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Yesterday I mentioned it had been kind of a hard week. Today I was up at 2:30 a.m., took a nap at 1 p.m., and slept til 8:30 p.m. I could've slept longer, I think, but I got up when I realized I did not have to stand up anymore while playing Jeopardy! And here I am.
Today's contestants:
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| Brendan Graham |
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| Bruce Vale |
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| Emily Kelly |
Mr. Trebek said he is often asked what he and the contestants talk about after each episode. I'm being asked that more and more, myself! Apparently peops think Brendan doesn't smile much. I didn't notice. Anyway it's nowhere near as bad as this guy who had every reason to smile.
I was surprised there were clues two days in a row that had something to do with a trip I took to Europe last summer. This time it was in Visiting the City: " Take the 'Sound of Music' tour or visit the Hagenauer House, once home to the Mozart family." My family and I didn't take the tour, as we thought we could cover more ground in less time and for less money! We did visit Mozart's home, but I didn't know that was the name! I hope you don't mind a few more pictures. By the way, these were taken by my dad and little sister:
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| View on the way to the abbey featured in The Sound of Music |
The last clue before the first break was a triple-stumper I picked up, in Lesser-Known Scientists: "Joseph Lagrange insisted on 10 as the basic unit when standardizing French weights and measures, creating this system. I wound up sweeping the category.
Emily rang in first plenty, but she had plenty of negs. I had my share, too, including two in the 200 row! At least I didn't ring in with no hope of coming up with the correct response.
The Daily Double was the last clue in the round. Emily found it in Pants. She had 1400, Brendan had 1000, and Bruce had 5200. Emily wagered it all, which I'd have done too. This was the clue: "Tight-fitting pants patterned after those worn by bullfighters aren't usually called matador pants, but these." Believe it or not I saw a bullfight in Madrid on that same trip last summer. I was very happy to get this clue right, but it had nothing to do with me having been to a bullfight! Emily got this one wrong.
Emily found the first Daily Double sort of late in the round, when there were only clues from two categories remaining. She had 6400, Bruce had 6800, and Brendan had 11800. She wagered 5400 on this clue in 1940s American Lit: " This 1946 novel about a southern politician takes its title from the 'Humpty Dumpty' nursery rhyme." She and I got it right.
Now, I don't know what Emily was thinking. The other Daily Double was obviously going to be in the other category left, but she continued in the same one, seemingly oblivious. By chance, she did get the other Daily Double, the last clue in the round. She had 14600, Brendan had 11800, and Bruce had 8400. Emily wagered a weird 2799, I guess to be one dollar ahead of Brendan had she missed. And that's what happened. The category was First in War, and this was the clue: "The 1940 invasion of Norway saw the first combat use of these troops, the German Fallschirmjager." Still another reference to Europe, and again my being there didn't contribute to me getting this right, which I proudly did. (I got all three Daily Doubles right today!)
The Final Jeopardy category was Word and Phrase Origins. This was the clue: "After living in Honduras, O. Henry coined this term for a small country dependent on a single export." Would you believe I made it to "banana" but still couldn't come up with the correct response? Emily and Bruce missed it, too. Bruce lost 3402 of his 8400. Emily lost 11000 of her 11801. Brendan added 8401 to his 11800, making him a two-time champ.
Tonight, I'm gonna at least start There Will Be Blood. I notice it's 3 1/2 hours long! Probably plenty of commercials.
My Coryat today was 23200. A couple of recent Coryats:
originally 10-5-05: 25000
originally 10-6-05: 13800
I think I'm gonna break a record today for number of pictures in a post! (Of this blog, anyway.) First, here are recent Coryats:
1-19-12: 14800
1-20-12: 22600
1-23-12: 24600
1-24-12: 25800
1-25-12: 25600
originally 12-23-05: 18200
originally 12-26-05: 18600
originally 12-27-05: 30800 (Where did that come from?)
Believe it or not, I actually blogged about some of these reruns back when this blog was brand-new. I've included links to those posts.
originally 9-28-05: 10600
originally 9-29-05 (I can't resist: That's my birthday!): 17000 (See my original post on this episode here.)
originally 9-30-05: 18200 (Original post here.)
originally 10-3-05: 20400 (Original post here.)
Today's contestants:
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Brendan Graham
(His intro was so long I thought that might cut the round short!) |
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| Taylor Cope |
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Rhonda Hammons
(A former video store owner. It makes me wonder what she does now!) |
I like Taylor's hair and also his name. His hair looks thick. I got my hair done today myself, and it was such a treat after a hard week:
I told my hair person about my upcoming appearance on Jeopardy! and also about my blog, so maybe she'll see this! She did my hair just before I left to tape the show, and she didn't know that today. In fact that was the first time I went to her. Today was my smokin'-est day in quite a while. I didn't miss any until...wait for it...the 22nd clue. This is the first clue I didn't get right, in USS Iwo Jima: "The Iwo Jima's motto, 'Uncommon Valor,' comes from this commander of the Pacific fleet in World War II, who said, 'For those who fought in Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue."
There were some questionable calls I'll throw out there to see if you object to my counting them!: - In Famous Firsts: "Frank McNamara created this first multipurpose charge card in 1950 after finding his wallet missing at a restaurant." (I said "Diners Card" while they accepted "Diners Club" from Rhonda.)
- Also in Famous Firsts: "On July 28, 1933 Western Union operator Lucille Lipps delivered the first one of these to Rudy Vallee on his birthday." (I said "telegram," which I doubt would've been accepted but I'd have added "singing" if prompted.)
- In Retronyms: "It's what the white rabbit consulted when Alice heard him remark that he would be late." (I said "watch" while they accepted "pocket watch" from Brendan.)
- In Sounds Like a Language: "I'm fluent in this, the type of Islamic worshippers seen here in the specific garb of his order." (I said "dervish," and they accepted "whirling dervish."
If all the iffy stuff is counted right, I swept Famous Firsts, Appliances, Sports by Movie, and Sounds Like a Language.
Rhonda found the Daily Double in the Jeopardy round, just the second clue. ("Way too early," as Mr. Trebek said. I don't know about you but I get sick of him saying that!) The category was Famous Firsts. Rhonda wagered 1000 on this clue: "In March 1841 the U.S. Senate experienced its first continuous one of these; it lasted 6 days." She got it right.
