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Assless Chaps posted:Thanks! Just got back from a 15-hour day and am totally pooped. It was a lot of fun, though! I think I did pretty well on the written test, decently well on the mock game, and really well on the interview. I had Glenn and Corinna, too, no Maggie. There were some real ... interesting ... folks there. And some super nice people who were awesome to chat with. Overall, it was a great experience and I'd do it again. Retro good luck! Look forward to hopefully joining the brotherhood of Jeopardy contestants soon. Don't worry if you don't hear from them right away. I thought I was going to get "the call" right around July/August when they started taping the new season of shows 3 years ago, but it didn't come for me until right before Valentine's Day 2014 when I finally heard from Maggie. I pretty much figured that they weren't gonna call me once the new year rolled around and I thought about taking the test again that year, but decided against it and kept waiting. Again, good luck, and never give up hope, the call does come. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jun 14, 2016 |
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Alex was so excited about that Final Jeopardy and then it turned out to be extremely easy.
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I guess I can see how you might jump from "Greek" to there but that's a really bad answer. There should be a check in your head where you stop and ask yourself "Does Jeopardy really want me to say that?", like with "sperm bank" a few days ago.
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That's one where she almost certainly would have gotten if she'd thought for three more seconds.
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I completely blanked on Marx. I have never felt dumber when the question was revealed.
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Missed today's episode going out for dinner, so I guess I missed a good one... Hunter still killing it, I assume? But I did see the Final Jeopardy clue in today's New York Times, and I got Marx right away after thinking for a couple of seconds, so there's that. Looking it up on j-archive now, seems like it was a good one. David Bowie category seems like a nice tribute too. And that Fashion clue concerning him made me think of hermaphrodite as the question as well, but probably because it was already on my mind from reading the posts above... GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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GhostStalker posted:Missed today's episode going out for dinner, so I guess I missed a good one... Hunter still killing it, I assume? He can afford to give up the hunting now and concentrate on the appling. Or vice versa if he wants.
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Unkempt posted:He can afford to give up the hunting now and concentrate on the appling. Or vice versa if he wants. Wonder how he (or Buzzy for that matter) will fare against the likes of Andrew Pau and Phillip Tiu and other ToC hopefuls when the next Tournament rolls around? The contestant pool for it was looking a bit low up until a couple months ago, but I hope a couple of people who I really liked watching but only won like 3 games get to make it in.
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Soothing Vapors posted:I completely blanked on Marx. I have never felt dumber when the question was revealed. 
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I guessed Engels because I figured there was no way it would be that obvious. KICK BAMA KICK fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Yet another cupcake final. You're getting soft, writers!
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zakharov posted:Yet another cupcake final. You're getting soft, writers! I blame my lovely night's sleep and the repeated 7s in the clue for making me think Rashomon or some other Kurosawa movie and not moving from that. Whoops. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jun 16, 2016 |
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zakharov posted:Yet another cupcake final. You're getting soft, writers! At least Alex admitted it.
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My recording got cut off halfway through yesterday because President Obama made a speech. Did Hunter win again? I think he was in third place after the first round.
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Nope. He got final wrong and Liz (?) won.
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Thankfully, Smacky didn't win.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:I guess I can see how you might jump from "Greek" to there but that's a really bad answer. There should be a check in your head where you stop and ask yourself "Does Jeopardy really want me to say that?", like with "sperm bank" a few days ago. it's still dumb that they didn't give ken jennings "ho/hoe" since it was a much better answer.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Thankfully, Smacky didn't win. How many different noises did that guy make during the show?
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Not the easiest Final in the world but I'm surprised they all missed it. No, "The Satanic Verses" was not written in 1922.
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How did the one guy go with James Joyce, but not Ulysses? Come one, dude, you're right there!
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Problematic Pigeon posted:How did the one guy go with James Joyce, but not Ulysses? Come one, dude, you're right there! I only hit on Ulysses about a second after the music stopped. But yeah, getting so close yet so far to the correct answer had to be pretty galling, especially since he bet so big and wound up in second because of it.
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zakharov posted:Not the easiest Final in the world but I'm surprised they all missed it. that made me cringe
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Wow that centuries category was brutal. Also does anyone else feel like Trebek is off his game this week? He keeps missing the first commercial break cue and seems especially awkward in the interviews. Edit: holy crap how could you bet that much money on "Beatles songs" and not know that one Sir Lemming fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jun 22, 2016 |
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Sir Lemming posted:Edit: holy crap how could you bet that much money on "Beatles songs" and not know that one Only reason I knew it was because Dateline ran an episode on Charles Manson last week that I happened to have on in the background. But yeah, that was a relatively cake Final.
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That "literary nicknames" category was pretty loving hard for the first round. edit: Gwyneth Paltrow, really?
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zakharov posted:edit: Gwyneth Paltrow, really? Shame too, since I'm getting kinda tired of seeing Laurie's mug there at the champion's podium. Took me a while to name Helen Mirren, but Paltrow was indeed a terrible guess...
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Groovelord Neato posted:the gently caress? yellow submarine?? You behind or something? That episode aired 2 days ago...
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Groovelord Neato posted:i dvr them so i never have to see the trash that should be cut out like interviews. I admit that the interviews aren't always good watching, but sometimes they're amusing. Sometimes.
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Groovelord Neato posted:i dvr them so i never have to see the trash that should be cut out like interviews. Same. Except sometimes when you get to the end and Alex and the audience are laughing my husband rewinds it because "oh it might be something funny" and it never is and he never learns.
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GhostStalker posted:Shame too, since I'm getting kinda tired of seeing Laurie's mug there at the champion's podium. Took me a while to name Helen Mirren, but Paltrow was indeed a terrible guess... Same. She's kinda creepy.
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I know this isn't the Wheel Of Fortune thread, but there's some kind of savant just completely dominating everything right now. I mean literally everything.
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Sir Lemming posted:I know this isn't the Wheel Of Fortune thread, but there's some kind of savant just completely dominating everything right now. I mean literally everything. Sometimes I wish there was a Wheel thread but not often enough to actually make one.
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It's very rarely as interesting as Jeopardy. Anyway the guy didn't do nearly as well in the second segment because someone else got the first spin. But wow, what a first segment.
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Sir Lemming posted:I know this isn't the Wheel Of Fortune thread, but there's some kind of savant just completely dominating everything right now. I mean literally everything. it's actually a rerun I googled "autistic guy wheel of fortune" and found out he's a redditor who posted all of his sick pro-tier hangman strats http://buyavowel.boards.net/thread/8330/march-2016-recap-discussion-robert?page=2&scrollTo=77514
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Sir Lemming posted:I know this isn't the Wheel Of Fortune thread, but there's some kind of savant just completely dominating everything right now. I mean literally everything. I'm not much of a wheel watcher but I happened to catch it. Of course the show has a much stronger luck component than Jeopardy, but holy cow that guy was at least the equivalent of Matt Jackson tier.
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