Haven't done one of these since February. But a game like this can bring a guy out of retirement. 16 triple stumpers! That's the poll limit, so I can't include any extras. In the comments you can note whether you got FJ--necessary for a fourth podium win. There's "only" $18,400 in trash and Zach went into FJ with $21,800. So you're going to need more than $10,900 of that trash to get past him. Seems quite doable and I'm betting there are a few boardies that Zach might have been sorry to face here.
Also note, if you like, whether you got the St. Erasmus DD and the one about the 15-letter appointed office in the House of Representatives.
CORRECT RESPONSES
SJ ROUND
$800 AMERICAN LITERATURE: The Joy Luck Club
$400 "THAN" WORDS: thanes
$800 "THAN" WORDS: Thanatos
$600 TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW: The Big Bang Theory
$800 TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW: Mork & Mindy
$1000 TV CATCHPHRASES BY SHOW: Hawaii Five-O (or Five-0)*
$800 ACTIONS: purl
DJ ROUND
$800 PUN-FORGIVABLE: a fire place
$1200 PUN-FORGIVABLE: Boo! meringue
$2000 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: tumbrel (or tumbril)
$1600 PATRON SAINTS: St. Raphael
$400 ANIMALS: antelope
$2000 ANIMALS: Koko
$2000 BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES: Tilda Swinton
$1200 BREAKOUT MOVIE ROLES: Sean Penn
$2000 PUN-FORGIVABLE: sin till late
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* 1968 series used a capital O. Current series uses a numeral 0.
At least $12,000 for me going into FJ plus a solve gets me the fourth podium win. I'm not sure if I'd have clammed on Raphael or gone with the obvious guess. If I'd gone with it, that's another $1600 which might add to my winnings.
I didn't get antelope, which I probably should have. I froze on thanes because it was Beowulf, which I should know, but somehow it wasn't coming to me. Remembered the category leading to the obvious response just as Alex was about to say it, so no soup for me. MIGHT have gotten "sin till late" but "a prime time hour" isn't late. Pretty much by definition. "Late" starts AFTER prime time. So I felt that clue steered everyone in the wrong direction.
On the DJ DDs, I got St. Elmo (unlike Zach) but not from Sesame Street. How would that help? I got it from knowing that St. Elmo's Fire is associated with sailors in some way. So Erasmus + "shorter name" + sailors got me there. Did NOT get parliamentarian (again unlike Zach, who did). Wasted my time counting the letters in ombudsman, coming up 6 short, and floundering.
$8000 when accounting for the neg on pronghorn. I'm a city slicker and I can't properly distinguish longhorn, pronghorn and bighorn. No problem with DD2.
Looks like I'm the first to get Tilda.
None of the TS puns (pretty wretched category y'ask me, and I like wordplay), nor Raphael nor tumbrel.
Yes to St. Elmo (his fire appears atop masts), no to parliamentarian--I also thought of sergeant-at-arms.
Yes to FJ.
DD1: (and I got the previous 3 clues right - yeah, I know that's not how this works)
DJ!: $5200
DD2: (and previous 2 clues right)
DD3:
FJ!:
So, I wind up with $10200. Zach still locks me out, but if I beat him on the buzzer on one modestly priced clue or get one of my two true daily doubles, I win.
$8800, I think. Missed thane, purl, the archangel, gorilla, tumbrel and two of the pun clues. Might have gotten thane if I paid closer attention to the category.
Joy Luck, thanes, Thanatos, Big Bang, Mork & Mindy, Hawaii, fireplace, boomerang, Koko, Penn, scintillate (just before the buzzer), which by my calculation is $11,600, plus a get on Final for the win.
davey wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:00 pm
No Tilda Swinton fans? I just blanked, but was picturing her the whole time...Only $10600 otherwise, tho...and no FJ....
Chameleon actress made me think of Cate Blanchett. But wait, she's Australian. So not her, who... oh, out of time
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?
A correct FJ response wouldn't be necessary if you had more than $14,800. If you're between that and $15,600, you could cover Jennifer doubling up from $7,800 and stay ahead of Zach covering you if you both miss.
I had a clam on tumbrel (the clue made me think tombeau, but I was pretty sure that was just French for "tomb"), a neg on pronghorn (sheep; similar confusion to Mark's above), and a get on everything else, though I can't remember if I committed to a buzz for Tilda Swinton. But I got FJ right, and if she was a clam for me, I have $13,600, wager big, and win big. Otherwise I have $15,600, and bet $0, unless I think Zach is aware I bet $0 the last time I was in a close second with third at exactly half my score, in which case I might think about going bigger. (Of course, eleven years ago co-champions were still a thing, so who knows if he'd think I'd bet the same now?)
LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 3:15 am
The fact that Tumbril had a low hit rate proves that most don't go back in the Archive to view the UTOC games.
opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:59 pm
MIGHT have gotten "sin till late" but "a prime time hour" isn't late. Pretty much by definition. "Late" starts AFTER prime time. So I felt that clue steered everyone in the wrong direction.
I haven’t seen the episode, but solved it here as “sin till eight”. Maybe that was the writers’ intended answer and “late” was an acceptable alternative?