Fourth Podium Poll for 10/16/2020 (Part 2)

[seaborgium]

I didn't have a response for "don't go there" and "Old Ironsides," and Aanchal and Kristin saved me from $3,600 in negs by also saying Northrop Grumman and Elizabeth I. Though I think I might have been able to rebound with Henry VIII on the latter, I'm counting both as clams. That's $4,800 in this thread and $6,600 in the other. Even if I do take the $3,600 in negs, I got FJ right. I think anyone who got FJ is likely to have a fourth podium win; $2,800 is probably enough in the rest of the game for FJ to get you there. ($2,700 is the real breakpoint, but one can't really collect an odd number of hundreds in LT.)

[Volante]

Flags.
Said Elizabeth for Magellan (thinking Drake instead probably)

3600 + 6800 from the previous = $10,400 + FJ

...more work doing this than it was watching the game!

[AFRET CMS]

$5800 from part 1, $5400 here for $11,200.

Would have bet $4801 in FJ to cover Kristin's potential doubling and missed with "Rodeo," so I'm giving myself a final score of $6399 to Kristin's $5300. I'm going to count it as a win.

So in Shrum-world, Kristin always bets $2700 when she has $8000, regardless of what the competition has?

Good point; I overlooked gaming the hypothetical instead of the actual.

I would normally assume and anticipate a second-place player wagers enough for a win with a solve if the leader bets zero -- so she'd need a wager of $3201.

Thanks for the catch. But just to clarify, in Shrumworld the other players always do exactly what I want them to do. No more, no less. Isn't it that way in the land of the Opi?

[opusthepenguin]

Thanks for the catch. But just to clarify, in Shrumworld the other players always do exactly what I want them to do. No more, no less. Isn't it that way in the land of the Opi?

The correct plural of Opus is Opera.

[AFRET CMS]

Thanks for the catch. But just to clarify, in Shrumworld the other players always do exactly what I want them to do. No more, no less. Isn't it that way in the land of the Opi?

The correct plural of Opus is Opera.

Didn't want to confuse people. Unless your breed of penguin is a songbird.

[Sherm]

I checked "I negged on FJ with a different Copland composition" but I actually put down "Ozark Spring." So it was really that I knew the piece being referred to, I just messed up the name.

I have an engineering degree, but in the fall of 1987, took Music 5 "An Intro to Western Music" (I had to take it or something like it, I had to take Landscape Architecture as well (you know, part of 18 credits of nonsense that made me well rounded I guess)). That class was a lot of classical music and basically the only American discussed was Copland and "Appalachian Spring".

Till I really started into the trivia thing, "Appalachian Spring" was probably the only Copland title I could come up with.

[earendel]

$15,200 + FJ!

[True North]

Knew FJ was Copland, but spent most of the time trying to think of the name of the wrong piece of music (Hoedown).