Are you saying Alex vetoed your Hispanic friend because of his appearance? It certainly doesn't look like a modeling school on its best days.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Roll back into the kitchen, Diabeeto.

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

Caught up on Thursday and yesterday. That's a man, baby.

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I don't know when or what episode, but I heard they're going to do a game show version of this show with a snarky Canadian host... I also read something weird about how answers have to be phrased as questions. I'm not completely sure about specifics... just saw it on cnn.com a couple days ago.

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here goes nothin'

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I needed 35/50 to qualify and I'm pretty sure I cleared that. These were the questions. Missed Eudora Welty, the river in Venezeula, said Cicero instead of Virgil for the Aeneid. LAST NAME OF THE MAN WHOSE MILL WAS COMPLETED IN THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY ON MARCH 11, 1848, man, I dunno. I said Oppenheimer for "father of the atomic bomb" but that feels rather open-ended.

I know I got Dave Eggers, coffee, Ottawa, R&J, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Emma Lazarus, Gwen Stefani, silver, asparagus, warden, clavicle, Budweiser, VW, House of Cards, the Golden State Warriors, bribing, Gene Hackman, Dolly, Nightengale, a la mode, large hadron collider (sure hope I didn't typo "hadron"), cloak and dagger, Troy, sonnet, mononucleosis, Yellowstone, Cain, Chile. The rest is a blur, I was in and out in like seven or eight minutes.

Chus, you do it or are you going tomorrow?

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Tomorrow

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

I forgot about it, and missed it.

One of today's contestants, Phyllis, was my World History teacher in 9th grade ('89-'90).

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Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

College tournament. The twitching, my god, the twitching. Either the studio is kept at 35 degrees or these kids are pilled to the gills.

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No offense, CH, but I don't understand how anyone can care what the primary crop of Uzbekistan is unless they're on drugs. If you need something to help you out with your audition, PM me.

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I hit peak Jeopardy around 10th grade.

Finding out that the people who make it on Jeopardy actually study/prepare for weeks/months ahead of time was like finding out the Easter Bunny doesn't bite off its own head and Father Christmas doesn't actually abduct and kill Aussie kids for sport.

Various official/unofficial guide books to Jeopardy prep exist. If one's serious about going on Jeopardy. Also, they list the sources for the questions/answers in the show credits.

Recall back before Jeopardy allowed unlimited appearances, some 5 time champ and TofC winner had a web-site where he pimped his book about Jeopardy/Jeopardy prep. I never read any of the books. But this guy said in the intro essay on his web-site that what for him were "tough" categories out of the gate ended up being the easiest to study up on. e.g, opera. He said for categories like opera they ask the same questions about the same few guys just in disguised/altered form, like Mike Leach's offense. So once he had a grip on the opera-verse and some basic facts about each composer in it, he ended up running the category when it came up on the show.


Pop culture topics would be toughest nowadays.. Would have to make TMZ a daily viewing habit in the run up to being on the show.

Someone with a decent grounding in the liberal arts/classics/lit should be able to coach themselves up to make it on the show and at least not embarrass themselves, like this guy did.

This is absolutely true. I'm not a HUGE opera fan, but I'll listen to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoons now and then, and I like what I like. Anything opera on Jeopardy is going to be about Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Mozart, or Wagner -- the same fare the Met airs for free on Saturdays. That's really about it. I think this is true to varying extents along a lot of liberal arts categories. Ultimately, we're still dealing with daytime syndicated television; nothing is regularly going to be so esoteric as to baffle 99% of the audience or else they'd get frustrated and stop watching.


Yeah, there were categories on 2015 music and film yesterday where I was clueless on a few that were probably chipshots for people seven or eight years younger. Got the Katy Perry one, at least.



leashyourhermancain over here. There was a clue about Tamerlane the other day, incidentally.

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People registered for the DC audition are getting their invitations. I'm Detroit. The waiting is the hardest part.

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Good luck. Let's have ourselves a champagne jam if you make it.

What is the connection between Petty & ARS?

No really, ... how'd you get from that to that?

You're a weirdo, mister.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George