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Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #7132, 2015-09-22

CONTESTANTS
Dylan Parson, a student from Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
Mai Kulkarni, an operations manager from Macon, Georgia
Natalie Lips, an office assistant from Lincoln, Nebraska (whose 3-day cash winnings total $57,601)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny Gilbert, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Good to have you with us once again. Our champion, Natalie Lips. Her mother used to be a fan of the original Jeopardy! program in the 60s and 70s when the show was hosted by Art Fleming. And her mom worked with her to prepare her for her appearance on our program. Obviously, she did a good job. Natalie's on a roll. Will Mai and Dylan be able to stop her today? I don't know if you got help from your mom. I hope so. Good luck, though. Here we go. Here are the categories in the Jeopardy! round...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
ADVENTURE TRAVEL (5/5)
"B"OOKS (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY (1/2)
REMEMBER SEPTEMBER (4/5)
PORTMANTEAU WORDS (4/5)
ROCKET MAN (2/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Natalie: 8 R, 1 W
Mai: 5 R (including 2 rebounds), 1 W (including 1 DD)
Dylan: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W

Clues revealed: 27
Triple Stumpers: 7
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,600



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Mai found the Daily Double on the 7th clue. Natalie had $2,000, Mai had $800, and Dylan had a deficit with -$600. Mai wagered $1,000.

"B"OOKS $400: This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods"
(Alex: Mai, anything?)
(Mai: No, I'm sorry.)

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Mai: $2,200
Natalie: $1,000
Dylan: -$200

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Dylan Parson is from Pennsylvania, but he's now a student at Denison University in Ohio, and he has a very interesting research project that he's working on.

Dylan: Yes. Um, I'm a research assistant in the history department, and we're working on something with war correspondence from World War I. German soldiers and Canadian soldiers and not speaking German, I'm working on the Canadian.

Alex: Why Canadian, rather than U.S. soldiers?

Dylan: There actually happens to be a huge database of letters from the University of Vancouver Island, I think. Um, so we're just looking at all the letters from hundreds of soldiers to see what they're talking about, what they're feeling, and kind of see some correlations across the front.

Alex: Okay. Well done.




Alex: Mai Kulkarni, from Macon, Georgia, has an understanding with her sister. It's kind of a good understanding.

Mai: Right. Well, a couple of years ago on my birthday, she won big at a casino, and I got a cut, and so, now we have an understanding that whenever either one of us wins big, the other gets 10 percent. It's the right amount to promote, you know sisterly support and solidarity.

Alex: Absolutely. You've got her in the cheering section, yes.




Alex: Natalie Lips is an office assistant. She is our champion and collects things that have the Superman logo on it. So you're a big fan of Superman?

Natalie: I am. Specifically Dean Cain, 'cause my sisters and I used to watch Lois & Clark when we were younger. Actually, I have a Superman tattoo on my back, and I have cups, socks, boxers --anything really that has Superman on the back, I already have it.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
PORTMANTEAU WORDS $400: In the late 19th century, new technology made possible this method of capital punishment

"B"OOKS $600: The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing

A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $200: This media source abbreviated WWD is often called "the fashion bible"

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $800: The setting for literature's "Cannery Row", this California city also has a hep September jazz festival

ROCKET MAN $600: This "Rocket" was the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Award 7 times

ROCKET MAN $800: This NBA center was "The Dream" leading the Houston Rockets to 1994 & 1995 NBA titles
(Alex: His name is [*]. Hakeem the Dream.)

ROCKET MAN $200: Maurice "Rocket" Richard of this 1950s team's dynasty was the first NHL player to score 500 goals
[End-of-round signal sounds.]

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Natalie: $3,400
Dylan: $2,800
Mai: $2,200
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
LOGOS (4/5)
FRENCH FILM REMAKES (3/5)
VO"CAB"ULARY (4/5)
COMPOSER RHYME TIME (4/5)
ROCKET, MAN (3/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Dylan: 12 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Natalie: 7 R, 0 W
Mai: 3 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 7
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $11,600



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Dylan snagged the next Daily Double on the 10th clue. Natalie had $5,800, Mai had $600, and Dylan was at $4,000. Dylan wagered $2,000.

ROCKET, MAN $800: "About Combustion Tests", this German's 1934 Ph.D. thesis, dealt with 660-pound-thrust rocket engines

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Dylan who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 13th clue. Natalie had $5,800, Mai had $600, and Dylan was at $9,600. Dylan wagered $3,500.

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG $1200: The flag of "the Tar Heel State" has these 2 letters on either side of a white star
(Dylan: What is North Carolina?)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
LOGOS $2000: The logo of Papyrus cards & stationery stores includes this type of bird
(Dylan: What is an ibis?)

ROCKET, MAN $1600: The ratio of thrust to this is used to evaluate rocket engine performance
(Mai: What is gravity?)

ROCKET, MAN $2000: The radio link between the ground & a rocket or missile isn't called television but this tele-word

VO"CAB"ULARY $1200: From Latin for "friend", it means "friendly"

COMPOSER RHYME TIME $2000: 20th century Englishman Benjamin in love
(Alex: Less than one minute to go.)