I was sweeping Appliances and didn't want a break, but it came. Taylor had 2400, Rhonda had 4600, and a very nervous-looking Brendan had 1200. (By the way, I looked for Brendan on Twitter and apparently he graduated from high school the same year I did. He looks older than me for sure, sorry!) At the end of the round, Taylor had 5600, Rhonda had 6200, and Brendan had 3800.
Now for Double Jeopardy. I was excited because there was a category about Bavaria, which I saw up close and personal this past summer. I'm not generally one to appreciate Mother Nature, but the beauty in Europe will just bring you to your knees. There's too much to include here, unless you tell me you want to see more.
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| Oktoberfest |
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| I insisted my Dad take a bunch of pictures here, and now I'm very glad I did! |
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| This is the BMW headquarters. I desperately wanted this picture because this place is so cool: There is a brand new car in every single window from the bottom of the building to the top. You can't tell in this picture, though. We were driving by and it was our only chance! |
The contestants went to Bavaria first! I was mad when I had this one right in my head but changed my mind: "In the 1870s this composer built a theater, Festspielhaus, in Bayreuth to perform his operas." That's the only one I missed in the category, luckily. The last clue in the category was the Daily Double. Brendan found it. He had 7400, Taylor had 6000, and Rhonda had 6200. Brendan wagered 2600 on this clue: "Every 10 years the villagers of Oberammergau stage about 100 performances of this type of Easter drama." He got it right.
I got these triple-stumpers in Double Jeopardy:
- In Sounds Like a Language: "I get by in this, a verb meaning to reduce someone to a state of dire want."
- In Authors' Rhyme Time: "Ian's migratory rodents."
- In A Real Rhodes Scholar: "This cable TV newswoman received a doctorate in politics from Oxford."
Brendan found the next Daily Double after skipping down to the 2000 clue in A Real Rhodes Scholar. He had 12400, Taylor had 11600, and Rhonda had 5800. Brendan made "the same wager" (which really wasn't), 2400, on this clue: " This Arkansas senator for whom an international scholarship is named was a Rhodes scholar." He got it right. At the end of the round, he had 14800, Taylor had 11600, and Rhonda had 5800. The Final Jeopardy category was Health Matters, which I don't think really fits this clue: " This term for sudden severe head pain that typically lasts only a few minutes was trademarked by 7-Eleven in 1994." This was super-easy, and all three contestants got it right, too. Rhonda added 2800. Taylor added 8401, and Brendan added 11601, making him the new champ. See him tomorrow!
I'm still visiting my friend in the hospital. She'll probably get out tomorrow but I have to go home tonight anyway. I bring this up because I didn't have the benefit of pausing the show or even watching it over again to take better notes. And I'm not as lucky today - the episode is not on the archive as of this writing. Plus we were interrupted once when a nurse's aide came in, but I'm giving myself credit for the clue because I know I'd have gotten it. ("diapers")
By the way, I'd planned to take the online test tonight just for fun. I have my netbook here, but unfortunately it said the screen resolution was too small. I tried to fix that but it was as high as it could go. I will probably play from the Jeopardy! message boards eventually. If you took any of the tests this week, how did it go?
Today's contestants were software engineer Zach May (sound familiar?), Debra McGuire, and 1-time champ Amy Stephenson. Debra really seemed to struggle today, but she led with 2200 when she found the Daily Double in Of Milk. I'd been sweeping the category but she and I both missed this one, and she lost everything. I'd have wagered it all, too. Amy had 200 and Zach, seemingly a cool dude, had 800. Later, in Double Jeopardy, poor Debra not only went into the hole on a 2000 clue, but Amy picked it up. By the way, my friend Robert tells me Debra is an archivist on j-archive.com! I feel really bad knowing that.
Zach started to build a lead after that Daily Double. At the first break, he had 3600 while Amy had 1400 and Debra had 0. At the end of the round, he had 7400 while Debra had 1200 and Amy had 3000.
I was a little surprised that a Daily Double was in a pop culture category. (That was the category's name.) Amy found it. She had 11400, poor Debra had 400, and Zach had 8200. NNo one - me, my mother, anyone on Twitter - could remember the clue, but a Twitter friend, DubCmusic, got it to me with a little time to spare: The correct response was Jimmy Dean. Amy and I got it right! The only one I didn't get in that category was that "Once Upon a Time" at 800, which still confounds me.
By the way, my uncle's here, and I asked him if by chance he watched today's episode and could tell me what that Daily Double was about. (This is the same uncle who said it was " one for the ages" when he found out I'm going to be on the show.) He hadn't watched today's episode, but he suggests I write a monthly "seat-of-the-pants" blog entry, kinda like this one. He thinks I would get a lot of feedback on those. Not a bad idea!
And speaking of ideas, this is a little off the subject but this uncle and I saw the movie " Wordplay" in the theater when it first came out in 2006. He and I agreed at that time to someday go to the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament together. I've gone, in 2010, but he has not. I asked him just now and he says he knows he cannot go. "Even a year from now?" I said. Anyway, I figure why not ask here if anyone wants to tackle this with me?
Zach found the next Daily Double in Old Virginia, which was the only category remaining at that time. He went straight for the 1200 clue. He and I got this wrong. Actually he answered so quickly I didn't have a chance to formulate a response. They wanted to know where the capital of Virginia moved from Jamestown, and he said "Richmond." They wanted "Williamsburg." He lost 3400 of his 13800. Amy had 17200 and Debra had 1600. I didn't get any right in this category. Debra got a couple because she moved up to 4400 by the end of the round. Amy got one because she had 17600, and Zach still had 10400.
Like yesterday, today's New York Times had an ad with today's Final Jeopardy category (Fathers and Sons). I took note this time, and guess what - the clue was the one from the show, too. So I'd read it already when it was revealed on TV, but I'd gotten it right when I read it this morning anyway. (The correct response wasn't there.) Mr. Trebek emphasized that Debra was in a distant third (totally unnecessary, of course). She got it right, though! I thought this was a very easy final but Zach and Amy got it wrong. Amy didn't wager enough to lose the match. She will be back tomorrow.
My Coryat today was 15200. I got more right than usual and I swept two categories ( The Land and Historic Dates), but I had 8 negs.
My Coryat for this GSN rerun was 12400. I had 6 negs and just 9 right in Double Jeopardy! I had 19 right and no negs in the Jeopardy round.
Last but not least, I chatted with David Madden this morning. He suggested I let you know that there are around 60 regional high school history bowls scheduled over the next 3 months, including 7 this Saturday. Here's the list.
