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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > This! Is! JEOPARDY!
 
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In Rainbows
Feb 26, 2011

Discount Viscount posted:


We had cheat sheets like the aforementioned and spent portions of practices going over those common trigger words and their answers. Persian poet = Omar Khayyam, Southern author = William Faulkner, Elizabethan = start thinking Shakespeare, etc. One time during the league season I was watching Jeopardy! and the final category was "Southern Authors" and I said aloud "I bet it all, the answer is William Faulkner," and it was. They drilled Faulkner into our heads that season as he seemed to be showing up a lot in the question pool for whatever reason that year.


I was watching an episode with my grandparents and the topic for final Jeopardy was something like "Modern English Authors" and I said "William Golding" just because. When Trebek starting reading the answers it mentioned rowdy kids. Obviously Lord of the Flies and my answer was right. My grandparents thought I was a goddamn psychic :smug:

But my god do I do poorly with Jeopardy questions about classical music and plays. I'll have good guessing streaks about everything else and then wham, something about a play. I should get cultured.

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