Let us know how you would've done from the fourth podium. ANSWERS
$1000 Homophones: rood/rude
$1000 SAY YES TO THE CHESS: The white knight
$800 SAY YES TO THE CHESS: a pawn
$800 I APPOINTED THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: Richard Nixon
$1000 THE HARVARD LAMPOON: Colin Jost
$1000 AUTO FILL: Hyundai
$2000 OPERA & BALLET: Giselle
$1600 ALLITERATION ON THE MAP: Hamburger Hill
$1200 HARDPODGE: Tom Wolfe
$2000 ABBREV. & ACRONYMS: Becquerel
$800 THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART: Thomas Gibson
$800 TO THE STARS: Wernher von Braun
$1600 THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART: Sasha Alexander
$2000 THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART: Pam Dawber
Kyle's DD in $2000 slot (wagered $4000) ALLITERATION ON THE MAP: Cape Colony
Pic for $1000 THE HARVARD LAMPOON clue:
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$9600 for me and did not get the South Africa DD. The frustrating one was Greg as I had Thomas while blanked on the surname.
That Harvard category was a pain and a half even with the closed-captions to help as there was no easy way to decide where to insert those media links.
If you do this tomorrow I can hope the list is shorter and I'm certain it would be shorter for the Wednesday game as no way that much trash is available.
$12,200, excepting the Daily Double. Based on my confidence in geography, I probably would have bet more, but I’m also not at the podium, so who knows? Missed the Rizzoli and Isles and car questions. Models of cars have long been a Jeopardy standard I’ve not quite mastered yet.
$10200 here, assuming I'm playing aggressively from an underdog position and taking chances where I might ordinarily clam. Since I got FJ and frontrunner Anneke missed it, this means I would have hypothetically won from the fourth podium without ever winning a buzzer race. If you got over $9000 (not including the DD) and got FJ right, you can say the same. I have to think that James Holzhauer wouldn't have picked up LESS trash in this game. So this doesn't bode well for any of these three if they face him. They're already GIVING him enough to win, not even considering how much he's going to TAKE.
No chance on that DD. That was a rough bounce for Kyle. But he bounced back and is sitting fairly pretty. Other than the looming Holz-monster, that is.
MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:11 pm
If you do this tomorrow I can hope the list is shorter and I'm certain it would be shorter for the Wednesday game as no way that much trash is available.
I'll try to do this for any game that seems to warrant it. This game was extraordinary, I think. By the end of the SJ round I already knew I was going to make this poll. There was already $5600 left on the table. I didn't know that precise number, of course. (I'm no savant.) But I could sense something unusual was happening.
I agree that Wednesday's game is not going to provide this kind of opportunity.
Many thanks, by the way, to the archivist (you?) who got this game logged in so quickly. That made the poll creation much easier. Ordinarily I put these polls up before the archive has the text. So I pull the CC from the game, search for the word "BEEP", and use the time signature to locate the right place in the recording so I can type out the text of the clue. (CC never includes the text of a clue unless it's a video clue and the text isn't already on the screen.) This time I just had to search for "triple stumper" in the game responses and copy/paste the corresponding text.
$5,800 if I cheat - I'm pretty sure I said "beh-quell" (the last syllable being pronounced like the synonym of "to surpress"), but knew the gist of that darn French word that I'd never heard pronounced. If I'd wagered all-in on FJ!, a cool $11,600 if I'm a turtle on the buzzer. Not nearly enough to win, but a respectable showing for me.