Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2016 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #7252, 2016-03-08
CONTESTANTS
Annie Moriondo, a bookseller from Somerville, Massachusetts
Paul Hoan Zeidler, a writer and director from Los Angeles, California
Brent Povis, a board game designer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,789)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Hey, Johnny. thank you. Hi, folks. You can really make yourself fell good in your initial appearance on Jeopardy! by winning the game and also a lot of money. And that is certainly the case for Brent on yesterday's show, where he picked up nearly $25,000. Paul and Annie, could happen to you, you know. Depends. Good luck. Here we go. Lot of things at play, and in the first round these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
PLAYBOY (4/5)
TV IS REALLY COOKING (5/5)
LITERARY LAST NAMES (5/5)
2015 CONGRESS FOLK (4/4)
ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Annie: 11 R (including 3 rebounds), 0 W
Paul: 8 R, 2 W
Brent: 6 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,400
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Brent found the Daily Double on the 15th clue. Brent had $600, Paul had $2,200, and Annie was at $4,200. Brent wagered $1,000.
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 $800: Part of this 1940 Henry Fonda movie was filmed in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on Route 66
(Brent: What is How the West Was Won?)
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Annie: $4,200
Paul: $2,200
Brent: -$400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Annie Moriondo is from Massachusetts, and took about a month off once to take courses in what?
Annie: In holography, which is, uh...
Alex: You can take courses in that.
Annie: ...is the art and science of making holograms.
Alex: Yeah, and in order to achieve what in life? Was it just for fun?
Annie: It was in college. It was a college course. It was just our winter term and we did, um--but yeah, you develop them in a dark room, use a laser. You got glass plates. It's really fun.
Alex: Okay.
Alex: Paul Hoan Zeidler from Los Angeles, writer/director, who, if he wins a lot of money on our program, would try to produce a special production of Hamlet. Now one of the big hits on Broadway this year was Hamilton.
Paul: Mm-hmm.
Alex: That was set in the Revolutionary War. You wanna set Hamlet in...
Paul: Yes, in the Revolutionary War.
Alex: Also.
Paul: It--I think it's, um... you look at Shakespeare and how he's going through the plays and how he--he uses his protagonist. Like, I got that guy. I got that guy. And then you got to Hamlet, and you think he wrote someone who was a little bit more out of the enlightenment than he was out of the Elizabethan era.
Alex: Mm-hmm.
Paul: And if you think about it, Hamlet's got to rebel between reason and action and, and, uh, there's a lot of things in it. Lot of different paths at the top of that mountain.
Alex: Lot of music, right?
Paul: Mm. [Laughs]
Alex: Maybe? No? Not necessarily.
Alex: Brent Povis is our champion. After reading a great deal about Jack London and reading his works, you have decided to do what?
Brent: Well, I--I thought I had decided to become a, uh, fisherman in the North Sea.
Alex: Oh, really? [Chuckles]
Brent: It was quixotic, I admit, but, uh, it didn't turn out for the best. Turns out I should've checked my sea sickness tolerance beforehand.
[Laughter]
Alex: That helps. So you did set--spend some time at sea?
Brent: Traveled from Newcastle to Bergen just to get there, and that alone on the--on the seas did not work out well. I switched to land-based adventures.
Alex: Try going to Antarctica across that strait from South America. And that'll take you off ocean travel for a while. You're still in command of the board, though, even though you're at -$400. So go ahead, put yourself on the plus side.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
PLAYBOY $600: In 2009, she stepped down after twenty years running Playboy Enterprises
(Alex: And that is [*]. Hugh's daughter.)
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 $600: The only major city on Route 66 in Texas' upper panhandle; its attractions include Taylor's Texaco station
(Paul: What is Lubbock?)
ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $200: A former spouse
(Alex: Homophone of a letter of the alphabet.)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Annie: $7,400
Paul: $4,000
Brent: $800
CONTESTANTS
Annie Moriondo, a bookseller from Somerville, Massachusetts
Paul Hoan Zeidler, a writer and director from Los Angeles, California
Brent Povis, a board game designer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (whose 1-day cash winnings total $24,789)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Hey, Johnny. thank you. Hi, folks. You can really make yourself fell good in your initial appearance on Jeopardy! by winning the game and also a lot of money. And that is certainly the case for Brent on yesterday's show, where he picked up nearly $25,000. Paul and Annie, could happen to you, you know. Depends. Good luck. Here we go. Lot of things at play, and in the first round these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
PLAYBOY (4/5)
TV IS REALLY COOKING (5/5)
LITERARY LAST NAMES (5/5)
2015 CONGRESS FOLK (4/4)
ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Annie: 11 R (including 3 rebounds), 0 W
Paul: 8 R, 2 W
Brent: 6 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,400
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Brent found the Daily Double on the 15th clue. Brent had $600, Paul had $2,200, and Annie was at $4,200. Brent wagered $1,000.
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 $800: Part of this 1940 Henry Fonda movie was filmed in Santa Rosa, New Mexico on Route 66
(Brent: What is How the West Was Won?)
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Annie: $4,200
Paul: $2,200
Brent: -$400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Annie Moriondo is from Massachusetts, and took about a month off once to take courses in what?
Annie: In holography, which is, uh...
Alex: You can take courses in that.
Annie: ...is the art and science of making holograms.
Alex: Yeah, and in order to achieve what in life? Was it just for fun?
Annie: It was in college. It was a college course. It was just our winter term and we did, um--but yeah, you develop them in a dark room, use a laser. You got glass plates. It's really fun.
Alex: Okay.
Alex: Paul Hoan Zeidler from Los Angeles, writer/director, who, if he wins a lot of money on our program, would try to produce a special production of Hamlet. Now one of the big hits on Broadway this year was Hamilton.
Paul: Mm-hmm.
Alex: That was set in the Revolutionary War. You wanna set Hamlet in...
Paul: Yes, in the Revolutionary War.
Alex: Also.
Paul: It--I think it's, um... you look at Shakespeare and how he's going through the plays and how he--he uses his protagonist. Like, I got that guy. I got that guy. And then you got to Hamlet, and you think he wrote someone who was a little bit more out of the enlightenment than he was out of the Elizabethan era.
Alex: Mm-hmm.
Paul: And if you think about it, Hamlet's got to rebel between reason and action and, and, uh, there's a lot of things in it. Lot of different paths at the top of that mountain.
Alex: Lot of music, right?
Paul: Mm. [Laughs]
Alex: Maybe? No? Not necessarily.
Alex: Brent Povis is our champion. After reading a great deal about Jack London and reading his works, you have decided to do what?
Brent: Well, I--I thought I had decided to become a, uh, fisherman in the North Sea.
Alex: Oh, really? [Chuckles]
Brent: It was quixotic, I admit, but, uh, it didn't turn out for the best. Turns out I should've checked my sea sickness tolerance beforehand.
[Laughter]
Alex: That helps. So you did set--spend some time at sea?
Brent: Traveled from Newcastle to Bergen just to get there, and that alone on the--on the seas did not work out well. I switched to land-based adventures.
Alex: Try going to Antarctica across that strait from South America. And that'll take you off ocean travel for a while. You're still in command of the board, though, even though you're at -$400. So go ahead, put yourself on the plus side.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
PLAYBOY $600: In 2009, she stepped down after twenty years running Playboy Enterprises
(Alex: And that is [*]. Hugh's daughter.)
TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 $600: The only major city on Route 66 in Texas' upper panhandle; its attractions include Taylor's Texaco station
(Paul: What is Lubbock?)
ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES $200: A former spouse
(Alex: Homophone of a letter of the alphabet.)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Annie: $7,400
Paul: $4,000
Brent: $800