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Friday, April 12, 2019 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS)

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Game Recap for Show #7970, 2019-04-12

James Holzhauer game 7.

CONTESTANTS
Mike Dindoffer, a writer and teacher from Greenfield, Massachusetts
Ali Filipowicz, a homemaker from Alexandria, Virginia
James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (whose 6-day cash winnings total $325,877)

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Johnny. All right, we're set to go. We welcome Ali and Mike, the newcomers to the program. I'll wish all three of you good luck and put you to work right now in the Jeopardy! Round that today features these categories...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (5/5)
WOMEN OF POLITICS (5/5)
I'D LIKE TO SELL A VOWEL (5/5)
AMERICAN LITERATURE (5/5)
CITY ADJECTIVES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 (5/5) (Alex: As they celebrate their 20th anniversary. We're talking about searches in English.)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
James: 20 R (including 1 DD), 0 W
Ali: 6 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Mike: 5 R, 1 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 0
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $0



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
James: $8,600
Ali: $3,200
Mike: $800

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: Welcome back. We have good news for Mike Dindoffer from Massachusetts. Your response of Parmesan a little while ago has been deemed acceptable. So you're getting $2,000 back, so instead of being at negative $1,200, you're a plus $800.

Mike: All right.

Alex: All right. Now, you're a writer and a teacher. And I understand that you use the Jeopardy! format in some of your classes.

Mike: I do. Whenever we have a test coming up, I like to practice some of the test--some of the test questions with science Jeopardy! And so I try to do a few voices. I couldn't ever replicate your voice or Johnny's, of course, but I try to spice it up and get them excited.

Alex: Okay. And they like it, right?

Mike: Yes, they love it.

Alex: Okay.




Alex: Ali Filipowicz, from Alexandria, Virginia. You met your husband because of trivia?

Ali: Yes, I did. I did quiz bowl all through middle school and high school and wanted to continue when I got to college. So I went to the activities fair when I started school, and John was there manning the table for the teams. So I signed up, and after a few months of practices and traveling to competitions, we got together, and we've been together ever since.

Alex: Okay. Do you still try to outdo each other with your knowledge of trivia?

Ali: Yeah.

Alex: You do. Who wins?

Ali: Usually me.

Alex: Okay, good for you. That's why you're here and not him.




Alex: James Holzhauer is our champion. He got married in a swimsuit. Don't we all?

James: My usually lovely wife, Melissa, decided--

Alex: Wait a minute. Your usually lovely--?

James: Well, listen to the story, you'll know. We got married in Hawaii next to a waterfall, and she said, "We should both wear our swimsuits. It'll be so awesome." So I decked out my swimsuit with a Chippendales collar and some cuffs to really go all out, and the night before the wedding, she says, "I'm gonna wear a white dress tomorrow." So she's standing there in her beautiful white dress. I'm in my Chippendale outfit. Great wedding.

[Laughter]

Alex: They do that to us sometimes.

James: Yeah.

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
James found the Daily Double on the 20th clue. James had $10,400, Ali had $3,200, and Mike was at $1,200. James wagered $9,812.

CITY ADJECTIVES $400: Cantabrigian means from one of 2 noted college cities named this
(Alex: [After James makes his wager] A significant date?)
(James: Anniversary.)
(Alex: Okay.)
(James: I don't know why I enjoyed that day in my swimsuit, but...)
...
(Alex: [*], Mass., or [*] in the UK.)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
James: $22,012
Ali: $3,600
Mike: $1,800
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
MOOLAH (4/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
SCIENCE (5/5)
A "B"6 SHOT (5/5) (Alex: Each correct response will be a 6-letter word beginning with the letter "B".)
COLOMBIA PICTURES (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
CLASSIC FILM (5/5)
5 EASY PIECES (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
James: 12 R (including 1 rebound and 2 DDs), 0 W
Ali: 10 R, 0 W
Mike: 7 R, 1 W

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



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
James snagged the next Daily Double on the 8th clue. James had $29,212, Ali had $5,200, and Mike was at $3,800. James wagered $11,914.

MOOLAH $1600: The mint in this western city produces about half of U.S. coinage & is the USA's second-largest gold depository

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was James who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 11th clue. James had $42,726, Ali had $6,400, and Mike was at $3,800. James wagered $11,022.

