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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #7607, 2017-10-10

Austin Rogers game 11.

CONTESTANTS
Sarah Favorite, a graduate student and health data specialist from Williston, North Dakota
Chris Cardinal, a software entrepreneur from Phoenix, Arizona
Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York (whose 10-day cash winnings total $365,400)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. If you were watching yesterday, you know that Austin celebrated Columbus Day in a very nice way, picking up an additional $33,000. Chris and Sarah, you gotta be at your best today. Good luck, players. Here we go. Jeopardy! Round. We'll get right into it.

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
EXPLORING THE WORLD (4/5) (Alex: With Sven Lindblad, CEO of Lindblad Expeditions.)
FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY (4/5)
2017 MOVIE TAGLINES (3/5)
CHURCHILL, FDR OR STALIN (5/5)
TRANS"PO"TATION (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
THE WRITING STUFF (3/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Austin: 10 R (including 2 rebounds and 1 DD), 0 W
Chris: 9 R (including 1 rebound), 3 W
Sarah: 4 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 7
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $5,800



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Austin found the Daily Double on the 15th clue. Austin had $1,400, Chris had $600, and Sarah was at $800. Austin made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,400.

TRANS"PO"TATION $800: Its first venture transported an 1860 message from President Buchanan to California gov. John Downey

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Austin: $2,800
Sarah: $800
Chris: $600

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Sarah Favorite is from North Dakota. And Jeopardy! came into her life early on as a punishment?

Sarah: Well, if I got a bad grade on a test or a report card, my punishment was that I couldn't watch Jeopardy!

Alex: I hope that did not happen very often.

Sarah: Once or twice.

Alex: Once or twice only.

Sarah: Yeah.

Alex: All right, good for you. You have good parents.




Alex: Chris Cardinal, software entrepreneur from Arizona. And your dogs are internet famous?

Chris: That's right. I taped a video of them running for their food every two weeks, from 11 weeks all the way up to 11 months. And it went viral, got 13 million views. It went on national TV. So my dogs are way more famous than I am.

Alex: Unless you happen to defeat this man...




Alex: Austin Rivers [sic], our champion. What do you want to talk about today, champ?

Austin: I don't know, dude. What do you wanna talk about?

Alex: I'm easy. How about, uh, you commute to work on a bicycle in New York?

Austin: I do. It's really--so I'm a bartender. So I'm riding my bike home at like, 4:30, 5 in the morning. No one's on the streets. It's great. My current bike--I had naming contests for my bikes. First one was James Van Der Bike. He got wrecked. Second was Bike Tyson. He got stolen. Third one I had a naming contest. The overwhelming vote was Alex Trebike, but I did not allow it, because that's an insult to an august man. So I went with Spokey Robinson instead.

[Laughter]

Austin: I did not name that. I did not name it. It was a naming contest.

Alex: All right.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
2017 MOVIE TAGLINES $800: "Kevin has 23 distinct personalities. The 24th is about to be unleashed"

2017 MOVIE TAGLINES $1000: "Just because you're invited, doesn't mean you're welcome"

TRANS"PO"TATION $600: A runabout is a small type of this, usually with an outboard or stern-driven engine

EXPLORING THE WORLD $1000: (Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) The rule of thumb for explorers is to not approach wildlife too closely as they can become fearful & angry... but on a lucky day in this Scandinavian nation's Svalbard archipelago a small herd of walrus seemingly welcomed me
(Alex: And of course, our thanks to Sven for doing such a good job on that category. I'm looking forward to going to South Georgia Island with you, Sven.)

THE WRITING STUFF $600: Aunt Grace wants 1 more copy; good thing you put out your poems using P.O.D., short for this
(Chris: What is payable on delivery?)

THE WRITING STUFF $800: Add a dose of this quality to your novel, the incongruity between what was expected & what actually occurs
(Alex: We have less than a minute to deal with the last four clues.)

FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $1000: It's paired with coo to mean whisper endearments

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Austin: $6,000
Chris: $3,400
Sarah: $600
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
ZOOLOGY (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
19th CENTURY SPORTS (4/5)
THE NEWSPAPER GAME (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
IN DISPENSABLE (4/5) (Alex: Each correct response will be a word made up of the letters you can find in the word "dispensable.")
A KNIGHT (4/5)
AT THE OPERA (3/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Austin: 16 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Chris: 5 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Sarah: 4 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 5
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $7,600



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Chris snagged the next Daily Double on the 19th clue. Austin had $14,800, Chris had $6,200, and Sarah was at $2,600. Chris wagered $5,000.

