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Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #7412, 2016-11-29

CONTESTANTS
Jennifer Berry, a Medicare appeals coordinator from Indianapolis, Indiana
Dan Chafetz, a data specialist from Essex Junction, Vermont
Justin Bender, a technical engineer from Boulder, Colorado (whose 2-day cash winnings total $20,799)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Hey, John. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Wasn't that a big downer at the end of yesterday's program? All three contestants played brilliantly for two rounds, and then all of them missed the Final Jeopardy!. Our champion, Justin, had a chance to clean up yesterday and pick up $34,000. Instead, he won $1,199. I hope today is different. Dan and Jennifer, make it happen also. Good luck! Here we go.

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
WINNING! (3/4)
KIDS' BOOKS (5/5)
RHYME TIME (4/4)
OCTOPI-POURRI (5/5)
CORNERSTONES (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
TAKE THE "A" TRAINING (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Justin: 13 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Dan: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Jennifer: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W

Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 1
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,000



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Dan: $3,200
Justin: $1,400
Jennifer: $800

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Welcome back. Sometimes in our lives, reconnecting with old loves can be a game-changer. Jennifer Berry, that happened to you, didn't it?

Jennifer: It did. It did. I met George when we were in seventh grade, so eleven, twelve years old, and he was my first love. We lost touch along the way after high school, and about four years ago, I looked him up online, found him. Neither one of us had ever been married, got back together. We've hardly been apart a day since then.

Alex: Good for you. That's a lovely story.

Jennifer: Thank you.




Alex: Dan Chafetz, data specialist from Vermont, who, says here, the first NFL football game you attended was a historic one. How?

Dan: That's right, Alex. I grew up in western New York, near Buffalo, and so I'm a big Buffalo Bills fan. So the Bills had some great teams back in the '90s--

Alex: Yeah, but they never got to that last win.

Dan: Well, I'm not talking about that game.

Alex: Okay.

Dan: I'm talking about the comeback game against the Oilers. It was a playoff game and they were down 32 points during the third quarter. They ended up coming back, winning the game in overtime. Till this day it remains the greatest comeback in the history of the NFL, and--

Alex: And you were there.

Dan: I was there, there.

Alex: You were there. Okay. Good for you.




Alex: Justin Bender is our champion. He's a technical engineer who deals with language and went on a singing tour of Europe with a chorale, a group?

Justin: Yeah, it was a group of about 30 of us for about 2 1/2 weeks in central Europe, and--

Alex: What kind of singing were you guys doing?

Justin: Oh, largely chamber choir sort of things, a capella things. It was an amazing experience.

Alex: Okay. I'm sure it was. You're still in command of the board, by the way.

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Justin found the Daily Double on the 22nd clue. Justin had $4,400, Dan had $3,800, and Jennifer was at $1,600. Justin made it a True Daily Double, wagering $4,400.

CORNERSTONES $1000: In 1770 statesman & merchant John Brown laid the cornerstone for this state's oldest university
(Justin: What is Massachusetts?)
(Alex: No, Brown University is [*].)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
WINNING! $1000: (I'm NASCAR driver Jimmy Johnson.) In 2004 & 2012 I won the Darlington 500 in this Southern state
(Jennifer: What is North Carolina?)
(Justin: What is Virginia?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Dan: $4,000
Justin: $2,000
Jennifer: $2,000
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
LEANING CONSERVATIVE (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS (1/4)
1960s COMPUTING (5/5)
FROM "T" TO SHINING "T" (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
HELL (3/5)
DAM NATION (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Dan: 11 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Justin: 7 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Jennifer: 4 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W

Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 6
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $9,200



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Dan snagged the next Daily Double on the 4th clue. Justin had $2,000, Dan had $6,400, and Jennifer was at $2,000. Dan wagered $4,000.

LEANING CONSERVATIVE $1600: (I'm political commentator S.E. Cupp.) Though I'm politically conservative, I support same-sex marriage as part of a group of Republicans dating from 1977 & named for this structure
(Dan: What is the Big House?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Justin who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 10th clue. Justin had $5,200, Dan had $6,000, and Jennifer was at $3,600. Justin made it a True Daily Double, wagering $5,200.

FROM "T" TO SHINING "T" $800: This term for one who traitorously switches allegiance dates form the mid-16th century

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
HELL $1200: Milton used this word for the capital of hell; now it means wild confusion

HELL $2000: In Greek mythology the gods consigned their enemies to this lowest region of Hades

DAM NATION $2000: Gatun Dam

OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $1200: 2011 winner "Saving Face" is about women disfigured by attacks in this country & the doctor who helps them

OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $2000: This director of "Fort Apache" was wounded while filming the 1942 Oscar-winning short "The Battle of Midway"

OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $800: "Seal Island" & "Bear Country" were 2 Oscar winners from this studio's true-life adventure series
(Dan: What is Pixar?)
(Jennifer: What is National Geographic?)

