Twitch and shout

     And these are things that most people don’t do. 

     Somebody care to tell me how someone would know this one, in Capital City Churches?: 

     At the first break, Joey had gotten 3 right and one wrong, and had 1800. Paula had gotten 3 right and had 1400. Julie had gotten 2 right and one wrong and had 600.

     Did it sound like Mr. Trebek said “my gosh” for “Matyas” on this one in Capital City Churches?: “Matthias Church, or Matyas Templom, where Franz Joseph was crowned in 1867.” And then what was this bizarre twitch when he revealed the correct response?

     As you heard, Mr. Trebek gave the less-than-a-minute warning then. There were 9 clues left. The next clue was the Daily Double, and it belonged to Joey. Mr. Trebek pointed out he had half of Paula’s total. He’d gotten one right and 2 wrong since the break and had 1400. Paula had gotten 3 right and had 2800. Julie had gotten one right and had 1200. Joey wagered it all on this clue in Capital City Churches: “The High Kirk of St. Giles, where John Knox was minister.” Joey and I got it right. He also got the next 2 right (the last 2 of the round), and ended the round with 3400.

     Joey found the first Daily Double of the Double Jeopardy round, at 1600 in The Quotable Keats. There were 6 clues left on the board after this one. A clue or two before, he’d said Mr. Trebek was making him go to this category, I guess because there had been so many triple-stumpers elsewhere…? Joey had gotten 5 right and one wrong and had 9800. Julie had gotten 6 right and had 6000. Paula had gotten 3 right and one wrong, and had 2800. Joey risked only 200 on this clue: “In ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn,’ these 5 words precede, ‘That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.” I started to say the correct response but I couldn’t remember the 3rd/4th word in time. Joey didn’t get it either.

     Mr. Trebek gave the one-minute warning with 5 clues left. 

     Joey said, “Tough day” before this clue was revealed in The Quotable Keats, at the bottom of the category: “Keats was quoting this Edmund Spenser poem when he told Shelley to ‘load every rift of your subject with ore.'” And I thought this was the easiest one in the category! Julie got it. The next clue was the Daily Double, at the bottom of The 6 Simple Machines. She looked like she wasn’t even trying to hide looking at the audience, something I was deathly afraid of doing. She’d gotten the one right since Joey’s Daily Double and had 8000. Joey had gotten one right too, and had 10000. Paula still had 2800. Julie wagered 2000 on this clue: “It’s hard turning just the post of a doorknob, but put the knob on, and it’s now the simple machine known as the wheel and this.” This was a video clue given by Jimmy, but for some reason this video won’t upload for me. At least we got to see The Twitch (or whatever that was). There’s no way I would have gotten this if not for the video. 

     I thought this was the easiest one in the category too, and it was a guess! Julie didn’t have a guess. This was the last clue of the round. So the scores going into the Final were: Paula 2800, Joey 10000, Julie 6000. The Final Jeopardy category was Baseball Stadiums. Mr. Trebek noted that Joey looked happy about it, but he was the only one of the 3 to get this wrong. Here’s the clue: “This major league baseball team’s current stadium was built for a 20th century Olympics.” Joey’s response crossed my mind first, but I’m glad I kept thinking about it because I thought of a better response. 🙂 Joey lost 2001. Julie gained 4005, and Paula doubled her score. That means Julie wins.

     These were my triple-stumpers today. I counted total (9 in the Jeopardy round; 10 in Double Jeopardy)!