Tuesday, October 25, 2016 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

[Archivists]

Game Recap for Show #7387, 2016-10-25

CONTESTANTS
Joel Goldes, a dialect coach from Oak Park, California
Yoey Sacks, a store planner from New York, New York
Lani Gonzalez, a managing director of an art bazaar from Austin, Texas (whose 2-day cash winnings total $35,600)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Our champion Lani ended last week on a high note, started this week on a high note, winning about the same amount of money for a 2-day total of over $35,000. Yoey and Joel, you've got your work cut out for you. Good luck! Here we go.

Let's do it with these categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NAME THE CAPITAL (5/5)
THRILLERS & MYSTERIES (3/5)
MAGAZINES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
SOUNDS LIKE A FLOWER (5/5)
THE "IV" LEAGUE (4/5)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Lani: 12 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 0 W
Yoey: 11 R, 1 W
Joel: 3 R, 0 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,400



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Lani found the Daily Double on the 10th clue. Lani had $1,600, Yoey had $1,000, and Joel had nothing in the bank. Lani wagered $1,000.

MAGAZINES $600: We're excited to tell you that this magazine focusing on technology & innovation coined the term "crowdsourcing"

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Lani: $5,400
Yoey: $2,000
Joel: $0

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Joel Goldes is a dialect coach from Oak Creek, California. One entertainer, famous movie actor, the late Robin Williams, was great with dialects, and I understand you worked with him.

Joel: I did. Very briefly on his last sitcom. I didn't know what to expect from him. I thought he might be sort of all over the map. I'd seen him as a stand-up and was amazed at him in concert, and he was a consummate professional. He was very complimentary of my work, and he took direction very well and asked permission from the producers before he did any improv-ing. It was quite something.

Alex: Isn't that nice, you discovered something really nice about one of your heroes.




Alex: Yoey Sacks is a store planner from New York who appeared in a friend's movie. You were doing a favor for your friend?

Yoey: I was. One of my best friends from high school is a makeup artist, and she invited me out to appear as a zombie in a--

Alex: Zombie?

Yoey: Yes. I was fully made-up with blood and gore. Which is actually made of Jell-O liquid and instant coffee, so it's very energizing.

Alex: But you're not recognizable, are you?

Yoey: Unfortunately, I am.

[Laughter]

Alex: Oh. All right.




Alex: Lani Gonzalez is our champion. At a concert in London--which concert?

Lani: Oh, well, uh, The Flaming Lips.

Alex: And you were asked to go up on stage?

Lani: Yes.

Alex: And perform?

Lani: Yes. The entire time in an elephant costume.

[Laughter]

Lani: And my friend came with me and she was dressed as an eagle, and there were several other people they invited--

Alex: Why were you all dressed up like that?

Lani: They--something they were doing for that tour, they invited audience members up and got them to dress up in animal costumes. And I was one of the lucky ones.

Alex: Who was the lead performer for The Flaming Lips? Was it Monty Hall?

[Laughter]

Alex: You don't have to answer that. Go ahead, pick up your signaling device. Make a selection as we continue.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
THRILLERS & MYSTERIES $1000: 2015's "The Nature of the Beast" is one of the Armand Gamache mysteries by this author with a coinage name

THRILLERS & MYSTERIES $800: "Postmortem" from 1990 was Patricia Cornwell's first mystery featuring this female medical examiner

THE "IV" LEAGUE $600: Late at night while you're sleeping, Toxicodendron radicans, this, comes around

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE $1000: In 2016 this feel-good dance tune from the movie "Trolls" debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Lani: $8,200
Yoey: $4,400
Joel: $1,400

[Archivists]

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
DEWEY (2/5)
NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY (2/5)
WHATSAMATTA "U"? (4/5)
FROM SCREEN TO STAGE (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
WORD ORIGINS (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Lani: 10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Joel: 6 R, 2 W
Yoey: 4 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 8
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $11,200



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Yoey snagged the next Daily Double on the 5th clue. Lani had $8,600, Yoey had $6,400, and Joel was at $2,600. Yoey made it a True Daily Double, wagering $6,400.

FROM SCREEN TO STAGE $1600: Songs from this musical based on a 1968 film included "Haben Sie Gehoert Das Deutsche Band?" & "Where Did We Go Right?"
(Yoey: What is The Sound of Music?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Lani who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 26th clue. Lani had $14,200, Yoey had $800, and Joel was at $7,400. Lani wagered $800.

PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $800: The heat is on Abednego & his friends when they show up in this book
(Lani: What is...I don't know.)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY $800: In 1524 this Italian made it to the mouth of the Cape Fear River; there was no bridge named for him there, though
(Yoey: Who is San Luis Rey?)
(Lani: Who is Rialto?)

