Larissa Kelly and Jeopardy! – Page 2 – Prattling Before the Pratfall

Drawing a Blank

As Ben Grimm would say, whatta revoltin’ development this is! Back on New Year’s Day, none of the Jeopardy! contestants knew the solution to this clue.

It Doesn’t Matter Much to Me

I’m a day late with this clip from Monday’s Jeopardy! That’s okay, because the clue is also late. It would have been more poignantly timed on December 8.

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.

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.