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Game Recap for Show #6350, 2012-04-06

CONTESTANTS
Lisa Lyons, a social media consultant from Van Nuys, California
Bing Huo, a mechanical engineer from Sunnyvale, California
Joey Falco, a writer from Santa Monica, California (whose 3-day cash winnings total $53,999)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. And thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hey, just as in sports competitions, on Jeopardy! you can develop momentum, and that's certainly true of our champion, young Joey here. He won about $4,000 in his first game, then $20,000 day before yesterday. Yesterday he won $30,000. Can he keep it going? Can he keep building today, at the expense of Bing and Lisa?

[Laughter]

Alex: Let's find out. Here we go--the Jeopardy! Round. And these are the categories that are now in play...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
HE SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
WORD UP (4/5)
CURRENT MUSIC (GET IT?) (4/5)
"J" FOOD & DRINK (5/5)
I'M TAKING FRENCH LEAVE (3/5)
HERALDRY (3/3)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Joey: 12 R, 4 W (including 1 DD)
Lisa: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Bing: 4 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,800



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Joey: $3,800
Lisa: $1,400
Bing: $400

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Although Lisa Lyons is from van nuys here in Southern California, she competed in the Hawaii Marathon. How did you do?

Lisa: Well, Alex, I actually--it was my first time doing a marathon, and I trained religiously for six months, and I ended up walking the entire 26 miles. And I finished in 11 hours and 55 minutes. And I was happy. [Laughs]

Alex: Were you the last one to finish?

Lisa: No, I was like 19,877, and I think there were probably about 1,700 people that came in after me, but I probably could have gone another quarter-mile, which was really my goal. And if you're gonna walk 26 miles, it might as well be around Hawaii.

Alex: Absolutely right. Well, congratulations.

Lisa: Thank you.




Alex: Bing Huo from Sunnyvale, California. Your name means...

Bing: My name means "fire and ice"...

Alex: "Fire..."

Bing: So Bing means "ice".

Alex: "Ice". Okay.

Bing: So my parents were a little funny.

[Laughter]

Alex: Why?

[Bing laughs.]

Alex: Because of--

Bing: It's a very poetic name, I guess...

Alex: Did you--

Bing: --but not a very traditional name.

Alex: All right. Mechanical engineer. Doing what kind of work, exactly?

Bing: I can't tell you.

[Laughter]

Bing: I can--I work for the defense industry.

Alex: Rockets? Satellites?

Bing: Maybe.

[Laughter]

Alex: Drones?

[Bing shrugs]

Alex: Okay.




Alex: Joey Falco is our champion. I don't think he's a particularly good driver. I know nothing about this man, except for the fact that there wa--he was driving in Mexico, there was a cow sleeping on the road, and he hit it, right?

[Laughter]

Joey: There you go. Well, it was late at night.

Alex: Late at night. It had to be.

Joey: And apparently they like to lay there at night, and I was coming around a bend, and I hit it. I didn't know what I hit, but I wound up in a--in a ditch. And then when I got out, I saw that this cow was... no longer...

Alex: Right.

Joey: ...a cow.

Alex: So you did the right thing?

Joey: I did the right thing, 'cause there was a ranch right there. But it turns out that in Mexico--according to this man, at least--there's a "you break it, you bought it" kind of law, and, uh, he charged me $800 for the dead cow that had wandered into the street. And since it's Mexico, I wanted--I, you know, paid him and--and went home, but--

Alex: Well, there's a similar law in this country, and that is...

[Joey chuckles]

Alex: ...if you kill a cow on the road, that cow had no business being there.

[Laughter]

Joey: That's how I feel.

Alex: So you go to the rancher, and he has to pay you to repair your car.

Joey: That's how I feel.

Alex: I think that's the correct reading of the law. I hope so.

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Joey found the Daily Double on the 26th clue. Joey had $4,200, Bing had $800, and Lisa was at $2,800. Joey wagered $3,000.

HE SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $800: He presided over debates that resulted in the Declaration, & 2 of his descendants became president
(Joey: Who is Adams?)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
WORD UP $1000: Oh, give me a this 11-letter term, the tendency of a physiological system to maintain internal stability
(Bing: What is equilibrium?)

CURRENT MUSIC (GET IT?) $1000: Carly Simon won an Oscar for this song from "Working Girl"

I'M TAKING FRENCH LEAVE $800: Au bord de la Tamise, this river

I'M TAKING FRENCH LEAVE $1000: En Nouvelle-Ecosse, this province
(Joey: What is New Brunswick?)

HE SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $1000: He later wrote the vice presidency was "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived"
(Bing: Who is Jefferson?)
(Joey: Who is... Aaron Burr?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Lisa: $2,800
Joey: $1,200
Bing: -$200
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
MNEMONICS (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
TV WORLD (5/5)
LITERARY LINKS (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY (5/5)
SCRATCH AN "ITCH" (4/5)
HAROLDRY (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Bing: 11 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 1 W
Lisa: 9 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Joey: 7 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,600



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Lisa snagged the next Daily Double on the 18th clue. Joey had $5,200, Bing had $3,800, and Lisa was at $11,600. Lisa wagered $4,500.