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew gives the clue from the Wright Brothers National Memorial.) In 1902, the Wright brothers made over a thousand glider flights from the slopes of this 90-foot hill that was then a massive sand dune
(Lani: What is Kitty Hawk?)

WHATSAMATTA "U"? $1200: Yep, it's sinusitis, an infection of this lofty tract
(Joel: What's the nasal tract?)

DEWEY $400: In 1883 Melvil Dewey took this job at Columbia College
(Joel: What is dean?)
...
(Alex: Remember, the Dewey Decimal system.)

DEWEY $1600: You may ring in when ready & name this May 1, 1898 battle that made Admiral George Dewey a national hero

DEWEY $2000: John Dewey helped found this philosophical "ism" that stresses practical consequences

NORTH CAROLINA, HISTORICALLY $2000: In 1776 this N.C. tribe supported the British & led by Chief Dragging Canoe attacked the colonists

PEOPLE OF THE BIBLICAL BOOK $2000: The book of John is where you'll find this Pharisee's discourse with Jesus

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Lani: $15,000 (lock game)
Joel: $7,400
Yoey: $2,400

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; lock for second place.
Lani: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $199 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Joel: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $2,599 (martian), and enjoy 2nd place.
Yoey: You've no hope of catching up... unless Joel does something stupid. So risk $2,399.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The Centre for European Reform is one of the sources credited with coining this new 6-letter portmanteau word

FINAL SCORES
Yoey: $2,400 + $2,400 = $4,800 (What is Brexit) (2nd place)
Joel: $7,400 - $7,399 = $1 (What is Euroop) (3rd place)
Lani: $15,000 + $0 = $15,000 (What is Brexit?) (35601-day champion: $15,000)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $14,600

GAME DYNAMICS


CORYAT SCORES
Lani: $15,400, 22 R (including 1 DD), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Yoey: $8,800, 15 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Joel: $7,400, 9 R, 2 W
Combined Coryat: $31,600

BATTING AVERAGES
Lani: 23/60 = .383
Yoey: 16/59 = .271
Joel: 9/58 = .155
Team: 48/63 = .762

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
NAME THE CAPITAL $1000: Saskatchewan
(Yoey: What is Manitoba?)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Wired
Louise Penny
Dr. Kay Scarpetta
poison ivy
"Can't Stop The Feeling!"
The Producers
Daniel
Verrazzano
Kill Devil Hill
the upper respiratory tract
librarian
the Battle of Manila Bay
pragmatism
the Cherokee
Nicodemus
Brexit
Regina

[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The Centre for European Reform is one of the sources credited with coining this new 6-letter portmanteau word

Lani Gonzalez: 15000+0=15000 (3x = $50,600)
Yoey Sacks: 2400+2400=4800
Joel Goldes: 7400-7399=1

Correct response:

Spoiler

Brexit (Joel – Euroop)

Daily Doubles
Lani: 1600+1000
Yoey: 6400-6400
Lani: 14200-800

Coryats
Lani: 15400
Yoey: 8800
Joel: 7400

Combined: 31,600

[econgator]

How does the New Yorker not get Verrazzano?

Got FJ mid-way through the clue reading.

[OSXpert]

My precall was Brexit and I felt pretty confident that was going to be the correct response. There was also a similar LL question not too long ago.


The "Trolls" movie comes out in a couple weeks. Depending on when this show was taped, are they really supposed to know about the song that goes with a bad movie that isn't out yet? (product placement?)

I said "Young Frankenstein" instead of "The Producers" on that DD because the german made me think of.... Frau Blucher.

[EBJB87]

I thought the answer for final Jeopardy would have been Brexit.

[goatman]

I went for Cabaret thinking Liza Minnelli but the retrospectometer reveals that was 1972, grrr! 45R instaget FJ though...

LT #9: Kay Scarpetta > Patricia Cornwell; "poison ivy" (No idea what the clue was going for but instantly recognized Toxicodendron radicans! LOL... Verrazano, Kill Devil Hill, "Upper Respiratory Tract" (spent my day in the clinic peering into a dozen of these, all infected, all very sick... savor the irony!); Melville Dewey > Librarian @ Columbia; pragmatism; Cherokee > NC tribe, and get on MDD: Abednego (plus Shadrach and Meshach) > Daniel. Gosh that's a lota trash, but still no Lach Lock.

[Woof]

Pre called FJ, and really couldn't think of another option. Lots of Lach trash but overall a pretty well-played game.

