Thursday, May 29, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

[Archivists]

Game Recap for Show #6849, 2014-05-29

Julia Collins game 19.

CONTESTANTS
FeiFei Jiang, a law student originally from Olathe, Kansas
Matt Weldy, a logistics coordinator from Grand Prairie, Texas
Julia Collins, a supply chain professional from Kenilworth, Illinois (whose 18-day cash winnings total $391,600)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Big day for us.
Big day for Julia. So, uh, Matt and FeiFei, welcome aboard.
Good luck. Here we go. Categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NOTORIOUS WOMEN (3/5)
COMMON BONDS (5/5)
ON THE OLD MAP (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
CLASSIC COUNTRY DRINKIN' SONGS (5/5)
SCI-, NO FI (4/5)
ENDS IN "SS" (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Julia: 11 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Matt: 10 R (including 2 rebounds), 2 W
FeiFei: 4 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,600



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Julia found the Daily Double on the 7th clue. Julia had $1,200, Matt had $1,000, and FeiFei had a deficit with -$600. Julia made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,200.

ON THE OLD MAP $1000: In the 1939 Britannica book of the year, this entry says the king is Ananda Mahidol & a chief town is Bangkok
(Julia: What is Thailand?)
(Alex: No.)
(Julia: Oh!)
(Alex: Sorry. In 1939, it was [*].)
(Julia: [Nodding her head] Of course, of course.)

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Matt: $4,200
Julia: $600
FeiFei: -$600

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: FeiFei Jiang is originally from Kansas, but she interned at the international atomic energy commission In Vienna?

FeiFei: Yes. That's correct.

Alex: Doing what?

FeiFei: Uh, so I was an intern
in the media and press office,
Uh, during my, uh, the summer during, uh, my junior year. Between my junior and senior years of college. And, um, I was there. While I was there, um,
We, uh, let a documentary film team through a tour of, uh, one of the local nuclear facilities. Um, and, uh, I got to see a lot of cool things.

Alex: Okay. Good for you. I bet --I bet it was exciting.




Alex: Matt Weldy is a logistics coordinator from Texas who cuts his hair
twice a year.

Matt: Once a year most of the time, Alex.

Alex: Oh, really? And --but you don't do it.

Matt: No. We let kids at church camp do it.

Alex: And do they pay
for the privilege? Well, they give an offering.

Alex: Yeah? Do they make a mess of your hair? 'Cause it looks pretty good now. You got a lot of curls in there.

Matt: Well, we --we let 'em cut it just as much as it can go, and it goes really short.

Alex: Yeah? Okay. That sounds like fun, too. Not as much fun as being at the, uh, international nuclear agency in Vienna.
[ chuckles ]




Alex: Julia Collins is our champion. Played ice hockey once, right?

Julia: I did. When I was in grad school, I was recruited to be on a team with my classmates.

Alex: What position?

Julia: Uh, I was a defender.

Alex: Okay.

Julia: Left or right. Didn't matter. Uh, but we were in
the "D" league, so there was an "A," "B," and "C" league.
So we were --we were
not too professional.

Alex: How did your team do?

Julia: We never won a game.
There were several we didn't score any goals.

Alex: Did they have an "E" or "F" league?

Julia: No. We were the bottom of barrel. [ laughter ]

Alex: Okay. Something
to look forward to.

Julia: It was fun, though.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
NOTORIOUS WOMEN $400: In 1954 Lolita Lebron & 3 other nationalists from this U.S. commonwealth shot & wounded 5 congressmen

NOTORIOUS WOMEN $1000: She refused to wear a blindfold as she faced a firing squad in Paris on October 15, 1917

SCI-, NO FI $1000: Fatty tissue inside the eye socket, also known by this astronomic term, nearly surrounds the eyeball & cushions it
(Matt: What is viscous?)

ENDS IN "SS" $200: Golfers know it means to lay the club behind the ball in preparation to hit it (not mail it)
(Matt: What is to send?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Matt: $4,400
Julia: $4,200
FeiFei: $2,200

[Archivists]

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NEW BRITISH COINS (3/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
SHORT STORIES (3/5)
I WON THAT STATE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
SUFFIXES (4/5)
TV TIME (5/5)
WORLD CULTURES (4/5) (Sarah of the Clue Crew introduces the category. [*] -- artifacts of human life and ingenuity from around the globe at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Julia: 16 R (including 3 rebounds and 2 DDs), 0 W
Matt: 4 R, 2 W
FeiFei: 4 R, 3 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 6
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $8,400



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Julia snagged the next Daily Double on the 16th clue. Julia had $11,400, Matt had $5,200, and FeiFei was at $2,200. Julia wagered $1,400.

