This dad/son duo don’t always show up to Bar Jeopardy! but, when they do, they seem to always get 1st place (and win the $25 gift card).
Multiple teams who frequent the game each week have started to notice that this particular team in question has repeatedly outperformed other players by a substantial margin. Their ‘knowledge’ would span anything from pop culture, to 90’s RnB, to obscure renaissance history, making it nearly impossible for us laymen to hold a candle to their performance. And so, we succumbed to their expertise each time they showed up.
This week, things finally took a turn. The stars aligned so that the culprits were sitting perfectly in our eye-view for this week’s questions. After submitting our own team’s answer, we looked over and saw this team using a search engine and I captured it on video. Looking back, the scores should have spoken for themselves. Now they’re banned.

CURRENT TV STREAKS

The longest-tenured male actor on a prime time show, he released the now ironically titled album “Home Invasion” back in 1993

Who is Ice-T?

DD1 - $600 - MOVIE-INSPIRED SLANGUAGE - A 1944 film title popularized this word, to mess with someone's mind to push them toward insanity

DD2 - $1,200 - GEOGRAPHY - Tallinn isn't in this country but sits on the gulf named for it

DD3 - $1,600 - WE LOVE A PARADE - For 19th century Irish Americans, St. Patrick's Day parades were a show of strength against the anti-Catholics of this "dim" party

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is gaslight? DD2 - What is Finland? DD3 - Who were the Know Nothings?

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So, we record the show and are a few days behind . Tonight we started our next episode (#30) expecting to see Anthony Cantor trying to become a 5 day champ. However it was an older episode (that we've seen) showing instead. When we then started the next episode (31) it had a new returning champion (Shannon). Can anyone explain what happened?

I'm just going to vent a little bit about JBL changing the rules for this season. Most of you probably don't care, but this is probably better to vent to than the geekswhodrink subreddit.

The big change this season vs last is that total score is the deciding factor vs. winning your game that week (and total points was the tiebreaker). They also allow you to play multiple times during the week to improve your score, with only the highest scoring day count, and you can drop your two lowest scores during the 10 week season.

This has basically turned into "who can play the most during the week?" The current top team has played JBL 22 of the 24 available days this season. With any strategy thrown out the window, you just bet everything on every daily double and hope you get it right. The rules are also inconsistent between venues. Even if you are the quickest to turn in the answer, some hosts try to (or are told to) "spread the control around" and will give up control of the board to other teams. When getting daily doubles late in the rounds is the optimal way to maximize your score, this inconsistency in applying this rule across all venues really matters in the final standings. Not to mention that two of the top 3 teams are in Austin, TX who have access to games 7 nights of the week, which no other metro area has.

Last season wasn't perfect, but it was more in the spirit of Jeopardy. Winning is most important, and score is secondary.

Yesterday evening I participated in the 50-question live Zoom test, after taking the Anytime Test a few weeks ago. Just 45 minutes (!) after the Zoom test ended, I got an email inviting me to the next round, the Game Play audition. But I didn't see the email until a few hours later, and by that point, all the audition slots were filled. Will I still get to audition? Has this happened to anyone else?

The email said you should send a reply if there were no available slots that fit your schedule, so I wrote back letting them know. The email also included an application to fill out, as well as a request for a photo, so I sent those both in.

I definitely was not expecting an email invite so quickly. At the end of the 50-question Zoom, the moderator said we might hear back anytime between "tonight" and a year from now. I didn't think I would actually hear back that night! This was my second time doing the 50-question Zoom. The first time, I never heard anything more, so I'm further along than I've gotten before.

For former contestants: What were your out of pocket expenses for your appearance? Were accommodations arranged by the show? Transport to/from the studio? Any meals provided?

EDIT: Thanks everybody! You've been very helpful!

NOTORIOUS NAMES

A TV reporter noted a “human phalanx” around this man as he left a courtroom after getting a death sentence on March 14, 1964

Who was Jack Ruby?

Here are today's contestants:

• Jamie Calandro, a high school music teacher from Ellsworth, Maine;
• Karen Bradley, a regulatory operations director from Long Island City, New York; and
• Shannon Leigh Godwin, an interior designer from Oakland, California. Shannon is a one-day champ with winnings of $16,001.

Jeopardy!

PARTS OF SPEECH // IN GOOD COMPANY // TV-POURRI // ALL I NEED // IN THIS LIFE OF SIN // IS ME & MY SQUIRREL FRIEND

DD1 - $800 - IN THIS LIFE OF SIN - Famous Phoenician women include this biblical wife of King Ahab--who was not, shall we say, a paragon of virtue (Shannon lost $3,000, dropping to $200.)

