Wednesday, June 6, 2007 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Archivists]

Game Recap for Show #5248, 2007-06-06

CONTESTANTS
Sarah Martin, a humanitarian advocate originally from Sumter, South Carolina
Toho Soma, a public health analyst from Portland, Maine
Heidi Sanchez, a college library director from Bethpage, New York (whose 1-day cash winnings total $21,000)

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
LOOK WHO'S TOLKIEN (2/5, including 1 correct Daily Double) (Alex: You have to identify the character speaking...)
POP LYRICS (5/5)
FAMOUS FLOPS (5/5)
NAME THAT YEAR (2/5)
MAGAZINES (4/5)
ONLY ONE VOWEL (4/5) (Alex: Each correct response will have...)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Heidi: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Toho: 8 R, 2 W
Sarah: 6 R (including 1 rebound and 1 DD), 3 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 8
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $6,400



SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Heidi: $2,000
Toho: $1,400
Sarah: $400

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Sarah found the Daily Double on the 28th clue. Heidi had $3,800, Toho had $2,400, and Sarah was at $200. Sarah wagered $100.

LOOK WHO'S TOLKIEN $600: "A nice pickle we have landed ourselves in, Mr. Frodo!"

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
LOOK WHO'S TOLKIEN $400: "I'm a took, peregrin took, but I'm generally called..."
(Alex:[*].[*]...)

NAME THAT YEAR $600: Elvis Presley dies in Memphis, Tennessee
(Sarah: What is 1978?
Alex: No. Sorry. Heidi or Toho? Toho.
Toho: What is--what is 1979?
Alex: No.
...
Alex: They were so close, Heidi. They sort of were getting you down to[*]...)

NAME THAT YEAR $800: Napoleon meets his Waterloo, literally
(Alex: Battle of Waterloo--[*]...)

NAME THAT YEAR $1000: Pakistan becomes independent of Great Britain

ONLY ONE VOWEL $1000: "Come on baby, let's do" this, wind strands together
(Sarah: What is twine?
...
Alex: That has two vowel, but[*] has only one...)

MAGAZINES $800: In 1949 this auto magazine's first "Car of the Year" award went to Cadillac
(Heidi: What is "Car and Driver"?
...
Alex: What is[*] magazine?...)

LOOK WHO'S TOLKIEN $800: "Don't shudder! If you will meddle in the affairs of wizards, you must be prepared to think of such things"
(Alex: The character speaking was[*]...)

LOOK WHO'S TOLKIEN $1000: "I would have the ring-bearer bring the crown to me, and let Mithrandir set it upon my head"
(Alex: And the character speaking was[*]...)

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Heidi: $3,800
Toho: $2,400
Sarah: $300

[Archivists]

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
BASIC SCIENCE (3/5)
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES (5/5)
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (5/5) (Alex: You have to name the country.)
"Z" ME (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)
FOR RICHARD (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
FOR POURER (5/5)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Toho: 17 R (including 1 DD), 1 W
Heidi: 5 R (including 1 rebound), 0 W
Sarah: 5 R, 2 W (including 1 DD)

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,000



FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Sarah snagged the next Daily Double on the 10th clue. Heidi had $3,800, Toho had $9,600, and Sarah was at $3,100. Sarah wagered $2,000.

"Z" ME $2000: They holed up in the fortress of Masada & were besieged by the Romans
(Sarah: Who...are...the Zoroastrians?)

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Toho who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 17th clue. Heidi had $5,400, Toho had $14,400, and Sarah was at $1,100. Toho wagered $2,000.

FOR RICHARD $800: This businessman wrote "Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made A Fortune Doing Business My Way"
(Alex: Yes, Virgin Records.)

