Originally Posted by Thor Simpson

You got my revision, right?

Originally Posted by The Bus

Oh, right. Micronesia.

Originally Posted by Red Dog

Believe me - that question is harder for me than the rest of you. I have no clue what you blobs know. I might only match JasonF on this.

I've thrown a number of federal judge names around this forum.

Originally Posted by LurkerDan

I answered with probably the most known federal judge, but that doesn't mean that the blobs know him.

Originally Posted by JasonF

Here's a not-so-hypothetical hypothetical question.

Let's say one of the Sheep questions was "Name a President depicted on Mt. Rushmore." There are four correct answers -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.

Now, let's say somebody sent in "Abraham Jefferson" as their answer.

My first inclination was to count that as wrong (since it's a sheep question, that just means it wouldn't match anything). A little disappointing to those people who answered with Lincoln or Jefferson and would have had one more match, but it is what it is.

However, there have been three people who sent in ambiguous answers. In each case, I have PM'ed the person and said "You need to be more specific in your answer to _____________."

So is it unfair of me to just mark the Abraham Jefferson answer as wrong when I've given people who said ambiguous things a chance to clarify? After all, "Abraham Jefferson" is not wrong in the way that, say "Jimmy Carter" would be. Carter is not on Mount Rushmore. It's a wrong answer. On the other hand, the person who said Abraham Jefferson probably meant either Lincoln or Jefferson, either one of which would be a right answer.

I think the answer is that there's a difference between ambiguous and wrong, so it's not unfair of me to treat the two differently. But I guess you can all take this as an opportunity to double-check the answers you sent me to make sure you don't have your own "Abrahm Jefferson" situation.

Originally Posted by Red Dog

I had 3 considerations - that judge, a judge recently passed over, and the judge I've likely mentioned most in this forum since 2005.

Originally Posted by LurkerDan

I'm late to the game on this one, but IMO even if "Jefferson" would be a right answer and a match for someone who said "Thomas Jefferson", "Abraham Jefferson" is a wrong answer and not a match. I believe that this is how Jeopardy does it, FWIW. If the correct answer (excuse me, correct question) is "Who is Thomas Jefferson", they give credit for "Who is Jefferson" but would give a wrong answer to "Who is Abraham Jefferson". If "Jefferson" is ambiguous in the context of the question (let's say there were two presidents named Jefferson), they would ask for the contestant to be more specific.

Originally Posted by Red Dog

You obviously weren't around in Sports Sheep for the "George Frazier" incident.

Originally Posted by Red Dog

I had 3 considerations - that judge, a judge recently passed over, and the judge I've likely mentioned most in this forum since 2005.

Originally Posted by Pharoh

Though I am not sure if my most known judge is the same as yours

Originally Posted by LurkerDan

I'm late to the game on this one, but IMO even if "Jefferson" would be a right answer and a match for someone who said "Thomas Jefferson", "Abraham Jefferson" is a wrong answer and not a match. I believe that this is how Jeopardy does it, FWIW. If the correct answer (excuse me, correct question) is "Who is Thomas Jefferson", they give credit for "Who is Jefferson" but would give a wrong answer to "Who is Abraham Jefferson". If "Jefferson" is ambiguous in the context of the question (let's say there were two presidents named Jefferson), they would ask for the contestant to be more specific.

Originally Posted by JasonF

Prepare to lose respect for an esteemed contributor to the forum who previously had a reputation for extreme smartitudity.

Originally Posted by JasonF

The judge question is definitely one where I overestimated the forum's knowledge. We did get some funny answers out of it, so all is not lost.

Originally Posted by Red Dog

You probably would have had better luck by asking for law professors. More people have probably heard of Tribe and Epstein than federal judges not on the SCt.

Originally Posted by Venusian

Tribe? Epstein? (vaguely recall that name for an author, maybe it was the same guy)

i think i at least got the right person for judge. seen the name thrown around here a lot

Originally Posted by orangecrush18

If you asked for professors, I would think many people would go with Obama.

Originally Posted by Red Dog

I think if this was sheep for lawyers.

Originally Posted by Red Dog

Yeah, I was thinking active professors, but that would probably be a default answer anyhow.

I would like to see future renditions of sheep require right answers for questions where there are clear right and wrongs.