Final Jeopardy: 2004 (6-24-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/24/2014), in the category “2004” was:
Watching the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the head of this Govt. Agency kept saying, “My day is going to” be lousy “tomorrow.”
Current champ Alison Meermans has a 2-day total of $33,600. Today she takes on these two players: Jennifer Blanton, from San Diego, CA; and Chris Gullo, from Philadelphia, PA.
Round 1: Alison found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Econ 101” under the $800 clue. It was the second from last clue on the board and she was in the lead with $5,800, $1,000 more than Jennifer in second place. She bet $500 and she was RIGHT.
In 1778, after detailing the “invisible hand” guiding commerce, he became a commissioner of customs. show
Alison finished in the lead with $6,300. Jennifer was second with $4,800 and Chris was last with $3,400.
Round 2: Alison found the first Daily Double in “Victor/Victoria” under the $1,600 clue. She was in the lead with $11,100, $700 more than Jennifer in second place. She bet $2,000 and thought it was George V. That was WRONG.
Queen Victoria succeeded this king, her uncle, on the throne in 1837. show
Chris found the last Daily Double in “Classical Music” under the $2,000 clue, the very last clue of the round. He was in third place with $7,800, $7,400 less than Jennifer’s lead. He bet $7,000 and he was RIGHT.
This Gustav Holst suite: “An HD Odyssey” is a multimedia work with images from space probes. show
Jennifer finished in the lead with $15,200. Chris was next with $14,800 and Alison was in third place with $12,700.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS THE FCC?
“Michael Powell, then the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, was watching the game at a friend’s house in northern Virginia. He’s a football fan and was excited to relax and watch the game after a rough couple of weeks. ‘I started thinking, Wow, this is kind of a racy routine for the Super Bowl!’ he says, his voice pitching up in bemusement. ‘He was chasing her kind of with this aggressive thing — not that I personally minded it; I just hadn’t seen something that edgy at the Super Bowl.’
“Then it happened. Powell and his friend gave each other quizzical looks. ‘I looked and I went, ‘What was that?’ And my friend looks at me and he’s just like, ‘Dude, did you just see what I did? Do you think she … ?’ And I kept saying, ‘My day is going to suck tomorrow.’ Powell went home and watched the moment again on TiVo. The same thought kept running through his mind: Tomorrow is going to really suck, he remembers thinking. ‘And it did.'” (ESPN: Wardrobe Malfunction (Marin Cogan))
Strange that the cluewriters felt like they needed to substitute “be lousy” for “suck” in the quote, when just last week they had a clue about Zeus “knocking up” mortal women in Greek Gods and Goddesses.
Alison bet $2,200 and finished with $14,900.
Chris bet $12,000. He finished with $26,800.
Jennifer bet $14,401 so she won the match with $29,601.
A very fast-paced game it was, although a little painful to watch Alison bet so low on that first DD and instantly know it; then bet more on the second one and miss it! Big applause for Chris on that last DD. And big congrats, of course, to Jennifer. We’ll be seeing you again soon — like tomorrow.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Historic U.S. Cities”
A 1905 treaty named for this U.S. city ended a foreign war 7,000 miles away & was actually signed at Kittery, Maine. show
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I don’t think Chris Gullo deserves to be in second place because I didn’t expect him to be right on the daily double on the very last clue of the Double Jeopardy! Round
i told you alison would lose. my ONE psychic prediction i have in a year.
Come on man. Pick a winner who hasn’t won before. It’s a lot tougher and more fun. Watch the Hometown Howdies on Monday, then choose.
i have a premonition like that just ONCE a year on average. i can have a a baseball game on tv on the side e.g., don’t even know who’s playing and I KNOW the next pitch is going to be hit for a home run and where it is going to go out, just one of many possibilities how that ” knnowing” could happen. but i KNOW. i would have bet my last penny that alison will lose. can’t explain it, happens since i was about 14. once, twice a year, then not at all for 1 1/2 years. but when that feeling is there, i know it is one of those. it’s like peeking through the folds in a curtain for just a split second. and i am absolutelely serious, i am not pulling your leg!
That sounds great about the home runs. Maybe we should go to the track, but I guess that we’d have to go everyday for at least a while. Of course, in this case, we really can’t give you credit for the premonition of a previously taped event, but you did get it right. Naturally, calling a win is more impressive, since it is only randomly half as likely (1/3 to 2/3).
