No DDs, but $17,400 in trash. Pick up $6200 or more and add a correct response on FJ and you can have a win.
PRE-FJ SCORES, WAGERS & RESULTS
Amy Bekkerman: 12200-0=12200
Tim Moon: 3800-3800=0
Scott Plummer: 2800+2799 CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND
J4 $1000 WHAT THE DICKENS!: Sidney Carton
J5 $200 WHAT THE DICKENS!: a Christmas Tree
J11 $400 POP MUSIC: Olivia Rodrigo
J17 $1000 DAD, GUM IT: Gumbo
J21 $1000 POP MUSIC: Nicki Minaj
J24 $1000 JAILHOUSE ROCK: the Château d'If
J28 $800 WE'LL SPOT YOU A LETTER: afterglow
DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND
DJ2 $1600 THE NAME OF THE LAW: Matthew Shepard
DJ3 $2000 THE NAME OF THE LAW: the Mann Act
DJ8 $1200 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Liffey
DJ9 $1600 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Niagara River
DJ11 $2000 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Vltava or Moldau
DJ17 $1600 SCULPTURE: Dada
DJ18 $2000 SCULPTURE: Henry Moore
Sidney Carton, Christmas tree, gumbo, and Mann Act. Only $4200. I'm locked out like Tim and Scott.
If you'd asked me to name a Czech river, I'd have been able to provide Vltava or Moldau with no trouble because of the tone poem by Smetana. But somehow, zeroing in on Prague and the Charles Bridge drove that knowledge from my head. $2000 left on the table. That made the difference between a win and a loss tonight.
Christmas tree, gumbo, d'If, afterglow, Shepard, dada, and Moore plus FJ would give me the win... if I hadn't negged myself down to $5,600 from a potential $8,200. The worst was going with the wrong V and L river by saying Vistula instead of Vltava. Also I lost track of the category and said Dublin like Scott—I'm not counting a neg because he made the same mistake, but I could have gotten Liffey on a better day, which would have been enough to save me the game.
opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:53 pm
No DDs, but $17,400 in trash. Pick up $6200 or more and add a correct response on FJ and you can have a win.
PRE-FJ SCORES, WAGERS & RESULTS
Amy Bekkerman: 12200-0=12200
Tim Moon: 3800-3800=0
Scott Plummer: 2800+2799 CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND
J4 $1000 WHAT THE DICKENS!: Sidney Carton
J5 $200 WHAT THE DICKENS!: a Christmas Tree
J11 $400 POP MUSIC: Olivia Rodrigo
J17 $1000 DAD, GUM IT: Gumbo
J21 $1000 POP MUSIC: Nicki Minaj
J24 $1000 JAILHOUSE ROCK: the Château d'If
J28 $800 WE'LL SPOT YOU A LETTER: afterglow
DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND
DJ2 $1600 THE NAME OF THE LAW: Matthew Shepard
DJ3 $2000 THE NAME OF THE LAW: the Mann Act
DJ8 $1200 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Liffey
DJ9 $1600 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Niagara River
DJ11 $2000 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Vltava or Moldau
DJ17 $1600 SCULPTURE: Dada
DJ18 $2000 SCULPTURE: Henry Moore
FINAL JEOPARDY
POETS: William Blake
I didn’t get that high but would getting above 2/3 of the leader get you a win even if you miss FJ? Or is the leader unaware she must bet against an imaginary opponent?
opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:53 pm
No DDs, but $17,400 in trash. Pick up $6200 or more and add a correct response on FJ and you can have a win.
PRE-FJ SCORES, WAGERS & RESULTS
Amy Bekkerman: 12200-0=12200
Tim Moon: 3800-3800=0
Scott Plummer: 2800+2799 CORRECT RESPONSES
JEOPARDY ROUND
J4 $1000 WHAT THE DICKENS!: Sidney Carton
J5 $200 WHAT THE DICKENS!: a Christmas Tree
J11 $400 POP MUSIC: Olivia Rodrigo
J17 $1000 DAD, GUM IT: Gumbo
J21 $1000 POP MUSIC: Nicki Minaj
J24 $1000 JAILHOUSE ROCK: the Château d'If
J28 $800 WE'LL SPOT YOU A LETTER: afterglow
DOUBLE JEOPARDY ROUND
DJ2 $1600 THE NAME OF THE LAW: Matthew Shepard
DJ3 $2000 THE NAME OF THE LAW: the Mann Act
DJ8 $1200 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Liffey
DJ9 $1600 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Niagara River
DJ11 $2000 BRIDGE ON THE RIVER: the Vltava or Moldau
DJ17 $1600 SCULPTURE: Dada
DJ18 $2000 SCULPTURE: Henry Moore
FINAL JEOPARDY
POETS: William Blake
I didn’t get that high but would getting above 2/3 of the leader get you a win even if you miss FJ? Or is the leader unaware she must bet against an imaginary opponent?
That's an area where the fourth podium player is free to apply his own assumptions. I'd call it a soft win. I deliberately worded the poll choice as "I think I would have won," so you should feel free to check it.
Today would not have been a 4th podium win for me, though I would have fit right in on stage. With me playing, most of the clues on the list were quadruple stumpers. I picked up $1400 of the available amount and then kipled.
I'm not the defending Jeopardy! champion. But I have played one on TV.
I could have sworn "dada" was meant to be a made-up, nonsensical word.
According to Wikipedia there isn't a consensus on the origin of the name:
There is no consensus on the origin of the movement's name; a common story is that the German artist Richard Huelsenbeck slid a paper knife (letter-opener) at random into a dictionary, where it landed on "dada", a colloquial French term for a hobby horse. Jean Arp wrote that Tristan Tzara invented the word at 6 p.m. on 6 February 1916, in the Café de la Terrasse in Zürich.[14] Others note that it suggests the first words of a child, evoking a childishness and absurdity that appealed to the group. Still others speculate that the word might have been chosen to evoke a similar meaning (or no meaning at all) in any language, reflecting the movement's internationalism.[15]
