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Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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Game Recap for Show #7968, 2019-04-10

James Holzhauer game 5.

CONTESTANTS
Laura Hertzfeld, a journalist from Venice, California
Jeff Henderson, a retail manager from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 4-day cash winnings total $244,365)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. At the end of yesterday's program, you heard me ask the question, "Is it too early to start making comparisons between James and Ken Jennings? Well, looking back, in his first four games, Ken Jennings averaged about $30,000 per win. James is averaging more than twice that amount. So Laura and Jeff, good luck to you. Here we go. The Jeopardy! Round. Categories, please...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN (4/4)
HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
ACROSS STATE LINES (5/5)
WUTZ MISPELED (5/5)
SWEET "P" (5/5)
WE AREN'T THE CHAMPIONS (4/4) (Alex: At least through 2018, but there's always next season.)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
James: 14 R, 1 W (including 1 DD)
Laura: 10 R (including 2 rebounds), 0 W
Jeff: 3 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 28
Triple Stumpers: 0
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $0



JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
James found the Daily Double on the 6th clue. James had $3,000, Jeff was in the red with -$1,000, and Laura was at $1,800. James made it a True Daily Double, wagering $3,000.

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $1000: Constitution Day is September 17; this related set is celebrated every December 15
(James: What are the Articles of Confederation?)

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
James: $4,200
Laura: $3,400
Jeff: $0

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Laura Hertzfeld is a journalist from Venice, California, who specializes in immersive journalism. What does that mean?

Laura: Yeah, so I work with journalists using new technology like virtual reality and augmented reality to tell more impactful stories. Putting people into VR goggles and other environments to really get them into the heart of different places in the world.

Alex: I saw some members of the Sony personnel walking around our studios one day with these fantastic goggles on, and that was virtual reality stuff.

Laura: It is, yeah. It's the future.

Alex: No, it's the present.

Laura: That, too.

Alex: It's the present.




Alex: Jeff Henderson from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Retail manager who once did a heroic thing, I think. You saved 10 children how?

Jeff: Well, I was a camp counselor, and I had told them very scary stories before going to bed. And then one of them woke up in the middle of the night, and the cabin next to us was on fire. So I got everyone out, saved the children, and then aft--when I found out--realized, what I realized is that the kid wouldn't have been awake if it hadn't been for the scary stories that we had told. So not the most heroic way to save.

[Laughter]

Alex: Canadians are strange, aren't we? Aren't we?




Alex: James Holzhauer is our champion. We have not talked about your gambling. You're a sports gambler, so you don't play the tables, I guess. But do you have a system? Do you have a favorite sport you like to gamble on?

James: You know, my favorite sport is whatever will take the most money on, and right now that turns out to be the NFL, so.

Alex: Okay. But you're concentrating on just a slight margin, or you go big-time?

James: Usually pretty slight margins. You just have to bet a lot and hope that--

Alex: You have to bet a lot.

James: Well...

Alex: Hey, you've got $240--close to a quarter million dollars already. You can make some substantial bets.

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
James: $6,400
Laura: $5,600
Jeff: $200
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN (5/5)
POP CULTURE COMMON BONDS (5/5)
THE CIVIL WAR (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
MOLLUSKS (3/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS (5/5)
"M.G." (4/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
James: 17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Laura: 8 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jeff: 1 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 3
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $4,400



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
James snagged the next Daily Double on the 5th clue. James had $9,200, Jeff had $200, and Laura was at $5,200. James made it a True Daily Double, wagering $9,200.

THE CIVIL WAR $1600: On March 9, 1862 ironclad warships met in battle for the first time as these 2 vessels clashed, with no clear victor

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Laura who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 18th clue. James had $28,400, Jeff had $1,400, and Laura was at $12,000. Laura wagered $7,000.

MOLLUSKS $1600: In the Caribbean the spiral shell of the queen, or pink, species of this gastropod is used for making "trumpets"
(Laura: What is the nautilus?)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
"M.G." $2000: It's the climbing vine seen here
(Laura: What is magnolia?)