LITERARY LINKS $1600: Light in
_____
1914
(Lisa: Don't know.)
(Alex: Say something.)
(Lisa: Uh... the Piazza?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Bing who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 28th clue. Joey had $7,600, Bing had $7,800, and Lisa was at $7,900. Bing wagered $2,800.

MNEMONICS $1200: A mnemonic for the periodic table begins, "Happy Henry likes beer"; Happy Henry refers to these 2 elements

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
SCRATCH AN "ITCH" $2000: For Nicholas II of Russia, it was his son Alexis
(Lisa: What is Czaritch?)
...
(Alex: You needed one more syllable--[*].)

MNEMONICS $1600: The bones of the cranium go "Old people from Texas eat spiders", with O short for this

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Bing: $12,600
Lisa: $7,900
Joey: $7,600

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WORLD LEADERS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Crush for first place.
Bing: Wager $3,201 to cover Lisa.
Lisa: You have the hope of surpassing Bing if you come up with the correct response. Bet at least $7,301 to force Bing to wager to win while also protecting your position from being usurped by Joey.
Joey: Your only hope of a win is that you're the only one to give a correct response, so bet $7,598 or so, leaving a few bucks behind in case someone wagers it all.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Names of the pair seen here, who've been spending a lot of time together

FINAL SCORES
Joey: $7,600 + $7,600 = $15,200 (Who are Angela Merkel + Nicholas Sarkozy?) (2nd place: $2,000)
Lisa: $7,900 + $5,188 = $13,088 (Who are Sarkozy and Merkel) (3rd place: $1,000)
Bing: $12,600 + $3,201 = $15,801 (Who are Sarkozy and Merkel?) (New champion: $15,801)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $8,400

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Lisa: $12,400, 15 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Bing: $11,000, 15 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Joey: $10,600, 19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Combined Coryat: $34,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Joey: 20/59 = .339
Bing: 16/59 = .271
Lisa: 16/59 = .271
Team: 52/63 = .825

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
"J" FOOD & DRINK $1000: This 70-proof liqueur, a blend of 56 different herbs, has an umlaut over the second letter in its name
(Alex: Yes, and you said that as if you've had experience.)
(Joey: Never.)
[Laughter]

CURRENT MUSIC (GET IT?) $200: "The River" was his next album after "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
(Joey: Who is Billy Joel?)

HE SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE $400: In May 1775, He was President of the Continental Congress

HERALDRY $200: Also meaning someone renting from you, it's the heraldic term for a human figure holding up a coat of arms

HERALDRY $400: The heraldic colors "argent" & "or" get their names from these 2 precious metals
(Alex: Yes, with less than a minute to go.)

HERALDRY $1000: A coat of arms from Wales features an elephant & this eagle-lion hybrid
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY $400: Joseph P. Kennedy II was a 6-term congressman from this state where he was born
(Joey: What is Rhode Island?)

TV WORLD $800: Found in a range between 30 & 300 kilohertz, VHF stands for this, & many of you are watching a channel using it
[ERRATUM: VHF range is 30-300 megahertz.]

TV WORLD $1200: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew puts a filter over a stage light.) It sounds like a hair product, but it's actually a piece of colored sheeting used to tint & filter stage lights

TV WORLD $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates a camera lens filter.) This type of camera lens filter with a 4-letter name enhances a visual image by creating points of light streaking outward

HAROLDRY $1200: In the silent film "Safety Last!", this comic dangles from the hands of a clock on a tall building
(Bing: Who is Chaplin?)

THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY $2000: RFK's eldest, this girl in the foreground, went on to be Maryland's lieutennant governor

CORRECT RESPONSES
Benjamin Harrison
homoeostasis
"Let The River Run"
the Thames
Nova Scotia
John Adams
August
hydrogen & helium
Czarevitch
occipital
Nicholas Sarkozy & Angela Merkel
Jägermeister
Bruce Springsteen
John Hancock
a tenant
silver & gold
a griffin
Massachusetts
very high frequency
gel
star
Harold Lloyd
Kathleen
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World Leaders
Names of the pair seen here, who've been spending a lot of time together.

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Who are Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel? (The President of France and Chancellor of Germany, respectively.)
Bing Huo: $12,600+$3,201=$15,801...now a 1-day champion with $15,801
Lisa Lyons: $7,900+$5,188=$13,088
Joey Falco: $7,600+$7,600=$15,200
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9 right. Missed some I should've gotten. Very easy instaget FJ.
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not even going to say anything about Joey's FJ wager. ;)

Need two rulings from the judges......

Just "Harrison" for the Declaration signer DD?

And "Who are Merkel and the French dude?" on FJ.
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Waiting for TPH to complain about how he had no chance in FJ given his prosopagnosia in 3, 2 ...