THE NEWSPAPER GAME $2000: A newspaper founded in London in 1855 was named for this, then the hottest new communication technology
(Alex: No more Daily Doubles on the board.)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Austin who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 23rd clue. Austin had $17,200, Chris had $11,200, and Sarah was at $3,800. Austin wagered $3,500.

ZOOLOGY $2000: On rare occasions this Arctic cetacean can grow 2 spiral tusks

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
AT THE OPERA $800: With a river in its title, this first opera of the "Ring" cycle features Flosshilde & 2 other river maidens

AT THE OPERA $2000: In the opera "Boris Godunov", Fyodor is the real son of the czar & Grigory is this "false" character

19th CENTURY SPORTS $1200: On June 6, 1892 he became the first president to attend a major league baseball game while in office
(Austin: Who is Cleveland?)

A KNIGHT $2000: Sir Safir was a Christian knight of this descent, a French word for Arabs & Muslims during the Crusades
(Sarah: What is a Moor?)

IN DISPENSABLE $1600: In heraldry, colors have special names; the black on the shield seen here is called this

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Austin: $26,300 (lock game)
Chris: $11,200
Sarah: $2,200

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY NOVELS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; lock for second place.
Austin: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $3,899 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Chris: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $6,799 (martian), and enjoy 2nd place.
Sarah: You've no hope of catching up... unless Chris does something stupid. So risk $2,199.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The protagonist of this novel "was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945"

FINAL SCORES
Sarah: $2,200 + $2,100 = $4,300 (What is 1984?) (3rd place: $1,000)
Chris: $11,200 - $0 = $11,200 (What is Picture of Dorian Gray?) (2nd place: $2,000)
Austin: $26,300 + $3,000 = $29,300 (What is 1984?) (11-day champion: $394,700)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $13,400

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Austin: $24,200, 26 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Chris: $8,200, 14 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Sarah: $2,200, 8 R, 3 W
Combined Coryat: $34,600

BATTING AVERAGES
Austin: 27/60 = .450
Chris: 14/59 = .237
Sarah: 9/58 = .155
Team: 50/63 = .794

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
EXPLORING THE WORLD $200: (Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) My first visit to Lindblad Cove, which was named after my father who in 1966 led the first tourist expedition to this continent, it moved me deeply with its beauty & family history
[ERRATUM: Improper punctuation in the clue.]

EXPLORING THE WORLD $400: (Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) On some of the 50 trips I've made to these islands, my kids accompanied me; seeing them interact with the wildlife there illustrates the term "giant tortoise"

EXPLORING THE WORLD $600: (Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) Local fishermen have made areas where they used to fish off-limits in order to bolster the ecosystem making the diving experience off this Mexican peninsula the most spectacular I've ever had
(Sarah: What is the Yucatán?)
(Chris: What is the Yucatán?)

EXPLORING THE WORLD $800: (Sven Lindblad gives the clue.) My journeys have taken me to Camp Leakey, a research facility which fights to rescue & protect the orangutan in its endangered habitat on this island shared by Indonesia, Malaysia & Brunei

TRANS"PO"TATION $1000: Sea planes are called this type of plane when using special buoyant landing gear

CHURCHILL, FDR OR STALIN $400: He died last
(Chris: Who is FDR?)
...
(Alex: 1965.)

CHURCHILL, FDR OR STALIN $600: He had 6 children
(Sarah: Who is Stalin?)

FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY $600: This herb is a traditional symbol of remembrance

AT THE OPERA $1600: (I am Placido Domingo.) The Duke of Mantua sings one of the most famous arias of all time in this opera named for a hunchbacked court jester

19th CENTURY SPORTS $800: Seen here is this man, who in 1891 came up with a new sport

ZOOLOGY $800: Throw that baby shower quick! Of mammals, this American marsupial has the shortest gestation, 12-13 days
(Alex: And I misled you a moment ago. There is a Daily Double still in play on the board.)

IN DISPENSABLE $2000: Fired a gun from a hidden position
(Austin: What is [*]?)
(Alex: We'll accept that, even though we phrased it in the past.)

