Thursday, November 13, 2008 Game Recap & Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Archivists]

Game Recap for Show #5564, 2008-11-13

2008-B Teen Tournament quarterfinal game 4.
"Ask Alex" #2.

CONTESTANTS
Jay Schrader, a junior from Lexington, Kentucky
Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
Haley Batz, a senior from Charlotte, North Carolina

OPENING REMARKS
Alex: Thank you, Johnny. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. Good to have you here for the fourth of our quarterfinal matches. Jay, Sarah and Haley--so young, so young. Let's go to work in the Jeopardy! Round, shall we? Here are your categories in play. First off...

JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
EEEUW...GROSS! (5/5)
SPORTS TEAM HOMES (4/5)
WHICH TIME ZONE? (5/5)
TRANSPORTATION (4/5)
ALL YOU NEED IS GOV. (2/5) (Alex: We'll name the governor. You name the state.)
YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT (4/5, including 1 missed Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Jay: 11 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Sarah: 9 R, 2 W
Haley: 4 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W (including 1 DD)

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 5
Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $3,800

JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Haley found the Daily Double on the 16th clue. Haley had $800, Sarah had $1,400, and Jay was at $2,600. Haley made it a True Daily Double, wagering $800.

YOU CAN QUOTE ME ON THAT $800: This author concluded a famous novel with the line "After all, tomorrow is another day"
(Haley: Who is... Ernest Hemingway?)
(Alex: No, can you think of the novel?)
(Haley: No.)
(Alex: Scarlett O'Hara saying the words--)
(Haley: Oh.)
(Alex: --in Gone with the Wind. [*] is the author, and that takes you to zero, and it takes us to our first break for these commercials.)

SCORES AT THE FIRST BREAK
Jay: $2,600
Sarah: $1,400
Haley: $0

CONTESTANT INTERVIEWS



Alex: If you're wondering why Jay Schrader from Lexington, Kentucky, lit into that sports teams category a little while ago, this might provide a response. One of your career goals includes becoming general manager of a professional sports team?

Jay: Yeah, I think that would be really exciting. Um, I had to give up on the athlete goal when I was, you know, a little kid and realized I didn't have it so...

Alex: Aha.

Jay: I guess that's the next best thing.

Alex: All right. Now when you're thinking of being general manager of a professional team, in which league?

Jay: I guess the NFL.

Alex: So you're into football?

Jay: I do like football.

Alex: All right, now what skills do you possess that would help you in this regard?

Jay: Well, I--I think I know a lot about sports, and I'm a logical person.

Alex: It's a good ambition. Keep it--keep it up.




Alex: Sarah Marx was homeschooled until grade 11, and where are you now? Are you in grade 11 or are you a senior?

Sarah: Well, I'm actually in grade 11, and that's not--that's not quite true. I started in, um--in my tenth grade year, and this is my only--this is only my second year of homeschooling.

Alex: I see. But you participated in something that I'm hearing about for the first time--the national novel writing month. What was all that about?

Sarah: Yes! Um, every November--um, I think this year is the tenth anniversary, actually--um, writers and amateur writers and people who want to try putting their hands to a novel, um, write--try to write--50,000 words over the course of the month of November.

Alex: Wait a minute. Do you have to write 50,000 words?

Sarah: Well, you don't have to, but to complete the challenge, you do.

Alex: Wow, that's a lot. How--how many words--50,000 words is what--what is that?

Sarah: Well, depending on the formatting--

Alex: A chapter?

Sarah: --um, that's about 100 pages, so...

Alex: I can't even read 100 pages.




Alex: Haley Batz from Charlotte, North Carolina, a senior at providence high school. She's already figured out what she wants to do. She's gonna go to college in order to become what? A doctor?

Haley: A doctor.

Alex: And family medicine?

Haley: Yeah.

Alex: And you're not grossed out by some of the things that doctors have to deal with, because you've already seen or been a witness at what?

Haley: Um, lung surgery. And I've held a brain, too.

Alex: Didn't gross you out?

Haley: Nope.

Alex: Not at all?

Haley: It was really cool.

Alex: I... I can just imagine--"I'm operating on your brain now, and it's really cool! You're awake, I know. tell me--" Yes, all right.

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
SPORTS TEAM HOMES $400: College football's Cornhuskers battle in this burg
(Jay: What is Nebrask--oh!)

ALL YOU NEED IS GOV. $600: Jon Corzine

ALL YOU NEED IS GOV. $800: Bobby Jindal, who replaced Kathleen Blanco
(Alex: Saw him a lot during hurricane season.)

ALL YOU NEED IS GOV. $1000: Rick Perry

TRANSPORTATION $1000: This light Russian sleigh, whose name means "a group of 3", is pulled by 3 horses

SCORES AT THE END OF THE JEOPARDY! ROUND
Jay: $6,200
Sarah: $2,600
Haley: $1,600

[Archivists]

[Before the Double Jeopardy! Round...]
Ask Alex!