Scores at first break: Shannon $200, Karen $900, Jamie $0.

Scores entering DJ: Shannon $4,200, Karen $2,000, Jamie $400.

Double Jeopardy!

THE WORLD LEADER'S HAIKU // GETTING YOUR "B.A." // AMERICAN BODIES OF WATER // COMING UP SHORT // PLEASING POETRY // CONTROVERSIAL MOVIE VILLAINS

DD2 - $2,000 - COMING UP SHORT - The Roman numerals for 1900 can also be used as an abbreviation for this design style that emerged in the 1900s (Karen dropped $4,000 down to $5,600 vs. $7,000 for Shannon.)

DD3 - $1,600 - THE WORLD LEADER'S HAIKU - One-kid policy / Took 1930s Long March /Mao, then Hua, then him (Two clues after DD2, Karen lost $2,000 down to $4,000 vs. $7,000 for Shannon.)

All three DDs were missed, helping create a low-scoring game in which Shannon led into FJ at $8,200 vs. $4,800 for Jamie and $3,600 for Karen.

Final Jeopardy!

TRIBUTES - To honor the 126th birthday of this Nobel Prize winner, a Google Doodle featured a cat & a feline ghost

Shannon and Karen were correct on FJ. Shannon added $1,401 to win with $9,601 for a two-day total of $25,601.

Final scores: Shannon $9,601, Karen $6,900, Jamie $1,399.

Correct Qs: DD1 - Who is Jezebel? DD2 - What is mid-century modern? DD3 - Who was Deng Xiaoping? FJ - Who was Schrödinger?

DD1 - $800 - IN THIS LIFE OF SIN - Famous Phoenician women include this biblical wife of King Ahab--who was not, shall we say, a paragon of virtue

DD2 - $2,000 - COMING UP SHORT - The Roman numerals for 1900 can also be used as an abbreviation for this design style that emerged in the 1900s

DD3 - $1,600 - THE WORLD LEADER'S HAIKU - One-kid policy / Took 1930s Long March /Mao, then Hua, then him

Correct Qs: DD1 - Who is Jezebel? DD2 - What is mid-century modern? DD3 - Who was Deng Xiaoping?

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As a reminder, here were the scores going into FJ:

Shannon: $12,000

Anthony: $8,000

Ajin: $3,200

Anthony ended up betting zero, which people seem to agree was a correct bet: he had exactly two-thirds of Shannon's total, a cover bet would risk him falling behind Ajin, and he presumably needs Shannon to miss anyway, so if she makes a cover bet and misses he wins.

But I'm surprised there hasn't been more talk about what Shannon should have bet. If we assume Anthony made the correct bet, that raises a lot of possibilities about what Shannon should have bet. Should she have bet $4,000 (if he bets zero, she goes to a tiebreaker if she misses and if he bets it all and both get it right they go to a tiebreaker)? Should she have bet $4,001 (cover bet, but she falls behind if he bets zero)? Should she have bet zero or $1? I think there are arguments for all of these, and possibly even other bets, so I'm curious what people think.

TRIBUTES

To honor the 126th birthday of this Nobel Prize winner, a Google Doodle featured a cat & a feline ghost

Who was Erwin Schrödinger?

WRONG ANSWER 1: T.S. Eliot

WRONG ANSWER 2: Ernest Hemingway

WRONG ANSWER 3: Nikola Tesla

So, which of the potential SCC players might be the next Juveria Zaheer, Drew Goins, Will Yancy, Michelle Tsai, Ryan Sharpe, or Long Nguyen? How many spots will be given at the next SCC: 18 or 27? (I decided to add another layer of consideration: buzzer attempts).

Here is the longlist so far:

My version of threshold is either:
Non-Runaway pre-FJ: 16 correct responses (including FJ) and/or Coryat score of at least $14,000
Runaway pre-FJ: 17 correct responses and/or Coryat score of at least $14,000
Narrative: Led/Tied prior to FJ vs postseason (CWC/TOC) qualified champion and/or lost in the tiebreaker round

Notes:

1. He is the only one who got FJ right but Anthony's triple get on his DDs & huge lead after DJ round costed him the J! champion title.

so i'm watching the new season of pop culture jeopardy and im wondering what would happen if in the finals, everyone ended on zero. i imagine in regular gameplay, if after double jeopardy everyone had zero, there would just be no final jeopardy. but what if everyone wagered everything and lost, ending on 0?

Anybody catch that older think music remix that was so clean for the YouTube edition. I literally was dancing for 30 seconds with the wrong response because I suck lol. They need to keep using that for future Youtube editions

love the show and have been watching it for years. I used to be able to get maybe 65-70% of the questions, sometimes more on a good night. lately I feel like the contestants on the old SNL Celebrity Jeopardy skit. Anyone else feel like this?

