I made some charts to illustrate how the various Winter Olympic Sports, Locations, and Athletes have been mentioned on Jeopardy! over the years. I excluded the NHL, which I’ll make separate charts about, so hockey teams and players count only if they are mentioned in the context of the Winter Olympics. This leaves Figure Skating as the dominant winter sport that North American audiences pay attention to. I made this in DataWrapper and Affinity Designer with information from J-Archive.
You can see that the events that led to the movies “Miracle”, “Cool Runnings”, and “I, Tonya” show up clearly. Apparently the 1994 Figure Skating final was the most watched sporting event of the 90’s outside of Super Bowls. Let me know if you notice any interesting patterns or something I missed!
Dzingel43 on
Is there a place where we can look up the clues by sport?
tungsten_panda on
Kinda sad to see they didn’t mention Brian Boitano
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I made some charts to illustrate how the various Winter Olympic Sports, Locations, and Athletes have been mentioned on Jeopardy! over the years. I excluded the NHL, which I’ll make separate charts about, so hockey teams and players count only if they are mentioned in the context of the Winter Olympics. This leaves Figure Skating as the dominant winter sport that North American audiences pay attention to. I made this in DataWrapper and Affinity Designer with information from J-Archive.
You can see that the events that led to the movies “Miracle”, “Cool Runnings”, and “I, Tonya” show up clearly. Apparently the 1994 Figure Skating final was the most watched sporting event of the 90’s outside of Super Bowls. Let me know if you notice any interesting patterns or something I missed!
Is there a place where we can look up the clues by sport?
Kinda sad to see they didn’t mention Brian Boitano