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Game Recap for Show #6275, 2011-12-23

Jason Keller game 6.

CONTESTANTS
Erin Arlow, a stay-at-home mom from Portland, Oregon
Sara Plant, a travel specialist from Redondo Beach, California
Jason Keller, a tutor from Highland Park, New Jersey (whose 5-day cash winnings total $127,000)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. $127,000--that's why this is a very merry holiday season for our champion, Jason, but today two women are gonna try to gang up on him. Sara and Erin, welcome aboard. Let's go to work, shall we? Here comes the Jeopardy! Round, and here come your categories, starting off with this one...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
ANIMAL TYPES (4/5)
AN ABBREVIATED STORY (4/5)
GERMAN CHANCELLORS SINCE WWII (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
SEE FOOD (2/2)
NBA FINALS MVP (5/5)
STOP THAT RACKET! (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jason: 14 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Erin: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Sara: 3 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W

Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,400



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Jason found the Daily Double on the 10th clue. Jason had $3,600, Sara had $200, and Erin was at $400. Jason wagered $2,000.

GERMAN CHANCELLORS SINCE WWII $600: As chancellor from 1982 to 1998, Helmut Kohl presided over the reunification of Germany in this year
(Jason: What is 1991?)

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Jason: $2,000
Erin: $1,400
Sara: $600

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Erin Arlow is from Portland, Oregon. Erin, in my native country of Canada, in Quebec City, as part of the winter carnival, they construct an ice hotel. You stayed in one of those, but not in Canada. Where was that?

Erin: It was in Sweden, actually.

Alex: Near the Arctic Circle, then.

Erin: It was north of the Arctic Circle.

Alex: And what was the experience like?

Erin: [Clears throat] Cold. Very chilly.

[Audience laughs]

Alex: But I mean, you're not sleeping on ice as such.

Erin: You are, um, on reindeer pelts that are laid on to blocks of ice.

Alex: Oh.

Erin: Yeah, cold.

Alex: No, no sleeping bag or anything--

Erin: One--one-in-a-million experience, though.

Alex: How about a down comforter? Do those words mean anything?

Erin: Uh, um, you know, you want animal hides, I think, is probably your most--strongest insulation.

Alex: Yeah. Are there electric outlets so you can plug in a-a heating blanket?

Erin: There were--[laughs] I don't think that'd be a good idea, Alex.

Alex: No? Darn. Melt your bed.




Alex: Okay, Sara Plant is from Redondo Beach. It's nice to help fulfill the lifelong ambitions of people you care about. You did that for your mom.

Sara: Yes, I did. I had the opportunity to take her up on the Goodyear blimp. Um, something she'd been talking to me about, you know, my whole life. So it was nice, um, to go up. And I got to go, too, so it became a part of my lifelong dream to go up as well, so...

Alex: Nice experience, huh?

Sara: Yes.

Alex: Okay.

Sara: Very loud, though.

Alex: Very loud?

Sara: Yeah.

Alex: Yeah, the motors.

Sara: Mm-hmm.

Alex: All right.




Alex: Jason Keller, I understand that on a flight from Australia once, you were upgraded because of what?

Jason: Because the person next to me, who told me that she had complained to the airline about being inconvenienced, had my last name. So, uh... we didn't know this at the time, but someone came through and s--gave her, I think, a menu card, and said, "Mrs. Keller", and then said, "Mr. Keller". Someone came through with cards for customs and called us "Mr. and Mrs. Keller", and she said, "Excuse me, I don't think he's Mr. Keller. He's certainly not related to me." But I was Mr. Keller, and she was Mrs. Keller.

Alex: Hmm. And you got upgraded because of that?

Jason: Yes.

Alex: Hey, how nice. I've gotta use that sometime.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
STOP THAT RACKET! $600: On stage, the noise of this from the audience prompted John Barrymore to throw them a fish & say, "Here, you walruses!"
(Jason: What is booing?)
(Sarah: What's the applause?)
...
(Alex: Members of the audience were [*] a lot and John Barrymore, who had a great sense of humor and a certain streak of meanness as well, threw them a fish.)

AN ABBREVIATED STORY $800: It seemed like she bought my wild story about surviving an attack from an RPG, this
(Alex: That's [*]. Heard a lot about that during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.)

