Today's Jeopardy! (Non-Spoiler)

[Joe Hass]

Today's episode not only featured an on-air disclaimer regarding a clue, but the fine folks in the social media department just posted the same disclaimer on Twitter and Facebook.

[Brad Beam]

From: tvor...@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvor...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Hass

>Today's episode not only featured an on-air disclaimer regarding a clue, but the fine folks in the social media department just posted the same disclaimer on Twitter and Facebook.

 

Said topic was also the FJ! answer on the recent college tournament – QF8 (2/11), per J-Archive.com – but naught was mentioned.

[PGage]

They seem to be getting more heat for a clue they did not explain regarding Sam Smith.

On Fri, 4 Mar 2022 at 2:18 PM Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Today's episode not only featured an on-air disclaimer regarding a clue, but the fine folks in the social media department just posted the same disclaimer on Twitter and Facebook.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

The show has aired everywhere, so I'll take "non-spoiler" out of the subject line and explain both of the below cryptic comments:

In the first round, in a category called Sams Club, the $800 clue was a photo, and the text Ken read was, "In 2015, he took home four Grammys, including one for the song 'Stay with Me.'" Sam Smith uses they/them pronouns -- I suspect the fact-checkers on the "Jeopardy!" staff will henceforth be instructed to double-check personal pronouns used in clues.

In the Double Jeopardy! round, the $800 clue in the category Bordering Russia was, "The Kerch strait -- along with serious border issues -- separates Russia from this country on the Black Sea." As the clue was on-screen, they put up a graphic in the top left corner that read, "Recorded on January 11, 2022."

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[David Bruggeman]

Smith noted their preferred usage back in 2019, so this isn't a recent development, and arguably a black eye for the research staff.  I'm a little surprised it hasn't come up before, as stated pronoun preferences are becoming more common.

David

[PGage]

I hope folks don’t get too fired up over the Smith thing. Only assholes intentionally misgender people, but occasional unintentional mistakes are inevitable. Hopefully the J people issue an apology and intention to do better and we move on.

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[David Bruggeman]

Yeah, I doubt there's any malice here.  I just think it's something they should have been able to address beforehand given how long this specific instance been public knowledge and how long expressing pronoun preference has been a thing.

David