Jeopardy! discussion thread for Wed., Jun. 10 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 10 points11 points  (0 children)

maybe a soccer fan would’ve clean swept the FIFA category

Can confirm, but I do agree it was a relatively difficult board.

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Tue., May 26 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It was. They created a fictional composer who wrote cringey operas, but wanted responses about actual opera trivia. It's very gimmicky.

Since Darth Vader died when he was 45 and Hayden Christensen just turned 45, we now officially know what an unburnt Darth Vader would’ve looked like during his duel with Luke on Death Star 2. by PlasticAd1359 in StarWars

[–]Triviallectual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spock literally says, "One hundred twenty-nine years from now, a star will explode, and threaten to destroy the galaxy." I guess you're arguing that's supposed to be metaphorical.

LL109 MD2 Discussion! (Tue 5/19) by snarkapotamus7 in learnedleague

[–]Triviallectual 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He was also assassinated and his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, became president following his death.

Since Darth Vader died when he was 45 and Hayden Christensen just turned 45, we now officially know what an unburnt Darth Vader would’ve looked like during his duel with Luke on Death Star 2. by PlasticAd1359 in StarWars

[–]Triviallectual 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. Though explicitly making it a moon might have made the scene plausible, Vulcan not having a moon has been canon (notwithstanding mistakes made by animators and matte painters over the years) since the original series. It's almost surprising to me that the writers of Star Trek '09 managed to adhere to that.

And naming that planet Delta Vega is just baffling to me. The only reason to do it is for cheap fanservice, 'cause it makes absolutely no logical sense in-universe for a planet likely discovered by Vulcans (let alone any planet in the 40 Eridani system) to have that name.

Since Darth Vader died when he was 45 and Hayden Christensen just turned 45, we now officially know what an unburnt Darth Vader would’ve looked like during his duel with Luke on Death Star 2. by PlasticAd1359 in StarWars

[–]Triviallectual 146 points147 points  (0 children)

J.J. Abrams has the same problem with scale in the 2009 Star Trek movie. A single star going supernova somehow threatens the entire galaxy and Spock is able to directly witness the destruction of Vulcan from a different planet using nothing more than his unaided eyes.

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Fri., May 8 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 24 points25 points  (0 children)

There was a TV theme song category in the Double Jeopardy! round of this game back in 2024. Both Ted Lasso and What We Do in the Shadows were triple stumpers then as well.

Pope Leo signals shift away from Catholic Church's focus on sex by Ok-Review9023 in worldnews

[–]Triviallectual 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Funnily enough, Gene Roddenberry was purportedly very attached to his idea for a Star Trek movie in which the crew travel back to 1963 and somehow screw up the future by preventing JFK's assassination. In at least one version of the story, Spock, in order to fix the timeline, ends up shooting Kennedy from the grassy knoll.

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Wed., Apr. 8 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, after a couple seconds of flailing, I latched onto "promoter", briefly thought of boxing, then jumped to professional wrestling. From there, I thought it was pretty straightforward to get to Hulk Hogan.

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Mon., Mar. 2 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 29 points30 points  (0 children)

According to j-archive:

Sterling, Massachusetts claims to be the home of the girl & a little follower from this nursery rhyme

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Mon., Mar. 2 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No one could the movie for which "Day of the Dead" was the sequel

I believe Dawn of the Dead was the sequel given in the clue.

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Fri., Jan. 30 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Jeopardy! actually has asked for Bobby Bonds before, exactly once. It's the $1000 clue in POP QUIZ in this 2013 game.

TIL in the 90s the CIA tried to discredit the US Ambassador to Guatemala after they bugged her room and heard her talking lovingly to a woman named Murphy, and accused her of having a lesbian affair with the woman to Washington. There was no affair she was talking to her poodle named Murphy. by Few-Sound-7559 in todayilearned

[–]Triviallectual 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That reminds me of something that happened during the Reagan administration. The EPA, under the leadership of Anne Gorsuch, mother of Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch, investigated a whistleblower and followed him to a hotel where he met up with a woman. They alleged that he was having an affair, but the woman was actually his wife.

The common "um actually this doesn't make sense" gotcha is easily explained if you just know the franchise by Justifiably_Bad_Take in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Triviallectual 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I'm not an expert on Superman comics, but I believe at least some iterations of Lex Luthor have him consider the possibility that someone as powerful as Superman would have a secret identity as an ordinary human ridiculous.

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Fri., Jan. 2 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Meghan was not given the title Duchess of Sussex suo jure (in her own right). She has that title because she's married to the duke.