COLOMBIA PICTURES $2000: There are great beaches at the walled city founded as this de Indias, meaning "Carthage of the Indies" in English
(Alex: [After James makes his wager] Would it help if I gave you my birth date? You'd make a large bet on that one.)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
MOOLAH $2000: This 5-letter word refers to a special non-circulating coin that collectors prize for its fine detail & mirror-like finish

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
James: $58,148 (lock game)
Ali: $13,200
Mike: $7,400

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERARY ADAPTATIONS

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Lock for first place; crush for second place.
James: Wager between $0 (venusian) and $31,747 (martian), and enjoy your victory.
Ali: Wager $1,601 to cover Mike.
Mike: You have the hope of surpassing Ali for second place if you come up with the correct response or if your opponent fails to. Bet between $4,200 and $7,398.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The director of the 2018 TV version of this 1953 classic said, yes, books were harmed in the making of this motion picture

FINAL SCORES
Mike: $7,400 - $300 = $7,100 (What is Burn After Reading Hi Mom!) (3rd place: $1,000)
Ali: $13,200 + $1,601 = $14,801 (What is Fahrenheit 451?) (2nd place: $2,000)
James: $58,148 + $31,010 = $89,158 (What is Fahrenheit 451 ♥ happy bday Scarlett) (7-day champion: $415,035)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $2,000

GAME DYNAMICS
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CORYAT SCORES
James: $29,400, 32 R (including 3 DDs), 0 W
Ali: $13,200, 16 R, 0 W
Mike: $7,400, 12 R, 2 W
Combined Coryat: $50,000

BATTING AVERAGES
James: 33/61 = .541
Ali: 17/58 = .293
Mike: 12/58 = .207
Team: 62/63 = .984

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
CITY ADJECTIVES $1000: Of or relating to a northern Italian city, like veal coated with breadcrumbs
(Mike: What is Parmesan?)
[Originally ruled incorrect; ruled acceptable during contestant interviews.]

GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $1000: Since 2005 the Bible has been the most searched book & No. 2 has been this somewhat more recent sacred text
(Mike: What is the Book of Mormon?)

WOMEN OF POLITICS $1000: This Bronx native with a hyphenated name wowed politicos with a Big Apple win in 2018

WOMEN OF POLITICS $600: Tortured under the Pinochet regime, Michelle Bachelet became the first female president of this country in 2006

I'D LIKE TO SELL A VOWEL $400: I think you need tablets of the element with this symbol--it will help you with your goiter
(Alex: For iodine.)

WOMEN OF POLITICS $200: This Brit has been dubbed "Madam Brexit"
(Alex: Less than a minute now.)

SCIENCE $1600: 2.54 million light-years away, the nearest major galaxy to ours is this one named for a mythological maiden

COLOMBIA PICTURES $1200: The Orinoco River flows northwest towards Colombia, where it forms part of the border between Colombia & this country

COLOMBIA PICTURES $1600: Aracataca, the birthplace of this Nobel Prize winner, once held a vote to add its name to Macondo, a town in one of his novels

5 EASY PIECES $2000: If playing this 6-letter kind of piece, choose an easy one like Mozart's Facile, meaning "easy"
(Mike: What is concerto?)

COLOMBIA PICTURES $800: The world's highest-paid TV actress, this U.S. sitcom star was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1972

COLOMBIA PICTURES $400: A major tourist attraction, the Tequendama Falls are on this river that shares its name with Colombia's capital

CORRECT RESPONSES
Cambridge
Denver
Cartagena
a proof coin
Fahrenheit 451
Milanese
the Koran
(Alexandria) Ocasio-Cortez
Chile
I
Theresa May
Andromeda
Venezuela
Gabriel García Márquez
sonata
Sofía Vergara
Bogotá
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FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
LITERARY ADAPTATIONS

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
The director of the 2018 TV version of this 1953 classic said yes, books were harmed in the making of this motion picture

James Holzhauer: 58148+31010=89158 (7X = $415,035)
Ali Filipowicz: 13200+1601=14801
Mike Dindoffer: 7400-300=7100

Correct response:
Spoiler
Fahrenheit 451 (James added Happy Bday Scarlett <3) (Mike – Burn After Reading Hi Mom!)

Daily Doubles
James: 10400+9812
James: 29212+11914
James: 42726+11022

Coryats
James: 29400
Ali: 13200
Mike: 7400

Combined: 50,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
James: 22012
Ali: 3600
Mike: 1800
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David Madden 19x: $430,400
Julia Collins 20x: $428,100
James Holzhauer 7x: $415,035
Matt Jackson 13x: $411,612
Austin Rogers 12x: 411,000

If James had not set the one-day record earlier this week he probably could have set it higher today if so motivated. As is he left plenty of money on the table playing the birthday game.

