Jeopardy! Thread (No spoilers until after the show EST)

[Danspartan]

Stanford crossed my mind but Utah settled me at BY. Like how the first answer was B Young trying to avoid spelling error.

[MattyLice]

LOLOLOLOL. That Final Jeopardy was a GOAT answer/question. I wish they did that more often. Serves the smug that think they know the answer without actually knowing the answer right.

[Melkerson]

What was the question?

[Fatboy8]

One of the luminaries who drove in the “Golden Spike” in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university

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[MattyLice]

Category is AMERICAN NAMES

Question is: One of the luminaries who drove in the “Golden Spike” in Utah in 1869 was this man who later founded a university.

Everyone picks Brigham Young. The answer was Leland Stanford.

[Melkerson]

It certainly screams Brigham Young. It also screams too easy (especially since they give you Utah in the question). I’d have gone with Young too, but not felt great about it.

[MattyLice]

The best part was a guy wrote B Young because he couldn’t spell Brigham. Even if he was right, Jeopardy would have dinged him for that.

[Chuckleslovakian]

I mean sometimes Final Jeopardy is easy if you piece together the hints. But everything about how they worded it suggested BYU.

Would have been at least sporting if they had dropped prestigious before university. I don’t say that as a slight against BYU

[pvn]

pretty sure without looking it up that Young wasn’t a railroad tycoon so him driving the golden spike seems unlikely

[pvn]

@MattyLice

The best part was a guy wrote B Young because he couldn’t spell Brigham. Even if he was right, Jeopardy would have dinged him for that.

wat? last name is enough

[DrChesspain]

I assumed it would be a train magnate, so I guessed Vanderbilt.

[Melkerson]

@Chuckleslovakian

I mean sometimes Final Jeopardy is easy if you piece together the hints. But everything about how they worded it suggested BYU.

This is true, but unless it’s Celebrity Jeopardy, they’re never giving you Utah in the clue for Brigham Young on a final Jeopardy. That’s just too much of a hint.

[Melkerson]

Maybe not a “railrood tycoon” per se, but he was into railroads:

Young engaged in a vast assortment of commercial ventures by himself and in partnership with others. These included a wagon express company, a ferryboat company, a railroad and the manufacturing of processed lumber, wool, sugar beets, iron, and liquor.

Also there’s this:

Young was also one of the first to subscribe to Union Pacific stock, for the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

And while he may not have been tycoon-level rich, he was doing pretty well:

At the time of his death, Young was the wealthiest man in Utah

Of course, being the wealthiest man in Utah wasn’t that impressive. He had the equivalent of only about 15 million today.

All of above from his wikipedia article.

Surely, none of them knew all of these things, but if one did, it’s pretty hard not to put Young.

[TrueNorth32]

This could be interesting.

Jeopardy! to Continue Its Jock Streak With Guest Host Joe Buck

[CanadaMatt3004]

Interesting in a “How quickly can we make the audience change the channel?” Type of way?

[superuberbob]

Oh Christ. The only guy who could make this play boring

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I guess if seniors want to get to sleep extra early, Buck might be a good host. It’d be another example of good ol’ boys failing up in life at the top.

[pvn]

This is a really unfunny joke, right?

Right?

[Melkerson]

After Dr. Oz, is this really that surprising?

[eyebooger]

FFS, who is next, Mitch McConnell?

[dlk9s]

Eh, I think Joe Buck will probably be pretty good.