Fourth Podium Poll for Wednesday, June 7, 2023

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Which of these clues did you get?

SJ3 $600 COMPANY: Need some cash for your home or credit card balance? This company with a green leaf in its logo may bear fruit
15
26%
SJ4 $800 COMPANY: Evan Moore heard a macaroon shop turn down a delivery order & created this speedy company he dubbed an "On-Demand FedEx"
19
33%
SJ5 $1000 COMPANY: Known for Kenosha red toolboxes, this hyphenated company filed its first patent in 1923
8
14%
SJ10 $1000 PASSION: These 2 passionate words make up the title of a 1965 film about Michelangelo
36
62%
SJ21 $600 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC: Stephen Sondheim composed most of the score of "A Little Night Music" in 3/4 time, also known as this dance "time"
50
86%
SJ26 $400 MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: She made her feature film directorial debut with the roller derby film "Whip It" & co-starred as Smashley Simpson (Collette: Who is Diablo Cody?)
13
22%
SJ30 $200 INTO THE WOODS: Johann Strauss Jr. wrote "Tales of" this city's woods; today, they're a UNESCO biosphere reserve
37
64%
DJ2 $1200 A '90s KID: Games for this alphanumeric console included '90s classics like "GoldenEye" & "Banjo-Kazooie"
35
60%
DJ4 $2000 A '90s KID: Contestants of a certain age may recall this book series by K.A. Applegate with teens shapeshifting into beasts
20
34%
DJ5 $800 ETYMOLOGY: In "Home On The Range", you'll hear this word that comes from the Latin for "heart" & "asunder"
17
29%
DJ8 $2000 ETYMOLOGY: Animals' ears are called these; the same-named parts of the heart get their name due to a resemblance to them
11
19%
DJ10 $1200 A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: An inspector never stops inspecting; a 19th century Gerard; the fugitive saves his life, he lets the guy go but meets a tragic end
28
48%
DJ11 $1600 A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: An (Oliver) twisted old man; manager of the Artful Dodger; it's all in the execution
35
60%
DJ13 $2000 A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: An arrested development & legal issues on his 30th birthday; a letter-perfect life no more at 31; how Kafka-esque!
11
19%
DJ15 $1200 JOIN THE CLUB: Once a kid in "The Breakfast Club", she's a mom in TV's "Single Drunk Female"
33
57%
DJ16 $1600 JOIN THE CLUB: Ry Cooder assembled legendary Cuban musicians into this "Club" that was featured in a documentary of the same name
17
29%
DJ17 $2000 JOIN THE CLUB: BRMC for short, this band gets its name from Marlon Brando's biker gang in "The Wild One"
5
9%
DJ18 $800 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: This Californian is No. 2 in line (Collette: Who is Kamala Harris?)
23
40%
DJ19 $1200 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: Al Haig once said, "I am in control here in the White House" but like this man, Haig was batting fourth
19
33%
DJ20 DD3 ASTRONOMICAL ANAGRAMS (Kristine wagered $2500 and got it): In 1054 one happened in Taurus: RAVEN SOUP
34
59%
DJ22 $1600 ASTRONOMICAL ANAGRAMS: The solar surface as it looks to us: PROPHET SHOE
16
28%
DJ26 $1600 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: He's Attorney General No. 86 & presidential line successor No. 7
36
62%
DJ27 $2000 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: You can bank on giving a high 5 to this ex-Fed chair
27
47%
DJ28 $400 ETYMOLOGY: Checkmate means the king is done for on a chessboard, as check refers etymologically to one of these Persian bigwigs
32
55%
 
Total votes: 58

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Fourth Podium Poll for Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Post by opusthepenguin »

Oh my. When ctrl-F told me there were 23 occurrences of the word "triple," I wondered if that word had just naturally occurred in several responses. Nope. Every single one was followed by "stumper". $27,800 in trash plus an available DD3. Nevertheless, it may prove more difficult to put together a fourth podium win than those numbers suggest.

The poll tops out at 24 entries (an upgrade from the days when it stopped at 18 and I occasionally needed more. Adding another 6 seemed plenty). With 23 stumpers and a DD, there was no room to include FJ. You'll just have to remember whether you got it and calculate accordingly.