[jeopfansincebirth]

Is Yoey Sacks at all related to S5 4xer and 1989 TOC participant Joel Sacks?

[Clue Jungry]

"poison ivy" (No idea what the clue was going for but instantly recognized Toxicodendron radicans)

"Poison Ivy" by The Coasters -- Late at night while you're sleeping/Poison ivy comes a-creeping around

[TenPoundHammer]

NHO that Xanadu thing in $200.

Locked up on Frankfort and Regina, NHO Santo Domingo.

Heather sounds like a flower?

Ivan = GI Joe?

I knew the Timberlake tune in "Trolls" had something about "feeling" in it, but I got snagged on the "Dance dance dance dance" part long enough to forget the title. And I've only heard that song about a billion times. Timbaland and Suit & Tie were obvious after the fact, but no hope on the other two.

0/5 in Timberlake. WLT Fallon at $200?

Rocky was made into a musical?!

Lach Trash: Librarian.

Esau was my only get in Bible.

Had FJ! before Alex was halfway through the clue.

[CailinGaoilge]

Heather sounds like a flower?

IS a flower.

[alietr]

I said "Young Frankenstein" instead of "The Producers" on that DD because the german made me think of.... Frau Blucher.

Whinny.

[mxc_takeshi]

33 right.

Capital (5), Thriller (1), Magazines (4), Flower (4), "IV" (2), Timberlake (2)
Bible (1), Dewey (4), North Carolina (3), "U" (2), Stage (2), Word (3)

Lach Trash: Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Verrazano, librarian, pragmatism

Instaget FJ.

[IronNeck]

Lots of LT, but I thought a lot of it was fairly difficult.

Only got 2, The Producers (sometimes, knowing the years of almost every famous movie pays off) and pragmatism.

Instaget FJ.

I liked all the DD bets. While she erred, the fashionable Yoey betting everything on the first DD of the DJ board was excellent and optimal, giving her the best chance of winning. Betting $5 was probably better than the $800 she did, but nevertheless, recognizing that she wasn't confident in the category and needed to go small was good on Lani's part. And I'm glad that Lani did NOT start off the category with $400, even though starting with $1200 or $1600 might have been marginally better.

However, this game featured one of the most insane FJ bets I've ever seen. Why did Joel, who had a lock on second place and no chance of first place, risk damn near everything, successfully attaining third in the process?

Was he so impressed by Yoey that he just wanted to give her an extra $1000 for her appearance? Is he exceptionally wealthy and simply doesn't care about an extra grand? The mind boggles.

[davey]

How does the New Yorker not get Verrazzano?

I thought that clue was very difficult to parse, and because of the category I was looking for another place in NC - then the out there guesses by the 2 contestants pushed me even farther away from getting to a guess of my own...
Looks like we have another widespread precall by category tonight. I wasn't that smart, but it came pretty quick with the clue.
I thought Yoey would guess Cabaret for that DD, SOM, was almost as unexpected as San Luis Rey...

[MarkBarrett]

Joel opened with a skunk segment and gifted Yoey with an extra $1000.

(Yoey: Who is San Luis Rey?)
(Lani: Who is Rialto?)

No, ladies it's Verrazano. I love it when then there are double LOL guesses.

Lani's Bible knowledge left me puzzled as she knew enough to get OT Esau and NT Elizabeth, yet could not name Daniel as the book on her DD miss. The Archive only has two hits for Nicodemus being asked and I thought that one was very good for $2000 to wrap up the run. No hints and very unlikely to have have three players all fighting for it.

I will have to poll the precall option for Brexit since WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016 seemed to be telegraphing the correct response in my opinion. Fortunately, that was right as otherwise I may have been thrown if it had been something else.

Lani the Lock has opened with three runaways which no one in the next TOC field accomplished. She needs at least another win to join the party with her low side winnings. If Yoey had solved her DD clue then it's possible Lani may have about doubled her 15K winnings from tonight.

[econgator]

No, ladies it's Verrazano.

"Who" is Verrazzano. "What" is Verrazano.

[OSXpert]

This might be common knowledge but the bridge is Verrazano (one z) and the guy is Verrazzano (two z's) simply because of a misspelling. There is a petition to get the bridge spelling changed to the correct double z, but that ship has sailed I think. (ETA: Yep, econgator just explained this above as well)


My confirmation name was/is Nicodemus (in honor of the rat, not the actual guy), which is the only reason I got that one.

[MarkBarrett]

No, ladies it's Verrazano.

"Who" is Verrazzano. "What" is Verrazano.

Ahhhh, that'll teach me. I just copied what was in the Archive. West Coast disadvantage on one. At least I did not do a copy/comment for the North Carolina category. http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=5441