When he hit the last DD, the scores were as follows:
Doug: $9,600
Ken: $9,400
Erin: $16,400
The DD was under Swamped for $1,600. He had already gotten the first two clues played correct in the category. (Though White Nile was probably a lucky rebound).
There were eight clues remaining. Left on the board was $800 and $2,000 in Swamped, the $2,000 in the 1880s. and the entire Chicago TV category. He bet $3,000. They avoided the TV category to the end. He did get two right in that category, but they were on old shows and he (and the others) didn't know two on shows currently on the air. So he probably wasn't 100% comfortable with that category. Missing the DD bet drops him to $6,600. Not completely out of it, but taking the lead would have been close to impossible.
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Bamaman wrote:When he hit the last DD, the scores were as follows:
Doug: $9,600
Ken: $9,400
Erin: $16,400
The DD was under Swamped for $1,600. He had already gotten the first two clues played correct in the category. (Though White Nile was probably a lucky rebound).
There were eight clues remaining. Left on the board was $800 and $2,000 in Swamped, the $2,000 in the 1880s. and the entire Chicago TV category. He bet $3,000. They avoided the TV category to the end. He did get two right in that category, but they were on old shows and he (and the others) didn't know two on shows currently on the air. So he probably wasn't 100% comfortable with that category. Missing the DD bet drops him to $6,600. Not completely out of it, but taking the lead would have been close to impossible.
Ah, I see. I hadn't internalized just how much of a lead Erin had at that point.
grindcore wrote:What is this India-shaped country?
"What are India and... uh... uh... crap."
TBF, I omitted Bangladesh from my post to make my snark a little snappier, but for a DJ DD, identifying Bangladesh on a map is hardly a lot more difficult than identifying India.
ron wrote:Surprised they accepted Doug's answer of "nuclear reaction... nuclear explosion." It wasn't the first demonstration of a nuclear reaction and it wasn't an explosion. The correct answer is nuclear chain reaction.
I agree with this, although I think it's better described as the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.
I worked through three options for FJ!: nylon, Kevlar and Teflon. I picked the right one due to the year, but I was nearly thrown off by the "strong as steel" claim. I didn't think there's a nylon half as strong as steel, and looking at a couple of tables on the net, it appears that there is not.
OrangeSAM wrote:
I worked through three options for FJ!: nylon, Kevlar and Teflon. I picked the right one due to the year, but I was nearly thrown off by the "strong as steel" claim. I didn't think there's a nylon half as strong as steel, and looking at a couple of tables on the net, it appears that there is not.
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Nylon was an insta-guess for me, based on the date: one of the stereotypes of American GIs based in the UK during WWII is that they could charm local girls by offering them "nylons" - which had not yet made it across the Atlantic through conventional means.
I regret missing the Moveable Feast question more than my DD wager, but I certainly could've gone bigger with it. I also don't think Bangladesh is as easily identifiable as the second country as some of you are making it out to be, but it's a part of the map I studied as I was working on all the changes in central and south Asia. I've had to do a lot of relearning--the map today is very different from the map I grew up with.
And, yes, Fossey = Gorillas, Goodall = Chimps, and Goodall actually spoke here within the last year, so I was clear on that one.
Congrats to Erin on a well-deserved win! She's sharp and fast and could go on a run and I'm thrilled for her.
The J!6 for WAYS TO REACH FIRST BASE was a single, so what goes with BB, HBP, FC, or E2 for the $200 box? I'm guessing it was some kind of infield error since it would not be fair to the catcher to blame that position a second time for dropping a third strike.
Erin knew The Night Stalker, so I'm glad that old favorite did not stump the panel.
Doug: Do you have any crossword puzzles you constructed that can be found with an easy link or a date in the NYT archives?
+5400 on both DJ! round Daily Doubles, yet still trailing by $3000? It was Dr. Lee in the O.J. trial that said, "Something wrong."
For the FJ! clue nylon went on my paper with instant hesitation. During think time I considered other possibilities that ended with "-on" or an "-ester" while shrugging that nylon seemed to add up properly. A get's a get. I'll take it.
OrangeSAM wrote:
I worked through three options for FJ!: nylon, Kevlar and Teflon. I picked the right one due to the year, but I was nearly thrown off by the "strong as steel" claim. I didn't think there's a nylon half as strong as steel, and looking at a couple of tables on the net, it appears that there is not.
That's the main reason I didn't think of nylon. I don't consider it such a strong fabric. The date should have led there, I suppose, but instead I spent the :30 trying to remember the word Kevlar...
A Moveable Feast is the title of one of Hemingway's posthumous books so that was tough to see it missed. Really easy game today including FJ. I missed the last 2 episodes due to basketball so it was nice to see it again.
The nuclear chain reaction clue got me thinking of fission, which I later used as an incorrect response for the mitosis clue when I remembered reading that nuclear fission was named by analogy to biological fission.
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MarkBarrett wrote:The J!6 for WAYS TO REACH FIRST BASE was a single, so what goes with BB, HBP, FC, or E2 for the $200 box? I'm guessing it was some kind of infield error since it would not be fair to the catcher to blame that position a second time for dropping a third strike....
It isn't always the catcher's fault on strike three. Sometimes it's a WP. Anyway, that's not top box material.
MarkBarrett wrote:The J!6 for WAYS TO REACH FIRST BASE was a single, so what goes with BB, HBP, FC, or E2 for the $200 box? I'm guessing it was some kind of infield error since it would not be fair to the catcher to blame that position a second time for dropping a third strike.
Erin knew The Night Stalker, so I'm glad that old favorite did not stump the panel.
Doug: Do you have any crossword puzzles you constructed that can be found with an easy link or a date in the NYT archives?
+5400 on both DJ! round Daily Doubles, yet still trailing by $3000? It was Dr. Lee in the O.J. trial that said, "Something wrong."
For the FJ! clue nylon went on my paper with instant hesitation. During think time I considered other possibilities that ended with "-on" or an "-ester" while shrugging that nylon seemed to add up properly. A get's a get. I'll take it.
Mark--Most of my crossword construction was done quite a while ago. If you google Douglas Behrend Crossword, a link to a Simon & Schuster collection comes up with one of my puzzles in it. Mel Rosen at Running Press edited most of my published puzzles and those are not available online, and I never got one into the Times.
Still nearly 11K on the board after my Daily Double so at the moment under the lights I thought it was too early for the huge wager, but I did later regret not going bigger. Still, if I had buzzed in first on the the last clue of the round (Night Stalker), I would've had the lead.
Like Alex, I hope he never has to read another category as Tarzan, but probably for a different reason: I can only stand to hear Alex's pronunciation of "Tarzan" (with a schwa in the second syllable) once per game.