James and his sweep the week paid off big time.

Winner of the All-Stars Fantasy Sweepstakes: Joan Z. from Las Vegas

The FJ! clue wanted a J! favorite. I've watched the show enough to know where to go by now. Mike's miss cost him nothing other than pride when it should have been 3/3.
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And he goes and sets the second highest single day record.
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Lefty wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:32 pm
MarkBarrett wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 12:12 pm
How often does AOC come up on J! anyway? ;)
I'm somewhat surprised she hasn't yet, though more so that she has not yet in LL.
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what an easy week of FJs!

How many episodes do you think he can go for?
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Somehow he seemed to put the buzzer down for extended stretches, and still had almost 30k Coryat and the second highest score alltime. Amazing.
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During the break I wondered if he'd bet the ~31k he could afford to safely. Like there was ever any doubt :lol:
CyrusChan wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:29 pm what an easy week of FJs!

How many episodes do you think he can go for?
Until he misses a big DD and his opponents take advantage (so that the board being drained of high-value clues works against him), which would require 1) his opponents actually hunting for them, and 2) the DDs he does hit being more difficult than "Cantabrigian + college cities -> Cambridge" and "Carthage + Spanish + Colombian city -> Cartagena"...

And yeah, instaget FJ. Come on, J! writers, you can do better than this.

Also, how the hell did the writers not anticipate Parmagian?
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Amazing player, the best I've ever seen. Just a casual $89k. It seemed almost pedestrian.
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xxaaaxx wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:37 pm Also, how the hell did the writers not anticipate Parmagian?
Was that reversed? I had the TV muted during most of the interview segment.
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Parmesan.

And Mike was totally Ellis from Die Hard.
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Fourth second-row DD this week?! Including two in a single day (Thursday)!? Has that ever happened?

Hard not to think the producers are intentionally stirring it up to make one of two interesting things happen: either someone with the more traditional approach to clue order gets DDs before James, or James gets a huge payoff when he finds it. Not kosher either way.
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Gotta give Mike credit for making a decent comeback from his early $2000 hole.
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Not gonna say I'm 100% positive about this, but I am fairly sure that James set another record today -- highest score after the first round. I don't remember anyone ever making it to $20K in SJ alone. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
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We can add obliterating the mark for most $ after the single-J! round to the long and growing list of records James has set. And substantially exceeding the highest previous 1-day winnings record twice in 4 games - just wow. With every jaw-dropping victory, James furthers his case for consideration as the GOAT (at least with regard to regular-play games). The astonishing thing about today's game is that he casually racked up over $89K despite holding back on DD2 to give another shout-out to his daughter's birthdate (I had expected him to go all-in given his opponents' scores); and like boson I got the sense that at one point in DJ he eased up a little on buzzing in. It's a tribute to how much James's stratospheric level of play and massive DD wagers have spoiled us that the amount of his winnings today - which is way more than any of the show's previous thousands of contestants ever won in a single game - felt almost like a letdown.

I've said it before - I feel privileged to be watching James's run.

And yes, I would like to see how he does with non-softball FJ's. I suspect he would still do pretty well on them.
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gnash wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:29 pm Fourth second-row DD this week?! Including two in a single day (Thursday)!? Has that ever happened?
Yes, that's happened.
gnash wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:29 pm Hard not to think the producers are intentionally stirring it up to make one of two interesting things happen: either someone with the more traditional approach to clue order gets DDs before James, or James gets a huge payoff when he finds it. Not kosher either way.
They're not doing that.
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Coryat: 48,400
54 R/0 W
DD: 3/3
FJ: :mrgreen:
LT: proof

Speaking of records, has there ever been a combined Coryat higher than $49,000 (since today's $50,000 double-counts a $1,000 clue) in regular play?

I find it interesting that James has nearly doubled Ken Jennings's 7-day money total despite having a lower average Coryat and fewer correct responses. He is a living testament to the proposition that most of the game comes down to just four clues.
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BRD-98 wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:53 pm Amazing player, the best I've ever seen. Just a casual $89k. It seemed almost pedestrian.
Really? The best? I haven't analyzed the Coryats or anything, but just from watching my impression is his depth of knowledge isn't on the same tier as Ken's and Brad's.
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BigDaddyMatty wrote: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:55 pm ...

Speaking of records, has there ever been a combined Coryat higher than $49,000 (since today's $50,000 double-counts a $1,000 clue) in regular play?
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I did a search of "combined coryat" on posts by cheezguyty and turned this up: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3505&p=212159&hilit ... at#p212159
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