I'm quite happy. Not only was today's episode really good, but I actually got through it uninterrupted, AND I can get wi-fi in the hospital room of the person I'm visiting. That, and she's feeling a lot better. Vamos! This recap will be abbreviated, then, but you'll forgive me! Betsy Schroeder returned after steam-rolling the boys yesterday. Her opponents were Daniel Hodge and Amy Stephenson. (BIG props to j-archive.com for having most of this episode on their site already.)
My Coryat felt higher than 20400, but that's what it was. The Jeopardy round was especially good to me. I swept You Might "B" Hungry. State Songs was a category, but I knew Nebraska's, with its title "Beautiful Nebraska," would not be a correct response! I knew 3/5, but they were all gettable.
At the first break, Betsy had 2000, Daniel had 2600, and Amy had 2200. Mr. Trebek mentioned Bob Harris just before Amy's interview, and I said to the person I'm visiting, " I know Bob Harris!" Then Mr. Trebek said Amy knows him!
Three clues were left covered in the Jeopardy round. Mr. Trebek noted that the contestants were still "not too far apart": Betsy had 3600, Daniel had 5800, and Amy had 3200.
In contrast to yesterday, there were only three quadruple-stumpers in the Double Jeopardy round. (That still sounds like a lot!) Like Daniel, I fell into the "Time Traveler" trap on this one in Possessive Book Titles: "Kim Edwards: 'The ______ ______'s Daughter.'" It was the only one I missed in the admittedly easy category.
The person I'm with got my eternal respect (okay, she already had it) when she nailed the "Robert Young" quadruple-stumper in I Played a Doctor and Some Other Guy on TV. (Unfortunately it's not on the archive just yet!)
How was this softball at the bottom of Legal Matters, when those three toughies preceded it?: "The 1896 case of Homer Plessy v. this judge set the precedent of 'separate but equal' facilities."
I'd picked up a N.Y. Times today, and there was an ad for Jeopardy! that said one of the categories today would be U.S. Population. So I was surprised when it didn't come up in Double Jeopardy, but it wound up being the Final category. Regrettably, the final clue is not yet on the j-archive site, but it was something like, These two states that are next to each other experience the biggest population growth...I remember the percentages 35% and 25%, but I don't remember the time frame. Anyway, I got it right instantly! It was a guess the whole time, though. Betsy and Daniel got it wrong, and Amy got it right. Amy wins. We feel bad for Daniel. He had a couple of good gets especially in Double Jeopardy and we thought he deserved to win. ("Khachaturian"? "Mehta"? "the fourth wall"?) I'm adding him to my list of people I want to have a second chance. He makes eight. I asked the person I'm visiting to help me come up with a title for today's entry (she's good at that kind of thing), and she came right up with what you see above. I tell you, eternal respect! :-)
Yesterday I announced that I'm going to train for the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament again. I've got it on the brain, and I have lots of questions. There seem to be an infinite number of crossword puzzle blogs, and this will never become one, rest assured! I planned to post all my questions here since I didn't know which blog to consult, but I asked Joon Pahk the same questions and it seems he's really come through. (I haven't had a chance to read everything thoroughly yet!) Thank you, Joon! I'm gonna start a 3-ring binder, like I did for Jeopardy!, with resources I pick up along the way.
My Coryat for this GSN rerun was 27400.
Were you expecting "Heavens to Betsy"?
Now that I'm going to be on Jeopardy!, I have a new focus for my energy - the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. I went in 2010 and placed 30th among rookies. A certain Joon Pahk placed first among rookies that year! I've sent him a message asking for advice. As I told him, I'm ready to put my head down and get after it. I feel like I'm good at this and can excel if I apply myself. I'll take your advice, too, if you are a "cruciverbalist"!
I got to play two recent weekend episodes today. Here are those Coryats:
originally 6-29-11: 35600 (The first time I played this episode, my score was 31600!)
originally 6-30-11: 30400
(The first time I played this episode, my score was 23600. I can hardly believe that.)
As for today's new episode:
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Today was a little rough for me - I'm at my mom and dad's, and when I walked in to watch the show the categories were being revealed. I decided to wait until the first commercial break to start watching. (They don't have DVR, which makes it all more complicated!) I didn't want to wait until the show was all the way done because I didn't want to waste the computer time - My dad and I have been visiting someone in the hospital all day, and I thought we'd both want the computer this evening.
Because I started at the contestant interviews, this clue was spoiled for me in Dr. Masseuse Rhymes: "A knot I've found, oh, heck!/In this muscle of the upper part of my neck/but not in my ol' a-sneezius!/No! 'Tis in my..." (I know, weird.) Anyway Brandon Libby left out a syllable, so he was negged during his contestant interview. I assumed I'd have gotten it right, but I can't be 100% sure. I managed to get this first one after the break right despite the clue which seemed so bizarre to me, not having seen the others: "Internal or external/the pain there's infernal/feel my abdomen go weak/it means indirect, it's my..."
As Mr. Trebek pointed out, the Daily Double was one of the two clues not revealed in the Jeopardy round. He gave the one-minute warning with 8 clues left! Ouch! And speaking of ouch, Betsy Schroeder was asserting her authority early - She had 7600 at the end of the round while Brandon had 1800 and Mike Hatch had 1200.
It was not to get any easier for the boys, although my second time watching it I thought it did not seem as bad as the first time. I counted negs: I think Mike had 4 while Brandon had 2. Mike had a good run for a while, including getting this Daily Double 4 clues in, in _____ the _____: "To sternly demand hard work, it's also something Indiana Jones often does." I didn't know this one. I've never seen "Indiana Jones," but it was probably gettable anyway! Mike said when wagering, "Let's make it...1500" (of 2000). Why didn't he make it a true Daily Double? Brandon had 200 and Betsy had 6800. Mike then got the next clue, then the next one. But the streak did not last. For one thing, he rung in and said "Mondale" in response to this triple-stumper in Women in Government (notice it was not a quadruple-stumper): " His widow Muriel became Minnesota's first female senator when she filled his vacant seat in 1978."
Before finding the other Daily Double, Betsy burned the guys by picking up this one in Inventive Minds, which the boys both negged on. And oh yeah, it was worth 2000: "In 1988 <span style="color: #660000; cursor: default;" title="Eastman">his</span> lightweight, box-shaped invention eliminated the need for glass photographic plates."
When Betsy got the Daily Double, there was once again a minute left and 8 clues. She had 13200 while Brandon had 1000 and Mike had 2700. By the way, because of Preston Nicholson I know that this episode was the first one taped on Wednesday that week (and the show is taped on Tuesday and Wednesday). When I consider what happened to Brandon, I wonder if the new day had something to do with it? Maybe he didn't sleep well?
