Three triple stumpers in SJ. Then ELEVEN in DJ. All but the top row clue in FILM COMPOSERS went begging. More than a third of the DJ clues--including two that elicited two wrong guesses before the final shrug. Yet still every single clue got uncovered. Wow. Is that a record?
For the two with double wrong guesses--Vukovar Island and the Dylan Thomas poem--I'm curious if those wrong guesses helped you to the right response or if you would've known it anyway.
Here's the pic for the $2000 RIVER ISLANDS clue:
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Lisa had $13,800 going into FJ and missed. If you picked up more than $6900 in lach trash here and got FJ right, congratulations! You're the new hypothetical champ! CORRECT RESPONSES
$800 "B"EASTS: bison
$400 GIVE US THE IMPERATIVE VERB!: endorse
$200 TV HOMES & ADDRESSES: GLOW
$800 A SPARKLING CATEGORY: My Little Pony
$1600 QUOTING POETS: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
$2000 QUOTING POETS: things fall apart
$2000 RIVER ISLANDS: Croatia and Serbia
$800 RIVER ISLANDS: Île de la Cité
$1200 FILM COMPOSERS: Cole Porter
$800 FILM COMPOSERS: Beethoven
$1600 FILM COMPOSERS: Tchaikovsky
$2000 FILM COMPOSERS: Shostakovich
$400 ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR: Martha Washington
$1600 ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER DOLLAR: Sequoia
DD2 (not available for lach trash) $1600 clue in RIVER ISLANDS (Shaun bet $1500): Montreal
(Remember for a clam. Only use for a wrong guess.)
If forced to guess, I think I'd have got My Little Pony. I probably would've got "endorse" as well but Mrs P yelled it out so darn fast.
$11,600 in trash (and also got DD2). That plus a get in FJ for an old Jeopardy! chestnut takes me to an easy win.
I didn't need any help on the title of the Dylan Thomas poem and was speaking right along with Alex in ruling the two guesses as incorrect. I was helped by the extra time provided by the two wrong guesses on Vukovar Island. I initially said Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. But as the wrong guesses I came in, I remembered that Croatia is the one that's shaped like a C, so I switched to Croatia and Serbia.
Only got Serbia and Croatia. Didn't get the hang of the category in time to get endorse. And couldn't retrieve Ile de Cite in spite of about 6 visits there. It's probably payback from the time I took a candle as a souvenir from Notre Dame (they are there for you to light and pray for somebody).
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
For the Dylan Thomas clue...I'd like to phone a friend: Michael Caine. What do you mean I have to know his number?!
Did not need the wrong guesses to get Serbia + Croatia. That said, I -did- need the map.
I got endorse, GLOW, My Little Pony (I was prepared to offer a subtitle only if prompted), gentle/that, things fall apart, Croatia and Serbia, Beethoven, Martha Washington, Sequoyah, and Montreal. I negged with Stravinsky instead of Shostakovich as the only Russian composer I could think of who lived during Soviet times, even though I knew his best known works are pre-Soviet. I clammed on Tchaikovsky, and clammed on George Gershwin for the Cole Porter clue (I suppose I was conflating "De-Lovely" with "'S Wonderful"). That makes me $7,800, which wins me the game on my FJ get.
edit: amended my rendering of the Gershwin title
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stupidly said Gershwin for Porter, was distracted slightly but didn't suss Martha Washington, and stupid of stupids, said Seneca when I know damn well who Sequoyah was and what he did. Still think it's a winner.
endorse, GLOW, My Little Pony (Friendship Is Magic available if needed, which it didn't seem to be), "do not go gentle into that good night" (no rebounds needed), "things fall apart," Cole Porter, Beethoven, and Martha Washington for $7400. I also said Tchaikovsky just before the buzzer, but I'm not sure if I should count that as a ring-in; counting it, that's $9000. Either way, with a Final solve, I had enough for a fourth podium win.
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
Did not know My Little Pony, Yeats, and the dollar clues. Made the same mistake as Lisa on Dylan Thomas. Lucky guess on Shostakovich. Did not need the rebound on Vukovar.
Missed "bison" by blurting "buffalo" before correcting it, but I think I would have been ruled incorrect before I had the chance to fix it.
Wound up with $8800 ($9600 minus the $800 miss) before the DD. Would have clammed if had been a regular clue because of uncertainty, but answered Montreal correctly. Same with the Parisian island and Gary Oldman -- clammed, but would have SWAGged correctly if an answer was mandatory.
I'm not the defending Jeopardy! champion. But I have played one on TV.