As you may have noticed, I’ve made some changes to the site. What do you think? I crave your feedback – positive and negative.
I’m rolling out one of the changes with this blog post: I had wished that there was a better way to reveal correct responses to Jeopardy! clues than to list them at the end of the entry. Well…I learned a new little trick from the guy who helped me: From now on, you will be able to put your arrow over a word or words in the clue (which I will indicate with dark red text) and the correct response will appear. (I’ll bet web designer champ Paul could’ve taught me how to do that, too!) Will you let me know if you don’t like the change?
Today’s contestants:
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| Kate Rowland |
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| Paul Wampler |
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| Sarah Monteith |
Kate found all three Daily Double today. In the Jeopardy round, she found it in A Year Ending in 11. Paul had 200, Sarah had 800, and Kate had 0. She wagered 1000 on this clue: “In a warmup to his assault on Mexico, Cortes helps Velasquez conquer Cuba.” Kate got it right.
At the first break, Paul was in the unusual positions of both being in third place and being in the hole, at -800. Sarah had 3200 and Kate had 800. At the end of the round, Paul still trailed with 2600, Sarah had 6200, and Kate had 3600.
I was smokin’-hot in the Jeopardy round today, including sweeping Their Better Half, where you provide the spouse of the person in the clue. My Coryat score in the Jeopardy round was 12000. There were only five clues I didn’t answer, plus one I answered incorrectly. But it wasn’t to last. Double Jeopardy kicked my butt, and hard. I have to admit I didn’t answer anything right in What’s the Name of Your Union or Down South in South Georgia (a reference to the country, not the state). BUT, two of the clues in Union category and three in the Georgia category triple-stumped the contestants as well. Here are samples from each: In Union: “The men and women assembling Mustangs and Malibus.” And in Georgia: “The island of South Georgia has no indigenous mammals, but reindeer were introduced here in 1911 to provide meat by Captain C.A. Larsen, from this country.”
Kate found the first Daily Double of the Double Jeopardy round in Act Your “Age.” She finally led with 6400, while Sarah had 5800 and Paul still trailed with 3400. Kate wagered 2000 on this clue: “Within a circuit it’s calculated by the amount of current flow of 1 coulomb per second past a given point.” I thought that was a toughie, and Kate missed it, too.
Kate was just as unlucky on the next Daily Double in Last of the Composers, a category where I managed to get one right. Kate had 10000, Sarah had 8200, and Paul still trailed with 5800. Kate wagered just 600 on this clue: “In 1751, he composed his last all-new composition, the oratorio ‘Jeptha.'” She missed it.
There were two clues left, and they went unanswered. So scores were: Paul 5800, Sarah 8200, Kate 9400. The Final Jeopardy category was 1930s Films. This was the clue: “In this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the Pythagorean theorem but gets it wrong.” I thought this was a “no-brainer.” (That’s a pun you’ll get when you realize the answer to the clue.) I was surprised that both Paul and Sarah got it wrong. Paul lost 3601, while Sarah lost everything. Kate added 7001, enough to win even if Sarah had doubled. So, sadly, we say goodbye to Paul. My Coryat today was 17600. Paul‘s was 5800, Sarah’s was 8200, and Kate’s was 12000.
Here are quadruple-stumpers from today for your consideration for upcoming blog posts: National Lampoon, Nathanael West, Sholom Aleichem, Teamsters, NEA, elephant seals, toothfish, Shackleton, Bartok, Haydn.
The Watson episodes begin Monday, followed by two weeks of the Teen Tournament.
At the first break, Paul was in the unusual positions of both being in third place and being in the hole, at -800. Sarah had 3200 and Kate had 800. At the end of the round, Paul still trailed with 2600, Sarah had 6200, and Kate had 3600.
I was smokin’-hot in the Jeopardy round today, including sweeping Their Better Half, where you provide the spouse of the person in the clue. My Coryat score in the Jeopardy round was 12000. There were only five clues I didn’t answer, plus one I answered incorrectly. But it wasn’t to last. Double Jeopardy kicked my butt, and hard. I have to admit I didn’t answer anything right in What’s the Name of Your Union or Down South in South Georgia (a reference to the country, not the state). BUT, two of the clues in Union category and three in the Georgia category triple-stumped the contestants as well. Here are samples from each: In Union: “The men and women assembling Mustangs and Malibus.” And in Georgia: “The island of South Georgia has no indigenous mammals, but reindeer were introduced here in 1911 to provide meat by Captain C.A. Larsen, from this country.”
Kate found the first Daily Double of the Double Jeopardy round in Act Your “Age.” She finally led with 6400, while Sarah had 5800 and Paul still trailed with 3400. Kate wagered 2000 on this clue: “Within a circuit it’s calculated by the amount of current flow of 1 coulomb per second past a given point.” I thought that was a toughie, and Kate missed it, too.
Kate was just as unlucky on the next Daily Double in Last of the Composers, a category where I managed to get one right. Kate had 10000, Sarah had 8200, and Paul still trailed with 5800. Kate wagered just 600 on this clue: “In 1751, he composed his last all-new composition, the oratorio ‘Jeptha.'” She missed it.
There were two clues left, and they went unanswered. So scores were: Paul 5800, Sarah 8200, Kate 9400. The Final Jeopardy category was 1930s Films. This was the clue: “In this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the Pythagorean theorem but gets it wrong.” I thought this was a “no-brainer.” (That’s a pun you’ll get when you realize the answer to the clue.) I was surprised that both Paul and Sarah got it wrong. Paul lost 3601, while Sarah lost everything. Kate added 7001, enough to win even if Sarah had doubled. So, sadly, we say goodbye to Paul. My Coryat today was 17600. Paul‘s was 5800, Sarah’s was 8200, and Kate’s was 12000.
Here are quadruple-stumpers from today for your consideration for upcoming blog posts: National Lampoon, Nathanael West, Sholom Aleichem, Teamsters, NEA, elephant seals, toothfish, Shackleton, Bartok, Haydn.
The Watson episodes begin Monday, followed by two weeks of the Teen Tournament.