Final Jeopardy: Bodies of Water (5-4-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (5/4/2023) in the category “Bodies of Water” was:
Formed some 10,000-15,000 years ago & with an average depth of only about 150 feet, it’s named for a man who sailed through it in 1728
New champ Hannah Wilson, a data scientist from Chicago, IL, won $25,800 yesterday. In Game 2, her opponents are: Warren Grace, a croupier from Lanham, MD; and Marie Claude Dussault, a translator & editor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Round 1 Categories: Phrasing – Florida Places – A Bible Thumpin’ – U.S. Facts & Figures – Magazines in Other Words – Athletes Named For
Hannah found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Florida Places” under the $600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. She had $3,200 and was the only one on the board with any money. Hannah bet $3,000 and she was RIGHT.
You can wear your Crocs as you see the gators in this national park established in 1947 at Florida’s southwestern tip show
Hannah finished in the lead with $13,000. Warren was second with $3,000. Marie Claude was last with $800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Novel Countries – The Tower of London – Science – A Special Train Car – 21st Century Films – Abbre-V-Ations
Hannah found the first Daily Double in “Science” under the $1,200 clue on the second pick of the round. She was in the lead with $13,400, $10,400 more than Warren in second place. Hannah bet $5,000 and she was RIGHT.
This pioneering computer language got its name from its early use in translating formulas show
Hannah got the last Daily Double in “A Special Train Car” under the $1,200 clue on the 12th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $21,600 now, $16,600 more than Warren in second place. Hannah bet $6,000 and she was RIGHT.
An epically terrible trip from Buffalo to Westfield, N.Y. inspired this man to create the comfy rail cars named for him show
Hannah finished in the lead with a runaway $35,200. Marie Claude was second with $5,600 and Warren was last with $4,600. All clues were shown.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE BERING STRAIT?
Vitus Bering was a Danish explorer and officer in the Russian Navy. In the 1720s, he was chosen by Czar Peter the Great to lead an expedition to find out if there was a land border between Asia and North America, and if not, to find out what was there. This was known as the First Kamchatka Expedition. Bering was not the first person to journey across the strait that would later bear his name, but he was the one who became famous for the first trip, and his subsequent 1740s Great Northern Expedition. English explorer James Cook named the strait after Bering. As for the shallowness of the strait, the theory goes that at one time, its waters were so low that humans could walk across the seabed from one continent to the other.
Learn more: There’s an interesting 15-minute video on the life of Vitus Bering, presented by the History Guy on YouTube. Trust me, you’ll remember more of that video than from reading an article.
Dan thought it was the Cook Strait but Cook was a newborn in 1728. Dan lost $4,500 and finished with $100.
Marie Claude got it right. She added $2,601 to her score to finish with $8,201.
Hannah got it right, too. She bet $10,000 and won the game with $45,200. Her 2-day total is a whopping $71,000.
2 triple stumpers from ATHLETES NAMED FOR:
($400) Middle name used by first baseman Willie Aikens; he was born just after another Willie’s heroics in the 1954 World Series
($1000) In 1887 Margaret & William Alexander named their son, a future Hall of Fame pitcher, for this president
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “Odd Words”
A homophone of a letter in the alphabet, this 5-letter word sounds the same if you remove its last 4 vowels show
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Hannah is very impressive. She took no prisoners with all of those large wagers. Hope she sticks around a while. Marie Claude seemed lost until late in the game. I noticed during the interview that her English grammar was a bit shaky.
Took an instant guess on FJ and it was correct. It hurt a bit when no one knew the two baseball players, but those were tough. Sort of knew “The Book Thief” country from reading a movie review. Someone should have known VDT device and the Greek-inspired waves. FDR’s train car was gettable if you knew where he died in 1945.
Well, well! First, Hannah got away with one, with just “ventricular”. Mayim should have asked for more.
Final was easy for me. As per usual, got about half the TS correct. I didn’t know Pullman was motivated on a trip from Buffalo to Westfield – that’s just north of me!
And, recall the Warner clue from last week or the week before. What did I say here? The only Ringling brother I could name was John? And, BOOM, there he is this episode! I hope that helped y’all!
Curious–what was wrong with “ventricular?” Did she not add “fibrillation” (I thought she did)? I said “ventricle” which I guess was not acceptable.
I’d guess that just about anyone over, say, 35 or 40 (I’m way past that) surely would know the Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey circus.
Pullman was an easy one, although I didn’t know it had anything to do with upstate NY. I was born and went to college there. Very long ago. I went back last fall for a reunion.
No, she only said “ventricular”, and Mayim added the “fibrillation”.
Perhaps Hannah thought only the “V” word was required because the category had “V” in quotations. To me, it seemed like Hannah was just correcting the first part of Warren’s “ventrial fibrillation.”
Whatever, imagine if Mayim rejected Hannah’s response and it was a TS, or worse — Marie-Claude put it together. I bet there’d be a lot of complaining about that.
Jason, I noticed the coincidence of your Ringling Bros. comment.
The clue asked for “V-fib”, so I thought it needed both. But, I totally get it, VJ. It’s more a style thing – I could imagine Alex prompting for more is all.