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
BASIC SCIENCE $400: (Kelly of the Clue Crew plays with beakers.) In a force-and-movement experiment, the reason the water doesn't fall out of the cup is because this force pushing up against the card is greater than the weight of the water

BASIC SCIENCE $1600: Heavily promoted by Wal-Mart, they work by electrifying a mix of argon gas & mercury vapor

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Toho: $21,200
Heidi: $11,000
Sarah: $2,300

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
BODIES OF WATER

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Crush for first place.
Toho: Wager $801 to cover Heidi.
Heidi: You have the hope of surpassing Toho if you come up with the correct response. Bet at least $10,201 to force Toho to wager to win; but if you're intent on holding on to second place, wager no more than $6,399 to protect your second place position from being usurped by Sarah.
Sarah: Unfortunately, your score is less than the difference between the scores of the first and second place players, so unless they both blunder, you're competing for second place and have no hopes of first. Wager as much as you desire, but remember, you'll have better chances of advancing to second place if you have a larger sum left over on a Triple Stumper.

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
This sea hundreds of miles east of Florida has no land boundaries

FINAL SCORES
Sarah: $2,300 - $2,300 = $0 (What is the Bering) (3rd place: $1,000)
Heidi: $11,000 + $10,300 = $21,300 (What is the Sargasso Sea?) (2-day champion: $42,300)
Toho: $21,200 - $801 = $20,399 (What is the Saragasso Sea) (2nd place: $2,000)
(Alex: It is known as a a sea, and all of its boundaries--even the Gulf Stream--are ocean currents.)
...
(Alex: [Revealing Heidi's response] Where they have a lot of floating kelp and sea plants.)
...
(Alex: [Revealing Toho's response] Added a syllable, and that is going to cost you.)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $8,400

GAME DYNAMICS


CORYAT SCORES
Toho: $20,000, 25 R (including 1 DD), 3 W
Heidi: $11,000, 13 R, 1 W
Sarah: $4,800, 11 R (including 1 DD), 5 W (including 1 DD)
Combined Coryat: $35,800

BATTING AVERAGES
Toho: 25/59 = .424
Heidi: 14/58 = .241
Sarah: 11/60 = .183
Team: 50/63 = .794

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
POP LYRICS $1000: In a hit song inspired by "E.T.", Neil Diamond sang, "Turn on your" this, "let it shine wherever you go"
(Sarah: What is your love light?)

ONLY ONE VOWEL $600: To utter a deep, guttural sound of anger, like a dog; a stomach's is a lot less threatening
(Toho: Uh...what is gut?
...
Alex: That's a 1-vowel word...)

ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: (Hi, I'm James Denton.) After I appeared with this actor in "Face/Off", he helped me get a role in "Primary Colors"

FOR RICHARD $1600: In a 1930 article, this aviator & explorer wondered of Antarctica, "Is it a continent?"
(Toho: Who is Robert--oh, shoot, Richard Peary?)
(Sarah: Who is Richard Burton?)

BASIC SCIENCE $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew plays with his own beaker.) The cold of the ice causes the air in the balloon to do this, from the Latin for "to draw in"

BASIC SCIENCE $2000: Look! Gold! Ha!--Fooled you, it's really this mineral
(Alex: Iron [*]. Way to go.)

CORRECT RESPONSES
Sam
Pippin
1977
1815
1947
twist
Motor Trend
Gandalf
Aragorn
the Zealots
Richard Branson
air pressure
fluorescent lights
the Sargasso Sea
heart light
growl
John Travolta
(Richard) Byrd
contract
pyrite

[whoopie pie]

Bring it on, Heidi! Bring! It! On!

[tomm4004]

Oh, but for the lack of an "A."

[friend_of-whoopie_pie]

You're still a winner in my book!

SG

[zachhoran]

Originally Posted by whoopie pie

Bring it on, Heidi! Bring! It! On!

Well done for Heidi, but the worst possible kind of loss is still losing by misspelling FJ! where it changes the pronunciation.

[leo178]

Toho- great play!

I feel your pain!

Lisa Oh

[JeopardyChump]

In my opinion that is a superweak ruling,, if he adds any consanant he wins. I am boycotting this stupid show for a month.

[RobertHutchinson]

To any new visitor (JChump or others), in the hopes that you'll read this: Alex's explanation was accurate, but not complete. Misspellings that add a syllable are not acceptable, but they aren't the only misspellings that aren't acceptable. "Sargrasso" would be wrong. "Sarpasso", too.

I was incredibly uncertain that the Sargasso Sea actually qualified as a sea with boundaries that one could find in an atlas, but I stuck with it. Also, I think some of us might be fighting for the imaginary fourth podium in this game, with the Trash in the Tolkien category and elsewhere.

