Wednesday, December 6, 2023 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS) (2024)

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
FAMOUS NAMES

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Subject of a 2003 film, his 1947 obituary said he fathered at least 100 & died of a heart attack at 14, at a California ranch

Ed Coulson: 14600+5801=20401 (Semifinalist)
Kate Freeman: 9000-1201=7799
Patrick Hume: 10200+7801=18001

Correct response:

Daily Doubles
Kate: 200-1000
Ed: 8800+3000
Patrick: 11600-3000

Coryats
Ed: 13600
Kate: 10000
Patrick: 13200

Combined: 36,800

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Ed: 4400
Kate: 2200
Patrick: 7200

The players were lacking with house knowledge as the Jane Addams clue and the Pyncheon place stumped them.

Perhaps opusthepenguin will run a poll on the CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS category?

Patrick will get reminders of his missed DD3 that cost him the match throughout his life. It could be more thinking time would not have helped though on a DD the opportunity is there to ponder it a bit instead of instantly waving the white flag.

The FJ! clue is the kind I like when it's a sports movie in disguise more than FAMOUS NAMES.

Ed was a 2x winner and 2/2 on wagering clues today while Kate went 0/2 and Patrick went 1/2.

New tape day: https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=8708

MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:17 pmHe must have crashed that plane to dodge child support!

Apparently he never met a woman he didn’t like.

Instaget FJ.

AntmanB wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:31 pmI thought this was all used clues and Reused clues until the 19th Why is there a Kevin McCarthy Clue?

The writers returned to work in early October, and they said they were going to make small changes to these games to add current events.

This is one of those cases.

AndyTheQuizzer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:34 pm

AntmanB wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:31 pmI thought this was all used clues and Reused clues until the 19th Why is there a Kevin McCarthy Clue?

The writers returned to work in early October, and they said they were going to make small changes to these games to add current events.

This is one of those cases.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok

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I can’t stop chuckling at the thought of a human fathering 100 by age 14!

Because of such I’ll skip the wagering commentary tonight.

MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:35 pmPerhaps opusthepenguin will run a poll on the CLASSIC COMIC STRIPS category?

Hmmmpppphhh.

davey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:40 pmI knew where the FJ was pointing but I blanked on the name and had to pause - took me at least another 10 seconds before the name (Secretariat? No...Sugar Cookie?...oh, Seabiscuit!...) popped in... Another movie I've contentedly never seen...

This pretty much mimics my thought process, until I put together what 2003 film was about an animal that had lived in the first half of the 20th century. I’m embarrassed to admit I very briefly thought it could have been some child king but realized quickly a human could nor father 100 children by age 14 nor would someone that age die of a heart attack

DCFan1911 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:16 pm

davey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:40 pmI knew where the FJ was pointing but I blanked on the name and had to pause - took me at least another 10 seconds before the name (Secretariat? No...Sugar Cookie?...oh, Seabiscuit!...) popped in... Another movie I've contentedly never seen...

This pretty much mimics my thought process, until I put together what 2003 film was about an animal that had lived in the first half of the 20th century. I’m embarrassed to admit I very briefly thought it could have been some child king but realized quickly a human could nor father 100 children by age 14 nor would someone that age die of a heart attack

I was totally on the wrong track and thought Benjamin Button. (Turns out that was a 2008 movie...)

The best thing that Neil Armstrong ever did, was to let us all imagine we were him.
Latest movies (1-10): Europa Europa (7), Tampopo (9), Baby Doll (6), First Love /2019/ (8)

Coryat: $43,800
51 R/2 W
DD: 1/3
FJ:
LT: Hull House, Pogo, Pope John Paul I, couscous (DD), corn

A hundred kids by age 14? What a stud.

One-third of American workers have found love...at work. Ed seemed to recoil a bit at the clunkiness of the clue's construction.

It was easy enough since they're by far the biggest double talk band of the '80s(sorry The The and Talk Talk), but showing Duran Duran as a quartet was confusing.

Kate wagered to cover an unlikely zero bet by Patrick and in so doing risked an entirely preventable tiebreaker against Ed.

MinnesotaMyron wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:17 pmHe must have crashed that plane to dodge child support!

Congratulations on a wily post.

BigDaddyMatty wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:44 pmKate wagered to cover an unlikely zero bet by Patrick and in so doing risked an entirely preventable tiebreaker against Ed.

Am I missing something? Kate's wager left her $1000 below what Ed would have dropped to on a miss from his completely predictable shutout bet. There was no risk of a tiebreaker. She should have wagered no more than $200, no?