Monday, September 26, 2011 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:40 am
Game Recap for Show #6211, 2011-09-26
First game consolation prizes sponsored. Sponsor's name appears on podiums under prize totals at conclusion of game. (Sponsorship does not appear on reruns.)
CONTESTANTS
Ellen Mizio, a forensics researcher from Tampa, Florida
Matt Douma, a standardized test scorer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Amit Kurlekar, an attorney from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,801)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome again to Jeopardy! We got our 28th season off to a great start last week with a bright young champion who won six shows and well over $100,000, but he was replaced by another bright young man, and that is Amit, who's the returning champion today and who gets to face Ellen and Matt. So good luck to all three of you. Let's go to work in the first round, shall we? We'll pop the dollar figures in there and now we will reveal the categories, which are...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NOTIONS (3/3)
50 YEARS AGO--1961 (3/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
ALL IN THE FAMILY (4/5)
ALSO A ZODIAC SYMBOL (5/5)
FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 (4/5)
TV CATCHPHRASES (3/5) (Alex: We want you to name the show. We'll give you the...)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Amit: 9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Matt: 8 R, 2 W
Ellen: 5 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 6
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $5,000
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Amit found the Daily Double on the 3rd clue. Amit had $200, Matt had $200, and Ellen had nothing in the bank. Amit wagered $1,000.
50 YEARS AGO--1961 $400: Peter Benenson's 1961 news article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is considered the birth of this organization
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Amit: $2,400
Ellen: $600
Matt: -$1,400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Welcome back. Let's spend a few moments now finding out about our contestants, shall we? Ellen Mizio. There's a bit of information on your card that puzzles me. It says here that your husband proposed over cookies and milk. How old were you two at that time?
Ellen: It was not that long ago, but we came home from a play, and John, my boyfriend at the time, said, "Oh, it's--shouldn't we--we should have champagne. We should have something nice." And I said, "I have to work tomorrow. I just--don't you have those chocolate chip cookies and some milk? Wouldn't that be better?" Not realizing that he was going to propose, so he went ahead and proposed over cookies and milk.
Alex: Well, good. That's a great story.
Alex: Matt Douma from Minneapolis, Minnesota, obviously quite an athlete, because he led his high school football team in rushing touchdowns, right?
Matt: With one, yes.
[Laughter]
Matt: We were, uh, obviously not a very good team. I was the backup quarterback and I found myself in the game, and I scored on a Q.B. sneak. It was probably my only rushing yard of the season.
Alex: Hey. That's okay.
Alex: Now we come to Amit kurlekar from Oakland. You read The New York Times every day, I understand. Correct?
Amit: Yes, Alex.
Alex: And when you're out of town, you have somebody save up all the papers for you, and when you come home, you read them all?
Amit: Yeah, they stack up in my house, and my friends think I'm a little nuts because I don't--I don't really follow cable or Internet news, so I will go two weeks without know really what happened in the world unless I see a stray headline somewhere.
Alex: Okay, television is not a bad medium also, you know.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
50 YEARS AGO--1961 $600: The 23rd Amendment, giving these people the right to vote, was ratified March 29, 1961
(Amit: What are women?)
(Matt: Who are 18-year-olds?)
50 YEARS AGO--1961 $1000: In April he orbited the Earth once
(Matt: Who is John Glenn?)
TV CATCHPHRASES $400: "Sit on it"
(Ellen: What is Welcome Back, Kotter?)
ALL IN THE FAMILY $1000: He did his great missionary work after going to Hawaii in 1863 as a substitute for the ailing Father Pamphile
(Alex: And this was [*], working with the lepers in Hawaii.)
TV CATCHPHRASES $1000: "God'll get you for that, Walter"
FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 $1000: $23.3 billion gets Sheldon Adelson to No. 16; his $1.9 billion Palazzo resort opened in this city in 2007
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Amit: $4,400
Matt: $2,800
Ellen: $2,000
First game consolation prizes sponsored. Sponsor's name appears on podiums under prize totals at conclusion of game. (Sponsorship does not appear on reruns.)
