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Monday, June 25, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #7791, 2018-06-25

CONTESTANTS
Kelly Griffin, a teacher from Brookhaven, Mississippi
Ben Henry-Moreland, a financial planner from Omaha, Nebraska
Jordan Nussbaum, a lawyer from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada (whose 1-day cash winnings total $15,800)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. You've just met our champion, Jordan Nussbaum. He is the second successful Canadian competitor on Jeopardy! in the last week. Ben and Kelly, let's see how well you perform against this foreigner. Good luck. Here we go. Categories are...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU (3/5)
BOATING WORDS (4/4)
IN THE BOOKSTORE (5/5)
"PO"POURRI (5/5)
KUWAIT, KUWAIT (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
DON'T TELL ME (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jordan: 12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Ben: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Kelly: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W

Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,200



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Jordan found the Daily Double on the 4th clue. Jordan had $600, Ben was scoreless, and Kelly was at $600. Jordan wagered $1,000.

KUWAIT, KUWAIT $800: Kuwait is one of these jurisdictions, from Arabic for "commander"

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Jordan: $3,800
Kelly: $1,200
Ben: $800

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Kelly Griffin is a teacher from Brookhaven, Mississippi who toured the Vatican the wrong way.

Kelly: Oh, yeah.

Alex: What does that mean?

Kelly: My cousin and I went to visit my uncle when he was living in Rome, and he just kind of let us go off on our own. And so we decided we were gonna go to see the Pope, have Mass in Vatican Square. But when we got there, we couldn't find the entrance, so we walked all the way around the wall until we got there and it was over.

Alex: Okay. Good to have you here.




Alex: Ben Henry-Moreland from Omaha, Nebraska. You have done something very few people have done, and that is you have sung with...

Ben: The Rolling Stones.

Alex: Tell me about it.

Ben: I was part of a group in Boston that sang the introduction to "You Can't Always Get What You Want" when they performed there on tour in 2013.

Alex: Mm-hm.

Ben: And it was--yeah, it was an amazing experience, on stage with the Stones, so yeah.

Alex: All right. Good for you.




Alex: Jordan Nussbaum is our champion. He's an attorney from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Studied biology and history and then wound up being a lawyer. How did that come about?

Jordan: Well, the program I was in was really for people who were undecided about what they wanted to do. It was called the arts and science program, and they let you take one--one minor in any arts and one minor in any science, so I just took what I was interested in and let it go from there.

Alex: I majored in philosophy, and here I am hosting a quiz show.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
KUWAIT, KUWAIT $1000: Before desalination plants, Kuwaitis imported water or drew it from these wells named for a French province

THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU $400: This document ends, "We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor"

DON'T TELL ME $1000: Sergeant Howie, you've got an appointment with the title pagan fella in this 1973 horror classic

THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU $800: Millard Fillmore Caldwell, William Sherman Jennings & Napoleon Bonaparte Broward governed this state
(Ben: What is Louisiana?)
...
(Alex: The word "Broward" should have helped you come up with [*].)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Jordan: $6,400
Ben: $3,800
Kelly: $2,200
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
THAT TITLE IS SO CLICHÉ (3/5)
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
ADVERBS (4/5)
GONE A YEAR ALREADY (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
SCIENCE STUFF (3/5)
"M"YTHOLOGY (3/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jordan: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 3 W (including 1 DD)
Ben: 7 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W
Kelly: 6 R (including 1 DD), 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 8
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $12,800



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Kelly snagged the next Daily Double on the 1st clue. Jordan had $6,400, Ben had $3,800, and Kelly was at $2,200. Kelly wagered $2,000.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION $400: General Thomas Gage, military governor of this colony, gave the orders that started the war in 1775

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Jordan who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 9th clue. Jordan had $10,400, Ben had $6,200, and Kelly was at $4,200. Jordan wagered $2,000.

GONE A YEAR ALREADY $1200: The co-host of "Morning Joe" called this national security adviser an "inspiring, loving & devoted father"
(Jordan: Who is Henry Kissinger?)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
GONE A YEAR ALREADY $800: He brought great cinema & great class to viewers for 23 years as a host on Turner Classic Movies

SCIENCE STUFF $1200: Jupiter has its Great Red Spot; this planet has a Great White Spot, seen at 30-year intervals
(Ben: What is Uranus?)
(Jordan: What is Neptune?)
(Kelly: What is Mars?)

