Monday, April 23, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #6361, 2012-04-23
CONTESTANTS
Cindy Vanderbur, a health insurance contract specialist from Madison, Indiana
Mike Garrett, a magazine editor from Kamloops, British Columbia
Dan Adkison, a copy editor from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $37,400)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you very much. Thank you, Johnny. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Dan has had the weekend to think about and enjoy his three victories to this point and to worry about who he would have to defend against, and that's why we introduce Cindy and Mike. Welcome aboard. Good luck to all three of you. Here comes the Jeopardy! Round. We'll put you to work right now with these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
GREG-CELLENT! (5/5)
BOOK LEARNIN' (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD (5/5)
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (2/4)
I LOVE PARIS (4/5)
IN THE "SPRING" TIME (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Cindy: 15 R, 0 W
Dan: 9 R (including 2 rebounds and 1 DD), 1 W
Mike: 2 R, 3 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,800
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Dan found the Daily Double on the 5th clue. Dan had $1,000, Mike was in the red with -$200, and Cindy was at $600. Dan made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,000.
BOOK LEARNIN' $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew flips through a book.) Technically, a page is only one side of each sheet of paper; the 2-sided sheet is called this
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Dan: $5,200
Cindy: $3,000
Mike: -$1,400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Cindy Vanderbur is from Indiana, and under the heading of "strange experiences", let's talk about the day you were driving to work...
[Cindy chuckles.]
Alex: And you heard a noise in the backseat of the car, and you turned around and...
Cindy: I--I was quite surprised, as was the raccoon that was in the backseat of the car... [chuckles] but we were in a really busy highway, and there wasn't much I could do except sort of, like, tu--go around a block and drive five blocks back to home and let it out... [chuckles] so while I did that, the raccoon climbed into the front seat, and then he got up on the dash, and I was really worried that he was coming to get on me, but, luckily for me, he just stayed up on the dash and just kinda looked around while I drove down the road, you know?
Alex: Made no aggressive move toward you, didn't frighten you?
Cindy: Well, I won't say he didn't frighten me... [laughing]
Alex: Oh. Okay. I und--
Cindy: But we made it through that.
Alex: All right.
Alex: Mike Garrett is a magazine editor from British Columbia who auditioned for Jeopardy! in Seattle and had a nice surprise waiting for him in his hotel room.
Mike: Yeah, it was, uh, a bucket of, uh, s--beer. It was a bucket of beer on ice, uh, waiting for me there, and a little note saying, uh, you know, "Knock 'em dead. Ken Jennings."
Cindy: Wow.
Mike: And I'm like, wow. Ken Jennings knows who I am. He knows that I'm in Seattle, and he found me out in this hotel, and then I turned it around. It was the name of a coworker on the back.
[Laughter]
Alex: Oh. Okay.
Alex: Dan Adkison is a copy editor from New York who found a mistake in Webster's.
Dan: I did. I was working for a newspaper, and we were running a story about the president of Brazil. The 11th edition of Webster's Dictionary had just come out, and we were looking up, and it had the name as "L-U-I-S"--"Luis Inacio Lula da Silva", and I said, "That's not right", and I started looking it up online, and I determined it was a "z", so I wrote in to Webster's on their web site, and I got an e-mail back saying, "Yes, you found a mistake in the new edition of Webster's."
Alex: And did they change it?
Dan: They did. They did. If you look in the latest edition, it's a "z".
Alex: Boy, how does it feel to have this much power?
[Laughter]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
I LOVE PARIS $1000: The site of heavy fighting during World War I, this river joins the Seine at the Paris suburb of Charenton
(Mike: What is Ypres?)
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE $800: A Pac-Man ghost; use your "brain"
(Dan: What is Thinky?)
(Alex: [*]. Yes. No. And I gave the correct response. I thought he said, [*]. What did you say?)
(Dan: I said, "Thinky".)
(Alex: "Thinky"?)
[Dan laughs.]
(Alex: Oh. I've never even heard of that one.)
