Board 8 > Video Games was a category on Jeopardy today (spoilers I guess)

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The questions were

Disney (Infinity)
The Elder Scrolls (Skyrim/Morrowind)
Battle Royale (Fortnite)
Ostrich (Joust)
Destiny

I think in that order.

The contestants saved it for last and only got $200 correct. One of them kept guessing and getting it wrong.

I don't think I've ever seen an episode of Jeopardy where the contestants want to choose that category.
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Not too surprising, the category is rarely used and there's little cross-over with other categories so contestants are less likely to study it.
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charmander6000 posted...

Not too surprising, the category is rarely used and there's little cross-over with other categories so contestants are less likely to study it.

And it's just a niche interest in general

Is it really more niche than, say, Art History?
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Jakyl25 posted...

Is it really more niche than, say, Art History?

Having heard of Destiny is sort of a matter of being interested in video games or not, I can't really imagine a random person being familiar with the game but not having interest in games

Jakyl25 posted...

Is it really more niche than, say, Art History?

I mean Im sure most casual people know the more famous paintings and painters
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Im willing to bet the average person can name more video games than they can paintings
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Jeopardy contestants are a league above us on the nerd scale.

That's sad
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Not fully updated yet, but if you want to eventually guess for yourself:

http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6112
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I wouldn't have gotten the last three. I didn't know "battle royale" was the name of a genre, I'm not familiar at all with Joust, and I know of Destiny, but I don't know any details about the story or who the developer is.
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Why is venerable in quotes?
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Because it's hinting at "Elder" in the name, not the fact that the series is old
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Ironically the $200 is the one I'd have been most likely to get wrong.

turbopuns2 posted...

Ironically the $200 is the one I'd have been most likely to get wrong.

yeah i 100% knew the middle 3 and i suspect i would have figured out the $200 and $1000 ones but not positive.
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Yeah I haven't played Destiny 2 but I played Destiny 1 and I would have put it together just from "second iteration of this bungie game"

jcgamer107 posted...

turbopuns2 posted...

Ironically the $200 is the one I'd have been most likely to get wrong.

yeah i 100% knew the middle 3 and i suspect i would have figured out the $200 and $1000 ones but not positive.

Basically this. I was able to come up with the $1000 after a couple seconds specifically because it mentioned Bungie, but I do strongly doubt I would've been able to do it under pressure.

I could see a lot of people missing the Joust one if they've just never looked at arcade games before though.

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anytime the audience starts laughing its great
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^I almost brought that up, that's even worse. The last one I didn't know but the first four are cake.
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Man, that is a really horrible set of video game questions - the average game player probably wouldn't even get the last three. TES is not well-known to general audiences and is easily 1000 dollar level at best, "Battle Royale" as a genre has not been accepted as common parlance yet, knowing that you ride ostriches in Joust is a fairly deep-level trivia question that I doubt most people would just know off the top of their heads and you either just know or don't (do people even really remember Joust?), and the Destiny question simply doesn't have enough clues even if you HAVE heard of the game, which again, general audiences probably haven't. You'd pretty much have to have played it or know it's a Bungie game; the awkward "make your future" at the beginning is not sufficient to point to the word "destiny."

Would rewrite the clues as such:

"The Elder Scrolls series features games with subtitles such as Morrowind, Oblivion, and this "stratospheric" hit, released in 2011"

"One of the hottest new games of 2018 is this: Battle Royale, in which the last player standing is the winner. Don't spend two weeks coming up with the answer"

"In this classic 1982 arcade game, play as a medieval knight dueling not on horseback, but on the back of an ostrich - what else?"

This is a lot more doable. I don't know what the fuck I would do with the Destiny clue

No one really remembers Joust?
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$400 is the only one I would have gotten right I think. Buzzing in without thinking I definitely would have guessed Pixar for $200. The others I had no idea.

Grand Kirby posted...

No one really remembers Joust?

Like, remember to the point that you can easily recall facts about it, yeah

Para you should apply to be a Jeopardy clue editor
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got all 5 pretty easily
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The Destiny clue was a picture. That might have helped some people who recognized that
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I thought they were fine. They just happened to have a group of players that knew dick about video games.
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