Thursday, October 20, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #7384, 2016-10-20
WE ASKED: Al Franken.
CONTESTANTS
Hunter Manchak, a product director from Washington D.C.
Doug Hartman, a consulting engineer from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Debbi Hopkins, an administrative assistant from Charleston, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,300)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hi, folks. Welcome aboard. For the past few weeks on Jeopardy!, we've been playing share the wealth among many champions. No one player managed to win more than three games in a row. And that is, believe it or not, good news for all three of you, Hunter, Doug, and Debbi, so good luck. Let's go to work...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HERE COMES THE SUN (4/5)
CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE (3/5)
FRUITS & VEGETABLES (5/5)
"Z" IS THE FIRST LETTER (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) (Alex: "Z" is not the last, it's the first letter in each correct response.)
WAR STARS (3/5)
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Doug: 10 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 0 W
Hunter: 9 R, 2 W
Debbi: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 6
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,200
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Doug: $4,200
Hunter: $1,600
Debbi: $600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Hunter Manchak is from Washington, D.C. He and his wife are big Major League Baseball fans, and I love the way you celebrated your wedding. Tell the folks about that.
Hunter: Yeah, so this was my contribution when I got married to Dominique. I wrote a letter to all the Major League Baseball teams and said, "Can you give me any extra bobbleheads that you might have?" And amazingly, I got about 200 of them in the mail from all the teams. And we used them as place-card holders for the wedding, so it was good fun.
Alex: That's wonderful. You still have them?
Hunter: I still have some of them. And amazingly, we go to a lot of people's houses, and they still have them up and displayed prominently in their houses, too.
Alex: All right. Good for you. That sounds like a lot of fun.
Alex: Doug Hartman, a consulting engineer from Virginia Beach who enjoys photographing animals in the wild. Have you done that in Africa where there are a lot of animals in the wild?
Doug: I have, Alex.
Alex: Uh, your prize photographic catch, what was it?
Doug: My favorite one is, uh, a great picture of the great migration of the wildebeests across the spelt or whatever you call it.
Alex: Mara. Masai Mara area.
Doug: Yeah. It was a great time. We were there in August. It was very photogenic.
Alex: Okay, good.
Alex: Debbi Hopkins is our champion, an administrative assistant from Charleston, South Carolina, who is, also, I understand, a good speller. You were in the spelling bee?
Debbi: I was. It's been a very long time. But when I was in high school, Charleston County, which is my native town, Charleston County had a spelling bee every year, and I was fortunate enough to win it three years in a row. And the really cool thing was after the third time, they just retired the trophy to my school.
Alex: Okay, well, that's great.
Debbi: I was happy.
Alex: Okay, you should be happy.
[Debbi laughs.]
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Doug found the Daily Double on the 20th clue. Debbi had $600, Doug had $5,400, and Hunter was at $2,400. Doug wagered $3,000.
"Z" IS THE FIRST LETTER $1000: This outermost layer of a citrus rind contains the color & the flavor
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU $1000: Robert Schumann called this man's 1807 Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants"
HERE COMES THE SUN $1000: From the Greek for "light" comes this visible layer of the sun, some 300 miles thick
CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates city of Ur to found a new nation
WAR STARS $600: Agu is a child soldier in an African Civil War in this film that earned Idris Elba a Golden Globe nomination
WAR STARS $1000: As General Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe led the defense of an isolated Pacific island in this 2006 movie
(Hunter: What is Flags of Our Fathers?)
CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: Acts 9 is about a journey to this city by Saul, later Paul, that doesn't turn out as planned
(Debbi: What is Tarshish?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Doug: $8,800
Debbi: $2,200
Hunter: $1,800
WE ASKED: Al Franken.
CONTESTANTS
Hunter Manchak, a product director from Washington D.C.
Doug Hartman, a consulting engineer from Virginia Beach, Virginia
Debbi Hopkins, an administrative assistant from Charleston, South Carolina (whose 1-day cash winnings total $18,300)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hi, folks. Welcome aboard. For the past few weeks on Jeopardy!, we've been playing share the wealth among many champions. No one player managed to win more than three games in a row. And that is, believe it or not, good news for all three of you, Hunter, Doug, and Debbi, so good luck. Let's go to work...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HERE COMES THE SUN (4/5)
CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE (3/5)
FRUITS & VEGETABLES (5/5)
"Z" IS THE FIRST LETTER (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) (Alex: "Z" is not the last, it's the first letter in each correct response.)
WAR STARS (3/5)
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU (4/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Doug: 10 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 0 W
Hunter: 9 R, 2 W
Debbi: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 6
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,200
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Doug: $4,200
Hunter: $1,600
Debbi: $600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Hunter Manchak is from Washington, D.C. He and his wife are big Major League Baseball fans, and I love the way you celebrated your wedding. Tell the folks about that.
Hunter: Yeah, so this was my contribution when I got married to Dominique. I wrote a letter to all the Major League Baseball teams and said, "Can you give me any extra bobbleheads that you might have?" And amazingly, I got about 200 of them in the mail from all the teams. And we used them as place-card holders for the wedding, so it was good fun.
Alex: That's wonderful. You still have them?
Hunter: I still have some of them. And amazingly, we go to a lot of people's houses, and they still have them up and displayed prominently in their houses, too.
Alex: All right. Good for you. That sounds like a lot of fun.
Alex: Doug Hartman, a consulting engineer from Virginia Beach who enjoys photographing animals in the wild. Have you done that in Africa where there are a lot of animals in the wild?
Doug: I have, Alex.
Alex: Uh, your prize photographic catch, what was it?
Doug: My favorite one is, uh, a great picture of the great migration of the wildebeests across the spelt or whatever you call it.
Alex: Mara. Masai Mara area.
Doug: Yeah. It was a great time. We were there in August. It was very photogenic.
Alex: Okay, good.
Alex: Debbi Hopkins is our champion, an administrative assistant from Charleston, South Carolina, who is, also, I understand, a good speller. You were in the spelling bee?
Debbi: I was. It's been a very long time. But when I was in high school, Charleston County, which is my native town, Charleston County had a spelling bee every year, and I was fortunate enough to win it three years in a row. And the really cool thing was after the third time, they just retired the trophy to my school.
Alex: Okay, well, that's great.
Debbi: I was happy.
Alex: Okay, you should be happy.
[Debbi laughs.]
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Doug found the Daily Double on the 20th clue. Debbi had $600, Doug had $5,400, and Hunter was at $2,400. Doug wagered $3,000.
"Z" IS THE FIRST LETTER $1000: This outermost layer of a citrus rind contains the color & the flavor
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU $1000: Robert Schumann called this man's 1807 Fourth Symphony "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants"
HERE COMES THE SUN $1000: From the Greek for "light" comes this visible layer of the sun, some 300 miles thick
CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $200: In Genesis 15 this man leaves the Euphrates city of Ur to found a new nation
WAR STARS $600: Agu is a child soldier in an African Civil War in this film that earned Idris Elba a Golden Globe nomination
WAR STARS $1000: As General Kuribayashi, Ken Watanabe led the defense of an isolated Pacific island in this 2006 movie
(Hunter: What is Flags of Our Fathers?)
CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: Acts 9 is about a journey to this city by Saul, later Paul, that doesn't turn out as planned
(Debbi: What is Tarshish?)
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Doug: $8,800
Debbi: $2,200
Hunter: $1,800