Thursday, June 11, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #7089, 2015-06-11
CONTESTANTS
Kathryn Tesar, a communications professional from Austin, Texas
Kyle Stephens, a customer due-diligence specialist originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Darren Harris-Fain, an English professor from Prattville, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,000)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thanks, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Well, as you just heard, Darren won $22,000 yesterday on the program. When he went into Final Jeopardy!, it was a runaway game, he could not be caught, but one of the categories that helped him had to do with recent literature. Will literature be one of the categories today? Who knows? Kathryn and Kyle, hopefully you will find categories to your liking, also. Let's go to work in this first round, shall we, players? And good luck with these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
WAY BACK IN 2012 (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
HAIRMAGEDDON (4/5)
THE SIMPSONS SUPPORTING CAST (5/5)
CREDIT CARD WHERE CREDIT CARD IS DUE (3/3)
LONDON CALLING (3/4)
A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E (5/5) (Alex: Notice the separation on the letters. The first clue in that category, the correct response will begin with the letter "H", then "O", "R", as we go down.)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Darren: 10 R (including 2 rebounds and 1 DD), 2 W
Kyle: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Kathryn: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,600
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Darren found the Daily Double on the 14th clue. Darren had $4,000, Kyle had $800, and Kathryn was at $200. Darren wagered $2,000.
WAY BACK IN 2012 $800: These 2 states legalized recreational marijuana use
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Darren: $6,000
Kyle: $800
Kathryn: $200
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Kathryn Tesar is from Austin, Texas. Now, Kathryn, a couple of years ago, I did a little bit of work with Katie Couric. You had an encounter with her which was not a pleasant one, I understand.
Kathryn: Actually, it was very pleasant. It was a lot of fun. I was in New York, and I was supposed to meet friends for drinks, and a few minutes before I was supposed to meet them, they started texting me, "You need to get here right away." And I figured there must be a celebrity at the bar. So, I got there and saw my friends talking to Katie Couric. And I went over to meet them, and Katie actually greeted me very warmly. She said, "Kathryn, we've been waiting for you." And then she--it was very unusual--she said, "I want you to stick your finger in your mouth and get it really, really wet." And I did that, and then she asked me to stick it into a shot glass full of liquor. I did that, and then she took a lighter out and set my finger on fire. She asked me to hold it up in the air and then put it out and do a shot, and she called that a Statue of Liberty. [Laughs]
[Laughter]
Kathryn: It was--it was a lot of fun.
Alex: Katie, Katie, Katie.
Kathryn: She was lovely.
Alex: Yes, all right.
Alex: Kyle Stephens from Wisconsin. Now, he has a habit, ladies and gentlemen, when he's watching a motion picture, he really gets into it and empathizes with the characters. I'll give you an example--if it's an underwater scene, what do you do?
Kyle: Well, it all started with The Poseidon Adventure. Um, when Shelley Winters has to swim for a really long time, I hold my breath with her, um, to make sure that if I were in that situation, I would be able to make it out, too.
Alex: Uh-huh.
Kyle: And, uh, I haven't drowned yet.
[Laughter]
Alex: That's two in a row.
[Laughter]
Alex: Darren Harris-Fain is our champion. He, as you discovered on yesterday's program, is referred to by his students as "the Dark Lord". Perhaps one of the reasons is, they found out that he took belly-dancing lessons. Am I right?
Darren: That's right. Uh, in college, one of my best friends, uh, she had been an army brat and she learned how to belly-dance. And so she taught it at my university. She was getting ready to teach it again, and she said, "I only have girls in the class." And my friend Bill and I said, "We'll take it."
Alex: How many credits do you get for that? Don't answer, don't answer.
[Laughter]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
WAY BACK IN 2012 $1000: From February to August, U.N. & Arab League envoy Kofi Annan tried to solve this country's civil war
(Kathryn: What is Congo? The--the--)
(Kyle: What is Libya?)
HAIRMAGEDDON $1000: Because it'll act as a guide, the length on top determines the overall length in a cut that's this, like a shag
(Alex: Back to you, Kyle, with a minute to go.)