SCIENCE STUFF $2000: When this organ is embryonic, specialized tubules empty into Wolffian ducts

"M"YTHOLOGY $1600: This sorceress was the daughter of the king of Colchis

"M"YTHOLOGY $2000: In Norse myth, it's the 7-leter name for where the mere mortals lived

THAT TITLE IS SO CLICHÉ $1200: The musical "Head Over Heels" features the music of this all-female band

THAT TITLE IS SO CLICHÉ $2000: Songs from this pop star's 2013 album "Prism" include "Walking On Air", "It Takes Two" & "Choose Your Battles"
(Alex: We now have less than a minute.)

ADVERBS $2000: This compound adverb means "starting now"; as a noun, it can refer to the world to come

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Jordan: $11,600
Kelly: $8,200
Ben: $7,800

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
STATE NAME ORIGINS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Two-thirds for first place. Stratton's Dilemma.
Jordan: Wager $4,801 to cover Kelly.
Kelly: You ought to wager to cover Ben, but since you cannot win on a Triple Stumper if you do so, you should choose between wagering $0 and maximizing your winnings by betting all $8,200. You are in Stratton's Dilemma, calling for a wager of more than $7,400 (to shut out Ben) or less than $1,400 (risking the possibility of being passed from behind by Ben). Go with the smaller bet if you believe a Triple Stumper is more likely than a singleton miss by Jordan.
Ben: Consider risking between $401 and $1,000. This will top a $0 wager by Kelly while still beating Jordan on the Triple Stumper (should Jordan wager to cover Kelly's doubled score).

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Though it doesn't have "island" in its name, it's named after a European island

FINAL SCORES
Ben: $7,800 - $7,798 = $2 (What is Maine?) (3rd place: $1,000)
Kelly: $8,200 + $8,000 = $16,200 (What is New Jersey?) (New champion: $16,200)
Jordan: $11,600 - $4,801 = $6,799 (What is Maine?) (2nd place: $2,000)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $16,000

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Jordan: $13,400, 20 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Ben: $7,800, 15 R, 4 W
Kelly: $6,600, 11 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Combined Coryat: $27,800

BATTING AVERAGES
Jordan: 20/60 = .333
Ben: 15/58 = .259
Kelly: 12/59 = .203
Team: 47/63 = .746

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
"PO"POURRI $200: 4-letter shortened form of a word for a world's fair
(Ben: What is a symposium?)

IN THE BOOKSTORE $600: "The Mercury Visions of" this French photography pioneer is a tale of his quest to take 10 final photos

"PO"POURRI $600: A ruler who wields great power, it's from the Latin for "power"
(Jordan: What is a despot?)

"PO"POURRI $800: This fish dish that's everywhere in Hawaii is pronounced with 2 syllables

THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FOR YOU $1000: 2 people claimed to be the acting director of the CFPB, this, in 2017--turns out, Mick Mulvaney was more correct
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

BOATING WORDS $800: The rudder steers a boat & this lever moves the rudder
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

"M"YTHOLOGY $400: Be quick & name this Roman god, seen here in an 18th-century fresco

THAT TITLE IS SO CLICHÉ $1600: Oddly, the 2016 sequel to this 2013 Woody Harrelson movie about magicians isn't called "Now You Don't"
(Ben: What is Now You See It?)

ADVERBS $1200: ODTs are pills that can be taken without water; DT is disintegrating tablets & O is for this adverb
(Jordan: What is oral?)