CORRECT RESPONSES
the Pony Express
Split
Get Out
powerboat
Norway
printing on demand
irony
bill
the telegraph
a narwhal
Das Rheingold
the false Dimitri
Benjamin Harrison
Saracen
sable
1984
Antarctica
the Galápagos Islands
Baja California
Borneo
a pontoon plane
Churchill
FDR
rosemary
Rigoletto
Naismith
the opossum
snipe
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
20th CENTURY NOVELS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The protagonist of this novel “was fairly sure that his age was 39, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945”

Austin Rogers: 26,300+3000=29300 (11x = $394,700)
Chris Cardinal: 11200-0=11200
Sarah Favorite: 2200+2100=4300

Correct response:
Spoiler
1984 (Chris – Picture of Dorian Gray)

Daily Doubles
Austin: 1400+1400
Chris: 6200+5000
Austin: 17200+3500

Coryats
Austin: 24200
Chris: 8200
Sarah: 2200

Combined: 34,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Austin: 6000
Chris: 3400
Sarah: 600
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I thought there was no chance for all 61 clues with the slow reading for the Lindblad clues and the performance for the opera clue.

This was not Alex's best game with two big errors he had to correct. More than once he referred to the champ as Austin Rivers and after DD2 Alex said there were no more Daily Doubles left.

Austin called Alex, "dude" during story time and did not have the play along sense of Ken Jennings to go along with the open invitation to talk about whatever he wanted. It was saved by the card having the bicycle names tidbit. James Vanderbike, Bike Tyson, Alex Trebike, and Spokey Robinson got laughs and I liked Austin calling Alex an "August man" in turning down the Trebike suggestion.

Austin's opening was a musical conductor with attitude.

I needed a mulligan on the FJ! clue as I wrote Catcher in the Rye while considering Catch-22, Of Mice and Men and A Confederacy of Dunces as I thought I needed something J! likes or some dumb guy. It took more than half the time for me to do the math and wake up for the easy switch that thankfully was a quick write.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2017 11:30 am
More than once he referred to the champ as Austin Rivers and after DD2 Alex said there were no more Daily Doubles left.
Someone must have gone to a few Clippers games recently.
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A strong if unspectacular game for Austin; his Coryat of $24,200 was his best yet. He just keeps rolling along. With another win he would likely catch Matt Jackson on the regular-play earnings list, and with a big payday he could also surpass Julia Collins and David Madden for second all-time behind Ken Jennings (he needs at least $35,701 to pass Madden).

Absurdly easy FJ as long as you didn't over-think it and were reasonably careful on what was far from a difficult exercise in mathematical addition.

I found it odd that court "jester" was the response to a clue in the "Knight" category while the phrase "court jester" had appeared in the opera clue for which Rigoletto was the correct response.
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I was checking the comments on Reddit and that reminded me to look for the lowering of the privacy panels. Two games and both times I failed to notice. There it was after Austin was declared the winner and the shot of three contestants was shown. Down. Like magic.
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I'm ready for a moratorium on "1984" as a correct J! response. So much for the theory of increasing difficulty this week!... :roll:
NJ gubernatorial debate on WABC tonight so watched this at the other place...
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WABC in New York is having the NJ Gubernatorial Debate tonight at 7 and 7:30.

J! and Wheel will be shown at 2:05 and 2:35 am tonight.
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My NYC cable system decided to air NJ governors debate instead of J. :cry:
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Link anyone? In my pm box?
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I call foul on accepting "What is 'snipe'?" on that last clue, as the clue went out of its way to lead to the past-tense form of the verb ("What is 'sniped'?"). Upon further review of the scores, Austin would have had a lock either way (though counting against, it would have been much closer), but it's still surprising that the judges would be so willing to simply hand Austin more free money, given that they've been so brutally persnickety with rulings against other players during this run.

Austin was clearly more warmed up in this game than Monday's, but I thought Chris's momentum was going to carry him further after that big DD wager. For all his on-screen antics, you can tell when Austin puts his Game Face on and gets serious about pulling away.
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brick wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2017 7:33 pm Link anyone? In my pm box?
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Coryat: $27,200
DDs: 2/3
FJ!: :mrgreen:

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Couple of easy whiffs in the Sports category.

