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Tonight we saw the rarest of beasts: a player lead entering Final Jeopardy, get it right, and still lose. If she'd thought about her bet for even a minute she'd have won. How do you get to the show and screw that up?
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Mar 19, 2013 00:30
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Oh man, these people are so bad tonight.
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Mar 19, 2013 00:40
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zakharov posted:Tonight we saw the rarest of beasts: a player lead entering Final Jeopardy, get it right, and still lose. If she'd thought about her bet for even a minute she'd have won. How do you get to the show and screw that up? She probably assumed she was going to miss the question and was banking on everyone else missing it too.
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Mar 19, 2013 00:49
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escape artist posted:She probably assumed she was going to miss the question and was banking on everyone else missing it too. When you're in the lead, you bet as if you will know the answer. Better to lose because you don't know than to get it right and lose because of betting.
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Mar 19, 2013 00:51
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zakharov posted:When you're in the lead, you bet as if you will know the answer. Better to lose because you don't know than to get it right and lose because of betting. Yeah I agree. There's a good chance she could have wagered enough where she would have won if everyone got it right, or if everyone had gotten it wrong.
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Mar 19, 2013 00:53
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I'm so glad Lauren won yesterday, and I hope she wins a lot more. 
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Mar 21, 2013 00:13
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So Jimmy from the clue crew is a pretty cool dude, he dropped in on the auditions in Tampa today. He's far shorter than I thought he'd be. In other news, if Alex really is retiring and does so before I can get on the show, I will cut a bitch.
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Mar 21, 2013 00:59
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BaronVonVaderham posted:In other news, if Alex really is retiring and does so before I can get on the show, I will cut a bitch. From what I read, his contract is still through 2016. So you've got time.
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Mar 21, 2013 01:41
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uublog posted:From what I read, his contract is still through 2016. So you've got time. You seem to be correct, this is a relief.
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Mar 21, 2013 02:05
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DrBouvenstein posted:I'm so glad Lauren won yesterday, and I hope she wins a lot more. Everyone should have a cute Jeopardy girl of their own.
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Mar 21, 2013 03:42
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Punch Card posted:Everyone should have a cute Jeopardy girl of their own.  Show off!
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Mar 21, 2013 05:25
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How could she miss that USS Constitution question!? What the gently caress other frigate can most people even name!?
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Mar 26, 2013 02:53
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Pittsburgh Daily Double in the house! I'll "Detroit" you, lady! 
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Mar 26, 2013 07:07
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Colonial Air Force posted:I'm pretty sure Jennings said he would love to, but hadn't been asked. Just confirming: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/14gkj7/i_am_jeopardys_ken_jennings_my_new_book_because_i/ He's also been posting a bunch of stuff on Twitter about wanting the job.
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Mar 26, 2013 13:55
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Scrambled Fish is the stupidest and easiest category of all time.
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Mar 27, 2013 00:33
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Glenn_Beckett posted:Scrambled Fish is the stupidest and easiest category of all time. I didn't get mackerel  I kept track for idle fun, and counting daily doubles as the value of the space and taking away cash when I was wrong, I would have been at $27,400 by FJ.
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Mar 27, 2013 00:46
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BrooklynBruiser posted:I didn't get mackerel Was it just me or was final jeopardy REALLY easy today? I mean, admittedly I guessed International Space Station for a split second before switching to MIR. Even so, ISS was a very dumb guess.
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Mar 27, 2013 00:58
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Glenn_Beckett posted:Was it just me or was final jeopardy REALLY easy today? I mean, admittedly I guessed International Space Station for a split second before switching to MIR. Even so, ISS was a very dumb guess. It was pretty easy - I wavered between MIR and Skylab for about 10 seconds before settling on MIR.
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Mar 27, 2013 11:48
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Glenn_Beckett posted:Was it just me or was final jeopardy REALLY easy today? I mean, admittedly I guessed International Space Station for a split second before switching to MIR. Even so, ISS was a very dumb guess. Seemed dumb to me, the answer was essentially name the 90's space station and the ISS only started being built in 1998
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Mar 27, 2013 13:48
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Besides that, they emphasized it being the 7th and final "American" onboard, so it could only have been a foreign station.
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Mar 27, 2013 14:43
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How the gently caress do three Jeopardy! contestants not know Cosette is Jean Valjean's adopted daughter? I am actually going to kill them. e: Thank God none of them missed Final Jeopardy! because I was going to explode. Glenn_Beckett fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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Mar 28, 2013 00:49
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Glenn_Beckett posted:How the gently caress do three Jeopardy! contestants not know Cosette is Jean Valjean's adopted daughter? I am actually going to kill them. I'm just glad the douchey EPA inspector from Ghostbusters didn't win. I hate him so much for some reason I don't know.
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Mar 28, 2013 01:10
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funktopus posted:I'm just glad the douchey EPA inspector from Ghostbusters didn't win. I hate him so much for some reason I don't know. Should have called him "dickless."
