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Game Recap for Show #7799, 2018-07-05

CONTESTANTS
Steve Spriensma, a writer from Port Dover, Ontario, Canada
Marilyn Maher, an administrative specialist from Athens, Ohio
Suzanne Koppelman, a museum education manager from New York, New York (whose 3-day cash winnings total $63,601)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hi, folks. I'm gonna make the assumption that we're all fully recovered from yesterday's celebrations. And I'm happy to welcome Steve and Marilyn to the program and Suzanne, who had a big win yesterday. Good luck. Here we go. Let's take a look at the categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU (4/4)
RECENT STUFF (3/5)
MOVIE SEQUEL SUBTITLES (4/5)
"L"AKES (5/5)
BOOKS & AUTHORS (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS (2/3)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Steve: 9 R, 2 W
Suzanne: 7 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Marilyn: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W

Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 4
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,000



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Suzanne found the Daily Double on the 15th clue. Suzanne had $1,600, Marilyn had $2,400, and Steve was at $1,600. Suzanne wagered $1,000.

BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: His crime: joining the Petrashevsky circle; his punishment: many months in prison in 1849, ending with a mock execution
(Suzanne: Who is Jean Valjean?)
(Alex: No. I think the Russian--)
(Suzanne: It was Crime and Punishment.)
(Alex: [*]. We're going for the author.)

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Marilyn: $2,400
Steve: $1,600
Suzanne: $600

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Steve Spriensma is a writer from Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. And we had a champion on our program a few years back named Ken Jennings.

Steve: Yes.

Alex: And you, I hear, were obsessed with watching him.

Steve: I had a bit of an obsession with him in high school. I wrote in my yearbook that my life's goal was to defeat him at Jeopardy!. And I don't know about that, but I did manage to find an error in one of his books, so...

Alex: In one of his books.

Steve: Yeah, Maphead.

Alex: And did you point it out to him?

Steve: I did on Twitter, yeah.

Alex: And did he respond?

Steve: He did, and he was very gracious about it.

Alex: Okay, good for you.




Alex: Marilyn Maher, from Athens, Ohio.

Marilyn: Yes.

Alex: You've been best friends with your best friends for how many years now?

Marilyn: Yes, I have two best friends. One of them is Jessica. I've been best friends with her since we were in fourth grade, so almost twenty years. And then my other best friend, her name is Skye, and I've been best friends with her for over fifteen years.

Alex: Good for you.




Alex: Suzanne Koppelman is our champion. Worked at the largest cathedral in the world, which is located...

Suzanne: In New York City.

Alex: Yes.

Suzanne: Yes, it's the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It's being built in the style of a medieval cathedral. And it was started over 100 years ago, and it's still not finished.

Alex: Must be government financing involved.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
MOVIE SEQUEL SUBTITLES $800: This "2: Electric Boogaloo"

RECENT STUFF $800: Moschino put out a see-through dress just like a bag from this kind of business, complete with "We Heart Our Customers" motto

RECENT STUFF $1000: In 2017 this ex-national security adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI
(Suzanne: Who's Kelly?)
(Steve: Who's Gorka?)

HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $400: For 22 points: to meet certain requirements, or to make a statement less definitive
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Marilyn: $2,800
Steve: $2,400
Suzanne: $2,200
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
RICK & MORTY (4/5)
SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT (4/5)
KEEP SUMMER SAFE (5/5)
MY "MAN"! (4/5)
YOU PASS BUTTER (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
& THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Steve: 8 R, 1 W
Suzanne: 9 R (including 1 rebound), 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Marilyn: 7 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $8,000



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Suzanne snagged the next Daily Double on the 27th clue. Suzanne had $10,200, Marilyn had $7,600, and Steve was at $9,600. Suzanne wagered $2,000.

YOU PASS BUTTER $2000: Sanskrit for "to sprinkle" gives us this word for a clarified butter
(Suzanne: I don't know.)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Suzanne who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 29th clue. Suzanne had $8,200, Marilyn had $7,600, and Steve was at $9,600. Suzanne wagered $1,000.

& THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES $1600: This Hungarian-born physicist later regretted the sexism in his telegram "it's a boy" when an H-bomb test worked
(Suzanne: I have no idea.)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
MY "MAN"! $2000: It conveys air & fuel from the carburetor to the cylinders

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT $2000: This type of sleeve shares its name with a type of swinging doors
(Marilyn: What's dolmain?)

RICK & MORTY $2000: Part of the purpose driven life of this evangelical pastor was founding the Saddleback megachurch

& THAT'S THE WAY THE NEWS GOES $2000: He ran the original marathon, bringing Athens news of the battle

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Steve: $9,600
Marilyn: $8,000
Suzanne: $7,200

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN AUTHORS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Four-fifths for first place. Stratton's Dilemma.
Steve: Wager $6,401 to cover Marilyn.
Marilyn: You ought to wager to cover Suzanne, but since you cannot win on a Triple Stumper if you do so, you ought to choose between wagering $0 or maximizing your winnings with a bet of all $8,000. You are in Stratton's Dilemma, calling for a wager of more than $6,400 (to shut out Suzanne) or less than $4,800 (risking the possibility of being passed from behind by Suzanne). Go with the smaller bet if you believe a Triple Stumper is more likely than a singleton miss by Steve.
Suzanne: You ought to try wagering between $801 and $4,000. This will top a $0 wager by Marilyn while still beating Steve and Marilyn on the Triple Stumper (should Steve wager to cover Marilyn's doubled score and Marilyn wager to cover your doubled score).

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her "the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned"

FINAL SCORES
Suzanne: $7,200 - $0 = $7,200 (Who is Ja) (2nd place: $2,000)
Marilyn: $8,000 + $6,401 = $14,401 (Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe) (New champion: $14,401)
Steve: $9,600 - $6,401 = $3,199 (Who is Agatha Christie?) (3rd place: $1,000)
(Alex: Mark Twain referred to her as the little lady who started the Civil War.)
...
(Alex: [To Marilyn] Uncle Tom's Cabin was the book.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $11,000

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Suzanne: $11,200, 16 R, 5 W (including 3 DDs)
Steve: $9,600, 17 R, 3 W
Marilyn: $8,000, 13 R, 2 W
Combined Coryat: $28,800

BATTING AVERAGES
Steve: 17/58 = .293
Suzanne: 16/61 = .262
Marilyn: 14/58 = .241
Team: 47/63 = .746

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
RECENT STUFF $200: This was a thing, a 2017 fad; yep, sure was

BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: In 2015 she published "It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!"

BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At age 33 Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; at 21 this daughter published a classic
(Steve: What is Frankens--uh, yeah, what is Frankenstein?)

BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Here's an 1870s photo of this French author looking pretty miserable
(Alex: Les Miserables.)

"L"AKES $800: Take a boat ride on this lake or disembark at the city of the same name to visit the Swiss Transport Museum
(Marilyn: What is Lausanne? Lausanne?)

"L"AKES $1000: You take the high road, & I'll take the low road, to this largest lake in Scotland

HIGH-SCORING SCRABBLE WORDS $1000: Earn 25 points for this woman who introduced the worship of Baal into Israel & was denounced by Elijah
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT $400: Showing what you got on this device was expensive when it debuted in the '70s costing about $1,200

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT $800: You think you got the stones to play this sport? Well, if you have the granite type, like the item here, you sure do

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT $1200: This instrument has 7 main strings & 12 or more sympathetic ones

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT $1600: Your antipasto might combine pepperoni & these, one syllable longer & also called Tuscan peppers
(Suzanne: What are banana peppers?)

KEEP SUMMER SAFE $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents an overhead shot of a current.) Swim parallel to the shore to reach safety if you encounter one of these swift-moving currents that can move at 8 feet per second

YOU PASS BUTTER $400: There's butter in this "old fashioned" Baskin-Robbins flavor as well as in its name
(Steve: What is butterscotch?)

