Final Jeopardy: Names in the Heaven (6-24-24)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (6/24/2024) in the category “Names in the Heavens” was:
When this body was discovered in 1978, Persephone was suggested as its name
3x champ Drew Basile, a graduate student from Birmingham, MI, has now won $53,282. In Game 4, he is up against: Erin Buker, a stay at home Mom from San Pedro, CA; and Graham Hicks, a lighting designer from Ottawa, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: Poetry Test – Prehistoric Animals – Let Him Cook – I’m Feeling Positive – The Director’s Cut – A One E & a 2 E
Graham found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Prehistoric Animals” under the $400 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in second place with $1,600, $1,000 less than Drew’s lead. Graham made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
Around 10 feet tall, a tusked mammal had hair that could get to be more than 2 feet long, hence this descriptive name show
Drew finished in the lead with $9,800. Graham was second with $4,600 and Erin was last with negative $400. All clues were shown.
Round 2 Categories: Presidential Nicknames – Around Italy – Where’s the Meeting? – Olde Cars – Nothing Like Live Music – 14-letter Responses
Drew found the first Daily Double in “Nothing Like Live Music” under the $1,600 clue on the 9th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $15,400, $8,400 more than Graham in second place. Drew bet $2,000 and got the second name in at the last second, so he was RIGHT.
The tour name had to be Ninja when these two bands from the first Lollapalooza joined forces again in 2009 show
Drew found the last Daily Double in “Olde Cars” under the $1,600 clue with 9 clues left after it. He was in the lead with $24,200, $14,000 more than Graham in second place. Drew bet $200 and just said Notre Dame, without the “What is?” That was WRONG anyway.
Studebaker, maker of an electric car around 1900, was based in this town; Knute Rockne worked part-time in sales show
Drew finished in the lead with $26,400 and Graham was second with $11,000. At negative $7,200, Erin was out of the game. All clues were shown.
NEITHER contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
WHAT IS CHARON?
Charon is currently classified as one of the 5 moons of the dwarf planet Pluto. It was discovered in 1978 by astronomer James Christy, who also named it. Christy wanted to name it after his wife, Charlene, and came up with Charon. Christy learned that Charon was the ferryman of the River Styx in Greek mythology. In Roman mythology, Pluto is the god of the underworld whose wife is Persephone. That tipped the scales in favor Charon.
According to Space Facts, the name “has two different pronunciations: “SHARE-on”, in honour of the discoverer’s wife’s name (used) NASA and the members of the New Horizons mission), and “CARE-on”, for those who prefer the Greek pronunciation.”
Graham went with the names of his nephews and his niece. He bet it all except for a loonie, so he finished with $1.00.
Drew came up with Ceres, not a bad guess. He lost $4,000 but he could afford it: he had a winning $22,400 left. Drew’s 4-day total is $75,682. Ken mentioned that Drew had 33 correct responses today, a record for this season so far. Drew’s trip to Italy that he mentioned in the chat last week surely helped out with that.
A triple stumper from each round. (Please don’t put the answers in the comments)
LET HIM COOK ($1000) Soft-boiled eggs & yogurt dressing are in Jamie Oliver’s “Sorta Salmon” this south-of-France style
PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES ($400) While cooking breakfast, Rep. Pat Schroeder had the idea to compare him to a Teflon frying pan
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “BRITISH HISTORY”
From the Greek for “alone”, it was nixed by Parliament in 1649 after being deemed “unnecessary, burdensome & dangerous” show
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Erin should have stayed at home.
Tough Final; Comet Kohoutek was all I could muster.
The Studebaker/Rockne DD wasn’t that difficult. Thought someone might know the pop singer who adores Joni Mitchell.
Housekeeping: the “More clues on page 2” link didn’t work. And the Presidential Nicknames stumper’s $ value is showing as $000. (Which is also the dollar value I’d assign to that president.)
That’s odd — Jason said it didn’t work, then he said it did.
That president stumper was a top row clue in Double Jeopardy, where the easy clues are supposed to be. I never heard of that president being called that. I guess they apply that to any president or anybody who is perceived as getting away with something. I even saw a book cover calling Clinton Teflon Bill.
Wow – Erin just looked unprepared.
Once again, Drew forgot his phrasing. Really not impressive.
I was 3/3 on DD and, but missed Final.
Wow, Erin must have broke an all time Jeopardy record with $7,200 in the red, but I could sure see myself in that situation. Anyways, I was frantically trying to come up with the correct response for FJ. I mean, what was that celestial body which was discovered in 1978? Well, I simply drew a blank, but I was quite familiar with Charon. Incidentally, Pluto is not a dwarf planet at all, but a fully fledged planet.
So Erin is the latest Jeopardy contestant to get dismissed before Final J! as not much went her way and congrats to Drew on winning the game once again.
Tough final as we got a double stumper and Erin did much worse than Priscilla from the January 16, 2020 episode.
I feel bad for Erin, the opening round went fine for her but in DJ! she had to take a lot of swings to get out of the red to try to catch up but she kept digging the hole deeper and deeper. She ended up at -$7,200 which is I believe the lowest negative score ever in the history of Jeopardy! Erin was the most unluckiest player in the show’s history.
She had to keep swinging, because she was flirting negative amounts, and things just didn’t work out for her, but in actuality, it’s not the record. It’s close. In Matt Amodio’s 4th game, Patrick Pearce finished with -$7,400, which is the current record.
Yeah, I linked to the pre-FJ scores for July 2021 — Patrick was at the middle podium, too. Maybe that’s a planetary coincidence — the middle podium planets were not aligned
My wife used to say the middle podium was cursed, and that was before I was placed there.
I believe that the lowest negative score in Jeopardy! history was on 7-26-21, a couple hundred more than Erin’s score
I didn’t read your post beforehand so Erin apparently didn’t break the Jeopardy record for the lowest negative score.
VJ, Tonight’s show debunks my stay-at-home parent theory. Good thing I didn’t predict. Yikes! 🤔