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Thursday, September 28 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #7599, 2017-09-28

Austin Rogers game 3.

CONTESTANTS
Robert Barron, a teacher from Columbia, South Carolina
Emily Dumas, a project manager from Somerville, Massachusetts
Austin Rogers, a bartender from New York, New York (whose 2-day cash winnings total $59,900)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to our program. We start off today with a bit of information for you. Our announcer, Johnny Gilbert, has just been honored by Guinness World Records. We will have more about that later in the show. But for now, you've just met our champion, the shy and retiring Austin, and today's challengers, Emily and Robert. I'll wish you all good luck and put you to work now in the Jeopardy! Round. First round of play, which features one Daily Double, as you know, in one of these categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
LET'S PLAY CHESS (1/5)
CLASSIC MOVIE LINES (4/5)
IPOs (3/5)
FROM "S" TO "T" (5/5)
DEEP UNDERGROUND (4/5)
HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Austin: 17 R (including 2 rebounds and 1 DD), 2 W
Emily: 2 R, 1 W
Robert: 3 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 8
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $6,000



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Austin: $2,600
Emily: $1,000
Robert: $600

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Robert Barron is a teacher from Columbia, South Carolina, whose history students get a kick out of your name when you're discussing what era?

Robert: The Gilded Age. They come across the term "robber baron" when they read, and that sounds a lot like my name. And since I teach U.S. history, they think that's funny.

Alex: You're teaching some strange kids.




Alex: Emily Dumas from Somerville, Massachusetts. You and your sister have a podcast.

Emily: We do.

Alex: About...

Emily: It's about '80s and '90s movies that touched our childhood.

Alex: Name some that touched your childhood.

Emily: Okay, well, the one we just did. We had our 50th episode, pretty big deal--

Alex: Wait a minute. 50th episode?

Emily: Yeah. We've done 50 in under a year, and we did The Goonies, which is one of my favorite movies of all time. [Imitates Sloth] "Hey, you guys!"

[Laughter]

Alex: You and your sister are kind of weird.

Emily: Ah, maybe.




Alex: Austin Rogers is our champ. He's a bartender. Plays fantasy baseball. Why baseball?

Austin: Ah, well, I like baseball because there's a lot of statistics in it, and I like getting in-depth with the players. And there's 162 games. You can keep losing and end up winning at the end.

Alex: Okay.

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Austin found the Daily Double on the 24th clue. Austin had $3,400, Emily had $600, and Robert had a deficit with -$200. Austin made it a True Daily Double, wagering $3,400.

HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH $600: Remeasured by the USGS in 2016 at 20,310 feet

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $600: "I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here"

IPOs $800: Drop the last 4 letters from the name of the app to get this company, the big IPO story of March 2017

IPOs $1000: The one of the 3 main consumer credit reporting bureaus that does not begin with "E", it raised $664 million in 2015

DEEP UNDERGROUND $800: The cave seen here and its rough stalactites were formed as the result of the solidification of this
(Austin: What is limestone?)

LET'S PLAY CHESS $400: If an identical position occurs 3 times in a game, a player may claim this result, then go kiss his sister

LET'S PLAY CHESS $600: A tactic via which one piece attacks 2 opposing ones is called this, like a common dining utensil

LET'S PLAY CHESS $800: Trading a knight or bishop for one of these more valuable pieces is known as winning the exchange
(Austin: What is a queen or king? Uh, queen, please.)

LET'S PLAY CHESS $1000: Descriptive notation like P-Q4 has been largely replaced by this "mathematical" kind, which would say simply d4
(Robert: What are coordinates?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Austin: $11,000
Emily: $600
Robert: -$600
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
COUNTY SEATS (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
CIVIL WAR PEOPLE (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
WAYS TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY (3/5)
ABSURDIST LIT (5/5)
GOING 24/7/365 (3/5)
"WORLD" OF ENTERTAINMENT (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Austin: 11 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Emily: 7 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Robert: 7 R (including 2 rebounds), 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 5
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $6,000



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Austin snagged the next Daily Double on the 5th clue. Austin had $13,800, Emily was in the red with -$600, and Robert had a deficit with -$1,800. Austin wagered $8,000.

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $2000: In 1861 this future general received a commission in the Army from his brother John, a senator known for his anti-trust act

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Emily who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 14th clue. Austin had $24,600, Emily had $1,400, and Robert was at $1,800. Emily wagered $1,000.

