JAYMC on Jeopardy! TODAY! (SPOILERS Y'ALL)

my yelp came when i was afraid you were gonna say "tangential"

and yeah your being firm with alex but then leaving him the out of being part of "the general public" was almost as profesh as when he asked which war you meant (For The Audience)

omg like 30% of my jeopardy answers come from larry gonick, A+

like 30% of my jeopardy answers knowledge comes from larry gonick

great call on the rosenbergs too; i would be lying if some part of me didn't want you to bet nothing and answer "racoon tanuki and l0u1$ j@gg3r"

I was also yelling Rosenbergs at my computer. Nice one!

i'm pretty sure that IRL/edited-out, he clarified that in some circles post-war might mean civil war. which makes sense.

i had really meant the "general public" thing to be self-deprecating, like us architecture people are such weirdos we care about this esoteric stuff. but tbh i was mostly just caught wrong-footed since this was not one of the pre-cleared anecdote questions i had expected! obviously it's a question one gets asked a lot, but it's also basically unanswerable as probably many of you can relate to from your own fields, mutatis mutandis.

rosenbergs actually came as much from ignorance as anything! felt like the question implied that the people involved got executed, and really couldn't remember enough about sacco and vanzetti to say whether they were executed or whether it would have made sense for there to be another defendant involved.

all i could think of, crowding all other paired names from my head, was the (accompliceless, iirc) leopold+loeb, then as soon as they revealed your answer i was like YES THAT'S IT

i had really meant the "general public" thing to be self-deprecating, like us architecture people are such weirdos we care about this esoteric stuff.

no that's how it came across! just meant that it was a well-timed bit of self-deprecation where others might have caved earlier or forgotten to cave at all.

Rosenbergs were my answer because I had no fucking idea who Sacco and Vanzetti were (I looked it up after the show).

xpost haha oh good! my architecture history friends were like WAY TO SLAM TREBEK AWESOME and i was like oh no :-O

part of the trick to jeopardy is that more than 4/5ths of the answers are engineered to be the most obvious educated guess
loved the moment where you were dissecting the clue out loud to figure out what the writers were getting at

Jami was quite a character (pun intended, teehee). she seemed to be rooting for you! also that awesome huge pause before she said that her husband turned her on. classic jeopardy! moment

Great second round! The points shoot up fast.

I blanked on the name of the Rosenbergs. Best I could do was "Who is that spy couple what got executed?"

haha, not that the dissection helped me. felt dopey as i definitely had read up on bloody mary and lady jane and all that on wikipedia some time in the past year or so. oops!

and yes - - - jami was a super nice lady. really great sport in both of her games i thought.

dissection was just a great "i know how to play this game goddamit" moment

NFW would I have missed the Rosenbergs question (one of their grandchildren was my college classmate who after being low-key about it for three years, suddenly started using the subject in our writing class and now makes docs about them) but the Kimmel/Fallon stuff would've been my downfall.

this was really fun to watch, nice job dude! and way to pull off that sweater.

all credit to my partner for major outfit consultation!

the Kimmel/Fallon stuff would've been my downfall.

i got ~half of these, in every case except carnac based on only having read about them. didn't know which jimmy had the roots tho.

I like the category about short phrases and utterances and Tom Petty.

i'm not quick enough for Jeopardy and would have gotten destroyed (aside from the talk show category), but "mercury" was the only one i was shouting at the screen.

was so bummed to get beat on the buzzer for petty, sorry classic rock fans

feel bad confessions: i pick a villain each episode of jeopardy to root against and i spent most of the episode non-specifically trash talking you. literally as soon as it is over i go to ilx and notice the jeopardy thread at the top of SNA and no fucking way... anyhow, you killed it, i was legit impressed even as i jeered

haaaaa, that my be my favorite thing anyone's posted!

HAHA

will watch you this weekend, Dr C (i don't have TV recep, so thx forks)

Yes thank you forks, I don't have cable and it's a boring afternoon of data entry for me :( Way to go Doc!

btw: http://thefinalwager.co/2015/06/04/final-jeopardy-june-4-2015/

oh you brooklyn hipster

hipsters and their love of bread

Is the Final Wager guy saying that $4k was the optimal final wager? He doesn't explain why. At first blush it seems to me anything short of a potentially losing wager would be fine depending on how much you care to risk.

iirc he has a long running hobby horse that 4k is the right wager in almost any circumstance

Go Doc Go!

I set today's episode to record but it was preempted by a bunch of fucking tennis players.

I got the T.S. Eliot question--in your face, Casino! (Of course, I pronounced Michelangelo like Mick Jagger, so maybe they wouldn't have given it to me.)

But I tanked on Double Jeopardy: I guessed "Always leave them laughing."

Valiant effort, Doctor Casino; sorry I missed last night's beatdown.

That Chris guy has icewater in his veins.

aw, i'd been hoping dc was even now secretly posting from the set

Nice game! That final question was hard.

Not accepting "Macademia" was a bit pedantic, imo, even if the question specifically mentioned 10 letters. It's a poorly constructed question if the answer can be wrong on that basis.

*Macadamia

I feel like I've misspelled that before.

well played game start to finish; my guess on final jeopardy woulda been "in art we trust" so i had some bastardized wrong idea in there. Tough final!
In any case, you are now a Jeopardy champion which means you can more or less win any argument anywhere. And you made about 26k on it too! Congrats congrats.

thanks again, y'all!

i have no beef with the macadamia ruling - categories have always been fair game in that way, and none of the wordplay/crossword-clue style questions would be viable at all without that. plus, i should have just slowed down and counted the letters real quick - mac-A, da-mi, a..s. oh well! was maybe the first strong sign of the difficulties of coming back from a win, bewildered and shellshocked. of course it was also some stiff competition on the floor so i don't mean to discount that. just that my buzzer timing, and to-buzz-or-not-to-buzz instincts, really went out the window. it was still super fun, but there was suddenly an adrenaline/confusion thing that wasn't present before.

you played well both games and dominated the first. you should be proud.

sony pulls the full game youtubes fast so watch while you can.
torrentz are also good for this.

hey if someone were theoretically searching for this, what S##E### would they be looking for?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP8dZN5WS1c
S2015 e111

i had hearty lols (with, not at) over "Butterfly McQueen" btw; it was in my head too

aw missed tonight's game

anyway, hurrah Dr C!

*googles "25.4 ounces"*

why is a longie of Fosters any harder to drain than every other beer on the market in 1972? (apart from being horrible obv: America has many that are even worse)

[like I'm assuming that's not the joke - US and UK don't tend to be widely aware of how bad a beer it is]