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Monday, February 4, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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Game Recap for Show #7921, 2019-02-04

CONTESTANTS
Morgan Burns, an accountant from Somerville, Massachusetts
Susan Campbell, a research scientist from Baltimore, Maryland
Will Dawson, a tour guide from Washington, D.C. (whose 1-day cash winnings total $32,601)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Hello, my friends, and welcome to our program. Looking forward to another big payday for Morgan, Susan, or Will. Who will fate favor today? Let's start finding out. Good luck. Here we go. First round of play today features these categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
OUR FAIR CITY (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
OXFORD (5/5)
EUGENE (5/5)
ROAM (4/5)
FILL "E" (5/5) (Alex: Each correct response will begin and end with that letter of the alphabet.)
CHICAGO, ATLANTA & MIAMI SOUND MACHINE (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Susan: 11 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Will: 10 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Morgan: 7 R (including 2 rebounds), 0 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $1,600



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Will found the Daily Double on the 7th clue. Will had $1,200, Susan had $200, and Morgan was at $1,800. Will made it a True Daily Double, wagering $1,200.

OUR FAIR CITY $400: The river in the name of this South American metropolis is really Guanabara Bay

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Will: $4,000
Morgan: $3,200
Susan: $1,000

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Morgan Burns is an accountant from Massachusetts. Morgan Burns, who also happens to be a fan of Robert Burns, am I right?

Morgan: I am, yes.

Alex: To what extent?

Morgan: Every January on Robert Burns' birthday, I host a Robert Burns-themed party. I cook some haggis.

Alex: Oh, gosh.

Morgan: Oh, it's--it's even better than you can imagine.

Alex: You know why the Scots invented Scotch whiskey? It's because they also invented haggis.

Morgan: Yes.

Alex: All right.




Alex: Susan Campbell is a research scientist from Baltimore, Maryland. A collector of...

Susan: Rubber ducks.

Alex: Really?

Susan: I know. It's a little cliché, but I have a large collection of rubber ducks. I keep several in my office. And I brought a William Wallace rubber duck with me today, in fact, that I picked up in Scotland.

Alex: Do you ever take baths with the company of one of your rubber ducks?

Susan: I think that's between me and the ducks.

Alex: Okay.




Alex: Will Dawson is our champion. He's a tour guide from Washington, D.C. And a member of an all-male--what kind of club?

Will: An all-male theater group. It's called the Players' Club in Detroit, Michigan. I have had to play women's roles before. Probably my most famous one was playing Miss Scarlet in our version of Clue.

Alex: Oh, all right.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
ROAM $600: Peter Mayle followed "A Year in Provence with "Toujours Provence" & this title that includes French for "again"

CHICAGO, ATLANTA & MIAMI SOUND MACHINE $1000: Chicago was a "Hard Habit To Break" with an '80s run of hits produced by him, AKA "The Hitman"

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Susan: $5,600
Will: $5,400
Morgan: $4,800
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
LITERARY FIRST LINES (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
THE HUMAN BODY (5/5)
THE ANCIENT ROMAN ARMY (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES (4/5)
INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS (5/5)
DURABLE DIRECTORS (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Will: 14 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Morgan: 8 R, 1 W
Susan: 6 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 1
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,000



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Susan snagged the next Daily Double on the 5th clue. Will had $5,800, Susan had $8,400, and Morgan was at $5,600. Susan wagered $3,000.

LITERARY FIRST LINES $2000: From 1931:
"It was Wang Lung's marriage day"
(Susan: What is...)
(Alex: Not coming?)
(Susan: Paper Moon?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Will who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 20th clue. Will had $12,600, Susan had $7,400, and Morgan was at $8,800. Will wagered $2,000.

THE ANCIENT ROMAN ARMY $2000: These leaders of groups of 100 men were divided from senior to junior grades

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981
(Morgan: What is nine men?)
(Alex: Be a little--no.)

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Will: $21,800
Morgan: $11,200
Susan: $9,800

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE U.S. SENATE

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Crush for first place.
Will: Wager $601 to cover Morgan, but no more than $2,199 so as not to fall behind Susan's doubled score.
Morgan: You have the hope of surpassing Will if you come up with the correct response. Bet at least $10,601 to force Will to wager to win while also protecting your position from being usurped by Susan.
Susan: 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
A 1890 resolution by Senator Aldrich was killed by this, the very technique it sought to limit; a 1917 rule set some boundaries on it

FINAL SCORES
Susan: $9,800 + $2,000 = $11,800 (What is the filibuster) (3rd place: $1,000)
Morgan: $11,200 + $10,001 = $21,201 (What is filibuster?) (2nd place: $2,000)
Will: $21,800 + $601 = $22,401 (What is the fillibuster) (2-day champion: $55,002)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $3,600