YOU PASS BUTTER $800: Sanford Redmond helped diners by automating the production of this unit of butter

CORRECT RESPONSES
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Breakin'
dry cleaners
Michael Flynn
qualify
ghee
Edward Teller
a manifold
batwing
Rick Warren
Pheidippides
Harriet Beecher Stowe
a fidget spinner
Chelsea Clinton
Mary Shelley
Victor Hugo
Lucerne
Loch Lomond
Jezebel
a VHS system
curling
a sitar
pepperoncini
a riptide
butter pecan
a pat
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AMERICAN AUTHORS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her “the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned”

Suzanne Koppelman: 7200-0=7200
Marilyn Maher: 8000+6401=14401 (New Champ)
Steve Spriensma: 9600-6401=3199

Correct response:
Spoiler
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Suzanne – Who is Ja) (Steve – Agatha Christie)

Daily Doubles
Suzanne: 1600-1000
Suzanne: 10200-2000
Suzanne: 8200-1000 (Steve 9600 & Marilyn 7600 with only the $400 clue left)

Coryats
Suzanne: 11200
Marilyn: 8000
Steve: 9600

Combined: 28,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Suzanne: 2200
Marilyn: 2800
Steve: 2400
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The game was a little bit of a letdown after yesterday’s dazzler. The yell stumper of the day was in MOVIE SEQUEL SUBTITLES when no one knew what went with “2: Electric Boogaloo”

Tough for Suzanne to repeat going 0/4 on the big clues and yet she was only a harder FJ! clue away from doing it.

For me the FJ! clue was hard enough as is as I too often have a defective mental coin. I wrote Alcott (died 1888) for no great reason instead of going with the right author.

Alex’s pre-reveal remark, “Believe it or not if you’re good at math it may help you with our final today…” did nothing to help and only distracted me as I attempted to figure out what he meant. He was going for somehow I would know how many years to subtract from a death year to reach the publishing year? Birth year? Sometimes the host needs to say less and just show the clue.

If anyone cares a sample of Steve’s writing can be found here: https://thehumanist.com/contributor/steven-spriensma/

Or here: http://bayobserver.ca/profile/stevep/

Marilyn winning the game will be a good test for what a game’s worth of experience is worth. An 8000 Coryat is nothing special and The Jeopardy! Fan has her chances of repeating at 28.73% to leave plenty of room for improvement. We’ll see what earning a spot at the champ’s position can do for Marilyn to demonstrate another gear.
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I lost out on a coin flip between Stowe and Alcott on FJ. What a dumb clue.
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StevenH wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:18 pm I lost out on a coin flip between Stowe and Alcott on FJ. What a dumb clue.
At least we missed with Americans. Steve clearly had a Brit and I wonder if Suzanne was heading towards Jane Austen? Hope it was not (Shirley) Jackson.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:27 pm
StevenH wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:18 pm I lost out on a coin flip between Stowe and Alcott on FJ. What a dumb clue.
At least we missed with Americans. Steve clearly had a Brit and I wonder if Suzanne was heading towards Jane Austen? Hope it was not (Shirley) Jackson.
I had Stowe and changed it to Mary Shelley at the last second. I know "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was hugely read in the mid-century, but I figured Frankenstein was possibly more popular. The NY Times reference should have kept me with an American. Shelley died young- 40 years earlier, so I was quite a bit off there.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:27 pm
StevenH wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:18 pm I lost out on a coin flip between Stowe and Alcott on FJ. What a dumb clue.
At least we missed with Americans. Steve clearly had a Brit and I wonder if Suzanne was heading towards Jane Austen? Hope it was not (Shirley) Jackson.
Not to mention that Steve had a Brit who was born in 1890 and who didn't die until 1976. For a writer - well, that was pretty close to a Clavin FJ experience. Poor guy - he looked like he knew it as soon as time ran out. But, at least he wagered properly! :geek:
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boson wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:43 pm
MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:27 pm
StevenH wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:18 pm I lost out on a coin flip between Stowe and Alcott on FJ. What a dumb clue.
At least we missed with Americans. Steve clearly had a Brit and I wonder if Suzanne was heading towards Jane Austen? Hope it was not (Shirley) Jackson.
I had Stowe and changed it to Mary Shelley at the last second. I know "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was hugely read in the mid-century, but I figured Frankenstein was possibly more popular. The NY Times reference should have kept me with an American. Shelley died young- 40 years earlier, so I was quite a bit off there.
Beside the category AMERICAN AUTHORS keeping someone with an American and not Mary Shelley the writers tried as well as the game had a prior Mary Shelley clue.
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I immediately latched onto Little Women and never left. Alcott broke my streak.
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Instaget FJ! Stowe immediately went into my mind when the clue came up. Uncle Tom's Cabin was arguably the most read novel of the 19th century so it had to be her.

