14 triple stumpers and 2 missed DDs fill out the maximum 16 allowed poll questions. Some low-hanging fruit and some that caused us chez Penguin to stare just like the contestants.
DD2 followed right on the J. K. Rowling clue, so IN THEORY, if you got the Rowling clue, that DD is yours if you also would have continued down rather than bouncing somewhere else. So maybe you could've doubled your score there, eh?
Since Karen missed FJ, all you have to do from the fourth podium is get to half her score plus $1 and get FJ right. Assuming you would have wagered enough, that gives you the hypothetical win. Let us know how you did. CORRECT RESPONSES
$800 THE NAME OF THE GAME: Operation
$1000 COLLEGE ENDOWMENTS: Caltech
$600 WE WUZ ROBBED!: Brink's
$400 IT'S CHARLIE!: Charlie Puth
$800 THE ALGONQUIAN WORD TABLE: Moose
$1000 WHERE AM I?: Dearborn
$400 WHERE AM I?: Cleveland
$2000 HIS-TORY: Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
$1200 BATTLE & HUM: Public Enemy
$400 BATTLE & HUM: Rachel Platten
$1600 PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS: Robert Galbraith
DD2 $2000 clue for PSEUDONYMOUS WRITERS: Pablo Neruda
$1200 WORLD OF COLORS: yellow
$2000 DON'T DROP THE BALL: Kansas
$1200 HIS-TORY: Loyalists
DD3 $800 clue in HIS-TORY: Theresa May
$7600 not including the DDs, both of which I got. So not enough to get within winning distance of Karen even if I hadn't choked on FJ. Said Butterball, same as she did. Congrats to the last champ of 2019. May you be the first champ of 2020.
$6800 thanks to saying Patten instead of Platten plus correct on all 3 DDs to go along with solving the FJ! clue as I will gladly take anything in the TV area.
No problem on the Rowling AKA name since I have all the books.
Only got the first three right, missed with Flint over Dearborn, and failed to see the "Manhattan" in the New Year's clue and somehow thought they wanted the Apple state that wasn't New York. K-State is my Dad's alma mater, so, shame on me. Didn't recognize any of the rest of the clues.
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
JK's AKA is something that I've encountered multiple times before, but just hasn't "stuck", like the names and faces of most Canadian PMs
'Chilean Nobel poet' and (Operation) Desert Storm/Overlord being stumpers was a surprise, but then I'm annoyed with myself for missing Dearborn
Theresa May was a "what other British female Tory politician would they expect us to know!?" guess
Just imagining a version of "Fight the Power" by NWA makes me giggle
I believe thats 8800. Close but no cigar, though if I had hit any of the DDs I would've been set.
Clammed on the 3 music related clues, moose, Dearborn and Rowling (should have gotten the Rowling one). Got the rest, although the color was a guess and I missed a couple in that category.
I count $9,800 not including DDs (goes up to $12,600 if you do). Did miss FJ so I would not have won the game regardless. Boards played well for me as a whole.
Platten and Puth were easy for me, but I may or may not have been a dumber and more impressionable high school student when they got popular.
Oh: outside of a category with "Charlie" in its name, there was no way I was getting Puth. I know enough about him to give his name as a response when spotted "current pop musician named Charlie."
Not in the cards for me to win from the fourth podium today. Had $6800 without the DDs, but missed the Rowling clue so even though I got the DD correct I probably wouldn't have hit it. The instaget on FJ would have been of no benefit, unless they let me wager about 150% of my pre-FJ score.
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I'm not the defending Jeopardy! champion. But I have played one on TV.
How did that one sad face happen? That clue is tied for first. I got it easily while flailing on many of the clues you scooped up. I PRE-CALLED Brinks off the category, fer cryin' out loud!