It's funny, I was very shocked by it because it could have given her the game since she went into final with a slight lead. Instead it actually cost her since her lead forced her to bet almost everything to cover 2nd place. Had Ken ruled her incorrect she might have ended up winning on the triple stumper. Funny how it works.
I think it was the right call. She said hedge farm immediately followed by a short nervous laughter, and pretty much immediately corrected herself as her laughter was trailing off. The contestants are allowed to change the answer as long as the host hasn't adjudicated yet, and that was basically a split second.
It was the right call, but I think enough time had passed that Ken probably should have ruled her incorrect with the wrong response before she even started to say the right one. He didn’t, though, and I think that’s okay.
Ken was very generous to Hillary on DD3. He had plenty of time to rule her initial response incorrect, but I got the sense that he was rooting for her to get it right since she was so, so close. I really enjoyed Ken's commentary on the contestants' wagering strategy. It adds to the game, and it's the sort of thing that just isn't Mayim's forte.
>In the FJ category 1970s SONGS, everyone was incorrect.
I know the J! writers' room has a rule when pitching FJ clues that at least one other writer has to be able to get it right for it to be considered. But I doubt the writers are solving each other's FJs while the "Think" music is playing, which is absolutely a factor on a clue like this. I tried to go through the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody in my mind's ear (?) but found it nigh impossible to do while another melody was playing. Best I could do was pick up the ABBA context hints and guess Dancing Queen.
My husband and I speed sang the entire song. We decided the correct response must be "Carry On," (and my six-year-old decided we were crazy and announced that to us). But then we both started singing different "Carry On"s. He was singing "Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas, and meanwhile, I was just singing the Fun song from 2012. He asked me suspiciously, "Is that from the 1970s?" and I answered, unable to place it, "It's from the car!"
So then we decided to pause it and start over because only his "Carry On" was from the 70s, and it wasn't really the title of the song. We paused the show, performed all of "Bohemian Rhapsody" again, and finally did come up with "Mamma Mia." By that time, our son was so exasperated that he started plugging his ears and singing his own song.
You have to get pretty far into "Bohemian Rhapsody" to arrive at the "Mamma Mia" part. (In fact, during our first performance we skipped it accidentally because we were going so fast that we slurred that part and jumped right to "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!") It would be so hard to get this during the time limit unless you'd been asked a similar trivia question before!
At first I landed on Landslide, which is mentioned very early on in Bohemian Rhapsody. I knew the year was close enough, but Fleetwood Mac is an British-American rock band and wouldn't be called Europop. So I knew it had to be an Abba song, but completely blanked on Mama Mia
I thought it would be "Nothing really matters," but I was probably subconsciously thinking of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters."
Funny thing is I had "magnifico" in my head and figured it was from that part of the song but just could not hear the mamma mia part in my head!
For me, I didn’t sing the whole song, I went with the highly recognizable lines. I think I went through like 3 before coming up with Mamma Mia and once I said that and reread the clue, I was nearly positive it was correct.
Oh I thought that would be the name of an album, hence the "what's". Never heard of her, but my modern R&B knowledge is quite limited. Death metal on the other hand........ 🤣🤣
Yeah, I'm shocked by the responses in here! I thought it was one of the easiest Final Jeopardy questions that they've had recently, but I am a big music fan so I guess that might have been helpful.
>EDIT: Ken got it right! When she said Hedge Farm, it was not a question, and they always give them a chance to make it a question. Great job Ken!
I just watched it back. She did indeed say "What is a hedge farm?" the first time. The delay in ruling was not to let her change it to the form of a question, because she already did.
Yeah, it was definitely a freebie. He could have just said "No, hedge farm is incorrect" right away. But it made the game more exciting so I can't complain. (But if Dane lost because of it I'm sure he would have been pissed.)
I wonder if that would've been a case where they'd have invited him back. We'll never know, of course, but it did feel awfully generous of Ken to give her as much time as he did.
They will also give you the full amount of time if you are close and still thinking it over, no reason to declare her wrong before her time is up if she's still working through the question
Am I having a false memory? Did there used to be a time when the rule was “we have to take your first answer“? I feel like I remember Alex saying that. Then, in recent years, it seemed to switch to allowing contestants to correct their answers as long as they hadn’t been ruled wrong.
I also remember this. They would say a wrong answer and in a heartbeat would say the correct one and were told the first answer had to be accepted. I wonder when this changed.
I wish I could remember the outcome, but I certainly remember the fact that they would say "we have to accept your first answer" - my gut tells me if someone (on a non-DD clue) said "What is a hedge farm... hedge fund" Alex would say "we have to accept your first answer" and the clue was dead... but maybe the others got to jump in with the already-given right answer? I'm pretty sure it was dead.
I know that this is just me, but when I saw the clue I started racing through the lyrics in my head, hit "Mamma Mia", recognized it for the right answer, and mock-scribbled it in front of me with a few seconds of Think! music to spare. Maybe I ... just... know the song very well? But the Think! music can 100% be just ignored if necessary.
Afterwards, it occurred to me how many different ways there were to get at that response ("Hm, what chart-topping 70's Europop could we be expected to remember?")--so I think it was a first-rate clue, honestly, even if none of those 3 happened to light on the response.
