Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

51 R (Missed The Bottom Two in Sci-Fi Pop Culture and Bernadette.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Hermaphrodite, Echidna, (John Wilkes Booth), Showroom, Lemur, Dissidents, Utter, Umber, Agitation & Propaganda, Congressional Budget Office, (Civil Rights), Defense Intelligence Agency

[opusthepenguin]

Samantha Slama is a heck of a good name. Sam Slama Jama!

As soon as I saw it, I thought "That's a good Roller Derby name." Turns out she plays lacrosse. Close enough.

[opusthepenguin]

A Fourth Podium Poll for this game is now available:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5544

This is a day late, thanks to the impeachment. But it's worth doing since a fourth podium win is definitely possible.

I'm trying the new method again of directing discussion to the game day thread. If you have a preference, you have an opportunity to vote that preference in this poll. I'll (probably) listen to the will of the boardies, though a couple of fins might sway me, if you know what I mean. In the event of a tie, I like the new way, so I'll keep doing that.

POLL QUESTIONS

$600 CHECK OUT THE CRITTER: Less than an inch long, the sea bunny is this type of being with both male and female reproductive organs (Samantha: What is asexual?) (Dennis: What is a hydra?)
$400 CHECK OUT THE CRITTER: Get an "E" for effort with this egg-laying Aussie mammal. Here are its babies called puggles
$1000 SPACES: In the 1970s Ed Mullinax Ford in Amherst, Ohio had the world's largest one of these indoor spaces, holding 120 cars (Steve: What's a garage?) (Samantha: What is a hangar?)
$800 CHECK OUT THE CRITTER: Despite its name, the sunda flying this, an animal native to Madagascar, is not one, nor does it fly (Samantha: What is a squirrel?) (Dennis: What is a bat?)
$1600 SPACED-OUT POP CULTURE: Led by Capt. Mercer, this sci-fi series on FOX sees its title ship & crew boldly going where no comedy has gone before
$1600 IN SOVIET RUSSIA: Ludmilla Alexeyeva, one of these activists who "dis"agreed with the Soviet line, noted there's no good word for them in Russian
$1200 WORDS START WITH "U": Adding an "M" to this word meaning "to speak" makes it something hard to hear
$2000 WORDS START WITH "U": This iron-rich earth is used as a brown pigment
$800 IN SOVIET RUSSIA: As its name says, Agitprop was the Soviet department responsible for these 2 tactics (Steve: What is agitate and propagate?)
$1200 THE USG: The CBO, this, analyzes economic issues on behalf of the House & Senate
$2000 THE USG: The DIA, this, provides info for the JCS, Joint Chiefs of Staff (Samantha: What is the Department of Internal Affairs?)
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CORRECT RESPONSES

$600 CHECK OUT THE CRITTER: hermaphrodite
$400 CHECK OUT THE CRITTER: echidna
$1000 SPACES: showroom
$800 CHECK OUT THE CRITTER: lemur
$1600 SPACED-OUT POP CULTURE: The Orville
$1200 WORDS START WITH "U": utter
$2000 WORDS START WITH "U": umber
$1600 IN SOVIET RUSSIA: dissidents
$800 IN SOVIET RUSSIA: agitation & propoganda
$1200 THE USG: the Congressional Budget Office
$2000 THE USG: the Defense Intelligence Agency

[opusthepenguin]

A Fourth Podium Poll for this game is now available:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5544

That gets me to $7000, almost but not quite enough to beat Dennis with a get on FJ. I might have picked up showroom as well, but Mrs Penguin shouted it out so quickly I didn't have a chance. If the contestants had been obliging enough to ring in with a miss or two on "utter", I think I could've gotten there.

[BigDaddyMatty]

Coryat: 34,200
45 R/5 W
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: hermaphrodite, echidna, John Wilkes Booth (DD), showroom, The Orville, dissident, (m)utter, umber, agitation and propaganda, Congressional Budget Office

Interesting that they had the hermaphrodite clue on the same board as a category about words from mythology.

No offense intended, but Dennis's run shows just how much good fortune plays a role in a player's run. He won on Monday because of an ill-advised DD3 wager, and today he almost lost because of the same. Steve would have won with a FJ! solve, obviously, but had Samantha gotten either the Aldous Huxley or Defense Intelligence Agency clues, she rather than Dennis would have gone into FJ! in second place.

As an unapologetic Alanis Morissette fan, I was rooting for her red-headed sister to take this game.

Glad I wasn't the only one to make this connection.