Final Jeopardy: Comic Book Characters (4-19-24)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/19/2024) in the category “Comic Book Characters” was:

Featured in a 2020 film, she gets her name from a 16th c. Italian stock character who often wore diamond-patterned outfits

New champ Marko Saric, a math professor from Chapel Hill, NC won $3,799 yesterday, while defeating a 5x champ. In Game 2, his competitors are: Scott Nations, a financial engineer & option trader from Chicago, IL; and Molly Fitzpatrick, a writer from Queens, NY.

Round 1 Categories: Anatomy A To Z – U.S. Geography – Fun Facts – Ordinal Phrases – Bowling – Silence!

Molly found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “U.S. Geography” under the $800 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $600. Marko and Scott were not on the board yet. Molly bet $1,000 and went with the Rio Grande at the last second. That was WRONG.

Leapin’ lizards! This river flows 630 miles before joining the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona show

WHAT IS THE GILA RIVER?

Marko finished in the lead with $4,800. Molly was in second place with $4,000. Scott was last with $2,400. All clues were shown.

Round 2 Categories: African History – Not Your Everyday Words – On Guitar – Poets of Love – Plumbing – The Depths

Marko found the first Daily Double in “Poets of Love” under the $1,200 clue on the 2nd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $6,400, $2,400 less than Molly in second place. Marko bet $4,500 and guessed intertwine. That was WRONG.

Percy Shelley wrote, “Nothing in the world is single; / all things by a law divine / in one spirit meet &” this, like at a mixer show

WHAT IS MINGLE?

Scott found the last Daily Double in “Not Your Everyday Words” under the $2,000 clue on the 10th pick of the round. He was in second place with $4,400, $3,900 less than Marko’s lead. Scott bet $4,200 and he was RIGHT.

Below the line on ancient coins, the exergue is the space with the alliteratively named this mark, here for the city of Siscia show

WHAT IS MINT MARK?

Marko finished in the lead $15,900. Scott was in second place with $11,400. Molly was last with $4,800. All clues were shown.

TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS HARLEY QUINN?

Harley Quinn is a popular character in DC comics, TV series and films. She has a thing going on with the Joker. The name Harlequin, from Italian commedia dell’arte, has been used before by DC, several times. In fact, in one incarnation, Harlequin was the Joker’s daughter. They obviously had to change it up the 5th time around. Harlequin and Harley Quinn are also popular at Halloween parties.

Actress Margot Robbie portrayed Harley Quinn in “Birds of Prey” (2020), the film referred to in the clue. Lady Gaga will be Harley in “Joker: Folie à Deux”, a film coming out later this year. (Watch the trailer)

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Molly got it right. She bet $4,798 and finished with $9,598.

Scott went with Wonder Woman. He lost $6,901 and finished with $4,499.

Marko also got it right. He bet $6,901 and won the game with $22,801. Marko’s 2-day total is $26,600.

2 triple stumpers from the last round:

PLUMBING ($1200) The Energy Dept. lauds this type of water heater, aka “instantaneous”, as it’s more energy efficient than the storage kind

THE DEPTHS ($2000) “B” is for this type of map that uses contour lines to show the ocean’s depths

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Academy Awards”

In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar, 36 years after a student Academy Award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop show

WHO IS SPIKE LEE?

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