Tuesday, May 24, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

[Archivists]

Game Recap for Show #7307, 2016-05-24

CONTESTANTS
Victor Saymo, an aspiring writer and poet from Keaau, Hawaii
Brian Roberts, an economist from Arlington, Virginia
Buzzy Cohen, a music executive from Los Angeles, California (whose 6-day cash winnings total $121,202)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thanks, Johnny. Well, folks, as you--as we've discovered by now, our champion, Buzzy Cohen, is feeling rather confident, isn't he? At the end of yesterday's program, he revealed, obviously, that he's watched a lot of the Saturday Night Live takeoffs of our Jeopardy! show, and uh, particularly the abuse I have to take from Sean Connery on that program.

[Laughter]

Let's see what happens today with Brian and Victor as his challengers. They look like they're pretty much ready for battle. Let's go to work. Here come the categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
PLACES, EVERYONE (0/0)
CROSSWORD CLUES "M" (5/5)
AWESOME SAUCE (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
STUPID ANSWERS-- MISDIRECTION (2/5)
NYC TV (3/5)
PETER AND THE WOLF (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Buzzy: 11 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 4 W
Brian: 5 R (including 2 rebounds), 0 W
Victor: 3 R, 4 W

Clues revealed: 25
Triple Stumpers: 6
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,400



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Buzzy found the Daily Double on the 3rd clue. Buzzy had $600, Brian was scoreless, and Victor had nothing in the bank. Buzzy wagered $1,000.

AWESOME SAUCE $600: While Lea & Perrins keeps its recipe for this "geographic" product secret, we know it contains garlic, anchovies & tamarind extract

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Buzzy: $3,400
Brian: $1,800
Victor: -$800

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Victor Saymo is from Keaau, Hawaii. Victor--

Victor: Yes.

Alex: A lot of us who have newer cars have vehicles that are equipped with a GPS system. You have that in yours, and you like to follow it but sometimes you take issue with the directions you're getting, I understand.

Victor: Yes, I argue with the female voice on the GPS.

[Laughter]

Victor: She's always right.

[Laughter]

Alex: But you still get lost.

Victor: Yes, I still get lost.

Alex: And you have no way of apologizing to her.

Victor: That's right.

Alex: Mm. You think if it were a man's voice you wouldn't argue as much?

Victor: Oh no.

Alex: You'd still argue.

Victor: And still get lost.

[Laughter]

Alex: Okay.




Alex: Brian Roberts is an economist who loves visiting our national parks in the United States.

Brian: That's correct.

Alex: Which one has been the most impressive?

Brian: Mount Zi--Mount Zion in Utah is my favorite.

Alex: Really. Why?

Brian: Just the combination. It's like the Yosemite of the desert.

Alex: Now, how many of our national parks have you visited?

Brian: About 30.

Alex: And how many still to go?

Brian: I think it's 28, last count.

Alex: Really? Okay. Well, good for you.




Alex: Buzzy Cohen is a music executive who is our champion. And he has taught his daughter a Hamlet soliloquy. Which one and why?

Buzzy: Uh, well, my daughter is two. She just turned two, and she uh, is very impressionable and it's very easy to teach her stuff. So I've gotten her--so I say, "Let's hear Shakespeare," and she goes, "To be, not to be, dat the question." And then I prompt her and say "Whether," and she goes "Nobler...in da mind...suffer, slings, arrows, 'rageous fortune." That's as far as we've gotten.

[Laughter]

Alex: I've got news for you. She's only two now?

Buzzy: Yeah.

Alex: When she is 16, she's going to be a--a bundle.

[Laughter]

Alex: It's gonna be, yes, a lot to deal with.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
NYC TV $1000: The crew of a NYC firehouse dealt with gambling addiction, alcoholism, murder & even ghosts on this FX show
(Victor: What is FDNY?)

NYC TV $800: J-Lo deals with the FBI & NYPD on this "colorful" NBC show

STUPID ANSWERS-- MISDIRECTION $200: If you master the history of the credit card, you'll discover the first purchase with this was at a Sears in 1985
(Victor: What is MasterCard?)
(Buzzy: What is a Visa card?)