Instaget FJ!, just needed to do the math.
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zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:02 pm I call foul on accepting "What is 'snipe'?" on that last clue, as the clue went out of its way to lead to the past-tense form of the verb ("What is 'sniped'?"). Upon further review of the scores, Austin would have had a lock either way (though counting against, it would have been much closer), but it's still surprising that the judges would be so willing to simply hand Austin more free money, given that they've been so brutally persnickety with rulings against other players during this run.
I don't if that would have been a lock if Austin was negged on that. He would finish at $22,300, and Chris, who was attempting to ring in, would likely get that and pick up the $2000 to get to $13,200. (NOTE: Based on his reddit comments, it sounds like he knew the correct response). That said, it was all a moot point after Final.
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zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:02 pm I call foul on accepting "What is 'snipe'?" on that last clue, as the clue went out of its way to lead to the past-tense form of the verb ("What is 'sniped'?"). Upon further review of the scores, Austin would have had a lock either way (though counting against, it would have been much closer), but it's still surprising that the judges would be so willing to simply hand Austin more free money, given that they've been so brutally persnickety with rulings against other players during this run.

Austin was clearly more warmed up in this game than Monday's, but I thought Chris's momentum was going to carry him further after that big DD wager. For all his on-screen antics, you can tell when Austin puts his Game Face on and gets serious about pulling away.
Alex really didn't like this either. He called it out pretty aggressively in the break because they were obviously looking for past-tense, but when I asked Maggie she said there was precedent for accepting this sort of situation, so.

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Cross-posting from Reddit for y'all:

Things that irritated me about this round:

1) I was playing Austin. Couldn't draw into a normal crowd of fellow middling contestants?

2) Opera. It's a good thing the camera isn't on us when they're revealing categories because I physically threw my arms up and implored the heavens.

3) The buzzer. Oh god, the buzzer. There were at least 6, maybe 7 or 8 that I straight got beaten on the buzzer.

4) I swear to god I can do basic math but by the time FJ rolled around and I was already blown out, I didn't really care to double check my answer, and I saw something about age and just threw down a stupid (not even 20th century) guess. Whoopsie. Of course I've read 1984. Ugh.

5) I am amazed at how fast DJ rolls. It just... happens. It's done in 7 minutes. It's crazy. And you can see the game starting to get away from you, but Knights were ALSO not my category and that put me at a real significant disadvantage. Even still, it's crazy to me that but for 2x$2,000 and 2x$1,600 clues that Austin beat me on buzzer, we're within $1k of each other, but instead it's a runaway. Absolutely crazy to me.

6) My brain refused to process some very basic clues. Pontoons? I just kept saying "float plane. float plane. doesn't fit the category. float plane." Don't know how NONE of us came up with "powerboat". And zoology was not stuff that was fresh in my brain either.

That all said, the experience was one of the most fun things I've ever done. It's so freaking cool to play the game and to just throw down. I'm barely on the cusp of people who should've qualified to be there, so it's not a surprise that I got beat, and I've definitely beat myself up for not going a bit more aggressive on a few things I knew, especially against an aggressive opponent, but whatever, I'll come back when Alex isn't hosting anymore!

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Trash pickup: Norway, Das Rheingold, Dmitri. Instaget final. Still in the "Austin is getting fat on weak competition" camp.
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badgerfellow wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:11 pm
zerobandwidth wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2017 8:02 pm I call foul on accepting "What is 'snipe'?" on that last clue, as the clue went out of its way to lead to the past-tense form of the verb ("What is 'sniped'?"). Upon further review of the scores, Austin would have had a lock either way (though counting against, it would have been much closer), but it's still surprising that the judges would be so willing to simply hand Austin more free money, given that they've been so brutally persnickety with rulings against other players during this run.
I don't if that would have been a lock if Austin was negged on that. He would finish at $22,300, and Chris, who was attempting to ring in, would likely get that and pick up the $2000 to get to $13,200. (NOTE: Based on his reddit comments, it sounds like he knew the correct response). That said, it was all a moot point after Final.
Even if Chris had clammed he would've had $11,200 which--check my math--is more than half of $22,300. Didn't matter since Chris missed FJ and Austin got it. But I agree Austin should've been ruled incorrect. "Snipe" does not mean "fired a gun from a hidden location." I understand they give latitude about tenses in certain situations. This doesn't seem like it should be one of them.
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