Monday, January 29, 2024 Game Recap and Discussion (SPOILERS) (2024)

FINAL JEOPARDY! CATEGORY
HISTORICAL FICTION

FINAL JEOPARDY! CLUE
Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution "was the 1st super hero I… read about"

Lloyd Sy: 19800-14000=5800
Andy Tirrell: 16800+6001=22801 (Finalist)
Martha Bath: 11200-4000=7200

Correct response:

Daily Doubles
Andy: 3800+3800
Martha: 5400+3000
Lloyd: 14200+2000

Coryats
Lloyd: 19400
Andy: 13400
Martha: 10200

Combined: 43,000

Scores at the end of the Jeopardy! Round
Lloyd: 3400
Andy: 8400
Martha: 4200

Martha led after the first break and was ahead of Lloyd after the J! Round. Bring back more Fleming alums when regular play resumes.

Ken probably went to bed on taping day kicking himself for accepting just the last D in the "D.D." category. If Ken is on the ball that could have been a lay-up rebound. Didn't matter after the score reversal as Lloyd even with an all-in DD3 could not have locked Andy.

You'd think by now I would know how to read a FJ! clue? I matched Martha with a character and not a "this novel" At least it was the wrong work.

Well done by Andy to get it and storm into the finals through the front door.

Here's to semis 2 being as good and all players between 10,000-20,000 entering the FJ! Round.

The semis begin: https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=8787

I find it, well, interesting that 2 of the 5 clues in Women In Sports involved marriage.

Good for the contestants for getting all 5 correct.

Golf wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:47 pmI find it, well, interesting that 2 of the 5 clues in Women In Sports involved marriage.

I take it the Bechdel test is still a thing?

(I, on the other hand, failed to run what has traditionally been my primary wheelhouse. Just because I never watched "Gilmore Girls".)

And with his own song.

Got a quiz bowl story from around 1983. The host asked "Who wrote The Scarlet...". I buzzed in, thinking it would be Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne.
Of course it was Scarlet Pimpernel. Never forget that one.

Golf wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:47 pmI find it, well, interesting that 2 of the 5 clues in Women In Sports involved marriage.

To be fair, the Rapinoe clue did involve marriage - but it was referencing her marriage to another female sports star (retired WNBA player Sue Bird). Thus the clue/response actually managed to fit in two female sports stars from two different sports! The clue also referenced her being named FIFA Player of the Year, thus it was not solely about her marriage - it also mentioned one of her accomplishments as an athlete. I do think overall the category's clues were on the lower side of the difficulty scale.

As for FJ, my pre-freshman year of high school "Summer Reading" list finally pays off - many years later...

It's always just one glove that gets lost.

"Archduke Ferdinand" should not be accepted. They really need to get tougher about that.

"Butler" seems pretty dull for midboard. I guessed Gentleman of the Bedchamber.

I guess they'd have accepted a few variations on "bark is worse than his/her/their bite", but "louder", alas, really doesn't work.

Missed with Isuzu and "Unleash" the hounds.

I thought "Where You Lead" was the weakest track on Tapestry.

I only just learned that Pepys was a naval administrator from the "Polymath" crossword in this last weekend's Financial Times.

I've read "Scarlet Pimpernel" (also "The Man in the Corner"), but I was earlier exposed to the Scarlet Pumpernickel.

Lefty wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:14 pmI only just learned that Pepys was a naval administrator from the "Polymath" crossword in this last weekend's Financial Times.

I may have known that at some point, but it was not resident in my memory tonight. Nevertheless, I knew the diarist in question couldn't be Anne Frank, Anaïs Nin, or Bridget Jones. I felt pretty confident guessing Pepys.

The Scarlet Pimpernel stays in my head because of the Warner Brothers cartoons. And for no other reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdFwL1ozHU

seaborgium wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:32 amI've been playing a game called Travle at https://travle.earth for a few months now, and I think it helped me at THE COUNTRY THAT BORDERS BOTH, or at least it helped me not to get flustered when faced with a time limit to connect countries. The game gives a daily challenge to get from one country to another via as few contiguous countries as possible.

Nice! That's going in the daily rotation. I also play Wordle and Worldle:

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

Worldle has you identify a country from its outline. It tells you how far the actual country is from your guess and in what direction. Once you've identified the country, you have to name the border countries and capital, pick the flag, and a couple of other things.

opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:09 pmNice! That's going in the daily rotation. I also play Wordle and Worldle:

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

Worldle has you identify a country from its outline. It tells you how far the actual country is from your guess and in what direction. Once you've identified the country, you have to name the border countries and capital, pick the flag, and a couple of other things.

It has gotten a bit ridiculous lately ... put the 4 largest cities in, say, Tajikistan in order. OK, the capital is 1, the other 3 are random.

alietr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:42 pm

opusthepenguin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:09 pmNice! That's going in the daily rotation. I also play Wordle and Worldle:

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

Worldle has you identify a country from its outline. It tells you how far the actual country is from your guess and in what direction. Once you've identified the country, you have to name the border countries and capital, pick the flag, and a couple of other things.

It has gotten a bit ridiculous lately ... put the 4 largest cities in, say, Tajikistan in order. OK, the capital is 1, the other 3 are random.

Yeah, I generally click Skip for that section unless it's a country like Brazil or Switzerland where I actually know three or four cities and can make some educated guesses.