Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2014 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #6947, 2014-11-25
CONTESTANTS
Eugene Britton, a chemical engineer from Gonzales, Louisiana
Mariusz Galczynski, a university lecturer from St. Charles, Illinois
Doug Perez, a data base developer from Monrovia, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)
OPENING REMARKS
Thank you Johnny. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a returning champion in Doug, who told me on yesterday's program, "I know my limitations. I know nothing about pop music." And so in the final, wagered nothing at all, and as a result, he has $17,000 to show for it. Today, he faces these two gentlemen, Mariusz and Eugene. Welcome, and good luck. Here we go, fellas.
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
CHICK LIT (3/5)
EXPRESSIONS FROM BASEBALL (4/5)
OPERA (3/5)
TRADITIONAL FOODS AS NATIONAL FLAGS (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) (Alex: Yeah.)
BRAD PITT FILM ROLES (5/5)
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?! (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Mariusz: 12 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 0 W
Doug: 6 R, 1 W
Eugene: 7 R, 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,800
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Mariusz found the Daily Double on the 7th clue. Doug had no money, Mariusz had $1,400, and Eugene was at $400. Mariusz made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,400.
TRADITIONAL FOODS AS NATIONAL FLAGS $600: The recipe for this country's flag - chorizo and arroz
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Mariusz: $4,600
Doug: $800
Eugene: $600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Eugene Britton is married to a Cajun. You are one of those Americans. They don't often allow Americans to marry in, do they?
Eugene: No, I'm the first to marry in to her family in almost 200 years.
Alex: Now, have you spent a lot of time with her folks, and have you absorbed a lot of that culture? Fascinating stuff.
Eugene: Definitely the food.
Alex: The food?
Eugene: Not so much the language.
Alex: And what about the music?
Eugene: And the music as well.
Alex: Yeah. Okay, good for you.
Alex: Mariusz Galczynski is from St. Charles, Illinois, a university lecturer who seemed to feel comfortable with the opera category. And I know that you have translated a Polish opera?
Mariusz: Yes, when I was doing my master's, I did a project translating the most famous Polish opera, Halka, which is not often known to Western audiences, but performed yearly in Poland, has Polish dances, Polish songs, arias...
Alex: And did you perform in it as well?
Mariusz: Yes, at the end we had a recital - was nerve-wracking, but a pleasure to perform.
Alex: Good for you.
Alex: Doug Perez is our champion. Now, I mentioned Eugene is married to a Cajun. How long have you been married?
Doug: I've been married eight years.
Alex: Now, when you met your wife to be, it wasn't the most romantic of circumstances.
Doug: No, unfortunately, I think I'm very funny, but on that day, she did not think I was very funny, and our encounter ended with her giving me a double bird and storming out of the room.
[Laughter]
Alex: Whoa!
Doug: But we've been married eight years now.
Alex: And no more double birds since.
Okay.
Doug: Didn't say that.
Alex: Oh!
[Laughter]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
OPERA $200: In "Il Trovatore", Leonora kills herself with poison concealed in this piece of jewelry
(Eugene: What is a pin?)
OPERA $1000: This knight reveals that he comes from Montsalvat, where his father, Parzifal, is king of the Holy Grail
(Alex: This well-known character is [*].)
CHICK LIT $600: It's the "fowl" moral of a fable about a milkmaid who spills her pail before she can sell it & realize her dreams
(Eugene: What is don't cry over spilled milk?)
[Time runs out on clue.]
(Alex: What should you have said, Eugene?)
(Eugene: [*].)