ANIMAL TYPES $1000: Parnassian &
Gossamer-winged

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Jason: $4,800
Erin: $3,400
Sara: $800
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE DREIDEL WILL ROCK (5/5)
THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION (2/5)
GOING THE DISTANCE (4/5)
WHAT'S UP, "ESSE"? (5/5)
GEMSTONES (2/2, including 1 correct Daily Double)
STOP THAT RACKET! (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jason: 14 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Sara: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Erin: 2 R (including 1 rebound), 3 W

Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 5
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $6,000



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Jason snagged the next Daily Double on the 13th clue. Jason had $13,200, Sara had $4,400, and Erin was at $3,400. Jason wagered $2,000.

STOP THAT RACKET! $1600: The old-time illegal lottery called this game employed runners to take bets
(Alex: Jason?)
(Jason: No. [Shakes head])

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Jason who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 27th clue. Jason had $15,600, Sara had $3,200, and Erin was at $1,800. Jason wagered $1,400.

GEMSTONES $800: The Aztecs prized this blue-green gemstone & a double-headed serpent mosaic of it is an icon of their art
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
STOP THAT RACKET! $400: This racket is extorting money by saying you'll keep bad guys (aka yourself) from hurting someone

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1200: She gave readers "Breathing Lessons" & took home the prize for her efforts
(Sara: Who is Erica Jong?)
(Erin: Who is Toni Morrison?)

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $1600: Junot Diaz won in 2008 for "The Brief Wondrous Life of" him
(Erin: Who is Oscar Yao?)

GOING THE DISTANCE $2000: It's a 30 mile swim across the Alenuihaha Channel from the Big Island of Hawaii to this nearest island

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $800: "Humboldt's Gift" earned this author the gift of a Pulitzer

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Jason: $17,000 (lock game)
Sara: $3,200
Erin: $1,800

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
POLITICAL WORDS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; crush for second place.
Jason: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $10,599 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Sara: Wager $401 to cover Erin.
Erin: You have the hope of surpassing Sara for second place if you come up with the correct response or if your opponent fails to. Bet between $1,000 and $1,798.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
16th century British farmers notching their livestock for identification led to this term for an item set aside for a specific purpose

FINAL SCORES
Erin: $1,800 - $1,401 = $399 (What is pork barrel) (3rd place: $1,000)
Sara: $3,200 + $400 = $3,600 (What is earmarking?) (2nd place: $2,000)
Jason: $17,000 + $3,000 = $20,000 (What is earmark?) (6-day champion: $147,000)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $8,400

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Jason: $20,400, 28 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 2 DDs)
Sara: $3,200, 8 R, 3 W
Erin: $1,800, 8 R, 3 W
Combined Coryat: $25,400

BATTING AVERAGES
Jason: 29/61 = .475
Sara: 9/58 = .155
Erin: 8/58 = .138
Team: 46/63 = .730

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
GERMAN CHANCELLORS SINCE WWII $800: Gerhard Schroder, Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, deployed German troops to this 250,000-square-mile Asian country
(Jason: What is Iraq?)
...
(Alex: Yeah, if you--if it's not Iraq, it should be [*].)

ANIMAL TYPES $400: Sumatran &
greater one-horned
(Jason: What's an ape?)
...
(Alex: [*]--yes indeed--one-horned.)

STOP THAT RACKET! $400: If I don't get some sleep, I'm going to pull this electric device right out from under you

AN ABBREVIATED STORY $1000: She kissed me on the cheek, gave me her phone number & walked away; needless to say, I soon needed CPR, this!
(Alex: That is it, with less than a minute to go now.)

SEE FOOD $400: There's nothing better for Sunday brunch than this classic dish seen here

SEE FOOD $1000: Seen here, pods from this tree are sometimes used to make a chocolate substitute

STOP THAT RACKET! $2000: Many traveling executives & rich families with kids go in for K&R insurance, short for this
(Erin: Um... what is kidnapping and recovery insurance?)

THE DREIDEL WILL ROCK $2000: This Velvet Underground frontman was born in Brooklyn in 1942
[Alex starts to read the year in the clue as "four-", but catches himself.]
...
(Alex: Yes, he wasn't born in 1492.)

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $2000: Jhumpa Lahiri won for her collection of stories called "Interpreter of" these
(Sara: What is Dreams?)

GOING THE DISTANCE $800: The P-51 Mustang fighter had great range; Goering saw Mustangs over this city & said he knew the Axis had lost World War II

GOING THE DISTANCE $1200: It's just 133 miles from London to this other U.K. capital; you can drive the whole way
(Jason: What is Edinburgh?)

