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05-18-2016 , 04:57 PM

#7726

RAHZero

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Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 3,706

Tuesday game was complete AIDS. Not sure if there's ever been a worse group of contestants.

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05-18-2016 , 05:00 PM

#7727

shane88888

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You'd think they wouldn't want to embarrass themselves, but these are well-fluffed egomaniacs and, let's face it, it is impossible to embarrass yourself worse than Wolf Blitzer.

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05-18-2016 , 10:58 PM

#7728

DrSayre

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 676

Every time Im always like "Oh cool! ______ will be on Jeopardy!"

Then after one round Ive had enough and ready to go back to regular Jeopardy.

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05-19-2016 , 04:36 AM

#7729

Rmbxr9

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 4,821

So Kate Bolduan is a political journalist, a Washington DC correspondent, etc etc and she didn't know who the current longest tenured SC Justice is?

Not only that, but she guesses Souter. Who retired, oh, 7 years ago. GTFO

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05-19-2016 , 08:24 AM

#7730

EvalEvan

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Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,115

She's not a journalist she's a CNN anchor.

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05-19-2016 , 09:24 PM

#7731

EvalEvan

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Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,115

So second and third place each get a minimum of $10k for their charity but if you finish with more than that, they get your score. Unable to win, Ana Navarro wagers 1200 with 9800, effectively costing her charity $8600. Good job.

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05-21-2016 , 06:24 AM

#7732

Gaddy

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 4,379

Not great, Bob!

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05-21-2016 , 03:53 PM

#7733

danspartan

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Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 3,851

Quote:

Originally Posted by EvalEvan

Thought the same think. Earlier in the week the trailers bet it all (not sure which day).

Al Franken was pretty impressive.

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05-24-2016 , 06:07 PM

#7734

txdome

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I liked the chinese guy's style of ringing in on everything and trying to figure out the answer afterwards. This is kind of what most winners do he just over/under thought stuff. He looked like he was going to commit seppuku after he missed that last dd.

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05-24-2016 , 07:26 PM

#7735

Triumph36

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I'm very tired of buzzy and very tired of the weak sauce competitors to him. Chinese guy had good strategy but poor knowledge.

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05-25-2016 , 07:01 AM

#7736

EvalEvan

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Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 1,115

I like Buzzy. Apart from his name, he is far more normal and less annoying than most contestants.

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05-25-2016 , 07:35 AM

#7737

danspartan

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Just waiting for Suck It Trebek.

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05-25-2016 , 03:47 PM

#7738

Gaddy

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 4,379

Quote:

Originally Posted by danspartan

Just waiting for Suck It Trebek.

Yeah, I'm not into his FJ responses. But I'll get on board if he writes: "Suck on it Trebek. Suck it long, and suck it hard."

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05-26-2016 , 07:30 PM

#7739

Triumph36

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Ugh, of course the best contender to Buzzy since Jeopardy came back to its normal schedule bets horribly on a DD, gets it wrong, and then blows any remaining chance at a tie by claiming that googlplex is where Google is headquartered

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05-26-2016 , 07:52 PM

#7740

JonnyA

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,664

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Originally Posted by Triumph36

Isn't he right though. It's what Google calls its headquarters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex

Edit - they clarified and it was spelled Googolplex in the question, so his answer was wrong.

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05-26-2016 , 08:14 PM

#7741

danspartan

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I'd be pissed on the Googolplex deal. Who the heck knows how either is spelled?

Clearly the writers screwed up and the judges covered their azzes.

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05-26-2016 , 08:16 PM

#7742

Triumph36

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That's clearly not what the answer was going for. If your first response to 'what is a googolplex' is 'google's headquarters' you either work for google or have never heard of the number.

It could be why they don't do that category very often, it leads to that sort of thing. Dan struggled to describe 'the chess strategy' as he called it.

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05-26-2016 , 08:25 PM

#7743

pwnsall

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What was the category and question and answer

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05-26-2016 , 08:36 PM

#7744

Triumph36

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Originally Posted by pwnsall

What was the category and question and answer

The category was 'What is it?'

The answer was 'googolplex'

The incorrect question was 'What is Google's headquarters?'

The correct question was 'What is a number'

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05-26-2016 , 09:07 PM

#7745

pwnsall

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Pretty damn easy final jeopardy if they weren't trying to intentionally trick someone.

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05-26-2016 , 09:11 PM

#7746

Triumph36

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Originally Posted by pwnsall

Pretty damn easy final jeopardy if they weren't trying to intentionally trick someone.

oh no, this was a $200 question and the last one of the game (or 2nd to last?). But because of the scores, the trailing player could've ensured the game was not a runaway had he gotten it right.

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05-26-2016 , 09:55 PM

#7747

housenuts

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Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 49,751

I see that crappy show 500 Questions is back on. That's all. That show is bad but I still want to watch.

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05-26-2016 , 10:13 PM

#7748

thedinergetsby

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I think i'm still a day or two behind on my dvr but dang I was rooting for Ben (I think?) who ran the harry potter category in single jeopardy to take out buzzy, but he missed an easy DD clue in DJ then missed a what I thought was easy tony the tiger final jeopardy. Guess Buzzy gonna keep on winning.

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05-26-2016 , 11:29 PM

#7749

Triumph36

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Originally Posted by housenuts

I see that crappy show 500 Questions is back on. That's all. That show is bad but I still want to watch.

This show is probably the best US trivia show I've seen that isn't Jeopardy. I didn't watch tonight but I intend to catch up on DVR. There's a large amount of questions - always an issue with prime-time trivia - and the idea of battle questions is a great change of pace from conventional trivia formats.

Please keep this thread 500 Questions spoiler-free; I seem to remember there being a thread last year that can be dug up for that show.