Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 11:30 am
Game Recap for Show #6308, 2012-02-08
2012 College Championship semifinal game 1.
CONTESTANTS
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the first of our semifinal games in our College Championship. We're now into the, uh, big money rounds. Whoever wins today comes back on Monday and Tuesday to play in the finals, and is guaranteed at least $25,000. The two players who do not win today go home with $10,000 in cash. So serious money for young people. Monica, Tyler, Weston, good to have you back with us. Good luck. Let's go to work. Jeopardy! Round. And here are your categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
KNOW YOUR CONSTITUTION (4/5)
WEIGHTS & MEASURES (5/5)
BUZZ BANDS (5/5)
QUESTIONS (5/5)
LITERARY LOCALES (5/5)
COLLEGE "M" (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Tyler: 15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Weston: 8 R, 0 W
Monica: 5 R, 0 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 1
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,000
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Tyler: $4,800
Weston: $2,600
Monica: $600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Monica Thieu from Dallas is a collector--she has 70-some bottles of nail polish, and your major is psychology. Tell me, as a psychology major, what does that say about you?
Monica: Well, I don't know. I find the fumes calming. It's probably bad.
[Laughs]
Alex: What? Really?
Monica: But it's gotten me here, so I guess I should just keep on going.
Alex: Let me tell you something--the nail polish had absolutely nothing to do with you being here. [Points to his head] This has to do with you being here today.
Alex: Tyler Benedict is a junior at Columbia University. Member of the marching band, and it says here you also write the halftime jokes. I didn't know marching bands had halftime jokes.
Tyler: Well, you know, most marching bands don't have halftime jokes, Alex. But at Columbia, the rest of the Ivy League schools, and, uh, Stanford and Rice also, there's what's called a scramble band or a scatter band. There's no formations, no funny hats with feathers, we mostly just run around, say funny things in a microphone, and then we'll stop and play a song, and hopefully, it sounds pretty good.
Alex: Right.
[Laughter]
Alex: Can't wait for the next one.
Alex: Weston Mangin is a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Won second place in an international competition?
Weston: Uh, no, the nature of what I was speaking on was international. Um, this was for speech and debate in high school. The event I did was called International Extemporaneous. Um, so for that event, I would get, uh, three topics about international policy, have half an hour to pick the one I liked and prep a speech on it, and then deliver a 7-minute speech without notes, and, uh, see how well I did.
Alex: Okay, good.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Tyler found the Daily Double on the 25th clue. Weston had $5,400, Tyler had $7,400, and Monica was at $1,800. Tyler wagered $2,500.
COLLEGE "M" $1000: Founded in 1800, this liberal arts college has the Adirondacks to the west & the Green Mountains to the east
(Tyler: What is Marlboro College?)
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
KNOW YOUR CONSTITUTION $1000: The president, "with" these 2 types of input "of the Senate, shall appoint...judges"
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Weston: $5,800
Tyler: $5,700
Monica: $2,000
2012 College Championship semifinal game 1.
CONTESTANTS
Monica Thieu, a sophomore at the University of North Texas from Dallas, Texas
Tyler Benedict, a junior at Columbia University from Dayton, Ohio
Weston Mangin, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo from Arroyo Grande, California
OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the first of our semifinal games in our College Championship. We're now into the, uh, big money rounds. Whoever wins today comes back on Monday and Tuesday to play in the finals, and is guaranteed at least $25,000. The two players who do not win today go home with $10,000 in cash. So serious money for young people. Monica, Tyler, Weston, good to have you back with us. Good luck. Let's go to work. Jeopardy! Round. And here are your categories...
JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
KNOW YOUR CONSTITUTION (4/5)
WEIGHTS & MEASURES (5/5)
BUZZ BANDS (5/5)
QUESTIONS (5/5)
LITERARY LOCALES (5/5)
COLLEGE "M" (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Tyler: 15 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Weston: 8 R, 0 W
Monica: 5 R, 0 W
Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 1
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,000
SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Tyler: $4,800
Weston: $2,600
Monica: $600
CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS
Alex: Monica Thieu from Dallas is a collector--she has 70-some bottles of nail polish, and your major is psychology. Tell me, as a psychology major, what does that say about you?
Monica: Well, I don't know. I find the fumes calming. It's probably bad.
[Laughs]
Alex: What? Really?
Monica: But it's gotten me here, so I guess I should just keep on going.
Alex: Let me tell you something--the nail polish had absolutely nothing to do with you being here. [Points to his head] This has to do with you being here today.
Alex: Tyler Benedict is a junior at Columbia University. Member of the marching band, and it says here you also write the halftime jokes. I didn't know marching bands had halftime jokes.
Tyler: Well, you know, most marching bands don't have halftime jokes, Alex. But at Columbia, the rest of the Ivy League schools, and, uh, Stanford and Rice also, there's what's called a scramble band or a scatter band. There's no formations, no funny hats with feathers, we mostly just run around, say funny things in a microphone, and then we'll stop and play a song, and hopefully, it sounds pretty good.
Alex: Right.
[Laughter]
Alex: Can't wait for the next one.
Alex: Weston Mangin is a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Won second place in an international competition?
Weston: Uh, no, the nature of what I was speaking on was international. Um, this was for speech and debate in high school. The event I did was called International Extemporaneous. Um, so for that event, I would get, uh, three topics about international policy, have half an hour to pick the one I liked and prep a speech on it, and then deliver a 7-minute speech without notes, and, uh, see how well I did.
Alex: Okay, good.
JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Tyler found the Daily Double on the 25th clue. Weston had $5,400, Tyler had $7,400, and Monica was at $1,800. Tyler wagered $2,500.
COLLEGE "M" $1000: Founded in 1800, this liberal arts college has the Adirondacks to the west & the Green Mountains to the east
(Tyler: What is Marlboro College?)
TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
KNOW YOUR CONSTITUTION $1000: The president, "with" these 2 types of input "of the Senate, shall appoint...judges"
SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Weston: $5,800
Tyler: $5,700
Monica: $2,000