GOING THE DISTANCE $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a globe on the monitor.) On a two-dimensional map, a straight line appears to be the shortest distance between L.A. & London; on the globe, the actual shortest distance between them would be part of one of these big, 2-word geometric units

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION $400: This novel was a bestseller & won Pearl S. Buck a Pulitzer in 1932
(Alex: Right, with less than a minute to go now.)

CORRECT RESPONSES
1990
coughing
a rocket-propelled grenade
butterflies
the numbers game
turquoise
the protection racket
Anne Tyler
Oscar Wao
Maui
Saul Bellow
earmark
Afghanistan
a rhinoceros
an amplifier
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Eggs Benedict
a carob
kidnapping & ransom
Lou Reed
Maladies
Berlin
Cardiff (Wales)
great circles
The Good Earth
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Grr.

Why is it the worse I do in the main game, the more likely I am to get Final Jeopardy! right?

No lie. I actually finished J! with $0, and only got $3,200 in DJ!

Amazingly, that's not my worst. I got $0 in DJ! back on November 3, and actually LOST money in DJ! on September 23 (leading to an all-time low Coryat of $2,600).
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16th century British farmers...
"oh crap"
...money set aside...
"whew...easy one."

Numbers and protection racket, triple stumpers (ETA: well, a TS and a DD miss)? Maybe I've watched too many mob movies. Or grew up in the wrong part of town ;) At least there weren't a lot of horned apes nearby.
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Superchamp! :D :D :D :D

I'm just wishing he had wagered $3000 more, but not bad nonetheless.

I got final tonight, helps when you like politics. :)

Also, $147,000 puts Jason Keller at 13th all time, without doubling the scores.
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I don't know if the word-of-the-year lists are out, but "frontman" has certainly been all over the place where you used to see "lead singer". To me, "frontman" is suggestive of some kind of fakery.
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Congrats to Jason on becoming a six time champ! I must say, this is the first time in a long while that I've watched someone qualify for the TOC and not been paying super-close attention.
Like Joon Pahk and Jay Rhee, I competed against Jason in quizbowl and I know how good of a player he is, it's great to see him doing well!

Btw, I did find it amusing though that Jason, a "Jersey Boy?", didn't get protection or numbers. Maybe my gambling addiction helped me there. :)
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BOYB - Beer was accepted. How about bottle? How about booze? Judges? Are there others?

Did the writers really expect me to go 4/4 on Friday "Wordy" type FJ clues so far this month? The best I could do was guess, "Save for a rainy day" to have something on the paper. Alex's pre-reveal remarks were enough to get me to the correct response. I needed a brand upside my head or something to wake me up.

Jason coasted to an easy lock even with his 33% on the DD clues. 1991, missed it by this much. Stumped by the Numbers game? Like others have already posted that one was an attention-getting miss. I can't even place the first time I learned that one. The Sting? Good Times? The Untouchables(Stack not Costner)? Whatever the source, I doubt I had hit junior high yet.

andreaborn: 26 December 2011
vellore (Bill Moreau): 27 December 2011
dmleach: 29 December 2011

If they gave away any hints about Jason & his success reaching their week I missed it. Well done and upcoming retro good luck.
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My first thought on FJ (after reading the whole clue and dismissing "maverick") was "lockbox." Setting aside money made me think of Darrell Hammond's Al Gore on SNL, and I decided that if you were notching an animal, you'd have to put it in an enclosed space, and it could be called a lockbox. Then my intuition that there was a word for setting specifically purposed money aside, which I'd had since reading that part of the clue, turned into something more useful as I dug "earmark" out of my recesses. That brings my FJ streak to 10, and my record is 23/25 for the past five weeks.

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MarkBarrett wrote:BOYB - Beer was accepted. How about bottle? How about booze? Judges? Are there others?
I think beverages or booze would have been accepted, but probably not bottles.
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One of the fascinating (and entertaining) things about Jason is the relative unpredictability of his knowledge base. He misses "numbers" (as many of you have commented), then turns around and gets "Interpreter of Maladies." I'd love to know what he tutors.

Couldn't get FJ for the life of me. Kept thinking of "poll" because of its association with both animal heads and elections, but "set aside" didn't fit. Boo hoo.
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vellore wrote:One of the fascinating (and entertaining) things about Jason is the relative unpredictability of his knowledge base. He misses "numbers" (as many of you have commented), then turns around and gets "Interpreter of Maladies." I'd love to know what he tutors.
I was shocked that Jason clammed on the $800 Saul Bellow clue after he knew Maladies at $2000. I went 4/5 in it but I thought that the Pulitzer category was very hard and would have been better for a ToC board.