I WON THAT STATE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $1600: Arkansas in 1968:
this 3rd party candidate

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Julia who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 26th clue. Julia had $18,800, Matt had $5,600, and FeiFei was at $4,600. Julia wagered $1,200.

NEW BRITISH COINS $1200: Floral emblem 1-pound coins feature a daffodil for Wales, a thistle for Scotland & this for England

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
SHORT STORIES $1600: Completes the title of a Joyce Carol Oates story inspired by a serial killer: "where are you going..."

SHORT STORIES $2000: Her 1929 story "Big Blonde" is about an aging party girl named Hazel Morse

SUFFIXES $400: Meaning "pain", it can follow neur- as well as nost-
(FeiFei: What is nostalgic?)
...
(Alex: What is [*], as in nostalgia and neuralgia.)

NEW BRITISH COINS $400: Lord Kitchener points at you from the 2-pound coin commemorating the 2014 centenary of this

WORLD CULTURES $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) One of only seven surviving Indian artifacts positively linked to Lewis and Clark, it is a bear claw necklace.
Lewis wrote,
"it was worn by those who esteemed themselves brave"
among these people
to whom Sacagawea belonged

NEW BRITISH COINS $2000: A new 50-pence piece marks the 20th celebration of these multi-country games, to be held in the U.K. in 2014

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Julia: $23,200 (lock game)
FeiFei: $5,000
Matt: $4,000

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FRUIT

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; three-quarters for second place.
Julia: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $13,199 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
FeiFei: Wager $3,001 to cover Matt.
Matt: Risk between $1,001 and $2,000, covering FeiFei's $0 bet.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It's the only commercially important edible fruit of the Bromeliad family

FINAL SCORES
Matt: $4,000 + $3,500 = $7,500 (What is the pineapple?) (2nd place: $2,000)
FeiFei: $5,000 - $3,000 = $2,000 (What is quince?) (3rd place: $1,000)
Julia: $23,200 - $4,800 = $18,400 (What is the pear?) (19-day champion: $410,000)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $11,000

GAME DYNAMICS


CORYAT SCORES
Julia: $24,600, 27 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD)
FeiFei: $5,000, 8 R, 5 W
Matt: $4,000, 14 R, 4 W
Combined Coryat: $33,600

BATTING AVERAGES
Julia: 27/61 = .443
Matt: 15/58 = .259
FeiFei: 8/58 = .138
Team: 50/63 = .794

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
NOTORIOUS WOMEN $200: An FBI press release said that she also went by the names Mrs. Roy Thornton & Mrs. Clyde Barrow
(FeiFei: Who is Bonnie?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(FeiFei: Ahh...)
(Alex: What's her last name?)
[FeiFei shakes her head.]
(Alex: Oh. Too bad.)

ON THE OLD MAP $400: Since 1964 the former northern Rhodesia has been this, second from the end on the African alphabet
(FeiFei: What is Zimbabwe?)

CLASSIC COUNTRY DRINKIN' SONGS $600: "Don't the girls all get prettier at" this late-night moment
(Julia: What is last call?)

TV TIME $1200: Let's jump around in time like Scott Bakula did on this show from 1989 to 1993
(FeiFei: What is Doctor Who?)

I WON THAT STATE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION $1200: Minnesota in 1988:
this Democrat
(Matt: Who is Mondale?)

WORLD CULTURES $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) The Copán stelae
are the major source for scholars'
growing understanding
of Mayan writing.
Though we associate this term
with picture writing,
Each symbol had a word associated with it, too.
(Matt: What is...pictographs?)
(Alex: Nope. More specific.)
(Matt: What is...[*]?)
(Alex: Okay. That's the word we were
looking for.)

WORLD CULTURES $800: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) Many cultures have valued tiny feet,
but none as much
as this country,
the source of the shoe here.
Already tiny, they sometimes
had lifts in back
To raise the heel
so the foot was even tinier.

WORLD CULTURES $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue.) With this belief in the return to earth of the departed, the ofrenda, or altar,
that honors deceased loved ones and welcomes them back for a visit
is part of the Mesoamerican influence on this autumn day
celebrated in Mexico

WORLD CULTURES $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue.)The people of relatively isolated Pacific islands
relied on canoes.
According to
the first Europeans
to visit these biblically named islands, they could catch Spanish sailing ships that had a 6-mile head start

NEW BRITISH COINS $1600: A special edition 5-pound coin marks the 300th anniversary of this queen's 1714 death
(FeiFei: Who is Queen Elizabeth?)
(Matt: Who is Queen Elizabeth I?)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Siam
Puerto Rico
Mata hari
orbit
address
(George) Wallace
a rose
where have you been
Dorothy Parker
-algia
World War I
Shoshone
Commonwealth Games
pineapple
Bonnie Parker
Zambia
closing time
Quantum Leap
(Michael) Dukakis
hieroglyphics
China
Day of the Dead
Solomon Islands
Queen Anne

[jeff6286]

Fruit
It's the only commerciallly important edible fruit of the Bromeliad family.

