Can you believe it’s been more than a week since I blogged? And I get to cover a Lucas episode! 🙂 And hey, I’m blogging the next five.
There’s a new poll below today, by the way.
Some season 25 Coryats:
Originally 3-3-09: 24400 (30800 without negs, all in DJ)
Originally 3-4-09:24800 (29800 without negs)
Originally 3-5-09: 26800 (27800 without negs). GSN didn’t show Jeopardy! on Thursday or Friday last week, so this episode aired Monday this week. Keep that in mind, that now GSN’s off now by 2 days. I’m pleased that GSN didn’t just decide to not show these two.
Originally 3-6-09: 27600 (28600 without negs)
Originally 6-14-12: 33200 (35200 without negs). The first time I played, my Coryat was 32800.
Originally 3-9-09: 32200 (33400 without negs).
By the way, I notice that the season 25 Tournament of Champions will be starting like in a couple of days!
Today’s contestants:
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| Todd Federman of Livingston NJ |
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| Lucas Peterson of Oak Park IL |
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| Jason Shore of Plano TX |
Lucas had won two games coming into today. By the way, don’t forget to come back for his Q & A with us! And leave a comment if you have a question for him!
This first clue sort of set the tone for the day. It was a triple-stumper, and two people negged on it. (I did too.) In Oakland “B”s: “In November 1936 it began carrying traffic between San Francisco & Oakland across the water it’s named for.” I said “BART.” So eager was Lucas he didn’t wait for Mr. Trebek to tell him to select the next clue. And Lucas kept going back to the category when the other contestants left it.
Anybody know what Mr. Trebek was talking about after this triple-stumper in Oakland “B”s?: “Francis Smith, the 19th C. ‘King’ of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland’s streetcar system.” Mr. Trebek said, “20 mule team Borax; remember that?” (“Borax” being the correct response.)
At the first break, Lucas had gotten 6 right and 3 wrong, and had 1800. Jason had gotten 5 right and one wrong, and had 2000. Todd had gotten 2 right and one wrong, and had 800.
Speaking of Todd, Mr. Trebek pointed out during his interview that Todd’s daughter Meryl was the Teen Tournament champ in 2007. And she was in the audience!
Todd said it’s less rather than more pressure competing once a family member has, when Mr. Trebek asked. He said it was “nerve-racking” watching his daughter compete. Look, Meryl mentions him in the interview in that link.
Jason found the Daily Double of the round in With Maori. There were 2 clues on the board after this one, and Mr. Trebek had given the one-minute warning like 4 clues before. For the second time, Mr. Trebek pointed out that Jason had started slowly. He’d gotten 4 right since the break and had 4000. Lucas had gotten 6 right but 2 wrong, and had 5000. Tom still had 800. Jason wagered 1000 on this clue that seemed too obvious to be right: “Seen before rugby games, a haka is one of these & is performed ‘so that the whole body should speak.'” I mean, I’ve never heard of this but what else could it be? Jason got it right. It wound up being the last clue of the round.
I swept “Tic” “Tac” “Toe”.
Jason found the first Daily Double of the round a little on the late side. He’d gotten 10 right, and had 18200. Lucas had gotten 6 right and one wrong, and had 10200. Todd showed improvement, getting 5 right and one wrong. He had 3200. Jason wagered 2000 on this clue in The Era of Eras: “In the 1890s this era of economic, political & social reform in the U.S. began moving forward, as its name says.”
Jason was now very close to having a lock on the game, with very few clues left. He and Lucas seesawed back and forth before Jason found the second Daily Double of the round, in Italian Art. This was also the last clue of the round. Both Jason and Lucas had gotten one right and one wrong since the last Daily Double. Jason had 19400 and Lucas had 11400. Todd had gotten one right and had 3600. What a golden opportunity for Jason, and bad luck for Lucas. Jason wagered 3500, which would give him a lock on the game if he was right. This was the clue, which seemed unbelievably obvious to me: “From the spring of 1508 until October 1512, he painted on a scaffold with his ‘beard turned up to heaven.'” When I saw the clue I knew it was “game over.” I was 3/3 on Daily Doubles today, by the way.
The Final Jeopardy category today was Countries. This was the clue: “It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family.” I got this one right, and it was a triple-stumper! Todd lost 1400, Lucas lost 11400, and Jason lost just 22, but of course it didn’t really matter as long as Jason wagered to keep his lock. And he doesn’t strike me as a dummy.
For fun (?!) I kept track of each of the values of Lucas’s 7 negs. They add up to 4000, and two of those Jason picked up after the incorrect response. Of course, Jason could just wager more on the last Daily Double if Lucas had clammed on those negs. But would he have, on the last clue of the round?
A couple of clues today were reminiscent of clues I’d seen earlier in the afternoon when watching the GSN rerun:
- Today’s, in Beastly Movie Titles: “Based on a true Australian story: ‘_____-proof Fence.” And in the rerun, in 1961: “Launching a 4-book series, John Updike published this novel in 1961.”
- Today’s, the first Daily Double of the Double Jeopardy round, above. In the rerun, in Hiram: “Teddy Roosevelt & Hiram Johnson got more votes than the Republicans as the 1912 ticket of this forward-looking party.”
These were my triple-stumpers:
- In Tuesdays: “Every 4 years a politically important day is dubbed this; in 2012 it was March 6.”
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The Lane! The Lane!: “In 2008 Diane Lane spent some ‘Nights in Rodanthe’ with Paul, played by this leading man.”