DD1 - $800 - NOTHING - Thomas Paine wrote, "In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments" & this

DD2 - $1,200 - PAINT-ED - Around 1880 he switched from oils to pastels , as his dominant medium with "The Blue Dancers" as a prime example

DD3 - $1,600 - 5-SYLLABLE WORDS - Wild fluctuations in the market getting you anxious? It's just this, from the Latin for "to fly"

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is common sense? DD2 - Who was Degas? DD3 - What is volatility?

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Twice so far this season, there have been answers that correctly stated “what was the Cuban missile crisis?” And both times, at home, I shouted “what was the Bay Of Pigs?”.

And I wonder if “Bay of Pigs” would also have been accepted?

Edit: never mind - I thought they were the same event, for whatever reason. Never bothered to look it up until today. Thanks for the education, fellow trivia-heads!

Here are today's contestants:

• Shannon Leigh Godwin, an interior designer from Oakland, California;
• Ajin Tae, a trader from New York, New York; and
• Anthony Cantor, a television & podcast producer from Toronto, Ontario. Anthony is a four-day champ with winnings of $77,199.

Jeopardy!

EURO-TRIPPING WITH RICK STEVES // THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM // RECENT BESTSELLERS // BEASTLY WORDS & PHRASES // I HOPE YOU'RE HUNGRY FOR... // NOTHING

DD1 - $800 - NOTHING - Thomas Paine wrote, "In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments" & this (Shannon doubled to $2,800.)

Scores at first break: Anthony $2,000, Ajin $1,000, Shannon $4,800.

Scores entering DJ: Anthony $3,600, Ajin $1,800, Shannon $7,200.

Double Jeopardy!

100 YEARS OF COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG // MED. ABBREV. // I GOT A FEVER // PAINT-ED // 5-SYLLABLE WORDS // 2020s IN MEMORIAM

DD2 - $1,200 - PAINT-ED - Around 1880 he switched from oils to pastels , as his dominant medium with "The Blue Dancers" as a prime example (Ajin lost $1,800 on a true DD.)

DD3 - $1,600 - 5-SYLLABLE WORDS - Wild fluctuations in the market getting you anxious? It's just this, from the Latin for "to fly" (Anthony lost $6,000 down to $3,200 vs. $8,000 for Shannon.)

Anthony lost a big chunk of his total on DD3 and had to settle for second going into FJ with $8,000 vs. $12,000 for Shannon and $3,200 for Ajin.

Final Jeopardy!

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING FICTION - inspired by the story to tell similar ones, Taylor Sheridan wrote the foreword to the 40th anniversary edition of this novel

Only Shannon was correct on FJ, and she needed to be because if she missed, she would have lost by $1. Shannon added $4,001 to win with $16,001.

Final scores: Anthony $8,000, Ajin $200, Shannon $16,001.

Correct Qs: DD1 - What is common sense? DD2 - Who was Degas? DD3 - What is volatility? FJ - What is "Lonesome Dove"?

I have always wondered if Jeopardy could have been a different kind of game by providing slightly different answers. The point of Jeopardy is that the contestants are given an answer and they have to reply with a question. In a typical trivia show they would ask:

Which sprinter set the 100m world record ?

In Jeopardy they would say:

This sprinter set the 100m world record.

And expect “who is Usain Bolt”. This is basically just a grammatical difference, not in terms of difficulty or gameplay. It makes sense, they want to guide you to a specific question. However it could be a much more interesting and special game if they just said:

9.58s

and let the contestants with knowledge of the category figure out what it could refer to.

Obviously the issue is, that this could be an answer to multiple questions, which is probably why they are more specific. But if they leaned into the ambiguity and creativity, this could be an awesome game. Some more ideas.

”Chris Rock, and it hurt quite a bit”

“By taking the blue pill”

“Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Kurt Cobain”

One of the answers was “Spanish pronoun 2 letters”. Unless it’s a gimmick crossword, minimum word length is always 3 letters. Anyone else think that was a poorly constructed answer? Or am I being pedantic?

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING FICTION

inspired by the story to tell similar ones, Taylor Sheridan wrote the foreword to the 40th anniversary edition of this novel

What is Lonesome Dove?

WRONG ANSWER 1: Who the $#*!? is Taylor Sheridan?

Just wanted to shout out how fun the second edition of Youtube Jeopardy! was. A spoiler, we got another Ken ASMR moment. And, also, learned that Ken's child is a Starkid and Smosh fan. Very cool.

It was a fun romp, and I hope they keep doing these!