Thursday, November 10, 2011 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #6244, 2011-11-10
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.
CONTESTANTS
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. And you, too, ladies and gentlemen. Well, you have met our "threesome"...
[Laughter]
Alex: ...for this second semifinal match. And each of them, Kara, Jay, and Buddy, are hoping to do as well as Tom yesterday. Good luck to you. Here we go--the Jeopardy! Round. And these are your categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
THE 2011 EMMYS (5/5)
MILITARY WIVES (4/5)
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (3/5)
STORAGE (4/5)
JEOPORTMANTEAU (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jay: 11 R (including 3 rebounds and 1 DD), 1 W
Buddy: 11 R (including 4 rebounds), 4 W
Kara: 3 R (including 1 rebound), 6 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,800
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Jay: $1,800
Buddy: $400
Kara: $200
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Kara Spak is from Chicago, and, Kara, your five winning appearances early on on our program enabled you to reconnect in a way with your late father, right?
Kara: Yeah, that's right. I got, um, many, many wonderful letters and notes from people, but there was one that really stood out. My father went to University of Notre Dame and I went there also with two of my brothers, and my father passed away after my sophomore year in college. And his college roommate saw me on the show, and he and his wife, um, made a little bit of an effort to track me down and get in touch with me. And he sent me, sort of, this beautiful letter about what he remembered from being my father's roommate in college. [Voice breaking] And so it really made me feel like my dad was part of the experience. So thank you.
Alex: Good, good.
Alex: Now, Jay Rhee, if you're in show business and you do well, say on Celebrity Jeopardy! you might be written up in The Hollywood Reporter, or Variety magazine. But if you're an oncologist as you are, it's a different sort of thing. You were written up in what?
Jay: The ASCO Connection--it's the American Society of Clinical Oncology newsletter.
Alex: And they were asking you about your appearance on Jeopardy! I hope?
Jay: Yes, we actually had one talk during my original run about genetic mutations and how they confer, uh, prognostic features in certain malignancies. So they, um, took that and ran with that a little bit.
[Laughter]
Alex: I asked.
Alex: Buddy Wright from Fort Worth, Texas, works at an aerospace company, and you won close to $90,000. What'd you do with the dough?
Buddy: Uh, we paid off a bunch of credit cards, dropped off the kids, and took off to Vegas.
Alex: Thank you. That's what I wanted to hear.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Jay found the Daily Double on the 29th clue. Buddy had $2,200, Jay had $6,000, and Kara had a deficit with -$1,600. Jay wagered $2,000.
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Bayonne, France
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
STORAGE $200: The SSA, this association, says its members control 2 1/4 billion square feet
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $600: An actor:
"My Wicked, Wicked Ways"
(Buddy: Who is Charlie Sheen?)
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: A songwriter:
"Bound for Glory"
(Kara: Who is Bruce Springsteen?)
MILITARY WIVES $1000: That's the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at this husband of hers
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $200: Alphabetically, the countries in Europe run from Albania to this tiny landlocked nation
(Kara: What is Uzbekistan?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Jay: $8,000
Buddy: $3,200
Kara: -$1,600
2011 Tournament of Champions semifinal game 2.
CONTESTANTS
Kara Spak, a newspaper reporter from Chicago, Illinois
Jay Rhee, an oncologist from Annapolis, Maryland
Buddy Wright, an operations engineer from Fort Worth, Texas
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. And you, too, ladies and gentlemen. Well, you have met our "threesome"...
[Laughter]
Alex: ...for this second semifinal match. And each of them, Kara, Jay, and Buddy, are hoping to do as well as Tom yesterday. Good luck to you. Here we go--the Jeopardy! Round. And these are your categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
THE 2011 EMMYS (5/5)
MILITARY WIVES (4/5)
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (3/5)
STORAGE (4/5)
JEOPORTMANTEAU (5/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jay: 11 R (including 3 rebounds and 1 DD), 1 W
Buddy: 11 R (including 4 rebounds), 4 W
Kara: 3 R (including 1 rebound), 6 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,800
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Jay: $1,800
Buddy: $400
Kara: $200
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Kara Spak is from Chicago, and, Kara, your five winning appearances early on on our program enabled you to reconnect in a way with your late father, right?
Kara: Yeah, that's right. I got, um, many, many wonderful letters and notes from people, but there was one that really stood out. My father went to University of Notre Dame and I went there also with two of my brothers, and my father passed away after my sophomore year in college. And his college roommate saw me on the show, and he and his wife, um, made a little bit of an effort to track me down and get in touch with me. And he sent me, sort of, this beautiful letter about what he remembered from being my father's roommate in college. [Voice breaking] And so it really made me feel like my dad was part of the experience. So thank you.
Alex: Good, good.
Alex: Now, Jay Rhee, if you're in show business and you do well, say on Celebrity Jeopardy! you might be written up in The Hollywood Reporter, or Variety magazine. But if you're an oncologist as you are, it's a different sort of thing. You were written up in what?
Jay: The ASCO Connection--it's the American Society of Clinical Oncology newsletter.
Alex: And they were asking you about your appearance on Jeopardy! I hope?
Jay: Yes, we actually had one talk during my original run about genetic mutations and how they confer, uh, prognostic features in certain malignancies. So they, um, took that and ran with that a little bit.
[Laughter]
Alex: I asked.
Alex: Buddy Wright from Fort Worth, Texas, works at an aerospace company, and you won close to $90,000. What'd you do with the dough?
Buddy: Uh, we paid off a bunch of credit cards, dropped off the kids, and took off to Vegas.
Alex: Thank you. That's what I wanted to hear.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Jay found the Daily Double on the 29th clue. Buddy had $2,200, Jay had $6,000, and Kara had a deficit with -$1,600. Jay wagered $2,000.
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $800: Ports on this bay include Bilbao, Spain & Bayonne, France
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
STORAGE $200: The SSA, this association, says its members control 2 1/4 billion square feet
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $600: An actor:
"My Wicked, Wicked Ways"
(Buddy: Who is Charlie Sheen?)
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES $800: A songwriter:
"Bound for Glory"
(Kara: Who is Bruce Springsteen?)
MILITARY WIVES $1000: That's the former Beatrice Ayer, gazing up at this husband of hers
EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHY $200: Alphabetically, the countries in Europe run from Albania to this tiny landlocked nation
(Kara: What is Uzbekistan?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Jay: $8,000
Buddy: $3,200
Kara: -$1,600