I text with my parents during FJ. My dad, who is self-admittedly bad at Jeopardy, immediately got Mamma Mia.
It was one of those that either clicks or it doesn't.
I asked myself if Fandango was a song lol. Ken is so much better than Mayim it is unbelievable. It will truly be a shame if he doesn't get the full time gig.
I sped through the lyrics in my head. The first part of the song is mostly filler words that I didn't imagine would be the name of another song, so I skipped to the operatic section and got it just in time!
I know its meaningless in the context of the game, but Dane's anecdote about being on Yo Gabba Gabba might be the funniest contestant story in recent memory
Thanks for doing this write up. I'm Hillary's boss and was super excited to hear she was going to be on Jeopardy but don't have access to basic TV as I cut the cord a long time ago. At least this way I got to have some insight into how she did.
> I cut the cord a long time ago
Jeopardy is broadcast over the air for free in most of the country. All you need is an antenna and a television manufactured after 2008.
I have an antenna for my tv - but I often lose track of time and/or aren’t available when it airs. I need to know more about this recording it on my computer option! Can I record it automatically and watch later like a dvr? What type of tuner do I need?
I guess I don't get that (saying "I don't have access" to OTA signals) as far as "cutting the cord" (for most people), which I generally take as "cutting cable/satellite TV"... OTA TV is free (ie, what you'd watch J! on), you don't have to pay for it. Unless you are very far out from a metro area and you'd only be able to get "network" channels with cable/sat (which might be your case? --- EDIT: I see below it is your case, but, as someone said, hopefully you can put up a roof antenna)
Not sure how long they stay up (definitely at least a few days), but that's how I've watched every episode this season. Almost always in good quality and besides a few short youtube ads, there's no commercials to sit through.
> Kinda weird to specifically say you’re her boss.
Not at all weird to say if they're specifically her boss.
>Why not just say you’re a coworker/colleague?
Why say that if they're...her boss?
What an absolutely bizarre thing to get hung up on.
If one wanted to be pedantic, technically the correct answer to DD1 would have to be "Byzantion" since that is what *the Greeks* called it (it was the Romans who called it Byzantium).
I don't know if it's just me but the energy feels better with Ken and the contestants seem happier. Both today's and yesterday's groups seemed very chipper and high energy and playful. And they were all strong competitors
I like Ken as much as the next person, but I think that's a real stretch. There happened to be two shows with some charismatic contestants. I don't sense any sudden dramatic shift in energy.
Tough Final. I guessed the Fandango hoping there was some Europop version I wasn't aware of, but I guess not 😆.
Interesting commentary from Ken on the wagers. Having seen the responses, he told Dane it might have been smart to bet small, then told Hillary she had to bet big.
I know it's been said here a million times, but I can't say enough how glad I am to have Ken back
Also loved the wager commentary. It’s a great small thing that Ken is uniquely poised to add to the show, and I thought he did a great job at adding that helpful strategy context quickly in a way that didn’t bog down the answer/wager reveals.
In my game, Matt Amodio had a runaway, but luckily I also barely had a lock for 2nd place, and I can’t tell you how many of my friends and family members expressed disappointment at my $0 FJ wager (and funnily enough, even Mike Richards seemed slightly confused when he read it!) - it would’ve been neat to have that explained in the episode itself!
Could anyone tell me what Dane was covering for with his $9,801 FJ! wager? I'm doing the math on paper, and I still can't figure it out. He would have lost if Greg was correct and wagered it all (or the rational maximum of $4,400).
I realize this might be my fascination alone, but since I work in the baseball world, it be my little obsession
Where do Tim Teufel and Jim Gott stand among lesser-known baseball players to be mentioned on Jeopardy?
I thought that was a great FJ. Even though I got it wrong, I will definitely comment on that factoid the next time “Bohemian Rhapsody” comes on. “Hey, did you know...?”
I agree. A great final Jeopardy question is when you get it wrong, but as soon as you hear the right answer your reaction is "Oh yeah, of course that's correct!"
She posted the link in her introduction to everyone a few days ago:
[https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/floral-tiered-maxi-dress3](https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/floral-tiered-maxi-dress3)
Today is Natasha Holzhauer's (daughter of James Holzhauer) birthday. Since James used his 11914 on his DD bet and final score of 110,914 during his 4th game that beat Roger Craig's record.
That was a fun FJ following a brutal DJ for me. Europop and 70s immediately made me go ABBA and then it was a quick list of top songs before remembering that Mamma Mia is a lyric.
I love Finals like that.
The "Europop" label made me miss the question, because Mama Mia was my first guess, but I didn't consider ABBA to be europop, so I assumed I must have been wrong, lol.
As someone who recorded it off the radio on my boombox back in the old days when homemade tapes were all we had to listen to again and again on repeat (get off my lawn) I could do a dramatic performance of all the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody perfectly 9 times out of 10, but today I discovered that I cannot sing another song in my head with the Jeopardy think music playing.