FRENCH FILM REMAKES $1200: In "La Femme Infidele", Stephanie Audran cheats on Michel Bouquet; in "Unfaithful", it's this actress & Richard Gere

FRENCH FILM REMAKES $1600: It's the English title of the 1983 English-language remake of Jean-Luc Godard's classic "A Bout de Souffle"

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Dylan: $11,700
Natalie: $9,000
Mai: $5,000

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Three-quarters for first place.
Dylan: Wager $6,301 to cover Natalie.
Natalie: You'll want to wager $2,701, and you'll win the game if Dylan wagers enough and gets it wrong.
Mai: You can't really win on a Triple Stumper, so your best hope is if you're the only one to get Final right. Wager everything but a few dollars.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The only election year since 1952 in which neither major-party candidate had been president or vice president

FINAL SCORES
Mai: $5,000 - $3,001 = $1,999 (What 1980) (2nd place)
Natalie: $9,000 - $9,000 = $0 (What is 1976?) (3rd place)
Dylan: $11,700 - $6,301 = $5,399 (What is the election of 2000?) (New champion: $5,399)
([Revealing Dylan's response] Alex: No, you were off by 8 years, when Barack Obama and John McCain duoed.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $15,200

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Dylan: $14,000, 18 R (including 1 DD), 4 W (including 1 DD)
Natalie: $9,000, 15 R, 1 W
Mai: $6,000, 8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Combined Coryat: $29,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Dylan: 18/60 = .300
Natalie: 15/58 = .259
Mai: 8/59 = .136
Team: 41/63 = .651

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
PORTMANTEAU WORDS $600: Unpack the portmanteau word "bit" & you'll find it's made up of this word & "digit"
(Dylan: What is information?)

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $600: In September 1774 Peyton Randolph was chosen president of the first of these political gatherings
(Dylan: What is a convention?)

REMEMBER SEPTEMBER $1000: In September 1980 this historic trade union was founded in Gdansk
(Natalie: What is NATO?)

A FASHIONABLE CATEGORY $400: (Hi, I'm fashion designer Cynthia Rowley.) I got my start in retail when a woman on the "L" train admired my jacket...it turned out she was a buyer for this historic Chicago department store, which bought my first collection

ADVENTURE TRAVEL $800: Don't get too close hiking near the Bardarbunga volcano, part of the Holuhraun lava field in this country

ADVENTURE TRAVEL $400: Many visitors make the 3-hour hike from the Mexican town of Angagueo to see the winter home of millions of these insects
(Alex: Monarch [*], with a minute left.)

LOGOS $400: In the early 1960s McDonald's starting using this as its logo--didn't hurt that it looked like an "M"
[ERRATUM: Alex said "started," not "starting."]

ROCKET, MAN $1200: (Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) The Titan II's nosecone, where the warhead sat, was known as the RV, or this vehicle; the missile would go well out of the atmosphere at an altitude of more than 600 miles

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG $2000: This country's 1994 flag includes the black, green and yellow of liberation organizations, and the red, white and blue of settler flags

RAISE THE WHITE IN THE FLAG $400: The king of Sweden had to approve this country's flag, which included symbols of the Danish flag

CORRECT RESPONSES
Bambi
electrocution
Bel Canto
Women's Wear Daily
Monterey
Roger Clemens
Hakeem Olajuwon
Montreal Canadiens
Wernher von Braun
NC
a hummingbird
weight
telemetry
amicable
Britten smitten
Diane Lane
Breathless
2008
binary
the Continental Congress
Solidarity
Marshall Field's
Iceland
butterflies
the Golden Arches
re-entry
South Africa
Norway
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Daily Double in a flag category? Yes please! (I know if that was me up there I'd Clavin that sumbitch!) Although TPTB didn't have to rub it in for me, first having at least two players so far that auditioned the same week I did, and now having a flag category with a DD in it when they're on. I know I still have 15 months in the pool, but it's going to be a *long* 15 months if they keep teasing me like this ...

Had the right election for Final, but got the wrong year for it (was 4 years early).
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dhkendall wrote:Daily Double in a flag category? Yes please! (I know if that was me up there I'd Clavin that sumbitch!) Although TPTB didn't have to rub it in for me, first having at least two players so far that auditioned the same week I did, and now having a flag category with a DD in it when they're on. I know I still have 15 months in the pool, but it's going to be a *long* 15 months if they keep teasing me like this ...

Had the right election for Final, but got the wrong year for it (was 4 years early).
Oh, pshaw.

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That FJ being a Triple Stumper has killed me. I am now dead. RIP.
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Really shocked that the FJ was a triple stumper. I got it working backwards.
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But she finally had an acceptable outfit!

KIDDING! I WAS KIDDING! PUT DOWN THE PITCHFORKS!

FJ took me about 5 seconds, can't believe nobody thought of it.
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Re: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Game Recap & Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Presidential Elections

The only election year since 1952 in which neither major-party candidate had been president or vice president.
Spoiler
What is 2008; Mai had 1980; Natalie had 1976; Dylan had 2000.
Dylan Parson: $11,700-$6,301=now a 1-day champion with $5,399

Mai Kulkarni: $5,000-$3,001= $1,999

Natalie Lips: $9,000-$9,000=$0
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dhkendall wrote:Daily Double in a flag category? Yes please! (I know if that was me up there I'd Clavin that sumbitch!)
That was me in the Rocket, Man category.

