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Is Jeopardy getting easier or am I getting smarter?

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Seriously... the $1000 question just now, which also happened to be a double jeopardy, was just "the largest city in North Dakota" Now, granted I lived there for a few years so I may have a bit of advantage, but I am sure not many people can name any other town in ND. And the guy almost ran out of time before finally answering "What is Fargo?" and he looked pretty unsure even then.
 
Alexander McKenzie, the Northern Pacific's political agent in northern Dakota, demonstrated the power of outside corporate interests when he conspired with Nehemiah Ordway, the corrupt Republican governor of the Dakota Territory, in 1883 to transfer the territorial capital from Yankton to Bismarck, a town located on the railroad's main line. Hard feelings regarding the relocation motivated residents of southern Dakota Territory to push for the creation of two separate states.

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I just took this off Wiki Answers so I have no idea if it is factually correct.
 
I find it has gotten both easier and harder.

If you are a hardcore watcher, there is always some repetition. They just keep rewording certain foundational questions. Like if there is a category about Books of the Bible, you know there is going to be something about Genesis and Exodus and Job - and two words into the clue, you've got it. You recognize the pattern. So that's easier.

Although I've noticed - at least I think it is true - that they have been making an effort in recent times to do that less. That means getting deeper into some stuff. If it's Shakespeare, you don't just need the same surface knowledge of Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet etc. You need to know some of the lesser characters. You might need to know something about Coriolanus or the Two Gentlemen of Verona.

So that's harder. At least that is my perception.
 
Final Jeopardy was what board game was accused of being "sex in a box" in 1966 when it was released by Milton Bradley. C'mon!!!! What else would it be?


Maybe I'm just getting older and thus have acquired more knowledge.
 
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I find it has gotten both easier and harder.

If you are a hardcore watcher, there is always some repetition. They just keep rewording certain foundational questions. Like if there is a category about Books of the Bible, you know there is going to be something about Genesis and Exodus and Job - and two words into the clue, you've got it. You recognize the pattern. So that's easier.

Although I've noticed - at least I think it is true - that they have been making an effort in recent times to do that less. That means getting deeper into some stuff. If it's Shakespeare, you don't just need the same surface knowledge of Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet etc. You need to know some of the lesser characters. You might need to know something about Coriolanus or the Two Gentlemen of Verona.

So that's harder. At least that is my perception.
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Today I saw questions about lipsticks and board games. I probably don't watch as much as you, but seems like they have dumbed it down with more current TV questions...I see a lot of reality TV questions and stuff that most teenagers would know or be able to guess.

I agree on the repetition. I am not a fan of AT. I find him to be very condescending.
 
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Seriously... the $1000 question just now, which also happened to be a double jeopardy, was just "the largest city in North Dakota" Now, granted I lived there for a few years so I may have a bit of advantage, but I am sure not many people can name any other town in ND. And the guy almost ran out of time before finally answering "What is Fargo?" and he looked pretty unsure even then.
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I believe you are confusing local knowledge with easier here. When I am not Captain Cheeseburger, I am Admiral Jeopardy - I know my Jeopardy - but I don't know if I would have gotten that. At best I would have gotten it with the same uncertainty and body language as the guy.

I would immediately think of Bismarck - then I might think of Fargo but then I would start having doubts that maybe it's in Minnesota or South Dakota. In the movie Fargo there is talk about Babe the Blue Ox. That's Minnesota right? Then I would start thinking like, "What about Butte or Billings? Where are they again? Are they big? No that's Montana, right? Isn't there a Grand Falls, North Dakota?"

:fok:

I would probably end up getting Fargo but people away from North Dakota don't think about North Dakota a whole lot.
 
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