Andy here with a recap of the fourth quarterfinal!
Today's contestants:
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It's always fun to blog a Ken Jennings episode. Brings me back!
Alex is losing his mind again, claiming that there were two contestants from their third decade and one from the second? I don't think that's the case.
J! round categories:
FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES
I'M A PAPAL PERSON
TOOLS OF THE KITCHEN
MOVIES BY ONE-WORD QUOTE
SHAKESPEARE
FROM THE...
I'M A PAPAL PERSON $400, the second clue of the game, had the Daily Double. Ken played it with $200. Betting $1,000, his clue: The fifth successor to St. Peter was Alexander I; the next one had this name. Ken gave Alexander II and fell to -$800.
By the end of PAPAL PERSON, the scores were:
Tom $400
Rachael -$800
Ken -$1400
Ten clues later, after FROM THE... and SHAKESPEARE, the scores were:
Ken $2,600
Tom $200
Rachael $200
(Ken got 7 straight clues, by my count!)
Rachael had some cue cards with her for her interview, leading to the following tweet:
Tom did his best to keep with Ken during the next 15 clues, but Ken did keep a lead! Scores after 30:
Ken $6,400
Tom $3,400
Rachael $400
DJ! round categories:
ITS ONLY LAND BORDER
SCIENCE & TECH BOOKS
THE 1990s RAP SONG
"V"OCABULARY
YEAR DOUBLE ZERO
INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS
Rachael got in to play the first Daily Double, under SCIENCE & TECH BOOKS $1600! Scores:
Ken $7,600
Tom $3,400
Rachael $1,600
Rachael bet just $1,000. Her clue: Harold Evans covers 200 years of science history in "They Made America: From" this "Engine to" this "Engine". Rachael's correct response put her at $2,600!
(Did you know: on early episodes of the original 60s Jeopardy!, the Daily Double was actually hidden behind a regular buzz-in clue that had to be answered correctly in order to even see the Daily Double? On a Triple Stumper, Art Fleming would say "That's too bad, because behind that clue was the Daily Double.)
LAND BORDERS $1600 held the other Daily Double; Ken saw this one! Scores:
Ken $9,200
Tom $3,400
Rachael $2,600
Ken bet $5,800. His clue: This country's is with France. His correct response put him at $15,000!
Ken ran INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS to close out 19 correct response for him that round! Tom had just 5, Rachael just had 3!
Scores going into Final:
Ken $30,200
Tom $9,800
Rachael $3,800
FJ! category: BRITISH THINKERS
FJ! clue: His works include "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" in 1919 & "The End of Laissez-Faire" from 1926
Rachael 3800 + 3800 + 7600
Tom 9800 + 9700 = 19500
Ken 30200 + 9800 = 40000
A wildcard update:
Tom Cubbage 19500
Leszek Pawlowicz 15000
Pam Mueller 14798
Rachael Schwartz 7600
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Tom Nosek 2400
Dan Pawson 399
Mark Lowenthal 300
Robin Carroll 0
I'll have the fifth and final quarterfinal tomorrow!
Today's contestants:
It's always fun to blog a Ken Jennings episode. Brings me back!
Alex is losing his mind again, claiming that there were two contestants from their third decade and one from the second? I don't think that's the case.
J! round categories:
FORTUNE 500 THROUGH THE DECADES
I'M A PAPAL PERSON
TOOLS OF THE KITCHEN
MOVIES BY ONE-WORD QUOTE
SHAKESPEARE
FROM THE...
I'M A PAPAL PERSON $400, the second clue of the game, had the Daily Double. Ken played it with $200. Betting $1,000, his clue: The fifth successor to St. Peter was Alexander I; the next one had this name. Ken gave Alexander II and fell to -$800.
By the end of PAPAL PERSON, the scores were:
Tom $400
Rachael -$800
Ken -$1400
Ten clues later, after FROM THE... and SHAKESPEARE, the scores were:
Ken $2,600
Tom $200
Rachael $200
(Ken got 7 straight clues, by my count!)
Rachael had some cue cards with her for her interview, leading to the following tweet:
I don't care if it's for sentimental reasons I can't believe they let Rachael bring index cards w trivia onto the set
— Arthur Chu (@arthur_affect) May 8, 2014Tom did his best to keep with Ken during the next 15 clues, but Ken did keep a lead! Scores after 30:
Ken $6,400
Tom $3,400
Rachael $400
DJ! round categories:
ITS ONLY LAND BORDER
SCIENCE & TECH BOOKS
THE 1990s RAP SONG
"V"OCABULARY
YEAR DOUBLE ZERO
INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS
Rachael got in to play the first Daily Double, under SCIENCE & TECH BOOKS $1600! Scores:
Ken $7,600
Tom $3,400
Rachael $1,600
Rachael bet just $1,000. Her clue: Harold Evans covers 200 years of science history in "They Made America: From" this "Engine to" this "Engine". Rachael's correct response put her at $2,600!
(Did you know: on early episodes of the original 60s Jeopardy!, the Daily Double was actually hidden behind a regular buzz-in clue that had to be answered correctly in order to even see the Daily Double? On a Triple Stumper, Art Fleming would say "That's too bad, because behind that clue was the Daily Double.)
LAND BORDERS $1600 held the other Daily Double; Ken saw this one! Scores:
Ken $9,200
Tom $3,400
Rachael $2,600
Ken bet $5,800. His clue: This country's is with France. His correct response put him at $15,000!
Ken ran INITIALS TO ROMAN NUMERALS TO NUMBERS to close out 19 correct response for him that round! Tom had just 5, Rachael just had 3!
Playing against Ken Jennings on #Jeopardy is like following Idina Menzel at karaoke
— TrivWorks (@TrivWorks) May 8, 2014Scores going into Final:
Ken $30,200
Tom $9,800
Rachael $3,800
FJ! category: BRITISH THINKERS
FJ! clue: His works include "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" in 1919 & "The End of Laissez-Faire" from 1926
Rachael 3800 + 3800 + 7600
Tom 9800 + 9700 = 19500
Ken 30200 + 9800 = 40000
A wildcard update:
Tom Cubbage 19500
Leszek Pawlowicz 15000
Pam Mueller 14798
Rachael Schwartz 7600
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Tom Nosek 2400
Dan Pawson 399
Mark Lowenthal 300
Robin Carroll 0
I'll have the fifth and final quarterfinal tomorrow!