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Today's players, challenging Richard Block, are John Baker and Scotti Whitmire.
J! round categories: THE GILDED AGE, "MIS"QUOTES", FAST CARS, CITY BY POPULATION, TV SHOW HAIKU, SHEEP (what appears to be a video category)
I was pretty happy with the pace of the opening part of the game, though the contestants did hop around the board a bit. All categories got seen once, though Richard had the best start, holding a lead with $4,000 (John had $1,200 and Scotti $600) at the opening break.
I was a little annoyed at SHEEP $400: A human & dogs gathering a group of sheep together are said to be doing this, also a verb used for gathering military personnel together for duty -- considering I negged the same way as Richard with what seemed to be the answer until "military" was spoken - clues that are read definitely need to be more straightforward!
John finally got to the Daily Double on the 28th clue of the opening round. The scores had him at $4,800, Richard with $3,600 and Scotti $2,800. He bet $1800 and the clue was as follows: Gilded Age advocates of the theory called "social" this -ism applauded the "survival of the fittest". His correct response put him at $6,600.
The score after the J! round:
John $6,600
Richard $3,600
Scotti $2,800
DJ! round categories: THE GILDED AGED, SINGERS PORTRAYED ON FILM, DISCOVERING JAPAN, WHERE'D YA GET THAT TITLE?", RHYME CLUB, LANGUAGE LAB
Makes sense as to why Alex used Richard's interview story about being lost in Japan now!
Scotti found the DJ! round's first Daily Double, at the bottom of WHERE'D YA GET THAT TITLE?; she had $4,400, John $7,400, and Richard $2,000. At this point I would probably have gritted my teeth and bet $3,000 myself; Scotti bet $2,000 (which I'm quite okay with as well). She saw the following clue: Lorraine Hansberry's title "A Raisin In The Sun" comes from a line in the poem "Harlem" by this man. Her incorrect response put her down to $2,400.
Richard got to the game's final Daily Double, on the 13th clue in a low-scoring game. He had $2,800, Scotty $3,600, John $4,600. His wager was a fearful $1,200, and he saw the following clue: Though he didn't make it all the way to "Cipango", he reported it had "gold in the greatest abundance". Richard failed to give an answer, and that dropped him to $1,600. No worries, though, as Richard started rebuilding his score by going after a great number of high-valued clues.
The audience, and Alex, got a kick out of Richard's response on THE GILDED AGED $2000: Forbes ranks this "skinny" 72-year-old Mexican telecom king as the world's richest person.
I'm still trying to figure out how we only got through 23 clues in the DJ! round; probably a function of all of the early negs and Triple Stumpers, but a $2,000 get on the final clue of the round brought Richard into the lead. The scores going into FJ!:
Richard $7,600
John $5,800
Scotti $4,800
FJ category: AIRLINE HISTORY
FJ clue: Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991
Scotti: 4800 -2801 = 1999
John 5800 + 5500 = 11300
Richard 7600 - 4001 = 3599
That means we'll be saying goodbye to Richard, John Baker is the new Jeopardy! champion. He'll close out the week tomorrow.
My Coryat: $23,800; 32 right, the one neg in the SHEEP category.
7 comments:
Random thoughts...
I was surprised they took Carlos Slim instead of Carlos Slim Helu. Thought that was like accepting William Henry instead of Bill (H.) Gates. Maybe Mexican names work differently...
I was surprised everyone didn't get Pan Am. They seemed old enough...
My Coryats have been really low the last couple days. I blame it on the uncovered $2000 clues, not that I suck or anything...
I believe I recognize John Baker from my audition in Kansas City.
My Coryat was 16400 with 25 right.
I wasn't too thrilled with this one - I got tempted into guessing a couple too many times.
Anyhow, my Coryat was 24800 - 32 right, 4 wrong.
As for the final, I just need to stop overthinking. My first guess was Pan Am, and then I realized I had no idea when they'd actually stopped service, and maybe it was earlier, and blah blah blah.
And as for winning ugly, well, I mentioned that in one of my posts about Joel's games as well - everyone would love to always win beautifully, but in the end, it's the winning that's more important.
Clinton, actually, Spanish naming customs are different. "Slim" is not the equivalent of a middle name. Take Fidel Castro Ruz, for instance. I don't think he's ever referred to as "Fidel Ruz."
Also, what's up with the Johnny Depp question in the poll? That's not one of the actual questions from the show.
My Coryats
19,200 5/30
20,200 5/31
30,400 6/1 (woohoo!)
I don't know how many I get right/wrong because I use the app that you put me on to & it doesn't keep track of that
http://www.thejeopardyfan.com/2011/10/contestants-liz-greenwood-lanny-timan.html
The good news is I've finally got on a FJ! roll getting every one right all the way back to 5/23 where I answered caiman instead of Tasmanian Devil (was I the only one thinking Cayman Islands?)
PS: Nice poll :)
Enos, every day Jeopardy! tweets a clue from a category that will come up on that day's show. I chose one of those because I found it so surprising, and I wondered how many people knew it! The answer is "What is Platoon?"
Clinton, about that link: wow! :-) I use this scoresheet designed by Josh Horstmann. I never used to keep track of how many I got right and wrong, but since the Tournament of Champions last year I share my results every day with a friend on Twitter. He doesn't do Coryat, so I just do it his way.
I'm glad you like the poll. Thanks. The finals kicked my butt this week. I only got Monday's. :-P I was thinking "Galapagos" for the Tazmanian devil clue. Another :-P
Thanks for the clarification. I did know it was Platoon, by the way.