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Justin: $15,200
Dan: $10,000
Jennifer: $5,600

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERATURE

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Crush for first place.
Justin: Wager $4,801 to cover Dan.
Dan: You have the hope of surpassing Justin if you come up with the correct response. Bet at least $5,201 to force Justin to wager to win while also protecting your position from being usurped by Jennifer.
Jennifer: Your only hope of a win is that you're the only one to give a correct response, so bet $5,598 or so, leaving a few bucks behind in case someone wagers it all.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 2009 Amazon remotely deleted unauthorized copies of this 1949 novel from some customers' Kindles

FINAL SCORES
Jennifer: $5,600 + $1,800 = $7,400 (What is 1984?) (2nd place)
Dan: $10,000 - $9,999 = $1 (What is the) (3rd place)
Justin: $15,200 + $4,801 = $20,001 (What is 1984?) (20800-day champion: $20,001)
([Before revealing responses] Alex: Boo, hiss. Shades of Big Brother here.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $10,200

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Justin: $15,200, 20 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Dan: $14,000, 19 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Jennifer: $5,600, 9 R, 3 W
Combined Coryat: $34,800

BATTING AVERAGES
Justin: 21/60 = .350
Dan: 19/59 = .322
Jennifer: 10/58 = .172
Team: 50/63 = .794

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
WINNING! $400: The 1977 World Series-- thanks, Reggie!
(Jennifer: Who is Reggie Jackson?)

KIDS' BOOKS $800: This 1982 Roald Dahl work about a large fellow became a 2016 film
(Justin: What is The Big Friendly Giant?)

TAKE THE "A" TRAINING $1000: Study dispute resolution to become one of these & decide if Ryan Howard gets $7 million or $10 million
(Alex: Less than a minute to go now.)

KIDS' BOOKS $200: Huckleberry Finn first shows up in this novel
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

LEANING CONSERVATIVE $800: In 1964 he galvanized young conservatives with his convention acceptance speech

HELL $1600: You don't want to open this 4-word Rodin work seen here

HELL $800: Delacroix depicted this Roman poet guiding Dante across the River Styx

1960s COMPUTING $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) Developed by MIT, the guidance computer for this NASA program that got the first men to the moon and back again had only 72 kilobytes of memory

1960s COMPUTING $800: E.A. Johnson came up with this tactile idea in a 1965 article subtitled "A Novel Input/Output Device"
(Dan: What is a mouse?)

OSCAR-WINNING SHORTS $1600: Actor & art collector Vincent Price narrated the 1963 Oscar-winning short about this Vitebsk-born Jewish painter
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to go now.)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Rhode Island
South Carolina
the Log Cabin Republicans
a turncoat
pandemonium
Tartarus
Panama
Pakistan
John Ford
Disney
1984
the Yankees
BFG
an arbitrator
Tom Sawyer
Goldwater
The Gates of Hell
Virgil
the Apollo program
a touchscreen
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERATURE

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 2009 Amazon remotely deleted unauthorized copies of this 1949 novel from some customers' Kindles

Justin Bender: 15200+4801=20001 (3x = $40,800)
Dan Chafetz: 10000-9999=1
Jennifer Berry: 5600+1800=7400

Correct response:
Spoiler
1984 (Dan – The)

Daily Doubles
Justin: 4400-4400
Dan: 6400-4000
Justin: 5200+5200

Coryats
Justin: 15200
Dan: 14000
Jennifer: 5600

Combined: 34,800
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Hi, there. Middle podium today here. Will post more after.
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The H in HTTP is Hyper. It's HyperText Transfer Protocol.

Took a sec to recall it, but I got to 1984 quickly enough.
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It seemed they were looking for hypertext so I have no idea why they didn't ask for the HT (the way it was written, here at home I just said 'hyper' to play it safe). If they'd neg Dan for giving them too much info, I'd still be cursing at the screen.