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Mar 28, 2013 01:12
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Who won a batting title this last season was the hardest question in a category. Jeopardy sports make me so angry.
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Mar 28, 2013 01:17
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jscolon2.0 posted:Who won a batting title this last season was the hardest question in a category. Jeopardy sports make me so angry. To be fair, I keep up with baseball and I almost said "Prince Fielder" when I saw the Tigers. Then I was like, "Oh yeah, probably the triple crown winner on that team, instead."
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Mar 28, 2013 01:23
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I hate baseball, I didn't get a single one of those questions. NBA categories, on the other hand, I will clean up on...
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Mar 28, 2013 04:08
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jscolon2.0 posted:Who won a batting title this last season was the hardest question in a category. Jeopardy sports make me so angry. He won the Triple Crown for the first time since the 60's, it was kind of a big deal
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Mar 28, 2013 04:18
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Declan MacManus posted:He won the Triple Crown for the first time since the 60's, it was kind of a big deal I'm not sure you get why this irritates me. It's way too easy to be the hardest question in a category.
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Mar 28, 2013 04:27
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I love sports questions as it gives *one* category to sweep pretty reliably, so obviously that seemed way too easy to me as well. It specifically mentioned the Tigers right? Yeah sports categories are the only ones I can think of off-hand where Jeopardy! totally plays down to people who don't know much, if anything, about them.
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Mar 28, 2013 04:49
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uublog posted:I love sports questions as it gives *one* category to sweep pretty reliably, so obviously that seemed way too easy to me as well. It specifically mentioned the Tigers right? Yeah sports categories are the only ones I can think of off-hand where Jeopardy! totally plays down to people who don't know much, if anything, about them. Well, there are probably other ones, you're just not aware of them. Like Opera categories. Most people who know Opera seem to clean up in those categories, but if I get one out of the five questions correct, I feel accomplished. That baseball category, I didn't know anything about... Though, even in basketball there have been some tough questions, or at least, "curveball" type questions. Example: When this Laker debuted, he became the youngest player to ever play in an NBA game. Most people would guess: Kobe Bryant; he did come out of high school and he's broke many "youngest player" records. The actual answer: Andrew Bynum, a name that you only know if follow basketball regularly.
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Mar 28, 2013 05:02
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escape artist posted:Well, there are probably other ones, you're just not aware of them. Like Opera categories. Most people who know Opera seem to clean up in those categories, but if I get one out of the five questions correct, I feel accomplished. Fair point, anything opera goes so far over my head I just assume they're of a high difficulty. BTW, you have no idea how sad that that Bynum question makes me. I think his knees have literally deteriorated into a mush of rubber held together by glue and scotch taped to the rest of his legs.
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Mar 28, 2013 06:05
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uublog posted:Fair point, anything opera goes so far over my head I just assume they're of a high difficulty. BTW, you have no idea how sad that that Bynum question makes me. I think his knees have literally deteriorated into a mush of rubber held together by glue and scotch taped to the rest of his legs. Philly is one of my tertiary teams, and I also hate Dwight Howard, so I agree... Bynum's recent misfortunes are tragic. If only his knees could be like his hair.
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Mar 28, 2013 06:41
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They had a question about Mellon Arena being the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins like a year after the place closed down (even accounting for tape-to-air)
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Mar 28, 2013 07:20
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escape artist posted:Philly is one of my tertiary teams, and I also hate Dwight Howard, so I agree... Bynum's recent misfortunes are tragic. If only his knees could be like his hair. Beautiful and majestic and designed differently every day? I agree! For the record, I honestly did not know he became the youngest, either.
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Mar 28, 2013 07:21
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uublog posted:Beautiful and majestic and designed differently every day? I agree! And consistently effective!
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Mar 28, 2013 08:03
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Math is another category that tends to get a bit dumbed-down... but considering how much of it *I've* forgotten even after majoring in it, it doesn't really bother me. Actually, I take that back math isn't really dumbed-down all that much, it's just so drat rare compared to pretty much every other regular category. In high school quiz bowl competitions every other question is math because 90% of the players are huge nerds taking calc or pre-calc.
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Mar 28, 2013 09:46
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I like when the question is an actual math problem and people buzz in before knowing the answer
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Mar 28, 2013 19:31
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ElwoodCuse posted:I like when the question is an actual math problem and people buzz in before knowing the answer I would do the same thing. Also there was I think a physics professor last year who had a commanding lead in Double Jeopardy and hit a Daily Double in a math category and risked it all and of course got it correct. I think he had like $15000 and the next closest was at like $6000.
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Mar 29, 2013 14:32
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ElwoodCuse posted:They had a question about Mellon Arena being the home of the Pittsburgh Penguins like a year after the place closed down (even accounting for tape-to-air) That bothered me as well, you would think they would research the categories they write before taping.
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Mar 29, 2013 15:56
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Island Nation posted:That bothered me as well, you would think they would research the categories they write before taping. Paging Sarah's boyfriend to the thread to tell us when her episodes were taped.
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