SCORES GOING INTO FJ

Suresh Krishnan: 7000+3499=10499
Kristine Rembach:8500-5501=2999
Collette Lee: 3500+3499=6999
CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND

SJ3 $600 COMPANY: Lending Tree
SJ4 $800 COMPANY: DoorDash
SJ5 $1000 COMPANY: Snap-On
SJ10 $1000 PASSION: agony & ecstasy
SJ21 $600 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC: waltz time
SJ26 $400 MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: Drew Barrymore
SJ30 $200 INTO THE WOODS: Vienna

DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND

DJ2 $1200 A '90s KID: N64
DJ4 $2000 A '90s KID: Animorphs
DJ5 $800 ETYMOLOGY: discouraging
DJ8 $2000 ETYMOLOGY: auricles
DJ10 $1200 A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: Javert
DJ11 $1600 A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: Fagin
DJ13 $2000 A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: Josef K.
DJ15 $1200 JOIN THE CLUB: Ally Sheedy
DJ16 $1600 JOIN THE CLUB: The Buena Vista Social Club
DJ17 $2000 JOIN THE CLUB: the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
DJ18 $800 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: Kevin MCcarthy
DJ19 $1200 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: Antony Blinken
DJ20 DD3 ASTRONOMICAL ANAGRAMS: supernova
DJ22 $1600 ASTRONOMICAL ANAGRAMS: photosphere
DJ26 $1600 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: Merrick Garland
DJ27 $2000 THE PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION, TODAY: Janet Yellen
DJ28 $400 ETYMOLOGY: shah

FINAL JEOPARDY

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: Of all the nations that border Italy, the one that didn't exist in 1990 - What is Slovenia?
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$7,200-DD3-FJ! with the Pyrrhic victory of my Coryat better than the combined Coryat.
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Did not expect Josef K and Photoshpere to poll that low.
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$13,000+DD3 means that I could have entered FJ with over $20K. With an Instaget FJ, that’s a fourth podium wi. For me
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$8200, but didn't get FJ.
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Tons of :mrgreen: + DD3 + FJ
A NOVEL CHARACTER BREAKDOWN and A '90s KID were both delicious trash sweeps for me.

Yeah, more than enough.
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$13400 reduced to $7000 by a lot of negs, but with FJ! right, I'm calling that at least a tie.

When the DJ! categories were read, I had a moment of panic that I couldn't remember who the Attorney General was, and that proved unfortunate. In my defense, I tend to think of him less as the Attorney General, and more as "the guy in charge of making that one specific decision." That's not very general!
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waltz, N64*, Animorphs, discouraging, Javert, Fagin, Ally Sheedy, Kevin McCarthy, Blinken.

$10,600. Solid total, but not enough to for a lock and I guessed the wrong former Yugoslav nation (Croatia).

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Lending Tree, (clam on Snap-On), agony + ecstasy, waltz, (thought of Drew Barrymore too late), (clam on Vienna even though I think I read an archived clue about the Strauss piece earlier in the day), N64 (paused at "alphanumeric" but WECIB), Animorphs, discouraging, (neg with Les Misérables instead of Javert), (clam because I couldn't pick between Fagin and Sykes), (clam on Josef K. because I was sure the clue gave too much for it to be him), Buena Vista Social Club, McCarthy (I would have negged with Harris due to a bad habit of thinking of the incumbent as first in line, but Collette took that bullet and I corrected myself in time), (supernova DD), photosphere, (preemptive clam on Yellen before I could come up with her because "ex-" in the clue threw me off), shah

If I hit the DD and double up $7,400 there, I enter FJ with $16,800, so I can cover Christine without falling within reach of Suresh, which I need because I switched from my first instinct of Slovenia because I overthought things: knowing it left Yugoslavia earlier than the other countries, I imagined it could have existed in 1990. I said Croatia instead.

[edit: actually, if I get DD3, that means Christine doesn't, which shapes up for a lock if I go for it sufficiently.]

$5,200 lost to a late get and clams (provided I go the right way on Fagin) before the DD, maybe $2,000 more post-DD if I'm able to parse the Yellen clue, and $2,400 pre-DD points lost on a "forgot the category" error with Javert. My success despite the FJ miss shouldn't be as threadbare (and DD-dependent) as it is.
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I'm not really surprised to see so many of these polling low.
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alietr wrote: Thu Jun 08, 2023 11:45 am I'm not really surprised to see so many of these polling low.
Yup. I normally get 18-23 correct in DJ, but on this board I was hovering around 15 (it didn’t help that they didn’t finish board).
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Theoretical max of 27,600 going into FJ, picking up BVSC to lay claim to the DD. And 15,800 without it.
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