Friday, December 28, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 9:03 am
Game Recap for Show #7895, 2018-12-28
CONTESTANTS
James Rodrigues, a filmmaker from New York, New York
Greg Frost, a communications director from San Diego, California
Kathryn Kienholz, a retired CPA from Milltown, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,000)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I just figured out how I'm gonna spend this weekend--coming up with resolutions for the new year, which I will probably...not follow through with later on. Greg and James, good to have you joining us today. Kathryn, are you ready to do it? You get to pick first in this first round.
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS (4/5)
BOY STORY (3/5)
THE BEER HUNTER (4/4)
APOCALYPSE THEN (5/5)
CENTS OF A WOMAN (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
GET "IN" (5/5) (Alex: And each correct response will begin with those two letters of the alphabet.)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
James: 11 R (including 3 rebounds), 0 W
Kathryn: 10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Greg: 5 R, 0 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,000
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Kathryn found the Daily Double on the 4th clue. Kathryn had $800, Greg had $400, and James had nothing in the bank. Kathryn wagered $1,000.
CENTS OF A WOMAN $800: She graces a gold $1 coin, along with her son Jean Baptiste, born February 11, 1805
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
James: $2,400
Greg: $2,400
Kathryn: $1,800
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: James Rodrigues is a filmmaker from New York who once got stranded in the middle of Siberia?
James: That's right. Um, I was taking the Trans-Siberian Express with two of my friends after graduating from high school, and we got off to get some supplies in the middle of the barren tundra, and when we came back, the train had left with all of our belongings on it.
Alex: Everything worked out in the end, though.
James: We took a car for eight hours and met the train.
Alex: And caught up with it.
James: Yeah.
Alex: All righty.
Alex: Greg Frost is from San Diego, California. This man once climbed a 180-foot-tall redwood tree.
Greg: That's correct.
Alex: Why?
Greg: To interview the woman living at the top of it.
Alex: What?
Greg: In Northern California, I was a journalist at the time. There was a woman who was living at the top of this redwood tree in an attempt to save it from being chopped down.
Alex: How long had she spent in that tree?
Greg: Oh, she spent years in the tree. She ended up saving it, and the area was protected.
Alex: Good for her. Great.
Alex: Kathryn Kienholz is our champion. This lady is from Wisconsin. She can only watch "Jeopardy!" when?
Kathryn: In the winter after the leaves fall off the trees.
Alex: Why?
Kathryn: We live at the very edge of the reception area, and we are by a lake so we're kinda down low, and it's all surrounded by trees.
Alex: Does the word "antenna" mean anything to you?
Kathryn: We have one.
Alex: Put it up on the top of the tree.
Kathryn: Thank you. We'll do that.
Alex: We need all the viewers we can get.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $800: Though The Rock gave his all as Mitch Buchannon, this film was not up for an Oscar; a Razzie or 4? Ohhh, yes
BOY STORY $400: Parzival is the avatar of a kid with an extremely good handle on '80s pop culture in this novel
BOY STORY $800: R.J. Palacio said this bestseller about Auggie Pullman & his unique face was "a meditation on kindness"
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
James: $6,200
Greg: $4,000
Kathryn: $3,800
CONTESTANTS
James Rodrigues, a filmmaker from New York, New York
Greg Frost, a communications director from San Diego, California
Kathryn Kienholz, a retired CPA from Milltown, Wisconsin (whose 1-day cash winnings total $22,000)
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I just figured out how I'm gonna spend this weekend--coming up with resolutions for the new year, which I will probably...not follow through with later on. Greg and James, good to have you joining us today. Kathryn, are you ready to do it? You get to pick first in this first round.
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS (4/5)
BOY STORY (3/5)
THE BEER HUNTER (4/4)
APOCALYPSE THEN (5/5)
CENTS OF A WOMAN (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
GET "IN" (5/5) (Alex: And each correct response will begin with those two letters of the alphabet.)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
James: 11 R (including 3 rebounds), 0 W
Kathryn: 10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Greg: 5 R, 0 W
Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,000
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Kathryn found the Daily Double on the 4th clue. Kathryn had $800, Greg had $400, and James had nothing in the bank. Kathryn wagered $1,000.
CENTS OF A WOMAN $800: She graces a gold $1 coin, along with her son Jean Baptiste, born February 11, 1805
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
James: $2,400
Greg: $2,400
Kathryn: $1,800
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: James Rodrigues is a filmmaker from New York who once got stranded in the middle of Siberia?
James: That's right. Um, I was taking the Trans-Siberian Express with two of my friends after graduating from high school, and we got off to get some supplies in the middle of the barren tundra, and when we came back, the train had left with all of our belongings on it.
Alex: Everything worked out in the end, though.
James: We took a car for eight hours and met the train.
Alex: And caught up with it.
James: Yeah.
Alex: All righty.
Alex: Greg Frost is from San Diego, California. This man once climbed a 180-foot-tall redwood tree.
Greg: That's correct.
Alex: Why?
Greg: To interview the woman living at the top of it.
Alex: What?
Greg: In Northern California, I was a journalist at the time. There was a woman who was living at the top of this redwood tree in an attempt to save it from being chopped down.
Alex: How long had she spent in that tree?
Greg: Oh, she spent years in the tree. She ended up saving it, and the area was protected.
Alex: Good for her. Great.
Alex: Kathryn Kienholz is our champion. This lady is from Wisconsin. She can only watch "Jeopardy!" when?
Kathryn: In the winter after the leaves fall off the trees.
Alex: Why?
Kathryn: We live at the very edge of the reception area, and we are by a lake so we're kinda down low, and it's all surrounded by trees.
Alex: Does the word "antenna" mean anything to you?
Kathryn: We have one.
Alex: Put it up on the top of the tree.
Kathryn: Thank you. We'll do that.
Alex: We need all the viewers we can get.
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
NOT QUITE OSCAR-NOMINATED FILMS $800: Though The Rock gave his all as Mitch Buchannon, this film was not up for an Oscar; a Razzie or 4? Ohhh, yes
BOY STORY $400: Parzival is the avatar of a kid with an extremely good handle on '80s pop culture in this novel
BOY STORY $800: R.J. Palacio said this bestseller about Auggie Pullman & his unique face was "a meditation on kindness"
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
James: $6,200
Greg: $4,000
Kathryn: $3,800