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Monday, May 14, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #6376, 2012-05-14

2012 Power Players Week game 1.
From DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

CONTESTANTS
Robert Gibbs, a former press secretary from the Obama White House
Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. You're very kind. Thank you very much. You know, we had such a good time at Constitution Hall last week with our Teen Tournament, we decided to extend our visit to the nation's capital and present people who are no longer in their teens. These are people who sometimes make the news, sometimes report the news, sometimes comment on the news. These are the Power Players. And I see that Robert, Lizzie, and Chris are eager to get started, so good luck. Let's go to work. Here come the categories for the Jeopardy! Round. And we start off with...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HARDBALL (4/5)
THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "E" (2/2)
SECRETARY'S DAY (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) (Alex: You have to identify the Cabinet post.)
MY WEEK WITH MARYLAND (2/2)
YOGA (4/4)
PRESS BRIEFING (4/4)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Robert: 7 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Chris: 7 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Lizzie: 7 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 22
Triple Stumpers: 1
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $400



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Chris found the Daily Double on the 4th clue. Chris had $1,000, Lizzie was scoreless, and Robert was at $200. Chris wagered $500.

SECRETARY'S DAY $800: Dean Acheson

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Robert: $3,400
Chris: $1,500
Lizzie: $400

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Welcome back. Let's spend a few moments now with the players. Robert Gibbs, I have met a number of White House press secretaries after they left office. They have all been very intelligent, humorous, marvelous human beings, but when I have watched you guys at the White House--

[Chris laughs.]

Alex: --I have a completely different opinion. Now what is it about that job that changes your personality--Jekyll and Hyde? What's going on?

Robert: Stress. Uh, I think stress is probably the biggest thing. And, you know, Alex, you don't ask follow-ups, so it's a whole lot easier.

Alex: Uh-huh.

Robert: Yeah.

Alex: Now tell me about your charity.

Robert: I'm playing for something called the Pine Hills Literacy Project. It's an after-school program that I started in my hometown of Auburn, Alabama.

Alex: Auburn?

Robert: And, uh, we focus on partnering with the Boys & Girls Club in teaching first through sixth graders greater proficiency in reading, and hopefully developing a lifelong love for reading to help them, uh, both in their education and in their lives.

Alex: Great. Good charity.

Robert: Thank you.

[Applause]




Alex: Lizzie O'Leary from CNN. Now do you cover, as the aviation reporter for CNN, do you cover TSA?

Lizzie: Yes, I do.

Alex: Oh, good.

[Laughter]

Alex: All right.

Lizzie: You can send your complaints here.

Alex: Good. Tell me about your charity.

Lizzie: My charity is 826DC, and what they do is do after-school tutoring, uh, and really teaching kids to love to write. Not just to read, but to write. The kids have written two books. And this is part of a national chain, but this one is in my neighborhood. I grew up in D.C. It was very important to me to play for kids in my hometown.

Alex: Good for you.

[Applause]




Alex: Chris has been with us before. Chris, I'm curious--you host two shows. Do you approach it from the point of view of, I have an opinion about the subject that's going to be discussed today, or you have your researchers look into that subject, and then form an opinion?

Chris: Here's how I try to do it. Ready?

Alex: Yeah.

Chris: Uh, fact, analysis, and then opinion.

Alex: Okay.

Chris: That's the--that's the best way to do it. Report the news, figure out what it means, and then figure out what your attitude is about it.

Alex: Okay. Now...

Chris: So that's how I do the show. So right before I go on the air, I write my close to the show. You know, "Let me finish with this." I write that right before I go on the show, having gone through all the notes that day and all the arguments with the producers, so it is sort of reflecting all the--the thought I put into it, and the work.

Alex: Okay. Now your charity.

Chris: Uh, my charity is my high school, La Salle College High School. It's right outside of Philadelphia. And it's where a lot of regular kids used to go, but now a lot of rich kids go. I want to make sure regular kids go. It's a scholarship program for working kids.

[Applause]

Alex: Good for you.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
HARDBALL $400: In the first Hall of Fame vote in 1936, this Tiger was named on 222 of the 226 ballots

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Robert: $4,400
Chris: $3,900
Lizzie: $3,600
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
"POWER" PLAYERS (5/5)
LAW & ORDER (4/5)
6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS (2/3)
MILITARY OPERATIONS (5/5)
COMPOSERS (4/4, including 1 correct Daily Double)
ACT LIKE A JOURNALIST (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Lizzie: 10 R (including 2 rebounds), 1 W
Robert: 9 R, 1 W
Chris: 6 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 4 W

Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 2
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,800



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Chris snagged the next Daily Double on the 27th clue. Chris had $2,300, Lizzie had $14,000, and Robert was at $12,800. Chris made it a True Daily Double, wagering $2,300.

