Final Jeopardy: Social Media (2-11-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (2/11/2014), in the category “Social Media” was:
The most retweeted tweet of all time happened on Nov. 6, 2012 & started with “Four” & ended with these 2 words.”
On Day 2 of the 2014 College Championship, the contestants are: Cameron Kim a senior (Duke) from Riverview, FL; Ben Juster, a senior (UCLA) from Woodland Hills, CA; and Laurie Beckoff, a sophomore (Chicago) from Hollis Hills, NY.
Cameron found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Just a Word Before Going” under the $600 clue. This was the third clue chosen and Carmeron and Ben both had $200 while Laurie had yet to buzz in. He bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
A final manifesto attributed to him in 1883 was “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” show
Ben finished in the lead with $5,600. Laurie was second with $4,000 and Cameron was last with $3,400.
Cameron found the first Daily Double in “19th Century Books & Authors” under the $2,000 clue. He was in second place with $6,200, $4,200 less than Ben’s lead. He bet $800, and took a guess with (Jane) Austen, already the topic of a prior clue. That was WRONG.
Between 1872 & 1882, she wrote 6 volumes of “Aunt Jo’s Scrap-Bag.” show
Laurie found the last Daily Double in “King Me” under the $800 clue. In third place with $5,200, she had half of Ben’s lead. She bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
In 1922 King Victor Emmanuel III refused to proclaim martial law to stop this man’s march on Rome. show
Ben finished in the lead with $16,400. Laurie was next with $8,200 and Cameron was in third place with $5,400.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Before he took the stage to affirm his election victory, President Obama marked his win via Twitter. Within hours, this Tweet simultaneously became the most retweeted of 2012 — and the most retweeted ever, sent by people in more than 200 countries around the world.” (Golden Tweets of 2012)
Cameron bet all he had and finished with $10,800.
Laurie bet $5,200 and finished with $13,400.
Ben didn’t bet anything. He won the match with the $16,400 he had at the end of Double Jeopardy!
We bet with a category like “Social Media” that the college students would all get FJ. Adult contestants probably would have got it, too.
Too bad for Laurie that she didn’t bet it all. She would have gotten one more shot with a tie-breaker clue; and it might have been an easy one for a girl, like that second Daily Double Cameron got.
Jeopardy Calendar Clue of the Day: ($1200) Art for Art’s Sake
Titian portrayed Ariadne and this god of wine falling in love at first sight. show
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@danny – answering this “And for the record, my best lady friend has not read Little Women. I have.”
Nobody ever said Little Women has NEVER been read by a male. Nonetheless it is still considered a girls’ book. Shmoop says “Little Women is a classic – if not the classic – girls’ book. Written just after the Civil War in response to a publisher’s demand for a novel that could appeal to young female readers…”
What in Susan B. Anthony’s name do you possibly mean by the tiebreaker clue perhaps being easy “for a girl”?
i think vj meant that the clue COULD have been in favor for a female, but then it COULD also have favored cameron, so that it might have gone either way. the tie breaker could have been about anything.i am sure that j would at least try not to throw in a tie breaker favoring either gender, e.g. about sports for the guy or arts/literature for the lady.
just considering where the 2 are from it would not have been a clue about california or new york either. i am sure they have a contingency plan for tie breakers. well, at least i hope so. but if the clue happens to be about something where one of the two is especially strong (like a REAL hobby) it inadvertently could/would favor onecontestant. but with her 13.400 i am 100% sure laurie will advance. it would take 4 non winners to earn more than 13.400 and yesterday was a bust. so laurie is leading the wild card race by a country mile.
Remember the Kids Tournament when that boy Skyler won $66,000 (which sadly went by the boards while the kid who could not have won anyway cried over his spelling mistake)? The FJ was The Civil War and it had come up in the chat that Skyler had a passion for studying that topic. Alex Trebek said that the boards were chosen for the games before they even knew who the contestants were, and it was a total coincidence that Skyler got an FJ in a subject he was well versed in. So they must have 5 tiebreakers ready to go at the start of the tournament.
just a thought I had when Cameron got that Daily Double on Louisa May Alcott. I thought a girl would know it. If she did get in a tie and got a clue more in the girls’ arena, something a male might pause a second or two before answering, it would have been a breeze. But, of course, if it went the other way, a sports category, for instance, where a female might pause an extra second…
anyway, I meant no offense by it but I can see I should have kept that observation to myself by the length of my explanation. oops!
