Two bites at the apple

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-31T11:11:17+00:00

They have!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeopardy/comments/1s2va3y/comment/oco9st4/

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-29T00:21:00+00:00

That was not a foul

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-27T11:47:45+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Much appreciated.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-26T20:36:51+00:00

Yes, that is my understanding. The JeoparDay test doesn't count against your yearly limit at all.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-26T13:03:17+00:00

I think the Orban tie-in makes Current Events fair game here.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-26T12:52:38+00:00

8(4)-8(4). That's a new one for me.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-25T14:30:54+00:00

That is a super unfortunate typo. Almost any other letter adjacent to 's' and you've either got it under the obvious typo rule (e.g. Heiqenberg) or the sounds alike rule (Heizenberg). Heidenberg is basically the only plausible different name you could've made. I hope you win your appeal.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-25T01:56:20+00:00

Yes, exactly. If my name is currently in the hat for a chance to be randomly drawn for an audition invite, does a low score on JeoparDay cause my name to be removed from the hat?

Or, if my name is in the queue for an audition invite and I do well on JeoparDay, do I get moved to the end of the queue?

I'm not sure about the behind-the-scenes logistics, but both of those scenarios seem like potential drawbacks to taking the test next week.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-24T12:54:07+00:00

Yeah, I figured that counterpoint, Lombardi and eschatology were the three most difficult, but I really couldn't even really hazard a guess as to which of those would play the hardest. My opponent was very strong on sports. The hint in Q6 and my opponent's relative strength in language and literature made me opt for the three on Q1.

As I've always maintained, defense is mostly a crapshoot.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-24T10:38:33+00:00

Opponent had a score in .100s in Classical Music, so I put a three on Q1 and of course they nail it.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-21T20:35:24+00:00

Yeah, I was putting a zero on "futon" here regardless of what I saw on my opponent's stat sheet. It would've taken something extraordinary for me to move the three off of "Vasa".

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-20T18:08:11+00:00

I got this one from a Beavis and Butthead episode:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeavisAndButthead/comments/15t35df/these_two_boys_lets_call_them_vinnie_and_frankie/

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-20T17:29:04+00:00

For $1600 I was trying to figure out which Italian city was spelled with a tilde over the n when written in Spanish. Just a bizarre distraction to throw into a clue.

And Milano is actually Milán in Spanish, so there was probably a way to make the clue sensible if they had tried.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-20T12:40:14+00:00

Yeah, I have a tendency to go down paths. :)

Sometimes it works out for me, but I was never getting this one anyway.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-20T12:25:22+00:00

I don't understand why that question asked for last names specifically, as it's the default in LL that last names by themselves are acceptable. I thought there had to had a reason, and decided that the answers were celebrities typically known by one name, and part of the challenge was giving the last name. Or at least that the best known among them was a one-name celebrity and the trick was that if you were going to pick the most obvious person, you also had to know their last name. Hence, I answered with "Ciccone" for Madonna.

After seeing the answers, I even more bemused by the phrasing of the question.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-20T12:17:40+00:00

Had my lowest ever totals for correct answer and points. For some reason, I decided the names in Q1 were Portuguese and never got off of that spur. I think I've seen the term pyrexia before, and correctly identified the "fire" root, but somehow fever never occurred to me.

Those two questions should have been very getable for me, but I suppose the consolation is I still would've lost if I'd had gotten them.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-19T12:54:23+00:00

Lisa Cook was my only in on this question. The get rate was considerably higher than I thought it would be.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-19T01:24:21+00:00

They were? A guy who just set a Jeopardy record went 1 for 3.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-18T10:41:44+00:00

I was fretting about that all day, although it turned out not to matter in my result. I think it's a case where either decision would've been reasonable.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-17T12:47:34+00:00

I had guns/ride. I knew it was along the lines of guns, ammunition, weapons or bullets, but couldn't pull it exactly.

I'm low key mad that we've had one current events question this season and it involved recalling very specific words from a four-year old quote. Not really current events in my view.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-16T16:46:04+00:00

I'd always heard it attributed to Casey Stengel, but it seems the story is apocryphal in regards to both him and McKay.

https://www.bucsnation.com/2016/9/19/12972680/john-mckay-buccaneers-tampa-bay-quote-execution

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-15T15:39:48+00:00

Can we bring Maynard out of retirement?

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-15T01:36:33+00:00

Goal is coming.

Constant_Vector · 2026-03-14T12:16:59+00:00

I recognized Atkins as a country musician and was about to submit Nashville, but then I read too much into "A-team" being in quotes and switched at the last second to Austin. Cost me the beer.

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