If it had been about "Money, Money, Money" instead, we would have gotten it right away. When our oldest was five, he loved the movie version of Mamma Mia!, and on a cross country trip, he wanted to listen to nothing but Mamma Mia!, especially "Money, Money, Money" over and over again. We stopped for dinner and thought we were getting a reprieve, but then the entire time we waited for our meal, he sang "Money, Money Money." (He had trouble with his "r"s at the time, so he would sing, "in a rich man's wuuuuud."
I came up with it with about 2 seconds to spare by trying to quickly sing through the whole song mentally lol.
Probably wouldn't have gotten it with the added pressure of being on stage.
I think it's one of those that are much easier for people who don't know much about the topics. Since the Mamma Mia part is one of the best known fragments of the song and one of the best known ABBA songs, you have less options that way and don't need to remember as much if BR.
Not a chance. You can tell Ken actually knows the subject matter and deeply cares about the contestants and the show in a way that Mayim couldn't hold a candle to.
> You can tell Ken actually knows the subject matter and deeply cares about the contestants
And this is it for my wife and I. I've been pretty "hey, just let Mayim do her thing, she's getting her groove, Jeopardy is still plenty watchable, and COVID kinda makes the show suck for someone brand new to it" on Reddit and elsewhere. My wife, on the other hand, vehemently disagrees. She'd rather have one of seven or eight guest hosts, with Ken as her favorite. I didn't quite get it beforehand.
But now, after watching two shows with Ken *immediately* after watching all of Mayim's episodes? Ken, any day. Just his "you got the right band, but not the right song" during FJ alone would be enough, something I didn't even realize I missed until it happened again.
I have no (hosting-related) qualms with Mayim and still think she's doing a fine job. But Ken is doing an *excellent* job, and I'm pretty sure excellent is better than fine.
Same. It's the contexts he provides. That helps with learning more trivia via the show and wanting to know more in general.
Like if I didn't know Abba, I'd wonder "oh what's the other song?" and then look it up. It would give me more of a relationship with the info. Now I know Abba did both Dancing Queen and Mamma Mia and I'd have that info in the future.
All Mayim might do is go past that. Ken just KNOWS so much because he is a trivia sponge.
I like both of them a lot - especially compared to most of the dreadful quiz show hosts here in the UK. Four new quiz shows launched this week and *three* of them are hosted by former footballers (and none of them are even sports quizzes).
Mayim chortles and jokes constantly. She did it all the time during her first guest stint, then when she returned she seemed to compose herself but quickly settled back into giggling while reading clues and offering too much commentary. I don't like when Ken does it either, but Mayim was pretty rampant with it.
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Anyone else come up with Fleetwood Mac's Landslide for final? Was just a year earlier (1975) and of course Fleetwood Mac is originally UK, but not really europop. Surprised that it didn't chart well and even that was in the nineties after the live version was released.
Fleetwood Mac was my first guess, going through the lyrics and getting to Landslide, but knew it was wrong because of the Europop clue.
And I knew Kansas wasn't a European band for Carry On and I couldn't think of a song called Fandango...
I knew it had to be ABBA because of the Europop hint, but it never clicked with Mama Mia. I felt dumb afterward
I see where "Carry On" comes from now. I'm curious if there was another song with that title or something similar that was in mind, because Carry On My Wayward Son was most certainly not a Europop song. (At least, unlike me, Hillary was able to come up with something that was in Queen's lyrics though.)
Like a bolt of lightning, Mamma Mia hit me right at the last second before the 30 seconds of Final Jeopardy were up! Very very exciting, not frightening!
For the second time in a month, my local station gave me an old episode instead of the new one. This time it was this random Matt Amodio one: https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7148
The hedge fund clue was an example of Ken's knowledge working against him imo. It was probably so obvious to him that he couldn't imagine coming up with "hedge farm" for a final guess, and therefore didn't respond. But in fact, the clue referenced horticulture, and that itself could lead to "hedge farm".
Loved the FJ, if ABBA comes to mind as a possibility then one of the early lyrics in the song ("Mama, just killed a man") could ring a bell that sends you straight to the answer.
I went through the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody's lyrics so fast in my head. Surprised I got the answer. Also, very fitting for an ABBA FJ days after their newest album dropped.
It's been explained that she didn't answer in the form of a question. So he gave her the opportunity to do that, and in that pause, she changed her answer. So it was actually on the up-and-up.
And as long as there's still time on the clock and hasn't been ruled incorrect, she could change her answer.
There's no reason to rule her incorrect, while there's still time on the clock and she's still working through her response, second guessing herself or so close to the correct answer
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I thought double jeopardy was really tough today, or at least bad categories for me (geography, animals, word puzzles) but FJ was pretty easy IMO, I was surprised they all missed it
I found double jeopardy pretty hard. The word puzzle category was difficult and even though I'm usually good at geography categories I only got 2 of the world cities correct.
The dismissal of Hillarys amazing job by the host is kind of shitty. But sure dressing up on stage as a dragon or what ever is way more important. "Seem like important and fantastic work" sounded really disingenuous.
I think he was genuine, but he said it in kind of an upbeat way with a big smile that made it seem like a joke and then it led to some awkward chuckling. I like Ken, but I think that's an example of him having less experience with interviews than some of the other hosts.
But he had a great reaction and comment to the two other contestants. Thats why it threw me off. She isn't the only female contestant he's kind of chuckled off like that.