I appreciate the apology though your logic (and John’s) is incredibly flawed and sexist. Anyone going on Jeopardy is going to have a wide range of knowledge on a variety of topics, and the whole idea of what’s a “boy” topic or a “girl” question is an incredibly primitive way of thinking. I’m a guy, and when I was on the show I got absolutely skewered by sports blogs for missing what was a supposedly easy basketball question, yet no one had anything to say about the history, science, and, yes, arts and literature questions I got right. Sorry for the rant, but this is the kind of thinking that needs to be checked at the door in this day and age, lest we devolve into a society chained down by arbitrary gender expectations. /endrant
First of all, I did not apologize. I explained. But while writing the explanation, I then saw how someone might take it the wrong way. But you are going to extremes, imo. Of course, there are men and women who have great general knowledge. But there are questions every week on Jeopardy that favor men and women, different generations, etc. and there are also questions that just blow Alex Trebek’s mind when a contestant gets it.
I’m not going to get out the cat-o-nine tails for thinking that Little Women is a girl’s book. It is.
good for you, vj!!!
i understood your post in the first place not “for A girl”, but for THIS girl (laurie). and anyway, whatever happened to tolerance ? and yes, there ARE differences between genders, physically, emotionally etc. some natural, some by tradition…
If Danny would be offered a babysitter job, changing diapers etc he would probably say “that’s a girl’s job….”
and there SHOULD be differences. i don’t think e.g., women should be in the fighting part of the armed forces. intelligence, admin, yes, but not killing. but then i am against war and killing, period.
and lastly, we can and should not make society a unisex thing. there are, should and always be differences. we might otherwise as well all be robots….
No, if changing diapers were part of my job description, I would say, “That is not among my list of qualifications for this job,” and perhaps be dismissed or hired on those grounds. Girls are not born with some innate brain cell activity that tells them how to change diapers, it is a learned skill, just like riding a bike or throwing a football.
And I would challenge you to say your statement about women in the armed forces to any woman fighting on the front lines right now. I’m sure they wouldn’t hesitate to kick your ass with their hand tied behind their backs.
“and there SHOULD be differences.”
And that statement right there is why women are paid 77 cents on average for every dollar and why mankind thought slavery was acceptable until a century and a half ago.
And for the record, my best lady friend has not read Little Women. I have.
with all due respect, danny, to call my post sexist is an ignorant attitude. do you want to be everything and everybody unisex? there ARE differences between men and women, some by nature, some by tradition, some by simple survival instinct. physically, emotionally, intuition etc. etc. if you can’t accept that then i am sorry for you.
in MY opinion you can’t make everybody even. and one should not. you want us to be robots or humans? and each human IS different, man from man, woman from woman and man from woman. i perceive your pov as “holier than thou” sorry.
just because by luck of the draw you were on the show does not mean that all your opinions are now infallible.
and as a p.s.
modesty does not seem to be your forte either (rubbing gently in that you have a wide range of knowledge on a variety of topics ). your post strikes me not only as intolerant and ignorant but as arrogant as well.
this is not a ” World according to Danny…..” that is where your “logic” and “knowledge” are flawed…..
ben obviously knew that the 16.400 would be a tie and if he lost a tie-breaker, i am 99.999% sure that that amount would have given him a wild card. as it is, 13.400 for laurie will very likely get HER a wild card.
and @VJ: interesting, the clue about a famous european island was missed by everybody,(sarah had it at least at first but crossed it out)
well, that’s the way things are nowadays. Someday Jeopardy will have mostly pop culture categories. Can’t imagine what map they were envisioning yesterday.