Wednesday, January 4, 2017 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2017 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #7438, 2017-01-04
CONTESTANTS
Megan Soto, a student services supervisor from San Diego, California
Rich Betz, a teacher from Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Amanda Berofsky, a quality assurance analyst from Waterford, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,999)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. $5,000 is not that much money, but it's hard getting a good rhythm going, a good roll, following the celebrations for the new year, so, rich and Megan, welcome aboard.
Let's see if we can't win big money today. Here are the category for the Jeopardy! Round, starting off with...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HISTORIC OBJECTS (2/4, including 1 missed Daily Double)
GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL (5/5)
TV THEMES (4/5)
DUMB DOWN THE SAYING (5/5)
DON "E" (5/5) (Alex: ach correct response will begin with the letter "E", and it'll be a piece of apparel--something you would don, something you would wear.)
MARIE (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Megan: 9 R, 1 W
Amanda: 9 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rich: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,400
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Megan: $3,600
Rich: $1,600
Amanda: $1,200
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Megan Soto is from San Diego. I believe she is a partygoer. She likes parties. But she is banned from hitting the piñata at parties. Why?
Megan: That's right, Alex. There was an incident--a party with my in-laws. I hit the piñata so hard that the candy flew out like shrapnel and hit my lovely sister-in-law, Joy, in the head. So that, um, that got me a lifetime ban on piñatas.
Alex: I don't blame them.
[Laughter]
Alex: All right, Rich Betz, a teacher from Honesdale, Pennsylvania, who once had to correct the docents or the guides at the Alamo.
Rich: The Daughters of the Texas Revolution care for the Alamo, and we went in. They had a display of flags in the building, representing the states where all the volunteers came from, and on each flag, there's a ribbon with the state's name and the number of volunteers that were there. Being from Pennsylvania, I immediately noticed that Pennsylvania and Ohio's flag tags were reversed. So I got myself a Daughter of the Revolution and I explained, and she said, "Well, we had the woman from the library here, 'cause they were just out for the parade. I'm pretty sure they're right," and I told her, "No, they couldn't possibly be." So she got a managing Daughter, and they went in and they changed them.
[Laughter]
Alex: And you've been persona non grata at the Alamo ever since.
[Laughter]
Alex: You and Santa Anna.
Alex: Amanda Berofsky is our champion. She's from Waterford, Michigan.
Amanda: Yes.
Alex: Travelin' woman, just got back from a European vacation.
Amanda: Yes, we did.
Alex: Where did you go?
Amanda: Well, we went to France, Belgium, and U.K. My husband played in a Scrabble--the world Scrabble championship in France, so... [Laughs]
Alex: Hello.
Amanda: We just got back last week.
Alex: Did he win?
Amanda: No, he didn't.
Alex: Huh. Did he finish in the money?
Amanda: No, he didn't.
Alex: Well, okay.
Amanda: We had fun, and we saw a lot of things.
Alex: Well, you've won a lot of money on our program, so let's see what happens.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Amanda found the Daily Double on the 29th clue. Amanda had $4,200, Rich had $3,000, and Megan was at $5,400. Amanda wagered $2,500.
HISTORIC OBJECTS $600: More than 70 scenes are depicted on it with the last, chronologically, showing the English retreating at Hastings in 1066
(Amanda: What is the tapestry... I can't remember.)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
TV THEMES $800: Punk band Hüsker Dü did a cover of this sitcom's theme "Love Is All Around"
MARIE $600: Marie Antoinette was the 15th child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I & this empress
MARIE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) The act of folding shows your gratitude to the shirt, according to this author of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up"'; a correctly folded shirt will stand on its side
HISTORIC OBJECTS $1000: This slab of black rock now in the British Museum was used as building material by the Ottomans for Fort Julien, Egypt
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Megan: $5,400
Rich: $3,000
Amanda: $1,700
CONTESTANTS
Megan Soto, a student services supervisor from San Diego, California
Rich Betz, a teacher from Honesdale, Pennsylvania
Amanda Berofsky, a quality assurance analyst from Waterford, Michigan (whose 1-day cash winnings total $5,999)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. $5,000 is not that much money, but it's hard getting a good rhythm going, a good roll, following the celebrations for the new year, so, rich and Megan, welcome aboard.
Let's see if we can't win big money today. Here are the category for the Jeopardy! Round, starting off with...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HISTORIC OBJECTS (2/4, including 1 missed Daily Double)
GERMANY'S NEXT TOP MODEL (5/5)
TV THEMES (4/5)
DUMB DOWN THE SAYING (5/5)
DON "E" (5/5) (Alex: ach correct response will begin with the letter "E", and it'll be a piece of apparel--something you would don, something you would wear.)
MARIE (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Megan: 9 R, 1 W
Amanda: 9 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Rich: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,400
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Megan: $3,600
Rich: $1,600
Amanda: $1,200
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Megan Soto is from San Diego. I believe she is a partygoer. She likes parties. But she is banned from hitting the piñata at parties. Why?
Megan: That's right, Alex. There was an incident--a party with my in-laws. I hit the piñata so hard that the candy flew out like shrapnel and hit my lovely sister-in-law, Joy, in the head. So that, um, that got me a lifetime ban on piñatas.
Alex: I don't blame them.
[Laughter]
Alex: All right, Rich Betz, a teacher from Honesdale, Pennsylvania, who once had to correct the docents or the guides at the Alamo.
Rich: The Daughters of the Texas Revolution care for the Alamo, and we went in. They had a display of flags in the building, representing the states where all the volunteers came from, and on each flag, there's a ribbon with the state's name and the number of volunteers that were there. Being from Pennsylvania, I immediately noticed that Pennsylvania and Ohio's flag tags were reversed. So I got myself a Daughter of the Revolution and I explained, and she said, "Well, we had the woman from the library here, 'cause they were just out for the parade. I'm pretty sure they're right," and I told her, "No, they couldn't possibly be." So she got a managing Daughter, and they went in and they changed them.
[Laughter]
Alex: And you've been persona non grata at the Alamo ever since.
[Laughter]
Alex: You and Santa Anna.
Alex: Amanda Berofsky is our champion. She's from Waterford, Michigan.
Amanda: Yes.
Alex: Travelin' woman, just got back from a European vacation.
Amanda: Yes, we did.
Alex: Where did you go?
Amanda: Well, we went to France, Belgium, and U.K. My husband played in a Scrabble--the world Scrabble championship in France, so... [Laughs]
Alex: Hello.
Amanda: We just got back last week.
Alex: Did he win?
Amanda: No, he didn't.
Alex: Huh. Did he finish in the money?
Amanda: No, he didn't.
Alex: Well, okay.
Amanda: We had fun, and we saw a lot of things.
Alex: Well, you've won a lot of money on our program, so let's see what happens.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Amanda found the Daily Double on the 29th clue. Amanda had $4,200, Rich had $3,000, and Megan was at $5,400. Amanda wagered $2,500.
HISTORIC OBJECTS $600: More than 70 scenes are depicted on it with the last, chronologically, showing the English retreating at Hastings in 1066
(Amanda: What is the tapestry... I can't remember.)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
TV THEMES $800: Punk band Hüsker Dü did a cover of this sitcom's theme "Love Is All Around"
MARIE $600: Marie Antoinette was the 15th child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I & this empress
MARIE $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents.) The act of folding shows your gratitude to the shirt, according to this author of "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up"'; a correctly folded shirt will stand on its side
HISTORIC OBJECTS $1000: This slab of black rock now in the British Museum was used as building material by the Ottomans for Fort Julien, Egypt
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Megan: $5,400
Rich: $3,000
Amanda: $1,700