Mean Alex Trebek?

Posted By: Andy Saunders January 21, 2014

Andy here with a new week of recaps! I think I’ve got all of them this week.

This week’s contestants:

Emily Gadek – Palm Springs, CA (KABC)
Jennifer Cross Miller – Pacheco, CA (KGO)
Karen Ruckert – Topeka, KS (KTKA)
Zachary Tomanelli – Brooklyn, NY (WABC)
Chip Bell – Marysville, OH (WBNS)
Blake Perkins – Baton Rouge, LA (WBRZ)
Jon McGuire – Matthews, NC (WCNC)
Sarah McNitt – Ann Arbor, MI (WDIV)
Priscilla Emery – Longwood, FL (WFTV)
Joe Thomas – Martin, TN (WPSD)
Dana Murray – Tampa, FL (WTSP)

No pictures today; today’s contestants are Jon McGuire, Blake Perkins and our returning champion Sarah McNitt!

J! round categories:
WORD PUZZLES
1970s NO. 1 HITS
DESCRIBING THE ANIMAL
TEEING OFF
CHIPPING IN
LET’S PLAY SOME GULF

All 3 players had good luck on the buzzer over the first 15 clues! Scores at the first break:

Sarah $3,800 (6 right)
Blake $1,800 (3 right)
Jon $600 (4 right, 1 wrong)

I found myself glossing over the interviews today; nothing I could really take from them that I found too interesting!

CHIPPING IN $800 had the first Daily Double, and it was Sarah’s to play! Scores:

Sarah $4,400
Blake $2,200
Jon $1,400

Sarah bet $2,000. Her clue: Punning on a newsreel name, this charity that helped defeat polio made its first appeal in 1938. Had no idea as to the pun, but I did know the charity! Sarah got the correct response to move to $6,400. My father was happy to explain the pun afterwards.

Scores at the end of 30:
Sarah $8,800 (12 right)
Blake $3,400 (6 right, 1 wrong)
Jon $2,400 (7 right, 2 wrong)

DJ! round categories:
SAME NAME AS A STATE CAPITAL
LITERARY BYWAYS
DURING LOU GEHRIG’S CONSECUTIVE GAME STREAK
RECENT MOVIE QUOTES
BRIT FOOD
AT THE “N”

Sarah went and got 6 of the first 8 clues before landing on the first Daily Double, under RECENT MOVIE QUOTES $1200. Scores:

Sarah $15,600
Blake $3,800
Jon $2,400

Sarah bet $2,600. Her clue: “Why are you here then?” “Because I bloody well stammer!”. A correct response put her at $18,200.

LOU GEHRIG $1200 had the final Daily Double, this one was Jon’s, and he needed to make a big move! Scores:

Sarah $18,200
Jon $5,600
Blake $1,800

Alex’s comments led to our first Tweet Of The Night:

(Which reminds me of a link my friend KC shared with me the other day: Mean Alex Trebek)

Jon bet $4,000. Clue: A photographic plate taken at the Lowell Observatory on January 23, 1930 helped identify this object. A correct response from Jon put him at $9,600!

The remaining clues saw Sarah and Jon battle to see if Sarah could keep a lock game, and she cemented it on her final clue! If only Jon had bet more on that Daily Double…

And our second Tweet of the Night:

Scores going into Final:
Sarah $22,200 (11 right, 1 wrong)
Jon $10,000 (6 right)
Blake $5,000 (5 right, 3 wrong)

FJ! category: GOVERNMENT SITES

FJ! clue: Begun as part of a 1930s project to reclaim Maryland mountain land, it’s officially “Naval Support Facility Thurmont”

Blake 5000 – 5000 = 0
Jon 10000 – 1620 = 8380
Sarah 22200 – 2001 = 20199

I got that Final instantly; I’m surprised that it was a Triple Stumper!

ToC update:

1. John Pearson (November 2013 Teacher’s Champion)
2. Jim Coury (May 2013 College Champion)
3. Ben Ingram $176,534 (8 wins)
4. Drew Horwood $138,100 (8 wins)
5. Jared Hall $181,001 (6 wins)
6. Andrew Moore $137,803 (6 wins)
7. Jerry Slowik $121,800 (5 wins)
8. Joshua Brakhage $103,205 (5 wins)
9. Rebecca Rider $101,600 (5 wins)
10. Sarah McNitt $89,398 (5 wins)
11. Rani Peffer $68,701 (5 wins)
12. Mark Japinga $112,600 (4 wins)
13. Mike Lewis $102,800 (4 wins)
14. Carlos Ross $89,774 (3 wins)
15. Adam Holquist $76,299 (3 wins)
16. Sara Garnett $75,403 (3 wins)
17. Salvo Candela $66,195 (3 wins)
18. Neal Pollack $60,798 (3 wins)
19. John Anneken $60,112 (3 wins)
20. Tim Anderson $56,001 (3 wins)
21. Stuart Anderson $51,601 (3 wins)
22. Bill Tolany $44,200 (3 wins)

Sarah will be back tomorrow! So will I!

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