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Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
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Re: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Not many people can say they've lost four times on Jeopardy!.
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Here's how: Speaking on behalf of the accidental involuntary geography students, for me the Persian Gulf part is easy. My problem is I don't tend to think of Iran as being in Asia. I hate the paper line that separates Europe and Asia, and think we should stop teaching the phony and unhelpful 7 continent paradigm. I think that Asian Geography is a poor category title for anything in the Middle or Near East.
Interesting but totally unsatisfying discussion here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34
I held my nose and guessed Turkey, thinking it might be another easy FJ (and it was), therefore forget getting fancy with Yemen or Macedonia, or whatev.
I cringe every time a 3rd place player bets a nickel more than it takes to cover the difference in 1 and 2 scores. I think it should have been a strong category for Manny, and I get risking 900 bucks in the roulette game, but leave a 100 bucks to cover the breadcrumbs.
I mis-read the phone clue as 1883, partly because I thought it was a play on the
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I went with the Marne, and didn't know the Somme was a river. I'm pretty sure the contestant said the Seine.
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William Shockley is a pretty well known physicist. He had a reputation for being difficult to work with. Some of his students were unhappy working for him and split off to form a company which invented the integrated circuit. The transistor was also a huge stepping stone for technology development.
One of the other winners who shared the Nobel Prize with Shockley was John Bardeen who is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics.
Do the second and third place players both get to take home $2000? If that's the case and Manny gets third place tomorrow he would have been better off (measuring strictly by dollars won) if he had lost today's game.
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And of course, the very site they referenced agrees!sims wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 8:05 pmI also thought that Carlos should have been penalized for not pronouncing his name right.TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:47 pm
Weird Al is a "rock" satirist? That almost seems like it should be tagged as erratum. Most of the songs he parodies seem to fall under Top 40/pop.
http://www.al-oholicsanonymous.com/faq/#correctspelling
Though there is another source that I doubt TPTB would accept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoo_d8YSvkY
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Manny's display read $1,000, Fran's $2,000.MattKnowles wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:47 pm Do the second and third place players both get to take home $2000? If that's the case and Manny gets third place tomorrow he would have been better off (measuring strictly by dollars won) if he had lost today's game.
Also... Ow.
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If you're a musical theatre fan, the word Marius made it easy. I mean, it's all easy if you know it, but I think that was the "hint."
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I pronounce Yankovic the same way Carlos did. Of course, I'm an uncultured Midwestern rube
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That one threw me because I distinctly remember Reuben Kincaid having a car phone in the "Partridge Family." I'm guessing although that was a mobile phone, it must not have technically been a cellular phone.Elijah Baley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:36 pm Hmm, a new type of phone from 1983? What could it be? (I’m guessing Carlos read that as 1883).
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Re: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Mobile phones go back to the 1940s, and were initially used mostly in cars, partly because they were bulky. But for their first several decades of existence, they relied on radio frequencies rather than cellular networks. The first cellular network in North America was deployed in 1983; also, the first commercially available handheld mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, went on sale that year. It appears that in seeking "cellphone" as the correct response, the clue may have been technically incorrect, since it wasn't limited geographically, and the first cellular network was introduced in Japan in 1979 --and by definition, any phone that ran on that network would have been a cellphone.This Is Kirk! wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:36 pmThat one threw me because I distinctly remember Reuben Kincaid having a car phone in the "Partridge Family." I'm guessing although that was a mobile phone, it must not have technically been a cellular phone.Elijah Baley wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:36 pm Hmm, a new type of phone from 1983? What could it be? (I’m guessing Carlos read that as 1883).
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Re: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Fran got the $2,000 second-place prize because, though she and Carlos were tied after Final Jeopardy and going into FJ, she had a higher score than he did going into Double Jeopardy. Check out No. 3 from Rare Scenarios here, and note the sentence below the graphic; that's what applied here (and what made me change my bet in my SJ game).Volante wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:54 pmManny's display read $1,000, Fran's $2,000.MattKnowles wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:47 pm Do the second and third place players both get to take home $2000? If that's the case and Manny gets third place tomorrow he would have been better off (measuring strictly by dollars won) if he had lost today's game.
