Wednesday, December 2, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

[Archivists]

Game Recap for Show #7183, 2015-12-02

CONTESTANTS
Brad Rudy, a retired railroad analyst from Marietta, Georgia
Nicole Stanley, a medical student from Portland, Oregon
Joyce Hshieh, an actress and writer from Chicago, Illinois (whose 2-day cash winnings total $26,602)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thanks, Johnny. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen. On yesterday's program, Joyce relaxed a lot more and developed a good rhythm, and wound up winning a fair amount of money. Nicole and Brad, I'm delighted to welcome you to our program. It could happen to you as well. So good luck to all three of you. Here we go. And here are the categories. First off, you get to deal with...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
A FETA COMPLI (3/3)
VERBS (4/5)
WORKING BOOK TITLES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
SHIP SHAPE (3/5)
CITY WALK (5/5)
REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Joyce: 11 R (including 2 rebounds and 1 DD), 1 W
Brad: 9 R (including 1 rebound), 3 W
Nicole: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W

Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,800



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Joyce found the Daily Double on the 4th clue. Joyce had $600, Nicole had $200, and Brad was at $400. Joyce wagered $1,000.

WORKING BOOK TITLES $800: John Steinbeck changed "Something That Happened" to this title, a reference to a Robert Burns poem
(Alex: "The best laid plans [*].")

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Joyce: $4,200
Nicole: $1,200
Brad: $1,000

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Brad Rudy is a retired railroad analyst. I'm not sure what that means exactly.

Brad: Well, basically, what I did is, I made computer models of the railroad and I played with them.

Alex: So you played with toy trains?

Brad: No. No, no, no, it's to see if a planned, uh, structural change that costs millions and millions of dollars will actually do what you want it to do. Like a siding--will trains actually be able to get on it?

Alex: Ah.

Brad: Or will the schedule just make them all avoid it?

Alex: Still a great way to travel.

Brad: Uh-huh.

[Apparent edit]

Brad: [Without his lips moving, as the result of the apparent edit] Tell me.




Alex: Nicole Stanley is a medical student. Got married.

Nicole: Yep.

Alex: Weddings are happy events. Yours was made even more special because of something your sister did.

Nicole: It was wonderful. I love the Muppets. I loved Jim Henson. And when my husband Asa and I were married two years ago, we had no idea that my sister and her husband had had Muppets made to look like us. And then they surprised us at the wedding by singing the song that Miss Piggy and Kermit sing when they get married at the end of Muppets take Manhattan.

Alex: Oh, gosh.

Nicole: It was wonderful.

Alex: Did you get to keep...

Nicole: Oh, yes.

Alex: ...the Muppets?

Nicole: Oh, yeah.

Alex: Okay. Drag 'em out from time to time. Have fun.




Alex: Joyce Hshieh is our champion. She's an actress. We mentioned that in her intro on a couple of occasions now. And you starred in an independent film, and it was a--a microbudget film. What does that mean? How much money are we talking about here?

Joyce: Around $30,000.

Alex: Oh.

Joyce: Very, very small. Um, so to keep costs low, they kept the story within one set. So it takes place in a bomb shelter, and there's only five characters, so...

Alex: Are we likely to ever see this motion picture?

Joyce: Um... you can find it online.

Alex: Nice to know.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
VERBS $1000: A school attended by Lord Byron & Winston Churchill; as a verb, it means to inflict great stress

SHIP SHAPE $1000: A 1922 treaty limited these naval vessels to 35,000 tons displacement; the limit didn't last long

SHIP SHAPE $800: A catamaran is instantly recognizable by its twin these
(Brad: What are masts?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Joyce: $6,400
Brad: $2,600
Nicole: $1,600

[Archivists]

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
BALLPLAYERS IN UNIFORM (0/1)
LET'S CONTINUE TO PODCAST (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
THE 1600s (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
"RIME" TIME (3/5)
IT'S JUST A STAGE (5/5)
STATE ANIMAL FIGHT! (4/5) (Alex: We have imagined some epic battles for you.)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Brad: 7 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Joyce: 7 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Nicole: 7 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 26
Triple Stumpers: 4
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $5,200



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Joyce snagged the next Daily Double on the 6th clue. Joyce had $8,400, Nicole had $1,200, and Brad was at $4,200. Joyce wagered $2,000.