STUPID ANSWERS-- MISDIRECTION $600: Heading on a holiday, Doc? Why not check out the grave of this Wild West legend; it's got a star, a horse & a bell on it
(Victor: Who is Doc Holliday?)

STUPID ANSWERS-- MISDIRECTION $800: Michael Dawson & Richard Alpert are men who've loved & lost as characters on this show & are mad as hell about it

PETER AND THE WOLF $1000: "Peter and the Wolf" composer Prokofiev loved the clarinet & also this animal that enters stealthily to its sound
(Buzzy: What is the fox?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Brian: $3,200
Buzzy: $3,000
Victor: -$200

[Archivists]

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
MAY I QUOTE YOU? (4/4, including 1 correct Daily Double)
5 LETTERS, 1 SYLLABLE (5/5)
SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH (2/5)
THE NEWS (3/3)
REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
4 PETERS & A WOLF (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Buzzy: 10 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Victor: 10 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Brian: 2 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 4
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $6,800



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Victor snagged the next Daily Double on the 3rd clue. Buzzy was in the hole with -$600, Brian had $3,200, and Victor had a deficit with -$600. Victor wagered $2,000.

REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1200: Hotly contested today, this 9-letter region was made an "international zone"
(Victor: What is Jerusalem?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Victor who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 6th clue. Buzzy had $1,400, Brian had $3,200, and Victor had a deficit with -$2,200. Victor wagered $2,000.

MAY I QUOTE YOU? $1600: Jesse Jackson: "Our flag is red, white, and blue, but our nation is a" this

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $2000: Great Britain acquired southern Mesopotamia & this city, today the largest port in Israel
(Buzzy: What is Tel Aviv?)
(Victor: What is Eilat?)

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH $1200: "Le Cycle de Fondation"
(Victor: What is The Century of the Foundation?)

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH $1600: "La Main Gauche de la Nuit"
(Victor: What is The Left...)

SCIENCE FICTION TITLES IN FRENCH $2000: Margaret Atwood's "La Servante Êcarlate"

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Buzzy: $12,200 (lock game)
Victor: $5,000
Brian: $4,000

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
19th CENTURY NOTABLES

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; three-quarters for second place.
Buzzy: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $2,199 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Victor: Wager $3,001 to cover Brian.
Brian: Risk between $1,001 and $2,000, covering Victor's $0 bet.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
He died in New Orleans on Dec. 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped

FINAL SCORES
Brian: $4,000 + $1,001 = $5,001 (Who is Jefferson Davis) (2nd place)
Victor: $5,000 - $5,000 = $0 (Who is Jefferson Davis Beauregard?) (3rd place)
Buzzy: $12,200 - $0 = $12,200 (Who is You aren't rid of me yet Trebek?) (121203-day champion: $12,200)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $11,200

GAME DYNAMICS


CORYAT SCORES
Buzzy: $11,800, 21 R (including 1 DD), 6 W
Victor: $6,600, 13 R (including 1 DD), 8 W (including 1 DD)
Brian: $4,000, 7 R, 1 W
Combined Coryat: $22,400

BATTING AVERAGES
Buzzy: 21/59 = .356
Victor: 13/60 = .217
Brian: 8/58 = .138
Team: 42/63 = .667

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
AWESOME SAUCE $800: The señora seen here graces bottles of this hot sauce brand

NYC TV $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Lincoln Center.) Sarah Jessica Parker actually swoons when Mikhail Baryshnikov tries to dance with her at Lincoln Center on an episode of this TV show

STUPID ANSWERS-- MISDIRECTION $400: You'd be a wise old owl if you knew that the Scripps spelling bee has one of these creatures on its logo
(Buzzy: What is an owl?)

STUPID ANSWERS-- MISDIRECTION $1000: An amazon of revenue comes to this co. that's before Apple in the alphabet & passed Apple in 2016 as the most valuable
(Buzzy: What is Amazon.com?)

CROSSWORD CLUES "M" $1000: Painter Piet (8)
(Alex: Good, and you're on the plus side with less than a minute to go now.)