Jon: Hey, Alex. Why did you shave your mustache?

Alex: I looked in the mirror, and I decided just on the spur of the moment to shave my mustache, and we did it. And I went out, taped the show. Half the people in the audience didn't even notice.

Ask Alex!

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND CATEGORIES
FLAGS (5/5)
AN HOUR OF TV (5/5)
NONFICTION (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)
DIMENSIONS (4/5)
ART (4/5)
ABBREV. (5/5, including 1 correct Daily Double)

THE RIGHTS & THE WRONGS
Sarah: 14 R (including 1 rebound and 2 DDs), 1 W
Jay: 8 R (including 1 rebound), 1 W
Haley: 6 R, 2 W

Clues revealed: 30
Triple Stumpers: 2
Double Jeopardy! Round Potential Lach Trash: $2,400

FIRST DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
Sarah snagged the next Daily Double on the 6th clue. Haley had $1,600, Sarah had $4,600, and Jay was at $6,600. Sarah wagered $1,000.

NONFICTION $1200: This book that tackled the topic of football in a Texas town inspired a film & a TV series

SECOND DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND DAILY DOUBLE
It was Sarah who snatched up the last Daily Double of the game on the 11th clue. Haley had $1,600, Sarah had $8,400, and Jay was at $9,000. Sarah wagered $1,000.

ABBREV. $1200: nsec stands for this very brief amount of time

TRIPLE STUMPERS IN THE DOUBLE JEOPARDY! ROUND
ART $1600: A woodcut is this raised type of printing, also a kind of map

DIMENSIONS $800: This basic geom. figure contains 2 dimensions: on a map surface they're normally longitude & latitude
(Sarah: What is a sphere?)
(Haley: What is a square?)

SCORES ENTERING FINAL JEOPARDY!
Sarah: $16,200
Jay: $15,000
Haley: $8,800

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
WASHINGTON, D.C.

VENUSIAN MONOLOGUES/MARTIAN CHRONICLES
Four-fifths for first place.
Sarah: Wager $13,801 to cover Jay.
Jay: You have to wager $2,601 to cover Haley's doubled score, but certainly no more than $6,199, so as to force Haley to be right to have a chance at winning.
Haley: Consider risking between $6,201 and $6,399. This will top a $0 wager by Jay while still beating Sarah on the Triple Stumper (should Sarah wager to cover Jay's doubled score).

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Unveiled in 1923, the statue seen here of this man is located on the south side of the Treasury Building

FINAL SCORES
Haley: $8,800 - $2,000 = $6,800 (Who is Madison?) (3rd place: $5,000 if eliminated)
Jay: $15,000 + $2,000 = $17,000 (Who is Hamilton?) (Automatic semifinalist)
Sarah: $16,200 - $3,800 = $12,400 (Who is Jefferson?) (2nd place: $5,000 if eliminated)

Total Potential Lach Trash: $6,200

GAME DYNAMICS


CORYAT SCORES
Sarah: $16,600, 23 R (including 2 DDs), 3 W
Jay: $15,000, 19 R, 2 W
Haley: $9,600, 10 R, 3 W (including 1 DD)
Combined Coryat: $41,200

BATTING AVERAGES
Sarah: 23/60 = .383
Jay: 20/58 = .345
Haley: 10/59 = .169
Team: 53/63 = .841

MISCELLANEOUS INTERESTING CLUES
EEEUW...GROSS! $800: In 2008, 2 teens from this Mass. cape went a little buggy & sold jewelry made from dead cicadas
(Sarah: What is Cape May?)

EEEUW...GROSS! $1000: A tick bit me! I've got a blotchy rash! I'm vomiting! I may have this disease with a mountain range in its name!
(Sarah: What is Lyme disease?)

ABBREV. $1600: When used of time, the abbreviation P.M. means this "meridiem"
(Haley: What is the prime meridian?)

ART $1200: This British artist, known for a famous "Boy", gave us the girl seen here

ART $2000: Otto Van Veen--here's his "Lamentation"--taught this greatest northern Baroque painter--here's his

DIMENSIONS $400: Hyphenated term used in math to describe a line, & in movie reviews to describe a character without depth
(Jay: What is flat?)

