Wednesday, February 28, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

[Archivists]

Game Recap for Show #7708, 2018-02-28

CONTESTANTS
Laura McLean, a data analyst from Nashville, Tennessee
Garan Geist, a strategy consultant from Chicago, Illinois
Maryann Penzvalto, a librarian from Cleveland, Ohio (whose 2-day cash winnings total $28,602)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, all. Thank you, Johnny. We seem to have run into some difficult--more difficult material than is usually the case so far this week on Jeopardy!. However, Maryann has performed admirably. Garan and Laura, good luck. Here we go. Categories are...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN (3/4)
4 OF THE SAME VOWEL, ONE WORD (4/5)
FALSE OR MISLEADING (5/5)
MARCH MADNESS CHAMPS (4/5)
TOP SEEDS (4/5)
RACKET BUSTERS (1/3, including 1 missed Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Laura: 9 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Garan: 8 R (including 2 rebounds), 2 W
Maryann: 4 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)

Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,200



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Laura: $3,200
Garan: $2,200
Maryann: $200

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Laura McLean loves to travel, and Laura, I need your help. My wife and I have been planning a rail trip through Scotland. You did that.

Laura: Yes, we did.

Alex: Was it good? Was it fun? What were the highlights?

Laura: It was--it was one of the most amazing things we've ever done. We traveled by train from Glasgow to Oban, and then we took a ferry over to the Isle of Mull. And we took a trip to the Castle Duart, which is the seat of the clan McLean, so I got to see my ancestral home there.

Alex: Great. All right.




Alex: Garan Geist is from Chicago. For his honeymoon, he traveled to a special place also, but I have been there. That's no longer on my bucket list. Tell the folks.

Garan: Yeah, I convinced my wife Brittany, who has no backpacking experience, to go on a trek through the Himalayas in Nepal.

Alex: Where, exactly?

Garan: The Annapurna circuit. It's about 2 weeks. You get up to about 18,000 feet.

Alex: That must have been exciting.

Garan: It was beautiful.

Alex: All right, good for you.




Alex: Maryann Penzvalto from Cleveland is living her childhood dream. We keep introducing her as a librarian. You always wanted to be a librarian?

Maryann: That's correct.

Alex: Why?

Maryann: I don't know why. I never thought about another career. It felt like it was called to be. And I majored in English, because it was the closest I could find to pre-library science. I've worked in libraries as long as I could, and I love it so much. It is the best job.

Alex: It's not--wait a minute. You love it that much, it's not a job.

Maryann: That is absolutely true.

Alex: It's just fun.

Maryann: I miss it when I'm away.

Alex: Okay, great.

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Maryann found the Daily Double on the 27th clue. Maryann had $1,200, Garan had $2,200, and Laura was at $5,400. Maryann wagered $1,000.

RACKET BUSTERS $600: As a U.S. attorney in this state, Patrick Fitzgerald helped convict ex-governor George Ryan of racketeering
(Alex: Maryann?)
(Maryann: What is Massachusetts?)
...
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
MARCH MADNESS CHAMPS $800: In the 2012 final Anthony Davis & this team went wild on defense with a record 11 blocks

4 OF THE SAME VOWEL, ONE WORD $600: A boat with twin hulls in parallel
(Garan: What is a pontoon?)

TOP SEEDS $1000: Just place the seeds of this flower on top of your soil & they'll be sprouting in no time

SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN $1000: This one-ounce gold coin of South Africa was introduced in 1967
(Garan: What is a rand?)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

RACKET BUSTERS $800: Before he ran for president, this man worked to curb organized crime & prosecuted several powerful mobsters
(Alex: His name is [*]. Ran against Truman.)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Laura: $5,400
Garan: $2,200
Maryann: $200

[Archivists]

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THE WORLD ALMANAC 2018 (4/5)
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY (0/3)
THE BRIT'S NO. 1 HIT (2/5)
ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
BOOKS TO BROADWAY (4/5)
WHERE "RU"? (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Laura: 9 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Maryann: 5 R (including 2 rebounds), 0 W
Garan: 4 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 9
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $14,800



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Laura snagged the next Daily Double on the 8th clue. Maryann had $600, Garan had $3,000, and Laura was at $9,000. Laura wagered $3,000.