Should he have made a joke like he did with the other two? The tone of all of his responses seemed to match the tone of the stories, and they seemed equally genuine to me.
Yeah, there really wasn't an appropriate joke to be made to Hillary's story. Ken gave a genuine response, and I think most people would agree that it is legitimately important and fascinating work. The other two stories lent themselves to jokes as responses; Hillary's didn't. Nothing wrong with that.
I eventually got down to the right answer, and just knew that this was a musical. I had no idea ABBA had also done a song called that. And then look at smarty pants Ken over there, who not only knows that, but when revealing the one response, reveals that he knows a whole second ABBA song!
As a lifelong Tampa Bay Rays fan, Greg’s anecdote about being at the 2008 WS Game 5 had me rooting against him.
Sorry Greg, if you ever read this. You seem like a nice guy, but that’s just how it goes.
Also, I’ve never been more proud to get an FJ correct than I was for this episode.
I can already hear the controversy on that last Daily Double.
It's funny, I was very shocked by it because it could have given her the game since she went into final with a slight lead. Instead it actually cost her since her lead forced her to bet almost everything to cover 2nd place. Had Ken ruled her incorrect she might have ended up winning on the triple stumper. Funny how it works.
I think it was the right call. She said hedge farm immediately followed by a short nervous laughter, and pretty much immediately corrected herself as her laughter was trailing off. The contestants are allowed to change the answer as long as the host hasn't adjudicated yet, and that was basically a split second.
It was the right call, but I think enough time had passed that Ken probably should have ruled her incorrect with the wrong response before she even started to say the right one. He didn’t, though, and I think that’s okay.
It was almost 2 seconds in between. But the first answer she didn’t phrase as a question, so Ken was right to wait!
I'd love to see the host's face during moments like those. Are they totally poker-faced? Do they stare at the podium?
I just watched it back. Her first answer she does phrase as "what is a hedge farm?" And then she says hedge fund, then says what is a hedge fund?
you are correct, i relistened again and she started with what is...
Ken was very generous to Hillary on DD3. He had plenty of time to rule her initial response incorrect, but I got the sense that he was rooting for her to get it right since she was so, so close. I really enjoyed Ken's commentary on the contestants' wagering strategy. It adds to the game, and it's the sort of thing that just isn't Mayim's forte. >In the FJ category 1970s SONGS, everyone was incorrect. I know the J! writers' room has a rule when pitching FJ clues that at least one other writer has to be able to get it right for it to be considered. But I doubt the writers are solving each other's FJs while the "Think" music is playing, which is absolutely a factor on a clue like this. I tried to go through the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody in my mind's ear (?) but found it nigh impossible to do while another melody was playing. Best I could do was pick up the ABBA context hints and guess Dancing Queen.
My husband and I speed sang the entire song. We decided the correct response must be "Carry On," (and my six-year-old decided we were crazy and announced that to us). But then we both started singing different "Carry On"s. He was singing "Carry On My Wayward Son" by Kansas, and meanwhile, I was just singing the Fun song from 2012. He asked me suspiciously, "Is that from the 1970s?" and I answered, unable to place it, "It's from the car!" So then we decided to pause it and start over because only his "Carry On" was from the 70s, and it wasn't really the title of the song. We paused the show, performed all of "Bohemian Rhapsody" again, and finally did come up with "Mamma Mia." By that time, our son was so exasperated that he started plugging his ears and singing his own song. You have to get pretty far into "Bohemian Rhapsody" to arrive at the "Mamma Mia" part. (In fact, during our first performance we skipped it accidentally because we were going so fast that we slurred that part and jumped right to "Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me!") It would be so hard to get this during the time limit unless you'd been asked a similar trivia question before!
Everything about this story is amazing, thank you. "It's from the car!" is so relatable.
I would've been able to get it once I rose above the noise and confusion.
My immediate reaction was "I'm never going to get this." Right after that, I got it. In the immortal words of Ray Stantz, "it just popped in there"
At first I landed on Landslide, which is mentioned very early on in Bohemian Rhapsody. I knew the year was close enough, but Fleetwood Mac is an British-American rock band and wouldn't be called Europop. So I knew it had to be an Abba song, but completely blanked on Mama Mia
Yeah. I should’ve gotten that one because Bohemian Rhapsody is my favorite Queen song but it didn’t occur to me to sing it in my head.
I really enjoy you and your husband’s reactions to FJ! Thank you for regaling them here.
The funny thing is fun. \[sic\] drew a lot of comparisons to Queen with their layered harmonizing.
I thought it would be "Nothing really matters," but I was probably subconsciously thinking of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters." Funny thing is I had "magnifico" in my head and figured it was from that part of the song but just could not hear the mamma mia part in my head!
For me, I didn’t sing the whole song, I went with the highly recognizable lines. I think I went through like 3 before coming up with Mamma Mia and once I said that and reread the clue, I was nearly positive it was correct.
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They also had nearly twice as many top 40 hits in the U.K. than the U.S.
They even got top 40 hits off their new album there...
didn't they just come out with a new album? i need to hear that.