CONTESTANTS
Ellen Mizio, a forensics researcher from Tampa, Florida
Matt Douma, a standardized test scorer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
Amit Kurlekar, an attorney from Oakland, California (whose 1-day cash winnings total $16,801)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. And welcome again to Jeopardy! We got our 28th season off to a great start last week with a bright young champion who won six shows and well over $100,000, but he was replaced by another bright young man, and that is Amit, who's the returning champion today and who gets to face Ellen and Matt. So good luck to all three of you. Let's go to work in the first round, shall we? We'll pop the dollar figures in there and now we will reveal the categories, which are...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NOTIONS (3/3)
50 YEARS AGO--1961 (3/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
ALL IN THE FAMILY (4/5)
ALSO A ZODIAC SYMBOL (5/5)
FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 (4/5)
TV CATCHPHRASES (3/5) (Alex: We want you to name the show. We'll give you the...)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Amit: 9 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Matt: 8 R, 2 W
Ellen: 5 R, 1 W
Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 6
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $5,000
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Amit found the Daily Double on the 3rd clue. Amit had $200, Matt had $200, and Ellen had nothing in the bank. Amit wagered $1,000.
50 YEARS AGO--1961 $400: Peter Benenson's 1961 news article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is considered the birth of this organization
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Amit: $2,400
Ellen: $600
Matt: -$1,400
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Welcome back. Let's spend a few moments now finding out about our contestants, shall we? Ellen Mizio. There's a bit of information on your card that puzzles me. It says here that your husband proposed over cookies and milk. How old were you two at that time?
Ellen: It was not that long ago, but we came home from a play, and John, my boyfriend at the time, said, "Oh, it's--shouldn't we--we should have champagne. We should have something nice." And I said, "I have to work tomorrow. I just--don't you have those chocolate chip cookies and some milk? Wouldn't that be better?" Not realizing that he was going to propose, so he went ahead and proposed over cookies and milk.
Alex: Well, good. That's a great story.
Alex: Matt Douma from Minneapolis, Minnesota, obviously quite an athlete, because he led his high school football team in rushing touchdowns, right?
Matt: With one, yes.
[Laughter]
Matt: We were, uh, obviously not a very good team. I was the backup quarterback and I found myself in the game, and I scored on a Q.B. sneak. It was probably my only rushing yard of the season.
Alex: Hey. That's okay.
Alex: Now we come to Amit kurlekar from Oakland. You read The New York Times every day, I understand. Correct?
Amit: Yes, Alex.
Alex: And when you're out of town, you have somebody save up all the papers for you, and when you come home, you read them all?
Amit: Yeah, they stack up in my house, and my friends think I'm a little nuts because I don't--I don't really follow cable or Internet news, so I will go two weeks without know really what happened in the world unless I see a stray headline somewhere.
Alex: Okay, television is not a bad medium also, you know.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
50 YEARS AGO--1961 $600: The 23rd Amendment, giving these people the right to vote, was ratified March 29, 1961
(Amit: What are women?)
(Matt: Who are 18-year-olds?)
50 YEARS AGO--1961 $1000: In April he orbited the Earth once
(Matt: Who is John Glenn?)
TV CATCHPHRASES $400: "Sit on it"
(Ellen: What is Welcome Back, Kotter?)
ALL IN THE FAMILY $1000: He did his great missionary work after going to Hawaii in 1863 as a substitute for the ailing Father Pamphile
(Alex: And this was [*], working with the lepers in Hawaii.)
TV CATCHPHRASES $1000: "God'll get you for that, Walter"
FORBES' RICHEST PEOPLE 2011 $1000: $23.3 billion gets Sheldon Adelson to No. 16; his $1.9 billion Palazzo resort opened in this city in 2007
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Amit: $4,400
Matt: $2,800
Ellen: $2,000