MOLLUSKS $2000: Once believed to sail on water using 2 enlarged arms as sails, they are named for the crew who sought the golden fleece
(Jeff: What is the nautilus?)

THE CIVIL WAR $400: On July 21, 1861 the Union attacked the Confederates near a stone bridge crossing this creek in the first battle of it
(James: What is Manassas?)

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
James: $33,200 (lock game)
Laura: $5,800
Jeff: -$600

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EUROPEAN HISTORY

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place.
James: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $21,599 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Laura: You've no hope of catching up... unless James does something stupid. So risk as much as $5,799; you needn't worry about falling into third place.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 2000 the Russian Orthodox church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths

FINAL SCORES
Laura: $5,800 + $1,000 = $6,800 (Who are the Romanovs? Hi JSK19!) (2nd place: $2,000)
James: $33,200 + $21,122 = $54,322 (Who are the Romanovs happy birthday Pete ♥) (5-day champion: $298,687)
(Alex: [Referencing James' wager] The 21st of January--)
(James: No, November 22nd. It's the closest I could get.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $4,400

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
James: $28,600, 31 R (including 1 DD), 2 W (including 1 DD)
Laura: $12,800, 18 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)
Jeff: -$600, 4 R, 3 W
Combined Coryat: $40,800

BATTING AVERAGES
James: 32/60 = .533
Laura: 19/59 = .322
Jeff: 4/58 = .069
Team: 55/63 = .873

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
WUTZ MISPELED $1000: I have an abhorrence of the appearence of misspelled words; let's have no recurrence
(Jeff: What is recurrence?)

SWEET "P" $400: You can make a healthy one of these with fruit, granola & yogurt

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES $400: Germany observes November 9 to remember the fall of this
(Jeff: What is the Reichstag?)

WUTZ MISPELED $400: My uncle did not segwe very subtly when he steered the conversation into stories about his pinochle wins
(Alex: [After Laura selects the next clue] Less than a minute now.)

SWEET "P" $200: Jell-O brand flavors of this include butterscotch & banana cream
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]

THE CIVIL WAR $1200: The so-called necktie seen here, making sure the rails carried no Confederate trains, was named for this general on the march

THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $1200: "It's Always Something" was this late funny lady's catchphrase & memoir title
(Jeff: Who is Roseannadanna? Or [*].)

POP CULTURE COMMON BONDS $2000: Singers Maddie Poppe,
Phillip Phillips,
Jordin Sparks
(James: What is [*]?)
(Alex: Yes.)
(James: Winners?)

THE CIVIL WAR $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a battle on the monitor.) Here's the Little Round Top location of the 20th Maine regiment; out of ammo & exhausted, the 20th led a bayonet charge to secure Meade's left flank & saved the day during this battle

MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN $1600: This wrestler & actor really is an all-time champ; as of 2018, he granted 550-plus wishes for Make-A-Wish

MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE & JOHN $2000: This current congressman was already a civil rights leader in 1963 at age 23

CORRECT RESPONSES
the Bill of Rights
the Monitor and the Merrimack
conch shell
morning glory
the Argonauts
First Battle of Bull Run
the Romanovs
appearance
a parfait
the Berlin Wall
segue
pudding
Sherman
Gilda Radner
American Idol
Gettysburg
John Cena
John Lewis
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
EUROPEAN HISTORY

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
In 2000 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths

James Holzhauer: 33200+21122=54322 (5x = $298,687)
Jeff Henderson: minus 600
Laura Hertzfeld: 5800

Correct response:
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Romanovs (James added Happy Birthday Pete <3) (Laura added Hi JSK19!)

Daily Doubles
James: 3000-3000
James: 9200+9200
Laura: 12000-7000 (James had 28400 with 12 clues left)

Coryats
James: 28600
Jeff: minus 600
Laura: 12800

Combined: 40,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
James: 6400
Jeff: 200
Laura: 5600
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comments coming later
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Laura did well and made James work harder than yesterday. James aided Laura's attempt with the miss on DD1 and later a clue call in THE CIVIL WAR after DD2 had been found there.

Did not matter as even if Laura farmed and solved DD3 it's a still a loss.

