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FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:50 pm
by MarkBarrett
12/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN BUSINESS
12/3 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Last name of John, Daniel, Elisha & Edward, whose firm turned 200 in 2018 & has dressed 40 U.S. presidents
12/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE NFL
12/4 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
For the 2018 draft this team tried to use a parrot to make a pick; the bird got stage fright
12/5 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
12/5 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film
12/6 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD AFFAIRS 2018
12/6 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
An Arab League summit final statement rejected "interference" by this country often mistakenly called an Arab land itself
12/7 FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
OPERA
12/7 FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In Act I of this opera, a messenger says, “barbarous Ethiopians” have invaded & “are already marching on Thebes”
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Brooks
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Abraham Zapruder
Iran
Aida
The players were 10/15 (66.67%) with a 2-2-2-2-2 success pattern.
The extra clues have two requested triple stumpers followed by a third triple stumper.
BLANK NEWS $200: It airs every Sunday morning on ABC: "This ____"
IF YOU'VE GOT THE TIME...$400: Disney's Seven Dwarfs pendulum clock features him swinging from the pendulum above his 6 pals
LITERARY CADS $2000: In "Vanity Fair", Osborne is all ready to leave his new wife Amelia for this woman when war gets in the way
Correct responses in spoiler box:
Week
Dopey
Becky Sharp
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:51 pm
by LucarioSnooperVixey
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:51 pm
by MarkBarrett
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:03 pm
by econgator
May be the first time that I have only checked 3 total boxes on a poll.
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:08 pm
by Volante
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:10 pm
by Plactus
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:13 pm
by davey
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:29 pm
by boson
Becky Thatcher <> Becky Sharp
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:31 pm
by MarkBarrett
TPH asked and I met the request. Certainly if there had been four requests he would only get one. If things ever got request crazy then I could put a weekly or monthly limit in place for any one person. As is I saw no harm in honoring both asks.
Nice job on the 5/5 and it's fine for you or anyone else to increase their odds of an 8-smiley week by requesting a reasonable clue for one of the extras.
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:47 pm
by TenPoundHammer
Yet another zero for me. No recognition on Brooks Brothers.
I knew Zapruder cold, but "film" had me stuck in the movies.
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:52 pm
by davey
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:31 pm
TPH asked and I met the request. Certainly if there had been four requests he would only get one. If things ever got request crazy then I could put a weekly or monthly limit in place for any one person. As is I saw no harm in honoring both asks.
Nice job on the 5/5 and it's fine for you or anyone else to increase their odds of an 8-smiley week by requesting a reasonable clue for one of the extras.
I should have put a smiley next to my statement...I prefer when you choose them - I like the weekly element of surprise. Thanks for Becky Sharp!
Of course what really bothered me was that I missed an easy one, and knowing that I would be confessing my shame this weekend...Seriously, the clock clue was a good choice; filling in the title for a network TV program that's been on the air for 27 years??
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:57 pm
by Volante
davey wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:52 pm
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:31 pm
TPH asked and I met the request. Certainly if there had been four requests he would only get one. If things ever got request crazy then I could put a weekly or monthly limit in place for any one person. As is I saw no harm in honoring both asks.
Nice job on the 5/5 and it's fine for you or anyone else to increase their odds of an 8-smiley week by requesting a reasonable clue for one of the extras.
I should have put a smiley next to my statement...I prefer when you choose them - I like the weekly element of surprise. Thanks for Becky Sharp!
Of course what really bothered me was that I missed an easy one, and knowing that I would be confessing my shame this weekend...Seriously, the clock clue was a good choice; filling in the title for a network TV program that's been on the air for 27 years??
A network TV program that's only got a ~50% get rate so far...
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:16 pm
by davey
Volante wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:57 pm
davey wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:52 pm
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 8:31 pm
TPH asked and I met the request. Certainly if there had been four requests he would only get one. If things ever got request crazy then I could put a weekly or monthly limit in place for any one person. As is I saw no harm in honoring both asks.
Nice job on the 5/5 and it's fine for you or anyone else to increase their odds of an 8-smiley week by requesting a reasonable clue for one of the extras.
I should have put a smiley next to my statement...I prefer when you choose them - I like the weekly element of surprise. Thanks for Becky Sharp!
Of course what really bothered me was that I missed an easy one, and knowing that I would be confessing my shame this weekend...Seriously, the clock clue was a good choice; filling in the title for a network TV program that's been on the air for 27 years??
A network TV program that's only got a ~50% get rate so far...
I judge it less on its level of difficulty than on its mundanity...
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:23 pm
by DBear
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:17 pm
by twelvefootboy
and..........
After the box of shame last week, there was no more suspense after the friday category (opera) was revealed, just 4 minutes of fast forwarding, a pause, then the 30 second jump button on the DVR. I've heard of Aida, would have been 50/50 guess at being an opera or a ballet. Yes, I'm that clueless.
The Brooks Brothers clue was a clever little "Aha" moment. If I did the math right, they dressed
every president since #4 Madison (ended term 1817)? 45(trump) - 4 - double dip by Cleveland (22,24) = 40. What a lock on the POTUS luster!
Even Adidas wins one from Nike now and then. And now Titleist is getting their ass kicked on the PGA
. If the Brooks Brothers string would have been broken, my money would be by Jimmy Carter in a pair of Key overalls!
So, I thought I learned that Arab Nations must be those that speak Arabic. It seems more like they are members of the Arab League, which is just a political decision by the club members. I thought I knew that it would be nations on the Arab peninsula, but what about North Africa?
Does someone have a clean definition of Arab nationhood suitable for Jeopardy clue writing? In the case of this FJ, it is pinned as a 2018 news event, so the TOM demands that you suspend disbelief in the geography definition and revert to a language one, or possibly the cultural one.
I usually don't pay enough attention to the gameplay to score the extra clues, but this set is a definite CLAM for me. I like Mark Barrett's approach to question selection for the extra clues. People nominate them, he picks them if they are likely to be interesting.
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:29 pm
by skullturf
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:51 pm
Dopey was an easy guess as with no extra information to specify a different dwarf it's always going to be Dopey. No, I have not seen the clock previously. It's not necessary. It's going to be Dopey. Of course it's Dopey. It's a 1/1 chance and nowhere near a 1 in 7.
My wife got Dopey right away, but personally, I was thinking that any question that boils down to "Which of the 7 Dwarfs is different somehow?" is like 80% Dopey, 20% Doc.
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:34 pm
by Linear Gnome
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 10:42 pm
by SweepingDeveloper
On BLANK NEWS $200: Sort of a Sunday tradition before church; we flip to that right after CBS Sunday Morning, instaget.
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2018 11:54 pm
by Bartleby
Re: FJs for the 12/3/18 week
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 5:26 am
by Leander