Spoiler

What is pineapple? Feifei said the quince; Julia said the pear.

Julia Collins: $23,200-$4,800=$18,400...now a 19-day champion with $410,000
Feifei Jiang: $5,000-$3,000=$2,000
Matt Weldy: $4,000+$3,500=$7,500

[Bamaman]

Julia appeared to be on the ropes early but managed to cruise to a lock win. Too many late negs from Matt cost him a win as he had the sole solve on FJ.

I wonder if her misspeak on the first round all in DD made her gun shy in the second round when she bet small? A category where all you have to do is say who was that party's candidate in year X? That is a time when I'm going all in without thinking and take money out of my wallet and throw it on the podium/lectern and ask audience members to throw in their money.

Yesterday on FJ I had no clue but wrote down something and got it right. Today I had no idea and wrote something down and got it wrong. I guessed date.

Congrats to Julia!!!!!!

[Austin Powers]

Let's lay off Julia. She may grace us with her presence.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5lZ4czTR4o

[legendneverdies]

$21401 and a win tomorrow means guarantees she'll be second all-time in regular game cash winnings, and the second person to win her 20th game.

[Tygor]

I haven't been on one side or the other on the champion, but today is a good example of the challengers really struggling. So many triple stumpers that even I thought were way too easy. Kudos to her though for finding all the daily doubles and avoiding losing on a relatively easy FJ. Maybe the categories were just in my wheelhouse today.

The challengers looked scared from the first clue, and it didn't get better from there.

[lieph82]

Congrats to Julia!

Who decides whether a fruit is "commercially important" or not?

[econgator]

I guessed date.

I guessed grape, as bromeliad means nothing to me.

[heelsrule1988]

I said All Saints Day for that Day of the Dead clue. Acceptable?

[econgator]

avoiding losing on a relatively easy FJ.

How was FJ "relatively easy"?

[TenPoundHammer]

Julia had me worried for a bit in J!

I took the neg on Women for $200 since I knew Bonnie but couldn't pull up "Parker" for the life of me. Only other one I knew was Amy Fisher but I couldn't pull it in time.

Yes, I ran Country Drinking Songs.

"Address" was a stupid miss IMO. I just couldn't think of any mailing word with "ss" in it.

Dewey was too easy at $2000. That whole category was easy after the fact, but I could only get Kerry in time.

Shoshone was my only miss in World Cultures.

Bromelain is in meat tenderizer, which I know comes from pineapple because I saw "from pineapple" once on a packet of fajita seasoning/meat tenderizer. Instaget.

[econgator]

I said All Saints Day for that Day of the Dead clue. Acceptable?

Day of the Dead is actually three days (10/31, 11/1, and 11/2) so no.

[lieph82]

Bromelain is in meat tenderizer, which I know comes from pineapple because I saw "from pineapple" once on a packet of fajita seasoning/meat tenderizer. Instaget.

are u a person

[econgator]

Bromelain is in meat tenderizer, which I know comes from pineapple because I saw "from pineapple" once on a packet of fajita seasoning/meat tenderizer. Instaget.

are u a person

Right? Can't remember Babe Ruth, but remembers seeing bromelain once on a packet of meat tenderizer and it sticks with him.

[Bamaman]

avoiding losing on a relatively easy FJ.

How was FJ "relatively easy"?

TPH got it right.

[heelsrule1988]

I said All Saints Day for that Day of the Dead clue. Acceptable?

Day of the Dead is actually three days (10/31, 11/1, and 11/2) so no.

*docks $1,200 off score*

[lieph82]

Bromelain is in meat tenderizer, which I know comes from pineapple because I saw "from pineapple" once on a packet of fajita seasoning/meat tenderizer. Instaget.

are u a person

Right? Can't remember Babe Ruth, but remembers seeing bromelain once on a packet of meat tenderizer and it sticks with him.

If pamiam or any other psychologists are looking for someone to write a book about...

[esrever]

Congrats to Julia on her 19th win!

Julia was behind by quite a bit at first. I think Matt had less money at the end of DJ! than at the first commercial break.

Picked up Lach trash: "Puerto Rico", "address", "Dorothy Parker", "-algia", "World War I"

Didn't get FJ. I guessed "banana" instead.

[TenPoundHammer]

Bromelain is in meat tenderizer, which I know comes from pineapple because I saw "from pineapple" once on a packet of fajita seasoning/meat tenderizer. Instaget.

are u a person

Right? Can't remember Babe Ruth, but remembers seeing bromelain once on a packet of meat tenderizer and it sticks with him.

We've gone over this before. The more fun something is to say, the more likely I am to recall it.