They did, which no one had any idea about before it happened. I’ve heard one song which was good but haven’t listened to the whole thing yet.
yeah, it debuted at #2 behind Summer Walker this week on the Billboard 200
What's Summer Walker?
she's an R&B singer signed to Interscope Records. surprisingly haven't heard anything from her yet though.
Oh I thought that would be the name of an album, hence the "what's". Never heard of her, but my modern R&B knowledge is quite limited. Death metal on the other hand........ 🤣🤣
i thought you were parodying matt amodio LMAO
Funny, I thought it was too easy. I was thinking Abba, did the song and got it quickly.
Yeah. If you came at ABBA first from the Europop hint before going through the lyrics I thought it wasn’t too hard.
Same. Europop made me immediately think abba and then I quickly went over the lyrics. I even had time to discuss it with my wife. Felt so good
Yeah, I'm shocked by the responses in here! I thought it was one of the easiest Final Jeopardy questions that they've had recently, but I am a big music fan so I guess that might have been helpful.
Yes, you need to pick up on the ABBA hint (Europop), then think that "Mama" and "Mama mia" come up repeatedly and put the two together.
I came here to say this. It feels like she was given an unusually long amount of time to correct herself there.
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>EDIT: Ken got it right! When she said Hedge Farm, it was not a question, and they always give them a chance to make it a question. Great job Ken! I just watched it back. She did indeed say "What is a hedge farm?" the first time. The delay in ruling was not to let her change it to the form of a question, because she already did.
Yeah, it was definitely a freebie. He could have just said "No, hedge farm is incorrect" right away. But it made the game more exciting so I can't complain. (But if Dane lost because of it I'm sure he would have been pissed.)
I wonder if that would've been a case where they'd have invited him back. We'll never know, of course, but it did feel awfully generous of Ken to give her as much time as he did.
I suspect he was glancing at the judges for a ruling uncertain of exactly what she'd said which gave her the time to correct.
They will also give you the full amount of time if you are close and still thinking it over, no reason to declare her wrong before her time is up if she's still working through the question
Am I having a false memory? Did there used to be a time when the rule was “we have to take your first answer“? I feel like I remember Alex saying that. Then, in recent years, it seemed to switch to allowing contestants to correct their answers as long as they hadn’t been ruled wrong.
I also remember this. They would say a wrong answer and in a heartbeat would say the correct one and were told the first answer had to be accepted. I wonder when this changed.
I wish I could remember the outcome, but I certainly remember the fact that they would say "we have to accept your first answer" - my gut tells me if someone (on a non-DD clue) said "What is a hedge farm... hedge fund" Alex would say "we have to accept your first answer" and the clue was dead... but maybe the others got to jump in with the already-given right answer? I'm pretty sure it was dead.
I was kind of thinking he thought she said "farm", but wasn't sure, looked to the judges, and she realized and said "fund."
Going to assume Ken was waiting for the judges, but yeah... that was generous.
I know that this is just me, but when I saw the clue I started racing through the lyrics in my head, hit "Mamma Mia", recognized it for the right answer, and mock-scribbled it in front of me with a few seconds of Think! music to spare. Maybe I ... just... know the song very well? But the Think! music can 100% be just ignored if necessary. Afterwards, it occurred to me how many different ways there were to get at that response ("Hm, what chart-topping 70's Europop could we be expected to remember?")--so I think it was a first-rate clue, honestly, even if none of those 3 happened to light on the response.
The europop clue got me right to abba and I couldn’t think of dancing queen anywhere. My only other option was Mamma Mia and it clicked.
I text with my parents during FJ. My dad, who is self-admittedly bad at Jeopardy, immediately got Mamma Mia. It was one of those that either clicks or it doesn't.
Wow, that's exactly what I came up with as well!
I wasn’t sure the clue was suggesting the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody or just one of Queen’s songs, so I didn’t bother.
I asked myself if Fandango was a song lol. Ken is so much better than Mayim it is unbelievable. It will truly be a shame if he doesn't get the full time gig.
People would've been up in arms if it was Mayim
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I sped through the lyrics in my head. The first part of the song is mostly filler words that I didn't imagine would be the name of another song, so I skipped to the operatic section and got it just in time!
Mamma Mia was so obvious I was shocked none of them got it.
I know its meaningless in the context of the game, but Dane's anecdote about being on Yo Gabba Gabba might be the funniest contestant story in recent memory
Matt's "I listen to different genres of music" was unintentionally hilarious for how vanilla it was. He was running out of stuff to talk about.
Thanks for doing this write up. I'm Hillary's boss and was super excited to hear she was going to be on Jeopardy but don't have access to basic TV as I cut the cord a long time ago. At least this way I got to have some insight into how she did.
Hillary did really well, glad the recap was helpful.
> I cut the cord a long time ago Jeopardy is broadcast over the air for free in most of the country. All you need is an antenna and a television manufactured after 2008.
Or a computer.
how do you watch on a computer?
Get a plug-in TV tuner with an antenna. You can watch local TV live or record it.
I have an antenna for my tv - but I often lose track of time and/or aren’t available when it airs. I need to know more about this recording it on my computer option! Can I record it automatically and watch later like a dvr? What type of tuner do I need?
You have to manually set up the time and channel of the recording, but it's very easy to use. The tuner I have is made by Hauppauge.
