{"id":438,"date":"2008-03-30T18:52:57","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T22:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/438"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:21:57","slug":"bad-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/438","title":{"rendered":"Bad Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just watched the March 20th episode<\/a> of Jeopardy!<\/em> on the DVR. (I’m a little backed up.) I think I may have found an error in one of the clues. <\/p>\n

The category was Battle Cries and the $2000 clue was as follows: <\/p>\n

“Per Shakespeare, the British battle cry in this Oct. 25, 1415 battle was ‘God for Harry! England & Saint George!'” <\/p>\n

The response given was “What is the Battle of Agincourt?” This was accepted as correct. However, I believe this question has no correct answer. <\/p>\n

The Battle of Agincourt is depicted in Shakespeare’s Henry V<\/em>, and the date in the clue is the correct date of the battle. But the quote comes from an earlier scene<\/a> in the play, before Henry’s troops take Harfleur. The more famous St. Crispin’s Day speech is given before the Battle of Agincourt later in the play<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I imagine there is a lot of pressure being a writer for this show. If you’re interested in the topic, Ken Jennings<\/a> just posted to his blog an interview he did with former writer Carlo Panno, which you can read here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just watched the March 20th episode of Jeopardy! on the DVR. (I’m a little backed up.) I think I may have found an error in one of the clues. The category was Battle Cries and the $2000 clue was as follows: “Per Shakespeare, the British battle cry in this Oct. 25, 1415 battle was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,4,61,3,36,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histories","category-history","category-jennings","category-shakespeare","category-television","category-plantagenets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6334,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}