Fourth Podium Poll for Wednesday, May 31, 2023

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Which of these clues did you get?

SJ5 $600 DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR: Since 2002 this model, with a name from the Japanese word kanmuri, has been the USA's bestselling passenger car (Kyle: What is a... Accord?) (Ilhana: What's Honda Civic?)
38
68%
SJ7 $600 COUNTRIES IN SHORT: This type of area that you might visit in the Caribbean country of Antigua & Barbuda "is just the beginning" (Lisa: What are the beaches?)
25
45%
SJ8 $800 COUNTRIES IN SHORT: Elevate your game in this nation, "The Pyrenean Country" (Kyle: What is... Greece?) (Lisa: What is Spain?)
38
68%
SJ21 $400 THE NATURAL ORDER: All these flightless birds are in an order whose name means "wedge shaped", describing their wings
17
30%
SJ22 $600 THE NATURAL ORDER: Hey, cousin the bush baby is a member of this order of mammals (Lisa: What is marsupial?) (Kyle: What is a possum?)
20
36%
SJ24 $800 8-LETTER WORDS: Type of complete breakdown that's in the name of a bee colony disorder
25
45%
SJ25 $1000 AROUND THE USA: The Empire Quarry in Bloomington, Indiana is famous for providing this building material for the Empire State Building (Lisa: What is granite?)
15
27%
SJ28 $1000 THE NATURAL ORDER: Toothed & baleen whales are the 2 major subdivisions of this order of marine mammals
30
54%
DJ5 $800 LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN: When in Edinburgh, visit Princes Street Gardens & its 200-foot monument to this 19th century author (Kyle: Who is Burns?)
15
27%
DJ6 DD2 LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN (Kyle wagered $2000): It's been peering down on the capital from its 32 rotating capsules for 2 decades
41
73%
DJ7 $2000 LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN: Facing France, the White Cliffs of Dover are along the coast of this county (Kyle: What is Dover?)
12
21%
DJ9 $800 NUMERICAL LITERATURE: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez' World War I bestseller named for this mounted quartet became a hit movie with Rudolph Valentino
31
55%
DJ12 $2000 NUMERICAL LITERATURE: A story of rich kids & their reckless, listless lives in 1980s Los Angeles, "Less than Zero" is by this author
27
48%
DJ13 $400 NUMERICAL LITERATURE: In a 1969 novel Germans tell POWs that their residence is Schlachthof-Funf, this title place
33
59%
DJ14 $400 "V"ERBS: This 3-letter verb means to evaluate for approval (Ilhana: What's vie?)
35
63%
DJ23 $2000 PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S: Increased the minimum wage to $1; approved & opened the St. Lawrence Seaway
8
14%
DJ24 DD3 "V"ERBS (Ilhana wagered $3000): From Latin for "love", it means to regard with devotion or reverence
33
59%
DJ26 $2000 BARRIERS & DIVIDERS: Get a chuckle with this name for a sunk fence to separate animal from human territory; Monticello had one
7
13%
DJ27 $1600 BARRIERS & DIVIDERS: Also sold under the brand names Lucite & Perspex, this acrylic material is used in prison to separate visitor & convict
38
68%
FJ SPORTS & THE MOVIES: A Geena Davis Institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise film's release, women's participation in this sport rose 105%
25
45%
 
Total votes: 56

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Fourth Podium Poll for Wednesday, May 31, 2023

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Triple stumper FJ, $17,800 in trash, two available DDs in the DJ round. Lots of paths to victory if you got FJ. Some paths to victory even if you missed it, though remember that the leader wagered nothing, which could ironically screw you if you picked up too much cash. If you enter FJ with more than $10,400 and missed it, you'll probably lose. Unless you leveraged those DDs and put together a crush.

