New Jeopardy host preference? / Jeopardy updates

The NY Post agrees with you.

And while I have questioned some of the recent judging, they were correct in this ruling.

The correct response what neither Bridalveil Fall nor Bridal Veil Falls; it was “What is a Bridal Veil?”

According to the rules, if extra info is provided, the extra info must be correct; it wasn’t. Bridalveil Fall is in Yosemite; Bridal Veil Falls is a disambiguation that can refer to a number of waterfalls, but none in Yosemite.

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For those who enjoyed/knew Drew from Survivor, here’s a really interesting podcast where he details his experience - I learned a lot about him, the process, his strategy, etc.

Dude is a very confident, smart guy.

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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game with so many scoring corrections

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I agree. Crazy set of scoring corrections.

On Wheel of Fortune today, one of the puzzles was “Visited a library”. The contestant was given credit for saying “Visited a lie-berry”.

My first thought was ‘would Jeopardy have accepted that answer?’. They accept misspellings in FJ, but do reject answers when syllables are added, dropped, or modified.

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And tonight on Jeopardy, at least 3 clues that were stumpers when I knew the answers. I’m not that smart so these young kids need to get on the ball (of course I knew ‘charbroiled’)

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They accept regional pronunciations, so yes.

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As a Bostonian I would likely say “lie-bree”,

So my pet peeve, those who say “nucular” for “nuclear” would be accepted, I guess. Or : ponsetta fir poinsettia.

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To be fair, I’ve never heard anyone in the US say poinsettia with 4 syllables, so I can’t see them ruling 3 syllables as incorrect

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In MA i hear it with 4 or 5 syllables all the time: po-in-set-ti-a.

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I’ve never heard it pronounced that way, in Maine or Texas.

Midwesterner here. I say it poin-set-ti-a

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Did the current, 5-day champ win today, Thursday? We had Jeopardy pre-empted by the press conference.

Spoilers below

Summary

Yes. He couldn’t be caught going into FJ

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Thank you!

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My stamps arrived yesterday (I pre-ordered).

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Pretty cool that the wife of the current champ wrote “Lessons in Chemistry!” :slight_smile: This guy seems pretty sharp.

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Yes! I commented on another forum, no wonder he can make the big bets. They’ve got the Lessons in Chemistry bucks!
And, he’s an astrophysicist who discovered a black hole!

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And he looks like Clint Eastwood

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