Gotta admit, I had no idea that electrocution was a portmanteau.

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Lach Trash: "amicable".

I thought "Women's Wear Daily" was extremely undervalued at $200, judging from the stand-and-stare. Can we poll it?

Canadiens also seemed steep for $200 IMO.

"The Bell Jar" was my only get in "B"ooks.

Knowing too much about the subject matter caused me to clam on Marshall Field's. "Well, it could be Field's, but Sears was also based in Chicago. Or maybe Carson's? Goldblatt's?"

I threw up the white flag as soon as White Flag came up. Nothing even remotely recognizable in French Film or Rocket, Man either. My mind went the wrong way on "the thing you're standing on now" and wondered if maybe "platform" or "podium/lectern/whatever the hell those things are" was correct.

Blanking on the second half of "Hayden's Poseidons" (got snagged on "dryad") wasn't enough to cost me the run in Rhyme Time, as I had NHO Benjamin Britten.

Got FJ! with surprising speed given my weakness in the category. Let's see, 2012 was Obama/Romney. Who did Obama run against in 2008? I can't remember, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't anyone who had previously been president or VP. 2008 it is.
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That was a strange TS. It's like they either forgot that re-elections mean that one of them was a president, or in the new champ's case...did he really forget Gore was Clinton's VP (insert political jokes here I guess)?

As is usually the case in FJs like this, I managed to pick the wrong direction to start from, and took a good while to work my way to 2008.
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Congratulations to Dylan on his win. I had 37 correct responses including five triple stumpers: Women's Wear Daily, Monterey, Roger Clemens, Montreal Canadiens, and telemetry. I also got the missed DD's of Bambi and NC. Got FJ about ten seconds in.
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Ugly game, right down to the TS on a very gettable FJ (I started chronologically at the beginning, but then within a few seconds Obama popped into my head and 2008 was signed, sealed, and delivered). And so much lach trash, although embarrassingly I was like a deer in the headlights on the "Bambi" DD. :D I had heard a long time ago that Salten was author of the book version, but neither that fact nor the book's subtitle was coming to me. I tend to think of "Bambi" more as a movie, even though it's a multimedia sensation. In my defense, the book was first published in the English language back in 1928. Is it still a thing for parents to buy that book for their kids? BTW, until researching it a few minutes ago, I did not know that the book was originally published in Austria (in 1923).
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Now is definitely the time for the Fashion Huns to stand down. This is the hour of the Wagering Viking.

Sigh. Natalie, oh Natalie. Dylan by rights should have had a runaway. But that North Carolina instead of NC gaffe left him with $7000 less than he should have had. This totally put Natalie in contention if only she had known how to wager from second.

On the other hand, with an easy FJ like that, nobody's going to miss it anyway, right? :o
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Sketchy wagering in all four games and concluding with a really bad FJ wager pretty much confirms Natalie had never been to this site prior to taping.

The most Lach Trash so far for me in the new season. Electrocution, Roger Clemens, Hakeem Olajuwon, Canadians and a couple I can't recall at the moment.
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Category 13 wrote:The most Lach Trash so far for me in the new season. ... Canadians ...
Although Alex gave that as a correct response, it wasn't.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

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30 right.

Travel (3), "B"ook (2), Fashion (0), Sept (4), Port (2), Rocket (5)
White (5), Logo (3), Film (2), "Cab" (2), Rhyme (1), Rocket, Man (1)

Lach Trash: "Bambi"- DD, "Monterey", "Roger Clemens", "(H)akeem Olajuwon", "Montreal Canadiens", "N-C"

Not an instant FJ, but it took longer because I went from 1952 up instead of the other way.
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Only 7 episodes into the season, and already three of my recordings have been ruined. I have a very bad feeling about this.

I hope WIVB does not cancel Daytime Jeopardy! within the next year (or much longer, as I expect they will spoil much more than the two broadcasts they have already spoiled (the other being spoiled through no apparent fault of theirs)).

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
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zakharov wrote:That FJ being a Triple Stumper has killed me. I am now dead. RIP.
We may need a mass grave.
corvo wrote:Really shocked that the FJ was a triple stumper. I got it working backwards.


Yes, backwards was the way to go. I got to 2008 and sat there, blinking fast, thinking, "No... too easy. What qualifier am I overlooking?" Reread the clue and relaxed. Cannot believe none of them got it.
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OntarioQuizzer wrote:
dhkendall wrote:Daily Double in a flag category? Yes please! (I know if that was me up there I'd Clavin that sumbitch!) Although TPTB didn't have to rub it in for me, first having at least two players so far that auditioned the same week I did, and now having a flag category with a DD in it when they're on. I know I still have 15 months in the pool, but it's going to be a *long* 15 months if they keep teasing me like this ...

Had the right election for Final, but got the wrong year for it (was 4 years early).
Oh, pshaw.

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