Anybody interested in playing 'unique knowledge Jeopardy'?

[pfrduke]

Tuesday and Wednesday of last week (only via TV watching) are now done:

Tuesday (1000)
Geometric Figure of Speech $1000

Wednesday (5400)
Hair $1000
Rhyme $1000
They Make That $800; $1000
“Go”ing Places $1600

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Second Chance Tournament is this week and next week.

10/17
Common Bonds $800
Here's Your Science Prize $400, $800
Anagrams $1200
Trying to Get Some Works Done DD $3000
Actors Get Their Roles Mixed Up $1600, $2000

10/18
Left, Right, or Center $800
Measuring Up $1200
Phrases of Hello & Goodbye $1200

[pfrduke]

Finally finished last week:

10/13 ($1600)
I Got the Part! - 1200
Tudor Times - 400

10/14 ($5400)
That Movie’s Got Legs - 200
TV As of Late - 1200
”P”otpourri - 2000
9-Letter Words - 2000

Week Total: $18,200 - not great.

[rsvman]

Finally back to America. Watched Friday's episode and got three $600 clues, for a total of $1800.

Frankly I surprised myself when I knew the french word for duck. Never studied French even for one day. Not sure where or how I learned it.

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Frankly I surprised myself when I knew the french word for duck. Never studied French even for one day. Not sure where or how I learned it.

Phonetic memory?

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Finishing up Week 1 of the Second Chance Tournament.

10/19
TV $400, $600
Writers' Middle Names $800
Home Computing $1000
Adjectives $1600


10/20
Medical Drama $1000
There's a Sequel $1600
Poets & Poetry DD $2569

10/21
From C to D $600
Shave & a Haircut $800
It's All About Her $1200
Marsupials $1200
So You Blew It the First Time DD $6800

Back to novelty rap: not sure if "O.P.P." (1991) is considered novelty or not. A lot of rap music in that era was light and pop-oriented. Filled a need though; rock music was probably at its all-time worst from about 1986-1991, and R&B music was very hit-or-miss.

[rsvman]

Today the very first clue out of the gate was the easiest thousand bucks ever.

Thereafter, there were several easy clues in a single category that were surprising triple stumpers.

Final was really easy, too, and yet it managed to stump two out of the three. Had I been playing I would have answered it in Italian, just for fun.

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10/24
News Makers and Writers '22 $800
Say What? $1200

10/25
Recent Movies $1200

10/26
Quick Lit DD $1000
Animal-Titled Movies $1600, $2000

Today the very first clue out of the gate was the easiest thousand bucks ever.

Alas, it was, though I blanked on it for a split second. I started reciting the line and it came to me.

[pcal6vb]

Today the very first clue out of the gate was the easiest thousand bucks ever.

Thereafter, there were several easy clues in a single category that were surprising triple stumpers.

Final was really easy, too, and yet it managed to stump two out of the three. Had I been playing I would have answered it in Italian, just for fun.

Agreed on how easy Final was. I've been to Rome, though, and immediately thought of all the people throwing coins in the Trevi Fountain. I would guess that both of the contestants that got this wrong probably haven't been to Rome. Even if they were aware of Trevi Fountain's existence, they probably wouldn't think of the coin-tossing if they hadn't witnessed it.

[rsvman]

La Fontana di Trevi is pretty famous, though, and even if you haven't been there you should probably know about the coins. On the other hand, maybe you have to be of a certain age to have heard the song 'Three Coins in the Fountain' or to have seen any of the famous movies that feature it.

[rsvman]

Got $2600 tonight, but really mad at myself for missing out on 12,700 on Final.
I could see the painting in my mind. I KNEW the exact painting. And I knew the painter's name, too, but then in my mind I confused it with another famous painter whose name begins with the same letter, has the same number of syllables, and sounds like it comes from the same nationality (can't say more without giving the whole thing away, in case others haven't watched it yet), and I said the wrong name aloud.
When I heard the answer, it was immediately obvious that I had made a stupid error that cost me the entire pile of loot!!! So mad at myself. Maybe one of you will get it right. It was a difficult question but not as hard as the contestants made it seem.

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10/27
Another Shot at the Title $400

10/28
State Capital Attractions $1200
Final/Artists $29400 (clue below)

Sabena Airlines commissioned a painting by this artist, "L'Oiseau de Ciel", a bird whose body is filled with clouds in a blue sky

I could see the painting in my mind. I KNEW the exact painting.