Also... Ow.
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Re: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
So are you saying that Fran lost because she didn't know how Tibet? (Thank you, I'll be here all week!)PanthersFan1 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:34 pmsince he missed FJ had he made it a true DD on the 2nd DD All that would had done would had giving the Game to Fran that is if she don't make the usual suicide bet from 2nd.Golf wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:26 pmThe first DD was good, the late DJ one was terrible. If he misses he's locked out going into FJ, therefore a TDD is a must. That $2500 he left on the table means a won game instead of going home.badgerfellow wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:59 pm Gotta give props to Carlos on going big, both on the late DJ clue and the TDD in single. Agreed that final sequence sure made it exciting.
If he was not at all comfortable with the category, am pretty sure a $5 wager would have been acceptable as well and then let FJ settle it.
Given Nepal as an answer, am thinking she should not have been comfortable with the category. If so, a $0 wager would not have been terrible.
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While I answered cell phone based on the time period, I was hesitant to do so because I specifically remember reading (a few times) a story about the guy who invented the cell phone (I believe in the late 70s, working for AT&T labs) making the very first cell phone call to his boss from the streets of New York City. Some may argue that was just a test call to test to see that it works, and not the first public call, but wouldn't Bell's "come here, Watson, I need you" call also be considered the same kind of test call?TenPoundHammer wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:47 pm That phone clue had a lot of guesses. I would've thought payphone.
While the FJ was an instaget for me (as you might expect), the game itself actually had my lunch! I had several negs (although those could be the fault of me not staying clam enough) and a Coryat of $9,200, a bit more than three times less my usual Coryat lately (in the 1st percentile according to my games tracked in the awesome j-scorer.
Was kind of hoping that the $1 win wasn't by a returning champion, I would so have liked to have heard "... whose 1-day cash winnings total $1!" - and I wasn't regularly watching when Darryl Scott played.
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Re: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
It really comes up at the weirdest times that a 2nd military contestant like Manny to finish the game with $1. 24 years later, and history would come back again. First, by an Air Force lieutenant, and now by a Navy officer. What should be next is an Army contestant to finish with $1. Then we'd have the military trifecta.
I don't know which was more glaring, Fran's response to thinking Tibet as a country, or Lisa Evan's response to something that misunderstood the clue that didn't make sense.
This game is surely gonna be one to remember after Austin Roger's big run.
I don't know which was more glaring, Fran's response to thinking Tibet as a country, or Lisa Evan's response to something that misunderstood the clue that didn't make sense.
This game is surely gonna be one to remember after Austin Roger's big run.
Jeopardy! is like History. It's a mixed bag of categories that try to test your knowledge to see if you know or can recall answers that seem familiar to the viewer.
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Jeopardy has uploaded high(er) quality footage of Darryl Scott's 1993 win to go with the site's post about the $1 victory: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tbNBroZR3hs
Also, along with the coincidence of Darryl and Manny's military service...
... they both have a double consonant as the third and fourth letters of their first names and as the fourth and fifth letters of their last names, and a Y as the fifth letter of their first names. (This of course means nothing.)
Also, along with the coincidence of Darryl and Manny's military service...
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Army captain Jerry Glenn, $1, December 2041. Sg has cracked the J! code.seaborgium wrote: ↑Wed Oct 18, 2017 7:37 am Also, along with the coincidence of Darryl and Manny's military service...... they both have a double consonant as the third and fourth letters of their first names and as the fourth and fifth letters of their last names, and a Y as the fifth letter of their first names. (This of course means nothing.)Code: Select all
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I've seen this FJ in a pub quiz once upon a time! Surprised TS! Grats Lt Manny!
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They also did similar hand motions when their total was announced.
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Geography and maps seem to be areas people are strongly divided on. It's a very rare day for me that I don't look at a map at least once, but I know plenty of people who only do so under extreme duress (my wife being one of them).
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I got hooked into guessing Saudi Arabia for FJ!, by not only failing to remember that Iran reaches that far north, but also because I confused the Caspian and Mediterranean, for which I feel exceedingly derpy.
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