Thursday, June 2, 2022 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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J! Round

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DJ! Round

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[theFJguy]

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Known as the female Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell called this place "a fairy tale city, all pink & wonderful"

Ryan Long: 22800-3500=19300 (15x = $279,400)
Maya Sudarsana: 2000-2000=0
Tom Philipose: 18800-18800=0

Correct response:

Spoiler

Petra ( Ryan – Baghdad) (Maya – Jaipur) (Tom – Jaipur)

Daily Doubles
Tom: 5800+1000
Maya: 3000-3000
Ryan: 10200+3000

Coryats
Ryan: 21800
Maya: 5000
Tom: 18600

Combined: 45,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Ryan: 8600
Maya: minus 400
Tom: 8800

[MarkBarrett]

Well done the players to be way down on mistakes and TS clues through 60 clues on the way to an impressive combined Coryat. Of course, that meant the FJ! clue would skunk the contestants. That's fine by Ryan as he has no intention of losing if 2nd place can't solve the 61st clue.

0/4 for me this week on FJ! clues and missing Monday is getting worse by the day as that one was my best chance so far.

Today, I scribbled Timbuktu at the end to avoid a blank page.

From Wikipedia about Jaipur: During the rule of Sawai Ram Singh I, the city was painted pink to welcome HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (who later became King Edward VII, Emperor of India), in 1876.[16] Many of the avenues still remain painted in pink, giving Jaipur a distinctive appearance and the epithet Pink city.

[BrigadierSolo13]

How is anyone supposed to pull Petra from this clue other than guessing a famous site on or around the Arabian peninsula?

Lately, it feels as if the wrong FJ responses make much more sense than the correct ones. That's a very poor sign.

[MinnesotaMyron]

The full Gertrude Bell passage:

http://gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk/letter_de ... er_id=1151

and from wikipedia:

On 6 July 2019, UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed Jaipur the "Pink City of India" among its World Heritage Sites.

https://en.unesco.org/news/seven-cultur ... itage-list

Yeah, that's neg-bait. Jaipur might not be in Arabia, but still.

(The wording of the wiki quote is weird. Think of it as "In 2019, UNESCO named Jaipur, the "Pink City of India", as a World Heritage Site." UNESCO didn't give it the nickname. That's how I originally read it.)

[Robert K S]

How is anyone supposed to pull Petra from this clue other than guessing a famous site on or around the Arabian peninsula?

Arabia + "all pink"

[MarkBarrett]

Have at it: https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7371

[DBear]

28/0 , 25/1 definitely easing up on the difficulty
trash: fentanyl (big news in the Denver area), Laveau. Easier boards mean less cleanup.
on betting clues. Guessed Uruk. I don't think pink when I hear Petra.

[Golf]

Guessed Uruk. I don't think pink when I hear Petra.

Uruk? In the ST:TNG episode Darmok(which aired on BBC today), did Picard mention anything about pink when discussing Gilgamesh, a king, at Uruk?

In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the city of Petra did appear pink. At least it was before the autobots partially destroyed it.

Perhaps I watch too much TV.....


Tom left 4800 on the table on DD1, enough to put him in the lead going into FJ if things play out the same. And with the wagering we've been seeing lately, I can't even begin to guess how that might have played out.

[BigDaddyMatty]

Coryat: $39,400
50 R/3 W
DD: 2/3
FJ:
LT: Marie Laveau

One thing I really admire in Ryan's game that very few people have is the nerve to put the game in his opponent's hands when he thinks that's his best shot.

I've seen plenty of pictures of Petra, and I've never thought of it as pink. That's probably my partial colorblindness talking. I can kind of see it in some of the shots, but it's not the thing that stands out to me.

Opus will be happy to hear that I was bang on with respect to DD1 placement. In DJ!, I expected Theater rather than Ye Old "E", but that was also before I realized the latter was a history category.

Speaking of which, those darn Etruscans!

Thank You For Your Service $800 confused me with its "Operation this country Freedom" phrasing. "Well, it can't be Iraqi, since that's not the name of a country. Afghan? Enduring? What are they going for here?"

[Bob78164]

This game is a draw for the Weak Form of Shore's Conjecture. The second-place player bet "big." --Bob

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

59 R (Did not know John Wick's dog breed.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:

[Vowela]

Yeah, that was one nasty FJ! Jaipur seemed like "what else could it be?" I'm not sure how you were meant to arrive at the right answer unless you just happened to already know that specific bit of trivia.

[mxc_takeshi]

38 right.

Lach Trash: galleons

FJ: (Mecca)

[seaborgium]

I knew Jaipur is in India, but I hoped that the "female Lawrence of Arabia" thing would be a Lawrence:Arabia::Bell:[place] analogy where it needn't have been an Arabian locale she was talking about—or ignorance on the part of the people who called her that. Like an article I once read about the music from Super Mario 64 that described a track with sitar and tabla as "Middle Eastern."

[Austin Powers]

I have been both to Petra and Jaipur and I felt that to be a very hard question.

I went with Petra because Bell was associated with Iraq and Lawrence Arabia was closely associated with the Middle East but not India.

Perhaps it was the time of day but Petra was more orange-yellow when I was there.

[Woof]

Preempted here for Bidens address. I’ll be looking for it elsewhere.

ETA: Ok, now having seen it, I can comment but I was spoiled on FJ, alas. Again, second makes the suicide all-in bet *sigh*

[This Is Kirk!]

I guess I'm lucky I didn't know Jaipur is known as the "Pink City" because Petra was the only thing that came to mind.