Good morning -- Andy here with the October 31 recap!
Just want to say that there are times where I'll sometimes get critical on the blog of things. When I do that, it's because I'm pointing it out to help future contestants (who may happen to be reading) avoid making the same mistakes when they go on! Nothing personal, really!
Onto the show.
Your challengers for Jennifer Spirko today: Jermaine Jones and Rhea Hantelman. Alex claims "They gave me a choice -- Come out as the great pumpkin or as Nathan Detroit."
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J! round categories:
STATE YOUR BUSINESS
THE WORLD OF DR. SEUSS
A TREASURE TROVE
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
WORDPLAY GRAB BAG
INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM (Looks like a video category. Hooray!)
An early stumper at DR. SEUSS $800 (I didn't get it either): Title number of hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
Thankfully the Daily Double was not buried in the video category! It was in STATE YOUR BUSINESS $800! The scores were:
Rhea $1,200
Jennifer $1,000
Jermaine $800
Rhea bet $600. Her clue: Delta Air Lines. Rhea went for Texas and fell to $600.
I definitely would have bet everything in Rhea's position. It's still early and it's not like $1,200 is a significant amount of money, either. The "don't want to go back to $0" is a bit of a poor thought process as well -- after all, $0 is where you start the game!
It sounds like WORDPLAY GRAB BAG was a category full of unplayed wordplay clues from previous games!
Scores at the first break:
Jermaine $3,800
Rhea $1,600
Jennifer $1,600
Jermaine works for an international educational program that provides fellowships to US citizens who wish to study, research or teach English overseas -- to over 140 countries around the world. Alex seemed uncharacteristically interested in this!
Back to the game, A TREASURE TROVE $400 gave our contestants some difficulty (The wealth of gold & silver in its mountains earned it the nickname "The Treasure State") -- Nevada and California were given as negs.
Meanwhile, Jennifer ran ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES to pick up $3,000. I'm impressed as well -- even I didn't pick up all 5! It helped propel her very close to the lead by the end of the round as well!
Scores at the end of 30:
Jermaine $6,000
Jennifer $5,600
Rhea $2,400
DJ! round categories:
GONE WITH THE WIND
"RET-"
BUTLER
PARTING WORDS
FRANKLY, MY DEAR
WE GAME A DAM
Rhea did very well on "RET-" to bring herself back into the game! Her buzzer mojo in BUTLER brought her into the lead! No Daily Double hunting was taking place, though!
Jermaine finally broke Rhea's big run, one clue before finding the Daily Double (FRANKLY, MY DEAR $2000). Scores were:
Rhea $16,800
Jermaine $9,600
Jennifer $4,800
Jermaine bet $3,000. It's a tough choice -- you're dealing with a bottom level clue, but this might also be your only chance to get back into the game -- especially considering you're probably sunk on a wrong answer anyway. I might have gone higher, but I also fortunately knew this answer straight away: This ancient playwright's "Lysistrata" contains the line "Can't live with them, or without them!". Jermaine went for Sophocles and fell to $6,600.
Meanwhile, Rhea got to play the final Daily Double, under WE GIVE A DAM $1600. Scores:
Rhea $18,400
Jermaine $7,400
Jennifer $4,800
Rhea bet $2,000. Her clue: Originally named the Karababa, a dam on the upper Euphrates was renamed this to honor the founder of modern Turkey. A correct response put her at $20,400.
That round was all Rhea's -- by the end of it, the only question was "how high is her score going to go?" ($26,000.)
Scores going into Final:
Rhea $26,000
Jermaine $7,400
Jennifer $5,600
FJ! category: THE TUDORS
FJ! clue: "Alone in prison strong / I wail my destiny"& "Let pass my weary, guiltless ghost" are lines from a poem attributed to her
Jennifer 5600 - 5500 = 100
Jermaine 7400 - 2600 = 4800
Rhea 26000 - 1000 = 25000
Rhea's the new champ; Jeanie will have her title defense tomorrow!
