Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

This is where all of the games are discussed.

Moderators: alietr, trainman, econgator, dhkendall

Post Reply

Which of these clues did you get?

SJ1 $400 WOOD: The shagbark species of this tree can produce seeds until it's 300 years old--"old" this indeed (Carissa: What is oak?) (Ryan: What is a redwood?)
29
59%
SJ3 $600 BOOK OF THE YEAR: A classic by a fellow Englishman inspired Anthony Burgess to write a book in response whose title is this, one year later
30
61%
SJ4 $800 BOOK OF THE YEAR: Herman Raucher based his coming-of-age novel about the summer of this year on his own experiences on Nantucket island
23
47%
SJ5 $1000 BOOK OF THE YEAR: "Daybreak-2250 A.D." is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name
8
16%
SJ7 $400 SEND A LETTER: From the Latin for "ask", it's a letter to a publisher to see if they might be interested in a work you're submitting (Kenny: What is request?)
14
29%
SJ23 $800 WOOD: Often made from a 12-foot piece of oak, the wagon part extending to the left connects to a horse & has this anatomical name
11
22%
SJ27 $400 MAYORS: Its mayors have included Josiah Quincy, arranger of a certain market
37
76%
SJ28 DD1 MAYORS: He opposed speculation, gentrification & loud college parties as mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989
41
84%
SJ30 $1000 MAYORS: Elected in Chicago in 2019, this alliterative mayor made news when she had different views from the teachers' union in 2021
19
39%
DJ3 $800 SCIENCE: The largest known of these compounds, titin has over 34,000 amino acids; its full chemical name has more than 34,000 characters
24
49%
DJ10 $2000 IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT: Some Native Americans practiced skull binding for a rounded look; Lewis & Clark called the Salish this because they didn't
17
35%
DJ27 $1600 IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY: The Islamic Sultanate of Brunei is in 2 parts, each of which borders only this nation, on the island of Borneo (Carissa: What is Indonesia?) (Ryan: What is Sumatra?)
25
51%
FJ NOVEL QUOTES: Referring to the book's title, this character says, "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns"
14
29%
 
Total votes: 49

User avatar
opusthepenguin
The Best Darn Penguin on the Whole JBoard
Posts: 10319
Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:33 pm
Location: Shawnee, KS
Contact:

Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by opusthepenguin »

12 triple stumpers plus a shot at a DD. Plus the champ missed FJ. That should give you a shot, right? Technically, yes. If you got EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE and you went all-in on the DD, you'd have $14,200 going into FJ. That's exactly half Ryan's score of $28,400. If you want, you can also deduct the $2000 Ryan picked up on DD1 from his pre-FJ score and assume that wouldn't have affected his wager on DD2. (It probably wouldn't have.) That knocks him down to $26,400 and gives you a little breathing room. Lots of luck.
CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND

SJ1 $400 WOOD: old hickory
SJ3 $600 BOOK OF THE YEAR: 1985
SJ4 $800 BOOK OF THE YEAR: '42
SJ5 $1000 BOOK OF THE YEAR: Andre
SJ7 $400 SEND A LETTER: a query letter
SJ23 $800 WOOD: the wagon tongue
SJ27 $400 MAYORS: Boston
SJ28 DD1 MAYORS: Bernie Sanders
SJ30 $1000 MAYORS: Lori Lightfoot

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND

DJ3 $800 SCIENCE: a protein
DJ10 $2000 IT'S A FLAT-OUT FACT: the flathead
DJ27 $1600 IT ONLY BORDERS ONE COUNTRY: Malaysia

FINAL JEOPARDY

NOVEL QUOTES: Holden Caulfield
User avatar
opusthepenguin
The Best Darn Penguin on the Whole JBoard
Posts: 10319
Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:33 pm
Location: Shawnee, KS
Contact:

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by opusthepenguin »

:mrgreen: :| :| :mrgreen: :| :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :|
:mrgreen: :| :mrgreen:
:(

$6000 (assuming I kept my mouth shut on my guess of 2002 for the Burgess novel) and a George on FJ.

