opus July 29, 2014 Share July 29, 2014 That second round was a nasty case of daily double searching. Link to comment
gwlisa July 29, 2014 Share July 29, 2014 Go Arkansas blonde boy! I loved how reserved and calm he was. Question - since he made over $42,000, what happens if his total is more than $75,000? If he totals $90k, does he still just get $75k as the winner? Because that stinks. 1 Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Impressive games by Cooper and Joe -- Selena just couldn't ring in quick enough before either of them (they were both fast on the signaling devices). Link to comment
YoureSoUrban July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Yay Cooper!! I'm still pulling for him to go all the way. That was some pretty intense back and forth with Joe, and since he was able to withstand that I think he's very well positioned to do so. Link to comment
BitterApple July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Wow, now THAT was a game. I loved Cooper's gutsy wager on that DD! I always enjoy watching contestants who are in it to win it. The girl seemed really nice but too slow on the draw to really make a dent in the game. Like many of you, I'm also confused by the judging. I've heard several mispronounciations that were ruled acceptable whereas on other games the judges were sticklers. Link to comment
peeayebee July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Did Alex pronounce "piranhas" with a tilde, i.e., "pirañhas"? I think he did. I've never heard it that way. Oh, and I guess I'm wrong, but I hate the way they pronounce sophomore. I always say it "sof-more." Link to comment
Bastet July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Heh; for me, it's omitting that middle syllable that makes me cringe. I missed the game other than FJ, which was an instaget for me because what little Spanish I have retained over the years includes the days of the week. Link to comment
ChicagoCita July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 There's a nice interview with Julia Collins in the current issue of Chicago Magazine. Link to comment
rereader2 July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 (edited) Oh, and I guess I'm wrong, but I hate the way they pronounce sophomore. I always say it "sof-more." I've always pronounced it (and heard it pronounced) "sof-more," which is the first-listed pronunciation in my Merriam-Webster's; they have the extra syllable in the third-listed pronunciation, which means it's also right if, supposedly, less common. Edited July 30, 2014 by rereader2 Link to comment
PaulaO July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Cooper (blonde boy from Arkansas) looks exactly like Jackie Cooper (child star of the 20s and 30s, etc.) I'm assuming the name is just a coincidence. I normally don't get into the Teen Tournament, but this one is really good. I think because none of the contestants have an attitude--they just seem like nice, normal teens. 1 Link to comment
peeayebee July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Cooper reminds me of Jeremy Sumpter who played Peter Pan in "Peter Pan." 1 Link to comment
HelenBaby July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 Go Arkansas blonde boy! I loved how reserved and calm he was. Question - since he made over $42,000, what happens if his total is more than $75,000? If he totals $90k, does he still just get $75k as the winner? Because that stinks. I think in the tournaments, if the players accumulate more than the prize amount in the final 2 games, they receive that amount if they win the tournament. The second and third place winners just get the amounts designated for second and third. The money they win in the preliminary games are not added to their total prize. 1 Link to comment
alias1 July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 (edited) Interesting about the word sophomore. I never thought there were different pronunciations. My Webster's Dictionary (only) lists sophomore as having 3 syllables (which is how I've always heard it pronounced) but there no emphasis on the 2nd O and the 1st and 3rd syllables seem to be almost equal in emphasis. I was rooting for Cooper all the way. It will be interesting to see him against Jeff. I thought Alex's pronunciation of Piranha was affected. Edited July 30, 2014 by SierraMist Link to comment
gwlisa July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 In my midwest town growing up, we all said "soph-more" and everyone always thought it was strange at football games when the announcer would say "soph-o-more." I always assumed his pronunciation was the odd way, based on how people reacted to hearing it! Link to comment
Jesse July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 I thought Alex's pronunciation of Piranha was affected. That's just how you say it in Portuguese, no? It's right in line with Alex's over-emphasis of any foreign-language answer. 1 Link to comment
Tigershark July 30, 2014 Share July 30, 2014 It's right in line with Alex's over-emphasis of any foreign-language answer. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/29/alex-trebek-foreign-words-supercut_n_5631945.html? 2 Link to comment
peeayebee July 31, 2014 Share July 31, 2014 Love that pronunciation mashup! The way he says "genre" cracks me up. Good game tonight. I was sorry Sam missed the first DD, but at least he got the second one. Loved his response during the interview about auditioning for the Latin womanizer role – "It felt like it was me." 1 Link to comment
Bastet July 31, 2014 Share July 31, 2014 An all-male final. Gee, funny how Alex didn't remark on that gender make-up, when you can bet your bottom dollar he'd have done so had three girls been set to compete for the big prize. I was proud of running the Math category, since some of the clues dealt with things I probably haven't seen since I was their age (many, many moons ago). 3 Link to comment
Tigershark July 31, 2014 Share July 31, 2014 Love that pronunciation mashup! The way he says "genre" cracks me up. Whoever made this mash up should have waited until tonight. Alex's pronunciation of the FJ clue was ridiculous. 2 Link to comment
