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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 12:02 AM, December 19, 2012
Kathie had this to say...
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At 12:03 PM, December 20, 2012
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At 10:13 PM, December 17, 2013
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist (LOL!), it seems that they're more lenient on players who are behind near the end of Double Jeopardy -- perhaps in hopes of avoiding a match where the leader can't be caught in Final Jeopardy?
I would have given it to him, too. In the clue, "referred to ankle socks" is using "referred to" in the sense of "alluded to," but if you read it in the sense of "meant," then you're looking for the word for the socks, not for the girl. This forces you to construe "for a teenage girl of the 1950s" as a parenthetical, even though it's not set off by commas, but I don't think the answer should stand or fall on a point of punctuation.
To the poster who talked of leniency to players who are behind late in Double Jeopardy: this was fairly early in regular, not double, jeopardy.
And I agree completely that they should not have given that to him. The wife and I assumed they'd issue a correction after the commercial break.
"Bobby sox" was never a term for a teenage girl, and they should not have accepted this answer.
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