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Monday, September 23, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #6671, 2013-09-23

CONTESTANTS
Stephanie Femrite Stevens, a recycling operations specialist from Arbutus, Maryland
Collin Adams, a Presbyterian minister from Pollocksville, North Carolina
Matt Volk, a financial analyst from Cedar Rapids, Iowa (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,400)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. Last Friday, we said goodbye to a Jeopardy! champion who left our program having won over $180,000. He got our 30th season off to a great start. Will it continue? Well, let me tell you that the young man who is our returning champion, Matt, Is the player who defeated that $180,000 winner. Collin and Stephanie are his challengers today. Good luck to all three of you. Here we go into the jeopardy! Round. And here come the categories, starting off with...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS (4/5)
HAWAII... NOT! (4/5)
THE AGRICULTURAL HALL OF FAME (5/5)
"OY" VEY (5/5) (Alex: Each correct response will end in "O-Y".)
PARDON ME (5/5)
BROADWAY (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) (Jimmy: This season's hottest shows!)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Stephanie: 11 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 0 W
Matt: 9 R, 1 W
Collin: 8 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,600



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Collin: $2,600
Stephanie: $1,800
Matt: $1,200

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Stephanie Femrite Stevens from Maryland, a deacon in her church, which means you do what?

Stephanie: Role of the deacon is basically to visit homebound members, prepare meals for people who are ill. We also work a lot with the men's shelter. It's in southwest Baltimore County, so there's a lot of need. And I've been doing that for about five years now, and I love it.

Alex: Pro bono work. Good for you. Congratulations.




Alex: Collin Adams is a Presbyterian minister whose father was also a minister?

Collin: Yes, indeed. He is a minister in Blairsville, Georgia. Uh, and my mom was always afraid of her boys becoming ministers.

Alex: Why?

Collin: Not really for our sake, but more for the sake of the women we married. She knew how hard it was to be a preacher's wife and didn't really want them to go into the same business.

Alex: And how long have your mom and dad been married?

Collin: I think, I want to say, about 32 years.

Alex: And how many years of happy marriage? Oh, don't answer.

[Laughter]

Alex: Just based on what you said about your mom.




Alex: Matt Volk is our champion. You and I have done something similar. We have both visited Machu Picchu. But there is a very tall peak right next to Machu Picchu which you climbed?

Matt: I did. I visited Machu Picchu and toured the area, and we decided, "Hey, let's climb Huayna Picchu and see if we can get a better view."

Alex: Boy, that's a tough climb. How long did it take you?

Matt: It was about three hours on the way up and then an hour on the way back down.

Alex: Yeah, I never had the nerve or the strength to make that climb.

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Stephanie found the Daily Double on the 28th clue. Matt had $3,400, Collin had $4,600, and Stephanie was at $4,800. Stephanie wagered $500.

BROADWAY $600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) Theatergoers are dancing in the aisles at "Motown: The Musical" about this record-company founder & his legendary artists

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS $1000: The first period of the Paleozoic era, named from an old word for Wales

HAWAII... NOT! $600: Australia's Gibson Desert was named for an expedition member who died searching for this
(Collin: What is Ayers Rock?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Stephanie: $6,100
Collin: $4,600
Matt: $4,400
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES (2/3, including 1 correct Daily Double)
ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
TV FOR THEE & ME (5/5)
THE QUOTABLE DOROTHY PARKER (2/2)
DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS (3/5)
I LOVE YOU, "MAN" (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Matt: 8 R, 1 W
Collin: 8 R (including 1 DD), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Stephanie: 3 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 25
Triple Stumpers: 5
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $8,000



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Collin snagged the next Daily Double on the 18th clue. Matt had $10,000, Collin had $11,400, and Stephanie was at $7,300. Collin wagered $1,000.

ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $1600: It's the "ism" defined as the belief that creatures & natural objects have souls
(Collin: What is panentheism?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Collin who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 25th clue. Matt had $10,400, Collin had $11,200, and Stephanie was at $5,700. Collin wagered $600.

BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $1200: In 1886 a loft for this type of bird was built at Sandringham House; birds from the loft later saw service in WWII
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $1600: It can refer to a small, light racing boat, or the oars used to propel it
(Matt: What is a skiff?)

I LOVE YOU, "MAN" $1600: Utterly unyielding in opinion, or (in 2 words) the guy who sang "Goody Two Shoes"

BRITISH ROYAL RESIDENCES $800: This castle 22 miles west of London claims to be the oldest & largest occupied castle in the world

ANTHROPOLOGIST'S DICTIONARY $2000: The Gini index measures this, the opposite of a French Revolution slogan word; Namibia leads the world
(Stephanie: What is corruption?)

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $2000: This long skirt popular in the early 20th century was so narrow below the knees that it restricted a woman's stride

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Collin: $11,800
Matt: $10,400
Stephanie: $5,700

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
CLASSIC FILMS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Four-fifths for first place.
Collin: Wager $9,001 to cover Matt.
Matt: You have to wager $1,001 to cover Stephanie's doubled score, but certainly no more than $4,699, so as to force Stephanie to be right to have a chance at winning.
Stephanie: Think about risking $2,900 or less, thereby beating Collin on the Triple Stumper (should Collin wager to cover Matt's doubled score).

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The first scene of this movie was shot on the first day of filming, Oct. 2, 1960 at 5 A.M. at 727 5th Ave. at 57th St. in New York City

FINAL SCORES
Stephanie: $5,700 - $5,699 = $1 (What is West Side Story?) (3rd place: $1,000)
Matt: $10,400 + $8,600 = $19,000 (What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?) (2-day champion: $34,400)
Collin: $11,800 - $10,400 = $1,400 (What is Westside Story) (2nd place: $2,000)
(Alex: [To Matt] ...with star Audrey Hepburn.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $9,600

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Collin: $13,400, 16 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Matt: $10,400, 17 R, 2 W
Stephanie: $5,800, 14 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Combined Coryat: $29,600

BATTING AVERAGES
Matt: 18/58 = .310
Collin: 16/60 = .267
Stephanie: 14/59 = .237
Team: 48/63 = .762

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
"OY" VEY $600: Affectedly modest
(Matt: [Clears throat]... Sorry.)

BROADWAY $200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) In "Kinky Boots", girls & boys
just want to have fun,
kicking up their heels
to songs by this Grammy & now Tony winner

HAWAII... NOT! $400: In January Dawson City in this Canadian territory averages -16 Fahrenheit
[Alex read "degrees" into the clue even though it did not appear on screen.]

BROADWAY $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) Originally airing on television, "Cinderella", which stepped out on Broadway for the first time in 2013, features a new book by Douglas Carter Beane & the classic songs of this pair

BROADWAY $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway.) Winner of nine Tonys, "The Book of Mormon" is the first Broadway show from these two creators of "South Park"

BROADWAY
$1000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Broadway, New York.) A treat for all ages, "Matilda" is based on a book by this beloved author of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

DOUBLE-LETTER WORDS $800: It's the collarlike projection of feathers around the neck of a bird
(Collin: What is a ruffle?)
(Stephanie: What is a wattle?)
[Collin was originally ruled incorrect; this ruling was reversed before the Daily Double at clue 18. Stephanie was then returned the money she lost as a result of her incorrect response.]

I LOVE YOU, "MAN" $800: It's the region
highlighted here

CORRECT RESPONSES
Berry Gordy
the Cambrian Period
water
animism
a carrier pigeon
a scull
adamant (Adam Ant)
Windsor Castle
inequality
a hobble skirt
Breakfast at Tiffany's
coy
Cyndi Lauper
the Yukon Territory
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Parker & Stone
Roald Dahl
a ruff (ruffle accepted)
Manchuria
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Classic Films
The first scene of this movie was shot on the first day of filming, October 2, 1960 at 5 A.M. at 727 5th Avenue at 57th Street in New York City.

