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Originally 3-11-09: 15800 (20000 without negs.) I’m kinda proud of my Rigoletto and Jessica McClintock triple-stumpers. I got the Final too but I think I just remembered it. It was all downhill when today’s episode started…Today’s contestants:
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| Tim Norris of Knoxville TN |
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| Jason Shore of Plano TX |
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| Karen Poole of Washington D.C. |
Karen looks exactly like Alanis Morissette IMO. And check her out from the Howdy page:
My own performance this episode was horrifying. There’s no better way to describe it. In fact, for the first time (I think), I’m going to list my negs at the end of the post. It’s a long list.
To think I was quite pleased when The CDC Says was the first category revealed. I did sweep it, but I suspect many did.
Jason, who had won two games when this one began, started with 42, and went 4/5, but his opponents seemed to know at least some of those too. The one he didn’t get is my first neg on the list below. Unfortunately for those opponents, the first time one of them (Tim) rung in first, he negged. I did too and said the same thing. (#3 on the list below. How I hate to number them rather than use bullet points!) Tim soon got 3 in a row, though.
I got this triple-stumper in Their Original Names: “Actress/comedian/TV talker Caryn Johnson.” And now for your viewing pleasure:
I’ll let you guess who’s the lady behind the Whoopi Goldberg mask.
This was the last clue before the first break. Jason had gotten an impressive 10 right, and had 6200. Karen had yet to ring in, and Tim had gotten the 3 right and one wrong, and had 200. Mr. Trebek said upon coming back from break, “Our champion’s ringing-in skills were very much in evidence in the early going of this round, but then Tim Norris started to come alive. We’re happy to see that.” And, happier still, Karen got the first correct response after the break. She looked relieved. Later she got this response in Beer Me! I know the brand from the commercials, seemingly non-stop during tennis tournaments: “Its label calls it (her?) ‘Belgium’s original beer.'” But sure, I can’t find the commercial now when I look for it.
Karen found the Daily Double in the round, in It’s Chile in Here. There was one clue left on the board after this. Karen had gotten 6 right and one wrong, and had 3200. Jason had gotten 4 right and had 9000. Tim had gotten 2 right and one wrong, and had nothing. Karen wisely wagered 3000 on this clue: “Chile is the world’s leading producer of this metal that has been called ‘the salary of Chile.'” She got it right! I said “silver” and felt pretty good about it. Jason got the last clue right, giving him 10000. Karen then had 6200, and, as stated, Tim had 0 (like Scott yesterday). But not to worry? Mr. Trebek said, “Not an impossible task by any means,” when the next round began.
But Tim already looked aggravated when he picked his first clue, which was a triple-stumper that I nailed, thank you very much (in At the Movies): “In Men in Black 3, now out on Blu-ray, Will Smith’s partner, a young agent K, is played by this actor.” Enough commas for you? If it hadn’t been for the picture I wouldn’t have gotten this one.
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| Not that you can really tell who this is by this picture. |
The next clue was neg #7 for me. 🙁
Jason found the first Daily Double, in The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. He had gotten 14 right and one neg since the break, and had 23600. Wow. Karen had gotten 4 right and had 11000. Tim had gotten 2 right and one wrong, and had 0 again. Jason wagered 1500 on this clue: “This man got the assignment in 1971; he’d get to appoint 2 other men to the job himself.” Jason got it right; what a surprise! 😉
Karen found the second Daily Double in Dance Companies. It was the last clue of the round. (It’s a trend!) Okay: She’d gotten one right and one wrong since Jason’s Daily Double and had 11400. Jason still had 25100 and Tim still had 0. (So we know he will not be around for the Final. 🙁 ) Now if I’m Karen, I wager it all but like a dollar. In my opinion, why wager 3000 like she did? Why? This was the clue: “During foreign tours, the Mariinsky Ballet Company is known by this name.” I didn’t know, and Karen didn’t either.
The Final Jeopardy category was 20th Century American Writers. This was the clue: “A publisher’s note on one of his books called him ‘the terror of typesetters’ & ‘an enigma to book reviewers.” The correct response crossed my mind but I went with someone else. It was a…double-stumper? Anyway Karen lost 8399. Now she wagers all but a dollar. Jason lost 2500. I like how pleased he looks to win. This third win snuck up on me. Here’s an update to the ol’ ToC list:
1. Monica Thieu $100,000 (College Champion)
2. Patrick Quinn $100,000 (Feb. 2012 Teacher’s Champion)
3. Colby Burnett $100,000 (Nov. 2012 Teacher’s Champion)
4. Jason Keller $213,900 (9 wins)
5. Keith Whitener $147,597 (7 wins)
6. Stephanie Jass $147,570 (7 wins)
7. Joel Pool $116,800 (6 wins)
8. Dave Leach $98,054 (6 wins)
9. David Menchaca $115,503 (5 wins)
10. Paul Nelson $54,900 (5 wins)
11. David Gard $84,700 (4 wins)
12. Dan McShane $62,001 (4 wins)
13. Patrick Morrison $80,701 (3 wins)
14. Francis Lansangan $78,401 (3 wins)
15. Jason Shore $67,800 (3 wins)
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16. Matt Samberg $61,402 (3 wins)
17. Andy Baggarly $60,402 (3 wins)
18. Stephanie Fontaine $54,500 (3 wins)
19. Joey Falco $53,999 (3 wins)
20. Erin Zweiner $53,399 (3 wins)
21. Beau Henson $51,203 (3 wins)
22. Margaret Swanson $48,000 (3 wins)
23. Claudia Gray $45,202 (3 wins)
24. Dan Adkison $37,400 (3 wins)
25. Jacob Silverman $35,998 (3 wins)
26. Jessamine Price $26,803 (3 wins)
As promised, my negs:
- In 42: “Just west of Heinz Chapel is the 42-story Cathedral of Learning, the central building of this university.” (This was a triple-stumper, and no one negged.)
- Also in 42: “In the Bible, 42 children who teased this prophet & disciple of Elijah were attacked by bears.”
- In Turn Up the Heat: “Rising updrafts of warm air; birds ride them to stay aloft while expending less energy.” I don’t think I’ve heard of this correct response.
- In Their Original Names: “‘Tha Carter’ Rapper Dwayne Carter Jr.” (I said Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter.)
- In Beer Me!: “In the mid-19th century, Americans drank mainly heavy, top-fermented ales. The new lighter lagers pioneered by Adolphus Busch, were made possible by the new, European bottom-fermenting types of this ingredient.” (I said what Tim did. And I have this book on my shelf. I got it at Goodwill. The bookmark’s at page 65 at the moment. I haven’t touched it in months, not counting just now.)
- In It’s Chile in Here: “This cape, the southernmost point of Chile & of South America, is only about 600 miles from Antarctica.” (Totally irrelevant but I did have chili for dinner. I said what Karen did, and I always get those capes mixed up. This was a triple-stumper. Mr. Trebek did one of his less-than-compassionate “of course”s. Well, the other 2 contestants didn’t get it right either!)
- In At the Movies: “Aaron Cross, not our old pal Jason, is the hero of this film, the fourth in a spy franchise.”
- In Letter Perfect: “This complex of vitamins includes pyridoxine, cobalamin & thiamine.”
- Again in Letter Perfect: “In chess notation this single letter stands for the piece with a horse’s head.”
- In At the Movies: “The ’70s brought us ‘Beneath’ this & ‘Escape from’ it; in 2011 we got the ‘Rise of’ it.”
- This one hurt, as it was a triple-stumper and I’d only gotten 2 letters of her name wrong. In The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.: “Despite being a long-time Democrat, this woman was named to the post by Ronald Reagan.”
