Alex has mentioned James multiple times in every new episode...
I forget how Jason played before break, but he’s definitely playing more “GTO[Braaah]”

It was gonna take a while for contestants to catch up to the James episodes, I guess that happened?

until people start cramming every DD, they're not actually playing his style.

I know this gets asked a lot but was this the easiest final ever? L-o-****ing-l at the dude that made it on this show that didn’t get this final.

(This was the most recent year where both presidential candidates were residents of the same state.)

I can def see people leveling themselves into the wrong answer just cuz it couldn't possibly be that easy. Assuming it was 2016

Yeah the answer was 2016 and I can agree that in the 30 seconds given someone could think the obvious answer was too easy.

The dude gave an answer of 1996 (which while a presidential year was Clinton v. Dole). Dole was from Kansas and I guess you can say Clinton was from Arkansas. So combining those flyover states is understandable. Not a bad guess if you think 2016 is too obvious.

Can we talk about Tabitha’s cut-up suit jacket cape...
AMAZING!

Distracting. Style I guess, but lost on me. I was more wtf.

Catching up. Did not like the FJ clue from Thursday. If the guy got “and space” he clearly knew the answer and got hung on a badly worded clue.

What we've been discussing here for all these years made 2+2 magazine this month.

https://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/...fficiently.php

Mongolian Opera

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/enter...apy/index.html

Saw that news on Alex. Sometimes your choice is the cancer or the chemo. One of them is going to dramatically lower your lifespan and quality of life. Hopefully a second round gives him a few good years and he’s not in a no win situation.

Lol at this guy in the vest. 3 terrible bets, completely gave the game away

New champion!

Ditto for 3rd place. Sad.

3rd was in perfect position at 2x(1st-2nd) to just stand pat, home for misses and bad wagering from 2nd. All which occurred.

Can’t believe dude didn’t shove the first DD. He was so far behind.

Merry Christmas Jason.

Asian dude does well in a martial arts, but really physics, category.
Comes to him for interview and goes off script, asks if he does martial arts.
Guy is like “Ummmm no”

Jason is very quietly absolutely crushing. No fanfare about him at all but he's gotta be like t5 all-time. Guess after James, this kind of run is very subdued.

He’s not really fun to root for, or fun to root against.
He’s not annoying or goofy, etc

He’s like the Spurs

Game over man...
Jason’s reign ended

On a side note, kind of a bad beat for the middle girl to pick Sears Tower as the “8th wonder that opened in 1973”

Unless that’s common knowledge that it opened in 1973? Wasn’t right, and Sydney Opera House made more sense, but still

I also guessed The Sears Tower, which was completed in 1973. So, to get it right, one would need specific knowledge of the quote.

Wouldn't have helped Jason, who chose a building that opened in 1819.

Yeah final was surprisingly non-contextual based. Normally there is SOMETHING in the clue that can be used to brute force the answer, but unless you knew that specific quote you were pretty screwed.

Part of the skill of Jeopardy is knowing how to parse the category and clue.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD LANDMARKS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
“The Eighth Wonder”, by composer Alan John & librettist Dennis Watkins, is about this building that opened in 1973

Two huge clues here.

1, World Landmarks in Jeopardy terms means outside the U.S. World anything means outside the U.S. Therefore the Sears Tower does not fit the category.

2, A librettist writes the text for a musical work. That word would not be included in the clue if it wasn't important. So the building in question hosts musical performances.

With those two pieces of information, which admittedly the casual watcher is not going to pick up on, the clue becomes much more solvable.

Thank you. I knew part A (answered the CN tower) since the names were English I narrowed it down to either the UK or Canada, Australia totally slipped my mind.

Librettest is not a word I was familiar with, so thanks for the definition. I wont be forgetting it in the future.


Edit: Just looked it up and the CN tower was completed in 76. Knew it was sometime in the 70s but not the exact year.