Monday, January 8, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 2:55 pm
Game Recap for Show #7671, 2018-01-08
CONTESTANTS
Dave Daniel, a retired security manager from Shelley, Idaho
Jamie Rosler, an event host from Brooklyn, New York
Brandon Brooks, an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,801)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Hello, everyone, and welcome to our show. I think I'm pretty safe in saying that on Friday last, at the end of the program, the person who was most surprised to see Brandon win the game was Brandon himself.
Brandon: Yeah.
Alex: He had resigned himself to coming in second, but lo and behold, he was the champ. And he's defending today against Jamie and Dave. I'll wish all three of you good luck and put you to work now in the Jeopardy! Round. And here are the categories you have to deal with...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ (5/5)
LET THERE BE LIGHTING! (5/5)
HANDY ADVICE (3/5)
WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS (5/5)
THE SPANISH INQUISITION (1/3, including 1 missed Daily Double)
2.0 (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Dave: 10 R (including 2 rebounds), 1 W
Brandon: 6 R, 3 W
Jamie: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,000
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Dave: $3,800
Jamie: $1,000
Brandon: $800
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Dave Daniel is from Shelley, Idaho. Dave, I have some friends in central California whose home has suffered because of raccoons. You seem to look at raccoons in a more positive light. Tell me about that.
Dave: My wife was very successful as a veterinary assistant with neonatal animals--kittens and puppies. When the veterinarian started to get calls with orphaned raccoons, she got the call. And we've raised, over the years, several dozen of them. We teach them to forage and how to feed themselves and take care and release them very deep into the Idaho woods. So the raccoons in your friends' or your garbage cans are not our raccoons.
Alex: Okay.
[Laughter]
Dave: Ours are being responsible.
Alex: Thank you very much for that.
Alex: Jamie Rosler, you're an event host. My daughter did some of that also, but you are also a nondenominational minister, and you've officiated at some weddings.
Jamie: I have. I've officiated two weddings. I was ordained to marry my brother and sister-in-law in June 2014, and I married my friends, Nicole and Rob, a couple of Octobers ago. And it's a lot of fun. It makes the ceremony really personalized, and I like to inject some humor into it. It doesn't have to be all, you know, sappy stuff.
Alex: Terrific.
Alex: Brandon Brooks from Chicago, Illinois, is our champion. A big fan of the color purple.
Brandon: Yes, I am.
Alex: How big a fan?
Brandon: So, a very big fan. My mom died around 20 years ago, and her favorite color was the color purple, so I watched the movie, like, at least 20 times. Loved The Color Purple. I went to Northwestern--
Alex: Uh-huh.
Brandon: --which is the color purple. And I'm wearing purple today, Alex.
Alex: Good.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Jamie found the Daily Double on the 28th clue. Brandon had $1,800, Jamie had $1,200, and Dave was at $5,800. Jamie wagered $600.
THE SPANISH INQUISITION $600: When people fled the Inquisition, sometimes they were found guilty in absentia & burned this way
(Jamie: What is... at the stake?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
HANDY ADVICE $400: In 1914 Popular Mechanics suggested affixing a V-shaped guide to the door to find this when coming home at night
(Brandon: What is the garage?)
HANDY ADVICE $800: Paraffin wax on the hinges
2.0 $600: This 1987 rollout was the first bundled with Word & Excel, making it tough on competing apps
(Jamie: What is Microsoft Office?)
(Dave: What is Microsoft XP?)
2.0 $1000: In 2017 this Uber CEO took a leave of absence so he could work on "Travis 2.0"
THE SPANISH INQUISITION $200: The Inquisition was formed in Spain to combat this 6-letter type of thought at odds with orthodox doctrine
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Dave: $5,800
Brandon: $1,800
Jamie: $600
CONTESTANTS
Dave Daniel, a retired security manager from Shelley, Idaho
Jamie Rosler, an event host from Brooklyn, New York
Brandon Brooks, an HR manager from Chicago, Illinois (whose 1-day cash winnings total $10,801)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Hello, everyone, and welcome to our show. I think I'm pretty safe in saying that on Friday last, at the end of the program, the person who was most surprised to see Brandon win the game was Brandon himself.
Brandon: Yeah.
Alex: He had resigned himself to coming in second, but lo and behold, he was the champ. And he's defending today against Jamie and Dave. I'll wish all three of you good luck and put you to work now in the Jeopardy! Round. And here are the categories you have to deal with...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NOT CLOSE ENOUGH FOR JAZZ (5/5)
LET THERE BE LIGHTING! (5/5)
HANDY ADVICE (3/5)
WORDS MADE UP OF ROMAN NUMERALS (5/5)
THE SPANISH INQUISITION (1/3, including 1 missed Daily Double)
2.0 (3/5)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Dave: 10 R (including 2 rebounds), 1 W
Brandon: 6 R, 3 W
Jamie: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,000
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Dave: $3,800
Jamie: $1,000
Brandon: $800
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Dave Daniel is from Shelley, Idaho. Dave, I have some friends in central California whose home has suffered because of raccoons. You seem to look at raccoons in a more positive light. Tell me about that.
Dave: My wife was very successful as a veterinary assistant with neonatal animals--kittens and puppies. When the veterinarian started to get calls with orphaned raccoons, she got the call. And we've raised, over the years, several dozen of them. We teach them to forage and how to feed themselves and take care and release them very deep into the Idaho woods. So the raccoons in your friends' or your garbage cans are not our raccoons.
Alex: Okay.
[Laughter]
Dave: Ours are being responsible.
Alex: Thank you very much for that.
Alex: Jamie Rosler, you're an event host. My daughter did some of that also, but you are also a nondenominational minister, and you've officiated at some weddings.
Jamie: I have. I've officiated two weddings. I was ordained to marry my brother and sister-in-law in June 2014, and I married my friends, Nicole and Rob, a couple of Octobers ago. And it's a lot of fun. It makes the ceremony really personalized, and I like to inject some humor into it. It doesn't have to be all, you know, sappy stuff.
Alex: Terrific.
Alex: Brandon Brooks from Chicago, Illinois, is our champion. A big fan of the color purple.
Brandon: Yes, I am.
Alex: How big a fan?
Brandon: So, a very big fan. My mom died around 20 years ago, and her favorite color was the color purple, so I watched the movie, like, at least 20 times. Loved The Color Purple. I went to Northwestern--
Alex: Uh-huh.
Brandon: --which is the color purple. And I'm wearing purple today, Alex.
Alex: Good.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Jamie found the Daily Double on the 28th clue. Brandon had $1,800, Jamie had $1,200, and Dave was at $5,800. Jamie wagered $600.
THE SPANISH INQUISITION $600: When people fled the Inquisition, sometimes they were found guilty in absentia & burned this way
(Jamie: What is... at the stake?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
HANDY ADVICE $400: In 1914 Popular Mechanics suggested affixing a V-shaped guide to the door to find this when coming home at night
(Brandon: What is the garage?)
HANDY ADVICE $800: Paraffin wax on the hinges
2.0 $600: This 1987 rollout was the first bundled with Word & Excel, making it tough on competing apps
(Jamie: What is Microsoft Office?)
(Dave: What is Microsoft XP?)
2.0 $1000: In 2017 this Uber CEO took a leave of absence so he could work on "Travis 2.0"
THE SPANISH INQUISITION $200: The Inquisition was formed in Spain to combat this 6-letter type of thought at odds with orthodox doctrine
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Dave: $5,800
Brandon: $1,800
Jamie: $600