DIMENSIONS $1200: (Jon of the Clue Crew points to a diagram on the monitor.) To model space in three dimensions, you have to go beyond Descartes' usual letters & label points along this axis

DIMENSIONS $2000: (Jon of the Clue Crew displays an animation on the monitor.) The snowflake curve, a geometric pattern repeated at smaller scales, has fractional dimensions; it's this type of shape related to the word "fractional"

CORRECT RESPONSES
Margaret Mitchell
Lincoln
New Jersey
Louisiana
Texas
a troika
Friday Night Lights
a nanosecond
a relief
a plane
Alexander Hamilton
Cape Cod
Rocky Mountain (Spotted) Fever
post
Gainsborough
Rubens
one-dimensional
the z-axis
a fractal

[Dr. Jeopardy]

first of all, great game you three. only one quarter left!

second, wow. that was an easy final. even easier than mine on tuesday.

[howierules86]

Congratulations to Jay on the win (and Sarah for getting a good Wild Card spot as well), and who else got creeped out by everything that was mentioned in the "EWWW! GROSS!" category?

[Dr. Jeopardy]

hey, at least they weren't picture or video clues...

[econgator]

Originally Posted by howierules86

Congratulations to Jay on the win (and Sarah for getting a good Wild Card spot as well), and who else got creeped out by everything that was mentioned in the "EWWW! GROSS!" category?

Kudos to Hayley for getting herself back in the game. I thought she was a goner, but she kept her cool.

[Bobby McBride]

Congratulations all around for a competitive game. Hayley really got on a roll in the second half of DJ! to get on the Wild Card Leaderboard after FJ! And I wonder what Groucho and Harpo must be thinking about Sarah having their same last name.

[heelsrule1988]

Make it three out of four guaranteed semifinalists that are here with us. Well done, Jay!

[Karan Takhar]

Props to Jay, Sarah, and Hayley on an extremely competitive and well played game and double props to Jay on the win.

[Dr. Jeopardy]

props times 1.75 to sarah for a solid performance and a (so far) second place wildcard spot. and being thursday, me (Brandon Saunders) and Sarah Marx now have GUARANTEED wild card berths. 3rd is audrey hosford with 8,200 and on the bubble in 4th is haley batz with 6,800.

[heelsrule1988]

And props to you for pretending like you have no clue what's going to happen.

[demonstah]

Originally Posted by Bobby McBride

And I wonder what Groucho and Harpo must be thinking about Sarah having their same last name.

Nothing - they're dead.

But Comrade Karl is still alive in the hearts and minds of every red-blooded Cuban, not to mention the pinko commie liberals all over the world. Spread the wealth indeed! Anyway, he's thrilled about it.

[Haley Batz]

thanks everybody. Brandon it wasn't that easy since two out of the three of us missed it!!! Don't worry i still love you but you're skating on thin ice. Jeopardy is amazing and for any of you who love the show but haven't yet tried out: DO IT! you won't regret it. You may regret certain answers (madison*cough*cough) but you will never reget the experience. it's pretty epic almost as epic as all the inside jokes but maybe that is only from teen tourney.

[Haley Batz]

and yes the Heels do rule!

[heelsrule1988]

I hoped you would agree with that... the Queen City has always supported us whenever we play there. I'm even more positive that you'll agree with what pro football team to root for.

[Schliemann]

Originally Posted by Bobby McBride

And I wonder what Groucho and Harpo must be thinking about Sarah having their same last name.

i can't speak necessarily for groucho but you know richard marx has some serious sour grapes . oh jeopardy!, i'll be right here waiting for you!

[Dr. Jeopardy]

Originally Posted by Haley Batz

thanks everybody. Brandon it wasn't that easy since two out of the three of us missed it!!! Don't worry i still love you but you're skating on thin ice. Jeopardy is amazing and for any of you who love the show but haven't yet tried out: DO IT! you won't regret it. You may regret certain answers (madison*cough*cough) but you will never regret the experience. it's pretty epic almost as epic as all the inside jokes but maybe that is only from teen tourney.

first of haley, i love you too, please forgive my insolence.


second of all, she is SO right. this whole experience was so great. even if you end up with -15,000 that WHOLE trip was AWESOME. the inside jokes (most of them started by me of course) were pretty epic. but seriously, try out.

[Haley Batz]

brandon
you are forgiven simply because you said you recognized your own insolence and made me laugh. I think you have figured that one out, you can be a jerk if and only if you make me laugh. haha

[Jay Schrader]

Thanks to everyone for the congratulations. And to those of you who have played on the show, did anyone else struggle as much as I did in finding a rhythm? I would get four or five in a row and then go quiet for a few questions.

[econgator]

Originally Posted by Haley Batz

thanks everybody. Brandon it wasn't that easy since two out of the three of us missed it!!! Don't worry i still love you but you're skating on thin ice. Jeopardy is amazing and for any of you who love the show but haven't yet tried out: DO IT! you won't regret it. You may regret certain answers (madison*cough*cough) but you will never reget the experience. it's pretty epic almost as epic as all the inside jokes but maybe that is only from teen tourney.

Oops! Sorry for the extra 'y' I put in your name.