Anyway, Betsy wagered 2000 on this clue in Green Pages: "Victor Schaffer's 'The Year of' this mammal is a 1969 classic study on the conservation of an ocean species." I guessed it right, but Betsy guessed it wrong. Like it mattered, with the lead she had!
I got this triple-stumper (the 200 clue!) in Green Pages: "Al Gore made his environmental sentiments clear in the 1992 book this 'in the Balance.'"
Four clues were left covered. At the end of the round, Betsy had 9200, Brandon had 1000 and Mike had 1100. The Final Jeopardy category was English Monarchs. (Yuck!) This was the clue: "Since 1066, the longest consecutive period when the monarch had the same name was 116 years with this given name." I got it wrong, as did Brandon, who wagered everything. Mike and Betsy got it right. Mike added 550 and Betsy added 3000. Can she do it again tomorrow?
My own Coryat today was 21600. Hey, my dad's on his way home and I got done blogging in time! Whoo hoo!
Okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch! Preston Nicholson can probably tell us if there's any sage in Oklahoma. Unfortunately, I can't blog at length tonight on his game. He played one-time champ Brandon Libby today, and lost at the Final. I refer you, as I have before, to Preston's blog for an account of his experience, from the online test through, as of this writing, his time at the studio. Don't forget to read the comments there and, if you have one, leave a comment of your own. My Coryat today was 20800.
My Coryat for this GSN rerun was a shocking 9400. (For one thing, I had two expensive, $2000 negs in Double Jeopardy.) But for what it's worth I got the Final because I saw the painting in question in Madrid last summer. Also, the highest Coryat of this episode's three contestants was 10200.
Remember how the official Jeopardy! message boards came back not very long ago? Well they're down again, as of about 9:10 p.m. Central. The whole Jeopardy! site had been down, but now that appears to be working.
I took my phone in today to see if the people there could get it to send picture messages again. The guy couldn't figure out why it said so much memory was being taken up when there was nothing left on the phone. Huh, imagine that! I'm vindicated. I'll spare you the details but I had to leave and come back a couple times, and I cut my nap short. Nonetheless...contestant pictures are back!
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| Dan McShane |
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| Brandon Libby (Did you see how incredibly nervous he looked when introduced?) |
The Jeopardy round was not kind to me, while Double Jeopardy went well. The lesson that will sink in this time? Be awake longer before I try to play. I spelled "available" in response to this clue in Spell It: -able or -ible?: " This adjective can describe a bachelor worthy of marriage or an NFL receiver who's allowed to catch a forward pass." I said "malleable" in response to this next one in the same category: "From the Latin for 'bend,' it means capable of being bent repeatedly without damage."
At the first break, 4-time champ Dan was leading with 4600, while Brandon had 1000 and Stephanie had 1800.
Then I said "Google Maps" on this clue in World Potpourri: "I'm enjoying the street view feature of this service introduced in 2005--Hey, who parked in my driveway?" Then "WHO" on this one in the same category: "In 1999 50,000 people protested in Seattle against this international business group." The next clue was the Daily Double, which Stephanie found in Literary Character Personal Trainer. She had 3200, Brandon had 1000, and Dan had 4200. Stephanie wagered 1600 on this clue: " Ok, Mr. 'Christmas Carol' ghost! Time to use that chain you 'forged in life,' 'link by link' for resistance work!" She got it right.
Mr. Trebek gave the one-minute warning with 7 clues left in the Jeopardy round. One of them was not revealed, but it was in Did You Get the Number of That Symphony? My final goof-up of the round was "GMC" on this one in Business Biggies: "After nearly 100 years, this company cut its Oldsmobile brand from its line in 2004." The scores at the end of the round: Dan with 4800, Brandon with 1800, and Stephanie with 7200.
I got my groove back in the Double Jeopardy round, going 4/5 in 3 categories and sweeping one to start off: It's Good to Be "King".
Stephanie found the first Daily Double, in History. Dan had answered 3 in that category, and Stephanie answered the fourth. She had 10000 while Dan had 10400 and Brandon had 2200. Stephanie wagered 3000 on this clue: "In 1720 Victor Amadeus II of Savoy gave Sicily to Austria in exchange for this other large island." She got it right!
Brandon found the next Daily Double, in U.S.A. He had 8200, Dan had 13600, and Stephanie had 11800. He too wagered 3000, on this clue: "From 1863 to 1865 this northern Louisiana city served as the Confederate state capital." He and I got it right.
Mr. Trebek gave the one-minute warning with 7 clues left, and 2 were left covered. I was happy with Dan, who dove for the higher dollar-value clues then. He finished the round with 18800, while Brandon had 11200 and Stephanie had 13400.
The Final Jeopardy category was Women Authors. This was the clue: " 1 of the 2 American women authors nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938." Brandon got one of them, and I got the other. Stephanie and Dan got it wrong! Brandon gained 8000. I'd have wagered 400. Stephanie lost 13000. I'd have wagered 2600. Dan lost 8801. Is it just me or did Dan wager 800 more than he needed to...? At any rate, Brandon is your new champion, which means he will play Preston Nicholson tomorrow. My Coryat today was probably 22400 23600!
My Coryat for this GSN episode was 16800. Strangely, this episode featured a category about palindromes, like yesterday's new episode, and there was even a clue about "rotator."
(Anybody remember that forgettable De Niro movie?)
Here are two more installments in Preston Nicholson's report on his own Jeopardy! experience. (" Getting the Call" and " At the Studio"!) Don't forget to read the comments. Preston's gonna be on the show Friday.
And speaking of comments, Blogger has rolled out threaded comments on its blogs. I'm eager to see what it looks like here!
Today's contestants: Vinayak Thiagarajan, Katy Stigers, and 3-time champ Dan McShane.
I'd gotten word in a private tweet from a friend as well as a tweet from a new friend, that today's episode was on the easy side. I did sweep Celebrities' Middle Names straight away. Of course I was happy about the Catholic Priests category. Katy went straight there when she could - She was sort of dressed like a priest with a black sweater and white shirt underneath. I don't like to go to the boards before I've blogged on that day's episode, but I suspect that this first clue in the category will be controversial!: "Served by priests, it may not exceed 18% alcohol." I said "wine," because I didn't think they'd like "Precious Blood"! Dan said "Communion wine" and was counted right. I said "pastor" in response to this clue: "Parish priests have their own one of these, John Vianney." Oops. I got the rest of them right, including this triple-stumper: " This spiritual 'director' doesn't arrange your holiday, he helps young men pursue their calling to the priesthood." Then came the first break. Dan had 3400, Katy had 1800, and Vinayak had 2200. Dan had found the Daily Double, in Travel. He had 2000, Katy had not responded yet, and Vinayak had 1600. Dan wagered it all on this clue: " This island's Mataveri Intl. Airport, the world's most remote, is serviced only by Chile's LAN Airlines." He and I got it right.
