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Friday, July 6, 2018 Game Recap and Discussion [SPOILERS]

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Game Recap for Show #7800, 2018-07-06

CONTESTANTS
Lauren Kiehna, a writer from Steeleville, Illinois
Beth Feest, a social studies teacher from Franksville, Wisconsin
Marilyn Maher, an administrative specialist from Athens, Ohio (whose 1-day cash winnings total $14,401)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. We have had some very exciting games so far this week,and I'm gonna be an optimist and say that today will be no exception. Beth, Lauren, Marilyn--good luck. Here we go. Categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
WRITERS ON SPORTS (3/5)
FRENCH TOASTS (5/5)
BY THE NUMBERS (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
SCENE OF THE RHYME (4/5)
RAIDING (3/5)
THE FRIDGE (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Lauren: 17 R (including 3 rebounds and 1 DD), 0 W
Beth: 3 R, 1 W
Marilyn: 3 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 7
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $5,600



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Lauren: $5,400
Beth: $600
Marilyn: $0

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Lauren Kiehna is a writer from Illinois, who specializes, I suppose, in royal jewelry. Don't you have a website that deals with that?

Lauren: I do. It's about the history of royal jewelry.

Alex: Any area in particular that you focus on?

Lauren: I write a lot about British royal jewelry, but I like anything that's old that has a story. You know, if it came from 200 years ago, and it's still being worn, that's what I like.

Alex: Be nice to wear that stuff.

Lauren: It would.

Alex: Yeah.




Alex: Beth Feest from Franksville, Wisconsin. What's this about? Your 14th wedding anniversary present came from...

Beth: It was my 14th wedding anniversary dinner, Alex, and it came from a vending machine. But that vending machine was in the temporary home of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, where me and my husband, Joe, saw a wonderful edition of Merchant of Venice.

Alex: Okay, good.




Alex: Marilyn Maher from Athens, Ohio, is our champion. She was hoping that her grandfather would be able to be with you today in our studio audience, but he didn't make it.

Marilyn: Right, yes. He's 89 years old, and he watches Jeopardy! faithfully, but he thought the trip would be a little too arduous. So I just want to say hi, Grandpa.

Alex: Good for you. He's proud of you.

Marilyn: Thank you.

Alex: You did well yesterday, and today you have to start turning things around.

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Lauren found the Daily Double on the 28th clue. Marilyn had $200, Beth had $1,400, and Lauren was at $8,400. Lauren wagered $1,000.

BY THE NUMBERS $600: Ava DuVernay's documentary about race & incarceration gets its title from this constitutional amendment

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
SCENE OF THE RHYME $800: An 1861 poem said, "Avenge the patriotic gore / that flecked the streets of" this city in riots vs. federal troops

WRITERS ON SPORTS $800: Jimmy Cannon said this "Brown Bomber" "was a credit to his race--the human race"

WRITERS ON SPORTS $1000: In 1960 Shirley Povich noted that this Cleveland runner "integrated the Redskins' goal line with more than deliberate speed"

RAIDING $400: The raid on the Harpers Ferry arsenal was conducted by this type of group, from the Latin for "to destroy"

RAIDING $800: With attacks on Makin Island & Guadalcanal, Carlson's raiders were a daring WWII unit in this military branch

THE FRIDGE $1000: For a quick chill, use the powercold feature of this brand, maybe on the blue cheese that shares its name

BY THE NUMBERS $800: Wang Hongwen & Yao Wenyuan were half of this group that became unpopular & lost power soon after Mao's death

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Lauren: $10,400
Beth: $1,400
Marilyn: -$800
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
ALL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FAMILY (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT (4/5)
U.S. GEOGRAPHY (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
UN-BELIEVABLE (4/5)
PARENTHETICAL SONG TITLES (5/5)
IMMIGRANTS (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Lauren: 13 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 1 W
Beth: 12 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Marilyn: 1 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 4
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $6,800



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Beth snagged the next Daily Double on the 4th clue. Marilyn was in the hole with -$800, Beth had $3,000, and Lauren was at $10,400. Beth wagered $2,000.

ALL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FAMILY $1200: Daughter of Amram & sister of Aaron

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Lauren who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 8th clue. Marilyn was in the hole with -$800, Beth had $8,600, and Lauren was at $10,800. Lauren wagered $2,000.

U.S. GEOGRAPHY $800: The site for this capital was chosen for its location halfway between Pensacola & St. Augustine

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
U.S. GEOGRAPHY $2000: Rome & this city, whose name was drawn from a hat, form a metropolitan area in New York state

UN-BELIEVABLE $1200: Part of his "Unfinished Symphony" became the "Song Of Love" in a Broadway show about him, "Blossom Time"
(Beth: Who is Schumann?)

IMMIGRANTS $1600: Many have fled to the U.S. from gangs in the "Northern Triangle":
Guatemala, Honduras & this country
(Marilyn: What is Belize?)
(Lauren: What is Nicaragua?)

ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $2000: Your cat might be a little anxious, erratic, even this, like in the title of Stephen Baker's book on how to live with that type

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Lauren: $24,000
Beth: $15,800
Marilyn: -$2,400

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BUSINESS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Crush for first place.
Lauren: Wager $7,601 to cover Beth.
Beth: You have the hope of surpassing Lauren if you come up with the correct response. Bet all $15,800.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Promising "value", which partly gives it its name, this Pennsylvania-based retailer did $7,400 in sales on its opening day in 1986

FINAL SCORES
Beth: $15,800 - $8,201 = $7,599 (What is Valumart?) (2nd place: $2,000)
Lauren: $24,000 + $7,601 = $31,601 (What is QVC?) (New champion: $31,601)
(Alex: $7,400 in sales on their opening day, and now they're up to close to $10 billion a year.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $12,400

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Lauren: $22,400, 30 R (including 2 DDs), 1 W
Beth: $15,000, 15 R (including 1 DD), 2 W
Marilyn: -$2,400, 4 R, 4 W
Combined Coryat: $35,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Lauren: 31/60 = .517
Beth: 15/59 = .254
Marilyn: 4/58 = .069
Team: 50/63 = .794

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
WRITERS ON SPORTS $400: A.J. Liebling, an unathletic boxing writer who used bacon as a bookmark, wrote of this Rocky's "prehistoric style"
(Marilyn: Who is Rocky Balboa?)

FRENCH TOASTS $1000: "Félicitations", en Anglais
[Applause for Lauren running the category.]

BY THE NUMBERS $400: Someone with extra acreage between eyebrows & hairline may be punningly called this
(Beth: What is a unibrow?)

BY THE NUMBERS $1000: U.S. Army units include this size, each with more than 15,000 soldiers; the 1st Armored is one of them
(Marilyn: What is a battalion?)

ALL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FAMILY $2000: Brother of Tamar; son of David
[Applause for Beth running the category.]

UN-BELIEVABLE $400: The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest level ever, 24.9%, during this 20th century decade
(Marilyn: What are the 1920s?)

ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $800: Get out the brush--the Persian & Maine coon cat are this type of breed, not the best for allergy sufferers

ADJECTIVES FOR YOUR CAT $1600: According to her website, the celebrity cat seen here isn't really this; she's a super-cute & cuddly kitty

CORRECT RESPONSES
the 13th Amendment
Baltimore
Joe Louis
Jim Brown
abolitionists
the Marines
Maytag
the Gang of Four
Miriam
Tallahassee
Utica
Schubert
El Salvador
neurotic
QVC
Rocky Marciano
congratulations
a five-head
a division
Absalom
the 1930s
long-haired
Grumpy Cat
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BUSINESS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Promising “value”, which partly gives it its name, this Pennsylvania-based retailer did $7,400 in sales on its opening day in 1986

Marilyn Maher: minus 2400
Beth Feest: 15800-8201=7599
Lauren Kiehna: 24000+7601=31601 (New Champ)

Correct response:
Spoiler
QVC (Beth – Valumart)

Daily Doubles
Lauren: 8400+1000
Beth: 3000+2000
Lauren: 10800+2000

Coryats
Marilyn: minus 2400
Beth: 15000
Lauren: 22400

Combined: 35,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Marilyn: minus 800
Beth: 1400
Lauren: 10400
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When Lauren picked FRENCH TOASTS (nice timing by the writers coinciding with today’s World Cup result) for $200 she had $2400 and when the category was done she had $5400 and applause for the run.

When Beth picked ALL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FAMILY for $400 she had $1800 and when the category was done she had $8600 and applause for the run.

At chat time Lauren mentioned her website specializing in writing about royal jewelry. This is the link: http://www.thecourtjeweller.com/

How in the world did Lauren get the WRITERS ON SPORTS $600 clue? She likes baseball: https://twitter.com/laurenkiehna?lang=en and Linear Gnome & Wpwells will have an added reason to root for Lauren.

As if WRITERS ON SPORTS did not skew old enough with the stumpers at $800 & $1000 the J!6 referenced Bob Hope.

So much for Marilyn’s game’s worth of experience helping her although as always when it happens, better in game 2 (or better) than in game 1.

In Learned League I have a whopping .353 in Business/Economics, so I did not like today’s category. I did not like the clue either as I was lost for a decent guess.

In wanting to have something on the paper I was not even able to correctly spell my wrong guess. I wrote Valuepack and knew that was too many letters. Even Valupack (turns out it’s Valpak) did not look right. With time almost gone I had another inspiration and attempted a change. I got as far as “Dollar St” as the music ended.

