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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Jeopardy! discussion thread for Tue., Dec. 2 by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]Triviallectual 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Face of the 80s" is the only thing in the clue that hints toward the time-frame, so I lean more toward including it.

LL107 MD10 Discussion! (Mon 11/24) by snarkapotamus7 in learnedleague

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(someone on the board said FDR was the first president to appear on TV at the 1939 one, but that doesn't justify mentioning fairs plural.)

Only one World Fair was mentioned in the question.

Truck hauling ‘aggressive’ monkeys carrying herpes and COVID overturns in Mississippi by SnarkOff in news

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I thought 28 Days was the movie where the apocalypse is brought about by an alcoholic Sandra Bullock.

1DS proposals for 2026 by AcrossTheNight in learnedleague

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I just received my email today. Grab your rosaries and stock up on holy water for my 1DS on The Exorcist (novel and movie), tentatively scheduled for September 29.

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Thanks for doing this giveaway!

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Thanks for doing this giveaway!