ridiculous reason, I put Indonesia. I remember hearing some joke from a guy I know from Indonesia - it was something like "Indonesia has 17,000 islands at low tide, and 46 at high tide". So...one of them ha...

Surprised that James missed that last FJ. I guess he was thinking that since Hamlet is the longest play, it must have the most supporting speeches. It looks like James was right that Horatio has the most speeches after Hamlet. I would have thought it was Claudius, myself...he has almost, but not qu...

I think they made an error on the question about the technology that was unveiled at comdex in 1999. TiVo is a brand of DVR and was introduced in 1999 so it should have been acceptable. That means the future doc wouldn't have been penalized and Veronica wouldn't have gained. I'm not sure it would h...

I love that both my FJ! answers were dead wrong, yet matched board members here....Elysian fields and Polonius. Elysian fields was "IDK, let's try this", but Polonius was a decent guess, IMO. The quote "Brevity is the soul of wit" is, in fact, a bit hypocritical, given that he was babbling on and on...

Easy peasy FJ, but can someone please explain guessing James? Honestly, I thought "Exodus" was a bit too easy, but after just posting in reddit explaining that FJ!s are not necessarily harder than bottom row clues, I just went with it. My second guess involved about "fire" being the holy spirit and...