Final Jeopardy: Geographic Terms (4-12-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/12/2022) in the category “Geographic Terms” was:
The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the “menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast”
5x champ Mattea Roach, a tutor from Toronto, Ontario, won $117,200 so far. In Game 6, her challengers are: Leah Q. Pence, a social studies teacher from Woodstock, GA; and Zhe Lu, a software engineer from Boston, MA.
Round 1 Categories: Rock Art – Medicine – Game Changers – Fashion – Amazon Prime – Everything from Mod to Mud
Mattea found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Fashion” under the $1,000 clue on the 5th pick of the round. With $2,000, she was the only one on the board with any loot. Mattea made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
This portmanteau word is used of casual clothes for exercise & for just hanging out show
Mattea finished in the lead with $9,600. Zhe was second with $2,600. Leah was last with negative $200. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Rock Art – New to Merriam-Webster – The Actor’s Movie Line – I Have a Plan – Halls of Fame – A Christie Mystery
Leah found the first Daily Double in “Rock Art” under the $2,000 clue on the 16th pick of the round. She was in second place with $5,800, $10,600 less than Mattea’s lead. Leah bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
A National Monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for “rock” & “carvings” show
Mattea got the last Daily Double in “I Have a Plan” under the $1,600 clue, with 10 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $20,000, $12,800 more than Leah in second place. Mattea bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
In 1990 the Shatalin Plan for moving the USSR to a free market was too radical even for this reformer who ousted Shatalin show
Mattea finished in the lead with a runaway $25,400. Leah was second with $7,800. Zhe was last with $5,800. One clue worth $2,000 was not shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE?
I thought this sounded very familiar when I saw the clue this morning. It was the Final Jeopardy! clue in James Holzhauer’s 15th game (4-24-19), phrased this way: “This term for an area of the Atlantic originated in 1964 in Argosy, a pulp magazine.” The category was “Geographic Nicknames” that time and everyone got it right.
A reprint of “The Deadly Bermuda Triangle”, Vincent Gaddis’ 1964 article is online at smu.edu
Zhe thought it was “international waters”. He lost his $3,900 bet and finished with $1,900.
Leah got it right. She bet $5,056 and finished with $12,856.
Mattea also got it right. She bet $5,400 and won the game with $30,800. Mattea’s 6-day total is $148,000.
2 triple stumpers from A CHRISTIE MYSTERY
($1600) This courtroom drama that hinges on the testimony of the mistress of the accused murderer has been adapted for stage and screen and in 2014 was performed in an actual English courtroom
($2000) The amateur sleuths featured in my adaptation of “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?”, Bobby Jones and Frankie Derwent, have a lot in common with the detectives Christie enjoyed writing about the most– the Beresfords– Tommy and his wife Prudence, nicknamed this, slang for a British coin.
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “American History”
A 1711 bill cleared the names of 22 people who were tried in this town, including Rebecca Nurse, Giles Corey & John Proctor show
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Ugh – 5 times did I say right to the TV, “I don’t care!”. Mattea’s blathering really irked me this evening. I will give her credit for being good on the button. But, I wonder if the last clue was not revealed, in part, to her extraneous bloviation.
And, FJ was a gimme.
Not sure which was more of a surprise: the 3-way stumper on the Hodgkin’s clue, which was a dead giveaway; or that only 2 of the players got the softball of a FJ.
The Agatha Christie courtroom drama that no one knew is one of my all-time favorite movies. I was watching it on TV for the first time, and my mom blurted out a critical fact about the Tyrone Power character that nearly spoiled the plot twist. Charles Laughton and real-life wife Elsa Lanchester were just delightful. Probably the only movie I’ve ever seen with those two actors or with Marlene Dietrich.
Go, Mattea!!! WHOO!!!!
Hmmmm………Yesterday’s FJ was something to be desired as the clue was way off target, and yet this FJ was a no brainer.
Very few triple stumpers today. All the players did well! A double solve in final is good. Now mattea is ahead of Zach Newkirk who also had 6 wins.