See here for the original blog entry on today’s Teen Tournament episode. Today’s episode featured a triple-stumper that I tried to write a blog post on. Believe it or not I still missed that clue again today. My Coryat was 28200. My Coryat when I watched this episode the first time was 30400. Encouraging. I never felt like I was in the groove today, and I had some things on my mind.
Recent Coryats:
originally 2-17-11 (I didn’t keep track of my Coryat score the first time.):
Brandon Welch 13600 Kate Wadman 21000 Christian Ie 5600 Me 24000
originally 10-25-05: Diane Mettam 11400 Chris Jones 9800 John Kelly 12600 Me 26200
*originally 10-26-05: Susan Klak 7200 Jeff Pandin 15000 Diane Mettam 6600 Me 10600
*I’m embarrassed both by the Coryat and by the number of “negs” (wrong answers) I had in this game, but I feel like I need to explain: I had 11 – 11! – negs, compared to Diane’s and Susan’s 6 apiece, and Jeff’s 3. If I’d not responded to any of those clues that I negged, my Coryat would be 20200. Wow.
A brief update on the Summer Hiatus Challenge – I did well on Days 5 and 6 last week. On Day 5, my score was higher than those of these champs: emurphy (Liz Murphy), Asphodel (Alison Stone Roberg), hanzz (Hans von Walter), NJCondon (Nick Condon), and aggiebud (Buddy Wright).
Day 6’s scores are not available yet, but I think I did okay. One question created more debate than usual, and I actually put my own two cents in. The category was Now “Sea” Here, and this was the clue, written by DadofTwins: “This tailoring measurement is taken from the top of the waist to where the shoe meets the foot just below the ankle.” Many people, including some strong past Jeopardy! champions, said “inseam,” which you would naturally think of first. The author of the question was going for “outseam,” which many people had never heard of. Some are complaining that there should be a new clue for those whose missed it, but I can’t find a good reason for it. (I admit I did get the answer right myself on a wild guess.) Ultimately, DadofTwins did decide to give a new question. I still disagree but I’m moving on.
Now “Sea” Here, people
