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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD TRANSPORTATION

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
It traverses hundreds of bridges, the longest stretching 2 miles across the Amur River

Joe Nguyen: 9200-4001=5199
Buzz Newberry: 1800-1800=0
Chantelle Schofield: 13200+5202=18402 (New Champ)

Correct response:
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Trans-Siberian Railroad (Joe – TGV) (Buzz – Orient Express)
Not mentioned: Trans-Siberian Railway would be perfectly fine as well.

Daily Doubles
Buzz: 1600-1000
Chantelle: 5200+2000
Joe: 6000-2000

Coryats
Joe: 11200
Buzz: 2800
Chantelle: 12400

Combined: 26,400
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The $2000 clue that ended the DJ! round turned the potential 11,200 apiece for the FJ! round into the less interesting 9200 to 13200 in Chantelle’s favor.

Chantelle hit her lone DD and solved the FJ! clue while the gentlemen each missed their one DD play and also missed the FJ! clue. No soup for you? No TOC for Joe.

I was so lost on the FJ! clue that I did not even figure out that train was the way to go. It did not matter as I know I would not have processed Amur River to Russia. I thought perhaps India area and not even making it a kind of transportation I wrote Ganges River.

When Alex went to shake Chantelle’s hand at the end of the game she made the unusual move to step in front of position 3 to meet Alex. If that has happened previously I can’t recall it.

For the list of names relating to occupation, Buzz the drug & DNA lab owner gets a spot?
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Had trouble with the wording of this clue:

CHERRY COUNTY, WHICH BORDERS SOUTH DAKOTA ON THE NORTH, IS THIS STATE'S LARGEST COUNTY, EXCEEDING CONNECTICUT IN AREA.

I read the clue as referring to South Dakota's northern border, not Cherry County's northern border. Are there any grammatical guidelines to determining what "on the North" is modifying in this sentence?

In context, I probably should have known by the value of the clue that they were not referring to the easy answer of North Dakota.
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artshep wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:34 pm Had trouble with the wording of this clue:

CHERRY COUNTY, WHICH BORDERS SOUTH DAKOTA ON THE NORTH, IS THIS STATE'S LARGEST COUNTY, EXCEEDING CONNECTICUT IN AREA.

I read the clue as referring to South Dakota's northern border, not Cherry County's northern border. Are there any grammatical guidelines to determining what "on the North" is modifying in this sentence?

In context, I probably should have known by the value of the clue that they were not referring to the easy answer of North Dakota.
Seems pretty clear to me and I had no problem with it.
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Middle dude left out AND in "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition." Reversed.

LOL, I liveBlogged the above. I couldn't wait to post it.

If you've spent any time studying a county outline map of the United States, you've noticed Cherry County. It really stands out. Its county seat is Valentine.
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dhkendall wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:59 pm
artshep wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:34 pm Had trouble with the wording of this clue:

CHERRY COUNTY, WHICH BORDERS SOUTH DAKOTA ON THE NORTH, IS THIS STATE'S LARGEST COUNTY, EXCEEDING CONNECTICUT IN AREA.

I read the clue as referring to South Dakota's northern border, not Cherry County's northern border. Are there any grammatical guidelines to determining what "on the North" is modifying in this sentence?

In context, I probably should have known by the value of the clue that they were not referring to the easy answer of North Dakota.
Seems pretty clear to me and I had no problem with it.
[s] Ok...congratulations on that and thanks for the helpful response. [/s]
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Was there a weird moment during the Q&A where the camera went out of focus for a sec or was that just me?

My precalls were Autobahn, Concorde Jet, and Orient Express. For a moment I thought Autobahn might work, but then the Trans Siberian Railroad popped into my head and made sense so I got it. After the correct answer was reveal, I tested myself to see if I could remember the Eastern terminus of the railway since I missed it last time it came up on Jeopardy, and "Vladivostok" somehow stuck.

I was glad Alex clarified that War Machine was acceptable since I couldn't remember his real name.
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Generally a bad idea to start a tricky wordplay category with the bottom clue. Whether or not I could've figured that clue out going top-to-bottom, there was no way I was going to get that without understanding how the category worked beforehand.
dhkendall wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:59 pm
artshep wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:34 pm Had trouble with the wording of this clue:

CHERRY COUNTY, WHICH BORDERS SOUTH DAKOTA ON THE NORTH, IS THIS STATE'S LARGEST COUNTY, EXCEEDING CONNECTICUT IN AREA.

I read the clue as referring to South Dakota's northern border, not Cherry County's northern border. Are there any grammatical guidelines to determining what "on the North" is modifying in this sentence?

In context, I probably should have known by the value of the clue that they were not referring to the easy answer of North Dakota.
Seems pretty clear to me and I had no problem with it.
I had trouble parsing the clue as well. Rereading it here, I'm able to figure out what was being asked, but it's an awkwardly worded clue.
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He so clearly left out the "and" that I was surprised they didn't neg him immediately.

That ****ing organ again. Thankfully I got them from the clues themselves because the music was butchered.

Hundreds of bridges? Gotta be a train. A train that long? Trans Siberian. Good to have an instaget after multiple blunders last week.
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artshep wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:34 pm Had trouble with the wording of this clue:

CHERRY COUNTY, WHICH BORDERS SOUTH DAKOTA ON THE NORTH, IS THIS STATE'S LARGEST COUNTY, EXCEEDING CONNECTICUT IN AREA.

I read the clue as referring to South Dakota's northern border, not Cherry County's northern border. Are there any grammatical guidelines to determining what "on the North" is modifying in this sentence?

In context, I probably should have known by the value of the clue that they were not referring to the easy answer of North Dakota.
I misread the clue the same way (if "misread" is even the right word, since I still find it ambiguous even now).
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Pre-called the Trans-Siberian Railway, thinking of how the longest train ride in the world actually branches off the railway and into China.
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I knew exactly where the Amur River is...and still couldn't pull it!
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By any chance, were any of you like me, and were you aided on FJ by knowledge of big cats?

I knew that the "Amur leopard" is a type of leopard that lives in Northern Asia.

Coincidentally, my first two precalls based just on the category were "El Al Airlines" and "Trans-Siberian Railway".
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I had the Pan American Highway.

I understood the Nebraska clue in the game but it is confusing reading it here.

Pretty cool they had Hawkeye and LOTM in the game.

Washington was an odd miss for the state starting with W but used to start with Ou.

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I also had the Pan-American Highway.
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xxaaaxx wrote: Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:39 pm That ****ing organ again. Thankfully I got them from the clues themselves because the music was butchered.
That organ is awesome and I hope we see more of it.
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I immediately said "end around" for the football question, so I was surprised when it was negged. I expected a reversal, but then I realized that the play had the RB taking the ball around the line and not a TE or WR. I'm not I've ever actually heard a commentator refer to a play as an "end run". Normally it would be called "running it outside". I wonder if the judges anticipated "end around" as a possible wrong answer ahead of time.
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