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
Will: $21,000, 24 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Susan: $12,800, 17 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Morgan: $11,200, 15 R, 1 W
Combined Coryat: $45,000

BATTING AVERAGES
Will: 25/60 = .417
Susan: 18/59 = .305
Morgan: 16/58 = .276
Team: 59/63 = .937

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
OUR FAIR CITY $200: The museum seen here is an attraction in this Midwest city

OUR FAIR CITY $1000: In this city, you can walk out to the lighthouse marking the point where Russia's land ends & the Pacific begins

FILL "E" $200: Temblor is another name for this event
(Will: What is equestrian?)

ROAM $1000: This explorer sailed out of Portugal in 1497 with 4 ships, including the Sao Gabriel & the Sao Rafael
(Will: Who is Magellan?)

EUGENE $200: Children's poet Eugene Field wrote these 2 "& Nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe"
(Will: What is Lincoln and Blynken?)
(Alex: Say it again.)
(Will: What is Lincoln and Blynken?)

EUGENE $400: In 1840 Eugene Delacroix painted the "Entry of the Crusaders into" this onetime capital of the Byzantine empire
(Alex: With less than a minute to go.)

EUGENE $600: He's seen here around the time he became only the 2nd American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

DURABLE DIRECTORS $1200: 38 years after making "Alien", this British director was still at it with "Alien: Covenant"

INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS $400: In Dublin La Fheile Padraig happens in this month
(Will: What is St.--what is [*]?)

INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS $2000: Often an occasion for an August getaway, in Italy Ferragosto is the Feast of this, Mary's entrance into heaven
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

THE HUMAN BODY $1600: This word meaning "shield-shaped" is the name of a shield-shaped cartilage in the neck & the gland below it

CORRECT RESPONSES
Rio de Janeiro
Encore Provence
David Foster
The Good Earth
centurions
nine old men
the filibuster
Milwaukee
Vladivostok
an earthquake
Vasco da Gama
Wynken and Blynken
Constantinople
Eugene O'Neill
Ridley Scott
March
the Assumption
thyroid
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
THE U.S. SENATE

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
An 1890 resolution by Senator Aldrich was killed by this, the very technique it sought to limit; a 1917 rule set some boundaries on it

Will Dawson: 21800+601=22401 (2x = $55,002)
Susan Campbell: 9800+2000=11800
Morgan Burns: 11200+10001=21201

Correct response:
Spoiler
filibuster

Daily Doubles
Will: 1200+1200
Susan: 8400-3000
Will: 12600+2000

Coryats
Will: 21000
Susan: 12800
Morgan: 11200

Combined: 45,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Will: 5400
Susan: 5600
Morgan: 4800
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It does not take much to amuse me, such as Morgan getting the Stanley clue.

Last week Will had trouble with the ANAGRAM PAIRS and today he opened FILL “E” with a response that did not begin and end with “E.” I’m afraid to see what happens if a Before & After or Rhyme Time comes up tomorrow.

For the FJ! clue I pulled a Mark special getting it right while being doubly wrong. First I wrote “cloture” and after crossing it out I wrote the correct response with two “L”s.

Nice repeat win by Will who was the strongest in a good match with 45,000 combined Coryat. The potential lock was there for Will although his 2000 only on DD3 ended up leaving Morgan a chance to steal the game.

Even if Susan had solved DD2 she still would have trailed for the FJ! round.

Did the J! round have any kind of theme with the categories?
OUR FAIR CITY
OXFORD
EUGENE
ROAM
FILL "E"
CHICAGO, ATLANTA & MIAMI SOUND MACHINE

It the writers were going for something it's beyond me.
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I think they were just going for a bunch of city names with the categories; if it was any more than that, it went over my head, too.
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I was completely stumped by this board.

Utterly unfamiliar with "Dome of the Rock", "temblor", Wynken/Blynken/Nod, Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine, edamame, John Huston, or a lot of other top-two-boxes material today.

Also whiffed with Sturgis for Midwest city + Harley-Davidson.

Couldn't find a TOM in Holidays for $400. What part of that clue had anything to do with March?

Really? 98.6 degrees ia a $2,000 clue? I clammed because I thought "range" indicated something wider.

Absolutely lost on FJ! Had no idea what to even guess.
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Maybe it's just me, but is Harley being in Milwaukee that well-known?
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Please let "Our Fair City" be about Car Talk.

