Final Jeopardy: The Olympics (6-20-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/20/2023) in the category “The Olympics” was:
This sport that made its Olympic debut in 1988 has a playing surface of only about 45 square feet
2x champ Ben Goldstein, a content marketing strategist from Dexter, MI, has won $15,198 so far. In Game 3, his challengers are: Tym Blanchard, a cryptocurrency and angel investor from Nashville, TN; and Janie Sullivan, a scrum master from Park Ridge, IL.
Round 1 Categories: Let’s Stick Together – Architects – Vowel, Vowel, Consonant, Consonant – Nonprofits – American History – Triple “A”-Rated Food
Janie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Architects” under the $800 clue with 2 clues left after it. She was in second place with $4,400, $1,800 less than Ben’s lead. Janie bet $1,500 and said Newberry. That was WRONG.
In the 1690s he began designing the twin-domed Royal Hospital for seamen in London show
Ben finished in the lead with $5,600. Janie was second with $3,500 and Tym was last with negative $1,000. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Let’s Stick Together – Chapter & Verse – Love Island U.K. – That Musical Act Is Unreal! – There Will Be Math – Just Say…
Tym found the first Daily Double in “Just Say” under the $1,200 clue on the 19th pick of the round. He was in last place with negative $3,000, $12,100 less than Janie’s lead. Tym bet $2,000 and said the Rhine. That was WRONG.
Its headwaters are near Monte Viso in the Alps show
Janie got the last Daily Double in “Love Island U.K.” under the $1,600 clue with 8 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $9,500 now, $3,500 more than Ben in second place. Janie bet $2,000 and said Samoa. That was WRONG.
Bligh me! In 1970 the British high commissioner in New Zealand became Gov. of this very small, volcanic island in the South Pacific show
Janie finished in the lead with $7,500. Ben was second with $6,800. At negative $3,800, Tym was out of the game at this point. All clues were shown.
NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS TABLE TENNIS?
From Wikipedia: “Table tennis competition has been in the Summer Olympic Games since 1988, with singles and doubles events for men and women.” Over that period of time, Chinese athletes have won 60 medals in 37 events, including 32 gold medals. Looking at the charts on there, the USA has entered athletes in every Summer Olympics since 1988, but no medals so far.
So far, the only other continent with medal winners is Europe. Sweden has one gold medal. Germany has a combined total of 9 silver and bronze medals.
Ben thought it was handball. He lost $705 and finished with $6,095.
Janie went with sumo wrestling after crossing out squash. She lost $7,000 and finished with $500. That made Ben a 3-day champion with $21,293.
A triple stumper from each round:
NONPROFITS ($200) Helping minority kids go to college, the foundation named for this Brooklyn Dodger was begun in 1973, a year after his death
THAT MUSICAL ACT IS UNREAL! ($2000) Later a movie, Roddy Doyle’s first novel is about this soulful but imaginary Irish band
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “American Women”
During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht show
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btw, on that clue about the Equalizer having few equals when it comes to long marriages, there are 30 other still together couples married in the 1980s on Fikkle Fame’s list.
All I can say is a second consecutive day of “yuck”. Last first: I, nearly immediately, figured it out, bit, them, deconstructed it. 45? 9×5, maybe? Then, I knew I was right. At least Ben’s response of “handball” is an actual Olympic sport. Sumo has never yet been in the Olympics.
Tym irritated me early when he was responding to clues before he was called on. That should not have gotten this far.
Ick on the Coryat. This is another lemon.
And, maybe it’s just me, but, I tend to think that, if a player wagers $1500, or the same amount as the clue space is worth, they aren’t going to win.
Boy howdy, I can only hope tomorrow is better.
This show may not have had a record # of stumpers, but it had to be high on the list of incorrect responses. 2 of the DDs and FJ were challenging (I said handball but knew that was wrong), but Janie should have known the famous British architect.
Poor Tym bounced up and down as if he were on a trampoline. He never rang in once till the end of round 1, then couldn’t get much of anything right. And his monotone was reminiscent of Ben Stein’s.
The Brooklyn Dodger who died in ’72; the Utah point, and the LP adhesive were all I could muster out of all those toughies.
I sure thought that I had seen the same FJ sometime before, and the correct response was table tennis. Well, if it still stumps everybody, why not run it through again I suppose?
I got that clue about the imaginary Irish band. I saw the movie — didn’t know it was a book first.
Ben named a real band when he buzzed in (The Replacements)
Another dagger for this show today. The combined coryat this time is $16,000,15 triple stumpers and $20,200 on incorrect responses.
If this happens again tomorrow, there will be chaos.
I guessed ping pong on the final which is another name for table tennis, would that have been a valid answer?
It sure would partner.
Yikes! NOT sure I want to watch this episode. Two days in a row disasters.
Horrible show once again. 3 more DDs were missed resulted our fifth skunking and a double stumper for the second day in a row. Just like I said yesterday, it should’ve say NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right and that completes a total wipeout of wagering clues.
You know what I’m gonna say, Ismael. Darn Those Daily Doubles!
@Ismael – Please explain why you feel it necessary for you to say “it should’ve say NEITHER contestant left in Final Jeopardy! got it right” when the recap already says that.
You just forgot to add the “and that completes a total wipeout of wagering clues” part.
No I didn’t “forget” to add that. If you want to say that, leave out what I already said.
For the second day in a row, we have only 2 players left and a double stumper in FJ! This wasn’t Tym’s day as he couldn’t stay out of the red. It’s the first time in a long time that we have a 2 player on back to back days. Ben’s 3 day total is the lowest in the history of the show.
Not only that, but it is also the second day in a row where we have an epic fail on wagering clues.