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by seaborgium
Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:55 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Monday, March 18, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 12
Views: 770

Re: Monday, March 18, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

FJ reminded me of (and was particularly easy because of) an exchange I once had with my dear departed brother-in-law. He was originally from southwest Indiana, and he and my sister were planning a big party there a few months after their LA wedding. Unfortunately they got married in late 2019 and Co...
by seaborgium
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:55 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: FJs for the 3/11/24 week
Replies: 9
Views: 283

Re: FJs for the 3/11/24 week

:( :mrgreen: :( :( :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: Pragmatism Monday. Leviticus and Peru were ones I feel I should have gotten. I blew past Leviticus trying to get through all the Bible books, plus I only thought about books even though the word "tribe" was in the clue and I can name the Twelve ...
by seaborgium
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 39
Views: 2097

Re: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

There is sometimes a meanness of spirit here. You seem to have enough "inside Jeopardy" knowledge to suggest a player doesn't know "the correct etiquette." Thanks for helping me make my point. Should I have said you "may not have known the correct etiquette" regarding ...
by seaborgium
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:57 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 39
Views: 2097

Re: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

[ Does it seem that Yogesh hasn't watched Jeopardy! frequently? When he asked if "Bring It!" was the proper way to ask for a true daily double, it seemed that he hadn't watched much J! It's hard to imagine someone replying like this to a post about people missing subtle jokes. McBain_in_f...
by seaborgium
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:31 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, March 14, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 24
Views: 1540

Re: Thursday, March 14, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

I was confused by the FJ clue's wording but somehow recognized that it sought Pérez de Cuéllar's country. Unfortunately I didn't remember where he was from; I went the wrong way from Colombia and said Venezuela. [edit: Now I realize that if I had understood the clue as looking for a southern hemisph...
by seaborgium
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:48 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 39
Views: 2097

Re: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Forgot to mention in my previous comments that I laughed out loud at DD2 as Yogesh pretended to pull a common name out of thin air. I got his humor immediately since I had the clue solved as soon as it was revealed. Good one to show Yogesh is having fun even in a contest with high stakes. Yes, Yoge...
by seaborgium
Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:03 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 39
Views: 2097

Re: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

Last week I bragged about being helped in FJ by having the books of the Bible memorized; this week it messed me up by spoiling me for choice. I blew past the Pentateuch trying to find a "group of people" Bible book among all 39 OT books, and Judges wasn't cutting it. I ended up going for t...
by seaborgium
Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Monday, March 11, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 25
Views: 1390

Re: Monday, March 11, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

A comedy of errors culminated in my not recording J! last night: —Last week when election coverage preempted Tuesday's show to 1 am Wednesday and SotU coverage preempted it to 9:30 on Thursday, I set separate programs on my receiver for Wednesday at 1 am, Wednesday at 7, Thursday at 9:30, Friday at ...
by seaborgium
Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:17 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: FJs for the 3/4/24 week
Replies: 12
Views: 427

Re: FJs for the 3/4/24 week

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: I recognized The Fire Next Time as a Baldwin title, but I was unnecessarily confused by the wording, doing nonexistent math to try to come up with a year that was 100 years too soon to celebrate freedom. I don't know that I really had a year...
by seaborgium
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: LL 100
Replies: 132
Views: 5985

Re: LL 100

I thought of Up! first, but I had a (correct) suspicion that it was the next one after the albums described in the question. I also thought of Come On Over (while trying to visually remember the VH1 on-screen text at the beginning and end of the "You're Still the One" video), but I knew th...
by seaborgium
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:01 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Friday, March 8, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 28
Views: 1825

Re: Friday, March 8, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

I ruled out Corinth because the clue said "one of the New Testament epistles" and there were two letters to the Corinthians. It helped to have the books of the Bible memorized. I had a vague sense that Ephesus was in modern-day Turkey and didn't have any such twinge about any of the other ...
by seaborgium
Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Thursday, March 7, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 28
Views: 1903

Re: Thursday, March 7, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

I learned "distaff" from the Sony board, in the discussion of the FJ in Ken's second game (not that I was there at the time—I joined in 2008—but I read back through old threads). Someone suggested "distaff" as an alternative response and there was agreement. I think I agree too; ...
by seaborgium
Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:29 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 24
Views: 1727

Re: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

WORDS IN COLONEL JESSUP'S BIG SPEECH $1,200: You don't want plaque building up in these of your arteries My incorrect response is still making me laugh: "What is either?" Col. Jessup did use the word "either," but I'm not sure you can respond to "these" with "eithe...
by seaborgium
Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:12 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: FJs for the 2/26/24 week
Replies: 11
Views: 511

Re: FJs for the 2/26/24 week

:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: Every FJ get felt precarious. Monday I needed to realize it was a British collection and then it was clear what "retreat to an earlier style" alluded to. Wednesday I had to recognize that 1959 saw the addition of Alaska and ...
by seaborgium
Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:11 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions alternates - who were they
Replies: 74
Views: 28027

Re: Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions alternates - who were they

Was Andy alternate by virtue of having the highest non-winning score in the finals of the two most recent CWCs, or did his being reasonably local play a factor?
by seaborgium
Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:06 am
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Fun with Fox's "The Floor"
Replies: 97
Views: 9209

Re: Fun with Fox's "The Floor"

"Rock Me Amadeus" a One Hit Wonder? "Der Kommisar" was not a big hit? After the Fire's English version was, but not Falco's original German (at least in the US). I know about After the Fire's version, but I honestly thought Falco's version was a hit as well. It peaked at #74 on ...
by seaborgium
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 24
Views: 2536

Re: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

I'm proud to have pulled FJ. I knew I recognized Hiram Fong's name, and 1959 helped pull things into place. Then I had to consider alliterative titles—"state senator" didn't make sense because once my memory was jogged I knew Fong would be serving in Washington. What's the coin flip determ...
by seaborgium
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: LL 100
Replies: 132
Views: 5985

Re: LL 100

I started the season off getting 4 right several matches in a row. Then I got 3, then 5, maintaining my average, but then I got three more 5s and something clearly had to be done, so I got 1 right yesterday to regress to a mean of 4 once more. I considered Humpty Dumpty, but the drink talk threw me ...
by seaborgium
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:34 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Replies: 30
Views: 2640

Re: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

There was a lot of French to trip over that game. Did I hear Ken mispronounce an -in ending (as "in" rather than "a(n)")? Maybe in "Moulin"? I specifically noted (aloud, even) that he handled "Moulin" well. It seems like the nasalized vowels in -an, -en, -in,...
by seaborgium
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: Game Discussions
Topic: Fun with Fox's "The Floor"
Replies: 97
Views: 9209

Re: Fun with Fox's "The Floor"

LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:59 am "Rock Me Amadeus" a One Hit Wonder? "Der Kommisar" was not a big hit?
After the Fire's English version was, but not Falco's original German (at least in the US).