WHERE "RU"? $2000: Getting a signature in this meadow on the banks of the Thames
(Laura: I don't know.)
(Alex: What is [*]? Think of the Magna Carta.)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Garan who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 18th clue. Maryann had $1,800, Garan had $3,800, and Laura was at $10,000. Garan wagered $3,000.

ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES $2000: A line from this kids' book: "Horrid little beasts... I shall like you so much better when you're skins instead of pups"

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
WHERE "RU"? $1600: In this industrial German valley fought over in 2 world wars

BOOKS TO BROADWAY $1600: "Runyonland" is the opening number to this show based on the stories of Damon Runyon

THE BRIT'S NO. 1 HIT $1200: 1987:
"Mony Mony"

THE WORLD ALMANAC 2018 $2000: Senators who need to face the voters in 2018 to keep their jobs include Amy Kobluchar of this state

THE BRIT'S NO. 1 HIT $1600: A winner of Britain's "The X Factor":
"Bleeding Love"

THE BRIT'S NO. 1 HIT $2000: "Caribbean Queen"

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1600: On a December day in 1890, about 200 Native Americans were slain by U.S. Army troops at this South Dakota location
(Garan: What is Little Big Horn?)

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $1200: The 1851 treaty of this Wyoming fort was an early attempt to resolve conflicts between Native Americans & settlers

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY $2000: Brother to "The Prophet", this Shawnee leader organized 18th c. Native American resistance in Ohio & Indiana
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Laura: $11,600 (lock game)
Garan: $5,200
Maryann: $4,200

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; three-quarters for second place.
Laura: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $1,199 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Garan: Wager $3,201 to cover Maryann.
Maryann: Risk between $1,001 and $2,200, covering Garan's $0 bet.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Poet & translator Anne Carson addresses her: "Your name in Greek means something like 'against birth'"

FINAL SCORES
Maryann: $4,200 + $4,199 = $8,399 (Who is Antigone?) (2nd place: $2,000)
Garan: $5,200 - $3,201 = $1,999 (Who is Pandora) (3rd place: $1,000)
Laura: $11,600 + $1,199 = $12,799 (Who is Antigone) (New champion: $12,799)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $19,000

GAME DYNAMICS


CORYAT SCORES
Laura: $14,600, 18 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Maryann: $5,200, 9 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Garan: $4,200, 12 R (including 1 DD), 4 W
Combined Coryat: $24,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Laura: 19/59 = .322
Garan: 12/59 = .203
Maryann: 10/59 = .169
Team: 41/63 = .651

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
FALSE OR MISLEADING $200: This '90s sitcom character said, "Jerry, just remember. It's not a lie... if you believe it"
(Maryann: Who is Kramer?)

SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN $600: The one is seen here, but the new Israeli this can also be found in half, 5 & 10 coins

SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN $800: Redesigned in 1955, this coin was 100% aluminum
(Maryann: What is a yuan?)

TOP SEEDS $200: As the picture proves, you don't need the luck of the Irish for this plant; just scatter the seed about

TOP SEEDS $600: As Porky Pig's gal knows, seeds of these flowers should stay on top of the soil as they need light to germinate

4 OF THE SAME VOWEL, ONE WORD $800: "The Silver Palate" one, first published in 1982, is still influential today
(Laura: Oh. What is an almanac?)

4 OF THE SAME VOWEL, ONE WORD $1000: Seen here, the lemur calls this large island home

SOME SERIOUS FOREIGN COIN $200: This ferritic stainless steel coin seen here is a 5 & worth about 8 cents in the U.S.A.

BOOKS TO BROADWAY $400: "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812" is based on 70 pages of this 1,400-plus page Tolstoy epic

THE WORLD ALMANAC 2018 $400: 2018's is the 150th anniversary edition; in 1868 the book was named after The World, one of these
(Garan: What is a global almanac?)

ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES $1200: It's the numerical name for the star cluster seen here

ODD-NUMBERED PHRASES $800: An orange tabby named Morris the Cat is in commercials for this cat food brand
(Laura: What is MeowMix?)
...
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Illinois
the Kentucky Wildcats
a catamaran
snapdragons
the krugerrand
Thomas Dewey
Runnymede
101 Dalmatians
the Ruhr Valley
Guys and Dolls
Billy Idol
Minnesota
Leona Lewis
Billy Ocean
Wounded Knee
Fort Laramie
Tecumseh
Antigone
George (Costanza)
a shekel
a yen
clover
petunia
a cookbook
Madagascar
a rupee
War and Peace
a newspaper
the Seven Sisters
9Lives

[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WOMEN IN MYTHOLOGY

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Poet & translator Anne Carson addresses her: “Your name in Greek means something like ‘against birth'”

Maryann Penzvalto: 4200+4199=8399
Garan Geist: 5200-3201=1999
Laura McLean: 11600+1199=12799 (New Champ)

Correct response:

Spoiler

Antigone (Garan – Pandora)

Daily Doubles
Maryann: 1200-1000
Laura: 9000-3000
Garan: 3800+3000

Coryats
Maryann: 5200
Garan: 4200
Laura: 14600

Combined: 24,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Maryann:200
Garan: 2200
Laura: 5400

[MarkBarrett]

The game was a 4th podium special with plenty of trash available. I thought the most predictable one was the photo of the racket-busting guy who ran for president. It’s not like his mug was on the famous mistake paper headline. My reaction as I added the $800 to my score was a sarcastic, “Yeah, right.”

For the big clues I went 4/4 with 2 of them very fortunate pulls. On DD1 I did not recognize the man’s name. I guessed the right state only by picking the one I knew had such problems on more than one occasion.

The FJ! category me dreading a Medea/Circe coin flip as I knew whatever I had learned a few years back after this game: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=4816
was going to be a jumbled mess today.

The FJ! clue looked like a miss as I had nothing and was only as far as knowing not to write Pandora. With time remaining I worked off the word “birth” and not taking Greek into account thought “natal.” Nothing. My next path on a birth brainstorm was ob/gyn and by some miracle I was able to turn gynecologist into the correct response with just enough time to scribble it to have something.

When Maryann’s response was shown to be correct I was quite surprised and happy. I felt like a fool when Alex gave the easier path to the solve with “anti”. Of course! I should have been on that for “against.”

Nice solve by the players to make it 66% as it may not go that high on the weekly poll. Laura may get a confidence boost with a game in hand and the honor of playing from the champ’s position.

[MDaunt]

Got stuck on goddesses - Aphrodite and Athena. Might have got to Antigone given half an hour or so.

[Ironhorse]

LT: Kentucky, Billy Idol, Leona Lewis, Illinois (DD)

Ran March Madness Champs.

FJ: but not confident as I couldn't figure out the connection to childbirth.

Kicking myself for going for Fort Bridger and not thinking of Fort Laramie.

[xxaaaxx]

For FJ, I just kept repeating 'anti-' over and over until I summoned an eldr finally blurted out Anti...gone with a few seconds to spare. Whew.

Laura reminds me of someone. It was a bit distracting at first. I'm not sure who, but I'm open to suggestions.

For the big clues I went 4/4 with 2 of them very fortunate pulls. On DD1 I did not recognize the man’s name. I guessed the right state only by picking the one I knew had such problems on more than one occasion.

DD1: "Aren't half their former governors in jail?" Works for me. Poll request for DD2? I'm slightly surprised that Laura missed it, feels like there was enough there to get from signature + meadow + England + "Ru-" to Runnymede. I was too busy yelling at Garan for leaving $800 behind on that last DD to care about how easy it was. The extra 800 sure would've come in handy at the end...at least he missed FJ so he won't kick himself too hard.

Time for another episode of 'xxaaaxx sheepishly looks up a music category on Youtube'. Thank goodness for that Billy Ocean softball; it's a terrible song but at least it prevented the goose egg.