After that first break, Vinayak speedily swept Come "In", putting him in the lead. At the end of the round, Dan had 7200, Katy had 2200, and Vinayak had 5000. I'd taken a few ill-advised guesses and clams, for example, "Rembrandt" instead of "Vermeer," "International" instead of "Inuit," and "Seurat" even though I meant "Cassatt." I kept it up in the Double Jeopardy round too many times to really mention, while Dan broke away from the pack. He swept The De Niro Code, which featured quotes from De Niro movies. He then led by 9000 dollars! Then he got a handful of clues in Go "South" and Mesopotamia, where he found the first Daily Double. He had 20000, Katy had 1800, and Vinayak had 5800. Dan wagered 3000 on this clue: "Transcribed in the 1800s, the Behistun inscription is the Rosetta Stone for this type of writing developed in Mesopotamia." As was typical for me today, I answered correctly, then changed my response to "hieroglyphics." (So I don't think I can count it, right, even though it was a Daily Double?) Dan, typical for him today, got it right.
I got this triple-stumper in the nick of time in The Cleveland Clinic: "M.I. stands for myocardial infarction, or heart attack. M.I. also stands for this innovative type of heart surgery, with tiny instruments that can reduce trauma and complications."
Vinayak, who'd been silent for a while, got the second-to-last clue, which gave him the last clue - the Daily Double. Tricky - Dan had 25800, Katy had 5800, and Vinayak had 8200. He seems to have done the right thing by wagering 5000, but I'm open to correction, as always. This was the clue: "Robin Williams thanked the Cleveland Clinic team for his heart surgery, saying after getting a replacement one of these from a cow, the grazing's been fun!" Jimmy held up the item in question, but as you may remember I can't send pictures from my phone right now. Thank God they didn't want a specific response, because I gave the general response and hoped for the best! I was right but Vinayak guessed wrong, allowing Dan to keep his runaway.
The Final Jeopardy category was Food Etymology. This was the toughie clue: "Keith Downey developed rapeseed into this cooking product, now a huge cash crop for farmers in Saskatchewan." I didn't get it. :-( Neither did any of the contestants. Vinayak lost 2601. Katy lost 2600, and Dan lost 4200. It's okay, he's back tomorrow. Til then! My Coryat today was 22200. Can't wait to read the boards now....
First, I'm mentioned in this article about champ Dan McShane, who survived today to become a 3-time champ.
Next, I'm considering giving away the box of Mental Floss issues I bought when I was studying for Jeopardy! There are more than 40 in the box. I would pick someone randomly from whoever posts their Coryat scores here in a comment, in a predetermined time frame. Leave a comment if this interests you. (If you need to learn how to keep score that way, I can help.)
This quadruple-stumper came from Monday's episode, in the category What's Next: "White House state dinner May 7, 2007: Soup, fish, meat, this course." This clue was the reason for many a post on this episode's thread on the J! message boards. Many people said dessert, as did I and one of the contestants. One person said he (she?) didn't respond because he was considering nuts, cheese, dessert, and salad. (Responding with one of those, not eating them.)
I wondered whether there was something significant about the date, May 7. This doesn't appear to be the case, but for what it's worth, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were in attendance. And in case you're wondering what makes a "state dinner" just that, an ask.com Wiki says it's "a dinner or banquet paid by a government and hosted by a head of state in his or her official residence in order to renew and celebrate diplomatic ties between the host country and the country of a foreign head of state or head of government who was issued an invitation." Got it? One poster on the boards said he (she?) just learned these courses. I've asked him where he learned this. I'm not sure where I would have except my book of mnemonic devices, and it wasn't there. He thinks he learned it watching Top Chef, within the past month! When I looked into this myself, I find that dessert comes after salad, and fruit sometimes follows dessert. Cheese sometimes follows that, or nuts. (You've heard of "from soup to nuts"?)
It occurred to me as I was looking for info that a caterer was in California taping Jeopardy! when I was. And I do know it's a "she." I'd have no way to reach her except - surprise - she joined the message boards shortly after taping. Her name's Melanie. She says she responded, "What is cheese!" She says she blames this on liking and thinking about cheese more often than salad. (And who can blame her?)
My Coryat Monday, by the way, was 18000. Today's was 19200.
Lately, every time I sit down to watch a movie and don't do something else at the same time (okay, a crossword puzzle!), I wish I'd do it more often. I find it hard to do sometimes. I keep thinking I should be doing something else when I watch a movie (at the same time or otherwise).
I just got done with No Country for Old Men. I have to admit I did not finish the book. I felt like I couldn't get into it and didn't want to spend any more time on it when I had other books hanging around.
For a book I thought I couldn't get into, I was surprised how much I retained as I watched the movie, which, by the way, was better than the book. Maybe I should've watched it before reading it. I'd heard the movie was violent but violence in movies seldom bothers me, especially gun violence, which was the principal form here.
I'd been curious who was going to play Llewellyn's wife, but I didn't know her when she appeared (Kelly Macdonald). (And speaking of Llewellyn, he was played by Josh Brolin, who was in the last movie I wrote about!) I looked Macdonald up on imdb. She of course has a Texas accent in the movie, but she was born in Scotland! I did notice at the very first thing she said that her accent wasn't very good. She has a long list of credits, but I think the only thing of hers I've seen is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. For that matter, I'm not sure I've seen Brolin in anything else, before True Grit! I don't see his name in the credits for There Will Be Blood. ;-)
What was that weird weapon Javier Bardem uses? The one that blows the locks out of doors and the thing he nailed that guy in the forehead with, early on. I think Tommy Lee Jones said there was no bullet in it, if that thing is what he was talking about when he met with Llewellyn's wife. I did learn what a "transponder" is!
I was surprised Llewellyn died. I really didn't think he would. Can we assume that Bardem shot Llewellyn's wife, too, when he asked her if she could see him? (I already took the book back to the library!)
