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If it's phonetically correct, they'll take it. If no, no dice. They would take "Emansupayshin" but "Emanciptation" is no good.
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i still think it's bullshit you know he knew it by that answer. i think someone years ago lost when the correct response was mediterranean sea but missed a syllable but it's like c'mon you know he knew it even if he missed a syllable there.
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Nov 20, 2016 18:29
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they have to draw a line somewhere, and wherever they choose to draw it they have to then enforce it no matter how cute/whiny the kid
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Yeah. Doing it the way they've done it now makes it far less subjective than "Oh you know what he meant!"
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Colonial Air Force posted:Yeah. Doing it the way they've done it now makes it far less subjective than "Oh you know what he meant!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmJXaNasQ84&t=145s
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If it was a regular question and he would have said "emanciptation", it would have been wrong. They just hold the written answers to the same standard.
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Without rules, everything would be all higgledy-piggledy Once you start accepting answers because "you know what he meant" it's total anarchy
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I feel bad for that kid, but still... Gandhi? Are you making GBS threads me?
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wa27 posted:If it was a regular question and he would have said "emanciptation", it would have been wrong. They just hold the written answers to the same standard. he wouldn't have said it that way.
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Groovelord Neato posted:he wouldn't have said it that way. That's great but it was a written question, so it doesn't matter what he had in his mind; it only matters what he wrote down. If he didn't know how to spell it, just write "emanceuhpashion" and it would have counted.
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Nov 22, 2016 15:31
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Area poster complains that game show enforces clearly stated rules
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Wow. That is a close finish.
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Nov 23, 2016 01:27
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The US borders 3 countries. We have a sea border with Russia. I'm filing a complaint!!!
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sea border lmao look at this fuckin nerd
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So I've never heard of the FJ answer. Is that like an obvious thing that you learn in the US? I can't get over the disparity in question difficulty between yesterday and today -- yesterday's was obvious as can be and today's was, at least for me, something I couldn't even guess at. Yet they all got it right and one guy hosed up Mandela yesterday.
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Nov 23, 2016 07:28
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Yeah the Mayflower Compact is elementary school stuff here.
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zakharov posted:Yeah the Mayflower Compact is elementary school stuff here. I thought that might be it. Sort of like the opposite of "wait, how can you answer something that's not even a province in the 'Canadian Provinces' category?" feeling I usually get.
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yeah all true Americans know the Mayflower Compact so the thanksgiving episode final jeopardy correct response was "turkeys" I feel like it was obvious because it was thanksgiving but would have been hard on a regular day so did they tell the contestants beforehand that this ep would air on Thanksgiving?
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Ein cooler Typ posted:yeah all true Americans know the Mayflower Compact Still easy if you know the modern word for both birds in Spanish (pavo, pavo real).
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I'm American though
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It's also pretty easy even if you don't speak Spanish, you just have to think of one bird native to the Americas that looks kind of funny.
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I don't know what animals look like; I just get food from the store. I still don't know what a pheasant is
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Well then maybe Jeopardy just isn't the game for you then.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:yeah all true Americans know the Mayflower Compact You can suss out your approximate air date based on taping (just a few months), I spent some time looking up famous days around that 2 week period and it me little to no good, but I think it has the potential to pay off.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I'm American though Yeah and I'm Canadian. It's probably more likely you speak some Spanish as an American than the average Canadian.
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mennoknight posted:You can suss out your approximate air date based on taping (just a few months), I spent some time looking up famous days around that 2 week period and it me little to no good, but I think it has the potential to pay off. quote:Q: I thought a weeks worth of shows were done in one day. Is that the case? Huh. For some reason I expected the show to be taped pretty close to airdate. Like, the same week.
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Ein cooler Typ posted:so the thanksgiving episode final jeopardy correct response was "turkeys" I got it because I watched this awhile back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWSwUbnofw&t=147s
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i thought they did 5 a day for the whole week so i thought ken jennings was powering through 25 matches over 5 days, for 3 weeks.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i thought they did 5 a day for the whole week so i thought ken jennings was powering through 25 matches over 5 days, for 3 weeks. Nah, just on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Otherwise that poo poo would be even more of a grind than it is on people right now. Ein cooler Typ posted:so the thanksgiving episode final jeopardy correct response was "turkeys" mennoknight posted:You can suss out your approximate air date based on taping (just a few months), I spent some time looking up famous days around that 2 week period and it me little to no good, but I think it has the potential to pay off. My tape date was March 11th, the episode didn't air until the end of June, though if I had been pushed back, I could've been on the July 4th episode. The email said as much, slated to air the week of the 22nd. Which episode you wind up getting on it totally random though. Missed the whole Final Jeopardy bit because my cousin flipped to the Cowboys Redskins game during the commercial and didn't switch back in time to see the clue and responses, but since Andrew showed up on Friday, I take it he still won, only to lose on Friday. Speaking of Friday, Liz, the woman in the middle podium, is the partner of 2014 ToC winner Ben Ingram (the one who beat both Arthur Chu and Julia Collins in the final), a fact that he made sure people knew via Facebook. Too bad she didn't do as well as he did. Also missed the last game of the Teen Tournament, but I've seen recaps, and it looks like it was a very good one. Did have to laugh during the first game of the final when the three of them left the video game girl category until last (probably because they had no idea what the category was going to ask based off of the title), then the first clue they pulled from it was a Triple Stumper and they left two more clues in that category unrevealed. Guess they don't have much time for the vidya, huh? The previous Teen Tournament winner in 2014, Jeff Xie (the guy who won off of the first tiebreaker question to decide a game that I've ever seen, now at Columbia University), gave Sharath congrats over Facebook, and then was jokingly complaining about why Sony bumped the prize money for first up to $100k this time around when he only got $75k. According to him, that difference could've been another semester's tuition at Columbia for him! As for the "Emancipation" thing, not to revisit it since I get tired of people in the Facebook peanut gallery bringing it up so drat often to nitpick at rules, but Maggie the head contestant coordinator very clearly tell us in the Green Room (and at the audition beforehand) that phonetic spelling will be accepted, but a misspelling that changes the pronunciation of a word or name will not. The example they always give us is Reykjavik. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Nov 29, 2016 |
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"The Whoopster" - Trebek on Whoopi Goldberg.
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I'm catching up on the episodes I missed while I was gone for a few weeks and tonight got to see Alex Trebek rap Drake lyrics. Life status: complete.
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Tonight's episode had peak Trebek disappointment, you could just hear it in his voice. And talk about a lucky break for the final answer.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Tonight's episode had peak Trebek disappointment, you could just hear it in his voice. What happened? My local affiliate pre-empted it for football.
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Everyone kept guessing instead of actually answering, and just generally being dumb about things. And one of the ones who went negative two or three times won in the end.
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I like Asim. He looks like a Middle Eastern Karl Urban.
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What is a novel
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Ah yes, that famous novelist, William Shakespeare
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The real name of Dr. Seuss was a $1000 clue? What were they thinking?
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Is that easy or hard? I didn't know it off the top of my head.
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I watch Jeopardy almost every day to begin with, but I'll be setting a reminder for next Tuesday's episode.  'Jeopardy!' contestant dies before show airs
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