[squarekara]

I figured Athena for FJ, given her non-traditional birth. Oops. Nice performance by the new champ was interrupted by an ABC News special report on the Hope Hicks resignation. They couldn't wait 15 lousy minutes!

[heppm01]

DD1: given racketeering, WAG to Las Vegas thence Nevada. Had New York in my back pocket. Both wrong.

FJ: No problem with the "anti" part, then kept banging off variations of partum and natal without any luck. I have heard the name Antigone but am not familiar with her place in the pantheon.

[Stanislaus Jacob]

A bad miss, since I usually consider Mythology a wheelhouse category and would likely have bet a lot of money (had it been appropriate under the circumstances). I blame lack of sleep for my getting hung up on "contra" rather than "anti." At least I got Gallipoli the other day, so I have a batting average of .500 in the suddenly hot category of Greek etymologies.

[alan tiger]

contrary to the clue, and despite popular belief, "gambling" is *not* legal in new jersey.

in 1976, new jersey voters approved a referendum, which led to the new jersey legislature approving an enabling act, which authorized only certain enumerated games of chance in certain limited areas. therefore, as of 1978, casinos could only offer certain games. it was not until 1993 that the enabling act was amended, and casinos were then allowed to spread (provide) poker games. more recently, after another voter referendum, the legislature authorized sports betting (which is the subject of a major case recently submitted and argued before the supreme court).

[BigDaddyMatty]

Coryat: $38,600
48 R/1 W
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Kentucky, catamaran, snapdragons, Kruger Rand, Thomas Dewey, Illinois (DD), Runnymede (DD), Billy Idol, Leona Lewis, Billy Ocean, Wounded Knee, Fort Laramie

Another Athena here. I might have gotten there had I been working with anti- rather than ant-. Along with pub trivia, this is my second consecutive night of epic failure on mythology questions. On the bright side, I went 27/27 in the J! round.

If the clue involves a governor going to prison, Illinois is always a solid guess.

[DBear]

good gawd, 0-fer-Native American History? Wounded Knee? Ft. Laramie? This is stuff that everyone should know.

Got FJ from 'anti-'.

[threearruda]

If you're not a sports fan, I think Joakim Noah is tough for $600.

Quick get here with no detours to help make up for a miss last night. I read the play in high school and will have to read it again for another class very soon. I think against -> anti- helped me most... or maybe it was having it near the top of my head after having class today. Funny how it works like that.

[davey]

I assume the category was Women in Mythology to steer people away from gods. It certainly helped me concentrate my thinking. At first I tried to connect contra- (Latin... ) to Cassandra, but I moved on to anti- and gyn- pretty quickly...

[Peter the accountant]

R: 20, W: 1, costing 600
Coryat: 16,400
FJ:
DD: 2/3
LT: Krugerrand, (Illinois)
Times:
J! 3:26 +3:02 = 6:28
DJ 6:45
FJ 1:36

My two bright spots today were running the odd numbers and going 3/5 in Broadway. Stumped in History and pop music. Only one 4 vowel word.

Got the IL DD strictly by knowing lots of their governors have gone to jail. That particular governor didn't ring any bells for me.

Got to anti- in FJ, but had no idea what to put behind it. Picked -genesis as a greek word at least related to beginnings.

[TenPoundHammer]

Saw no reason why False for $200 was George over any other Seinfeld character.

Seven Sisters was my only miss in Odd Numbered.

I had the "Anti-" prefix, but "Antigone" is not even slightly familiar to me so I had no hope here.

Lach Trash: Billy Ocean

[Peter the accountant]

Quick shout out to the guy with the 5 o'clock shadow correctly responding with 5 o'clock shadow.

[BigDaddyMatty]

Saw no reason why False for $200 was George over any other Seinfeld character.

George was a sleazy schemer.

[TenPoundHammer]

Saw no reason why False for $200 was George over any other Seinfeld character.

George was a sleazy schemer.

And this is Seinfeld 101?