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Today's contestants:
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| Patrick Antle (He still looks like he's on cloud 9! And who wouldn't be?) |
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| Michael Gurshtein (Yes, it was "thin films" engineer.) |
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| Rebecca Blustein |
A couple other things about Patrick - Yesterday I thought he looked like Ryan Gosling, but today I think there's someone else. I can't put my finger on it. Ideas? I'm thinking it's a guy who played a villain. Strange stance on this guy, too. I don't think I'd have tried the arms-folded position!
I started strong, sweeping Singers in Song. I didn't realize it was "in" and not "and" til I'd already swept! I look at my Coryat sheet rather than the screen when the categories are revealed! I did notice in the Double Jeopardy round that they misspelled "their" in the category They Go By Thier First Initial. Mr. Trebek had said A Dazzling Internal Organ Solo was "strange," but I think that is! Closed captioning had it right when Michael selected it.
Michael found the Daily Double of the round, before the first break. He had 1600 while Patrick had 2000 and Rebecca, polar opposite of Patrick, had nothing yet. Michael wagered 800 on this clue in Ivy League Schools: "This school plays its home football games at Franklin Field." Like Michael, I said "Yale," in my case because it was like, "Pick an Ivy League school." Incidentally, I see on Twitter that Patrick goes to Tufts.
At the first break, Patrick was hurtin' 'em with 6000 to Rebecca's 600 and Michael's 200.
You're in luck - This is the second consecutive entry where I have a video for you! It's too good to pass up. From Patrick's interview:
I get embarrassed for contestants when they say "What is..." before selecting a category. Patrick did that once today.
Mr. Trebek gave the one-minute warning with 6 clues left in the round. Is it just me, or was Patrick selecting clues slowly after that warning? At the end of the round, Patrick was still killin' 'em with 9400 to Rebecca's 2600 and Michael's 1000.
Michael found the first Daily Double of the Double Jeopardy round, three clues in. He had 1800, Patrick had 9000, and Rebecca still had 2600. Michael was so sweet. He said, "Well, in case I never get the chance, let's go 2000." With an intro like that, I thought he was gonna "make it a true Daily Double." This was the clue, in They Go By Thier (Their?) First Initial: "H is for Henry: billionaire who had a reform party." He and I got it right!
I swept the dumb A "Whey" with Puns before Patrick found the next Daily Double in A Dazzling Internal Organ Solo. Not to be outdone, he said "Just in case I don't get a chance to say this - 5 dollars." This was the clue, read by Jeopardy! regular Dr. Oz: "One reason to always wear your seat belt is for the protection of this organ under the diaphragm, which creates vital antibodies." Patrick doesn't know much about the human body, sorry! "Thyroid"?! I hope no one's seat belt rests there! There was even a diagram with the clue. Anyway, I got this one right. Patrick said, "I can live with it" of losing 5 dollars.
I had also gotten this triple-stumper in the same category: "Our tour now hits the islets of Langerhans, which carry out the endocrine functions of this pear-shaped gland." Patrick negged here with "adrenal gland," but that's less egregious than the Daily Double incident.
This time the "less than a minute" warning came with 7 clues left! And two clues remained covered, in Women Directors. It's too bad, as I'd been 3/3.
How did Michael catch up the way he did? And Rebecca too, for that matter! Michael had 13000, Rebecca had 9800, and Patrick had 13795. ! I don't remember pulling for a contestant, at least recently, like I did for Patrick at this point. The Final Jeopardy category was 20th Century Names. This was the clue: "Chapters in his autobiography include 'Outcaste,' 'First Day in Pretoria,' & 'Fasting as Penance.'" I knew my guess of "Mandela" was wrong when Mr. Trebek said they would accept misspellings as long as there were no extra syllables. Why did he go out of his way to say that, anyway? Rebecca said "Mandela" too, and lost 5000. Michael got it right, and added 12000! Patrick, sadly, said "Desmond Tutu," a name that crossed my mind too, and lost 13000. Bummer. He did seem to have a good time, but that wouldn't console me if I were him. But I don't have a problem with Michael. We'll see him tomorrow, but you won't see me for a while - Except for me posting an article I expect
By the way, I guess the stop-and-go wasn't as bad for my Coryat as I thought - It was 29400!
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Surprised by the spelling mistake (thier), while I love this show, I imagine sitting around the table with a bunch of pedants.
On that Ivy League DD, my train of thought was "Franklin Field - Benjamin Franklin - Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania!"
Can't wait till next week :)
On the Ivy League DD, my train of thought was, "Franklin Field - Benjamin Franklin - Philadelphia - University of Pennsylvania!" :)
I thought about asking someone how they could jump from "Franklin" to "University of Pennsylvania." That must've been it.
Does anyone remember Art Fleming, or is that too many years ago?
And I liked when jeopardy gave dollar amounts won to contestants.
I think they don't do it that way to encourage people to try to win, rather than to keep as much money as possible. And I think plenty of people remember Art Fleming, but I'm not one of them! :-)
Quite as obvious than Season 27, this was nearly quite the same scenario with when we had three different champions each of the same state to have won. First we had David Gard from Jamaica Plain, then Jessamine Price from Greenbelt, and now Patrick Antle from Billerica, all from Massachusetts. (If you're not familiar with the scenario from season 27, here's who they were: Jay Rhee from Annapolis, Adam Marshall from Bethesda, and Jeff Amoros from Ellicott City, all from Maryland.)