Just want to say that there are times where I'll sometimes get critical on the blog of things. When I do that, it's because I'm pointing it out to help future contestants (who may happen to be reading) avoid making the same mistakes when they go on! Nothing personal, really!
Onto the show.
Your challengers for Jennifer Spirko today: Jermaine Jones and Rhea Hantelman. Alex claims "They gave me a choice -- Come out as the great pumpkin or as Nathan Detroit."
STATE YOUR BUSINESS
THE WORLD OF DR. SEUSS
A TREASURE TROVE
ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES
WORDPLAY GRAB BAG
INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM (Looks like a video category. Hooray!)
An early stumper at DR. SEUSS $800 (I didn't get it either): Title number of hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.
Thankfully the Daily Double was not buried in the video category! It was in STATE YOUR BUSINESS $800! The scores were:
Rhea $1,200
Jennifer $1,000
Jermaine $800
Rhea bet $600. Her clue: Delta Air Lines. Rhea went for Texas and fell to $600.
I definitely would have bet everything in Rhea's position. It's still early and it's not like $1,200 is a significant amount of money, either. The "don't want to go back to $0" is a bit of a poor thought process as well -- after all, $0 is where you start the game!
It sounds like WORDPLAY GRAB BAG was a category full of unplayed wordplay clues from previous games!
Scores at the first break:
Jermaine $3,800
Rhea $1,600
Jennifer $1,600
Jermaine works for an international educational program that provides fellowships to US citizens who wish to study, research or teach English overseas -- to over 140 countries around the world. Alex seemed uncharacteristically interested in this!
Back to the game, A TREASURE TROVE $400 gave our contestants some difficulty (The wealth of gold & silver in its mountains earned it the nickname "The Treasure State") -- Nevada and California were given as negs.
Meanwhile, Jennifer ran ABBREVIATED VIDEO GAME TITLES to pick up $3,000. I'm impressed as well -- even I didn't pick up all 5! It helped propel her very close to the lead by the end of the round as well!
Scores at the end of 30:
Jermaine $6,000
Jennifer $5,600
Rhea $2,400
DJ! round categories:
GONE WITH THE WIND
"RET-"
BUTLER
PARTING WORDS
FRANKLY, MY DEAR
WE GAME A DAM
Rhea did very well on "RET-" to bring herself back into the game! Her buzzer mojo in BUTLER brought her into the lead! No Daily Double hunting was taking place, though!
Jermaine finally broke Rhea's big run, one clue before finding the Daily Double (FRANKLY, MY DEAR $2000). Scores were:
Rhea $16,800
Jermaine $9,600
Jennifer $4,800
Jermaine bet $3,000. It's a tough choice -- you're dealing with a bottom level clue, but this might also be your only chance to get back into the game -- especially considering you're probably sunk on a wrong answer anyway. I might have gone higher, but I also fortunately knew this answer straight away: This ancient playwright's "Lysistrata" contains the line "Can't live with them, or without them!". Jermaine went for Sophocles and fell to $6,600.
Meanwhile, Rhea got to play the final Daily Double, under WE GIVE A DAM $1600. Scores:
Rhea $18,400
Jermaine $7,400
Jennifer $4,800
Rhea bet $2,000. Her clue: Originally named the Karababa, a dam on the upper Euphrates was renamed this to honor the founder of modern Turkey. A correct response put her at $20,400.
That round was all Rhea's -- by the end of it, the only question was "how high is her score going to go?" ($26,000.)
Scores going into Final:
Rhea $26,000
Jermaine $7,400
Jennifer $5,600
FJ! category: THE TUDORS
FJ! clue: "Alone in prison strong / I wail my destiny"& "Let pass my weary, guiltless ghost" are lines from a poem attributed to her
Jennifer 5600 - 5500 = 100
Jermaine 7400 - 2600 = 4800
Rhea 26000 - 1000 = 25000
Rhea's the new champ; Jeanie will have her title defense tomorrow!