I have a story I’ve been dying to tell you since I saw these episodes taped in January. I’d like to put it at the beginning of this post but it would spoil the outcome of this episode. (One might think the title of the post does that.) So I’ll just have to beg you to keep reading! 🙂
Do you wanna know something weird? I never watch the news (I have subscriptions to 2 newspapers), but I had my TV on ABC while I was blogging because I was hoping to learn I’d won this contest…
What’s that? You want to go to the @Huskers spring game? Go here: http://t.co/IpJFOW3qEH for a chance to win four free tickets!
— Dave Griek (@NTVDaveGriek) March 26, 2014
…and the national news had a story about Jeopardy!‘s 50th anniversary! Weird. Well I was disappointed about the contest, not because I didn’t win (yet) but because they weren’t gonna announce today’s winner until the 10 o’clock news! 🙁 I could’ve been watching CSPAN, or baseball. But believe me, this girl knows the House is not in session again til tomorrow. But the fact that the anchors said “We have a winner” makes me think he or she’s already been told, so it’s not me.
The contestants for the week, even though I think it’s well documented:
Vijay Balse
Roger Craig
Stephanie Jass
Tom Kavanaugh
Larissa Kelly
Russ Schumacher
Michael Falk
Ken Jennings
Vinita Kailasanath
Dan Pawson
Maria Wenglinsky
Keith Whitener
And today:
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| Tom Nissley |
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| Colby Burnett |
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| Celeste DiNucci |
I saw Pam Mueller and Mark Dawson in the audience, but not outside! How did they get in, then?!?
It’s too bad the Sony boards appear to be gone for good. They had blown up over Colby when he appeared on the show in the past, and it would be highly entertaining to read new posts about him.
It took an embarrassingly long time for me to recognize Celeste from the audience as she was waiting at her lectern before taping. She looks totally different and, in my opinion, better than in her original run on the show.
I knew this triple-stumper in Accessories, from the audience: “8-letter word for a scarf that forms a closed loop.” I had to question whether these contestants had gone Christmas shopping for a woman last year! If they had they’d have seen these everywhere. This was the last clue before the first break.
Colby 1600 (3 right)
Celeste -400 (2 right and 2 wrong)
Tom 2000 (5 right and one wrong)
Mr. Trebek reminded us that Tom was the favorite voted into this tournament by the fans. Tom talked about his book. You can buy it here: A Reader’s Book of Days: True Tales from the Lives and Works of Writers for Every Day of the Year
. I intend to finally buy it this week!
And Mr. Trebek reminded us Celeste won her Tournament of Champions.
Colby found the Daily Double in Retronyms.
Colby 1800 (One right and one wrong)
Celeste -600 (3 right and one wrong)
Tom 1400 (One wrong)
Remember when Colby said he was gonna “Roger Craig this“? (Thanks to Stefan for finding that for me.) I’d liked to have asked Colby about it at the pub, but I was a little intimidated. Today Colby wagered 1200 on this clue: “The arrival of SiriusXM means the good old dial in your Ford Falcon now plays this earth-bound type of radio.” Colby got it right.
At the end of the round:
Colby 5600 (4 right)
Celeste 1200 (3 right and one wrong)
Tom 2600 (2 right)
Celeste came alive right away in Double Jeopardy, but it was Colby who found the first Daily Double in Animals in Mythology.
Colby 8400 (3 right)
Celeste 6800 (5 right!)
Tom 2600
Colby wagered 1200 again on this clue: “This creature killed by Hercules during his second labor was the offspring of the 100-headed Typhon.” Colby got it right again! Why didn’t he wager more?
Then, hooray, Celeste found a Daily Double in It Happened in the Past! (What a weird category name.)
Colby 12000 (2 right)
Celeste 7600 (One right)
Tom 2600
She wagered 5000 on this clue: “An Italian bid for empire was ended by defeat at the 1896 Battle of Adwa in this African country.” She got it!
Okay, apparently these guys aren’t into fashion. They didn’t get this one in Eleven!: “EleVen is a clothing line from this female athlete/designer.” Come on, you guys!
Celeste had a good end of the round, too.
Colby 16400 (3 right)
Celeste 16200 (6 right and one wrong)
Tom 7400 (4 right)
Look at the faces of these contestants where I happened to pause the recording.
The Final Jeopardy category was Literature & Opera. You think you’re saying ‘yuck’ now, just wait til you see this clue: “An aria in this Shakepeare-based opera says, ‘Di scozia a te promettono le profetesse il trono…che tardi?” Tom got it right and added 6000. Celeste was wrong but only lost 1399. Colby got it wrong but only lost 199.
I love the way Colby laid his head down on the lectern. I noticed in the studio that as he came around the lecterns to greet Mr. Trebek, he was smiling. I liked the way it seemed like it meant something to him.
Now for my story: You might remember that Colby and I were on the same team at the O’Brien’s Pub Quiz. Well the teams were asked to identify the last names of four single-named singers. Colby knew all four, including Adele’s
last name “Adkins.” Our teammate wrote down “Atkins” and submitted it. I saw what our teammate wrote but I didn’t know the answer anyway, so I just figured I’d heard Colby wrong. We weren’t given credit. Well when Colby found out he was not happy. But he said loudly “IT’S OKAY. I’LL BE BACK.” (Implying he’d won his episode that day and would be back to Los Angeles for the final.) The guy who’d misspelled the last name was calculating our score, so I don’t know if he heard it til I tapped him on the wrist. I have one more thing to say about this story but it’ll have to wait til still later this week.