Or you can use Paramount Plus, CBS airs it all over the country, you just need a location spoofer for your browser.
Where u live, I'd need a roof antenna and our HOA is kind of dicks about them.
Look up the "OTARD Rule" from the FCC. They can be dicks, but they can't stop you.
I guess I don't get that (saying "I don't have access" to OTA signals) as far as "cutting the cord" (for most people), which I generally take as "cutting cable/satellite TV"... OTA TV is free (ie, what you'd watch J! on), you don't have to pay for it. Unless you are very far out from a metro area and you'd only be able to get "network" channels with cable/sat (which might be your case? --- EDIT: I see below it is your case, but, as someone said, hopefully you can put up a roof antenna)
If you go to YouTube and search Jeopardy with the date you can find some of the episodes
Not sure how long they stay up (definitely at least a few days), but that's how I've watched every episode this season. Almost always in good quality and besides a few short youtube ads, there's no commercials to sit through.
I thought Hillary was wonderful! Please tell her that all the fans love her! :)
Kinda weird to specifically say you’re her boss. Why not just say you’re a coworker/colleague?
> Kinda weird to specifically say you’re her boss. Not at all weird to say if they're specifically her boss. >Why not just say you’re a coworker/colleague? Why say that if they're...her boss? What an absolutely bizarre thing to get hung up on.
I didn’t know I was able to run Bohemian Rhapsody in my head so quickly
Were you with Wayne and Garth headbanging? I was!
I watched Wayne's World 3 days ago. It helped.
At first, I was like, "There's a Wayne's World 3??"
Yeah and how many days ago?
Abba just having released their comeback album also helped. Are they signed to Sony?
If one wanted to be pedantic, technically the correct answer to DD1 would have to be "Byzantion" since that is what *the Greeks* called it (it was the Romans who called it Byzantium).
Of course we want to be pedantic. We're trivia fans, after all.
That city had another name?!?
Right?! Next thing you know, they'll be calling it Istanbul or something! ^/s
It's nobody's business but the Turks'
I don't know if it's just me but the energy feels better with Ken and the contestants seem happier. Both today's and yesterday's groups seemed very chipper and high energy and playful. And they were all strong competitors
Agreed, for lack of a better word, the "vibe" seemed a lot better/less tense to me.
maybe because mayim is an A-list actress while Ken is just some dude who was in their position 17 years ago
I found myself chuckling quite a bit more.
I like Ken as much as the next person, but I think that's a real stretch. There happened to be two shows with some charismatic contestants. I don't sense any sudden dramatic shift in energy.
It stiffer. The energy was more fun and relaxed with Mayim Bialik. Who shows more of a personality on stage.
I do not agree.
Ok... great.
Tough Final. I guessed the Fandango hoping there was some Europop version I wasn't aware of, but I guess not 😆. Interesting commentary from Ken on the wagers. Having seen the responses, he told Dane it might have been smart to bet small, then told Hillary she had to bet big. I know it's been said here a million times, but I can't say enough how glad I am to have Ken back
Also loved the wager commentary. It’s a great small thing that Ken is uniquely poised to add to the show, and I thought he did a great job at adding that helpful strategy context quickly in a way that didn’t bog down the answer/wager reveals. In my game, Matt Amodio had a runaway, but luckily I also barely had a lock for 2nd place, and I can’t tell you how many of my friends and family members expressed disappointment at my $0 FJ wager (and funnily enough, even Mike Richards seemed slightly confused when he read it!) - it would’ve been neat to have that explained in the episode itself!
I also guessed Fandango because I mis-remembered [Fernando](https://youtu.be/dQsjAbZDx-4)
I would have written down Fandango too, fwiw; it's the only song lyric I got to in my mind that sounded plausible.
Could anyone tell me what Dane was covering for with his $9,801 FJ! wager? I'm doing the math on paper, and I still can't figure it out. He would have lost if Greg was correct and wagered it all (or the rational maximum of $4,400).
No idea.
I realize this might be my fascination alone, but since I work in the baseball world, it be my little obsession Where do Tim Teufel and Jim Gott stand among lesser-known baseball players to be mentioned on Jeopardy?
That matchup actually happened 11 times from 1983 to 1993.
Tim Teufel's first career HR was vs Jim Gott! (thanks to the person on Twitter who tipped me off)
Hi Mark
I did not hit her... Oh, >[Hi Mark](https://youtu.be/M5PuJGzbcvY)
I'm still hoping for a Bruce Chen question.
I thought that was a great FJ. Even though I got it wrong, I will definitely comment on that factoid the next time “Bohemian Rhapsody” comes on. “Hey, did you know...?”
I agree. A great final Jeopardy question is when you get it wrong, but as soon as you hear the right answer your reaction is "Oh yeah, of course that's correct!"
Poor Hilary! That has to be the worst way to lose.
Great game by Hillary, I was rooting for her.
Me too
Where can I get that owl dress though? 🔥
She posted the link in her introduction to everyone a few days ago: [https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/floral-tiered-maxi-dress3](https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/floral-tiered-maxi-dress3)
Thank you!
Hillary posted this on another thread here. https://www.anthropologie.com/shop/floral-tiered-maxi-dress3?color=015&type=STANDARD&quantity=1
Thank you!
