Only 14 triple stumpers and we cleared both boards today. Things are looking up. On the other hand, not a good night for women with the last name of Channing. With 16 available slots, I was able to throw in the one missed DD as well as FJ. (I know we'll poll it on Saturday, but I'm curious now.) If we had a 17th slot, I'd probably throw in Mitochondrial Eve to see how many of you knew that one. Alex picked up $3000 on that DD, but it didn't end up being enough.
Here's a reminder of pre-FJ scores and wagers so you can compare how you did:
Alex Damisch: 8800-6412=2388
Stephanie Sumulong: 15000-2601=12399
Theodore Conrad: 5400-5300=100
CORRECT RESPONSES
$400 WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS: latitude
$1000 WORDS & THEIR MEANINGS: jocular
$1000 BROADWAY NAMES: Al Hirschfeld
$800 BROADWAY NAMES: Carol Channing
$800 STATE OF THE LOTTO SCRATCHER: Kentucky
$400 IN EXTREMIS: meter
$800 IN EXTREMIS: seer
$1200 ANIMAL MALADIES: parrot
$2000 ANIMAL MALADIES: mites
$1600 WHEN I WAS SECRETARY OF STATE...: Hillary Clinton
$1200 IN EXTREMIS: merit
$1600 IN EXTREMIS: miter
$2000 NOT-SO-EASY KIDS' TV: Rin Tin Tin
$2000 ALL ABOUT EVE: Margo Channing
DD1 $600 clue in CLASSIC NOVELS (Theodore wagered $400): The Bell Jar
FJ LITERARY NEW YORK CITY: Algonquin Round Table
$9k if the math is right, but also an FJ miss.
Mites would've been a DD get but just under the threshold of buzzing in and taking a $2k hit. (I also took 4 other hits elsewhere, probably more gunshy at that point too)
- Didn't fare so well today, getting only jocular, Kentucky, and miter for $3,400, plus the Bell Jar DD.
- No hope on Final; the category had me trying to come up with a fictional place.
- I wasn't sure between Clinton and Kerry and clammed.
- I might have gotten meter, and maybe smite, if I'd been able to look at the word "extremis" during the clue. The other two I didn't get would have eluded me either way.
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?
Latitude, Hirschfeld, meter, parrot, merit, miter, and Rin Tin Tin were my gets, while I negged with ticks instead of mites and also made the TN/KY mixup for Fort Knox, giving me a total of $5,000, shy of a fourth-podium win on my Algonquin Round Table get. So let's just imagine I go straight from my latitude get back to CLASSIC NOVELS and get the DD. But that's still just $1,000 more, barely insufficient. However, if Lach Trash requires all ringers-in to beat me on the buzzer, then Theodore would have prevented me from guessing Tennessee, and I assure you I would have come to my senses and gotten Kentucky on the rebound. So now I have $7,600, enough to win in FJ.
LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 04, 2019 3:44 am
Am I the only person to notice that there were TWO Channing LT's, and also the fact that Animal Maladies $2000 is also a valid answer in Extremis?
If "and" means you had to notice both things to qualify, maybe. If you're asking if anyone noticed either thing, I alluded to the Channing coincidence in the first post.
Got all but "latitude" (said "relief" instead) and Margo Channing, for $15,000 using the base value of the DD. Don't know what I would have wagered in the category. Correct on FJ, but again don't know what I would have wagered. With a tie, would have either gone with zero or everything, depending on my comfort with the category and my perception of opponent's comfort level.
I'm not the defending Jeopardy! champion. But I have played one on TV.
I just feel like posting this. The Al Hirschfeld Theatre used to be the Martin Beck, which is also the name of the hero in a series of detective novels by the Swedish writers Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. It's the theatre Katharine Hepburn was acting in when she inspired Dorothy Parker (author of this game's FJ quote) to write "...runs the gamut of emotions from A to B". Hepburn recalled this review without bitterness in her memoir "Me". She seemed almost proud to have inspired it.
Btw, I always spell "theatre" the French way. Life-long habit. Sorry if it seems pretentious.