It would be sad if that FJ! clue did not go 2/2. Come on writers, really?

Where the tracker stands:
Spoiler
May 2019 teacher
College Dhruv
7x: Josh, Ryan, Kyle
6x: Rob
5x: James, Alan, Steven, Gilbert, Rachel
#12 Eric
#13 Anneke
#14 Lindsey
#15 Dave
Alternate Jonathan
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MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:31 am
Where the tracker stands:
Spoiler
May 2019 teacher
College Dhruv
7x: Josh, Ryan, Kyle
6x: Rob
5x: James, Alan, Steven, Gilbert, Rachel
#12 Eric
#13 Anneke
#14 Lindsey
#15 Dave
Alternate Jonathan
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Lefty wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 5:55 pm
MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:31 am
Where the tracker stands:
Spoiler
May 2019 teacher
College Dhruv
7x: Josh, Ryan, Kyle
6x: Rob
5x: James, Alan, Steven, Gilbert, Rachel
#12 Eric
#13 Anneke
#14 Lindsey
#15 Dave
Alternate Jonathan
This may all have to wait till after the postultimate tournament of champions.
Yeah, James vs. the big shots needs to happen quicker than five years from now or so. First, James will have to navigate being the BMOC for the TOC. Of course that means being defeated before November.

Prior Presidents' Trophy winners with TOC finish:
Brian Weikle - 2nd
Tom Walsh - 2nd
David Madden - semis
Mehrun Etebari - quarters (also non-winner on 500 Questions)
Dan Pawson most wins - 1st or Larissa Kelly most money - 2nd
Justin Bernbach - semis
Tom Nissley - 2nd
Jason Keller - semis
Julia Collins - 3rd
Matt Jackson - 2nd
Austin Rogers - 3rd (Seth Wilson also 12 wins - quarters)
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The JSK reference made by Laura in the FJ! round must tie to here? https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class- ... hertzfeld/
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Laura made a game of it until she made two typical mistakes late. 1, she didn't have a plan and therefore didn't know what to wager on the DD. 2, she didn't take her time and think about her response to the DD, instead just blurted out the first thing that came to mind.

And then naturally did not wager everything in a runaway two player situation.
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I like James a lot, I like the idea of him being around for a few weeks, I like his play style, I like his wagers (except the one in Game #2), but what I would really like would be for the clue writers to give him a FJ above Teen Tournament levels.

Yeah, he won more money than Ken in a game, but when Ken broke the record, he did it on a sole get.
Golf wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 7:29 pm1, she didn't have a plan and therefore didn't know what to wager on the DD.
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Good grief. James gets an absolute cupcake for a DD that wouldn't be out of place in a Teen Tournament "Bull Run' while Laura gets some ridiculous DD about some sea creature. :roll:
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MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:53 pm
Yeah, James vs. the big shots needs to happen quicker than five years from now or so. First, James will have to navigate being the BMOC for the TOC. Of course that means being defeated before November.

Prior Presidents' Trophy winners with TOC finish:
(list)
Completely agreed on the first point, but picking James in the ToC would be like picking Duke in the NCAA Tournament. :lol:

I love watching James play, and I might be in the minority with this opinion, but, like Duke this year, he's certainly not unbeatable.. trailed deep into day two and again at halftime on day three. ETA: A few different things happen tonight and he's sent packing too.

IMO, someone willing to DD hunt (RobW, Dhruv) and/or possessing a decent buzzer or academic knowledge base (a fresh Josh Hill, Fenster, Eric) have the potential to keep a game competitive in ToC play. A lot different than winning, but still...
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Well, that's a bummer. Laura is the daughter of a friend of mine and grew up in my neighborhood. Screaming "CONCH!" at the TV somehow didn't work. At least she caught on about the need to hunt DDs.

Seriously, the writers need to step up those FJs. This is getting ridiculous. And as we saw tonight, James can be tripped up.
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Even with a couple stumbles, he was still unstoppable.

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I can never remember which is VT and which is NH, and just like "which planet is biggest", I can never find a way to keep them separated in my mind either. Even worse, that cost me the run.