Bastet July 31, 2014 Share July 31, 2014 I think Alex's bad imitations are a whole 'nother category -- where he pronounces English words in the (alleged) accent of the person speaking them -- from his pronunciation of foreign words. He doesn't do a bad job with much of the latter (while he certainly does with the former), it's just that he over-does it. Peeayebee, I commented on the compilation video in Alex's thread, and "genre" was the word I singled out, too. That one is classic. Link to comment
teebax July 31, 2014 Share July 31, 2014 (edited) In a time when we don't seem far from just grunting at each other, I love that Alex does this. BTW, his ability to pronounce the name of that volcano in Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull, impressed me. I played it several times on my DVR just so I could get the pronunciation down. I don't know if his was correct, but I now say it the same way he does. Edited August 1, 2014 by teebax 4 Link to comment
ABay July 31, 2014 Share July 31, 2014 I commend your industry. I call it "that volcano in Iceland." 3 Link to comment
Bastet July 31, 2014 Share July 31, 2014 Something like "genre" makes me think, "Oh, Alex." But most of the time I'm pretty impressed with his pronunciation of foreign words. (His impressions of foreign accents saying English words, however, not so much.) 2 Link to comment
mojoween August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 I know these are kids. I have a 16 year old son myself. But dammit, Jeff's grunting and groaning and sighing and general noisemaking is so incredibly irritating I can't stand it. It really makes me root against the kid. Just shush. My god. I just read "The Fault in Our Stars" and while I didn't recall the dedication, I guessed that for the answer just because the clue had a teenage girl with cancer in it. I didn't catch Alan's wager, how much is he going into tomorrow with? Poor Cooper, starting with two hundred bucks. 3 Link to comment
gwlisa August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 Is it an unwritten rule that the longer the FJ question the contestants have to write out, the easier the clue? I always wondered if the producers have nixed harder FJs that are too long to write out because the players would have to take longer to think of the question and not have enough time to scribble it all out. That's what I suspected with The Fault in Our Stars. Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 I didn't catch Alan's wager, how much is he going into tomorrow with? Poor Cooper, starting with two hundred bucks. Here's the totals going into Day 2 Cooper: $200 Alan: $25000 Jeff: $15000 Link to comment
alias1 August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 Cooper really looked like he didn't feel well. Alex even asked him if he was OK and he said yes, but his face said no. Poor kid. He did so well the day before. I hope someone didn't take him out drinking the night before. He's only a sophomore, isn't he? 2 Link to comment
Bastet August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 I always want to put different clothes on Cooper, but I like him. I like any kid who says "Sir" in a non-Eddie Haskell way. Obviously none of these kids work for their school newspaper given their performance in the Journalism category. I would have expected at least one of the three to know - or figure out - that graf stands for paragraph, but the First Amendment TS is what truly shocked me. 2 Link to comment
peeayebee August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 I always feel bad for contestants who are being out-buzzed, esp repeatedly. Cooper looked particularly downhearted, although he rarely smiles anyway. Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 (edited) Still rooting for Jeff to eke out the win on Day 2 -- he appeared to have trouble ringing in at first when Alan nearly ran that Scarlet Letter category, but he recovered well and only has to beat Alan by $10,001 on Day 2. Edited August 1, 2014 by ottoDbusdriver Link to comment
junemeatcleaver August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 Is it an unwritten rule that the longer the FJ question the contestants have to write out, the easier the clue? I always wondered if the producers have nixed harder FJs that are too long to write out because the players would have to take longer to think of the question and not have enough time to scribble it all out. That's what I suspected with The Fault in Our Stars. The FJ couldn't have been that easy since only one of them responded correctly. Link to comment
YoureSoUrban August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 Aw poor Cooper. He was definitely unraveling from being beaten at the buzzer. Hoping he can somehow still pull off a win... please don't dash my naive hopes with mathematical realities :-) I know these are kids. I have a 16 year old son myself. But dammit, Jeff's grunting and groaning and sighing and general noisemaking is so incredibly irritating I can't stand it. It really makes me root against the kid. Just shush. My god. Oh my god yes. I enjoyed his enthusiasm at the END of the games but all this giggling and fist pumping and moving around stuff throughout... ugh, just shut it. After Cooper my favorite is Alan. Seems like a good kid, even keeled. I'll be happy if he wins too. Link to comment
Tigershark August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 After the interviews today, I'm really pulling for Alan. I also did the Geography Bee. I made it to the state bee, but I didn't come close to winning. I kind of felt bad for Jeff when he said he came in second. I've been getting every FJ during the teen tournament. So many of them have been about YA fiction, which is one of my guilty pleasures. Link to comment
ABay August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 I'm relieved to see others are as annoyed by Jeff's noises as I am. 3 Link to comment
