This is Jeopardy!

scotchandcigar said:
The first Celebrity Jeopardy is over. It was an hour long, and they had a triple Jeopardy round. But the biggest surprise was final Jeopardy. The smallest landlocked country is Vatican City? I didn't think that was considered a country.
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I knew it was a country but I am not sure I would have guessed that. I probably would have said Luxemburgh.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I knew it was a country but I am not sure I would have guessed that. I probably would have said Luxemburgh.
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Andy Richter (who narrowly lost) guessed Lichtenstein. I guessed Andorra.

I don't know how "Vatican City" can be a country. I guess it's not a principality like Monaco or San Marino, because it's independent from any other country.

So I just looked it up. All of the places I listed are countries. And Vatican City is smallest, with Monaco next (but it's coastal), then San Marino. Lichtenstein is next, then Andorra. Luxembourg is larger than all of them.
 
scotchandcigar said:
Andy Richter (who narrowly lost) guessed Lichtenstein. I guessed Andorra.

I don't know how "Vatican City" can be a country. I guess it's not a principality like Monaco or San Marino, because it's independent from any other country.

So I just looked it up. All of the places I listed are countries. And Vatican City is smallest, with Monaco next (but it's coastal), then San Marino. Lichtenstein is next, then Andorra. Luxembourg is larger than all of them.
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Do they allow the use of google during final jeopardy? Without google, Luxembourg is the only landlocked little country that I could think of. But then again, you don't see me on Jeopardy. And on top of that, I am not a celebrity either.
 
Vatican City is a city-state, which Encyclopaedia Brittanica defines as "a political system consisting of an independent city having sovereignty over contiguous territory and serving as a centre and leader of political, economic and cultural life." The World Atlas site says "a city-state, or a sovereign state, is essentially an entire country that is held within the confines of just one city."

"Essentially." Yeah. I don't consider Vatican City to be a real country any more than I considered Krustonia to be a real country.

Krustonia (location)

Krustonia is a country that Krusty created in order to skip paying his taxes.
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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Do they allow the use of google during final jeopardy? Without google, Luxembourg is the only landlocked little country that I could think of.
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I used google to respond to your comment, because I was sure there was a difference between these little principalities and actual small countries. But there isn't.
 
So here's where it gets gray. These are the definitions of some of the smallest countries.

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European microstate. Smallest country in the world.
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European microstate. Smallest country with a coastline. Smallest United Nations member state and the smallest country that is not a landlocked country.
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European microstate.
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European microstate.
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European microstate.
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The smallest country that is not a European microstate or island country.

So there is indeed a difference between Luxembourg and these others. BTW, the number on the left is ranking by size.
 
Also, there's a bunch of "island nations" like Barbados and Antigua and Bahrain which are all smaller than Luxembourg. The island nations are clearly territories of other countries, so I personally wouldn't count those either, but they are listed as countries.
 
scotchandcigar said:
Also, there's a bunch of "island nations" like Barbados and Antigua and Bahrain which are all smaller than Luxembourg. The island nations are clearly territories of other countries, so I personally wouldn't count those either, but they are listed as countries.
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Barbados & Antigua are both independent countries. Antigua & Baruba are 2 independent countries operating as one (the locals tried to explain their government to us last winter without much success). Neither are territories of other nations. They used to be British and I think are still commonwealth nations although Barbados recently became a republic -- no longer under Queen.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Barbados & Antigua are both independent countries. Antigua & Baruba are 2 independent countries operating as one (the locals tried to explain their government to us last winter without much success). Neither are territories of other nations. They used to be British and I think are still commonwealth nations although Barbados recently became a republic -- no longer under Queen.
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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
no longer under Queen
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Independent since 1991

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IdRatherBeSkiing said:
Barbados & Antigua are both independent countries. Antigua & Baruba are 2 independent countries operating as one (the locals tried to explain their government to us last winter without much success). Neither are territories of other nations. They used to be British and I think are still commonwealth nations although Barbados recently became a republic -- no longer under Queen.
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And now the queen is under THEM!
 
Haha! The Jeopardy champ just saw a picture of Beck, and thought it was Ed Sheeran. What's even stupider, the category is one-name artists.
 
Aaron said:
Chris is winning big money every day.

I heard Ken say next week would start a second chance tournament or something with returning runners-up.
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I haven't seen it lately. We were out at the play last night, and the night before, my YouTube TV was majorly fukked-up. It said Jeopardy was on, but it was the ABC News Live streaming channel. It went on for the entire half-hour. But then when Bachelor in Paradise came on, that worked fine.
 
Sunday night's Celebrity Jeopardy semi-finals (or whatever) was pretty good. Ike Barenholtz is a pretty smart guy, and the other 2 did a good job. The peanut gallery banter was still there, but manageable. On some of the prior airings, it was chaotic.

And on regular Jeopardy, they started the 2 week second chance tournament, with 3 good contestants who each got stuck losing to one of the monster players.
 
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