I needed help coming up with a title for today’s post, so I took to Twitter even though I didn’t think I was going to. I’m glad I did, as I found this:
If you’re going to play at all, you’re out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose. -Derek Jeter
— Baseball Quotes (@BaseballQuotes1) March 14, 2014
Then I was glad to learn about this:
Jeopardy. It’s happening. April 4. Check out the site and my rambling stories: http://t.co/Jzi4VZhMo7 pic.twitter.com/G4e7MQFsSx
— Dan Pawson (@Daniel_Pawson) March 14, 2014
I notice the 2000s episodes are on crackle.com now. I have one more 90s episode I want to finish, and then I’ll tackle some of those.
Yesterday, Nick Durazo calmly won for the first time. Here he is with today’s opponents:
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| Susan Shikany |
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| Nick Durazo |
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| Gabor Revy |
With the introduction of the first category, Meanings of Geographic Names, I thought of a book I just added to the stack of three that I plan to give away: “Off the Map: The Curious Histories of Place-Names” by Derek Nelson. The stacks are books I’d gotten to help prepare for Jeopardy!, and it’s time to purge the shelves.
Gabor started strong by getting 4/5 in Team Players. That had to feel good.
I said what Nick did on this one in Legend: “This Round Table knight had a kid with the daughter of grail-keeping King Pelles but had eyes for Guinevere.” Susan got it, and since she is a school media specialist, it’s no wonder she went to Kiddy Lit Title Adjectives. She got 4 of the 5, including a couple I didn’t know! She soon found the Daily Double in Legend.
Nick 600 (2 right and one wrong)
Gabor 2200 (4 right and one wrong)
Susan 3400 (6 right)
She wagered 1000 on this clue: “Legend has it Captain Vanderdecken still tries to round the Cape of Good Hope on this ship…& tries…& tries….” She and I didn’t know it. Nick got the next clue right, and then came the first break.
Nick 1600 (One right)
Gabor 2200
Susan 2400
I bet this guy didn’t expect to make another appearance on the show, especially in a clue (from “-ary”): “If you wonder what kind of man is up for this insurance job that computes premiums based on probabilities, here’s one.”
How bizarre.
At the end of the round:
Nick 4800 (6 right)
Gabor 6000 (7 right and one wrong)
Susan 3600 (3 right)
Speaking of bizarre, how about this one in Art & Artists?: “The British painter & engraver Gainsborough Dupont was the nephew & assistant of this artist.”
I got this triple-stumper in Starts & Ends with “S”: “The frequency of amputations gave us this slang for a surgeon, dating back at least to the Civil War.”
Gabor found the first Daily Double of the round, in Oxides.
Nick 6000 (4 right and one wrong)
Gabor 10400 (4 right)
Susan (3 right)
Gabor wagered 2000 on this clue: “In 1800 Humphry Davy reported ‘a sense of exhilaration’ as one of the effects of inhaling this.” I got it but Gabor didn’t.
Did anybody else think of the off-color expression on this one, still in Oxides?: “Sodium hydroxide is also called ‘caustic’ this, so don’t pop open a can of it.” Nick got that one right, and then Susan got one right before finding the next Daily Double in 20th Century Americans.
Nick 7200
Gabor 8400
Susan 8400
She wagered on this clue: “In 1958 this beloved author helped found Beginner Books.” She and I got this right. I bet she’d have wagered more if she’d known this would be about kids and books.
Naturally the nurse (that’s me) nailed this triple-stumper in Oxides: “Diazoxide is used to treat low blood sugar, medically called by this single word.”
At the end of the round:
Nick 11600 (3 right)
Gabor 15600 (2 right)
Susan 12400 (One right)
The Final Jeopardy category was The Music Industry. This was the clue: “She beat out newcomers like Bieber & Gaga to top Forbes’ list of the highest-paid people in music for 2013.” It’s a comfort to me that I no longer try on Finals. I didn’t want to worry about this one. But let’s see: It sounds like this correct response is gonna be someone better-established than Bieber or Gaga. (And who else objects to them being called “newcomers”? Maybe years ago!) Nick got this right and added 4001. Susan got this wrong and lost 10000. Gabor got this one right and added 9201. Yet another new champ!
My Coryat today was 21600 (22600 without negs).
One year ago: You cannot be serious!
Two years ago: The Facts of “Live”
Three years ago: Like lambs to the slaughter
Four years ago: I’m zori… , What is Klingon? , Or is one of these the worst?
