Category: Larissa Kelly and Jeopardy!

Occasional posts regarding Jeopardy!

Amazon Subprime

I was looking for an excuse to complain about something on Amazon, and Jeopardy! has provided it. Here’s another pop culture clue from the 1/1/26 game.

The response was wrong, and so is Alien as it appears on Amazon Prime. I ordered a 4K/Blu-ray copy of the movie at a super discounted price of $12.95. Delivery was estimated to be sometime later this month. Based on past experience with Amazon, that means availability is uncertain.

https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Sigourney-Weaver/dp/B07P83ZXX4/

The movie is available to watch instantly on Amazon Prime, in UHD format, for only five bucks. I had my doubts about this deal as well, so I applied some American Express points to make the out of pocket cost $0.00.

I was right to be doubtful. Not only is the movie in standard definition, or it’s a very poor HD transfer, the aspect ratio is wrong. Being 2.00:1, when it should be in Panavision 2.39:1, the image is stretched vertically. Here’s a sample.

I cancelled the 4K/Blu-ray disc order. Maybe I’ll buy a physical copy later.

From Russia With Love

Last night’s Jeopardy! game had the clue, “It’s the only James Bond film with a country in its title.” The incorrect response by a contestant was, “To Russia With Love.”*

Putin should give up his invasion of Ukraine and declare peace in the name of Messer Chups.

 

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* Harrison Whitaker is one of the stronger J! players to appear on the show. He lost yesterday to someone who seems very unlikely to win a second game. We’ll find out tonight.

Update: Daily Doubles to the rescue, for a second come from behind win.

A Beatles Cellarbration

Yesterday’s Jeopardy! made me wonder how much longer Beatlemania will continue to linger in the public’s collective consciousness. In the Double Jeopardy round, under the category of “In Da Club,” the $1600 answer was, “You went down eighteen stone steps to enter this club, the home of the Beatles, at 10 Mathew Street, in Liverpool.”

Kudos to yesterday’s winner Tom Devlin for his interesting, but incorrect, guess. “What is the Quarrymen’s Club?” With no glimmer of recognition from the other two contestants, host Ken Jennings explained, “They played a lot of early gigs in the Cavern Club.”

The Cavern was demolished only three years after the Beatles broke up, when I was graduating from high school. Today’s Cavern in Liverpool is, like Fort Ticonderoga and the Star Trek Tour, also in Ticonderoga, a recreation.

https://www.cavernclub.com/history/

Beatles bonus: Walter Cronkite remembers the Beatles.