Fourth Podium Poll for 11/4/2019 - Monday TOC (SPOILERS)

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Which of these triple stumpers (and one missed DD) did you get?

$1000 HOMOPHONES: An old word for the Christian cross, or a description of one's impolite disposition
35
41%
$1000 SAY YES TO THE CHESS: The "hypermodern" Reti opening begins with a move of this piece
42
49%
$800 SAY YES TO THE CHESS: The queen's gambit is marked by white's second-move offer to sacrifice one of these, temporarily (Kyle negged with queen)
56
65%
$800 I APPOINTED THAT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE: William Rehnquist (as associate justice) (NOTE: We learned in the previously played clue that Rehnquist had been appointed CHIEF Justice by Ronald Reagan.)
52
60%
$1000 THE HARVARD LAMPOON: Writers and performers who've gone from the "Lampoon" to "Saturday Night Live" include this young fellow who co-hosts "Weekend Update" with Michael Che (picture in first post--identify guy on right)
41
48%
$1000 AUTO FILL: Feel the velocity in the ___ Veloster
20
23%
$2000 OPERA & BALLET: This title girl from an Adolphe Adam ballet dies in the first act & must dance for a ghost queen in the second
11
13%
$1600 ALLITERATION ON THE MAP: This nickname for Dong Ap Bia mountain in Vietnam was inspired by a brutal battle that took place there in 1969
40
47%
$1200 HARDPODGE: Ever the man in white, he chronicled "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" in 1970
45
52%
$2000 ABBREV. & ACRONYMS: Abbreviated Bq, this unit of radioactivity is named for a French physicist
42
49%
$800 THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART: Dharma & Greg
15
17%
$800 TO THE STARS: In 1960 NASA made this German-born man the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center (Gilbert negged with Goddard)
61
71%
$1600 THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART: "Rizzoli & Isles"
7
8%
$2000 THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART: "Mork & Mindy"
53
62%
Kyle's DD in $2000 slot (wagered $4000) ALLITERATION ON THE MAP: Before 1910 the area that's home to the southern tip of Africa bore this name
8
9%
 
Total votes: 86

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Fourth Podium Poll for 11/4/2019 - Monday TOC (SPOILERS)

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Let us know how you would've done from the fourth podium.
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$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.
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$10,600
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :( :( :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :( :(
$8400 total
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3 of them for 4400...von braun, alexander, dawber
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$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.
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Ugh... $4600. But come on... Mindy a SnS? Easiest clue in that category by far.
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Rackme32 wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:30 pm Ugh... $4600. But come on... Mindy a SnS? Easiest clue in that category by far.
you thought it was easier than scott baio for chachi?
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$9,400 but missed the DD.
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:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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LucarioSnooperVixey wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2019 12:27 am :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :( :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
I guessed that you wouldn't get Colin Jost. (I didn't get him from the picture, but was clued in by the Weekend Update part.)

Nixon, Jost, Hamburger Hill, Wolfe, Becquerel, von Braun for $8,400 (provided I didn't neg and the DD wasn't mine).
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$11,400.
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Got the 9 easy ones and missed the 6 hard ones.
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This is a poll that needed to be done!

$6600 for me.
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$10K for me.
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:mrgreen: :| :| :mrgreen: :| :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :mrgreen: :|

$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.
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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.
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$10,200.

Should have had cape colony as well, but couldn't pull it in time. Awkward question.
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$13,600 for me.
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$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.
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