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So... did everyone misunderstand the FJ question or...?? It seemed very, very easy to me, but those were certainty some guesses!
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New York wasent named after the town in England, but the Duke. That guess didn’t make any sense.
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Jul 1, 2022 05:31
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davecrazy posted:New York wasent named after the town in England, but the Duke. That guess didn’t make any sense. And it certainly wasn't named after another US city named New York!
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Jul 1, 2022 06:26
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New York: Name so nice they used it twice
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Jul 1, 2022 06:50
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1glitch0 posted:So... did everyone misunderstand the FJ question or...?? I'm from New England so it was a gimme for me. But yeah those were some odd guesses I thought the clue was straightforward.
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Jul 1, 2022 13:43
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Maybe they were trying to think of cities with similar, not identical, names.
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Jul 1, 2022 13:44
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Yeah, I chalked "New York" up to "York"/"New York"
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Jul 1, 2022 13:56
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Absolute gimme for me but I grew up in the correct response and that sorta thing was hammered into us as kids.
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Jul 1, 2022 14:25
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The 1845 in the clue pointed to western cities, and I managed to guess it correctly but I had no clue of their relative sizes or the fact that one was named after the other. I'm not surprised two of them missed it.
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Jul 1, 2022 14:41
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I guessed somewhere in Texas because of '1845' (which I think was when the state was admitted to the union) and was wrong. Seemed like a better guess than New York, though.
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Jul 1, 2022 15:23
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1glitch0 posted:And it certainly wasn't named after another US city named New York! Did the clue specific “US Cities”?
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Jul 1, 2022 15:38
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Yeah the category was "U.S. Cities" and the clue was "This U.S. city now has 10 times the population of the other U.S. city for which it was named in 1845" Totally stumped me, I probably would've written down New York too just to have something written down before time expired.
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Jul 1, 2022 15:43
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It just now occurs to me that, despite living on the West Coast my entire life, I think I've only ever been to the other Portland.
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Jul 1, 2022 15:46
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I didn't get it and I'm generally solid with geography clues. It happens, you just don't have the right city come to mind quick enough even though you deciphered the clue to know exactly what you're searching for in the memory banks: It's probably going to be a city in a west coast state if 1845 is important (maybe slightly more inland like Colorado or Texas) and it's going to have the same name as a city out east, possibly with a "New" in front of it. I started down by San Diego and worked my way north (since that was close to the gold rush I assumed CA was most probable, also given size odds are it was in that state) and didn't get to Oregon in time  Poque posted:Absolute gimme for me but I grew up in the correct response and that sorta thing was hammered into us as kids. I think this is a factor we all forget sometimes. Any time Lizzie Borden comes up and no one gets it I'm shouting at the tv....having grown up in New Bedford, one town over from Fall River where she lived. Same with Nathan Hale (moved to Long Island in 3rd grade, they harp on the spy ring a lot) or now obscure poo poo about Florida.
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Jul 1, 2022 16:26
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I got the concept of the question pretty easily bit guessed Miami instead. Florida also has a New York lol.
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Jul 1, 2022 20:18
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I think the hallmark of a good Final Jeopardy is one that is potentially difficult but when you hear the correct answer, you just think "ah duh of course!" which is exactly how I felt when they revealed it to be Portland.
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Jul 1, 2022 21:34
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Dude rocking back and forth is distracting as hell.
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Jul 2, 2022 01:13
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After many years of listening to KBOO.fm, I successfuly guessed Portland, Oregon.
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Jul 2, 2022 23:26
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Yungsheng almost definitely said 'Tristam Shandy' yesterday. I re-listened to it several times. Mayim failed to call him out (Alex has called people out for not saying Tristram correctly multiple times).
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Jul 5, 2022 18:29
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Yeah, I don't remember the clue/question but I distinctly remember him saying something definitely not correct and it going unaddressed. Sort of hated the way the winner gloated but they took out the Christian lady so fine for now.
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Jul 5, 2022 18:35
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I'm behind but I would like to complain about that stupid sesame street final clue a few weeks ago. WHY THE gently caress WOULD YOU JUST RANDOMLY MENTION A "D" IN THAT CLUE IF IT HAD LITERALLY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE QUESTION?? Mr. Hookshot and I were so lost we just started re-naming shows with Ds in the title. "Do you think it could be D*A*S*H?"
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Jul 5, 2022 19:07
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I feel kind of dumb because I assumed it must have been an old detective show, where like the first scene was a victim who'd written a "D" in wet cement with his last breath or something.
