Fourth Podium Poll for Thursday, June 23, 2022

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Which of these clues did you get?

SJ16 $800 THE DEVIL: This insect is also called the devil's arrow or the devil's darning needle (Jeff: What is a hornet?)
30
55%
SJ17 DD1 THE DEVIL: A debate provoker, this 2-word phrase dates to a 1616 work where one "pleadeth for nothing but for the kingdome of Sathan"
44
80%
SJ19 $200 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: I need some Shakespeare & get her line "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (Jeff: Who's Ophelia?)
49
89%
SJ21 $600 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: A putdown, please. Oscar Wilde told a fellow poet who complained of "a conspiracy of" this, "join it" (Jeff: What are dunces?) (Whitney: What are fools?)
3
5%
SJ22 $800 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: Commencement address wisdom: "Be the heroine of your life, not the victim", said this writer & filmmaker at Wellesley in 1996
25
45%
SJ27 $600 YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED: A classic work of literary criticism is Ian Watt's "The Rise of" this form: "Studies in Defoe, Richardson & Fielding" (Whitney: What is a chapbook?)
23
42%
DJ3 $2000 THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK: B.F. Goodrich once owned this word for the "hookless slide fastener" on its rubber boots
30
55%
DJ4 $1200 MOUNTAINS: This section of the Alps that include some famous peaks, gets its name from the Celtic "penn", meaning "peak"
12
22%
DJ6 $2000 MOUNTAINS: Africa's second-highest peak, it bears the name of the country it's found in
43
78%
DJ7 $400 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Last name of gunslinging title hero Wynonna, who partnered with Doc Holliday on a Syfy show
23
42%
DJ8 $800 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: A-Train & Homelander leave a bit to be desired as superheroes on this Amazon show based on Garth Ennis' work
22
40%
DJ10 $1600 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Adaptations of the "Kick-Ass" series gave this 3-named actress her breakout role as a spunky character named "Hit-Girl"
17
31%
DJ20 $2000 IT'S ANARCHY: In July 1917 Emma Goldman got 2 years in prison for opposing this wartime measure, authorized by Congress in May
30
55%
DJ24 $800 MOUNTAINS: Lending their name to a peninsula, these mountains extend from Serbia to the Black Sea
27
49%
DJ25 $400 MOUNTAINS: Utah's highest point is 13,500-foot Kings Peak in these mountains
39
71%
DJ30 $1200 PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY: The book was unfinished at his death, so he took the end of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to the grave
41
75%
FJ CLASSIC ALBUMS: This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral
30
55%
 
Total votes: 55

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Fourth Podium Poll for Thursday, June 23, 2022

Post by opusthepenguin »

Yesterday looked like it shouldn't be tough but yielded few fourth podium wins. Today, I predict the opposite. Jeff's got $20,000 going into FJ, but he's totally catchable. All you need is $10,001 plus a get on this FJ. There's $15,000 in trash available plus you can argue you get another $1000 if you got dragonfly and thus feel entitled to the DD that came next. And if Jeff didn't get that DD, that sets him back $1400 at the end of SJ which has an unpredictable effect on his wager when he uncovers DD2 and misses which has a doubly unpredictable effect on how much he has to go all-in with on DD3, so forget that rabbit trail.

SCORES GOING INTO FJ

Jeff Weinstock: 20000 - missed FJ
Whitney Wood: 7600 - missed FJ
Andrew Lewis: 11000 - missed FJ
CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND

SJ16 $800 THE DEVIL: dragonfly
SJ17 DD1 THE DEVIL: devil's advocate
SJ19 $200 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: Juliet
SJ21 $600 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: silence
SJ22 $800 MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE: Nora Ephron
SJ27 $600 YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED: the novel

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND

DJ3 $2000 THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK: zipper
DJ4 $1200 MOUNTAINS: the Pennine Alps
DJ6 $2000 MOUNTAINS: Mount Kenya
DJ7 $400 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Earp
DJ8 $800 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: The Boys
DJ10 $1600 IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Chloë Grace Moretz
DJ20 $2000 IT'S ANARCHY: the draft
DJ30 $1200 PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY: Charles Dickens
DJ24 $800 MOUNTAINS: the Balkans
DJ25 $400 MOUNTAINS: the Rocky Mountains

FINAL JEOPARDY

CLASSIC ALBUMS: Damn the Torpedoes
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:| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen:

$11,600 assuming I really would've rung in on Mount Kenya. I'm still not sure if I should count that. But If I do, I bet enough on FJ to pass Jeff and win the game.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :(
:mrgreen:

Clammed on all the misses, except the Rockies, where I went with Wasatch
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$9,000 + DD1 and missed FJ! along with making an Apennine out of myself.
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Maybe they got confused by the Rockies but none of them knowing Edwin Drood = Dickens? Headscratcher.
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:| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :| :| :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen:

$9800 + DD1 + FJ. Again, not close enough.
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Wikipedia says the Pennine Alps are "Not to be confused with Pennines or Apennines". Who are they kidding? Of course they are.
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$10,800 including $1,000 for the first DD, but no FJ so probably no good. (At least I made note of "admiral" while there was still time, unlike the Trafalgar FJ earlier this month.)
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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I wonder when other players at home consider the "4th podium" to you also include DDs that are missed by (of course) only one player. (I usually don't.)

But without those, in today's game I racked up $6,200 in LT plus sole get on FJ, not nearly enough to cover a fine job by the defending champ.
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$11,600 + DD1 + FJ!
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :| :|
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Leander wrote: Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:24 pm
Clammed on all the misses, except the Rockies, where I went with Wasatch
I also said Wasatch, but it's actually in the Uintas.
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John Boy wrote: Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:56 am I wonder when other players at home consider the "4th podium" to you also include DDs that are missed by (of course) only one player. (I usually don't.)
I tend not to, but I like to put the option in when a DD comes right after a TS. It's not a clean fourth podium win if you need those points, but it can be fun to speculate. One variable, of course, is that you can't be sure that you would have chosen the same clue if you had gained control of the board.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :| :| :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:mrgreen:

If I count the DD for $1,000, I get to exactly $20,000. Fourth podium tie! (But actually, if we give DD1 to the fourth podium, Jeff presumably ends up with less than $20,000. Hypotheticals FT(4P)W!)
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:| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :|
:| :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
:(

10200, but no FJ so nuts.
(I smileyed DD1, but it added zero to my total anyway)
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Juliet (!), novel, zipper, Mt. Kenya, Earp, The Boys, draft, Balkans, Rockies (!!), Dickens

(Also got the devil's advocate DD but not counting that toward my score.)

That's $10,400. Went with the right half of the right quote for the win.
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