What a weird ending to the movie! I'm not sure of the point. Whatever came of Bardem, after he walked away from that car accident?
The next thing I'm reading is Oil! by Upton Sinclair. I have 200+ pages left but it's looking like I'm gonna finish it. It's much better than the McCarthy book. The library doesn't have There Will Be Blood. Lucky for me, it's gonna be on AMC this Friday. Vamos!
I've been thinking that, while I think this project is productive, I might not keep blogging about it. (But as always I'd like to know how you feel, in a comment.) There are blogs devoted to this kind of thing, and it doesn't relate as well to Jeopardy! now that I'm already going to be on ( March 28th!) Plus, there are plenty of quadruple-stumpers to cover the nights I can't blog about that day's episode.The next thing I will read, if that makes a difference to you, is Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas. This depends on whether I can find a copy of it, because my library's being remodeled and the book is in a "storage area." The 2005 movie Munich was based on this book. I went to Munich last summer and was lucky to stroll through the grounds of those 1972 Olympics. My little sister and dad took these pics:
Now on the big bummer front: I have to miss the Oscars this year, which neeeevvvver happens. (And Billy Crystal is back!) It's my weekend to work, and I don't want my co-workers to run when they see me coming because I ask them to trade with me so often.
Some recent Coryats:
originally 9-16-05: 15200
(When I practiced this episode before I was gonna be on the show, my score was 11200.)
originally 12-20-05: 13000
originally 12-21-05: 14200
I don't expect to watch the next two GSN episodes, as I don't want to watch David Madden lose and I don't want to see the woman who beat him play the next day!
Now that GSN is airing Jeopardy! every single day, I'm gonna have twice as many Coryats to post. (I know; lucky you.) I should point out that I played these very same games, David Madden's, when I was studying for my own appearance on Jeopardy! I may recognize some of the clues. I still have copies of them in a three-ring binder, so it's kinda cool, for better or for worse, to see how much I knew then and now!
originally 9-12-05: 22000
1-3-12: 15400
originally 9-13-05: 27000
1-4-12: 15800
originally 9-14-05: 15400
(I didn't like that score until I saw that when I was preparing for the show, my score was 11400!)
1-5-12: 16600
originally 9-15-05: 20200 (My score when I was preparing was 18000.)
A week from today, Preston Nicholson will be appearing on Jeopardy! I "know" him from Twitter and the Jeopardy! message boards. He and I both auditioned in Kansas City last summer. I just can't wait until next week to share some of his blog posts about his whole experience. I've left a comment or two on each post!:
My Jeopardy! Journey - The Online Test
My Jeopardy! Journey - Preparing for the Audition
My Jeopardy! Journey - The Audition
Speaking of blogs, I made an exciting discovery today - The blog that inspired me to start my own. (I'm "Jeanie from Lincoln, NE" in this entry, and I took the pictures in this entry.) I'd searched for this blog before and thought it was long gone. It does my heart good to see it again. I've left a comment on the most recent entry, and I hope the author sees it.
As for today's Jeopardy! episode, I still cannot send picture messages from my phone because the memory is supposedly full. I looked into buying a memory card. I discovered that I need only 250 reward points to get one for free, and that happens to be how many points I get each month. So will you wait with me that long? I don't use the rewards for anything else.
Today's contestants were Dan McShane, Molly Dahlberg, and 6-time champ (wow!) Dave Leach. According to my closed-captioning, Dan was introduced as a baseball game "logger." I was certain it was supposed to be "blogger," but I listened to his hometown howdy and that really does sound like what he's saying. As Eminem says, "One more time, loud as you can, how does it go?" Anyway I thought Dan was sitting throughout his game, but he was standing at the end of the show.
At the first break, Dave had 1000, Molly had 1800, and Dan had 3400.
Dave found the Daily Double in New Mexico. It was the second-to-last clue of the round. He had 4600, Molly had 4000, and Dan had 4800. I kinda hoped he'd make it a true Daily Double, but he wagered 2300. It was for the best, as he didn't get it right. This was the clue: "Most of what is now New Mexico was ceded to the U.S. in 1848 through this treaty that ended the Mexican War." I thought this was a big toughie.
Dave had 2300, Molly had 4000, and Dan had 5800 at the end of the round. I swept Ribs in the round.
I liked the categories a lot in the Double Jeopardy round. Dave went straight to Game Descriptions. (Dave talked about collecting European games earlier in his run. Also, today he suggested that "board games" be a category in a diversion on the Jeopardy! message boards!) The first clue of the Double Jeopardy round was about baseball, but Dave and not Dan got this one right: " Send a one-hopper home to get the guy who tagged up; shoot it around the horn."
Dan did get the first Daily Double in the round, after answering 3 of the previous 4 in On a First-Name Basis. Mr. Trebek said he's "on a roll." He had 12600, Dave had 5500, and Molly had 2400. Dan wagered 2600 on this toughie: "" Paul McCartney's real first name; he shares it with two Apostles." Okay, two Apostles?!? I thought I knew my Apostles but apparently not. Dan got it wrong too.
I was proud to get the first triple-stumper in The Times They Are A-Changin', and I even remember commiting it to memory on the way to California to tape Jeopardy!, while reading the magazine "The Week." This was the clue: "Thousands have died in this country's 2011 uprising against the Assad regime."
The other Daily Double was the last clue in the round. It was in Write Now!, and Dave found it. I haven't seen 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I think Mr. Trebek sounded like "Hal" when he told Dave he found the Daily Double. Dave had moved up nicely to 11900, while Molly still trailed with 6800 and Dan still led with 14400. Dan wagered 2500 on this clue: "For a magazine story, this author of westerns once did his day's writing on a traffic island on Sunset Blvd." I'm not sure if I'd have gotten this one, as the clue was spoiled by a private tweet from a friend. Dave, sadly, missed it. Going into the final, then, he had 9400, Molly had 6800, and Dan had 14400.
The Final Jeopardy category was Ancient Weights and Measures, which naturally drew a laugh from Dave, as everything does. This was the clue: "The Hebrew word for this Biblical unit of measurement is Ammah, aptly meaning 'elbow' or 'forearm.'" I guessed the right answer instantly, and my guess was bolstered by my knowledge as a nurse! Molly lost 6000. I'd have wagered 3200. Dave had it right and added 5001. I'd probably have wagered 600, because Dan would have to get it wrong anyway (or wager nothing) with Dave's actual wager. Dan though, got it right, and added 4401. He is a giant-killer!
