7/2/2009 Results

Silent Library: The team of Greg (Bushkill, PA), Rob (Freeport, NY), Jeremiah (Astoria, NY), Kervin (Brooklyn), Wayne (East Stroudsburg, PA) & Jordan (Bushkill) are Week 3's last players.

$300 Round:

1. "Blind Taste" is the first challenge of the day. Kervin must taste sardines, a squid and a hairy lollipop while blindfolded.
RESULT: FAIL

2. For Greg, it's team for a "Meat Hold Up". He's got to eat away at some guy's meat suspenders until the stranger's pants fall down.
RESULT: PASS ($300)

No time for a third challenge this round.

$400 Round:

1. Greg has his second challenge in a row called "Power Row". He's got to shock himself for 20 seconds by using an electrified rowing machine.
RESULT: FAIL

2. Jeremiah must eat some "Bad Taste Popcorn" for 30 seconds- popcorn that is burnt.
RESULT: PASS ($700)

3. Wayne's in the "Chocolate Stretch". He's got 30 seconds to eat five dangling chocolates.
RESULT: FAIL (ran out of time and got too noisy)

$800 Round:

1. Jeremiah's second game of the day is called "Hitted Rear", where at one point during a game of cricket, he's hit in the rear end!
RESULT: PASS ($1,500)

2. Rob now must eat some "Booked Food" within 45 seconds- an exam book made of edible paper.
RESULT: PASS ($2,300)

3. Rob's at bat once again, this time with a challenge called "No Good Mallet". Here, he has to stand atop a carnival game and get hit in the jewels by a ball from a mallet.
RESULT: PASS ($3,100)

$1,000 Challenge: Jordan's only game all day is called "Brief Hoist". He's got to suffer through a very atomic wedgie.
RESULT: PASS

Thanks to breezing through their last four challenges, they end up with $4,100!

Catch 21: Our next-to-panel of the season:

Wick ? (West L.A.)- Father of two
Donna Metiko (originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
Gerald ? (originally from the Bronx)- Technical writer/playwright

ROUND 1 BASE CARDS:

Wick: 6 OF CLUBS
Donna: 3 OF CLUBS
Gerald: JACK OF SPADES

After four questions, the board now looks like this:

Wick: (6C)(5H)(6H) = 17 (200)
Donna: (3C)(QC) = 13
Gerald: (JS)(7D) = 17 (200)

5. In the 2007 hit "Across the Universe", Bono and Eddie Izzard cover some of what band's songs?

Gerald: The Beatles- CORRECT (300)

CARD: 10 OF CLUBS; BUSTS WICK

6. George Washington Carver would be disappointed if he knew more than 2,000 tainted products were made of what in 2009?

Gerald: Peanuts- RIGHT AGAIN (400)

If this next card is a 4, 9, 10 or face card, he's won the round, but an 8 gives the round to Donna.

CARD: ACE OF SPADES; PASSES TO DONNA (14)

7. What bald, gouteed former talk show host started a foundation for MS research?

A: Dr. Phil
B: Montel Williams
C: ???

Gerald: Montel Williams- RIGHT AGAIN (500)

He can now win if this next card is an 8; a 7 will be a losing card for him.

CARD: 3 OF SPADES; KEEPS IT AND FREEZES AT 20

DONNA:
8. 5 OF SPADES (19)
9. 8 OF HEARTS- GERALD WINS ROUND 1 (1,000)

ROUND 2 BASE CARDS:

Wick: KING OF CLUBS
Donna: 9 OF CLUBS
Gerald: 7 OF SPADES

1. Edgar Allan Poe-tically speaking, what bird keeps repeating "Never more" (and is also the name of a professional wrestler)?

Gerald: Raven- YOU BET (1,100)

CARD: 8 OF CLUBS; PASSES TO WICK (18)

2. What refined form of modeling uses ultrasound to shape the body without general anaesthesia?

A: Liposculpture
B: Abdominal plasty
C: ???

Wick: Liposculpture- CORRECT (300); GOES ON

CARD: ACE OF CLUBS; KEEPS IT AND FREEZES AT 19

3. According to a 2008 study, women say they feel the sexiest at what age?

A: 24
B: 34
C: 44

Donna: 34- CORRECT (100)

CARD: 10 OF DIAMONDS; PASSES TO GERALD (17)

4. Cencibel, Muscardin and Concord are some of the varieties of what fruit?

Gerald: Grapes- RIGHT (1,200)

CARD: 2 OF HEARTS; KEEPS IT (19)

5. If "The Wizard of Oz" is Dorothy and she gave a speech to all the little people, who would she be referring to?

Gerald: Munchkins- YOU BET (1,300)

CARD: 5 OF DIAMONDS, WHICH IS PASSED TO DONNA (14)

6. What purplish, blue flower inspired Vincent Van Gogh to paint several masterpieces?

Gerald: Irises- RIGHT AGAIN (1,400)

CARD: ACE OF DIAMONDS; FREEZES AT 20

DONNA:
7. KING OF HEARTS- ELIMINATED

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND BASE CARDS:

Wick: 9 OF DIAMONDS
Gerald: JACK OF HEARTS

1. What word for a wiggly tadpole leaps into a...?

Wick: Pollywog- CORRECT

CARD: KING OF DIAMONDS; KEEPS IT (19)

2. What billion-dollar business got its start when two Vermont hippies...?

Gerald: Ben & Jerry's- RIGHT

If this next card is anything but a deuce, he's won this game and gets all four Power Chips.

