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Jan 9, 2013 19:00
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Jennings could just not want to do it; knowing a lot and being funny in print doesn't mean he'd make a good performer. My girlfriend just got called up for the New York audition; she already totally embarrasses me at bar trivia so this should be interesting.
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Mar 17, 2013 22:53
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Job never complained to god, that was the entire point of his story...
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Apr 13, 2013 18:38
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escape artist posted:My guess was 28. Obviously, 91-50 = 41, I figured Canada had 13 provinces... but I'm not up on my Canadian geography. I was only off by one, which was better than I expected. Still kicking myself for guessing Jodie Foster for the final, though. I thought Aliens was much earlier than 1987 for some reason. It's also not quite accurate to say that it "spawned a great series" when pretty much everything with xenomorphs in it beyond the first two movies is crap.
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Apr 24, 2013 17:27
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Contact.
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Apr 24, 2013 18:50
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C'mon, if you're going to make a wild guess in a category about scientists, at least name an actual scientist.
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May 31, 2013 16:16
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jscolon2.0 posted:To be fair, I'd have been thrown off by the shooting reference because that sounds way too edgy for a Jeopardy clue. I did guess Oscar Pistorius because of that "bullet in the gun" thing 
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Jun 5, 2013 23:13
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A couple of months ago there was a bible category and someone ended up giving the answer "What is 'Am I my brother's keeper?'?". I've always wondered if they would have accepted that without the "what is" since it's already in the form of a question.
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Jul 11, 2013 16:34
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zakharov posted:Let's take this time to discuss how stupid it is that in the year 2013 there is no online Jeopardy game. Seeing as the choice between the existence of online Jeopardy and Google is mutually exclusive, I'll take the latter.
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Jul 31, 2013 23:15
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They've always used the phonetic spelling rule and being a test of knowledge and quick thinking how to spell words or at least how to make a pretty good guess at writing a pronunciation are part of the challenge. I don't know why this is so controversial. I know they're supposed to go easy on the kids but they aren't giving out participation ribbons here.
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Aug 6, 2013 16:01
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Glenn_Beckett posted:Mat. is actually the dumbest human on earth. Was that actually a famous thing? I live in NYC and I've never heard of that guy or heard anyone say that, with the possible exception of trailers for 9/11 movies years ago.
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Oct 21, 2013 17:45
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I wasn't counting my score but I have a feeling it was quite bad, I left several blank and at least easy one I completely bungled.
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Jan 10, 2014 04:13
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I think I put burlap for that.
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Jan 10, 2014 04:30
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Mar 26, 2014 14:03
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zakharov posted:RRRRRRRGH how was Secret Service a triple stumper?? There's only one agency that deals with counterfeiting and protection! Is it so surprising that everyone went for the one with "financial protection" right there in its name?
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Jul 8, 2014 14:00
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zakharov posted:Friggin' Randy Newman - I was so sure about him too I also went with him 
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Sep 23, 2014 15:23
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Who Winston Is Churchill
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Oct 1, 2014 14:02
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:Kind of surprised only one person got Don Quixote. Maybe the "title characters" bit threw them off, but it seemed pretty obvious to me. Me too. He's only the most famous "mad knight" in all of literature.
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Oct 9, 2014 20:32
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It's just another case of the needs of winning diverging from the needs of being entertaining to watch.
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A screw is a wedge twisted into a helix  I had a larger bone to pick with the 404 question as URLs haven't referred exclusively to files for a long time (for maximum pedantry the HTTP spec doesn't refer to files either, it's just a general "I don't have what you asked for" condition). haveblue fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jun 1, 2015 |
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Jun 1, 2015 21:32
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What kind of chess do these people play 
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Jun 24, 2015 14:25
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HookShot posted:It was adorable how in the FJ tonight they phrased it as "fell asleep" instead of the reality, which was "passed out from being completely hosed up on opium" Yeah, that's what led me to it, not the India connection.
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Jun 30, 2015 14:26
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In the intro yesterday he had the weirdest slow smile since Herman Cain.
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Sep 30, 2015 15:42
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HookShot posted:I don't find him especially annoying, and I like that he keeps the game moving. People that take 5 seconds to pick the next clue should be shot. Keeping the game moving is good but he needs to stop stepping on Alex's prompts.
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Oct 1, 2015 14:16
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That article says that quiz bowl is typically played without an audience, so it's still valid to say it's annoying to watch 
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Oct 12, 2015 15:11
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HookShot posted:the main character of the Blacklist is Raymond Reddington not Red Reddington (though his nickname is Red) Yeah, they should have put quotes around Red. Can't believe nobody got the Mark Twain or Monkey's Paw clues.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:59
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I guessed Kool-Aid, forgetting that it was supposed to be an abbreviation.
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Nov 12, 2015 17:26
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The Piper posted:Somewhere, Lisa Simpson is irate at Rob's Daily Double response. Everywhere, nerds are irate at 3 wrong answers in a row for the LOTR question. e: Also, can someone with the show recorded post a screengrab of the Shutterfly clue? I work there and I want to show it around to everyone. haveblue fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Dec 1, 2015 |
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Dec 1, 2015 15:06
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Give that penguin the ten thousand dollars
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Dec 8, 2015 15:05
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Also, I imagine doing mental math with four- and five-digit numbers in the heat of the moment isn't a lot of people's strong points.
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Was it just me or did Alex say "Linda Bird Johnson"? Nobody came out of that question looking good. Also, final was a bit deceptive as neither of those states existed in 1721. Of course everyone would gravitate to the East Coast for the time period given.
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Jan 20, 2016 15:12
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:I thought the clue was asking the contestants to name the woman (daughter) who was in the photo with LBJ? I was only partially paying attention, mind you, so I might be wrong. According to a combination of J-archive and Wikipedia this is correct. The clue referred to her "1967 White House wedding" so it makes more sense in hindsight that no one tried to guess Ladybird.
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Jan 20, 2016 20:09
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Colonial Air Force posted:I thought it was Mt. Vesuvius, too. This happened to me too, but I calm myself with the knowledge that there's no way I'd qualify anyway.
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I skipped a few but I'm fairly confident in all but a handful of the ones I did answer, so I probably got around 40 as well.
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Bug Bill Murray posted:Do the answers get posted online anywhere? Think I did well aside from the opera and geography questions Not officially but they'll show up on other Jeopardy boards before too long. e: Do they get posted officially? Whenever I've gone googling around for old tests the top results are always random forum threads. haveblue fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Jan 27, 2016 |
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Jan 27, 2016 02:39
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Did the guy post the matching questions? I think I got around 34 also. vvvvvvvv "genus" was the response to something along the lines of "in the scientific name equus quagga, quagga is species and equus is this" haveblue fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Jan 27, 2016 |
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Jan 27, 2016 02:47
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How does nobody know the term "World Wide Web" any more 
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That and there being no geography categories.
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"Mode"  He was thinking of Edna Mode, the parody of Edith Head in The Incredibles.
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