Monday, February 3, 2020 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Archivists]

J! Round

[Archivists]

DJ! Round

[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
ASIAN GEOGRAPHY

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This 150- by 2.5-mile area created in 1953 is now home to more than 100 endangered & protected species

Michelle Paul: 4400-3300=1100
Stephen Jackson: 14800-7201=7599
Travis Gaylord: 11000+3801=14801 (New Champ)

Correct response:

Spoiler

the DMZ (Michelle – Coral Reef Reserve) (Stephen – the Great Barrier Reef)

Daily Doubles
Michelle: 2800-1800
Stephen: 2800+2000
Stephen: 15600-2000

Coryats
Michelle: 6200
Stephen: 16400
Travis: 11000

Combined: 33,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Michelle: 1600
Stephen: 2000
Travis: 2600

[MarkBarrett]

6 clues not seen and 6 categories not completed.

Stephen = TB12

The FJ! clue was a guess for me in having nothing better than matching Travis for the correct response. Without the category help I may have gone way off with Serengeti.

Programming notes: State of the Union tomorrow and Democrat debate on Friday means those in the West will see J! later than usual.

[mas3cf]

Got the FJ but it took me a good 10-15 seconds to come up with it. 1953 is what got me there.

[TenPoundHammer]

And the upward trend in my Coryats continues. Is this a sign? What am I doing right?

I thought "Seven Gables" = Massachusetts was tough for the second box, compared to Edison = NJ at $800. Poll request on MA?

Quaver = eighth note eluded this musician. I completely froze up after realizing that neither whole, half, nor quarter was a number. Oops.

There are specific types of grenades?! My only miss in that category.

Science was an easy 5/5, but I bombed Unfilmed Novels and Thirty Years' War.

Asian Geography? I actually heard this fact many years ago and was able to recall it instantly.

Lach Trash: pagoda, fiddler's green, Jerusalem, flagship. Also got the Pabst = Wisconsin DD.

[pamelajaye]

I couldn't tell you whether the House of the Seven Gables was difficult.
I came in late and missed the name of the category.
So I wasn't sure whether they wanted Salem OR Massachusetts or actually something else.
of course the thing is that I lived in Salem for 13 years.
Interestingly though, I did not know its other name.
Also I've never been inside. At the time a friend and I considered it, it was $12 per person

[pamelajaye]

This has little to do with the game so I'm not sure if it's okay because I don't usually come here.
Did the ER doctor say something about losing more sleep over being on Jeopardy than getting married?
Did he say his fiance was annoyed?
I would have said that I didn't know how I would do on Jeopardy, but I had no question at all in my mind about marrying you.
Just something that crossed my mind...

[True North]

Coryat: $34,000 (39R, 3W)
DD: 2/3 (Netherlands would’ve been my guess if I was on the show, but stayed clam on the couch)
FJ:
LT: Wisconsin (DD), eighth note, flagship, Jake Tapper

Had to think about it for a good 20 seconds, but 1953 led me to a correct FJ in the end.

[John Boy]

Stephen sleeps like a baby the night before his wedding, but gets nervous insomnia before taping J! Sounds like a man after my own heart!

Meanwhile I sort of guessed Michelle's too-brief stay with us was likely to end when she mistook Willie Mays for Henry Aaron. OK, those are sports heroes from MY era, not hers, but still....

Nice sole get and win for Travis. Congrats and retroactive good luck for Tuesday's game. (If they try to pull the plug on the game for SOTU, don't let them! Gotta have our priorities straight, ya know!)

All the elements of this FJ fell right into place in my brain for a pretty much instaget. Saying it's been around since only 1953 certainly nailed it down.

[mas3cf]

Coryat $40,800 (44 R, 0 W)
DD 3/3
FJ

LT Massachusetts, (Wisconsin), pagoda, eighth note, Richelieu, (Netherlands), flagship, heartwood. Clammed on Fiddler's Green and Jerusalem, missing out on another $1800.

The boards have been friendly lately. Over the last 9 games, $36,311 average Coryat ($37,740 if you adjust for unplayed clues).

[nserven]

For Arizona's state firearm I said "six-shooter." According to Wikipedia, it's actually a Colt Single Action Army revolver with "a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges."

[billiej]

For Arizona's state firearm I said "six-shooter." According to Wikipedia, it's actually a Colt Single Action Army revolver with "a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges."

I said 6-shooter as well.

Probably would not have gotten FJ without the year.

[Volante]

For Arizona's state firearm I said "six-shooter." According to Wikipedia, it's actually a Colt Single Action Army revolver with "a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges."

I said 6-shooter as well.

Probably would not have gotten FJ without the year.

I'm all but certain 'six-shooter' was the intended response.

[seaborgium]

I didn't come up with "DMZ" per se, but I thought of the right place, calling it "the no-man's-land between North and South Korea." At first I thought of the Aswan High Dam, but I was quite sure it wasn't on the tiny portion of Egypt that is technically on the Asian continent. Then the measurements made it clear to me.

[Category 13]

For Arizona's state firearm I said "six-shooter." According to Wikipedia, it's actually a Colt Single Action Army revolver with "a revolving cylinder holding six metallic cartridges."

I said 6-shooter as well.

I'm all but certain 'six-shooter' was the intended response.

I spaced out the category and reflexively said "Revolver'. I think they could have come up with a less neg-baity clue than that.

I got the De-Militarized Zone fairly quickly.

[talkingaway]

For posterity's sake in the archive, Stephen Jackson is from Atlanta, Georgia - but I'm sure that was due to the wonky recording mentioned in this thread earlier today.

I conflated Jesse Owens with the black power salute, so today's show fixed that gap in my knowledge without tinkering with my Coryat, since the "black power" clue was basically "what year did MLK die, given it's a multiple of 4", and the Jesse Owens clue was later. But thinking about it, the conflation was kind of stupid. I mean, Jesse Owens raising a Black Power fist towards Hitler would have looked....um....dangerously close to a salute.

"Chinese pyramid also beginning with 'P'" seemed easy to me, but I remember in my only real brush with Asian history (which was...wow...fifth grade), we read a kids' novel that mentioned carving butter pagodas and binding feet in history class. I can't remember much more about it.

I got the "long and narrow" idea of the TOM, but just couldn't get to the right response. Went with Great Wall, but I knew it was wrong - it's much longer and narrower. My second guess was the Forbidden City, but I thought that was more square - apparently it's about 961 meters by 753 meters, so I was pretty close. Not skinny enough.

[MarkBarrett]

For posterity's sake in the archive, Stephen Jackson is from Atlanta, Georgia - but I'm sure that was due to the wonky recording mentioned in this thread earlier today.
...

Filled in, thanks.

[davey]

I said 6-shooter too...
Kudos to all those who thought this FJ was easy. I could complain that geography categories are coming thick and fast all of a sudden, but this doesn't seem like much of one. It's clear that recognizing the import of the year was pretty important. i would have been better helped with a category name like UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES, since I don't see any indication in the clue that the area was created for an entirely different purpose...

[Bamaman]

Another get here aided by the year. I knew the Gables house was in New England, but guessed New Hampshire. I agree it needed to be lower on the board.

Travis making a beeline for the sports category made me root for him. Glad the category got finished. All I needed for Mays was “Say hey”.

I saw a Jesse Owens movie that had a scene where they brought him in after he black power salute to talk to the athletes to get them to calm down. He was seen as an Uncle Tom by some activists in the 1960s.