Monday, October 29, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Archivists]

J! Round

[Archivists]

DJ! Round

[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
SHAKESPEARE

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Aptly, Shakespeare used “moon” & “moonlight” more times in this play than in any other

Tori Campbell: 17800+1801=19601 (2x = $21,799)
Soyia Ellison: 9800+9798=19598
Neill Mohammad: 9800+9800=19600

Correct response:

Spoiler

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Daily Doubles
Tori: 800+800
Soyia: 6200+2000
Tori: 17400+2000

Coryats
Tori: 17800
Soyia: 9000
Neill: 9800

Combined: 36,600

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Tori: 5000
Soyia: 4200
Neill: 3800

[MarkBarrett]

Neill’s pronunciation of the Malory work was close enough for a correct response while no way Alex was going to let it slide without giving his own take on how to say the title.

When the categories for the DJ! round were revealed I liked the theme. The clues were pretty good as well as 24/29 is better than I usually do in that round.

Tori demonstrated some nice after burners being at 5400 after clue 10 of the DJ! round and getting up to 19400 before missing the last clue of the round.

The FJ! clue gave me one title to reject in recalling the AT THE ARCADE category. Making a connect of “moon” to “Night” I wrote “Tv” on my paper and before I could finish the “w” of the second letter (No, I was not going to write Two Gentlemen of Verona) I crossed it out for the correct change. From there I triple-checked my spelling to make sure I did not botch the title that has been bungled too many times on game shows.

The player reveals had me dreading any reversal of fortune for misplaced apostrophe work. Instead all’s well that ends well as Tori was the best of the three contestants.

[TenPoundHammer]

Vassar = New York and Northeastern = Massachusetts were new to me, but I knew Miami = Ohio and Gonzaga = Washington (thanks, Hawley-Smoot Rule).

Ran the Literary and Burger Time categories, all but the top box in Frogger (couldn't filter through all the sugars in time), all but "Breakaway" in Contra.

Moon -> night -> A Midsummer Night's Dream? Sure, why not.

Lach Trash: X, Dance Dance Revolution, Gloria

[xxaaaxx]

Neill’s pronunciation of the Malory work was close enough for a correct response while no way Alex was going to let it slide without giving his own take on how to say the title.

In real time, I thought for sure he had botched it badly enough for a neg. I'll have to listen to it again later.

Moon -> night -> A Midsummer Night's Dream? Sure, why not.

Same here. Not my most elegant FJ solve, but I'll take it.

Not sure what leaving $2 behind was supposed to accomplish, other than securing 3rd place.

Have we had a 61-clue game this season?

[9021amyers]

One little tidbit from this game...

Neill is billed from DeKalb, Illinois, and Soyia is billed from Decatur, Georgia. Decatur is the seat of DeKalb County in Georgia, which is pronounced differently than DeKalb in Illinois: specifically, the “L” is silent.

[Saturnalia]

Neill’s pronunciation of the Malory work was close enough for a correct response while no way Alex was going to let it slide without giving his own take on how to say the title.

In real time, I thought for sure he had botched it badly enough for a neg. I'll have to listen to it again later.

I heard him say "Amour d'Arthur" or something similar.

New rule of thumb for me: if it's a Shakespeare clue and the answer seems like it should be obvious but I'm not getting it, I should seriously consider tonight's answer. Of the, I dunno, 15 or so best-known Shakespeare works, this one and As You Like It are the only ones I've never seen, and I regularly miss clues about them both. Tonight my reasoning went moonlight -> romantic -> Romeo and Juliet, and I wasn't satisfied with that, so I kept cycling through the plays, trying to come up with something that had to do with night. "Twelfth Night? Naw -- a great play, but it isn't that one." It was only as think music was wrapping up, with no time to change my answer, that I thought "you know, I wonder if it might be..."

A bad run of FJs for me lately -- not clues that are over my head or NHO, just ones I'm flat missing. The game was the usual for me; my proficiency at this seems to be increasing, but that makes my pop culture weakness seems starker. I think I went 1/5 in the Pop Culture Alphabet category and missed two clues over the rest of the J round. Maybe I should start reading People...

One little tidbit from this game...

Neill is billed from DeKalb, Illinois, and Soyia is billed from Decatur, Georgia. Decatur is the seat of DeKalb County in Georgia, which is pronounced differently than DeKalb in Illinois: specifically, the “L” is silent.

There's a Decatur, Illinois, as well, though it's two-and-a-half hours away from DeKalb by interstate...

[threearruda]

Have we had a 61-clue game this season?

