And that’s how you vote for Ryan Chaffee to be the 15th contestant of 2000s week, on the show’s 30th anniversary tournament. On Twitter, anyway. Come on you guys. In case you don’t know, you can vote once a day but in three ways: through the Jeopardy! site, through Twitter with hashtag JeopardyVote, and through Facebook (though I don’t know how to do that). This means you. Josh. Ken. Anybody. Everybody. And tell anyone standing nearby.
This week’s contestants:
Mat Ahn
Stuart Anderson
John Emery
Emily Horne
Korin Kormick
Nolan Martch
Samantha Nataro
Jane Wanninger
And today:
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| Chris Gaiman |
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| Greg Buzzard |
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| Loren Gianini |
Greg won for the first time Friday.
Chris found the Daily Double in the Jeopardy round, in Current Events.
Greg 2200 (6 right)
Loren -400 (One right and one wrong)
Chris 1800 (3 right and one wrong)
Remember you can hover your arrow over the red text in each of these clues to see the correct response.
Remember you can hover your arrow over the red text in each of these clues to see the correct response.
Now, by this time we’d seen 2 clues in the category and we know that “current” refers to the noun. Chris wagered just 500 on this clue: “In 2012 a Scottish skipper found one of these, also a song by The Police; it had been adrift for 97 years & 309 days.” Anyone sing their correct response besides me? I’d’ve been tempted to if this was my Daily Double, too. Chris got it right.
I said “homonyms” on this clue in 3-Syllable Words: “Pair, pare, pere & pear are these, from the Greek for ‘sound.'” I predict a riot over on jboard over this clue. Boardies love to debate pronunciations and accents.
At the first break:
Greg 3200 (One right)
Loren -400
Chris 3300 (2 right)
Did you guys love love love Chris’s anecdote? She met her future husband because he was her cab driver one day…and they married 3 1/2 months later. As Mr. Trebek said, “Romance. We love it.” We do.
As for Loren, she didn’t answer Mr. Trebek’s question “What’s most important to know about” eating disorders and obesity? (That’s what she’s studying.) She just said what she is doing right now.
I got this triple-stumper in 3-Syllable Words: “7 letters, 3 syllables: The power to endure fatigue — show some.” Greg and Loren both negged on it!
I swept First Name’s the Same.
Indulge me while I post every Agriculture clue:
- “Since 1970 annual production of this per cow has grown from around 10,000 pounds to around 20,000.”
- “A rich protein substitute as well as well as an oil source, these legumes are grown on more than 75 million U.S. acres.”
There was a second picture, but it hasn’t arrived in my e-mail even though I sent it twice.
- “Calif.’s leading forage crop, it’s human food too, in the form of a sprout associated with a healthy lifestyle.”
- “This type of grass used for pasture shares its name with a disciple of Saint Paul.” This was a triple-stumper.
- “Growing faster than any other poultry, including turkeys, they can weigh 7 pounds in 7 weeks.” This was a triple-stumper too.
Two clues were left covered at the end of the round.
Greg 2800 (One right and one wrong)
Loren 1600 (3 right and 2 wrong)
Chris 4500 (2 right and one wrong)
At the beginning of Double Jeopardy, Mr. Trebek said he “advised” Loren to “stop going up and down, just go up!”
I’d also like to show every clue in The U.S. Owes:
- “The first Treasury Secretary, he said ‘The United States debt, foreign and domestic, was the price of liberty.”
- “19th century decade that saw the U.S. debt grow from $65 million to $2.7 billion.”
- “First offered on March 1, 1935, the sale of these helped to manage the USA’s growing public debt.”
The next clue down in the category was the Daily Double of the round, found by Greg.
Greg 5200 (4 right and one wrong)
Loren 2800 (2 right)
Chris 6100 (2 right)
Greg wagered 1200 on this clue: “This country owns around 6% of all U.S. public debt, more than any other.” Greg and I got it right.
And finally: “The White House says $1.4 trillion of the debt is from recent wars & $800 billion from the 2009 recovery act, AKA this.”
I gave the name of the state only in State the State University. And just because I’m expecting a fan of this school to read this post: “Located in Manhattan (not that one!), it has the Wheat Genetics Resource Center and a nuclear reactor.”
I just said “Marigold” on this one in A Dame Judi Dench Film Festival: “Judi is a widow giving India a go in the film about this hotel that bills itself as ‘the best.'”
I got this triple-stumper in “Boys” Will Be Boys, though I only learned it relatively recently too: “Schlitz introduced this 24-ounce can in 1956 & has brought it back in a 16-ounce version.”
Surprise, there were a couple of clues left covered at the end of the round. And one must’ve been the Daily Double!
Greg 14400 (6 right)
Loren 4800 (4 right and 3 wrong!)
Chris 9700 (4 right and one wrong)
The Final Jeopardy category was Big Countries. The clue: “In area, it’s the largest former Soviet republic after Russia & the largest nation that doesn’t border an ocean.”
First things first: I GOT THIS ONE RIGHT!
You know the Sony boards are slowing way down when no
one, as I’m typing this anyway, has objected to the results of today’s final. There’s no longer a link to those boards from the Jeopardy! site. See, Greg wrote what looks to me like “Kazhkhistan.” Loren got it wrong and lost 4000. Chris got it right and added 4701, so she just needed Greg to either get it wrong or wager nothing (or both). Greg did lose 6600. So we’ll see Chris tomorrow.
one, as I’m typing this anyway, has objected to the results of today’s final. There’s no longer a link to those boards from the Jeopardy! site. See, Greg wrote what looks to me like “Kazhkhistan.” Loren got it wrong and lost 4000. Chris got it right and added 4701, so she just needed Greg to either get it wrong or wager nothing (or both). Greg did lose 6600. So we’ll see Chris tomorrow.
My Coryat today was 28400 (29800 without negs).