COMPOSERS $1600: Put on your cap & gown & name this Edward Elgar composition

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
LAW & ORDER $2000: In 1986 the Supreme Court ruled that the "hostile environment" type of this can be sex discrimination
(Lizzie: What is a work environment?)
(Chris: What is a hostile workplace?)

6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $800: St. Basil's Cathedral is there
(Chris: What is, uh, Istanbul?)

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Lizzie: $14,000
Robert: $12,800
Chris: $4,600

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AWARDS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Four-fifths for first place. Shore's Conjecture.
Lizzie: Wager $11,601 to cover Robert. If you feel like using Shoretegy, try wagering $2,401.
Robert: Your score is within 4/5ths of Lizzie's, so wager between $2,401 (venusian) and $3,599 (martian), beating Lizzie's maximum safe bet of the difference between your scores while still covering against a doubled score on Chris's part.
Chris: There's no way you can cover a rational wager by Robert, but if Robert decides for some reason to wager everything, you can eke out a win on a Triple Stumper if you wager no more than $2,200.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This performer is the only person to win an Emmy, the Mark Twain Prize & the Spingarn Medal

FINAL SCORES
Chris: $4,600 - $2,300 = $2,300 (Who Mary Tyler Moore) (3rd place: $10,000 to La Salle College High School)
Robert: $12,800 - $7,200 = $5,600 (Who is) (Winner: $50,000 to the Pine Hills Literacy Project)
Lizzie: $14,000 - $9,800 = $4,200 (Who is Tina Fey?) (2nd place: $10,000 to 826DC)
(Alex: If you remembered that the Spingarn Medal is the NAACP's highest award, that would have helped you.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $3,200

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Lizzie: $14,000, 17 R, 2 W
Robert: $12,800, 16 R, 1 W
Chris: $4,200, 13 R (including 2 DDs), 4 W
Combined Coryat: $31,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Lizzie: 17/58 = .293
Robert: 16/58 = .276
Chris: 13/60 = .217
Team: 46/63 = .730

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
SECRETARY'S DAY $600: In 2001, Norman Mineta, seen here, motored over from Commerce to this post

HARDBALL $200: In August 2011 this shortstop surpassed Mickey Mantle for most career games played as a Yankee
(Lizzie: Who is Alex Rodriguez?)

THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD CLUES "E" $200: "At ____, soldier!"
(4)
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, now. Select.)

MY WEEK WITH MARYLAND $800: Thursday's plan was a lock: the historical park named for the Chesapeake & Ohio one of these man-made waterways
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

ACT LIKE A JOURNALIST $2000: As Kimberly Wells, she exposed wrongdoing at a nuclear power plant in "The China Syndrome"
[Applause for Lizzie's performance in the category]

"POWER" PLAYERS $2000: Full name of the U2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960
(Chris: Who is Gary Powers?)
(Alex: We need the full name.)
(Chris: [Insistently] Who is Gary Powers?)
(Alex: No.)
[Laughter]
(Alex: Lizzie.)
(Lizzie: Who is [*]?)
(Alex: Full name. Lizzie benefits. She selects.)

LAW & ORDER $800: A U.S.D.C. is one of these, charged with the jurisdiction of a specific region
(Chris: What is a U.S. attorney?)

6-LETTER WORLD CAPITALS $1200: Keanu Reeves was born in this Lebanese capital
(Chris: [Without being called on] What is [*]?)
...
(Robert: I actually had that before Chris said it.)

COMPOSERS $400: Works like the one you're hearing made Scott Joplin the king of this style

COMPOSERS $1200: We'll give you a Strauss test--not related to Johann, he composed a 1915 "Alpine Symphony"
(Robert: Who is Bach?)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Secretary of State
Ty Cobb
"Pomp And Circumstance" ("The Land Of Hope And Glory" accepted)
sexual harrassment
Moscow
Bill Cosby
the Department of Transportation
Derek Jeter
ease
a canal
Jane Fonda
Francis Gary Powers
a district court
Beirut
ragtime
Richard Strauss
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Awards
This performer is the only person to win an Emmy, the Mark Twain Prize, & the Spingarn Medal.
Spoiler
Who is Bill Cosby? Chris said Mary Tyler Moore; Robert had no guess; Lizzie said Tina Fey.
Lizzie O'Leary: $14,000-$9,800=$4,200
Robert Gibbs: $12,800-$7,200=$5,600
Chris Matthews: $4,600-$2,300=$2,300
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I got about 11 in the first round and maybe 8 the second. I had a total of 19.

