Jason Snell2d ago

Here's the Incomparable debrief about my Jeopardy experience, recorded just after I got back, with fellow players @glennf and @dmoren

https://www.theincomparable.com/theincomparable/809/

Triple J on 'Jeopardy!' with Jennings (The Incomparable Mothership 809)

Jason was on “Jeopardy!” Now he breaks the experience down with the help of two former “Jeopardy!” champions, Glenn Fleishman and Dan Moren.

The Incomparable
Show threadnot that coachmike

@jsnell @glennf @dmoren Do you get a briefing of the rules? Like how/why/when specificity is needed vs. when it is not?
Like, why is this an acceptable answer when there was no movie released in 1968 that was titled “2001” (there, of course, was “2001: A Space Odyssey”.

From another clue tonight, would "A River Runs" have been acceptable when the title of the movie was “A River Runs Through It”?
(And yes, I'm asking because my wife is tired of my complaining about this. 😃)

Mar 21 at 5:13amMona for Mac
Show threadDan Moren1d ago
@coachmike66 @jsnell @glennf The movie is colloquially known as 2001. If they’d needed more specificity they would have asked. They’re not trying to have gotcha questions or score points for pedantry.
Show threadJason Snell1d ago
@dmoren @coachmike66 @glennf I could also argue the movie is titled 2001 and a space odyssey is a subtitle or ancillary title because of the colon. Either way, it's clear he knows what it is and is not meant to be a gotcha, though I would've said the whole name.
Show threadMike Taffet3h ago
@jsnell @dmoren @coachmike66 @glennf for the same reason that you could likely get away with “The Two Towers”, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, but “The Lord of the Rings” wouldn’t be enough because there’s multiple movies with that in the title.