Recent Coryats:
Originally 3-25-09: 26800 (29200 without negs)
Originally 6-20-12: 24200 (27800 without negs). When I looked on the archive and saw “Austin Baird,” I remembered exactly who that was and why I remembered him! 🙂 The first time I played, my Coryat was 17800?! (25800 without negs!?)
Originally 3-26-09: 40200!! And I only had one neg, for 600.
Originally 3-27-09: 17600 (23200 without negs)
Originally (no, not 3-28 ;-)) 3-30-09: 20400 (23000 without negs)
Today Susan Jann goes for her third win. Here she is with her opponents:
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| Susan Jann of Bristol PA |
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| Jeannie Blanke of Newbury Park CA |
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| Justin Kowal of Glen Burnie MD |
I didn’t know I could necessarily have a “favorite clue” of a particular episode, but this would be today’s, in Mr. or Ms. Rodriguez: “Because of his strikeouts, baseball’s single-season saves king Francisco Rodriguez has this 4-letter nickname.” I had just moved to southern California the month before when Rodriguez dazzled us all and helped win the Anaheim Angels the World Series in 2002. It was electrifying. I couldn’t find a video on YouTube. I thought I found one on mlb.com, but when I try to embed it the code says my browser doesn’t support iframes. 🙁 You’ll just have to take my word for it. I hate what all has happened to K-Rod since those glory days. Anyway this was the last clue before the first break. Justin was hot, and did well in Governors. He had gotten 8 right and had 4600 at the break. Jeannie had gotten one right and 3 wrong, and was in the hole 1000. Susan had gotten 6 right and one wrong, and had 3600.
I liked Jeannie’s contestant interview about 3 consecutive dates, their first ones, with her now-husband. And they’ve been married 15 years now! Maybe her husband will show up on the Jeopardy stage one day. I wonder how Mr. Trebek knew he was in the audience. Surely he didn’t speak to her before the interview. Maybe he asked someone else. And Justin’s interview? How cool would it be to grow up in a movie theater?
I got this triple-stumper, in Mything in Action. (By the way, when the category was revealed I read it as “my thing.”) “Collective name for 7 sisters, daughters of Atlas & Pleione, whom Zeus placed among the stars.” And Jeannie and Justin even negged on it! Sorry, if I can get this one right, anyone can.
Jeannie found the Daily Double of the round in the same category. She had gotten one right and one wrong since the break, and was in the hole 800. Justin had gotten one wrong and had 4200. Susan had gotten one right and had 3800. Why didn’t Jeannie wager all she could? I don’t know. But she wagered 600 on this clue: “Oh, the heartache! After the hero Aeneas left her, Dido the queen of this land took her own life.” Too bad; Jeannie got it wrong. I’m sticking this one on the poll, if I do one. Mr. Trebek said to Jeannie, “You’re going the wrong way. Turn it around! Come on!” He soon gave the less-than-a-minute warning with 6 clues left. One clue was left covered. Jeannie had gotten 2 right since her Daily Double but was still in the red 800. Justin had gotten 2 right and had 5200. Susan had done well in Wordplay Random Sampler and had 7000. She’d gotten 4 right since Jeannie’s Daily Double.
I counted this one in Wordplay Random Sampler: “Change one letter: A first attempt at writing becomes a word meaning to float along, as on the sea (both responses, please).” I said “draft” and “raft.”
As the new round was beginning, Mr. Trebek said “I dream of Jeannie doing very well in this Double Jeopardy round.” I myself was pleased with these categories, but I was pretty sure I lost at least some of the clues: My power kept going in and out because of heavy snow around here. (I don’t know if you can see the warnings in the contestant photos.) I lost 8 clues, but happily, a friend records the show, and he got me the missing chunk as soon as it aired in his area. Incidentally I hope the streets are clear tomorrow. I have to finish some Christmas business, including getting my hair and nails done. 😉
I started out by sweeping Medical Etymology. Jeannie started there, and the third clue of the round was the Daily Double. She had 0 now, after getting one right. Susan had gotten one right too, and had 7400. Jeannie didn’t wager the max this time either, which bugs me a little. She wagered 100 on this clue: “From the Greek for ‘coal,’ it’s transmitted by farm animals, contaminated wool & biological weapons.” She got it right this time!
I thought I’d sweep Christmas Pop Songs, but I didn’t know this triple-stumper at the top of the category: “‘And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmastime,’ says this charitable tune.” I’d like to put this one on the poll too. I’m sure I’d know it if I heard it. I didn’t know this one either: “Please tip this band featuring singer Patty Donahue; in 1982 they served up ‘Christmas Wrapping.'”
I did get this triple-stumper, in Tour “de” France: “A plan gone horribly wrong; un grand desastre.”
Justin found the next Daily Double, in A Little Lit. He’d gotten 7 right and one wrong since Jeannie’s last Daily Double, and had 12000. Susan had gotten an impressive 8 right but one wrong, and had 16200. Jeannie had gotten 2 right and had 3400. I hate it when Mr. Trebek gives a time’s-running-out warning after someone’s chosen his Daily Double wager but before reading the clue. He couldn’t do that sooner? But he did point out that Justin was trailing by 4200. Justin wagered 2400 (not enough IMO) on this clue: “Umberto Eco wrote a parody of this novel, having Umberto Umberto fall for the aged Granita.” I thought this one was a snap, but Justin didn’t have a guess. 🙁
Susan and Justin each got one more right before the end of the round. (Three clues were left covered.) Justin had 11600, Susan had 17400, and luckily Jeannie was on the plus side with 3400. The Final Jeopardy category was Shakespeare. This was the clue: “The last speech in this play says, ‘No grave upon the earth shall clip in it a pair so famous.'” I got this one right, and I expect it to poll well. Two contestants got it wrong, though! Jeannie was the one to get it right. She added 3000. What would you have wagered? Justin lost 5801. I suppose I’d have wagered nothing – If Susan made the predictable bet to edge Justin by a dollar but got it wrong, she’d have one dollar less than Justin if he wagered nothing. Weird. It appears Justin wagered counting on an incorrect response from Susan anyway, since adding 5801
would give him a dollar more than Susan before her response was revealed. Anyway Susan lost 6000. That plain sucks for Justin. But we’ll see Susan tomorrow. Now that she’s won three, here is a Tournament of Champions update:
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. Jason Shore $85,200 (4 wins)
12. David Gard $84,700 (4 wins)
13. Dan McShane $62,001 (4 wins)
14. Patrick Morrison $80,701 (3 wins)
15. Francis Lansangan $78,401 (3 wins)
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16. Matt Samberg $61,402 (3 wins)
17. Andy Baggarly $60,402 (3 wins)
18. Alistair Bell $56,800 (3 wins)
19. Stephanie Fontaine $54,500 (3 wins)
20. Joey Falco $53,999 (3 wins)
21. Susan Jann $53,800 (3 wins)
22. Erin Zweiner $53,399 (3 wins)
23. Beau Henson $51,203 (3 wins)
24. Margaret Swanson $48,000 (3 wins)
25. Claudia Gray $45,202 (3 wins)
26. Dan Adkison $37,400 (3 wins)
27. Jacob Silverman $35,998 (3 wins)
28. Jessamine Price $26,803 (3 wins)
The Hometown Howdy page reveals something of a spoiler as for the rest of the week. Let’s all find out exactly what happens tomorrow.
My Coryat today was 29400. I had 4000 in negs, all in the Jeopardy round.