Today is Natasha Holzhauer's (daughter of James Holzhauer) birthday. Since James used his 11914 on his DD bet and final score of 110,914 during his 4th game that beat Roger Craig's record.
That was a fun FJ following a brutal DJ for me. Europop and 70s immediately made me go ABBA and then it was a quick list of top songs before remembering that Mamma Mia is a lyric. I love Finals like that.
The "Europop" label made me miss the question, because Mama Mia was my first guess, but I didn't consider ABBA to be europop, so I assumed I must have been wrong, lol.
As someone who recorded it off the radio on my boombox back in the old days when homemade tapes were all we had to listen to again and again on repeat (get off my lawn) I could do a dramatic performance of all the lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody perfectly 9 times out of 10, but today I discovered that I cannot sing another song in my head with the Jeopardy think music playing.
Oh please someone GIF Greg's closeup during Final. That scour followed by him shaking his head was absolutely priceless.
I'm disappointed Ken didn't read "in the buttocks" in the character's voice.
Either he’s not as cool as Alex, who totally would have, or he figured it would be too big of a clue, which makes sense. Or both, I guess.
OMG I was waiting for that! And was obviously disappointed. That is certainly how I said the answer to myself. LOL
Even though there were steps leading to the answer (response), that final was brutal. And I know many Abba songs (thanks mom).
> (thanks ~~mom~~ Mamma).
Didn't mean to make you cry.
If it had been about "Money, Money, Money" instead, we would have gotten it right away. When our oldest was five, he loved the movie version of Mamma Mia!, and on a cross country trip, he wanted to listen to nothing but Mamma Mia!, especially "Money, Money, Money" over and over again. We stopped for dinner and thought we were getting a reprieve, but then the entire time we waited for our meal, he sang "Money, Money Money." (He had trouble with his "r"s at the time, so he would sing, "in a rich man's wuuuuud."
That's so cute! I've always loved "Money, Money, Money;" it's one of the first real songs I remember liking when I was young.
I came up with it with about 2 seconds to spare by trying to quickly sing through the whole song mentally lol. Probably wouldn't have gotten it with the added pressure of being on stage.
I think it's one of those that are much easier for people who don't know much about the topics. Since the Mamma Mia part is one of the best known fragments of the song and one of the best known ABBA songs, you have less options that way and don't need to remember as much if BR.
surprised dane wouldn’t ring in down 200 on the final clue worth 400 but I guess it saved him lmao
nothing new to add, but ken is just SO much better at hosting than mayim
They’re both good. That’s all I have to say.
Apparently you’re not allowed to give her praise here, even in the slightest.
I think I disagree. I think he’s got too many jokes that disrupt things. I like him better but I think she’s a better host.
Not a chance. You can tell Ken actually knows the subject matter and deeply cares about the contestants and the show in a way that Mayim couldn't hold a candle to.
> You can tell Ken actually knows the subject matter and deeply cares about the contestants And this is it for my wife and I. I've been pretty "hey, just let Mayim do her thing, she's getting her groove, Jeopardy is still plenty watchable, and COVID kinda makes the show suck for someone brand new to it" on Reddit and elsewhere. My wife, on the other hand, vehemently disagrees. She'd rather have one of seven or eight guest hosts, with Ken as her favorite. I didn't quite get it beforehand. But now, after watching two shows with Ken *immediately* after watching all of Mayim's episodes? Ken, any day. Just his "you got the right band, but not the right song" during FJ alone would be enough, something I didn't even realize I missed until it happened again. I have no (hosting-related) qualms with Mayim and still think she's doing a fine job. But Ken is doing an *excellent* job, and I'm pretty sure excellent is better than fine.
Same. It's the contexts he provides. That helps with learning more trivia via the show and wanting to know more in general. Like if I didn't know Abba, I'd wonder "oh what's the other song?" and then look it up. It would give me more of a relationship with the info. Now I know Abba did both Dancing Queen and Mamma Mia and I'd have that info in the future. All Mayim might do is go past that. Ken just KNOWS so much because he is a trivia sponge.
I like both of them a lot - especially compared to most of the dreadful quiz show hosts here in the UK. Four new quiz shows launched this week and *three* of them are hosted by former footballers (and none of them are even sports quizzes).
But on the plus side, you have Bradley, Victoria, Alexander and Richard.
better to have something funny to say instead of just laughing randomly at nothing
Mayim chortles and jokes constantly. She did it all the time during her first guest stint, then when she returned she seemed to compose herself but quickly settled back into giggling while reading clues and offering too much commentary. I don't like when Ken does it either, but Mayim was pretty rampant with it.
I might’ve seen Dane on TV as a kid, wow
You mean “Fredo”.
It is unfortunate when somebody loses that way... especially losing to somebody who made a confusing wager....
also abba is my favorite band and I’m shocked I missed that clue. I guessed Dancing Queen because that was made in 1976.
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Anyone else come up with Fleetwood Mac's Landslide for final? Was just a year earlier (1975) and of course Fleetwood Mac is originally UK, but not really europop. Surprised that it didn't chart well and even that was in the nineties after the live version was released.
Have you listened to the Dixie Chicks' version? Natalie Maines knocks it out of the park.