COUNTY SEATS $1600: Cornelius Vanderbilt's rustic rocking chair is in the museum named for this other rich guy in Wayne County, Michigan

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
CIVIL WAR PEOPLE $1200: This preacher, the brother of author Harriet, gave an oration at the raising of the flag over Fort Sumter at war's end
(Robert: Who is Lyman Beecher?)
(Emily: Who is Stowe?)

WAYS TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY $1600: This 8-letter synonym for sorry has its pros but now--specifically-- its "con"s

WAYS TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY $1200: Singularly, it means to feel remorse for; add an "S" to politely refuse an invite

GOING 24/7/365 $1600: After Bobby Seale got a separate trial, the group including Jerry Rubin & Abbie Hoffman got renamed this
(Austin: What are the Weathermen?)

GOING 24/7/365 $400: In geometry, it's a plain figure with 7 sides & 7 angles & despite what you may be thinking, it does not begin with "S"

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Austin: $26,200 (lock game)
Emily: $7,600
Robert: $5,800

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; three-quarters for second place.
Austin: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $10,999 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Emily: Wager $4,001 to cover Robert.
Robert: Risk between $1,801 and $2,200, covering Emily's $0 bet.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Once its own city, it joined with a neighbor in 1898; today on its own it would be the 4th most populous city in the U.S.

FINAL SCORES
Robert: $5,800 - $5,200 = $600 (What Manha) (2nd place: $2,000)
Emily: $7,600 - $7,600 = $0 (What is Atlanta?) (3rd place: $1,000)
Austin: $26,200 + $10,000 = $36,200 (What is Brooklyn?) (3-day champion: $96,100)
(Alex: Only New York City, L.A. and Chicago would be bigger.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $12,000

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Austin: $17,400, 28 R (including 2 DDs), 5 W
Emily: $8,200, 9 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Robert: $5,800, 10 R, 3 W
Combined Coryat: $31,400

BATTING AVERAGES
Austin: 29/60 = .483
Robert: 10/58 = .172
Emily: 9/59 = .153
Team: 48/63 = .762

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
CLASSIC MOVIE LINES $200: "You talkin' to me?"
(Alex: Robert De Niro.)

DEEP UNDERGROUND $200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a fault on the monitor.) The sliding of two sides along a fault in the surface of the global crust causes these events

HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH $400: 28,251 feet in the Karakoram
(Emily: What is Kilimanjaro?)

HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH $800: 14,692 feet between Switzerland & Italy
(Robert: What is Mont Blanc?)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

HIGH ABOVE THE EARTH $1000: 7,494 feet, the Inuit symbol seen here on Blackcomb Mountain at this British Columbia ski resort

ABSURDIST LIT $2000: A line in this French author's "Myth of Sisyphus", saying human life is absurd, gave the movement its name

GOING 24/7/365 $2000: The 24th amendment says the right of U.S. citizens to vote "shall not be denied...by reason of failure to pay" this specific tax
(Austin: What is income tax?)

"WORLD" OF ENTERTAINMENT $2000: Kate Beckinsale plays a vampire warrioress named Selene in this epic saga

"WORLD" OF ENTERTAINMENT $400: What could go wrong at a park with genetically engineered hybrid dinosaurs? Everything, says this 2015 film
(Alex: Less than a minute.)

GOING 24/7/365 $800: A nursery rhyme tells of 24 of these European thrushes miraculously surviving a brush with pie
(Austin: What are magpies?)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Denali (or Mount McKinley)
Annie Hall
Snap Inc.
TransUnion
lava
a draw
a fork
a rook
an algebraic term
William Tecumseh Sherman
(Henry) Ford
Henry Ward Beecher
contrite
regret or regrets
the Chicago Seven
a heptagon
Brooklyn
Taxi Driver
earthquakes
K2
the Matterhorn
Whistler
Camus
a poll tax
Underworld
Jurassic World
blackbirds
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE NORTHEASTERN U.S.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Once its own city, it joined with a neighbor in 1898; today on its own it would be the 4th most populous city in the U.S.

Austin Rogers: 26200+10000=36200 (3x = $96,100)
Emily Dumas: 7600-7600=0
Robert Barron: 5800-5200=600

Correct response:
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Brooklyn (Emily – What is Atlanta?) (Robert: What Manha)

Daily Doubles
Austin: 3400+3400
Austin: 13800+8000
Emily: 1400+1000

Coryats
Austin: 17400
Emily: 8200
Robert: 5800

Combined: 31,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Austin: 11000
Emily: 600
Robert: minus 600
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Well, looks like KARE is showing the wrong episode (from Thursday the 21st, not the 28th). Time to go to Reddit. :(
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That was a nice Guinness presentation to Johnny between the DJ! and FJ! rounds.

