JAYMC on Jeopardy! TODAY! (SPOILERS Y'ALL)

So -- pardon me if this is a rude question -- do you still take home $8500 or whatever it was, even if you don't win? Or do you go home home with a smile and a cold thank you?

HE DID THE GESTURE

I'm poor as dirt right now, but even I know $1,000 isn't exactly 'hefty'.

It was really fun to watch, though. Good work John.

well it ain't wimpy that's for sure xp

Yeah but you could do something real nice for yourself with even the after-tax take-home of jaymc's final total.

I'm just curious. And I know it's probably a very rude question. But fuck it.

We should try to get an ilx0r on Jeopardy every year. ENBB in 2011!

The top-scorer on each show keeps his or her winnings and returns on the next show, and non-winners receive consolation prizes. The current prizes are $2,000 for the second-place contestant and $1,000 for the third-place contestant. Since the show does not provide airfare or lodging for most contestants,[15] these cash consolation prizes alleviate the financial burden of appearing on the show.

oh, this is how it works? lame! i didn't know.

Oh.

Since the show does not provide airfare or lodging for most contestants

Oh wow, really? That's cheap as hell.

I am waiting for a .xls of questions that jaymc didn't know the answer to vs. questions he just got out-buzzered on.

That's hard to say. There were definitely a handful where I buzzed in as fast as I could but still got beaten to the punch. But there were also a few that I knew but just couldn't recall or figure out in time to buzz in. Like the Edith Bunker one: I don't think I even tried for it, but if it had been a Daily Double, I'd have gotten it right. But of course there were also questions I didn't know at all.

I was kicking myself for not knowing the Edith Bunker one.

That was really the easiest Final Jeopardy question I've seen in a long time. Even my 14 yo niece knew the answer.

jaymc, please avoid all Bible talk from now on thnkx ;)

And yeah, I really only ended up with a few hundred bucks when all was said and done, but it's cool.

I especially hate not knowing the Edith question because Peter Finch says in one of his rants in Network that "Nobody ever gets cancer in Archie Bunker's house" -- and now we know that someone does.

The Bible and the British royals round woulda been my kryptonite.

so jaymc, i assume there were no questions that you had discussed at the dinner table just the night before, but you had to pretend to not know them because you agreed to take a dive for the show and u're really secretly herb stempel?

yea those were some tuff categories in rd 2

I thought they said she died of a stroke? xpost

I couldn't figure out that Joshua and Judges didn't match in time...

man that old lady was annoying, with - her - slow ... halting - way - of ... talking.

^VERY MUCH IN CHARACTER

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I thought they said she died of a stroke?

It was a stroke, but the spirit was the same.

I can't remember what James Evans on Good Times died of, either.

A contract dispute.

of excessive salary demands

xp

Edith Bunker, otoh, knew the show had been exhausted

Oh God, the Bible category.

So I think I just kind of panicked because Pamela had started to pass me up?

And so I see "Satan" and "book named after him," and in the heat of the moment, I recall the literary titles The Devil and Daniel Webster and The Book of Daniel, and well, there you have it. Even though if I thought about what the clue was actually asking, I might've known that wasn't right.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I love that anecdote -- Stevens apparently got it good.

I got over-cocky playing along with the bible category. I missed "Gideon", too, even though after you get the answer OH MY GOD so obvious.

even just the Final category name suggested either Papa or Mailer

xp Yeah, I'm not sure what I was thinking with my answer of "Elijah." The name seemed heraldic somehow.

hey, jamyc, so did you, Pamela, and Church Lady go out for brews later?

My husband thought that Pamela was, and I quote, "a smug Julia Stiles-looking cat lady".

jaymc, I have so much respect for you for risking it all! I threw both my hands in the air & shouted "yes!" when I saw you'd done that.

np, dude, I wouldn't have remembered Elijah was a bass player either

you were great, John! was filled with rage at your competitors the whole time. the young lady was pretty, yes, but i found her voice v annoying.

even just the Final category name suggested either Papa or Mailer

Again, in retrospect. But "Key West" and "1936" really did make it almost a silly question. A better question would be who's ass Hemingway put on the floor in Key West in 1936.

i was hopin you'd hit that last daily double at the end of rd 2 -- did u think abt jumpin to the $1600 clue? would u have known it?

You risked it all in final jeopardy ! A true champion @ heart!!!

or "Which poet did Hemingway punch out in Key West in 1936?"

Nah, Alfred, I stayed and watched tomorrow's episode (which features WmC's daughter's English professor!) and then there was a lunch break, so I left the studio and ate maybe the best Thai food I've ever had at Jitlada. And then I went back to my brother's apartment and took a nap.

I checked Twitter and was there seriously a Doctor Who question?

Trebek: "Think American literature, and think Key West, and the answer should be obvious." Or, um, think "brawl."

yes! it was about how he's died seven times iirc

xp to suzy

Yes there was! And a Buffy question! xxp

John getting the Buffy answer was <3; i fist-pumped iirc

lol xp

You risked it all in final jeopardy ! A true champion @ heart!!!

Dude. I hope you don't need the math there explained.

I thought she was kinda CUET actually, but totally agreed on the weird guessing face.

^^

Good game jaymc!

So what did you and Alison and Alex and the crazy nervous lady shoot the breeze about after the end of the game?