Tuesday, November 8, 2011 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 11:38 am
Game Recap for Show #6242, 2011-11-08
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.
CONTESTANTS
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Hi, everyone. Well, this is the day we find out which players get to come back for the next three days to play in our semifinals. Mark, Justin, and Christopher, welcome to the fifth and last of our quarterfinal matches. Good luck. Here comes the Jeopardy! Round for you. Get you off on the good foot, on the right foot, with these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
IT'S YES-VEMBER (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double) (Alex: It's not November...)
CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC (4/5)
BOOK 'EM! (3/5)
ALL SAINTS DAYS (5/5)
ABBREV. (5/5)
TAKE A DRIVE ON I-65 (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Mark: 12 R, 0 W
Justin: 10 R, 0 W
Christopher: 4 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,600
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Mark: $3,800
Justin: $2,600
Christopher: $0
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Christopher Short is a pub trivia editor from Indiana whose pub quiz recently had a question about the rules of Jeopardy!, and that caused a bit of a controversy. What was it?
Christopher: Yeah, that's right. We asked, basically, what the lowest dollar amount is that you can win the game with, and, uh, one of our players actually had the audacity to e-mail and say that he thought that we were incorrect on that. So I had a pretty good time, you know, directing him to several web sites that showed my authority on the matter.
[Laughter]
Alex: Feels good when you're a person of authority, right?
Christopher: Exactly, yes.
Alex: Yeah, I feel good, too.
[Christopher laughs.]
Alex: Justin Sausville from Baltimore, Maryland. You had the shortest wait of any of our champions before coming back to the show. Uh, you were profiled in The Baltimore Sun, and that caused a bit of controversy?
Justin: Well, it came out in The Baltimore Sun article that, uh, we're planning on moving to Delaware in the near future, um, sometime in November, to be specific. And this prompted a gentleman, um, from the area, to write into the paper and let loose a really blistering indictment of Maryland's tax policy, because he assumed that that was why I was leaving. In reality, I'm leaving--I'm leaving Maryland because the house that I like happens to be in Delaware.
Alex: That's not a bad reason.
Alex: Okay, Mark Runsvold from Moscow, Idaho. Student and waiter. And is it true that some of your co-workers call you "Mister..."
Mark: "Jeopardy! Pants".
[Laughter]
Alex: Of course.
Mark: My boss has pushed really hard for it. It hasn't really caught on, but he continues to... use it.
Alex: Okay. Well, let's see how well you do in this tournament, and maybe he'll push even harder, or give up the idea altogether.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Christopher found the Daily Double on the 30th clue. Mark had $6,200, Justin had $5,600, and Christopher was at $2,600. Christopher wagered $1,500.
IT'S YES-VEMBER $1000: In 1848 ladies said "Yes!" when the USA's first medical school for women opened in this state capital
(Alex: Christopher?)
(Christopher: What is Trenton?)
(Alex: No. What is [*]? [*]. You were in the right part of the country, the Northeast.)
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC $800: In a 1975 crossover hit, Freddy Fender put this word before his "Days" & "Nights"
BOOK 'EM! $800: Tashtego
(Alex: One of the harpooners in [*].)
BOOK 'EM! $1000: Pierre Bezukhov
(Alex: The big Russian novel [*].)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Mark: $6,200
Justin: $5,600
Christopher: $1,100
2011 Tournament of Champions quarterfinal game 5.
CONTESTANTS
Christopher Short, a pub trivia editor from Crawfordsville, Indiana
Justin Sausville, a urologist from Baltimore, Maryland
Mark Runsvold, a student and waiter from Moscow, Idaho
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Hi, everyone. Well, this is the day we find out which players get to come back for the next three days to play in our semifinals. Mark, Justin, and Christopher, welcome to the fifth and last of our quarterfinal matches. Good luck. Here comes the Jeopardy! Round for you. Get you off on the good foot, on the right foot, with these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
IT'S YES-VEMBER (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double) (Alex: It's not November...)
CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC (4/5)
BOOK 'EM! (3/5)
ALL SAINTS DAYS (5/5)
ABBREV. (5/5)
TAKE A DRIVE ON I-65 (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Mark: 12 R, 0 W
Justin: 10 R, 0 W
Christopher: 4 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,600
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Mark: $3,800
Justin: $2,600
Christopher: $0
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Christopher Short is a pub trivia editor from Indiana whose pub quiz recently had a question about the rules of Jeopardy!, and that caused a bit of a controversy. What was it?
Christopher: Yeah, that's right. We asked, basically, what the lowest dollar amount is that you can win the game with, and, uh, one of our players actually had the audacity to e-mail and say that he thought that we were incorrect on that. So I had a pretty good time, you know, directing him to several web sites that showed my authority on the matter.
[Laughter]
Alex: Feels good when you're a person of authority, right?
Christopher: Exactly, yes.
Alex: Yeah, I feel good, too.
[Christopher laughs.]
Alex: Justin Sausville from Baltimore, Maryland. You had the shortest wait of any of our champions before coming back to the show. Uh, you were profiled in The Baltimore Sun, and that caused a bit of controversy?
Justin: Well, it came out in The Baltimore Sun article that, uh, we're planning on moving to Delaware in the near future, um, sometime in November, to be specific. And this prompted a gentleman, um, from the area, to write into the paper and let loose a really blistering indictment of Maryland's tax policy, because he assumed that that was why I was leaving. In reality, I'm leaving--I'm leaving Maryland because the house that I like happens to be in Delaware.
Alex: That's not a bad reason.
Alex: Okay, Mark Runsvold from Moscow, Idaho. Student and waiter. And is it true that some of your co-workers call you "Mister..."
Mark: "Jeopardy! Pants".
[Laughter]
Alex: Of course.
Mark: My boss has pushed really hard for it. It hasn't really caught on, but he continues to... use it.
Alex: Okay. Well, let's see how well you do in this tournament, and maybe he'll push even harder, or give up the idea altogether.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Christopher found the Daily Double on the 30th clue. Mark had $6,200, Justin had $5,600, and Christopher was at $2,600. Christopher wagered $1,500.
IT'S YES-VEMBER $1000: In 1848 ladies said "Yes!" when the USA's first medical school for women opened in this state capital
(Alex: Christopher?)
(Christopher: What is Trenton?)
(Alex: No. What is [*]? [*]. You were in the right part of the country, the Northeast.)
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC $800: In a 1975 crossover hit, Freddy Fender put this word before his "Days" & "Nights"
BOOK 'EM! $800: Tashtego
(Alex: One of the harpooners in [*].)
BOOK 'EM! $1000: Pierre Bezukhov
(Alex: The big Russian novel [*].)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Mark: $6,200
Justin: $5,600
Christopher: $1,100