(Although, he would have a bit of a point, as I don't see any reasonable TOM in the text of the clue. (Recognized Merkel instantly, but couldn't recognize Sarkozy. Berlusconi would have been a bit more recognizable (and probably trying to grab her))
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Bamaman wrote:not even going to say anything about Joey's FJ wager. ;)

Need two rulings from the judges......

Just "Harrison" for the Declaration signer DD?

And "Who are Merkel and the French dude?" on FJ.
For the first, I see no problem, only one Harrison signed.

For the second, you're not serious, are you?
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I got it pretty quickly, but why the heck were they on a beach?
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dhkendall wrote:Waiting for TPH to complain about how he had no chance in FJ given his prosopagnosia in 3, 2 ...
I predict he will also complain about how slow Lisa was to select, and how she read the whole category name. (Not that he'd be wrong this time!) I'm bitter because I was 3/3 in an unlikely category when they ran out of time.
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lisa0012 wrote:I got it pretty quickly, but why the heck were they on a beach?
Location, Location, Location. Better places for photos.

And this three time into Friday drought continues. Joey shot himself good with that ill-advised DD wager in the JRound then the neg right after. This Tournament field is getting into that drought, and Francis & Patrick should be watching since they are two great champs currently on the bubble.

Instaget final.
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Surprisingly, I ran French Leave. $200 was probably the toughest, but I got it from knowing that Germany in Spanish is "Alemania". Also ran Word Up, and Jarlsberg kept me from running J Food.

How the heck was "this eagle-lion hybrid" a $1000 clue? I thought everyone knew that she made Fluttershy cry. :D

Hudson River and Witch were also grossly overvalued.

FJ? Doesn't matter since I've never heard of either person anyway.

Ironically, I was talking to a friend online about prosopagnosia and how it seems to hinder my ability to draw faces — which is a big handicap if you're trying to start a webcomic. (Still hasn't stopped Tim B^Uckley from being insanely popular...)
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TenPoundHammer wrote: FJ? Doesn't matter since I've never heard of either person anyway.
I am really tempted to say this is ignorant. How can you not know who runs Germany and France, they are two of our "allies".
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Instaget...on Merkel. I should've recognized Sarkozy instantly as well, but didn't. Maybe, without realizing it and despite him being in the news, I haven't seen his face in in a while? Anyway, figured it out with time to spare.

When Bing hit that DD, I didn't even realize he was that close to the lead. I thought Lisa was going to run away with it, and was practically chanting "August! August!" on her DD.

If Joey makes the TOC as a 3-dayer directly because of that reckless wager yesterday, I'll laugh my ass off :D
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FJ was an instaget for me. I guess it helps to pay some attention to world politics. ;)

I laughed at how close I came on the August DD with my WAG of September.
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Roadgeek Adam wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote: FJ? Doesn't matter since I've never heard of either person anyway.
I am really tempted to say this is ignorant. How can you not know who runs Germany and France, they are two of our "allies".
I don't pay attention to world politics. And as I said, it wouldn't matter since I don't see how anyone could pick their faces out of a crowd.
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TenPoundHammer wrote:
Roadgeek Adam wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote: FJ? Doesn't matter since I've never heard of either person anyway.
I am really tempted to say this is ignorant. How can you not know who runs Germany and France, they are two of our "allies".
I don't pay attention to world politics. And as I said, it wouldn't matter since I don't see how anyone could pick their faces out of a crowd.
So its plain ignorance. That's exactly what I got out of your statement. This question has been asked several times, and I'm not going to ask it again. However, is it the inside sense that you just like the show in general or you just like being proven wrong every evening at 7?
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It's more "world politics doesn't come up that often".
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I liked this board a little bit better than the ones that we have seen lately. The guy who won benefited from that ridiculously easy "hydrogen and helium" DD. The female contestant should have known the "August" DD, but that one was a little harder.

I was lost on FJ. I definitely know Sarkozy's and Merkel's names but their faces just didn't look familiar to me.

Joey self-destructed a little bit in this game but it didn't matter too much, with the guy who won finding the last DD.
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Roadgeek Adam wrote:
TenPoundHammer wrote: FJ? Doesn't matter since I've never heard of either person anyway.
I am really tempted to say this is ignorant. How can you not know who runs Germany and France, they are two of our "allies".
Kind of a loaded question: Can you name the president of South Africa? The Prime MInister of New Zealand? (Heck, many Americans can't even name the Prime Minister of their closest ally, but I think even TPH knows that one.) Heck, I would think most countries are either our "ally" or our "enemy" (and we know plenty of those leaders (Ahmadinejad, Kim, Chavez), but not all).

It's more a case of knowing the leaders of "prominent" countries. Countries like the US, China, and Russia are more important nowadays than France and Germany (and much more so than NZ, S. Africa, and Canada). Just depends on who gets the most ink. (And I'll bet TPH that he probably can think of the names of 5 world leaders if he took the time to think about it (I'll even make it easy for him and include kings and queens, who are world leaders as well.)
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I'm with David on this one. I'm fairly well-informed, but I couldn't name more than 10-20 world leaders. It just happens that Sarkozy and Merkel are among them.
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