FEDPARDY!
Tuesday, September 9
by Fancy-Fancy, Technocrat of Toontown
Three players joined me in Studio 1 for tonight's game of FEDPARDY! Meteu, Tenabutter, and Dinger all showed up, ready to play. I went through a refresher of the rules for them all, after which we looked at the night's categories: C Sickness, Smooth as Silk, The Tour, and Number, please. Tenabutter then won the first selection of the game and selected The Tour for 1.
Nobody rang in to try the first answer, but they did on the second, which was The Tour for 2. Tenabutter got it right after Meteu missed it. Continuing with the category, Tenabutter found the first Daily Double. She decided to risk 4 points on it, and the answer was:
This popular restaurant serves authentic hunan and szechuan cooking, and is popular with locals and visitors alike - many traders try to time their runs so they have a spare hour or two around lunchtime to eat here. And it uses the direct heat of the nearby sun to do all the cooking.
And she got it with, "what is the Sizzling Wok?" The 4-pointer in The Tour tripped up our players, with everyone missing it, as did the 5-pointer, which Dinger and Tenabutter both tried and missed. With The Tour finished, Tenabutter selected Number, please for 1. Dinger got it after Meteu missed it, and then started Smooth as Silk for 1. Tenabutter rang in to get that one, and selected the 2. She and Meteu both responded incorrectly to the 2-pointer, however, losing points. Tenabutter started C Sickness for 1, and got it right after Dinger and Meteu both responded incorrectly. Tenabutter finished the first half by requesting, ringing in on, and correctly responding to C Sickness for 2, bringing us to the break. Tenabutter was least in the hole with -1, Dinger had -9, and Meteu -10 as we headed into Double Fedpardy. And as Meteu trailed everyone else, he got first selection in Double Fedpardy.
Meteu selected C Sickness for 10 to start Double Fedpardy. A couple of the players seemed tempted to ring in and try, but refrained as they couldn't come up with it and passed on it. Meteu then found the other Daily Double in C Sickness. In the hole with -10, and allowed to risk up to 10, Meteu decided to "make it a true Daily Double" and bet 10. The answer was:
Your routine in space occasionally gets interrupted with the appearance of this kind of ship, belonging to customs.
Meteu responded "what is a cutter?" And that was correct, digging him out of the hole. Meteu finished off that category with the 6 point answer, and Dinger got it to dig most of the way out of his own hole. From there, Dinger went to Number, please for 6, but no one attempted that one. Ditto with the 8. Meteu tried the 10 point answer, but got it wrong to lose 10 points. Still with the selection, Dinger picked Smooth as Silk for 6, but nobody tried it, and Dinger picked the 8 pointer. Meteu tried it, only to miss it, but Dinger got it for 8 points, and got out of the hole. He selected Number, please for 4 to finish that category. Dinger and Tenabutter both tried it, and both missed it, losing 4 points each. The last answer was Smooth as Silk for 10, and everybody passed on it, bringing us to the end of Double Fedpardy.
Our scores showed Dinger with 1 point, Tenabutter with -5, and Meteu with -18. Dinger alone advanced to Final Fedpardy, and made his wager based on the category of Sol Objects and Mobiles. When he had placed his bet, I had explained how Final Fedpardy would work, and Dinger confirmed he was ready, I revealed tonight's Final Fedpardy answer:
One of the objects in Sol that you can play with, pretending it's a bladed weapon.
At the end of 60 seconds, we took a look at what Dinger wrote down - "what is a stick". Close, but not specific enough, so that was a miss. I happened to have both objects with me - an umbrella and a cocktail stick, with which I demonstrated for their great amusement. Dinger's wager was 1 point, which took him down to zero, but he was still this week's FEDPARDY! champion, and as he mentioned, that was 64 points better than his last game of FEDPARDY! Thanks also to Meteu and Tenabutter for playing and making tonight's game possible. Join us again September 23 for our next game of FEDPARDY!, and on the 16th for the Fed Phrase Game.
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