Spoiler
What is Breakfast at Tiffany's? Stephanie and Collin both said West Side Story.

Collin Adams: $11,800-$10,400=$1,400
Matt Volk: $10,400+$8,600=$19,000...now a 2-day champion with $34,400
Stephanie Femrite Stevens: $5,700-$5,699=$1
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Matt Volk pulled out the win with some solid play throughout and an impressive get in the Final Jeopardy! round. I'd kind of like to see him win four or five games and make the Tournament of Champions field, to set up a potential rematch with Jared Hall. The field is filling up unusually quickly, though. We already have almost fifteen players with minimum ToC qualifications (at least three wins or champion of a tournament).
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Someone said there won't be a regular TOC this season, so it will be hard for anyone without five wins to get into it when they get around to holding it.

My thinking on FJ......The address is no help at all. So what could be going on at 5:00 AM? And why film at that hour? I came up with the correct movie right away, but I've never seen the movie, so I had no idea what role breakfast actually played in the movie. Tried to think of some other movie that an early hour might be relevant but never got anywhere.

I have seen the stage version of West Side story, but it has been a long time. Why would they go for that?

Congrats to the champ on a second win. Smart late DD bet by Collin, would have been fun to see his wager without the lead (if they hadn't given him the reversal).


A tricky maneuver intended to gain an advantage. I said decoy. Judges?
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Dahl $1000?
Arbor Day $800?
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Saw "blah blah British" and blurted out "Rob Roy" to cost me the run in "Oy".

What was supposed to lead you to Yukon on Hawaii… Not for $400? Any of the Canadian provinces/territories can be really really cold, and Dawson City has never shown up in the Archive before.

4/5 in Agricultural and surprisingly, Broadway. Those could've been runs, but I chickened out on "fat" and "Rogers & Hammerstein".

Anyone else clam on "Hunter-gatherer" because "gather" was in the clue? Stop doing that outside Stupid Answers, Jeopardy! writers.

I knew Dorothy Parker's quote at $400 was something in the neighborhood of "Girls who wear glasses", but was lost on the exact phrasing. "Girls", "women", or "ladies" (apologies to Ed Bruce)? "Who wear" or "That wear"?

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No guess on FJ!

And I said what about Breakfast at Tiffany's?
She said, I think I remember the film
And as I recall I think, we both kinda liked it
And I said, well, that's the one thing we've got
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I gave exactly the same response as Collin -- "ruffle" when the show was expecting "ruff" -- so I was pleased when he was retroactively ruled correct.

I got "hunter-gatherers", but I'm pretty sure the clue contained the word "gather", so I thought that was a little weird.

For FJ, the first movie that popped into my head was "The Apartment". For about one or two seconds, I thought it might be correct -- for a movie with such a prosaic title, I thought it might make sense to clue it by stating the address.

But then I thought: The Apartment was *released* in 1960. I don't think they would have started filming in October 1960. So then I started trying to think of movies set in New York that came out around 1961, and the correct answer came to mind. I've only been to NYC twice, and don't know the city super well, but I may have walked by the title establishment, and I didn't have trouble believing that it was on Fifth Avenue.

I'm lucky I know the exact years of some movies. I don't usually, but when they win Best Picture, I sometimes do.

It's a funny coincidence that two contestants had the same incorrect response, but it's also a response that makes sense when you're struggling to find the right candidate in the category "1960s movie set in New York".
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TenPoundHammer wrote:Any of the Canadian provinces/territories can be really really cold, and Dawson City has never shown up in the Archive before.
Many of the provinces can be quite cold, but the territories are in the far north and can therefore get *really really really* cold. So guessing a territory rather than a province might make sense, but I'm originally from Canada so I'm biased.
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What a sublime FJ!

