kaufman wrote:
Well, the game would have been pretty darned impossible without the Jeopardy! clues. You'd have something like:
In Tennessee, what aren't you allowed to carry in your pocket?
1) A dog
2) Raisins
3) A gun
4) An ice cream cone
5) A dictionary
An ice-cream cone. I didn't need a built-in hint on that one. The Trendalicious category was "Outragious Laws"; and we all knew it a month in advance. There was no reason for the lollipop questions and the 95 perfect scores; that was just plain ridiculous.
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And this game wasn't all gimmes; there was Q15 to separate the men from the boys, which to paraphrase was:
Which celebrity once served as Mayor of Carmel, California?
Clint Eastwood. Got that one for 1000; maybe not a complete "gimme", but I suspect most decent trivia player would nail that. And I don't recall "mayor" as being part of the wording of that question. But he did cause the repeal of a dumb law that I can't recall just now.
In summary, I thought the subject was interesting, so I apporached the game like I approach a Topix that I consider interesting. I came to the game prepared, and given the questions would have scored 12K or more without the built-in clues. And while the game was interesting, BT's attempt at dumbing down the questions was a disappointment, but life goes on.
A compromise here would have been to have the built-in clues for five of the questions.
-- RWM