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Friday, January 12, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #7675, 2018-01-12

Gilbert Collins game 3.

CONTESTANTS
Alisha Mathalikunnel, a medical student from Alhambra, California
Alex Cook, a consultant from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Gilbert Collins, a university administrator from Princeton, New Jersey (whose 2-day cash winnings total $22,798)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, my friends, and welcome. Alex and Alisha are the newcomers. Good to have you with us. Gilbert, good to see you again. Let's go to work. Now let's find out what the categories are...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
JANUARY (3/5)
POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER (5/5)
IT'S RAINING "MEN" (5/5)
MUMMY DEAREST (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
OREGON (4/5)
SO YOU'VE BEEN INDICTED (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Alex: 11 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Alisha: 10 R (including 3 rebounds), 1 W
Gilbert: 5 R, 3 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 3
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,400



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Alex found the Daily Double on the 15th clue. Gilbert had $2,400, Alex had $3,600, and Alisha was at $1,800. Alex wagered $2,000.

MUMMY DEAREST $1000: He discovered the grandmummy of them all & soon wrote a book called "The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen"
(Alex Trebek: Alex?)
(Alex Cook: I don't--i don't know.)

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Gilbert: $2,400
Alisha: $1,800
Alex: $1,600

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Alisha Mathalikunnel.

Alisha: Yes.

Alex: You had a terrifying experience visiting a country I have visited in Africa--Ghana.

Alisha: Yes.

Alex: Tell me about it.

Alisha: We were at a crocodile farm, where crocodiles just roam around and they let tourists go. And we got in line to pet a crocodile that was sleeping, and I did not wanna do that, so I was last in line. And by the time I came up, the crocodile woke up, and he looked right at me. So I just ran right out of there. I was like, "I'm not petting a crocodile right now."

Alex: I thought you were gonna say, "By the time I got there, the crocodile had gotten to be so big that that scared the daylights out of me."

[Laughter]

Alisha: No, he was just awake and grumpy.

Alex: You could pick up the little baby crocs, right? The little tiny ones?

Alisha: I don't wanna do that. I don't wanna do that.




Alex Trebek: Alex Cook is from Saint Paul, Minnesota. No crocodiles there.

Alex Cook: No.

Alex Trebek: Tell me how you met your wife.

Alex Cook: My wife Sarah and I met playing ultimate Frisbee. She was really reluctant to come out because this was in wintertime, in February. Her friend Carrie threw what's called a hammer toss, or hammer throw, which is kind of an overhead throw, which I--no business should have caught, but I did, and I guess that kind of caught her eye, so she was in awe of my skills, I guess.

Alex Trebek: One of the rules of Minnesota, I know. You have to marry them.

Alex Cook: That's right.




Alex: Gilbert Collins is our champion. He is sort of in trouble, I guess, and he's hoping that he wins a lot more money because what did you promise your kids?

Gilbert: Yes, I have two lovely kids--Timmy and Nikki. And I promised them that anything I won on Jeopardy!, they get 1%. So since their allowance is $2 a week, that's a lot of money for them.

Alex: Now, don't dog it from here on. Do your best.

[Laughter]

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
OREGON $1000: Around 1836 Washington Irving wrote a history of this man's successful fur trading business in Oregon
(Alex: Hence, Astoria.)

JANUARY $600: The Anglo-Saxons named January this month, after predators that came into villages during winter in search of food

JANUARY $800: Every year on this date U.S. Christians celebrate Epiphany, a holy day commemorating the arrival of the 3 wise men
(Alisha: What is Jan. 12th?)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Alex: $4,600
Alisha: $4,400
Gilbert: $1,400
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
TITLES FROM POETRY (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
11-LETTER WORDS (5/5)
ONE-HIT WONDERS (3/4)
GET WITH THE PROGRAM! (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR (3/5)
PUBLIC ANEMONE (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Gilbert: 14 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Alex: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Alisha: 4 R, 3 W

Clues revealed: 29
Triple Stumpers: 4
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $7,200



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Alex snagged the next Daily Double on the 5th clue. Gilbert had $1,400, Alex had $7,000, and Alisha was at $2,800. Alex wagered $2,500.

GET WITH THE PROGRAM! $2000: This program named for a senator sends U.S. students abroad to foster international goodwill
(Alex Trebek: Alex?)
(Alex Cook: What is the... Marshall program?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Gilbert who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 14th clue. Gilbert had $6,600, Alex had $5,300, and Alisha was at $2,400. Gilbert wagered $3,000.

TITLES FROM POETRY $1200: The best-laid plans of these 2 authors gave us 1785's "To a Mouse" & the 1937 title inspired by it, "Of Mice and Men"
(Gilbert: Who are Robert Burns and...)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
TITLES FROM POETRY $1600: F. Scott Fitzgerald's last complete novel; its 4-word title is taken from "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
(Alex Cook: What is This Side of Paradise?)

WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR $1600: The Karmann Ghia, 1955 to 1974

WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR $2000: The Bearcat, introduced in 1912
(Alisha: What is Ford?)

ONE-HIT WONDERS $2000: Their "I Know What Boys Like" hit in 1982
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Gilbert: $10,800
Alex: $6,900
Alisha: $2,800

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AFRICAN COUNTRIES

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Crush for first place.
Gilbert: Wager $3,001 to cover Alex, but no more than $5,199 so as not to fall behind Alisha's doubled score.
Alex: You have the hope of surpassing Gilbert if you come up with the correct response. Bet at least $3,901 to force Gilbert to wager to win; but if you're intent on holding on to second place, wager no more than $1,299 to protect your second place position from being usurped by Alisha.
Alisha: Unfortunately, your score is less than the difference between the scores of the first and second place players, so unless they both blunder, you're competing for second place and have no hopes of first. Wager as much as you desire, but remember, you'll have better chances of advancing to second place if you have a larger sum left over on a Triple Stumper.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
With more than 90 million people it's Africa's third most populous country, though it's more than 90% desert

FINAL SCORES
Alisha: $2,800 - $2,000 = $800 (What is Morrocco?) (3rd place: $1,000)
Alex: $6,900 + $3,901 = $10,801 (What is Egypt?) (2nd place: $2,000)
Gilbert: $10,800 + $3,001 = $13,801 (What is Egypt?) (3-day champion: $36,599)
(Alex Trebek: [To Alex Cook] [*] is number three. Nigeria and Ethiopia are ahead of it.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $9,600

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Gilbert: $13,800, 19 R, 5 W (including 1 DD)
Alex: $11,400, 16 R, 3 W (including 2 DDs)
Alisha: $2,800, 14 R, 4 W
Combined Coryat: $28,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Gilbert: 20/59 = .339
Alex: 17/60 = .283
Alisha: 14/58 = .241
Team: 51/63 = .810

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
MUMMY DEAREST $200: Juanita is the most famous of the Incan ice mummies found high in the Andes of this country
(Gilbert: What is Chile?)

OREGON $400: Oregon's only venomous indigenous reptile is the western this, seen here

JANUARY $1000: One of the traditional flowers of January is this one, seen here

POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $400: Michael Phelps won only 3 of these in his Olympic career
(Gilbert: What are bronze medals?)

POP CULTURE GOLD & SILVER $800: The Golden State Warriors have won 2 NBA titles led by this 2-time league MVP
(Gilbert: Who is Durant?)

GET WITH THE PROGRAM! $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows the New Horizons probe on the monitor.) The New Horizons probe, part of NASA's New Frontiers program, investigated this belt of dwarf planets that includes Pluto at the edge of the solar system
(Gilbert: What is the Oort Cloud?)
(Alisha: What is the asteroid belt?)

11-LETTER WORDS $400: It's the job of the player in the foreground

11-LETTER WORDS $2000: In this visual defect of the eye, light is unable to focus clearly at one point on the retina, resulting in blurred vision
(Alisha: What is nearsightedness?)

WE USED TO MAKE THAT CAR $400: The DeVille & the Seville
(Alex Trebek: Less than a minute now.)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Howard Carter
John Jacob Astor
wolf month
January 6
the Fulbright
Robert Burns and John Steinbeck
Tender is the Night
Volkswagen
Stutz
The Waitresses
Egypt
Peru
a rattlesnake
a carnation
silver medals
Curry
the Kuiper belt
placekicker
astigmatism
a Cadillac
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
AFRICAN COUNTRIES

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
With more than 90 million people it’s Africa’s third most populous country, though it’s more than 90% desert

Gilbert Collins: 10800+3001=13801 (3x = $36,599)
Alex Cook: 6900+3901=10891
Alisha Mathalikunnel: 2800-2000=800

Correct response:
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Egypt (Alisha – Morrocco)

Daily Doubles
Alex: 3600-2000
Alex: 7000-2500
Gilbert: 6600-3000

Coryats
Gilbert: 13800
Alex: 11400
Alisha: 2800

Combined: 28,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round:
Gilbert: 1400
Alex: 4600
Alisha: 4400
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Gilbert mentioned that his kids get a 1% cut of his winnings. That chunk of change is growing by the day. I would have made $2 if I had that deal in place when my dad was on Name That Tune.

Alex was 0/2 on his Daily Doubles while a solve on either one may have been enough to win the game. If he keeps watching the game over the years he will have multiple opportunities for redemption on the King Tut guy or scholarship guy.

