Ditto.ElendilPickle wrote:It took a few seconds of thought, but I got FJ with time to spare.
Have the contestants ever had an 0-fer week on FJ before? They're 0-for-8 so far.
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Ditto.ElendilPickle wrote:It took a few seconds of thought, but I got FJ with time to spare.
Dear J! writers,esrever wrote:Three strong players and a great game up until FJ.
Picked up Lach trash: "Bucharest", "Oscar", "Dayton", "India", "Astrid", "Communist"
Got FJ. Thought of Canberra first, then Ankara. (Possible poll question?)
It wasn't a calendar week, but the contestants went 0/15 on FJ from January 12-18, 2011.econgator wrote:Have the contestants ever had an 0-fer week on FJ before? They're 0-for-8 so far.
seaborgium wrote: Anagram a world capital and add a letter to get a state capital.
Anagram the state capital and add a letter to get the nation whose capital you anagrammed in step 1.
They started this in September, right? Or did they do it last season as well? As soon as I saw the word "Kentucky" on that map, I had to say to my brain three times, "it's near, not in, Kentucky". Then I got Dayton easily from the red dot in Ohio, plus the "right track" TOM which I took as a reference to the Daytona 500. which (until I looked it up just now) I always thought was in Dayton, Ohio. (It makes much more sense as a reference to the Wright Brothers.)Onairb wrote:Dear J! writers,
You know that thing where you show a map of a region of the U.S. asking to identify a city, and you practicallyCOVER the map with the name of the state that borders the one that pertains to the clue?
Yeah...stop doing that.
I'm pretty sure that for Jeopardy purposes, Australia is always considered a one-country continent. (E.g. the $50 clue in World Geography here and the $100 clue in Island Countries here.) The National Geographic Society is in accord: "There are some islands and island groups, however, that are not considered part of any continent, geographically speaking. New Zealand, Hawaii, and French Polynesia are among them.... Oceania itself is not a continent."dhkendall wrote:"Country that covers a continent"? While not completely true (IMHO, but I can see where others would argue otherwise, even though they're wrong) since Australia's continent also includes the Pacific island nations (at least Jeopardy!-wise, have they not asked what continent New Zealand or Fiji is in before?),
seaborgium wrote:Here's a capital city wordplay question I once came up with (that uses two kinds of capital cities). I can't word it like a Final Jeopardy clue and be concise, so here are the basics:
Anagram a world capital and add a letter to get a state capital.
Anagram the state capital and add a letter to get the nation whose capital you anagrammed in step 1.
This.seaborgium wrote:I was looking for an ..01 wager from Darren, so when I saw it ended with a 0, I yelled "YES" thinking he'd survived by offering a tie. Then I did a double-take at the final scores.
Being a toonhead (which means I know voices), this would have been a dream category for me. Peter Cullen, IIRC, had done the voice of Optimus in pretty much all incarnations -- animated and Michael Bay live action versions -- since the beginning.skullturf wrote:I'm a North American male born in 1974, which means that I was a boy aged 10 to 13 when the Transformers cartoon show was on TV, which means it would be impossible for me *not* to get that.TenPoundHammer wrote:Surprised that Optimus Prime wasn't a TS.
That's the direction I was going for the first 15 seconds. Then I got the "D'oh" moment and changed to Canberra and Ankara flowed easily. It might have helped a bit that we just booked a trip to Istanbul for later this summer.ACW wrote:Australia was easy, but I was thinking AustralIA, RussIA.
I certainly agree that Sari is good people (her husband, too). Even though I also go to that shul, I don't know the champ you beat. But it's a BIG shul with over 1800 familes.jfrumkin wrote:Entertaining game, a lot of it, I think, because it was fairly easy all around (the zodiac category was basically "can you name the zodiac"). I got FJ almost immediately, but it's hard as @#$! to stand up there and process that stuff with the clock bearing down on you. I like the rabbi a) because I'm predisposed to and b) she and I connected over twitter when I was on and she's good people. Fun fact: the champ I beat goes to her shul (although I have a TOC-er at mine, so I may take ours in a J! street fight).
I know voices, but I don't know Transformers. Just don't think it'd be my thing.Spaceman Spiff wrote:Being a toonhead (which means I know voices), this would have been a dream category for me. Peter Cullen, IIRC, had done the voice of Optimus in pretty much all incarnations -- animated and Michael Bay live action versions -- since the beginning.skullturf wrote:I'm a North American male born in 1974, which means that I was a boy aged 10 to 13 when the Transformers cartoon show was on TV, which means it would be impossible for me *not* to get that.TenPoundHammer wrote:Surprised that Optimus Prime wasn't a TS.
This is exactly what math clues do to me.Spaceman Spiff wrote:FJ gummed me up only because I can't spell in my head (damned dyslexia).
Not sure they can make it less confusing. It is unambiguously written, but it does have elements that make it confusing. Asking for a response of the capitals but making one think through facts about the geography of countries (covering a continent and spanning two continents) and then back to facts about the names of the capitals (the last two letters) and then finally responding with the names of the capitals requires some mental dexterity which can be confusing, particularly under time pressure. One can get sidetracked in the transition from the geography of the countries to the names of the countries rather than the names of the capitals.gnash wrote:I wish I could press the buzzer as fast as I could answer this FJ. Actually, make it "as fast as I could answer all three of this week's FJs".
I wonder what people find confusing in the wording, and how they would reword it to be less confusing.