PETER AND THE WOLF $800: The duck, who comes to a bad end, is represented by this instrument

PETER AND THE WOLF $600: The wolf arrives announced by this "national" instrument
(Victor: What is the English horn?)

PETER AND THE WOLF $400: Peter's grandfather, who you will recognize as this instrument, warns him of danger if he leaves

PETER AND THE WOLF $200: Peter in "Peter and the Wolf" is represented by this section of the orchestra
[The end-of-round-signal sounds.]

REDRAWING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE $1600: This ethnic group got autonomy (not independence) at the San Remo conference, but the Treaty of Lausanne nixed it
(Buzzy: Who is the Armenians?)

4 PETERS & A WOLF $400: He's seen here as the persistent Detective Columbo

4 PETERS & A WOLF $2000: Stage name of Chester Burnett, legendary Chicago bluesman, seen here

4 PETERS & A WOLF $1200: He received an honorary Oscar in 2003 for his memorable roles like Mr. Chips & Alan Swann
(Alex: With a minute to go now.)

MAY I QUOTE YOU? $1200: Gil Scott-Heron: This "will not make you look 5 pounds thinner because" this "will not be televised"
(Brian: What is the camera?)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Worcestershire sauce
Rescue Me
Shades of Blue
a Discover Card
Belle Starr
Lost
the cat
Palestine
rainbow
Haifa
The Foundation Trilogy
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Handmaid's Tale
Jefferson Davis
Cholula
Sex and the City
a bee
Alphabet
Mondrian
the oboe
the French horn
the bassoon
the string section
Kurds
Peter Falk
Howlin' Wolf
Peter O'Toole
the revolution

[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
19th CENTURY NOTABLES

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
He died in New Orleans on Dec. 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped

Buzzy Cohen: 12200-0=12200 (7x = $133,402)
Brian Roberts: 4000+1001=5001
Victor Saymo: 5000-5000=0

Correct response:

Spoiler

Jefferson Davis (Buzzy - You aren't rid of me yet Trebek) (Victor - J. Davis Beauregard)

Daily Doubles
Buzzy: 600+1000
Victor: minus 600 - 2000
Victor: minus 2200+2000

Coryats
Buzzy: 11800
Brian: 4000
Victor: 6600

Combined: 22,400

[grindcore]

Winning ugly is the mark of a champion

[BigDaddyMatty]

Coryat: $27,200
35 R/2 W
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Discover Card, Lost, Palestine (DD)

Grrr! I immediately thought of Davis and Lee, chose Davis, pondered until just before the end of the think music, then changed my response to Samuel Mudd. Turns out Mudd was not charged with treason, but was charged with (and convicted of) aiding and conspiring in a murder. He was, however, pardoned by Andrew Johnson in 1869, so my timeline was good.

Winning ugly is the mark of a champion

True. He has looked awfully weak the last two days, though. Either way, he's a superchamp, which is something only an elite few can claim.

[corvo]

That was brutal to watch.

[econgator]

changed my response to Samuel Mudd. Turns out Mudd was not charged with treason, but was charged with (and convicted of) aiding and conspiring in a murder. He was, however, pardoned by Andrew Johnson in 1869, so my timeline was good

You've got company. Davis never came to me and I couldn't get away from the Lincoln assassination.

[OSXpert]

Lots of Negs. I liked how they kept getting tripped up by the misdirection category

I'm no civil war buff so I don't know who is associated with what places, so I said Robert E. Lee just to say something.

[Abraxas]

Congrats to Buzzy on his seventh victory. I had 44 correct responses including these triple stumpers: Shades of Blue, Discover, Belle Starr, Lost, cat, Haifa, and The Handmaid's Tale. I also got the missed DD of Palestine, and I got FJ.

[floridagator]

Buzzy didn't deserve that win, let alone a runaway. He benefited from facing weak challengers. A competent challenger would have flattened him today.

[Leander]

That was brutal to watch.

Probably the least fun game to watch I can remember.

Flipped a coin between Davis and Lee for FJ after briefly considering Mudd, and went with the wrong one.