[DHicton]

Well, Heidi, you know more about geography than you thought!

[artudo123]

As hard as it was to watch the ruling was absolutley fair and just. The judges went by the books and rules. I disagree it was superweak.


I PM'd you Heidi. As I said for most of the game I didn't think you would win but because of the judges ruling you won!!!!

Congratualtions!!!!

[therealdbear]

You may not like the rule, but they have applied it consistently and fairly. "Vilnuis" and "Bejamin Franklin" are other tough losses in FJ.

[Alietr]

Originally Posted by therealdbear

You may not like the rule, but they have applied it consistently and fairly. "Vilnuis" and "Bejamin Franklin" are other tough losses in FJ.

N.B. Ms. Vilnuis has already chimed in above.

[whoopie pie]

All I want to know is if I set a season record for blowing the largest lead ($10,200, 92.7% of 2nd place) going into FJ. And to clarify, my whole life I thought it was the "Saragasso" Sea. Every time I heard it said (and granted, it hasn't been very often), I heard the extra "a." So I didn't even misspell it accidentally!

But as you saw at the end, Heidi is a very gracious winner, and it definitely took the edge off my disappointment. And Sarah is equally awesome.

[bengland]

We used to run Henry Weinhards out of Saragosa.

Could this be the cause of Toho's crossed wires?

Hey Lisa, long time, no see! Always nice to hear from old friends.

ETA: I see that Toho has already torpedoed my theory. Tough loss, buddy. I also had hoped that my loss set some kind of record, but alas, no. Don't know about your case (others will, fer sure), but I rather expect that others have lost even bigger leads given the all or nothing nature of FJ.

[whoopie pie]

Oh no, you are correct. I think that at some point in my childhood I had also confused it with Saragossa, Spain.

[Librarylady]

Originally Posted by JeopardyChump

In my opinion that is a superweak ruling,, if he adds any consanant he wins. I am boycotting this stupid show for a month.

No, it's not if he adds "any consonant," he wins. They will accept misspellings if they do not inherently change the word. That one "a" added a syllable. It wasn't correct. The same thing happens if you put the wrong first name with a correct last name, or if you don't get a title exactly right. Them's the rules, and they spend a LOT of time explaining them in the green room to the contestants.
Having said all that, I felt terrible about winning that way.

[Librarylady]

Originally Posted by DHicton

Well, Heidi, you know more about geography than you thought!

That was an absolute, flying guess, based only on the fact that I thought the Sargasso Sea might be somewhere near Florida. Nobody was more surprised than I was that it was correct.

[Librarylady]

Originally Posted by whoopie pie

All I want to know is if I set a season record for blowing the largest lead ($10,200, 92.7% of 2nd place) going into FJ. And to clarify, my whole life I thought it was the "Saragasso" Sea. Every time I heard it said (and granted, it hasn't been very often), I heard the extra "a." So I didn't even misspell it accidentally!

But as you saw at the end, Heidi is a very gracious winner, and it definitely took the edge off my disappointment. And Sarah is equally awesome.

Hi, Toho. I know that you told me this at LAX when we ran into each other there the next day, that you really did think that was the correct name. I felt somehow better after that. And you were extremely gracious to me--a real class act and a very, very smart guy.

[Librarylady]

Originally Posted by artudo123

As hard as it was to watch the ruling was absolutley fair and just. The judges went by the books and rules. I disagree it was superweak.


I PM'd you Heidi. As I said for most of the game I didn't think you would win but because of the judges ruling you won!!!!

Congratualtions!!!!

Yes, rules are rules--sometimes they work in your favor and sometimes they bite you in the butt. I have to say that one reason I was as far behind as I was going into FJ was that I was having a devil of a time with the signaling button at the champion's podium. I have been dying to ask if any other champs felt that way about it. It seemed to me you had to push it harder or something. I like that middle podium!!!
And, not to be snippy, but I won because I got the FJ answer right--Toho would be the first to agree with me about that, I think. But I did feel bad, and I think you can see that the first thing I said to Toho was, "I'm so sorry."