Lauren solved the clue to show it’s a fair one and I wished I had sniffed out a TV connection. So much for having seen the movie Joy helping me. I deserve the miss as even if the clue had wanted the words for the letters I would have likely botched the last one

It’s been too many years since I saw this clue to recall it:
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#6351, aired 2012-04-09 BUSINESS LETTERS $1600: Since its inception in 1986, QVC has offered customers quality, value & this, right from their homes

(It’s convenience)
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I've worked closely with QVC in my line of work, and I know for sure that it stands for Quality, Value, Convenience and also that they're based in PA. Instaget due to personal experience.
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Tried to think of a brick-and-mortar business, so I wasn’t getting this one. I didn’t know TV shopping was still a thing.
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The Denver affiliate is pre-empting for something call Big 3 Basketball. I didn't even watch the NBA finals, why the %*^#@)! do they think I'll watch this crap?
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It wasn't really clear to me that "value" was literally part of the business name. I went after a similar term and came up with Best Buy.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:54 pm How in the world did Lauren get the WRITERS ON SPORTS $600 clue? She likes baseball: https://twitter.com/laurenkiehna?lang=en and Linear Gnome & Wpwells will have an added reason to root for Lauren.
Ooh, thanks for the shout-out. Steeleville, IL didn't register as "St. Louis area"--it's about a 75 minute drive away, apparently, and her tweets make it clear that she follows the Cardinals.

Good thing I got Monday's FJ! (I don't think that's a spoiler) because I've whiffed the rest of the week. I knew what QVC stands for but I didn't know it was headquartered in PA. I went with True-Value Hardware to have something.
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squarekara wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:48 pm It wasn't really clear to me that "value" was literally part of the business name. I went after a similar term and came up with Best Buy.
Same here. That really wasn't clear. Today I learned that Best Buy is older than I realized, though.
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TV shopping never occurred to me; went Costco.

Anyone who correctly answers Ted Williams is a friend in my book - Lauren was awesome and I hope she keeps winning.
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bit of a stretch with retailer for qvc, imo
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I really enjoyed this board. I got the Lach trash on Joe Louis and Jim Brown and was happy to see two clues on pugilists. And Henry Kissinger was an educated guess.

Vive la France was the only one that I got in that category, and that seemed like such a roundabout way to ask for a familiar phrase. But I do like escargot!

I am disappointed that I didn't have more time to think to see if I could come up with Miriam and Absalom.

Second row DD in U.S. Geography? I would have made it true, and a softball clue becomes even easier since I attended FSU.

If only the Utica clue had had a TOM on Superintendent Chalmers.

My guess for FJ was the Dollar Tree. I was definitely thinking in terms of brick and mortar stores, and I am especially disappointed in myself for missing it since I am such a big fan of a certain show that features the Queen of QVC.
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Rare to have two category sweeps in one show.

I said Family Dollar, since I was only thinking of brick-and-mortar stores. Nice tricky clue today.
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DBear wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:33 pm The Denver affiliate is pre-empting for something call Big 3 Basketball. I didn't even watch the NBA finals, why the %*^#@)! do they think I'll watch this crap?
big 3 is on network tv? fs1 broadcasted that crap last year on tape delay...now it is being shown live on network tv? is it being held in the city of denver that it is being aired that way?
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DBear wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:33 pm The Denver affiliate is pre-empting for something call Big 3 Basketball. I didn't even watch the NBA finals, why the %*^#@)! do they think I'll watch this crap?
it is in oakland this week...and fs1 is showing the events live this season...but why it is being shown on network tv in denver is beyond me
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Retail had me thinking brick-and-mortar, and I was wondering if "value" was literal or a synonym (Costco? Best Buy??)...until it dawned on me about 20 seconds in that Value was the V in QVC. 1986 seeemed to be the right year for the launch of a new home shopping outfit as well.

That Tallahassee DD couldn't have been any easier if they had just showed it on a map and said "this capital".
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I thought the clue might've hinted towards wanting a business known by initials, so I tried to go down that avenue and said CVS. No way I was getting to QVC.

Lauren had an impressive debut. Can't wait to see how she does when she returns Monday.
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I sometimes drive by the QVC headquarters to get to my brother's house depending on which route I take, otherwise, I would've had no idea.
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CasketRomance wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:09 pm
DBear wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:33 pm The Denver affiliate is pre-empting for something call Big 3 Basketball. I didn't even watch the NBA finals, why the %*^#@)! do they think I'll watch this crap?
big 3 is on network tv? fs1 broadcasted that crap last year on tape delay...now it is being shown live on network tv? is it being held in the city of denver that it is being aired that way?
It's on KTVU the regular Fox affiliate in the Bay Area and it does not have anything to do with it being in Oakland this week. It's Fox nationally trying to get it more exposure by airing it on the main network. It's listed for FS1 on 7/13 (Detroit) and 7/20 (Miami).

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The Talking Mime wrote: Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:14 pm I thought the clue might've hinted towards wanting a business known by initials, so I tried to go down that avenue and said CVS. No way I was getting to QVC.

Lauren had an impressive debut. Can't wait to see how she does when she returns Monday.
I did not catch the time, but I heard a mention about President Trump announcing his pick for the Supreme Court on Monday. Whatever the time is figure on it being more than 2 minutes of the networks interrupting regular programming.
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