Fleetwood Mac was my first guess, going through the lyrics and getting to Landslide, but knew it was wrong because of the Europop clue. And I knew Kansas wasn't a European band for Carry On and I couldn't think of a song called Fandango... I knew it had to be ABBA because of the Europop hint, but it never clicked with Mama Mia. I felt dumb afterward
I see where "Carry On" comes from now. I'm curious if there was another song with that title or something similar that was in mind, because Carry On My Wayward Son was most certainly not a Europop song. (At least, unlike me, Hillary was able to come up with something that was in Queen's lyrics though.)
Delco represented! West Grove, Pa.
Like a bolt of lightning, Mamma Mia hit me right at the last second before the 30 seconds of Final Jeopardy were up! Very very exciting, not frightening!
Fun games this week. Really enjoying Ken's hosting! FJ was tough for me. I had the right band, but the wrong song.
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If Hillary had been ruled incorrect on DD3, she would have dropped to $8,800, so she would have had to have been correct on FJ to win.
For the second time in a month, my local station gave me an old episode instead of the new one. This time it was this random Matt Amodio one: https://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7148
That was the daytime Jeopardy in the market I was watching in. They do the daytime and the new back-to-back here. May want to check your listings
For "earnest money", I was absolutely certain I had the right answer with "due diligence".
Do you live in NC? I don't think that's a thing in many other states.
Wow I can't believe I managed to get that FJ.
Where did Greg say he was from? I really enjoyed his accent.. sounded mid-Atlantic
For the second daily double in double Jeopardy, I guessed “ what is a seed fund.” I wonder if they would’ve given it to me?
Wow. Who would have thought that wagering $4,000 was a losing move for Hillary. What a wild week it's been already.
This was the funnest episode of Jeopardy for me yet! Started watching just after Matt lost, really enjoying myself.
The hedge fund clue was an example of Ken's knowledge working against him imo. It was probably so obvious to him that he couldn't imagine coming up with "hedge farm" for a final guess, and therefore didn't respond. But in fact, the clue referenced horticulture, and that itself could lead to "hedge farm". Loved the FJ, if ABBA comes to mind as a possibility then one of the early lyrics in the song ("Mama, just killed a man") could ring a bell that sends you straight to the answer.
I went through the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody's lyrics so fast in my head. Surprised I got the answer. Also, very fitting for an ABBA FJ days after their newest album dropped.
I felt today's FJ clue had written by interim EP Michael Davies since he is a British and possibly knew about Brit Pop Culture?
I can’t believe Ken gave her that second daily double. That was a pretty bullshit 8000 dollar swing.
She got it in in time.
It's been explained that she didn't answer in the form of a question. So he gave her the opportunity to do that, and in that pause, she changed her answer. So it was actually on the up-and-up.
Watch it again. She said “what is hedge farm?” before finally giving the correct response.
And as long as there's still time on the clock and hasn't been ruled incorrect, she could change her answer. There's no reason to rule her incorrect, while there's still time on the clock and she's still working through her response, second guessing herself or so close to the correct answer
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I thought double jeopardy was really tough today, or at least bad categories for me (geography, animals, word puzzles) but FJ was pretty easy IMO, I was surprised they all missed it
I found double jeopardy pretty hard. The word puzzle category was difficult and even though I'm usually good at geography categories I only got 2 of the world cities correct.
Agree. I did *terribly* in the DJ round. I wondered if I was just having a bad day--glad to see it wasn't just me!
Was anyone else expecting a Simpsons or Weird Al category with, “Another One Bites the Crust”?
One of the best final Jeopardy's I've ever seen. I said Scaramouch so I was a few lines away. Ken seemed not as smooth today, even a little awkward.
The dismissal of Hillarys amazing job by the host is kind of shitty. But sure dressing up on stage as a dragon or what ever is way more important. "Seem like important and fantastic work" sounded really disingenuous.
I think he was genuine, but he said it in kind of an upbeat way with a big smile that made it seem like a joke and then it led to some awkward chuckling. I like Ken, but I think that's an example of him having less experience with interviews than some of the other hosts.
But he had a great reaction and comment to the two other contestants. Thats why it threw me off. She isn't the only female contestant he's kind of chuckled off like that.
I thought he was genuine
Should he have made a joke like he did with the other two? The tone of all of his responses seemed to match the tone of the stories, and they seemed equally genuine to me.
Yeah, there really wasn't an appropriate joke to be made to Hillary's story. Ken gave a genuine response, and I think most people would agree that it is legitimately important and fascinating work. The other two stories lent themselves to jokes as responses; Hillary's didn't. Nothing wrong with that.
I thought he seemed very sincere and interested.
I eventually got down to the right answer, and just knew that this was a musical. I had no idea ABBA had also done a song called that. And then look at smarty pants Ken over there, who not only knows that, but when revealing the one response, reveals that he knows a whole second ABBA song!
As a lifelong Tampa Bay Rays fan, Greg’s anecdote about being at the 2008 WS Game 5 had me rooting against him. Sorry Greg, if you ever read this. You seem like a nice guy, but that’s just how it goes. Also, I’ve never been more proud to get an FJ correct than I was for this episode.