Celebrity Jeopardy Final: Astronomy (9-27-23)
In the first quarterfinal match of the 2023 Celebrity Jeopardy! Championship, the celebrity contestants are: actor Mark Duplass, playing for Blink Now; actress Emily Hampshire, playing for GLAAD; and actor and singer Utkarsh Ambudkar, playing for the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
The Final Jeopardy clue in the category “Astronomy” was:
Discovered in the ’60s and ’70s, Cygnus X-1 was the first of these light-trapping gravitational bodies to be identified
Ken Jennings hosted tonight’s one hour show. He explained the tournament format: 27 celebrities will compete in 9 quarterfinal matches. The winners will then compete in 3 semifinal matches and the 3 winners will advance to the finals to compete for $1,000,000 for charity.
Jeopardy! Categories: Ants – Big-Screen Basketball – Hey! That’s Not An Element! – Oui Oui, History – Chicken Five Ways – Also An Animal Sound
Utkarsh found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Oui Oui, History” under the $400 clue, with 6 clues to go after it. He was in last place with $1,000, $1,700 less than Mark’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double and said Shawshank. That was WRONG.
After being given the key to this prison overthrown in 1789, the Marquis de Lafayette re-gifted it to his pal George Washington show
Mark finished in the lead with $2,500. Utkarsh was second with $400 and Emily was last with negative $1,400. All clues were shown.
Double Jeopardy! Categories: Random U.S. State Facts – Post-Apocalyptic Pop Culture – Out Of Breath – Book Dedications – Meditation – From Z To A
Mark found the first Daily Double in “Out Of Breath” under the $1,000 clue on the 17th pick. He was in the lead with $7,100 now, $4,100 more than Utkarsh in second place. He bet $2,500 and he was RIGHT.
As Taylor Swift knows all too well, this type of person has an intense dislike of something show
Mark got the last Daily Double in “Book Dedications” under the $600 clue on the 25th pick of the round. In the lead with $10,200, he had $3,600 more than Utkarsh in second place. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
This author of “The Fountainhead” dedicated 1957’s “Atlas Shrugged” to 2 different men: her husband and her lover show
Mark finished in the lead with $14,400. Utkarsh was next with $6,800 and Emily was in third place at negative $2,600. All clues were shown.
Triple Jeopardy! Categories: Islands’ Countries – The DNA Of Music – Alaska – Airport Stores – Oh, The Irony! – It “Is” What It “Is”
Utkarsh found the first Triple Jeopardy! Daily Double in “It ‘is’ What It ‘is'” under the $1,500 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in second place with $7,700, $6,700 less than Mark’s lead. He bet $7,000 and he was RIGHT.
The birthplaces of B.B. King, Muddy Waters & Robert Johnson are markers on this state’s “Blues Trail” show
Utkarsh found the next Daily Double in “Oh, The Irony!” under the $1,200 clue on the 8th pick of the round. He was in last place with $17,400, $1,800 more than Mark in second place. He bet $3,000 and came up with Vogue. That was WRONG.
Though it’s said to “gather no moss”, this magazine featured Elisabeth Moss on its cover in 2010 show
Mark found the last Daily Double in “Alaska” under the $1,200 clue on the 29th pick of the round. He was in second place with $18,600, $1,300 less than Utkarsh’s lead. He bet $5,000 and had no response so he was WRONG.
Before its native name Denali was restored in 2015, America’s tallest peak was named for this guy who never set foot in Alaska show
Utkarsh finished in the lead with $21,100 and Mark was next with $15,100. Emily was in third place with negative $1,100. She was given $500 to play with in Final Jeopardy! All clues were shown.
Only ONE of the celebrities got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?
From the Dutch Black Hole Consortium: “Black holes were long considered a mathematical curiosity; it was not until the 1960s that theoretical work showed they were a generic prediction of general relativity…. The first black hole known as such was Cygnus X-1, identified by several researchers independently in 1971. Black holes of stellar mass form when very massive stars collapse at the end of their life cycle.”
Emily thought it was stars. She bet the whole $500 and finished with nothing.
Mark got it right. He bet $15,097 and finished with $30,197.
Utkarsh also got it right. He bet $15,097 and won the match with $30,201. Utkarsh advances to the Semifinals. Emily and Mark each won $30,000 for their charities.
A triple stumper from each round:
Round 1: ANTS ($400) Offering a 60th ant-iversary version in 2016, Uncle Milton has sold tens of millions of these instructive toys since 1956
Round 2: BOOK DEDICATIONS ($400) Can we talk? This comic legend dedicated her 2014 autobiography to Kanye West, “because he’ll never …… read it”
Round 3: OH, THE IRONY! ($1500) Even though his first name ends with “war”, this president of Egypt won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978
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I REALLY hoped that Mark would win. Utkarsh, although I love him, I do not think he has what it takes to move forward.
But, then again, Celeb J! is an underpowered, shell of the real thing.