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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN AUTHORS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
"Camelot", "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author

Sandy Olive: 19200-9000=10200
Arman Ramnath: 14000+5205=19205 (New Champ)
Kirsten Haas: 3400-3399=1

Correct response:
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Mark Twain (Sandy – Nathaniel Hawthorne) (Kirsten – Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Daily Doubles
Arman: 1400+1000
Arman: 7400+5000
Sandy: 17200+2000

Coryats
Sandy: 19200
Arman: 10200
Kirsten: 3400

Combined: 32,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Sandy: 8800
Arman: 7000
Kirsten: 2200
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The players, as Savannah noted, played a perfect J! round. 18000 total and the DD was 1000 in a 1000 box. The DJ! round? Well...

DD3 was on the board after DD2 was found in CHURCHILL SPEAKS with the first call there. What do the players do? Finish Churchill. :roll:

Sandy found DD3 in OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS on clue 30 leading 17200 to 14000 to 3400. She bet 2000 and got it right. It would take some crazy nerve to have bet 11000 there to have locked the match.

The FJ! clue had me key on the first chapter listed and I matched Arman. I was not sure how the other two chapters worked into the novel, but with nothing better it did not matter. In high school I probably cracked open the book at some point to fake my way through a book report.

Sandy's Hawthorne? Is there some decent logic there for an alternate guess? I'm certain I never looked at Gables or Letter.

Sandy leaves with very good buzzer skills and an impressive Coryat average. Many have made the ToC without such high marks. Sandy needed a far more difficult DD2 for Arman to have faced and it did not happen.
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Knew it was Twain, but thought The Prince and the Pauper was the novel, as it figured in the finals of an early 1990s Teen Tournament.
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I was stuck thinking Camelot referred to JFK, and plus Pligrims meant it must be some history of the United States. No idea who Clarence was or what he had to do with anything.. Went with Howard Zinn. :(
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MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:46 pm Sandy's Hawthorne? Is there some decent logic there for an alternate guess? I'm certain I never looked at Gables or Letter.
I got nothing for her guess.
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In Arman’s spot I’d have spent the break deciding how to spend my $2000. I’m facing a two day champ that teaches high school English and the category is American Authors? Then it is about perhaps the best known American author? Look out, Savannah, here comes the towel.

But I still would have made a better wager.
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This game is a draw for the Weak Form of Shore's Conjecture. The second-place player bet "small." --Bob
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runs: This Means War, Ice Cream, Mythology, "a-d-o"
DDs: :( :D :D
trash: nothing to pick up in the J! round. Amon, mastodon (2400)
FJ: Who is Mark Twain? :mrgreen: Camelot gave it away.

I associated Patagonia with Argentina, so clammed. Had Snowden for Assange. :|
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MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:46 pm
Sandy's Hawthorne? Is there some decent logic there for an alternate guess? I'm certain I never looked at Gables or Letter.
My guess is she may have been conflating "Pilgrims" with "Puritans" and thinking Scarlet Letter.
DBear wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:33 pm Had Snowden for Assange. :|
I was struggling with differentiating between those two, but ended up going the right way.

Instaget FJ; I expect it will poll high here, but not necessarily play well elsewhere.
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Camelot--> King Arthur chapter and American Author.


Ran Chile, Holidays, myths, ado

no clue about order of the garter. Felt OBE
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If Sandy gets garter she leads 21,200/14,000 when she hits the last DD. She could go for the lock without risking the lead.
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Bamaman wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:38 pm If Sandy gets garter she leads 21,200/14,000 when she hits the last DD. She could go for the lock without risking the lead.
And she'd still just wager $2k.
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CyrusChan wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:23 pm no clue about order of the garter. Felt OBE
I liked that clue. The clue should lead you to Garter, but OBE isn't a terrible guess, at least.

Mark: On that clue, shouldn't the first order be Order?
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econgator wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:44 pm
CyrusChan wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 9:23 pm no clue about order of the garter. Felt OBE
I liked that clue. The clue should lead you to Garter, but OBE isn't a terrible guess, at least.

Mark: On that clue, shouldn't the first order be Order?
Fine by me, not so much the OCR, done. Thanks.
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Last night for FJ I couldn't recall a famous name I learned as a child....Tonight's was about a book I haven't picked up since around the same time. In fact, my strongest memory of it is from the Classic Comics version, which I probably wore out... :geek: But the noggin worked tonight: Not only was I tipped off by Camelot, but I was confirmed by the memory that Clarence is the narrator's page at court... :D
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Bamaman wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:03 pm In Arman’s spot I’d have spent the break deciding how to spend my $2000. I’m facing a two day champ that teaches high school English and the category is American Authors? Then it is about perhaps the best known American author? Look out, Savannah, here comes the towel.

But I still would have made a better wager.
Also, St. Louis (her hometown) is less than two hours from Hannibal.
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Bob78164 wrote: Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:17 pm This game is a draw for the Weak Form of Shore's Conjecture. The second-place player bet "small." --Bob
He didn’t bet small enough. Trying to pass first is pointless. He needs to stay above her missing on a cover bet. Anything over 2600 is wrong. The odds that the leader bets small here are small enough to be ignored. The category and her job make it even more unlikely. He needs to make FJ all about her answer as he has no other shot.

Also didn’t like his DD wager. If he is betting 2/3 of his money he might as well bet it all. He would have dropped so low that coming back would have been highly unlikely.

Surprised she missed it. Clarence really threw me off. Darrow jumped in my mind and I was lost.
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