"Eugene" would be a valid response for "Fill'e'"

More "Eugene": My hairtrigger response for "Where's Papa going with that axe?" was "Careful with that axe, Eugene."

I'll be very glad if I never have to hear "God Bless America" at a seventh-inning stretch again. Patriotism is a sin against God; we need less of it in public, not more.

Moose bite can be very nasty, too.

Coryat: $42,000

J: 24R5P1W. Got DD. 5/5 on Oxford. 4/5 on Our Fair City (I said Rapid City instead of Milwaukee), Eugene, Roam, and Fill "E." 3/5 on Chicago...

DJ: 25R4P1W. Got both DDs. 5/5 on Numeric and Holidays. 4/5 on Human Body, Roman Army, and Directors. 3/5 on First Lines (Darkness at Noon instead of The Trial. The fact that it said "Josef K" put me to Stalin, but of course in Darkness at Noon the Stalin-allegorical figure is Number One (also "Josef K" doesn't work for Stalin's patronymic, birth surname, or revolutionary surname)).

FJ: Instaget

LT: David Foster, Nine Old Men
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Coryat: 40,200
51 R/2 W
DD: 3/3
FJ: :mrgreen:
LT: David Foster, The Good Earth (DD)

Strong game by all three players. Unfortunately, there was no drama at the end, as FJ! was super-WECIB.
TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:30 pm Couldn't find a TOM in Holidays for $400. What part of that clue had anything to do with March?
The holiday's name contained "Padraig," which is the Irish (Gaelic) form of Patrick. The clue also mentioned Dublin, which could lead you to the holiday we most associate with Ireland/the Irish.
econgator wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:30 pm Maybe it's just me, but is Harley being in Milwaukee that well-known?
I was wondering that myself. I tried to get a job with them while in business school and stopped by the museum when my wife and I caught a game at Miller Park, so I got it, but I'm not sure I'd have known it otherwise.
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Happened to rewatch Seth Wilson's ninth game today where he gave a correct response of "The Good Earth". Not sure I get DD2 without it, today at least.

FJ wording felt a little clunky in my eyes, but got there to make 6 out of the last 7.

Good game from Will; his take home total after day 2 is higher than all 14 regular play champs in the ToC field right now.

econgator wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:30 pm Maybe it's just me, but is Harley being in Milwaukee that well-known?
I'm with you tonight, but I've admittedly been a bit off the past few games. Does not seem to be too obscure of a fact, however, as I see a couple hits in the Archive.
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BigDaddyMatty wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 8:03 pm
TenPoundHammer wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:30 pm Couldn't find a TOM in Holidays for $400. What part of that clue had anything to do with March?
The holiday's name contained "Padraig," which is the Irish (Gaelic) form of Patrick. The clue also mentioned Dublin, which could lead you to the holiday we most associate with Ireland/the Irish.
Indeed. Though I would feel sorry for anyone who might have been relying on Alex's reading of the clue. He needs never to attempt the Irish language ever again. Every word of the three-word phrase was butchered. :o
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econgator wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:30 pm Maybe it's just me, but is Harley being in Milwaukee that well-known?
Well, it has been in the news recently thanks to 45, and I guess the writers were expecting the jump to the largest city in Wisconsin, there.
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58 R (Only missing Donald Glover and David Foster.)
DD: 3/3
FJ: :mrgreen:
LT: Encore Provence, (The Good Earth), Nine Old Men
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I commend Morgan on his sartorial excellence.
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I got The Good Earth. Having basically mastered the 2003 J! PC game throughout my life, that's what I can credit for that.

No on FJ though. Didn't even have a guess, really.
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econgator wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:30 pm Maybe it's just me, but is Harley being in Milwaukee that well-known?
i think so...the bucks even have a harley davidson sponsor patch on their jerseys
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I thought it was interesting that a J! round clue mentioned that Eugene O'Neill was the second American Nobel literature laureate, and then the first DD in DJ was about a work by the third one.
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Euphonium wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:59 pm Please let "Our Fair City" be about Car Talk.
Wonderful to find a fellow fan here. Damn, but I miss that program.
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Congrats to the champ on a solid second win and almost a lock.

Nice job for the most part by all three, as we almost saw all three enter FJ north of $10K.

LT: the now obsolete 9 old men (answered handily by the 10th old man).
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CasketRomance wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 5:22 am
econgator wrote: Mon Feb 04, 2019 7:30 pm Maybe it's just me, but is Harley being in Milwaukee that well-known?
i think so...the bucks even have a harley davidson sponsor patch on their jerseys
Oh geez that makes it worse. :lol:

It's not like Malcolm Brogdon is on my fantasy team or anything.. :shock:
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