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE $1000: This unit used to measure the diameter of cigars is equal to 1/64 of an inch
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Cindy: $8,400
Dan: $4,400
Mike: $200
CONTESTANTS
Cindy Vanderbur, a health insurance contract specialist from Madison, Indiana
Mike Garrett, a magazine editor from Kamloops, British Columbia
Dan Adkison, a copy editor from Brooklyn, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $37,400)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you very much. Thank you, Johnny. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Dan has had the weekend to think about and enjoy his three victories to this point and to worry about who he would have to defend against, and that's why we introduce Cindy and Mike. Welcome aboard. Good luck to all three of you. Here comes the Jeopardy! Round. We'll put you to work right now with these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
GREG-CELLENT! (5/5)
BOOK LEARNIN' (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
BIG (& NOT-SO-BIG) BIRD (5/5)
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (2/4)
I LOVE PARIS (4/5)
IN THE "SPRING" TIME (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Cindy: 15 R, 0 W
Dan: 9 R (including 2 rebounds and 1 DD), 1 W
Mike: 2 R, 3 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,800
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Dan found the Daily Double on the 5th clue. Dan had $1,000, Mike was in the red with -$200, and Cindy was at $600. Dan made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,000.
BOOK LEARNIN' $800: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew flips through a book.) Technically, a page is only one side of each sheet of paper; the 2-sided sheet is called this
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Dan: $5,200
Cindy: $3,000
Mike: -$1,400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Cindy Vanderbur is from Indiana, and under the heading of "strange experiences", let's talk about the day you were driving to work...
[Cindy chuckles.]
Alex: And you heard a noise in the backseat of the car, and you turned around and...
Cindy: I--I was quite surprised, as was the raccoon that was in the backseat of the car... [chuckles] but we were in a really busy highway, and there wasn't much I could do except sort of, like, tu--go around a block and drive five blocks back to home and let it out... [chuckles] so while I did that, the raccoon climbed into the front seat, and then he got up on the dash, and I was really worried that he was coming to get on me, but, luckily for me, he just stayed up on the dash and just kinda looked around while I drove down the road, you know?
Alex: Made no aggressive move toward you, didn't frighten you?
Cindy: Well, I won't say he didn't frighten me... [laughing]
Alex: Oh. Okay. I und--
Cindy: But we made it through that.
Alex: All right.
Alex: Mike Garrett is a magazine editor from British Columbia who auditioned for Jeopardy! in Seattle and had a nice surprise waiting for him in his hotel room.
Mike: Yeah, it was, uh, a bucket of, uh, s--beer. It was a bucket of beer on ice, uh, waiting for me there, and a little note saying, uh, you know, "Knock 'em dead. Ken Jennings."
Cindy: Wow.
Mike: And I'm like, wow. Ken Jennings knows who I am. He knows that I'm in Seattle, and he found me out in this hotel, and then I turned it around. It was the name of a coworker on the back.
[Laughter]
Alex: Oh. Okay.
Alex: Dan Adkison is a copy editor from New York who found a mistake in Webster's.
Dan: I did. I was working for a newspaper, and we were running a story about the president of Brazil. The 11th edition of Webster's Dictionary had just come out, and we were looking up, and it had the name as "L-U-I-S"--"Luis Inacio Lula da Silva", and I said, "That's not right", and I started looking it up online, and I determined it was a "z", so I wrote in to Webster's on their web site, and I got an e-mail back saying, "Yes, you found a mistake in the new edition of Webster's."
Alex: And did they change it?
Dan: They did. They did. If you look in the latest edition, it's a "z".
Alex: Boy, how does it feel to have this much power?
[Laughter]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
I LOVE PARIS $1000: The site of heavy fighting during World War I, this river joins the Seine at the Paris suburb of Charenton
(Mike: What is Ypres?)
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE $800: A Pac-Man ghost; use your "brain"
(Dan: What is Thinky?)
(Alex: [*]. Yes. No. And I gave the correct response. I thought he said, [*]. What did you say?)
(Dan: I said, "Thinky".)
(Alex: "Thinky"?)
[Dan laughs.]
(Alex: Oh. I've never even heard of that one.)
FIVE FINGER EXERCISE $1000: This unit used to measure the diameter of cigars is equal to 1/64 of an inch
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Cindy: $8,400
Dan: $4,400
Mike: $200