Wednesday, July 27, 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
REAL PEOPLE IN POETRY

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Milton wrote of this contemporary: "When by night the glass of" him "observes imagined lands and regions in the moon"

Ed Coulson: 17600-11800=5800
Colleen Birney: 8200-2200=6000
Brianne Barker: 14700-3000=11700 (New Champ)

Correct response:

Spoiler

Galileo (Ed – Spenser) (Colleen- Who is?) (Brianne – John Donne)

Daily Doubles
Brianne: 2000+1500
Ed: 4000+4000
Colleen: 11200-3000

Coryats
Ed: 14400
Colleen: 11200
Brianne: 13800

Combined: 39,400

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Ed: 3600
Colleen: 2000
Brianne: 8700

[MinnesotaMyron]

Poll request. I missed this because I assumed he was talking about another poet.

[MarkBarrett]

Watching The Thing About Pam paid off for $2000 in LT today beside the absurd entertainment of it.

DD3 was hanging around until the 29th clue. Colleen played it trailing 11200 to 14700 to 17600 and bet 3000. The round ended with DJ30 going TS.

Ed doubled up on DD2, but it turned out first place was not the spot to be today on a triple miss FJ! clue.

I'll make it 0/4 as it was not for me. Only to avoid a blank page I wrote Blake in doing a "glass" to glass tiger to "tiger" connection.

My precalls were Whitman/Captain and Coleridge/Kubla.

[MarkBarrett]

Poll request. I missed this because I assumed he was talking about another poet.

Seen and I'll check that box.

[cf1140]

Just throwing this out here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius

[DBear]

Figured out that Milton was writing about a scientist.
Thought an English writer would be writing about an English scientist, so I guessed Isaac Newton.

[cf1140]

Poll request. I missed this because I assumed he was talking about another poet.

I thought of Galileo but switched to Newton because of the "Glass of [him]" part. I knew Newton invented the [reflecting] telescope and thought that was what the clue was referring to.

[MarkBarrett]

Guess what day it is: https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=7421

[LucarioSnooperVixey]

60 R (It's a miracle.)
DD: 3/3
FJ:

My Mom has been watching "The Thing About Pam" so I wasn't missing that.

Good thing they showed a picture of Forest Whitaker.

Knew Rami Malek because I was browsing through previous online tests and Mr. Robot was one of the answers with Rami Malek in the clue.

I've had multiple 60/60's in the past, but this is probably my proudest one.

[cosmos]

I think special op instead of special ed should also be acceptable.

[opusthepenguin]

Started with Galileo but talked myself into Newton. Sigh.

[threearruda]

Another Newton, and I did cross out Galileo. I took the word contemporary too literally, as in, they're in roughly the same geographic area.

[BigDaddyMatty]

Coryat: $39,600
50 R/0 W
DD: 3/3
FJ:
LT: Cloud Cuckoo Land, ed, Brazil, gyrocopter, Conestoga wagon (DD)

Poll request. I missed this because I assumed he was talking about another poet.

*check*

I had never heard of Cloud Cuckoo Land until it was used in The Lego Movie, and it wasn't until a few years after that that I learned it hadn't just been made up for the film.

NHO Betty Botter.

Colleen demonstrated the counterproductivity of the "neither fish nor fowl" middling DD wager on DD3. $3000 probably seemed like a safe, round number, but it was a) enough to more or less put her out of contention if she missed and b) not enough to take her out of third even if she got it right.

[Bamaman]

She still had a chance to win with her DD bet. But her FJ bet still puts her below Brianne's MSBIW if she gets it right. But then Brianne overbet herself.

I knew he was way after Milton, but Jules Verne was all I could come up with.

[davey]

I don't understand the difficulty with this FJ... Could Milton be more explicit in describing a man's "glass" that "observes" the "moon"? Did "imagined lands" make people assume it was a poet? I considered only famous astronomers, and I thought the ones who were Milton's contemporaries were Galileo and Kepler...I went with the obvious one. If I'd thought of Halley I might have hesitated - but he's later anyway...

[econgator]

Poll request. I missed this because I assumed he was talking about another poet.

Yep.

Couldn't think of any any other contemporaries of Milton, though, so I guessed Coleridge.

[harrumph]

Galileo was famous for using his telescope to explore the moon. It's the most obvious object in the sky to examine with the magnification of his telescope.