I count 11 out of the 36 games we've played this season. Feel free to check or correct my work. Lots of overall slow play has hurt us more often than not.

Instaget FJ.

[xxaaaxx]

Have we had a 61-clue game this season?

I count 11 out of the 36 games we've played this season. Feel free to check or correct my work. Lots of overall slow play has hurt us more often than not.

Instaget FJ.

Thanks. Hyperbole aside, this recent stretch has been very annoying.

[MarkBarrett]

Maybe it's 10 as I count 9.

61 clue games:

Week 1: 9/14 - Kyle Jones
Week 2: 9/17 - Kyle Jones
Week 3: 9/25 - Nancy Schoppa, 9/26 - Evelyn Rubin, 9/27 - Evelyn Rubin
Week 4: None
Week 5: 10/8 - Alex Schmidt, 10/10 - Alex Schmidt, 10/12 - Alan Dunn
Week 6: 10/15 - Alan Dunn
Week 7: None
Week 8: 0/1

9/36 = 25%

[9021amyers]

One little tidbit from this game...

Neill is billed from DeKalb, Illinois, and Soyia is billed from Decatur, Georgia. Decatur is the seat of DeKalb County in Georgia, which is pronounced differently than DeKalb in Illinois: specifically, the “L” is silent.

There's a Decatur, Illinois, as well, though it's two-and-a-half hours away from DeKalb by interstate...

Decatur is pronounced the same in either state, though, so that’s less noteworthy.

[opusthepenguin]

Neill’s pronunciation of the Malory work was close enough for a correct response while no way Alex was going to let it slide without giving his own take on how to say the title.

Which I'm pretty sure was bogus on two levels. The work is in late Middle English and the title would have been pronounced as such. And even in French all the letters would have been pronounced back then. The modern French accent was as silly as having Attila the Hun sound like a World War II general.

[econgator]

I heard him say "Amour d'Arthur" or something similar.

Something like that. It absolutely did not start with an "L". Should have been reversed.

Unlike Mark, I immediately went to Twelfth Night and never bothered to think if there were any others.

[JayK33]

Unlike Mark, I immediately went to Twelfth Night and never bothered to think if there were any others.

Same. Unluckily that's what came to mind first and I figured it seemed right enough, so I didn't bother to think of anything else.

[threearruda]

Maybe it's 10 as I count 9.

61 clue games:

Week 1: 9/14 - Kyle Jones
Week 2: 9/17 - Kyle Jones
Week 3: 9/25 - Nancy Schoppa, 9/26 - Evelyn Rubin, 9/27 - Evelyn Rubin
Week 4: None
Week 5: 10/8 - Alex Schmidt, 10/10 - Alex Schmidt, 10/12 - Alan Dunn
Week 6: 10/15 - Alan Dunn
Week 7: None
Week 8: 0/1

9/36 = 25%

Ah I stand corrected! Looks like I mistakenly counted a Saturday re-run and a 59-clue game I marked as 60 (Lori Goodman - 9/11) in my notes. Thanks, MB!

Regardless, agreed that this is a rather annoyingly low number.

[davey]

I heard him say "Amour d'Arthur" or something similar.

Something like that. It absolutely did not start with an "L". Should have been reversed.

I would transcribe it as A Morte de Arthur. He pronounced the t in Morte. Unique and odd to change the French Le to the wrong English article, but that's arguably what he did, so they disregarded it. Then he didn't elide the d', but they're not ruling against someone for a bad French accent.

[econgator]

I heard him say "Amour d'Arthur" or something similar.

Something like that. It absolutely did not start with an "L". Should have been reversed.

I would transcribe it as A Morte de Arthur. He pronounced the t in Morte. Unique and odd to change the French Le to the wrong English article, but that's arguably what he did, so they disregarded it. Then he didn't elide the d', but they're not ruling against someone for a bad French accent.

But he's answering in French and in French 'a' is not an article, so it cannot be dropped.

[Volante]

I heard him say "Amour d'Arthur" or something similar.

Something like that. It absolutely did not start with an "L". Should have been reversed.

I would transcribe it as A Morte de Arthur. He pronounced the t in Morte. Unique and odd to change the French Le to the wrong English article, but that's arguably what he did, so they disregarded it. Then he didn't elide the d', but they're not ruling against someone for a bad French accent.

But he's answering in French and in French 'a' is not an article, so it cannot be dropped.

Alternatively, it might have been "Lə morte..." with the 'L' dropped by the audio.

[econgator]

Alternatively, it might have been "Lə morte..." with the 'L' dropped by the audio.

He didn't appear to be forming an 'L', but who knows.