This is the correct approach. The recap of this episode has a series of comments that are all like "Never heard of the airline, never heard of a painting of that name, oh well." The clue describes the painting for a reason. I never heard of such a painting, but I pictured what it would look like and thought, hey, that reminds me of a much more famous painting.

I was surprised that all three contestants were not only stumped, but thought of the same wrong artist.

[pfrduke]

Catching up from more than a week behind:

10/17 ($6400)
Common Bonds - 800
Impressive Vocabulary - 400
But I Have This Historic Meeting - 800
Here’s Your Science Prize - 800
Actors Get Their Roles Mixed Up - 1600; 2000

10/18 ($6000)
Astronomy - 600
Blank & Blank - 1000
Left, Right, or Center - 800
Phrases Hello & Goodbye - 1200
Presidential Speeches - 800
French Literature - 1600

10/19 ($3600)
Home Computing - 1000
TV - 400; 600
Adjectives - 1600

10/20 ($5169)
Medical Drama - 1000
There’s a Sequel - 1600
Poets & Poetry - 2569 (DD)

10/21 ($9400)
From C to D - 600
Shave & a Haircut - 800
So You Blew It The First Time - 6800 (DD)
Marsupials - 1200

Weekly Total: $30,569

[rsvman]

Pickings are usually slim during the Tournament of Champions, but they left a lot of money on the board tonight.

I was being distracted so didn't get to really weigh in on several missed questions, but I still managed $4200.

I'm sure some of you undoubtedly did a lot better.

[pcal6vb]

Pickings are usually slim during the Tournament of Champions, but they left a lot of money on the board tonight.

I was being distracted so didn't get to really weigh in on several missed questions, but I still managed $4200.

I'm sure some of you undoubtedly did a lot better.

Ken Jennings spoke to the rust of the contestants, but I think that was mostly just a tough game. I also missed every one of the "Parliament of Vowels" clues that the contestants missed. Initial confusion on the nature of the clues, plus my apparent lack of knowledge of names for the world's parliaments, slayed me.

[Skydog]

Ken Jennings spoke to the rust of the contestants, but I think that was mostly just a tough game. I also missed every one of the "Parliament of Vowels" clues that the contestants missed. Initial confusion on the nature of the clues, plus my apparent lack of knowledge of names for the world's parliaments, slayed me.

That category was poorly designed. I also got none if them. They wete difficult plus it’s just not natural to try to think of words based on them having two or three common vowels in them.

I actually found the whole game to be poor in terms of clues.

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10/31
From Ear to Fraternity $600
Heavenly Bodies DD $2000
This Category Is Confusing $2000

11/1
I Bid DD $10000

Sometimes I think the writers come up with a category so difficult that they just decide to save it for the Tournament of Champions, not realizing that it might be too hard even then. Parliament of Vowels was like this. Same with Before, During, and After and Triple Rhyme Time in past years.

[rsvman]

10/31
From Ear to Fraternity $600
Heavenly Bodies DD $2000
This Category Is Confusing $2000

11/1
I Bid DD $10000

Sometimes I think the writers come up with a category so difficult that they just decide to save it for the Tournament of Champions, not realizing that it might be too hard even then. Parliament of Vowels was like this. Same with Before, During, and After and Triple Rhyme Time in past years.

Yeah. Parliament of Vowels may have been the single worst set of five clues I have ever seen in all the years i have been watching Jeopardy.

On tonight's show they did the opposite, and the category was about Hawaiian words. It was a lot easier and a lot more fun, too.

[pfrduke]

Still catching up:

10/24
Captain - 1000 (DD)
Say What - 1200; 2000
Newsmakers & Writers ‘22 - 800

10/25
Recent Movies - 1200
Festivals - 400

10/26
Quick Lit - 1000 (DD)
Birds Within Words - 1000
Animal-Titled Movies - 1600; 2000

[pfrduke]

Finishing the second change tournament. I was not sophisticated enough to get the bird/cloud painting FJ.

10/27
Second Chapter - 1600
Lakes & Rivers - 1600

10/28
Books & Authors - 1000
You Move Me - 800; 1000
Days of Yore - 800
State Capital Attractions - 2000

$21,000 for second chance week 2.

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11/2
Team of the MLB Hall of Famers $400, $1000
[5,5] $600
Child Actors $1600

You can add Anagrams of Each Other as a difficult category given the time limit, though Brian was crazy good at them.