Of course Emily just had to find DD3 to keep viewers from seeing what Austin would have wagered in that situation. 36200 is a huge payday while it could have been over 50K if Austin had played all the DDs.

A miss for me on the FJ! clue as I did nothing right. Even though the category was THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. I narrowed my search to ME, NH, VT, RI, CT, and MA making it a New England focus only.

The second mistake I made was thinking “joined” was pointing to some kind of hyphenated city. State by state I looked for such an occasion and got nowhere trying to make Concord-Lexington or New-Port etc. work. I scribbled Portsmouth at the end to have something on my paper.

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dhkendall wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 5:48 pm Well, looks like KARE is showing the wrong episode (from Thursday the 21st, not the 28th). Time to go to Reddit. :(
What a screw up by the station. Dummies. Reddit guy had that video posted real early today too.
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http://youtu.be/5VlGyMG0ksg

Obviously I'm an expert in embedding youtube videos.

Edit:Just saw Mark's post...
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dhkendall wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 5:48 pm Well, looks like KARE is showing the wrong episode (from Thursday the 21st, not the 28th). Time to go to Reddit. :(
After the first commercial break, today's game aired starting with the player interviews. I originally had to do a double take as well.
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Austin was in the rare position of being able to Clavin a DJ round DD and still be in the lead if he got it wrong.

FJ was a little confusing but I also got it thanks to a certain old TV show.
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I knew Brooklyn in that "I heard this somewhere once, and it stuck, but I'd never be able to remember where" sort of way.
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Austin has been a really good player so far, but I see two weaknesses, one of which may jump up to bite him eventually. 1, he plays from the top of the category down. 2, he likes to show off, such as William Tecumseh Sherman. Congrats on knowing his full name when simply saying Sherman will suffice to garner the money. At some point he'll screw up the non-essential information making his answer incorrect.
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Would've offered up Minneapolis or Dallas in Final, certain both were wrong. But Horshack would've gotten it in a heartbeat.
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Well, that was a beatdown. 11k to 600 to -600 is one of the most brutal J! rounds I've seen in ages. I approve :D

Total kids week FJ. OK maybe not. I'm biased. Shut up :P
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KellyLasiter wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:59 pm I knew Brooklyn in that "I heard this somewhere once, and it stuck, but I'd never be able to remember where" sort of way.
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xxaaaxx wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:35 pm Well, that was a beatdown. 11k to 600 to -600 is one of the most brutal J! rounds I've seen in ages. I approve :D

Total kids week FJ. OK maybe not. I'm biased. Shut up :P
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squarekara wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:30 pm Would've offered up Minneapolis or Dallas in Final, certain both were wrong.
In a category entitled "The northeastern U.S."?

Instaget FJ for me; as a New Yorker, I've read a lot about the history of my city, and the 1898 date for the merger has long been burned into my brain. I also remember the famous sign from the Welcome Back, Kotter intro. I'll be interested to see how this polls, since early posts show some non-NYers correctly solving it.

Congrats to Johnny Gilbert on the Guinness honor. And he doesn't look anywhere near his age. Clearly, doing what he loves has helped keep him young.

Austin's Coryats his first three games:

$15,400
$16,400
$17,400

That's a nice progression. His only weakness is occasionally being undisciplined and making incorrect guesses. But that is far overshadowed by his knowledge base, his buzzer skill, and his ability to play the game. E.g., his $3,400 TDD in the SJ round, where most contestants would have wagered something like $1,000 or $2,000, helped him take a huge lead going into DJ -- which has to have a demoralizing effect on his opponents.

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Bob78164 wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 7:46 pm
KellyLasiter wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 6:59 pm I knew Brooklyn in that "I heard this somewhere once, and it stuck, but I'd never be able to remember where" sort of way.
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Nope, wrong age--so I have no clue whatsoever where I got it! :lol:
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Way to give a FJ clue about New York City to the guy from New York City. :lol:

Still closest to beating Austin! 8-)
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Could Austin be the noted poster Austin Powers from this board?
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Pendleton71 wrote: Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:01 pm Could Austin be the noted poster Austin Powers from this board?
No, he isn't.
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