I have to think at least one of the players knew that amino acids make up protein. I suspect that under the lights they just couldn't untangle what the clue was looking for in time.
User avatar
DBear
Denier of Pop Culture
Posts: 2548
Joined: Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:57 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by DBear »

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :oops:
:oops:
User avatar
LucarioSnooperVixey
Carrying Letters and Lemons
Posts: 3513
Joined: Sun Jan 15, 2017 8:41 pm
Location: New Jersey

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by LucarioSnooperVixey »

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Douglas Squasoni
User avatar
Volante
Harbinger of the Doomed Lemur
Posts: 9254
Joined: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by Volante »

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :| :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :| :mrgreen:
:(

7800 with a double up but in the end my best laid plans ganged agley
The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Everything Everywhere All at Once (10), Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken (6), Black Sunday /1960/ (6), Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (7)
User avatar
Woof
Swimming in the Jeopardy! Pool
Posts: 5125
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:53 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by Woof »

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :| :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :|
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen:

$2400+DD1+$4400+FJ means that I could have had $9200 going into FJ, which would have fallen short of half of Ryan’s total.
User avatar
Rackme32
Three-time Failer Of The Online Jeopardy! Test
Posts: 1039
Joined: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:16 am

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by Rackme32 »

Crap... The only one I got in time was Proteins.

Facepalmed on wagon tongue and Bernie Sanders.
seaborgium
Undefeated in Reruns
Posts: 8941
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:31 am

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by seaborgium »

Hickory, Boston (then Sanders), and Malaysia (if you count saying Indonesia and then rebounding after it gets negged). I said "2002" for the Burgess and realized there was a better choice a little too late (though before Mayim said it); I said "organic compound" for the titin clue, which I think would have gotten a BMS that I couldn't have responded to. I got Holden Caulfield.
User avatar
opusthepenguin
The Best Darn Penguin on the Whole JBoard
Posts: 10319
Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:33 pm
Location: Shawnee, KS
Contact:

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by opusthepenguin »

seaborgium wrote: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:44 am Hickory, Boston (then Sanders), and Malaysia (if you count saying Indonesia and then rebounding after it gets negged). I said "2002" for the Burgess and realized there was a better choice a little too late (though before Mayim said it); I said "organic compound" for the titin clue, which I think would have gotten a BMS that I couldn't have responded to. I got Holden Caulfield.
Yep, rebounds count in fourth podium play, at least in my opinion. The conceit is that you can't get a buzz in edgewise unless no one else is trying. So Carissa scooped you on that embarrassing Indonesia neg (and Ryan delayed you with his guess of an island in the same country) before you got to look smart when you finally buzzed in with Malaysia.

I don't like your chances for a BMS on that "organic compound" response. It's not on Mayim's card, so she'd give you a straight neg which the judges would let stand. With Ken as host, you'd have a shot. Since you wouldn't have converted, that just extends the pain, of course.
User avatar
Lefty
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 1823
Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2011 4:49 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by Lefty »

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :(

I remembered the Chicago mayor was "L-literative" (she might have been one of Superman's girlfriends) but that's all.
I'm smart and I want respect.
Plactus
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 895
Joined: Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:33 pm

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by Plactus »

hickory and query

Yeah, I'm nowhere close. Doesn't matter that for Final I zeroed in on Of Mice and Men.
Oh, what has science wrought? I sought only to turn a man into a metal-encased juggernaut of destruction powered by the unknown properties of a mysterious living crystal. How could this have all gone wrong?
User avatar
AFRET CMS
JBOARDIE OF THE MONTH!
Posts: 1764
Joined: Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:48 pm
Location: Colorado

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by AFRET CMS »

:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:(

Not quite enough, and then the miss on FJ renders everything else moot.
I'm not the defending Jeopardy! champion. But I have played one on TV.
User avatar
MarkBarrett
Watches Jeopardy! Way Too Much
Posts: 16472
Joined: Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:37 am
Location: San Francisco

Re: Fourth Podium Poll for Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Post by MarkBarrett »

$400 + $800 and DD1. :oops:
Post Reply