I've never heard it as "gave up the ghost" before (Matthew Mark for $800). Also my only miss.

Misspelled was a tough category and I went 0/5. I looked at $200 five times and didn't spot a single misspelling. That one should've gone with a WAY more obvious word than some obscure town in Massachusetts that most people wouldn't think twice about.

What was the TOM for "clam" on Mollusks for $400? Lots of mollusks have shells. Those could easily have been snails, which seems like the biggest pavlov by far for "shelled mollusk".

NHO any of those REM songs (or really, any REM song), my only miss in that category.

M.G. gave me my only run today.

No guess on FJ! Don't recognize the correct response.

Lach Trash: morning glory. Also got the Bill of Rights DD.
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MarkBarrett wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 6:53 pm
Yeah, James vs. the big shots needs to happen quicker than five years from now or so. First, James will have to navigate being the BMOC for the TOC. Of course that means being defeated before November.

Prior Presidents' Trophy winners with TOC finish:
Brian Weikle - 2nd
Tom Walsh - 2nd
David Madden - semis
Mehrun Etebari - quarters (also non-winner on 500 Questions)
Dan Pawson most wins - 1st or Larissa Kelly most money - 2nd
Justin Bernbach - semis
Tom Nissley - 2nd
Jason Keller - semis
Julia Collins - 3rd
Matt Jackson - 2nd
Austin Rogers - 3rd (Seth Wilson also 12 wins - quarters)
Wait, I was supposed to get a trophy?
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TenPoundHammer wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 8:51 pm Even with a couple stumbles, he was still unstoppable.

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I can never remember which is VT and which is NH, and just like "which planet is biggest", I can never find a way to keep them separated in my mind either. Even worse, that cost me the run.

I've never heard it as "gave up the ghost" before (Matthew Mark for $800). Also my only miss.

Misspelled was a tough category and I went 0/5. I looked at $200 five times and didn't spot a single misspelling. That one should've gone with a WAY more obvious word than some obscure town in Massachusetts that most people wouldn't think twice about.

What was the TOM for "clam" on Mollusks for $400? Lots of mollusks have shells. Those could easily have been snails, which seems like the biggest pavlov by far for "shelled mollusk".

NHO any of those REM songs (or really, any REM song), my only miss in that category.

M.G. gave me my only run today.

No guess on FJ! Don't recognize the correct response.

Lach Trash: morning glory. Also got the Bill of Rights DD.
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Ahh, Laura, if you're stalking here, I was rooting for you!! You saw what you were up against and you played to win. I can't imagine the shock and awe factor of going up against James - on top of the adrenaline and nerves from just being there. Wow.

Articles of Confederation was a surprising DD miss, but James brushed it off and got back to work

Magnolia - not exactly negbait, but I saw that coming and swerved to pick up the trash for morning glory (a rare get for me on flowers)

Agree that these Finals have been way too easy. Boo!

The second mention of nautilus by Jeff was way too funny. He looked stunned when Alex negged him. Surprised that no one could pull argonauts. I hesitated because I've never heard of that animal. Just looked it up, and they're also referred to as paper nautiluses, but that doesn't mesh with the other part of the clue

Reichstag though?
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CasketRomance wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:20 pm
new hampshire has an ocean border...vermont does not
You gotta edit your quote paragraphs, bro. C'mon!
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DBear wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 8:40 pm Good grief. James gets an absolute cupcake for a DD that wouldn't be out of place in a Teen Tournament "Bull Run' while Laura gets some ridiculous DD about some sea creature. :roll:
Conch is several degrees easier than Monitor and Merrimack.

Side note: FJs way too easy recently.
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morbeedo wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:39 pm
CasketRomance wrote: Wed Apr 10, 2019 9:20 pm
new hampshire has an ocean border...vermont does not
You gotta edit your quote paragraphs, bro. C'mon!
the lazy side in me...you people love being lazy when it comes to making things into acronyms...my laziness comes into play in regards to quoting and leaving the entire post within that quote...acronyms annoy me....i guess leaving entire posts in a quote annoys you...life sux for both of us
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