We'll almost certainly see Dave and Jason Keller in the Tournament, and maybe they'll play each other again! My Coryat today was 25400, my highest of the week.
Part three, the conclusion of my interview with Stefan Goodreau.... (See parts one and two.)
I knew Stefan was in the audience at the last Tournament of Champions, so I asked him how often he goes to tapings. He said he’s gone to at least one every season since 2007-8, “three by virtue of being a contestant or being related to a contestant. The tapings I’ve been to were when my dad was an alternate and contestant in 2008, when I was an alternate and contestant in 2009, a returning champ and ToC contestant in ’09-’10, a contestant guest for Doug Hicton’s boyfriend Terry Andrews in summer 2010, Hans von Walter’s guest at the College Championship’s semis and finals a few months later, and Erin McLean’s guest at both ToC tapings this past September.” (I wish I’d asked how he knew some of those people!)
I asked him how he thought this recent ToC compared to his, difficulty-wise. He said, “I don’t really know what’s easy and hard. For what it’s worth, I was 4/5 on quarter-final Final Jeopardys this year, and 0/5 on semifinal ones; last year I was 2/5, then 1/5. They’re probably equivalent, all told.” (See comment below.)
I asked Stefan if he is still a camp counselor and video game tester. He says he only does camp counseling in the summer, and he hasn’t done any video game testing since October 2010. He says, “In fact, the day I went to the College Championship taping was supposed to be my last day at work…Without the loan I paid off, I’ve got no monthly expenses, and the Jeopardy! money keeps me nice and unmotivated.”
I asked Stefan if there are any other TV shows on which he’d like to appear. He said, “Absolutely. I’m not an intellectual Jeopardy! exclusivist snob. I love game shows in general, and have from an early age. [Who Wants to Be a Millionaire] is probably what I’d prefer to be on next, but I’m not above Wheel of Fortune, or even something like Wipeout!” I haven’t seen Wipeout, but now I have it set to record this week. My sister says she saw it once and calls it a “crack-up.”
I’m hoping Stefan will attend the unofficial Jeopardy! reunion/ National History Bowl finals, even though I’m not 100% sure I’ll be going yet. I think he would fit right in there, as last year they had a, ahem, pub quiz with no more than one known J! champ per table. (Last year Nick Condon and Roger Craig shared a table because Nick’s episodes hadn’t aired yet and no one really knew the outcome. Unfortunately I wasn’t present at the pub quiz because I’d already bought my plane ticket to arrive the next day, when I learned about it.) This year, according to the History Bowl site, they’re planning a Popular Culture History Bee.
I asked Stefan if he has any advice for aspiring contestants. He says, “Before you even get The Call, watch the game as much as you can, try your best to keep score so that you become familiar with your knowledge base and develop buzzer discipline (i.e., learn not to buzz with random guesses.)
“In addition, you should get yourself used to the process of buzzing in. Don’t worry about timing, since there’s no good way to check whether you’re in the sweet spot. Instead, just get used to buzzing, and you can adjust timing once you make it to the studio.
“I don’t know what advice to give someone to ensure making it to the studio, since it only took one audition to get me there (although I think it helped that the contestant coordinators got to know me a little better when I came to my dad’s tapings).”
It was a pleasure to chat with Stefan and even to write this story. I wish him continued success!
Part two of my interview with Stefan Goodreau...
I had to ask Stefan more about the famous O'Brien's, where I first met him in person when I was in Los Angeles for Jeopardy! By the way, if you are in town to tape the show, this is a must-do. It's a dream for a Jeopardy! fan, with champs playing like Jerome Vered and Cliff Galiher (who looked happy that I recognized him). Plus, everyone there will encourage you and share your delight that you are going to be on the show, and they'll go out of their way to make sure you meet every former J! champ there. Stefan says, "Occasionally a newbie or two will show up, and a regular will help them find space." My sister tapped a guy on the shoulder who looked like he had just two on his team. Turns out it was former contestant Marty Butterick. He mentioned he lost his episode in the Final. I realized later he'd lost to ToCer Justin Sausville, and I'd blogged about his episode! Marty watched his episode at O'Brien's when it aired.
O'Brien's tweets a picture each week of the winning team, but the week I was there the camera failed. I told Stefan he always seems to be in the tweeted picture, and I asked him if he studies for the quiz. He said, "I don't study for it. I'd rather not take it too seriously. And I more readily credit the company I keep for my frequent appearances there." When I said I didn't know how the players know the answers to those questions, he said, "We don't, a lot of the time!"
I told Stefan I wish I'd remembered his first interview with Mr. Trebek when I saw him at O'Brien's:
I asked him if he'd have done that there if I asked, and he said, "Without question." I told my sister he said that (she was there too that night), and she responded in a text, “what a cool dude!” Stefan says he "delights in noises," and adds, "Maybe some regulars find it obnoxious, but I often break into song or noise at pub quiz." Then there's this YouTube clip:
Reader "BigDaddyJ" wanted to know how many takes this, er, took. Stefan says, "I don't remember, but I would guess it was no more than two video takes. I took several audio takes to verify that my concept (recording all three parts in a single take and staying in key so they can all come together) would work (which was when I discovered I'd need a click track to maintain tempo)."
Stefan studied Recording Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He says he, his sister and his parents all graduated from there, and his parents met there! He says, "I studied sound production (both music and sound effects, as well as on-set recording, although I was less enthusiastic about that)." I remembered that Stefan said during his ToC that he was thinking about using his winnings toward music education. He says, "I haven't done anything real with the money besides pay off a student loan of about $10,000, but studying music lingers in the back of my mind...Mostly I want to learn more about composition. I've got a good mind/ear for it, but the technical details are mostly lost on me. Some more of my musical work, done via Game Boy, can be heard on myspace.com/unfasten." Find out more of what Stefan's doing these days, tomorrow!
This is it - Part one of my interview with 5-time champ and 2010 Tournament of Champions finalist Stefan Goodreau.
Stefan's regular-season wins came on the last 5 games of season 25, airing in July 2009. According to j-archive.com, he earned $84,870 from those episodes, then an additional $2,000 when he finished in second place on his 6th episode. He came in third in the Tournament of Champions, earning an additional $50,000. Vijay Balse, who I interviewed in 2010, won that tournament. Stephen Weingarten and Ryan Chaffee were also in that tournament.
