Final Jeopardy: Man-Made Objects (7-18-23)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (7/18/2023) in the category “Man-Made Objects” was:
Around since 1998, it’s now roughly the length of a football field & travels at about 5 miles per second
2x champ Daniel Moore, a contract compliance analyst from Pittsburgh, PA, won $39,800 so far. In Game 3, his challengers are: David Bederman, an attorney from Los Angeles, CA; and Chelsea Watt, a communications manager from New Westminster, British Columbia.
Round 1 Categories: The Songs of Max Martin – An Abbreviated Category – College Tuition: Then & Now – Prefixes & Suffixes – Stars on the Nation’s Flag – Shark!
David found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “An Abbreviated Category” under the $800 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in last place with $2,000, half of Daniel’s lead. David made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
FAANG: Coined in 2017 by Jim Cramer to denote 5 top tech companies at the time show
David finished in the lead with $8,600. Daniel was second with $4,600 and Chelsea was last with $3,800. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: American History – Authors’ First Major Works – African Films – 3-Word Responses – World of First Names – 4 Letters, Ends in “Y”
Chelsea found the first Daily Double in “World of First Names” under the $1,200 with 9 clues left after it. She was in last place with $8,600, $8,000 less than David’s lead. Chelsea bet $2,000 but didn’t know so she was WRONG.
Take a name meaning “Gift of God”, change the “TH” sound to an “F” & you have this Russian name that means the same show
2 clues later, Chelsea landed on the last Daily Double in “Authors’ First Major Works” under the $1,600 clue with 7 clues left. She was in last place with $7,400, $9,200 less than David’s lead. Chelsea bet $2,000 but had no reply again so she was WRONG.
Her 1936 effort “We the Living” is a romantic tragedy set against the perils of Soviet-style totalitarianism show
David finished in the lead with $17,800. Daniel was second with $14,200 and Chelsea was last with $5,800. All clues were shown.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION (ISS)?
The International Space Station has been in orbit since 1998, the product of a partnership between the USA, Canada, Russia, Japan and several European countries. According to the European Space Agency website, “It would have been impossible to build the Space Station on Earth and then launch it into space in one go – there is no rocket big enough or powerful enough. To get round this problem the Space Station was taken into space piece-by-piece and gradually built in orbit, approximately 400 km above the Earth’s surface. This assembly required more than 40 missions.” The main objective of the ISS is space exploration and research and to find ways to benefit people on Earth.
The Space Station travels 5 miles per second as it orbits Earth about 16 times every day. Find out when and where you might be able to spot it on NASA’S “Spot the Station” website.
Chelsea bet $5,000 and finished with $10,800.
Daniel bet it all and doubled his score to $28,400.
David bet $10,601 and won the game with $28,401. David Bederman is the new Jeopardy! champ.
2 triple stumpers from the last round:
AMERICAN HISTORY ($1200) Sally Ride rocketed into orbit aboard this Space Shuttle that shared its name with a 19th century research vessel
AUTHORS’ FIRST MAJOR WORKS ($2000) Subtitled “A Peep at Polynesian Life”, this novel was Herman Melville’s first peep at novel writing
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Inventors and Inventions”
In 1899 James Atkinson patented his new & improved one of these, including its spring-powered snapping action show
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What else could the FJ answer have been? This had to be one of the rare times I hit all 3 DDs and FJ, Chelsea could have made FJ even more interesting if she’d scored on those 2 DDs. The first was confusing but not impossible (think Dostoevsky) and it helped on the other to know the author’s political bent.
I usually don’t let contestants’ idiosyncrasies get to me, but David’s head-and-hand shrug every time he was called on got old really quickly. I’m still in recovery from Matt Amodio’s “What’s” that prefaced every response.
The bridge suits stumper was a pushover, as was the Sally Ride shuttle.