Gilbert’s DD miss was very strange as he got the tougher of the two names with the 18th c. guy but could not pull the 20th c. guy with the well-known title staring right at him.

The FJ! clue was the kind that is guess time for me. I looked at a Marktiple Choice of the top 3 countries in population (so at least I know something) and went the wrong way on a Dawson Crossin’. It’s a miss today while just as easily I could have gone the right way at a different time.

Gilbert would need a huge win on Monday to knock Kyle Becker off the top of the TOC Tracker.

Alex was not wearing the red tie outfit he had on for yesterday’s post FJ! round disclaimer so the timeline is still open for when he taped that remark.
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I've been reading quite a bit about African countries recently. What lucky timing.
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Finally had a good board this week, the last couple days have been brutal. Got all 3 DD's as well as instaget on FJ.
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Love when we get an "accidentally topical" FJ category.
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with Gilbert Total he prob going to need to win 5 games to make the TOC.
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I knew Nigeria was #1 and Egypt was not far behind, but I was trying to think of what other country could be #2. Ethiopia, South Africa, and the DRC all came to mind. I didn't think Libya had a high enough population to be #3 so I settled on Egypt as my answer.
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Ironhorse wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:58 pm I knew Nigeria was #1 and Egypt was not far behind, but I was trying to think of what other country could be #2. Ethiopia, South Africa, and the DRC all came to mind. I didn't think Libya had a high enough population to be #3 so I settled on Egypt as my answer.
Pretty much the same here. Nigeria #1. I would have thought South Africa #2 (was surprised when Trebek said it was Ethiopia). And if #3 is 90% desert, it's probably a north African country, and Egypt is the obvious answer there. (The Nile River provides enough water for a lot of population, even in the desert. Other countries in north Africa might have a coastal area or something, but probably not as fertile an area or as much population in their non-desert parts.)
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I wandered the desert for a bit but landed in the right spot.

For the DD I said “Steinbeck and some other guy”.
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Tonight's FJ category ... Shitholes.
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I would have missed the FJ clue if not for the LL question this past season on Ethiopia. I had thought that Egypt was Africa's second most populous country, but in all the buzz around that question I learned that Ethiopia was actually #2.

I still think that is kind of a vague and trivial FJ clue, though.
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alietr wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:02 pm Tonight's FJ category ... Shitholes.
I see I wasn't the only person to think about this.
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StevenH wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:04 pm I would have missed the FJ clue if not for the LL question this past season on Ethiopia. I had thought that Egypt was Africa's second most populous country, but in all the buzz around that question I learned that Ethiopia was actually #2.

I still think that is kind of a vague and trivial FJ clue, though.
Eh, 90% desert should have done it. This is probably some country that borders the Sahara. (Not that there aren't any other deserts in Africa--the Kalahari, for example--but most aren't big enough to take up most of the country.) Ethiopia has a much more diverse geography and isn't 90% desert. Lots of mountains and hills, and the Rift Valley runs out of there. (I was not aware that Ethiopia was the second most-populous African country, though. I would have pegged South Africa.)
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My precall for FJ! was Nambia. :lol:
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tiwonge wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:08 pm
alietr wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:02 pm Tonight's FJ category ... Shitholes.
I see I wasn't the only person to think about this.
After today's news, I'm looking forward to seeing "Actresses" as an FJ on Monday.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:06 pm Gilbert’s DD miss was very strange as he got the tougher of the two names with the 18th c. guy but could not pull the 20th c. guy with the well-known title staring right at him.
I wonder if he had the same fail that I did? I thought they wanted two people responsible for "To a Mouse".

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Most of my stuff is being relegated to my poll.

How did "Carnation" fit the "Gold & Silver" category? There was nothing silver or gold in that at all.

Any reason why "asteroid belt" does NOT BMS to Kuiper Belt? All the things they do BMS, and not that?

I work in a church and I didn't get January 6 = Epiphany right either. For some reason I thought it was the 5th.

Totally bombed 11 Letters. I had a couple of them, but "astigmatism" didn't feel like 11 letters to me.

Not too disappointed that we didn't finish One Hit Wonders because The Waitresses already ensured I wouldn't have run it anyway.

I had no idea where to go on FJ! 90 million felt way too big to be ANY African country.
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trash: wolf, January 6, Burns & Steinbeck DD, Stutz, Waitresses.
answered Lord Carnarvon for Howard Carter DD, diamondback for rattlesnake.
FJ: Africa + populous + 90% desert = Egypt. Knew Nigeria was 1st, still surprised that Ethiopia was 2nd, even after losing Eritrea.
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30 R
DD: 1/3 (Howard Carter)
FJ: :mrgreen:
LT: (Howard Carter), January 6th, Tender is the Night

Daily Double 3: Got John Steinbeck, couldn't get Robert Burns.
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