sugarbaker design August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 It doesn't bother me that kids are acting like kids and not adults. Carry on Jeff, my fellow Jerseyan! 2 Link to comment
ABay August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 I'm going to go out on a limb and say there is more than one way to act like a kid; all of the other contestants in the tournament are also kids and yet they don't make sounds like an injured seal. You know what would be a killer FJ? Answering "when this volcano in Iceland erupted, it disrupted air travel for weeks." 4 Link to comment
BitterApple August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 FJ was a gimme, I'm surprised Cooper and Jeff missed it. Even if you hadn't read the book, commercials for the movie were playing endlessly for a while. I'm not sure what was going on with Cooper, he was definitely off his game. I like both Alan and Jeff so I'd be happy to see either of them win. Link to comment
sugarbaker design August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 FJ was a gimme, I'm surprised Cooper and Jeff missed it. Even if you hadn't read the book, commercials for the movie were playing endlessly for a while. How could it be a gimme if two out of three contestants didn't get it? I never heard of the book and haven't watched a commercial on tv since I got my DVR three years ago. My niece informed me it's very hot YA fiction, so that's the third YA fiction FJ in the tournament (after the FJ's concerning Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.) Link to comment
ajsnaves August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 FJ was a gimme, I'm surprised Cooper and Jeff missed it. Even if you hadn't read the book, commercials for the movie were playing endlessly for a while. But remember, these episodes were recorded in March, before the movie came out. How many people would have gotten this question right then, before the onslaught of ads for it? 1 Link to comment
The Wild Sow August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 FJ was a gimme, I'm surprised Cooper and Jeff missed it. Even if you hadn't read the book, commercials for the movie were playing endlessly for a while. A gimme unless, like me, you completely blanked on the title! I knew what book they meant; the movie was even shot here in the 'Burgh; I just couldn't come up with the name. My brain kept going to "Me & Earl & the Dying Girl" -- also filming here but not yet released -- and I kept saying, No, not that one -- the other Dying Girl movie! Link to comment
teebax August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 I had no clue on FJ. But I don't read a lot of YA fiction and, as the poster above said, I haven't seen a commercial since TiVo was invented. I guessed Silent Spring, knowing damn well it was wrong. Link to comment
rereader2 August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 (edited) I knew the FJ instantly, but then I listen to the Green brothers' podcasts. (They are aimed more at teens, but I enjoy 'em, I like learning things, even things I know and even in little chunks, if they are presented well.) Edited August 1, 2014 by rereader2 Link to comment
HelenBaby August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 Even though I knew the FJ was that Shailene Woodley movie, I had to look it up while the think music was playing. I'm getting to where I have CRS. I'm pulling for Jeff but Alan seems sweet so I'm not going to be upset if he wins. 1 Link to comment
peeayebee August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 At first I didn't know FJ, but I also had missed what the category was, so when I rewound -- if that's what you do with a DVR -- and saw it was Bestselling Fiction (or whatever), the title immediately came to me. I'm not sure why. I haven't read the book or seen the movie, but I've read about them. Jeff's little vocal outbursts sometimes bug me, sometimes amuse me. I kind of like when he makes a noise indicating that he should have known an answer or that he was thinking along the wrong lines. But what really bugs me is how fast he talks during the interviews. I can hardly understand him, and I think Alex is having a hard time, too. Jeff just needs to work on speaking more slowly. Link to comment
M. Darcy August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 Wow - tie game. I would have let them be co-champs but I guess it's against the rules. Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver August 1, 2014 Share August 1, 2014 (edited) Jeff for the win !! Loved the fact they had to go to a tiebreaker question. Alan and Cooper both went home with big amounts too -- congrats to them as well. Edited August 2, 2014 by ottoDbusdriver 1 Link to comment
BitterApple August 2, 2014 Share August 2, 2014 Dammit! My local coverage pre-empted Jeopardy for some stupid charity thing. OMG, a tie?! What happened? How did they break it? It seems kind of crappy they wouldn't let Alan and Jeff be co-champions. How much did the runner-up get? Link to comment
Ailianna August 2, 2014 Share August 2, 2014 Both Alan and Cooper earned more money than the guaranteed prizes, so both took home a large chunk of cash. Alan took $54,200 and Cooper $31,200. Considering Cooper had only $200 yesterday, his was very impressive. If he'd been able to do as well yesterday, he would have handily won the championship. 1 Link to comment
ottoDbusdriver August 2, 2014 Share August 2, 2014 (edited) Dammit! My local coverage pre-empted Jeopardy for some stupid charity thing. OMG, a tie?! What happened? How did they break it? They broke the tie with a tie-breaking question -- first to ring-in with the correct answer won. Category: The Civil War The Battles of <forgot the name> and Shiloh took place in this state. Jeff rang in first with the answer "What is Tennessee ?" for the win. ETA: As soon as I saw Shiloh, I guessed the answer and completely blanked on the name of the first battle. Edited August 2, 2014 by ottoDbusdriver Link to comment
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