Stefan's father John was a one-time champ in season 24, and in fact he and Stefan auditioned at the same time. I thought this would've felt weird, but Stefan said, "Not at all. I was glad to have a ride!" (Stefan says he got his license this year and wants a car, but doesn't want to shop for one.) Stefan took the test in person in 2005, before the dawn of the online test. He did not pass at that time. It was too soon after his first test to take it online in 2006. He took it in 2007. His dad got The Call a few months after their audition. Stefan took the test again in 2009 but got the The Call himself (likely the result of the 2007 test and audition) a month after that! His dad, grandmother, one of his aunts, and his younger sister watched him tape. Like me, he only told immediate family the result of his appearance before it aired.
Having recently studied before my own Jeopardy! taping, I asked Stefan if he studied before his regular season appearance and before the ToC. He said, “I looked at world capitals before my regular shows, and really got them down before the ToC. I started trying to learn vice presidents before my first appearance, but lost interest. I had a notebook that I thought I’d fill with ToC notes, but I ended up only writing a small list of possible topics (which I ended up never studying) and the five D-Day beaches (one of which came up in my quarter-final!). Mostly I ended up deciding that my state of mind was more important than what was in it.” He did keep track of his Coryat score “faithfully” from September 2008 to March 2010.
Stefan is the second of five children (three boys and two girls). Asked whether any other family members were interested in being on Jeopardy!, he said, “Even if my mom considered herself Jeopardy! material, she has no interest in being on TV; my younger sister is similar. My two brothers aren’t exactly Jeopardy!-minded either, although one has been on TV as a team handball player and the other has done stage acting.” He adds, “My older sister is unabashed, and closest to my mind in retention of factual knowledge, but she’s a bit too busy raising a son to build up her Jeopardy! skills.” Stefan has just the one nephew.
Stefan says he did not get recognized much from being on the show. He said someone recognized him on the subway once, but it may have been because he was carrying his Jeopardy! bag. Someone else thought he looked familiar once, and remembered him once Stefan mentioned Jeopardy! I expressed surprise that he wasn’t recognized more often, and he said, “Los Angeles has real celebrities to look out for!”
Of course, to me, and probably you, 5+-time Jeopardy! champs are celebrities. I saw several at O'Brien's Pub when I was in Los Angeles last month. Come back tomorrow for details on the weekly quiz. (And don't forget you can leave comments below!)
The wait's almost over - My interview with Stefan Goodreau will publish beginning tomorrow.
Now for a mini-bummer (relative to other mishaps still fresh in my mind). There will be no contestant photos here today. As happens sometimes, I'm having picture-message issues with my phone. Today I'm not able to send one at all - I get a "memory full" message at the screen where I'd enter the receiver's phone number or e-mail address. You're probably telling me to erase something. I have. Everything. Even incoming and outgoing messages. Don't get me wrong - I am thankful to have seen today's game at all, as it was pre-empted for my friend Robert in Florida.
You may remember that Friday's episode was a bit of a debacle, especially in Double Jeopardy. We all did better today, though there were still 5 quadruple-stumpers in Double Jeopardy, 4 of 'em in the 2000 row. The contestants: Elizabeth Weichel, Art Hilliker, and Dave Leach, a champion twice over coming into today. Dave selected the first clue today with as much zip as he exhibited the whole episode Friday. He got the first three clues right, then found the Daily Double in the same category, Prefixes. He wagered everything, naturally, on this clue: "'Anti-' means 'against'; 'ante-' means this." I was shocked when Dave missed this one, which seemed like a softball to me. I swept this category.
At the first break, we had not heard from Elizabeth yet. Dave had 4000 and Art had 2400.
I groaned when The Superbowl's Top Rusher was revealed, and I groaned again when it was selected as the second-to-last category. I only got one right, but I made up for it by sweeping Recent Books, including this triple-stumper, the last clue of the round: "Book club alert -- 'Then Came You' is the latest novel by this author of 'Good in Bed' and 'In Her Shoes'." This after not knowing the response to today's tweeted clue.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Mr. Trebek told Elizabeth to select again even though there were not clues left on the board. What could he have been looking at? I'm a little surprised they didn't delete that part. At this point, Dave had 5600, Art had 7000, and Elizabeth had 1000.
Dave found a Daily Double early again in this round, three clues in. The category was That "Bit" at the End. Dave had 6400, Art had 7000, and Elizabeth had 1400. I thought Dave should've made this a true Daily Double, as it was early and he'd be spotted three letters in the correct response. He wagered plenty still, 5000, on this clue: " Psychological term meaning to consciously or unconsciously restrain an impulse." Dave and I both stared at the clue until time ran out.
I didn't know my response to this next clue was not a word til I had to look it up to be sure. I knew my Coryat was a little too high! Also in That "Bit" in the End: "So you and Amy found a place together--Mind if I ask, are you going to get married or just do this?"
My most irritating neg of the game came in States' Highest Points. I've been reading books that became Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar winners or nominees. I knew immediately where I'd read the words "Mount Magazine" in this clue, but missed it anyway: " Mount Magazine, which has Ozark National Forest land on its slopes." This project wasn't supposed to work that way. I said what Dave did, thrown off I suppose by "Ozark." Elizabeth picked this one up, and she got this next one I also negged on: " Granite Peak in Custer National Forest."
Like Mr. Trebek, I was amazed no one picked up this one after Dave gave an incorrect response in Sculpture: "In 1482, he asked the Duke of Milan for a job, saying, 'I can further execute sculpture in marble, bronze, or clay." I guessed the same thing Dave did! Lucky for him, the next clue was the Daily Double, in the same category. He had 7800, Art had 9400, and Elizabeth had 3800. He wagered 2500 on this clue: " He carved a bust of Lincoln for the U.S. Capitol rotunda; his much bigger one is in South Dakota." I knew this one cold, and Dave got it after a second or two.
At the end of the round, Dave had 11900, Art had 13000, and Elizabeth had 7000. The Final Jeopardy category was ' 70s Oscars. This was the clue: " This film whose title refers to an establishment holds the record for most wins, 8, without winning Best Picture." I couldn't come up with this one. Elizabeth had it wrong too and wagered 3000. (I'd have wagered 3800.) Dave had it right and wagered 2101, in an apparent attempt to at least be ahead of Elizabeth if she doubled. Lucky for Dave, Art had it wrong, making Dave a three-time champ. Art lost 12900 on the Final. Not that it mattered in the end, but why did he wager so much?
My Coryat was 22400. My Coryat for this episode which aired Saturday on GSN was 14400. My Coryat for Sunday's was 20400. I'll be on the edge of my seat at 1:00 a.m. tonight to find out which episode will be on!
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