Fourth Podium Poll for Monday, May 29, 2023

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Which of these clues did you get?

SJ9 $1000 TREES COMPANY: "Green is the plane-tree in the square, the other trees are brown / They droop & pine for country air / The plane-tree loves it" here
9
17%
SJ12 $600 TREES COMPANY: Pine trees are evergreens & also classified as these, for the scaly structures that house seeds
41
77%
SJ15 $800 THE ROCKEFELLERS: From 1985 to 2015 Jay Rockefeller, also known as John D. Rockefeller IV, was a senator from this state (Travis: What is Minnesota?)
32
60%
DJ6 $1600 PLAY "FREE" WORDS: C.S. Lewis wrote that this ability is "the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having" (Niranjan: What is free thought?)
32
60%
DJ7 $2000 MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED: "Married" , an 1884 collection of stories by this Swede, got him prosecuted for blasphemy
23
43%
DJ8 DD2 MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED (NOTE: Available if you got EITHER of the previous 2 clues): The first woman to chair the U.K. Conservative Party, she led even more after becoming prime minister in 2016 (Niranjan wagered $3800)
45
85%
DJ9 $2000 PLAY "FREE" WORDS: A kind of shoe is in this name for a pirate
19
36%
DJ10 $1200 CHEMISTRY: The Haber process was developed prior to World War I to produce this pungent gas from nitrogen & hydrogen (Niranjan: What is sulfur?) (Travis: What is mustard gas?)
30
57%
DJ12 $400 CHEMISTRY: Water hardness is determined by the amount of minerals it contains, mostly carbonates of magnesium & this element
33
62%
DJ14 $1600 HISTORY: This paramilitary group of young people was used in the 1960s to enforce the Cultural Revolution
11
21%
DJ16 $2000 THE GULF OF MEXICO: In 1559 a Spanish expedition settled for about 2 years at what is today this city near the western end of Florida's Panhandle (Diandra: What is St. Augustine?)
20
38%
DJ19 $1200 POP INSTRUMENTALS: This almost lyric-free 2013 hit by Brooklyn producer/DJ Baauer has part of Manhattan in its title
13
25%
DJ24 $1600 POP INSTRUMENTALS: This monster hit by the Edgar Winter Group got its title from the way it was pieced together in the editing process (Travis: What is the "Monster Mash"?)
26
49%
DJ27 $400 THE GULF OF MEXICO: This powerful warm current flows north from the Gulf into the Atlantic Ocean (Travis: What is the jet stream?) (Niranjan: What is the Santa Ana?)
35
66%
DJ28 $800 THE GULF OF MEXICO: The western end of this island forms a partial divider between the Gulf & the Caribbean Sea
29
55%
FJ MEMORIALS: The Vietnam War crypt at this memorial has been empty since the remains once there were identified & moved to St. Louis
50
94%
 
Total votes: 53

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Fourth Podium Poll for Monday, May 29, 2023

Post by opusthepenguin »

$17,200 in trash plus an available DD2 that could add as much as $6000. This one's doable, especially since Travis took himself out of your way. (Dang, that was rough to watch.) If you can pick up $8801 or more and pledge your honor that you would've made the shutout bet against Diandra, a get on FJ gives you the win.

SCORES GOING INTO FJ

Diandra D’Alessio: 8800+3601=12401
Travis Lee: 12400-5201=7199
Niranjan Murali: 8000
CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND

SJ9 $1000 TREES COMPANY: the town
SJ12 $600 TREES COMPANY: conifers
SJ15 $800 THE ROCKEFELLERS: West Virginia

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND

DJ6 $1600 PLAY "FREE" WORDS: free will
DJ7 $2000 MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED: August Strindberg
DJ8 DD2 MONTHLY PEOPLE, REAL & IMAGINED: Theresa May
DJ9 $2000 PLAY "FREE" WORDS: freebooter
DJ10 $1200 CHEMISTRY: ammonia
DJ12 $400 CHEMISTRY: calcium
DJ14 $1600 HISTORY: the Red Guard
DJ16 $2000 THE GULF OF MEXICO: Pensacola
DJ19 $1200 POP INSTRUMENTALS: the "Harlem Shake"
DJ24 $1600 POP INSTRUMENTALS: "Frankenstein"
DJ27 $400 THE GULF OF MEXICO: the Gulf Stream
DJ28 $800 THE GULF OF MEXICO: Cuba

FINAL JEOPARDY

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$4600 + DD2 + FJ has me not much better off than the players.
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$10800 (also thought mustard gas for DJ10) + DD2 (which I most certainly would have bet it all on) + FJ = no problemo
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My $9400 in Lach Trash + FJ get gave me a second consecutive win from the fourth podium.

In fact, an all-in FJ would give me more than Diandra has totaled in her two wins.

Neither of these has ever happened to me before, and I don't think it's because I suddenly became brilliant.

Perhaps quality of play will pick up later in the week.
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Would've had freebooter if they did the category in order; for all I know there's a shoe style out there called the freeloader *shrug*

8800 if I go all in on the DD, so it comes down to a tiebreaker...
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Conifers, Strindberg, a double-up on Theresa May, ammonia, "Frankenstein," and the Gulf Stream get me to a tantalizing $8,400. But Diandra didn't cover Niranjan; if she still only bets to catch up to Travis even with another player just $400 behind her, then I win covering Niranjan.
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$11000, plus whatever on the DD, plus FJ. Not counting my "jet stream" neg, since Travis would have said it before me. Might have ended up saying Gulf stream, but was kind of thrown by same word being in the clue.

Kudos to anyone who got the plane-tree question without actually knowing the poem; without any introduction or visible text, that was just a big "Huh?" for me. (NB. having looked up the poem, the "it" in the clue should probably go outside the quotation marks, since the actual line is, "The plane-tree loves the town.")
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jamie wrote: Mon May 29, 2023 11:55 pm Kudos to anyone who got the plane-tree question without actually knowing the poem; without any introduction or visible text, that was just a big "Huh?" for me. (NB. having looked up the poem, the "it" in the clue should probably go outside the quotation marks, since the actual line is, "The plane-tree loves the town.")
"In the town" would work grammatically, though it departs from the ballad meter that had been established. I might have answered "down" for that reason. Anyway, typical of the show's ineptitude in presenting poetry clues.
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$7000 + FJ. Would probably have wagered $5401 from last place to cover a zero bet from Travis and finished with a tie. And I'd hate to put money on my thumb in a buzzer race.
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$9400+DD2+FJ means that I enter FJ with $13600 and win with a shutout bet.
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