CORRECT RESPONSES
an emirate
artesian wells
the Declaration of Independence
The Wicker Man
Florida
Massachusetts
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Robert Osborne
Saturn
the kidney
Medea
Midgard
The Go-Go's
Katy Perry
hereafter
New Jersey
an expo
Daguerre
a potentate
poke
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
a tiller
Mercury
Now You See Me
orally
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
STATE NAME ORIGINS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Though it doesn’t have “island” in its name, it’s named after a European island

Jordan Nussbaum: 11600-4801=6799
Ben Henry-Moreland: 7800-7798=2
Kelly Griffin: 8200+8000=16200 (New Champ)

Correct response:
Spoiler
New Jersey (Jordan – Maine) (Ben – Maine)

Daily Doubles
Jordan: 600+1000
Kelly: 2200+2000
Jordan: 10400-2000

Coryats
Jordan: 13400
Ben: 7800
Kelly: 6600

Combined: 27,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Jordan:6400
Ben: 3800
Kelly: 2200
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DD3: Are we playing J! or Scrabble? Did that clue about Mika’s dad really need to be one of the DDs?

The players hit a rough patch during part of the DJ! round including this one that gets a nod from the Current Events thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4492&p=279747#p279747

The FJ! category had me using the break to brainstorm as much as I could about the states and their names. Included in that was colors (thinking VT & CO), Native American names, and royalty. The helpful part of my process turned out to be the states with two-word names.

When I saw the clue I was on it immediately with no frantic search of the U.S. map or European waters needed. Redemption for missing the FJ! clue from this game is mine: http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=5922

Kelly’s 2/2 on big clues was enough to get her a second game and we’ll see if Alex makes a remark about an American winning to open tomorrow’s show.
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There is no way that I would have ever gotten that FJ within 30 seconds.
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Zeroed in on New Jersey immediately. Starting off the new week 1/1.
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StevenH wrote: Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:21 pm There is no way that I would have ever gotten that FJ within 30 seconds.
Everybody here answers this clue correctly at least 2% of the time. :D
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Golf wrote: Mon Jun 25, 2018 3:13 pm Everybody here answers this clue correctly at least 2% of the time. :D
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A Daily Double in the $400 clue? Its been eons since that last happened.
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bigblue999 wrote: Mon Jun 25, 2018 4:45 pm A Daily Double in the $400 clue? Its been eons since that last happened.
This is the third such occurrence since July 2016.
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Spent the entire commercial break brainstorming state name origins, and it didn't matter; I would've started close to home anyway. Instaget FJ. Not sure why they both picked Maine.

The last line of the Declaration of Independence, a TS?
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I thought "artesian well" was by far the easiest in Kuwait. Not the slightest hint of a clue on the rest.

Once again I whiff on a planet clue because I can't keep Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus/Neptune straight. That just seems to be one of my biggest mental blocks, and I CANNOT for the life of me find a way past it.

I recognized the songs as being by the Allman Brothers Band, but couldn't remember whether it was Duane or Gregg. I'm surprised just "Allman" didn't get a BMS.

I got as far as figuring that it must be an Eastern state given a European name, but from there I was sunk. I tried all of the colonies, but none seemed to fit.

Lach Trash: Artesian, Florida
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It seemed like there was more than the usual amount of triple stumpers in that DJ round; Ben at least had the decency to look embarrassed! Kudos for Kelly for being the only one able to pull out that FJ.

And what was Alex going on about if the state had been named New Guernsey??
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In "po"pourri, I said "Maypo" for "a boiled breakfast cereal." I think they would have had to give it to me.

Instaget FJ.

I wonder if people went for Maine, thinking about the Isle of Man?
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I also began in the East and with the "new" states so I was done quickly. Maine did seem an odd guess.
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I started by thinking of islands instead. When that proved fruitless, I frantically went down the East Coast and said Florida just for the sake of putting something down.
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:33 pm I'm surprised just "Allman" didn't get a BMS.
I'm shocked. I think that from now on when they ask for a BMS, you should be able to just say, "No, give me the money."
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trash pickup: artesian, Declaration of Independence (how?), Wicker Man, Florida (spotted Broward?), Saturn (ok, this was a WAG), Medea, Midgard, Go-Gos for 9200 trash.
FJ had me searching islands, barely got to Jersey in time. Would TPTB accept an answer "What is NJ?"
Agree with above posters that Allman should've got a BMS.
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DBear wrote: Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:22 pmWould TPTB accept an answer "What is NJ?"
I can't name any examples off the top of my head, but I do know that I've seen state abbreviations accepted before without question.
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It is the official postal abbreviation. I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t take it.
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