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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I think part of the problem would be a Jeopardy contestant DOES know all the countries. There's one from a list of 195-200ish.
I did the same thing as you, I started ok, China, India, Indonesia, USA... then my mind went to countries around India. I thought "Bangladesh" and then questioned myself on whether it was 10 of the most populous countries before thinking "wait... it says there's only one that ends in H".
If Amy got hung up trying to guess the 10 most populous countries rather than a country that ends in "H" I could see how she'd be stumped.
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I tried playing along, and I didn't get it either. I got bogged down thinking of all the countries in the world and mentally searching for that one country that ends in 'h' rather than more strategically thinking of the most populous countries first, or something else to narrow it down, and by the time the 30 seconds were up Bangladesh still hadn't even occurred to me.
Sometimes, as others have commented, you just run into a mental 'block' and make a dumb mistake. That's always how Amy Schneider's run was going to end unless someone James-Holzhauer-esque happened to take her out: a dumb mistake on a Final Jeopardy clue.
I still remember when Jennings's streak ended: it was a question about a big company whose employees only worked a few months of the year. He guessed FedEx, which I immediately reacted to thinking "
FedEx? What the hell kind of dumb guess is that? It's obviously something seasonal, like tax season; it's probably H&R Block!" And I was right. It seemed so obvious to me that it was hard to believe it wasn't obvious to him. Part of me thought he deliberately whiffed on it, that maybe he was getting sick of appearing on the show.