Friday, March 1, 2013 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #6555, 2013-03-01
CONTESTANTS
Melissa Leanza, a bookkeeper from Laguna Hills, California
Craig Sallinger, a government librarian from Washington, D.C.
Sara Garnett, a graduate student of zoology originally from Okemos, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,402)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thanks, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Well, we're into March. Hey, if you want to impress your teachers and your fellow students, why not do what Sara has done--average over $26,000 for each of your victories on Jeopardy!? Craig and Melissa--they're looking pretty serious right now. They want to stop this young lady. Can they do it? We're about to find out. Good luck. Here we go. The Jeopardy! Round has one Daily Double in one of these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS (5/5)
PRESIDENTIAL POOCHES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
WITCH MOVIE? (5/5)
PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS (3/5)
LINES (5/5)
HEY, "BERT" (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Sara: 12 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 1 W
Melissa: 8 R, 0 W
Craig: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,200
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Sara found the Daily Double on the 6th clue. Sara had $600, Craig had $400, and Melissa was at $800. Sara wagered $1,000.
PRESIDENTIAL POOCHES $800: Thomas Jefferson owned 2 briards that were a gift from this Frenchman
(Alex: Yeah, I guess you had to pick him, the only Frenchman that comes to mind when you think of the early days of our country.)
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Sara: $3,200
Melissa: $2,200
Craig: $1,400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Melissa Leanza is from Laguna Hills, California. And your daughter appeared in last year's Teen Tournament, right?
Melissa: She was in last season's Teen Tournament. I like to say that I am a "second generation in reverse" Jeopardy! contestant.
Alex: That's pretty neat. How did she do?
Melissa: She did okay. It was a really good experience. She was the alternate the year before. And she came in, and she had a really good time, and now she's in her first year of college.
Alex: Well, that's important. Good.
Alex: Craig Sallinger from Washington, D.C. He's a government librarian who, when he was younger, I suppose, had problems with... bed-wetting.
Craig: I did. I did.
Alex: And your parents tried to cure you of this?
Craig: They did try to cure me. And they were very well-meaning, and at the time--this was 30-odd years ago--the most technologically advanced piece of equipment that would aid in that was this giant tabletop device, and they set it on top of the dresser. And it had some ridiculous name--the wheeler 2000 or something like that. And when it went off, you know, during an event--when it went off, it would make this horrible racket, and there was a strobe light that went on, and it sounded like an alarm going off. Everyone would rush into the room and wake me up, and, you know. And it eventually worked, but one time, my mom had left something in the stove, and so the smoke detector went off, and there was smoke billowing throughout the kitchen, but everyone came into my room--"Craig, Craig, wake up!" "It's not me. No, it's not me this time." And so...
Alex: That device is still in your bedroom, isn't it?
[Laughter]
Craig: Yes, yes. It's in a glass case.
Alex: [Laughing] Okay.
Alex: Sara Garnett--you are introduced on our program as a graduate student of zoology. Now, I know you spent a summer working at a zoo. Was that exciting for you? What did you do? What was your job?
Sara: Yeah. It was actually a couple summers. I was a teen zookeeper. It was a program they had where you would go in and kind of tag along with a zookeeper for a couple of hours, help them do their tasks. So, every now and then, I would do something exciting, like help give a meerkat a shot, but mostly, I just shoveled a lot of poop.
[Laughter]
Alex: Hasn't this been an interesting discussion? We got shoveling poop and--well, we won't even go there anymore.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS $200: It's the seat of Ector County & in a novel the name of an organization for ex-Nazis with a "file" on it
(Craig: What is IPCRESS?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]? The [*] File.)
PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS $1000: It's an Air Force base & a nickname of England's property-poor King John
(Alex: He was known as John [*].)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Sara: $7,000
Melissa: $4,600
Craig: $3,600
CONTESTANTS
Melissa Leanza, a bookkeeper from Laguna Hills, California
Craig Sallinger, a government librarian from Washington, D.C.
Sara Garnett, a graduate student of zoology originally from Okemos, Michigan (whose 2-day cash winnings total $53,402)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thanks, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Well, we're into March. Hey, if you want to impress your teachers and your fellow students, why not do what Sara has done--average over $26,000 for each of your victories on Jeopardy!? Craig and Melissa--they're looking pretty serious right now. They want to stop this young lady. Can they do it? We're about to find out. Good luck. Here we go. The Jeopardy! Round has one Daily Double in one of these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HOMOPHONIC PAIRS (5/5)
PRESIDENTIAL POOCHES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
WITCH MOVIE? (5/5)
PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS (3/5)
LINES (5/5)
HEY, "BERT" (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Sara: 12 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 1 W
Melissa: 8 R, 0 W
Craig: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,200
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Sara found the Daily Double on the 6th clue. Sara had $600, Craig had $400, and Melissa was at $800. Sara wagered $1,000.
PRESIDENTIAL POOCHES $800: Thomas Jefferson owned 2 briards that were a gift from this Frenchman
(Alex: Yeah, I guess you had to pick him, the only Frenchman that comes to mind when you think of the early days of our country.)
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Sara: $3,200
Melissa: $2,200
Craig: $1,400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Melissa Leanza is from Laguna Hills, California. And your daughter appeared in last year's Teen Tournament, right?
Melissa: She was in last season's Teen Tournament. I like to say that I am a "second generation in reverse" Jeopardy! contestant.
Alex: That's pretty neat. How did she do?
Melissa: She did okay. It was a really good experience. She was the alternate the year before. And she came in, and she had a really good time, and now she's in her first year of college.
Alex: Well, that's important. Good.
Alex: Craig Sallinger from Washington, D.C. He's a government librarian who, when he was younger, I suppose, had problems with... bed-wetting.
Craig: I did. I did.
Alex: And your parents tried to cure you of this?
Craig: They did try to cure me. And they were very well-meaning, and at the time--this was 30-odd years ago--the most technologically advanced piece of equipment that would aid in that was this giant tabletop device, and they set it on top of the dresser. And it had some ridiculous name--the wheeler 2000 or something like that. And when it went off, you know, during an event--when it went off, it would make this horrible racket, and there was a strobe light that went on, and it sounded like an alarm going off. Everyone would rush into the room and wake me up, and, you know. And it eventually worked, but one time, my mom had left something in the stove, and so the smoke detector went off, and there was smoke billowing throughout the kitchen, but everyone came into my room--"Craig, Craig, wake up!" "It's not me. No, it's not me this time." And so...
Alex: That device is still in your bedroom, isn't it?
[Laughter]
Craig: Yes, yes. It's in a glass case.
Alex: [Laughing] Okay.
Alex: Sara Garnett--you are introduced on our program as a graduate student of zoology. Now, I know you spent a summer working at a zoo. Was that exciting for you? What did you do? What was your job?
Sara: Yeah. It was actually a couple summers. I was a teen zookeeper. It was a program they had where you would go in and kind of tag along with a zookeeper for a couple of hours, help them do their tasks. So, every now and then, I would do something exciting, like help give a meerkat a shot, but mostly, I just shoveled a lot of poop.
[Laughter]
Alex: Hasn't this been an interesting discussion? We got shoveling poop and--well, we won't even go there anymore.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS $200: It's the seat of Ector County & in a novel the name of an organization for ex-Nazis with a "file" on it
(Craig: What is IPCRESS?)
...
(Alex: What is [*]? The [*] File.)
PLACES IN TEXAS, PLUS $1000: It's an Air Force base & a nickname of England's property-poor King John
(Alex: He was known as John [*].)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Sara: $7,000
Melissa: $4,600
Craig: $3,600