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Archive playthrough: Coryat $42,800 (50R, 0W) DD 2/3 FJ :( NHO tres leches cake. Maybe could have guessed it if I thought about it more. At least going into the clue, I thought to myself "food and drink, $2000 row, bet small." As I mentioned above, got stuck in India on FJ. Three FJ misses in a row,...

Wrote Taj Mahal for FJ, knowing full well that would be too easy. Not a fan of that clue - the way it's written, it gets you searching your knowledge base of Indian landmarks and the whole time it's a red herring. Would have preferred if it at least said "South Asian landmark" or something to hint t...

alietr wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 16, 2021 6:42 am

Another one for how-the-heck-did-they-accept-bang.

Ken just wanted to brag about how he banged more people than anyone else in Jeopardy! history.

Woppy T wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:44 pm

econgator wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:33 pm

How does "bang" mean "to defeat"?

I don’t get that either. Can anyone use it in a sentence?

If you use it to mean "defeat", esepcially in the context of two athletes, it's going to get seriously misconstrued.

Archive playthrough: Coryat $36,000 (43R, 3W) DD 2/3 FJ :( IMHO, toughest game in a while. I can see why the combined Coryat was on the low side. Lots of neg landmines to step on. Broke my streak of 9 games in a row over $40k. Couldn't come up with a Bill Withers song on the DD. Didn't know that Aug...

Between the wreck last night and Dale Earnhardt's fatal accident on the last lap in 2001, I think for safety's sake they need to shorten it to the Daytona 498 from now on.

THE HUMAN BODY These are two names for the same substance isolated by Napoleon Cybulski - etymologically, the first is derived from Greek, while the second is a trademarked name derived from Latin, and both are named for where they are produced in the body. What are epinephrine and adrenalin(e)? Wi...

Moscow on Monday
Aristotle on Friday

Could have come up with "nilpferd" if prompted for the German word for hippopotamus.

I've heard a lot of orange tan discussions over the last 4 years and it typically leads to heated arguments. Tough FJ for me. Add me as one who’ll be glad to no longer see that awful Olay-sponsored drivel. I hate guest questioners anyway & this week was especially awful. What exactly is "drivel" ab...

The properties before free parking are ORANGE? Were they ever tan or beige? Like in the 80s? I'm looking at an Etsy pic of a "vintage" 80s Monopoly game, and it's making me feel both sad and old at the same time, because it seems orange to me, but I could have sworn it was more tan. Being literally...

bluejaylink wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 12, 2021 8:37 pm

Get we all agree to getting rid of the Monopoly board colours from the trivia rotation? Thanks lol

On my to-do list for tonight was make Monopoly color flashcards...

Archive playthrough: Coryat $49,400 (55 R, 0 W) DD 3/3 FJ :( Solid game for me all around, didn't miss more than one in any category. Blanked on Alfa Romeo, otherwise could have ended up north of $50k. (Edit: after watching the episode, I gave myself credit for Bob Dylan, as there's not a chance in ...

OMG. Wow. Tragic, and a shock.

U.S. PRESIDENTS

Of the 46 presidents, the one who was closest to the Equator when he took the oath of office

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Who was LBJ? (Dallas)

I could have stared at "nilpferd" for a week and never figured out "hippo". "Amphibious" misled me to actual amphibians and trying to make frog/toad/newt happen from that word. How were you supposed to figure that one out anyway? It's not a cognate nor does it have a recognizable root. How were you...

I wonder what the intersection between Sony Pictures and the Olay Company might be. Sony is based in Japan, which is an island country in Asia, as is Indonesia, whose most populous island is Java, which is a synonym for coffee. Coffee with milk is known as "café au lait" which sounds like "café ola...

Archive playthrough: Coryat $41,000 (49R, 1W) DD 2/3 FJ :mrgreen: This game had two things I dread: a wordplay/vocab DD and an Oscars FJ. Whiffed on the former, knew the latter cold. Could have even told you it was 1954 if I had to. On the DD, was stuck in a rabbit hole thinking about clouds. How my...

ENDEMIC SPECIES

The Abyssocottidae family of sculpins are freshwater fish found only in this body of water.

Spoiler

What is Lake Baikal? (Abyss -> deep -> world's deepest body of fresh water)

"Hindenburg" means the town of Hinden; "Hindenberg" means Hinden Mountain and is pronounced differently. So if they're not giving credit for Barry Gordy....

(For the record, I would have counted Hindenberg and Barry... just being a bit TIC)

Guessed Virginia just to avoid Rhode Island. It has about 112 miles. Delaware and Rhode Island are negbaity at 28 and 40 miles. I tried looking at a map to see how obvious the answer was and the eastern land mass is just a mess of dangly parts with invisible lines for state boundaries. I temporaril...