Andy here once again with a recap of Thursday's episode!
In some site news, we'll be running a giveaway in conjunction with tomorrow's recap! Post your Friday Coryat score as a comment to tomorrow's post by Sunday evening and we'll select one winner to be the third "contestant" in our upcoming new logo!
Here's a link to some discussion of yesterday's online test: http://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1756 General consensus was that it was harder for many!
My thought is that on every online test, when I'm taking them, there appear to be 5 or 6 questions where I'd be too afraid to take a guess on if there were a penalty for incorrect answers, but it's still my best guess, and it happens to turn out to be correct!
Onto the game! Today's contestants:
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Here were my favorite comments about Marika!
J! round categories:
THE LADY OF SHALLOTS
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS
FUNNY TV
PARKS
RECREATION
A bunch of shock early on as FUNNY TV $400 (It got harder & harder for the main character to keep saying vitameatavegamin in a TV commercial on this TV show) was a Triple Stumper! It was Seth, though, who had the best luck on the buzzer -- and he started every category at the $600 level!
Scores at the first break:
Seth $4,400
Marika $2,200
Dinu $-1000
Marika's lab works with tuberculosis; which means a full suit, respirator, and three pairs of gloves!
Coming out of the break, the Daily Double appeared to be PRESIDENTS but our contestants wanted no part of that category until the end of the round! It was at $600 and Seth finally got to play it! Scores:
Seth $6,800
Marika $2,400
Dinu $1,600
Seth bet $2,500. His clue: Bill Clinton said authorizing a special counsel for this 1994 investigation was "the worst mistake of my presidency". His correct response put him at $9,300!
Scores at the end of the J! round:
Seth $9,100
Marika $2,800
Dinu $1,600
DJ! round categories:
AFRICAN RIVERS
KIDDY LIT
COMPLETES THE BROADWAY SHOW TITLE
2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS
REDUNDANT SOUNDING NAMES
CROSSWORD CLUES "1"
Dinu and Marika both had luck in SCIENCE, whereas Seth only got 1 of the first 17 clues!
By the time 20 clues had gone by, we still hadn't seen the Daily Double, with RIVERS and BROADWAY to play! BROADWAY $1200 had the first one, and Seth had gotten the $800 clue to have control at $1200. Scores:
Marika $13,200
Seth $12,300
Dinu $4,400
Seth bet $3,600. His clue: American soldiers in Iraq: "A Bengal Tiger at the ____ Zoo". His correct response put him at $15,900 as Alex gave the minute-to-go signal.
AFRICAN RIVERS $2000 had the other Daily Double and Seth found this one as well! Scores:
Seth $17,500
Marika $13,200
Dinu $2,800
Seth bet just $700. Clue: The Vanderkloof Dam on this "colorful" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa. Seth laughed, said "I was just there", but gave "Blue River", and fell to $16,800.
There were 4 clues left to play when the end-of-round signal came.
Scores going into Final:
Seth $17,600
Marika $13,200
Dinu $2,800
FJ! category: MAGAZINES
FJ! clue: This title, launched in early 1930, seemed at odds with the Great Depression in subject & $1 cover price
Dinu 2800 - 0 = 2800
Marika 13200 - 7599 - 5601
Seth 17600 + 8888 = 26488
Seth will be back tomorrow to defend!
In some site news, we'll be running a giveaway in conjunction with tomorrow's recap! Post your Friday Coryat score as a comment to tomorrow's post by Sunday evening and we'll select one winner to be the third "contestant" in our upcoming new logo!
Here's a link to some discussion of yesterday's online test: http://jboard.tv/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1756 General consensus was that it was harder for many!
My thought is that on every online test, when I'm taking them, there appear to be 5 or 6 questions where I'd be too afraid to take a guess on if there were a penalty for incorrect answers, but it's still my best guess, and it happens to turn out to be correct!
Onto the game! Today's contestants:
Here were my favorite comments about Marika!
Bow ties are cool. Marika on Jeopardy knows what's up. <3
— Rob Anthony Provost (@iTwon) January 10, 2014I think I want to go for a malt with Marika. #Jeopardy
— Worst 2014 Ever (@JonHexLives) January 10, 2014J! round categories:
THE LADY OF SHALLOTS
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
PRESIDENTS & VICE PRESIDENTS
FUNNY TV
PARKS
RECREATION
A bunch of shock early on as FUNNY TV $400 (It got harder & harder for the main character to keep saying vitameatavegamin in a TV commercial on this TV show) was a Triple Stumper! It was Seth, though, who had the best luck on the buzzer -- and he started every category at the $600 level!
Scores at the first break:
Seth $4,400
Marika $2,200
Dinu $-1000
Marika's lab works with tuberculosis; which means a full suit, respirator, and three pairs of gloves!
Coming out of the break, the Daily Double appeared to be PRESIDENTS but our contestants wanted no part of that category until the end of the round! It was at $600 and Seth finally got to play it! Scores:
Seth $6,800
Marika $2,400
Dinu $1,600
Seth bet $2,500. His clue: Bill Clinton said authorizing a special counsel for this 1994 investigation was "the worst mistake of my presidency". His correct response put him at $9,300!
Scores at the end of the J! round:
Seth $9,100
Marika $2,800
Dinu $1,600
DJ! round categories:
AFRICAN RIVERS
KIDDY LIT
COMPLETES THE BROADWAY SHOW TITLE
2-WORD SCIENCE TERMS
REDUNDANT SOUNDING NAMES
CROSSWORD CLUES "1"
Dinu and Marika both had luck in SCIENCE, whereas Seth only got 1 of the first 17 clues!
By the time 20 clues had gone by, we still hadn't seen the Daily Double, with RIVERS and BROADWAY to play! BROADWAY $1200 had the first one, and Seth had gotten the $800 clue to have control at $1200. Scores:
Marika $13,200
Seth $12,300
Dinu $4,400
Seth bet $3,600. His clue: American soldiers in Iraq: "A Bengal Tiger at the ____ Zoo". His correct response put him at $15,900 as Alex gave the minute-to-go signal.
AFRICAN RIVERS $2000 had the other Daily Double and Seth found this one as well! Scores:
Seth $17,500
Marika $13,200
Dinu $2,800
Seth bet just $700. Clue: The Vanderkloof Dam on this "colorful" river helped to create productive farmland in South Africa. Seth laughed, said "I was just there", but gave "Blue River", and fell to $16,800.
There were 4 clues left to play when the end-of-round signal came.
Scores going into Final:
Seth $17,600
Marika $13,200
Dinu $2,800
FJ! category: MAGAZINES
FJ! clue: This title, launched in early 1930, seemed at odds with the Great Depression in subject & $1 cover price
Dinu 2800 - 0 = 2800
Marika 13200 - 7599 - 5601
Seth 17600 + 8888 = 26488
Seth will be back tomorrow to defend!