Also Agatha Christie was 5 years old when Stowe died.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 1:00 pm
boson wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:43 pm
MarkBarrett wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:27 pm
StevenH wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 12:18 pm I lost out on a coin flip between Stowe and Alcott on FJ. What a dumb clue.
At least we missed with Americans. Steve clearly had a Brit and I wonder if Suzanne was heading towards Jane Austen? Hope it was not (Shirley) Jackson.
I had Stowe and changed it to Mary Shelley at the last second. I know "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was hugely read in the mid-century, but I figured Frankenstein was possibly more popular. The NY Times reference should have kept me with an American. Shelley died young- 40 years earlier, so I was quite a bit off there.
Beside the category AMERICAN AUTHORS keeping someone with an American and not Mary Shelley the writers tried as well as the game had a prior Mary Shelley clue.
Oops! Serves me right for playing from this board casually during work. Get back to work boson...
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"Most widely read work of fiction" by a female American author? Probably Uncle Tom's Cabin. Let's go with Louis---WAIT NO, Harriet Beecher Stowe!! Wait, speaking of Alcott, was Little Women more widely read? ......nah, stick with Stowe. Whew, that would have been the most aggravating miss in ages.
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Alex’s comment had me ready for a clue that actually involved math. But I did use his hint a bit and decided a woman who died 31 years after the war might be the one who started it. Though I had no idea how old she was when she wrote the book.
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Did my station start the show late, or did they let the DJ! round run long? I was shocked that they finished that round.

And while I'm here, Charlotte Bronte. Wrong country, and died young, but not the worst guess.
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xxaaaxx wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 7:33 pm "Most widely read work of fiction" by a female American author? Probably Uncle Tom's Cabin. Let's go with Louis---WAIT NO, Harriet Beecher Stowe!! Wait, speaking of Alcott, was Little Women more widely read? ......nah, stick with Stowe. Whew, that would have been the most aggravating miss in ages.
I figured Little Women has probably been far more widely read up to now, but not in 1896.
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Glad I wasn't the only to try Alcott, which is at least in the right time period. :|
trash: Breakin', Dostoyevsky DD, Phiedippedes, and shoulda got that charlatan Rick Warren.
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i am not very versed in american women authors...i went with dickinson...at least she died around that time instead of agatha christie, who not only was born just 6 years prior to 1896, she was also fricking british
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MarkBarrett wrote: Tough for Suzanne to repeat going 0/4 on the big clues and yet she was only a harder FJ! clue away from doing it.
Another sub optimal wager going into FJ without the lead, but it worked out for her with the stump.
If she had only been as gun shy on her last two DDs as she was on her final wager, and bet a nominal $100 for each, she would have had the lead going into FJ.
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CasketRomance wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 8:42 pm i am not very versed in american women authors...i went with dickinson...at least she died around that time instead of agatha christie, who not only was born just 6 years prior to 1896, she was also fricking british
Dickinson wrote poetry, and her work was published posthumously. Given the clue, it’s not much better as a guess.
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