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Jul 5, 2022 19:10
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christmas boots posted:I feel kind of dumb because I assumed it must have been an old detective show, where like the first scene was a victim who'd written a "D" in wet cement with his last breath or something. That's a pretty funny concept. I was thinking of shows were someone was arriving someplace, like a new town or school, but what adult would write their initial in the cement? Then I thought Sesame Street pretty quickly.
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Jul 5, 2022 19:22
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vandalizing wet cement is not something id expect to be shown on the likes of Sesame Street
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Jul 5, 2022 20:50
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What a poo poo FJ question -- literally the only clue you have to go on is randomly spitballing bad things that have happened in DC. At least replace the Hoover building with something even tangentially connected to Lincoln, goddamn EDIT: or maybe do something with the fact that the Hoover building began construction almost exactly 100 years later. My dumb rear end came up with this in two minutes, how are you professional clue writers so terrible at this ninjahedgehog fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Jul 6, 2022 |
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Jul 6, 2022 01:00
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I've been there and somehow it still didn't occur to me
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Jul 6, 2022 03:48
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I guessed it but you're right that there's literally nothing in the clue to help you reason it out. I don't even think it's clear from the clue that they're asking about DC? Kind of terrible
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Jul 6, 2022 04:15
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Cognac McCarthy posted:I guessed it but you're right that there's literally nothing in the clue to help you reason it out. I don't even think it's clear from the clue that they're asking about DC? Kind of terrible It said J. Edgar Hoover Building. Even if you didn't know immediately that it was the FBI HQ, I'd imagine you could guess that based on who it's named after. And then from that you think of a notorious event that happened in DC I don't know, I got it pretty quickly, but that was me thinking of the geography and layout of places since I've walked around there rather than working it out from the clue, but still I think there was enough there.
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Jul 6, 2022 05:08
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It does seem to be a clue moreso for people who live inside the beltway. I whiffed on it since I didn't know the two were that close but I know the Hoover Building is FBI HQ. Most Americans I assume know Ford's Theater is in DC but not where specifically in the city.
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Jul 6, 2022 11:23
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Requiring the knowledge that the Hoover building is in DC is fair I think, but having a map of the city in your head is a little too much to ask. They needed another breadcrumb in there pointing to Lincoln or a political assassination, the latter of which they kinda tried with "notorious" but that was so vague as to be useless imo.
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Jul 6, 2022 16:21
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I've been there and somehow it still didn't occur to me  I knew the city immediately from the building, but gently caress if I know the exact geography of where every stupid building is located. There's not a strong link between the two to make that lightbulb go off, Watergate was a loving fantastic guess since that seems way more applicable to the FBI, and despite having visited the drat theater for some reason in my brain it's not in DC. It would have been a way more logical clue if the building they chose was, say, the headquarters of the Secret Service, since it was established in July 1865, 3 months after Lincoln was shot, while the FBI wasn't created in its current form with that moniker until the 1930s. Even its predecessor agency wasn't created until decades after the assassination, so I can't see how they can expect people to make any sort of logical connection between the two buildings.
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Jul 6, 2022 16:34
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I too guessed Watergate Hotel and honestly don't know why one would know which one--that, or the correct answer--was the right one to pick. Poorly designed/written question. They could have added a qualifier like 'notorious from over a century before' or something.
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Jul 6, 2022 16:47
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BaronVonVaderham posted:
Yeah I went Watergate because of the FBI and thought they were making an ironic connection. Oh well!
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Jul 6, 2022 17:13
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I guessed correctly. The keyword being "guessed." There was no logical line of reasoning to come to that conclusion.
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Jul 6, 2022 19:30
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One thing I've always liked about Jeopardy is that even when I don't know the answer there's almost always a clue that I can use to make a reasonable guess and tbh that's usually how I get the right answer. I missed that last night 
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Jul 6, 2022 19:52
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i guessed right just b/c i click around google maps all the dang time and i remember looking up where ford's theater was once.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:44
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I found a Trivial Pursuit answer book at work and I am completely pumped for studying all the poo poo (like geography) that I don't know.
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Jul 6, 2022 20:56
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Lets not overlook last night's other issue where both Bush and 90210 were accepted without asking for further info which seems much more lenient than normal.
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Jul 6, 2022 21:03
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And yet another hosed up ruling (after not prompting for additional information, just staring blankly at the contestant yet again) needing to be adjusted later.
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I'm considerably behind but Enver got robbed on unchained, let the man come back.
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