LONDON CALLING $600: Hey, Napoleon! If you lost something at this largest U.K. rail center, call the lost property office
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Darren: $6,400
Kyle: $2,200
Kathryn: $600
CONTESTANTS
Kathryn Tesar, a communications professional from Austin, Texas
Kyle Stephens, a customer due-diligence specialist originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Darren Harris-Fain, an English professor from Prattville, Alabama (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,000)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thanks, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Well, as you just heard, Darren won $22,000 yesterday on the program. When he went into Final Jeopardy!, it was a runaway game, he could not be caught, but one of the categories that helped him had to do with recent literature. Will literature be one of the categories today? Who knows? Kathryn and Kyle, hopefully you will find categories to your liking, also. Let's go to work in this first round, shall we, players? And good luck with these categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
WAY BACK IN 2012 (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
HAIRMAGEDDON (4/5)
THE SIMPSONS SUPPORTING CAST (5/5)
CREDIT CARD WHERE CREDIT CARD IS DUE (3/3)
LONDON CALLING (3/4)
A GAME OF H‑O‑R‑S‑E (5/5) (Alex: Notice the separation on the letters. The first clue in that category, the correct response will begin with the letter "H", then "O", "R", as we go down.)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Darren: 10 R (including 2 rebounds and 1 DD), 2 W
Kyle: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Kathryn: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,600
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Darren found the Daily Double on the 14th clue. Darren had $4,000, Kyle had $800, and Kathryn was at $200. Darren wagered $2,000.
WAY BACK IN 2012 $800: These 2 states legalized recreational marijuana use
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Darren: $6,000
Kyle: $800
Kathryn: $200
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Kathryn Tesar is from Austin, Texas. Now, Kathryn, a couple of years ago, I did a little bit of work with Katie Couric. You had an encounter with her which was not a pleasant one, I understand.
Kathryn: Actually, it was very pleasant. It was a lot of fun. I was in New York, and I was supposed to meet friends for drinks, and a few minutes before I was supposed to meet them, they started texting me, "You need to get here right away." And I figured there must be a celebrity at the bar. So, I got there and saw my friends talking to Katie Couric. And I went over to meet them, and Katie actually greeted me very warmly. She said, "Kathryn, we've been waiting for you." And then she--it was very unusual--she said, "I want you to stick your finger in your mouth and get it really, really wet." And I did that, and then she asked me to stick it into a shot glass full of liquor. I did that, and then she took a lighter out and set my finger on fire. She asked me to hold it up in the air and then put it out and do a shot, and she called that a Statue of Liberty. [Laughs]
[Laughter]
Kathryn: It was--it was a lot of fun.
Alex: Katie, Katie, Katie.
Kathryn: She was lovely.
Alex: Yes, all right.
Alex: Kyle Stephens from Wisconsin. Now, he has a habit, ladies and gentlemen, when he's watching a motion picture, he really gets into it and empathizes with the characters. I'll give you an example--if it's an underwater scene, what do you do?
Kyle: Well, it all started with The Poseidon Adventure. Um, when Shelley Winters has to swim for a really long time, I hold my breath with her, um, to make sure that if I were in that situation, I would be able to make it out, too.
Alex: Uh-huh.
Kyle: And, uh, I haven't drowned yet.
[Laughter]
Alex: That's two in a row.
[Laughter]
Alex: Darren Harris-Fain is our champion. He, as you discovered on yesterday's program, is referred to by his students as "the Dark Lord". Perhaps one of the reasons is, they found out that he took belly-dancing lessons. Am I right?
Darren: That's right. Uh, in college, one of my best friends, uh, she had been an army brat and she learned how to belly-dance. And so she taught it at my university. She was getting ready to teach it again, and she said, "I only have girls in the class." And my friend Bill and I said, "We'll take it."
Alex: How many credits do you get for that? Don't answer, don't answer.
[Laughter]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
WAY BACK IN 2012 $1000: From February to August, U.N. & Arab League envoy Kofi Annan tried to solve this country's civil war
(Kathryn: What is Congo? The--the--)
(Kyle: What is Libya?)
HAIRMAGEDDON $1000: Because it'll act as a guide, the length on top determines the overall length in a cut that's this, like a shag
(Alex: Back to you, Kyle, with a minute to go.)
LONDON CALLING $600: Hey, Napoleon! If you lost something at this largest U.K. rail center, call the lost property office
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Darren: $6,400
Kyle: $2,200
Kathryn: $600