These contestants plodded the hell out of this game. Stop doing that.
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Bamaman wrote: I have seen the stage version of West Side story, but it has been a long time. Why would they go for that?
Because they couldn't think of any other NYC-set movies from that time period? The address wasn't on the West Side anyway...but I still couldn't come up with the correct answer. It appears my pattern last year on doing better on Final Jeopardy triple stumpers than on Final Jeopardy in general may be continuing.
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I own the film on DVD, and I believe there's an anecdote by Blake Edwards in the extras about there being zero traffic on Fifth Ave (or 57th) in NYC as the taxi containing Holly Golightly pulls up, which even at the hour of 5:00 AM was some kind of miracle.
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I got FJ right, based mainly on the address, but was uncertain since I couldn't figure how they could be filming at 5am at that time of year. It's pretty dark at that hour right now in the NY area.
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Bamaman wrote: I have seen the stage version of West Side story, but it has been a long time. Why would they go for that?
Same reason I did, most likely, because it is a movie set in NYC, probably filmed at least in part in NYC, and it came out in 1961. Even if you don't know it was 1961 due to knowing the Best Picture winners, it's a decent guess for an early 1960s movie filmed in New York. I wasn't overly confident in it being right, as I figured the address was meant to refer to a specific building, maybe a hotel or a skyscraper, but Tiffany's never crossed my mind and I couldn't think of any better guess.
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TenPoundHammer wrote:Any of the Canadian provinces/territories can be really really cold, and Dawson City has never shown up in the Archive before.
Many of the provinces can be quite cold, but the territories are in the far north and can therefore get *really really really* cold. So guessing a territory rather than a province might make sense, but I'm originally from Canada so I'm biased.
Guessing a territory not only made sense, I'm pretty sure the clue actually specified that it was a territory, so if you know the Canadian territories, you've got a 1 in 3 chance of guessing the right one. The Yukon is closest to Alaska, so it seemed to me that it was the most likely one they would use for a clue like this, contrasting Hawaii with Alaska. That reasoning may be a bit spurious, but when you've seen enough clues written by the same writers, sometimes you just have to hope that your instinct is correct in where they are trying to lead you.
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And now I have that stupid song by Deep Blue Something in my head.
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If I had known what is located at that address, I would have gotten FJ. I said West Side Story because it was pretty much the only other New York movie I could think of.
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ElendilPickle wrote:If I had known what is located at that address, I would have gotten FJ.
I would certainly hope so. :mrgreen:

I'm pretty sure there's only one person on this board who could have known that Tiffany's is at that address and not written down Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Bamaman wrote:A tricky maneuver intended to gain an advantage. I said decoy. Judges?
I looked up ploy before replying. While I'd always known the general meaning, I guess I'd never known the dictionary definition.
While decoy could semi sorta maybe be used in that way, it isn't necessarily used that way. There are other uses. Ploy, on the other hand, is defined exactly as they defined it.
Then again... what does a duck decoy do? Gives the hunter an advantage over its prey. Of course, it's not a maneuver in that usage.
I'm not calling this one! ;)
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I chose Yukon over the other two because I the name Yukon conjures up a cold, barren wilderness in my mind.

Or maybe its just because of this guy.

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Rough day for me - a lot of ones I clammed on only because I wasn't completely sure. Coryat 15000, and that to me seems a minor miracle.

I got Yukon Territory for the same reason I clammed on Hunter-Gatherer - because I figured there was no way that the writers would put a portion of the correct response in the clue itself. (I know the full name is the "Yukon Territory", but I've heard it referred to strictly as "Yukon" regularly - but conversely, the Northwest Territory/Territories are ALWAYS the Northwest Territory/Territories, from what I understand)

Didn't come close to "Breakfast At Tiffany's", I guessed "An Affair to Remember" instead even though I was pretty sure that was 1950s (and indeed, upon checking, is 1957). So tonight was entirely forgettable.
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