Big sigh of relief when Justin sussed out "turncoat" I want more people to bet big on DDs, so 3 flameouts in one episode wouldn't help encourage others :lol:

Instaget FJ, from the year alone. I don't buy many ebooks, and I didn't know Amazon could do that (makes sense). I was hoping Justin got it wrong, to make it clear that Jennifer should've bet it all. Oh well. Wouldn't want to teach the folks at home proper wagering or anything.
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econgator wrote:The H in HTTP is Hyper. It's HyperText Transfer Protocol.
Yeah, I actually gave a quiz yesterday with a near identical question, but the correct answer was "Hyper"


I think I would have gotten Final if they had put something like "Somewhat fittingly," or something at the beginning of the clue. Instead, my mind jumped to China, since they have some history of making US company's ban things in their country. I wrote "The Little Red Book" which is probably a very bad guess.
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Someone's getting a black er, gray wager after that game.
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Not an instaget for me, but got FJ with a wild guess at a novel published in the late 40's.
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NHO "even at this late date". That was a contrived clue.

Joseph Smith is another name that is way too generic to Hawley-Smoot into my head.

$1,000 was my only get in Octopi, since it was the only one that directly required knowledge of the animal.

Paul Revere was a silversmith?

BFG and Labyrinth were my gets in Kids' Books. I can never keep Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer straight.

Announcer I tend to think of as being a TV thing, not a radio thing. Didn't get that or arbitrator.

Trivet (NHOI) was my only miss in Shining T.

I was hoping for "Let's go to Hell for $400" but it never happened.

Computer for $800 seemed negbait for keyboard.

Dam Nation was completetly lacking in TOM.

Briefly considered 1984 but it didn't seem right. Fahrenheit 451 didn't seem right either. Nothing seemed right.
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Lost my own coin flip between 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Both fit the question well but F451 was four years off. Oh well
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econgator wrote:The H in HTTP is Hyper. It's HyperText Transfer Protocol.
Beat me to it.

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Fishercat wrote:Lost my own coin flip between 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Both fit the question well but F451 was four years off. Oh well
LMAO same coin flip went with Orwellian... better lucky than good. NHO the 'censoring' by 'Big Brother Amazon.' Must have slept through it now 7 years back probly working nights sleeping days.
Was certain "Brave New World was from 1930s although it fleeted through there, not a contender. F451 'seemed 1950s,' my impression from the film version, and a retrowiki confirms that >1953.
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econgator wrote:The H in HTTP is Hyper. It's HyperText Transfer Protocol.
Also thought the Rodin 4 word answer was given as "gates of hell"... Maybe missed "the".
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gnuppet wrote:Hi, there. Middle podium today here. Will post more after.
Welcome! Ok, everyone, remember to make our guest feel welcome! Some of them will wish to have a word with you about your FJ wager, Dan. It... er... could have used a little work. There were a few nightmare scenarios where it would have cost you a game you should have won. Fortunately, none of those occurred. You lost cleanly and you made Justin work for his win. That's not as satisfying as a win, of course. But you played well and looked like a contender. Thanks for stopping by. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on this whirlwind experience.

EDIT: My critique of Dan's wager is all wrong. Please read ahead for my retraction before you yell at me.
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doihavetoreally wrote:
econgator wrote:The H in HTTP is Hyper. It's HyperText Transfer Protocol.
Also thought the Rodin 4 word answer was given as "gates of hell"... Maybe missed "the".
No it was there, bit hasty but I caught it. If you're not familiar, Rodin's "The Thinker" is a part of this gate, carved into the lintel above the doors, later carved a stand-alone!
The gates were cast twice and stand in the Rodin Museums of Paris and Philly. Worth a visit! :)
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xxaaaxx wrote:It seemed they were looking for hypertext so I have no idea why they didn't ask for the HT (the way it was written, here at home I just said 'hyper' to play it safe). If they'd neg Dan for giving them too much info, I'd still be cursing at the screen.
Hypertext might have been TMI, but that's not a problem as long as the extra info is correct.
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32/57 right.

Winning (3), Kids (4), Rhyme (1), Octopi (3), Cornerstone (5), "A" Training (3)
Conservative (3), Oscar (1), Computing (1), "T to T" (4), Hell (1), Damnation (3)

Lach Trash: South Carolina, John Ford; DD: Rhode Island

Not instant, but a quick FJ; also helped me to know the year of its release.
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goatman wrote:
doihavetoreally wrote:
econgator wrote:The H in HTTP is Hyper. It's HyperText Transfer Protocol.
Also thought the Rodin 4 word answer was given as "gates of hell"... Maybe missed "the".
No it was there, bit hasty but I caught it. If you're not familiar, Rodin's "The Thinker" is a part of this gate, carved into the lintel above the doors, later carved a stand-alone!
The gates were cast twice and stand in the Rodin Museums of Paris and Philly. Worth a visit! :)
OK thanks. Will check them if I ever get to either of those places.
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was wondering if you are a boardie as you played like a boardie, DD hunting and all. Sorry, didn't work.

Justin TDD's are refreshing and he is looking set for a TOC spot -- jinxed now?
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