[Laughter]
CHICK LIT $1000: In Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale", a proud & foolish rooster escapes one of these predators by the skin of his beak
EXPRESSIONS FROM BASEBALL $1000: Most of the world doesn't care how we pick Daily Doubles, that's real this 2-word phrase
(Alex: That's real [*].)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Mariusz: $8,400
Eugene: $3,400
Doug: $1,800
CONTESTANTS
Eugene Britton, a chemical engineer from Gonzales, Louisiana
Mariusz Galczynski, a university lecturer from St. Charles, Illinois
Doug Perez, a data base developer from Monrovia, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $17,000)
OPENING REMARKS
Thank you Johnny. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a returning champion in Doug, who told me on yesterday's program, "I know my limitations. I know nothing about pop music." And so in the final, wagered nothing at all, and as a result, he has $17,000 to show for it. Today, he faces these two gentlemen, Mariusz and Eugene. Welcome, and good luck. Here we go, fellas.
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
CHICK LIT (3/5)
EXPRESSIONS FROM BASEBALL (4/5)
OPERA (3/5)
TRADITIONAL FOODS AS NATIONAL FLAGS (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) (Alex: Yeah.)
BRAD PITT FILM ROLES (5/5)
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?! (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Mariusz: 12 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 0 W
Doug: 6 R, 1 W
Eugene: 7 R, 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,800
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Mariusz found the Daily Double on the 7th clue. Doug had no money, Mariusz had $1,400, and Eugene was at $400. Mariusz made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,400.
TRADITIONAL FOODS AS NATIONAL FLAGS $600: The recipe for this country's flag - chorizo and arroz
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Mariusz: $4,600
Doug: $800
Eugene: $600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Eugene Britton is married to a Cajun. You are one of those Americans. They don't often allow Americans to marry in, do they?
Eugene: No, I'm the first to marry in to her family in almost 200 years.
Alex: Now, have you spent a lot of time with her folks, and have you absorbed a lot of that culture? Fascinating stuff.
Eugene: Definitely the food.
Alex: The food?
Eugene: Not so much the language.
Alex: And what about the music?
Eugene: And the music as well.
Alex: Yeah. Okay, good for you.
Alex: Mariusz Galczynski is from St. Charles, Illinois, a university lecturer who seemed to feel comfortable with the opera category. And I know that you have translated a Polish opera?
Mariusz: Yes, when I was doing my master's, I did a project translating the most famous Polish opera, Halka, which is not often known to Western audiences, but performed yearly in Poland, has Polish dances, Polish songs, arias...
Alex: And did you perform in it as well?
Mariusz: Yes, at the end we had a recital - was nerve-wracking, but a pleasure to perform.
Alex: Good for you.
Alex: Doug Perez is our champion. Now, I mentioned Eugene is married to a Cajun. How long have you been married?
Doug: I've been married eight years.
Alex: Now, when you met your wife to be, it wasn't the most romantic of circumstances.
Doug: No, unfortunately, I think I'm very funny, but on that day, she did not think I was very funny, and our encounter ended with her giving me a double bird and storming out of the room.
[Laughter]
Alex: Whoa!
Doug: But we've been married eight years now.
Alex: And no more double birds since.
Okay.
Doug: Didn't say that.
Alex: Oh!
[Laughter]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
OPERA $200: In "Il Trovatore", Leonora kills herself with poison concealed in this piece of jewelry
(Eugene: What is a pin?)
OPERA $1000: This knight reveals that he comes from Montsalvat, where his father, Parzifal, is king of the Holy Grail
(Alex: This well-known character is [*].)
CHICK LIT $600: It's the "fowl" moral of a fable about a milkmaid who spills her pail before she can sell it & realize her dreams
(Eugene: What is don't cry over spilled milk?)
[Time runs out on clue.]
(Alex: What should you have said, Eugene?)
(Eugene: [*].)
[Laughter]
CHICK LIT $1000: In Chaucer's "Nun's Priest's Tale", a proud & foolish rooster escapes one of these predators by the skin of his beak
EXPRESSIONS FROM BASEBALL $1000: Most of the world doesn't care how we pick Daily Doubles, that's real this 2-word phrase
(Alex: That's real [*].)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Mariusz: $8,400
Eugene: $3,400
Doug: $1,800