SCORES GOING INTO FJ

Ilhana Redzovic: 10400-0=10400
Kyle Marshall: 10200-9800=400
Lisa Gargiulo: 4600-4599
CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND

SJ5 $600 DUDE, HERE'S YOUR CAR: Camry
SJ7 $600 COUNTRIES IN SHORT: the beach
SJ8 $800 COUNTRIES IN SHORT: Andorra
SJ21 $400 THE NATURAL ORDER: penguins
SJ22 $600 THE NATURAL ORDER: primate
SJ24 $800 8-LETTER WORDS: collapse
SJ25 $1000 AROUND THE USA: limestone
SJ28 $1000 THE NATURAL ORDER: cetaceans

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND

DJ5 $800 LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN: Sir Walter Scott
DJ6 DD2 LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN: London Eye
DJ7 $2000 LANDMARKS OF GREAT BRITAIN: Kent
DJ9 $800 NUMERICAL LITERATURE: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
DJ12 $2000 NUMERICAL LITERATURE: Bret Easton Ellis
DJ13 $400 NUMERICAL LITERATURE: Slaughterhouse-Five
DJ14 $400 "V"ERBS: vet
DJ23 $2000 PRESIDENTIAL DOIN'S: Dwight Eisenhower
DJ24 DD3 "V"ERBS: venerate
DJ26 $2000 BARRIERS & DIVIDERS: a ha-ha
DJ27 $1600 BARRIERS & DIVIDERS: plexiglass

FINAL JEOPARDY

SPORTS & THE MOVIES: Archery
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lemme see if I got this straight. SJ7 counted beaches wrong because they wanted beach? Is that right? Am I missing something?
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I think the ruling is defensible. "Beaches" would only be acceptable if the tourism slogan actually said "beaches". I believe there is precedent for that kind of reasoning.
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$3800 + DD2 + DD3 + FJ!
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$2200 + DD2 + DD3, missed FJ. Not my categories.
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Andorra, collapse, cetacean, Ellis, Slaughterhouse-Five, vet, plexiglass; London Eye and venerate DDs; FJ.

That gives me $7,000 going into Final. It's possible I make a small bet and finish second if Ilhana's bet doesn't change, but I think more likely I bet on myself and it pays off.
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Beach (needed Lisa's "beaches" neg to steer me there), Andorra, neg with ratites on the penguins clue (I thought we were naming the order, even though I know "ratite" doesn't mean "wedge-shaped," plus it's not an order), primate, collapse, (neg with granite undone by Lisa's), cetaceans, Walter Scott, (assume I lose everything on the London Eye DD, I didn't have a response before Kyle gave it), (possible neg on the Kent clue that I'm not counting because I had a lapse in attention that caused me to guess Normandy, and I don't think I did a ring-in), Bret Easton Ellis, Slaughterhouse-Five, ha-ha (I said "ha-ha barrier" because I thought I recalled a phrase, and since "barrier" was part of the category name I assume it'd be okay), Plexiglas.

With my allowances I have $6,000 going into FJ, I bet everything (or maybe max out at $5,600) and win on a sole get. Without my allowances, maybe I shouldn't count the DD neg, and still have enough to win.
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$12,600+DD2*+DD3* means $12,600 going into FJ. I would have made the shutout bet from the lead and lost on FJ.

*Since I failed to get the questions preceding the DDs, I wouldn't have got to take them.
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$2800; too much guessing. Marble for limestone, Wolfe for Ellis, Stevenson for Scott. (Is that really a famous monument, or is Scott just the more Platonic Scot?). Then Geena Davis hit me over the head with a baseball bat in FJ!, and I couldn't get away from that.
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seaborgium wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 10:59 pm Beach (needed Lisa's "beaches" neg to steer me there), Andorra, neg with ratites on the penguins clue (I thought we were naming the order, even though I know "ratite" doesn't mean "wedge-shaped," plus it's not an order),
I was looking for something like ornis cuneiformis there.

"Haha" used to be a crossword staple, typically clued "sunken fence", but it seems to have passed from fashion.
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$10800 assuming I go all in on the DD, but I'm wagering over 400 on FJ so no win.

Half a beat late on Ellis
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