I disliked the fact that it seemed to drag on. The players seem to be slow today. I had absolutely no clue on FJ and did not guess.
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I'm still shaking - one of the best episodes in this storied program's history.
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They were a smart group. Got a lot of clues I didn't. Gibbs was especially pokey in his clue choosing though. Too many uncovered clues including 2 daily doubles.
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Big-time brain-blank; for FJ! I guessed
Spoiler
Oprah.
Ended up being a pretty good finish, but it seems only one of the three players really took to heart Maggie's Oath: "I will not quell the mo!!"
Poo-tee-weet? So it goes.
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Budphrey wrote:Big-time brain-blank; for FJ! I guessed
Spoiler
Oprah.
Ended up being a pretty good finish, but it seems only one of the three players really took to heart Maggie's Oath: "I will not quell the mo!!"
That was a better guess than I had, and incidentally, the guy sitting next to me in the audience guessed that as well. He'll probably pipe up later.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

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ej!fan wrote:Gibbs was especially pokey in his clue choosing though.
That's an understatement.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
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bpmod wrote:That was a better guess than I had, and incidentally, the guy sitting next to me in the audience guessed that as well. He'll probably pipe up later.
Must've been sitting on the other side. I had gone with Whoopi.
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Lots of comments on Robert's Valada-esque clue selection, but nothing on Chris' filibuster in the interviews? I was expecting Alex to LTaM halfway through that tirade.

As long as we don't have another game as dreadful as this one or this one, I can't complain too much. (Seriously, why the pluperfect hell did they think of dragging out those cameos?! What were TPTB smoking that week?)

I just couldn't get anything right. I was blanking on easy things such as earthquake ("oh, not tornadoes or hurricanes, the other things… what're they called?"), canal, etc.

I wouldn't have gotten Cosby if you had spotted me Bill. Mark Twain Prize had me thinking it'd be someone in literature, but I couldn't think of any black writer/actor (even though I'm well aware that Cos wrote a bunch of books).
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Hasn't Matthews been on the show before? Gibbs I can excuse, but there's no reason for Chris to have been so ****ing slow.

Not a chance on FJ. Couldn't remember what the Spingarn Medal was (on the tip of my tongue the whole way), and even if I had, my mindset still would've been "pick a random black guy", and still wouldn't have said Cosby. Ended up WAGging Holbrook based on Twain.

"Who is Gary Powers"
we need the full name...
"Who is GARY POWERS!"

Other than that hilarious moment, this was a snoozer. I hope the rest of the week is better, or I might check out around Thursday.
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Has Matthews even WATCHED Jeopardy before? That was horrid.
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I got it right away... after Alex's hint. Before that, I was trying to convince myself this wasn't another FJ! about Hal Holbrook.
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I have to join the epically slow club here. I was cheering for Gibbs the entire way, and I am happy to see him win a triple stumper.

(I came out with Harry Bellafonte on Final, but that was a bad choice for numerous reasons.)

- Also, I never want to see Chris Matthews on the show again for his slowpoke behavior and senile-esque movement through the board.
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The applause after each answer makes me irritated.
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ACW wrote:The applause after each answer makes me irritated.
Reminds me of when I saw Season 1 episodes on YouTube. They applauded after EVERY clue back then.
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alietr wrote:
bpmod wrote:That was a better guess than I had, and incidentally, the guy sitting next to me in the audience guessed that as well. He'll probably pipe up later.
Must've been sitting on the other side. I had gone with Whoopi.
Mea Culpa. I misremembered that. But now that you mention it, it all becomes clear.

Oh, and the guy on the other side... I don't remember if he told me his guess.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

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TenPoundHammer wrote:
ACW wrote:The applause after each answer makes me irritated.
Reminds me of when I saw Season 1 episodes on YouTube. They applauded after EVERY clue back then.
I think they were just applauding for local sports teams.
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Dull contestants make for a really dull episode. 8 leftovers in the first round & then some more in DJ. Let's hope it gets better. Surely the others can't be as stupid?


ETA: none of them realized what the NAACP award was?
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