THE 1600s $2000: In 1658, perhaps as he was busy admiring his Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposed him & took over the Mughal Empire
(Joyce: [Whispers] Oh.)
(Alex: Not coming?)
[Beep]
(Joyce: No. Who is Ashoka?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Joyce who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 9th clue. Joyce had $7,600, Nicole had $1,200, and Brad was at $4,200. Joyce wagered $2,000.

LET'S CONTINUE TO PODCAST $1200: In Freudian theory this 8-letter term is our conscience; its namesake comedic podcast is "Improvised & Analyzed"

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
"RIME" TIME $800: Carleton College's fall 2015 one of these calendar divisions began September 14

"RIME" TIME $2000: In "1984" desire is this type of Orwellian offense

STATE ANIMAL FIGHT! $2000: Utah's Rocky Mountain elk can't figure out the unique gait of this "Volunteer State" equine
(Nicole: What is Tennessee?)
(Alex: Be more specific.)
(Nicole: Tennessee horse?)
(Alex: No, not enough.)

BALLPLAYERS IN UNIFORM $400: During World War I, this ferocious Tiger made a peach of a U.S. Army captain
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Joyce: $12,000
Brad: $11,400
Nicole: $5,600

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NEWLY INDEPENDENT NATIONS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Four-fifths for first place.
Joyce: Wager $10,801 to cover Brad.
Brad: Try wagering $199, which is as much as you can put up against Joyce without being usurped by a doubled score on the part of Nicole.
Nicole: There's no way you can cover a rational wager by Brad, but if Brad decides for some reason to wager everything, you can eke out a win on a Triple Stumper if you wager no more than $4,400.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Prior to South Sudan, this European country was the most recent one to gain independence & be recognized by the United States

FINAL SCORES
Nicole: $5,600 + $5,600 = $11,200 (What is Kosovo?) (2nd place)
Brad: $11,400 - $5,000 = $6,400 (What is Serbia?) (3rd place)
Joyce: $12,000 + $801 = $12,801 (What is Kosovo) (26603-day champion: $12,801)
(Alex: [To Nicole] What is [*]?--which achieved its independence from Serbia in 2008.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $8,000

GAME DYNAMICS


CORYAT SCORES
Joyce: $13,000, 18 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Brad: $11,400, 16 R, 3 W
Nicole: $5,600, 12 R, 4 W
Combined Coryat: $30,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Joyce: 19/61 = .311
Brad: 16/58 = .276
Nicole: 13/58 = .224
Team: 48/63 = .762

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
VERBS $600: Whether you add "un" to it or not, it means to separate or undo the threads of a piece of clothing
(Joyce: What is un[*]?)

CITY WALK $200: The statue of the Little Mermaid made a special trip to the Shanghai World Expo in 2010; it's back in this capital city now
(Brad: What is Amsterdam?)

REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $600: "Please pack your knives & go"
(Nicole: What is Hell's--Hell's Kitchen?)

REALITY SHOW SENDOFF LINES $1000: "Sashay away"
(Brad: Oh! I was gonna say Project Runway, but that's been done already.)

A FETA COMPLI $400: E.U.-approved feta must be made primarily from the milk of this animal, though goat's milk may be used
(Joyce: What is a cow?)
(Nicole: What is a buffalo?)

SHIP SHAPE $200: In 1720 the Water Club became one of the first organizations for these luxurious transports
(Alex: We have less than a minute now.)

SHIP SHAPE $400: This class of speedy warship sounds like a term for a police squad car
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

STATE ANIMAL FIGHT! $800: S.D.'s coyote takes on the white-tailed this 11 times, as 11 states claim it as a state animal or mammal of one kind or another
(Brad: [*]?)
[Accepted without comment, possibly because Alex misheard "White-tailed" as "What is"]

THE 1600s $800: In 1691 Massachusetts Bay Colony merged with this historic one to the south
(Joyce: What is Jamestown?)
(Nicole: What is... Cape Cod?)