I also guessed "pork barrel spending" on the FJ. It wasn't a hard clue, I am mad at myself for missing it.
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alamble wrote:
MarkBarrett wrote:BOYB - Beer was accepted. How about bottle? How about booze? Judges? Are there others?
I think beverages or booze would have been accepted, but probably not bottles.
"Bring Your Own Bottle" is the first expansion of BYOB at the Wikipedia entry. It is one of two possibilities ("Booze" being the other) in the American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd ed. I would say "bottle" is absolutely acceptable. I wouldn't have been surprised to see "beer" get negged, possibly with a reversal of that decision after research.
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Tehshigelisok wrote:Why is it the worse I do in the main game, the more likely I am to get Final Jeopardy! right?
The same thing happens to me all the time! Although tonight, it didn't. I got it after Alex's hint, but obviously that doesn't count.
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When Final was revealed, I said, "Too easy." My dad said, "Yeah." Then he said, "It's 'brand'." I guess he forgot the category.
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MarkBarrett wrote:andreaborn: 26 December 2011
vellore (Bill Moreau): 27 December 2011
dmleach: 29 December 2011

If they gave away any hints about Jason & his success reaching their week I missed it. Well done and upcoming retro good luck.
*wipes sweat from brow* It wasn't always easy. :lol: It's been a little odd watching this week knowing that Jason would go five for five. It certainly took the suspense out of those FJs (particularly in Wednesday's game versus Janemarie). On the other hand it's been fun having a secret.

This week's games were recorded on Wednesday, October 26. When we met Jason in the hotel lobby on the morning of Tuesday, November 2, we got him to confess that he was the returning champ, though he didn't want to own up to how successful he'd been. We didn't find out until Maggie spilled the beans at the studio.
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alamble wrote:
MarkBarrett wrote:BOYB - Beer was accepted. How about bottle? How about booze? Judges? Are there others?
I think beverages or booze would have been accepted, but probably not bottles.
"Bring your own bottle" gets hits, and should be accepted, IMHO.
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I'm still left wondering how "earmarking" is a "political term"?? Seems more like everyday parlance to me.

BTW, both xxaaaxx
xxaaaxx wrote:16th century British farmers...
"oh crap"
...money set aside...
"whew...easy one."
and seaborgium
seaborgium wrote:My first thought on FJ (after reading the whole clue and dismissing "maverick") was "lockbox." Setting aside money made me think of Darrell Hammond's Al Gore on SNL, and I decided that if you were notching an animal, you'd have to put it in an enclosed space, and it could be called a lockbox. Then my intuition that there was a word for setting specifically purposed money aside, which I'd had since reading that part of the clue, turned into something more useful as I dug "earmark" out of my recesses. That brings my FJ streak to 10, and my record is 23/25 for the past five weeks.
say the clue involved money, yet the wording was:
16th century British farmers notching their livestock for identification led tot his term for an item set aside for a specific purpose
Nothing about money there, strange that two boardies would see something that isn't there to help them get the clue ...
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dhkendall wrote:*snip*
16th century British farmers notching their livestock for identification led tot his term for an item set aside for a specific purpose
Nothing about money there, strange that two boardies would see something that isn't there to help them get the clue ...
Nah, just a fuzzy memory, and trying to fill in the blanks after the fact. I almost never remember the exact wording of FJ clues even 10 minutes later, so my mind just inserted that little detail by mistake, probably because...
dhkendall wrote:I'm still left wondering how "earmarking" is a "political term"?? Seems more like everyday parlance to me.
...money -- specifically funds allocated by xyz legislature or Congress -- is almost always the context in which I hear the term used.
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A rare word origins FJ get for me, took a few seconds, but still early in the first verse of the music. I got a chuckle from the pork barrell response. They were sheep, not pigs.

I said booze, but pretty sure they'd take bottle. A non-drinker could bring his own bottle of non alcoholic beverage.

I'm somewhere in Mark's age range and numbers racket was an easy get for me as well. It seemed to pop up a lot in the old days, even though I was never really sure what it was. I guess state run lotteries has pretty much killed that off so you don't hear it much anymore.

Is the exact year of German reunification a well known fact? I guessed 1992, but it seemed unfair for a DD in wghat was otherwise a fairly easy category.
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