[Carpe Diem]

changed my response to Samuel Mudd. Turns out Mudd was not charged with treason, but was charged with (and convicted of) aiding and conspiring in a murder. He was, however, pardoned by Andrew Johnson in 1869, so my timeline was good

You've got company. Davis never came to me and I couldn't get away from the Lincoln assassination.

Another here.

[Spaceman Spiff]

Anyone upset that the "Peter and the Wolf" category left off "Bob the Janitor"?

[Bamaman]

At one point I thought we might have a one player FJ but Buzzy turned it on for the lock.

Not a fan of the smart-alecky FJ responses.


I got Davis right away. I did think about Lee. But I knew he died in the mid-1870s and in Virginia so I stuck with Davis. Mudd never came to mind.

[silverscreentest]

Maybe this comes from living adjacent to Virginia, but I knew Lee was President of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, until he died. Washington and Lee is in Lexington, Virginia. So I eliminated Lee immediately.

[mxc_takeshi]

25 right.

Places (N/A), Crossword "M" (3), Sauce (1), Stupid (1), NYC TV (4), Peter and the Wolf (2)
Quote (2), 5 Letters, 1 Syllable (4), Fiction-French (2), News (1), Ottoman (2), 4 Peters-Wolf (3)

Lach Trash: Rescue Me, Lost, Haifa

I saw New Orleans and locked in with Beauregard.

[bpmod]

Buzzy didn't deserve that win, let alone a runaway. He benefited from facing weak challengers. A competent challenger would have flattened him today.

Oh. I didn't know that you have soundly whipped both Victor and Brian on Jeopardy! What was the final score of your game(s)? If a lock isn't big enough, I don't know what might be.

You know what? Even if you have beaten them, how many times have you done it. I think you are basing your opinion on a far-too-small sample size.

Brian

[TenPoundHammer]

Odd game indeed. As low as he got at one point, I'm impressed Buzzy still got to a runway, but Victor's one-step-forward, two-steps-back gameplay was a likely factor.

NHO "carbonara", ended up 4/5 in Sauce. I thought for sure "Cholula" would be a TS since it's far more obscure than Tabasco or Frank's.

HIMYM was my only get in that NYC category.

I can't say I've encountered the word "mourner" that much.

I didn't fall for the negbait on Discover Card. Fun fact: the creator of the Discover Card has a son, Ray Kennedy, who is a country singer/songwriter/producer. Here's his only hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2mnS3cCCPg

NHO "Belle Starr" or "Alphabet". The latter clue was a stupid miss, because I totally failed to notice that hey, "alphabet" is before "apple" in the alphabet, so even if I've NHOI, it must be right.

0/5 in Peter and the Wolf. I suck at classical.

I have never before seen someone so far in the red on a DD that even the max bet and a right answer couldn't get them out of the hole.

"Gored" eluded me in 5 Letters because I wasn't understanding the clue; didn't pick up that the "run" was in the past tense.

WLT "Asia Minor" at $400?

No guess on FJ! I know almost nothing about Jefferson Davis.

[doihavetoreally]

Haven't really watched in 2 weeks so I thought it was just my rust, but after seeing the responses here I am probably not alone.

Haifa and Palestine as DDs in the same game? Interesting.

I don't like stupid answer categories and it showed. For the 'lost' clue, I thought 'lost' was the obvious and trying to figure out what the misdirection was...oh well.

I instagot Davis and no one else crossed my mind. Lee? Might have thought of him if given some more time. Mudd and Beauregard? -- not after a whole day!!

Victor played like a someone like a Boardie? -- and I don't remember audition cities, are there Hawaii auditions?

[sarisson]

What a rough set of boards tonight. I had my worst game in over four months. "Stupid Answers" categories are bad enough, but adding "misdirection" makes them twice as bad.
Instawrong FJ with the same response as several others above.
I think a lot of what AP wrote about Julia applies to Buzzy as well. Both of them have had good gets, but their games have had a ton of stand-and-stares. Both of them average ~$20k per game, and it wasn't until Julia's fifteenth game that she had a Coryat of over $23k. I'm confident he can make it past the quarterfinals, but I'd be hesitant to put him above Silver for TOC predictions.