LET'S CONTINUE TO PODCAST $800: He interviews celebs in that inimitable voice on his "Amazing Colossal Podcast"

"For a small amount each month, you can get some colossal benefits."

"RIME" TIME $1200: 7,919 is the 1,000th of these
(Alex: You've got it, with a minute left.)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Of Mice and Men
harrow
battle cruisers (or battleships)
hulls
Shah Jahan
the super ego
a trimester
thoughtcrime
the Tennessee walking horse
Ty Cobb
Kosovo
ravel
Copenhagen
Top Chef
RuPaul's Drag Race
a sheep
yachts
cruiser
white-tailed deer
Plymouth
Gilbert Gotfried
a prime number

[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
NEWLY INDEPENDENT COUNTRIES

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Prior to South Sudan, this European country was the most recent one to gain independence & be recognized by the United States

Joyce: 12000+801=12801 (3x = $39,403)
Nicole: 5600+5600=11200
Brad: 11400-5000=6400

Correct response:

Spoiler

Kosovo (Brad had Serbia.)

[grindcore]

Pre-empted.

[zakharov]

Looks like it's getting pre-empted in NYC

Airing at 2:05 AM here.

[econgator]

Yep, screwed here, too.

[MitchO]

While I understand the scenario causing the pre-empting, I often wonder about the people who were on this episode .. in some places, it may never air. I can't imagine the weird, conflicting feelings that must bring.

[zakharov]

While I understand the scenario causing the pre-empting, I often wonder about the people who were on this episode .. in some places, it may never air. I can't imagine the weird, conflicting feelings that must bring.

Someone asked Trebek about this on a podcast, I believe he said they'll mail a tape if they ask.

[econgator]

While I understand the scenario causing the pre-empting

And if they actually said something, that would be fine. More often than not they preempt it so some talking head can say some combination of, "We have no further information", or "We can't comment on that now".

[Category 13]

While I understand the scenario causing the pre-empting

And if they actually said something, that would be fine. More often than not they preempt it so some talking head can say some combination of, "We have no further information", or "We can't comment on that now".

Or just endless, redundant speculation.

[9021amyers]

It looks like Wheel and Jeopardy are airing in Atlanta at the scheduled time, but bumped to the MyNetworkTV affiliate. (I guess that station's good for something.)

[OSXpert]

Wow, heck of a final! I knew it had to be Dali, but I couldn't pull "The Persistence of Memory" out of my own memory.

Spoiler

Just kidding, it was pre-empted here too.

[Abraxas]

Congrats to Joyce on her third win. I had 37 correct responses including four triple stumpers: Harrow, battleships, hulls, and Ty Cobb. Instaget FJ.

[CrunchyTaco]

Preempted in Detroit. Fikklefame doesn't even have FJ up.

[9021amyers]

It looks like Wheel and Jeopardy are airing in Atlanta at the scheduled time, but bumped to the MyNetworkTV affiliate. (I guess that station's good for something.)

Right after I submit that, Andy Griffith comes on the MyNetworkTV affiliate, and I have to change quickly to the normal channel.

[Golf]

SNL Celebrity Jeopardy moment -

Alex: name an animal similar to a goat

French Stewart: what is a cow?

Alex: oooh, sorry

Burt Reynolds: what is a buffalo?

Alex: say what? Uh, no

Sean Connery: what is a sheep?

Alex: correct!

Sean Connery: I knew you had a thing for sheep Trebek!



A sports category in a game with two female contestants, good luck seeing all five clues.

Still scratching my head over the champ's wager. Figure in a couple of hours my head will scab over.....

[Cat Hammarskjold]

It's pre-empted here in Dayton, too.

[MitchO]

They pre-empted Jeopardy but we're getting Wheel? Bah.

[9021amyers]

Superego is hilarious. That is all. (However, it certainly is not punctual.)

http://youtu.be/OyV5hvUfCxs

http://youtu.be/hOrA9-2xnGY

[patkav]

FYI for Chicagoans:

Jeopardy will air overnight at 3:35 AM December 3, 2015.
http://abc7chicago.com/.../program-note ... ./1107213/