CARD: 3 OF DIAMONDS- WIN!

TRIPLE BLACKJACK:

OPENING CARDS:

HAND #1: 4 OF HEARTS
HAND #2: QUEEN OF SPADES
HAND #3: 2 OF CLUBS

1. 5 OF CLUBS; PLACES IN HAND #1 (9)

2. 5 OF DIAMONDS; PLACES IN HAND #3 (7)

3. 8 OF DIAMONDS; CHANGES IT (three left)

4. 8 OF HEARTS; PLACES IN HAND #3 (15)

5. 3 OF SPADES; PLACES IN HAND #1 (12)

6. 7 OF CLUBS; CHANGES IT (two left)

7. 10 OF SPADES; PLACES IN HAND #2 (20; wha?)

8. 9 OF SPADES; HAND #1 CLEARED ($1,000)

9. 8 OF SPADES (one left)

10. 2 OF DIAMONDS; PLACES IN HAND #3 (17)

11. 10 OF HEARTS (no Power Chips left)

12. 6 OF SPADES- OOPS

He could've won $25,000 with this setup, but thanks to his bad play of the 10 of Spades, he doesn't win jack (except, of course, for the maingame's $1,000).

Jeopardy!: Let's see if Nina Ginocchio can break the three-day champion drought against:

Nelson Jesudas (Chandler, AZ)- Electrical engineer
Shima Majidi (NYC)- Copywright attorney

Opening topics in Round 1 tonight:

LITERATURE IN THE 1800s
COLLEGE FOOTBALL QUOTES
TASTY AD SLOGANS
I'M FUNEMPLOYED
MEDICAL PREFIXES & SUFFIXES
RHYMELESS WORDS

Majidi finds the night's first Daily Double on the ninth clue of the round, the $800 one in Medical Prefixes & Suffixes. She's at $1,200, $600 behind Jesudas; the champ has $800. Her wager is the lot on this:

After my-, it means pain in the muscles; after neur-, it's pain along the course of a nerve.

She can't come up with Alogia, dropping her back to zilch for the moment. Ginocchio makes it to $3,800 before the first break. At the end of the round, she's at $4,200, but Jesudas now has her pre-break score of $3,800 and Majidi's back at $1,200.

ATTEMPTED LACH TRASH: $1,800
UNATTEMPTED LACH TRASH: $3,200
TOTAL LACH TRASH: $5,000

DJ! Categories:

THE STATE'S POSTAL ABBREVIATION (the state must be given)
MARK ANTONY
CRY
HAVOC
THE "DOG"S
OF WAR

This is a mostly Shakespeare & Julius Caesar-themed board. After the first Triple Stumper of this round under the $1,600 "Dog" clue, Jesudas ends that category with the first DD of the round. He's at $5,400, while the champ's at three grand and Majidi has two. His wager is $700.

An unnecessary, wasteful or fraudulent project.

He also blanks on a DD attempt, dropping him to $4,700. Correct: What is a boondoggle? He also finds the other one under the $1,200 Marc Antony clue, now at $7,100; the champ still leads with $10,600 and Majidi's score now stands at $5,600. His wager this time is $1,500. To come within two grand of the lead, here's the clue:

Defeated in his quest to rule Rome, Mark Antony committed suicide in this country in 30 B.C.

"What is Egypt?"...correct to move to $8,600! Time runs out before the $1,600 clues in both Mark Antony and Of War can be played, as well as the $2,000 Of War clue.

ATTEMPTED LACH TRASH: $400
UNATTEMPTED LACH TRASH: $6,000
TOTAL DJ! LACH TRASH: $6,400

SCORES AFTER DOUBLE JEOPARDY!:

Nina: $15,000
Shima: $5,600
Nelson: $8,600

CORYAT SCORES:

Nina: $15,000
Shima: $6,800
Nelson: $9,000

FJ! CATEGORY: U.S. Transportation History.

Not standardized as the shape we know, the first of these alliterative items, black on white metal, appeared in Detriot in 1915.

SHIMA:
Response: "What is a stop sign?"
Wager: $3,001
Final score: $8,601

Nelson Jesudas...is also right to go to $11,800. The champ...puts fender instead, but only lost $2,500, so she's a three-day champion! New total: $56,700.