Also, I know that we don’t always share the same mhumor, but was “knnowing” done to lampoon your stance on quotations and, thus, quotation marks? If so, nice and good on ya. If not, well, we all make mistakes.
Hahaha. Mhumor. I put ms in when I scroll my phone, then mean to delete them.
I want to apologize for that last comment. The part that made it somewhat (at best, really) funny was in a conversation I had with VJ concerning quotes and question marks.. I don’t know why I thought that you would have seen it (it was from a conversation from days ago: rather obscure). So, the bridge just wasn’t available. Please understand, no offense was meant. I know that you were only writing of the intentions of quotes, a position with which I agree (but fear may be old school), not typos.
no other space available, so the answer: it was simply a typo and not related to anything…..i guess i “reflexed” on the “n”. nothing intended, just a typo.
Wow that was a great match. As I said on CotD all three contestants should get this fj right and they did. This was a fast-paced game.
@Eric – if they had categories like they had today I would definitely go on. I ran the econ 101 category without any problem. I may take your advice. 🙂
We had a great discussion today over on the CotD site. We started out talking about Michael Powell being the son of Colin Powell. Somehow we veered off into talking about movie stars and their offspring and from there extensive discussion developed. It was interesting conversation about some of the old movie stars.
Mike Powell: world record holder in long jump. Beat out Bob Beamon.
So, you knew the laughed at curve? The Laffer curve, for which there is no supporting emperical data, was the very basis for Reaganomics, which lead to David Stockman’s remark about “voodoo economics”.
You mean “empirical” data. Old Laffer still appears on the business tv channels.
Yeah, there is none of that either.
Chris underwagered by $401 on the second DD in DJ!, should have wagered for the lead given how DJ! went. Today’s episode, for some odd reason, was posted on Youtube 14 hours ago (as of the time this post is written at 7:25PM EST) by someone with the Youtube screenname “Jeopardy”.
my very first reaction.and post.
why, oh why chris?? you bet 7 K already, so another 400 or 401 would not have mattered if you were wrong, but you would be the new champ (or tied) if right. THIS WAS THE LAST CLUE, FCOL!!!!
again, i found the DDs and fj rather easy.
plus, my once a year psychic prediction came through. but chris? what was he thinking? he bet 7K on the last clue,so he HAD to go for the lead and add a mere 401 higher bet. if he had been wrong on that dd he would have been completely out anyway.
and finally: if you “quote”, you have to do so verbatim, otherwise it is NOT a quote and that should have been mentioned or rephrased, or better yet: quote the original to MAKE it a “quote”. i agree 100%. just leaving out a word, a comma, leave alone substitute some word with a euhemism and it’s not the quote anymore.
gosh, i have heard worse things on tv and NOT on cable. and he SAID it. so, if you pick it as fj, do it right.
What you say is incredibly true, and if this Chris character understands what he did, it should haunt him the rest of his life. “In for a penny, in for a pound,” you know? If you’re betting so big, GO FOR IT — go ALL THE WAY — take the lead, for heaven’s sake. If you miss the question, you’re no worse off — you’re going to lose the game either way. But if you get it right, as he did — you stand the best chance of winning the damn game, which he would have!!!
Well, I guess being on television made him nervous, right?
I’m still not quite over the use of “knocked up” last week, which is an even cruder and less respectful expression than “sucks.” Sometimes it’s so difficult to figure out this world, I don’t even try.
I normally do not comment on the wager aspect on jeopardy. However I must agree with you John and Tom. What I am beginning to think is that some people are just not good at math. Clearly Chris messed up big time on his wager. Go figure. (Pardon my pun)!
It’s ok to be bad at math if you can create beauty or somehow enrich life through poetry.
See VJ, I defend everyone.
It is not okay to be bad in math. People must budget their money. Now if you are speaking of math such as Calculus, Trigonometry, etc. I agree. But, basic addition which is all that is required to wager along with the ability to subtract is what John and Tom refer to in their comments. No excuses for bad wagers.
Yes, Jacob, it is ok to be bad at math. You will not be condemned to hell. You will not be branded by society. You will not cry yourself to sleep at night.
Simply put, different people have different strengths and weaknesses. The guy is a published poet and aspires for more. I don’t see poor math skills as, in any way what so ever, a deterrent to his life’s desires.
Ironically, the more you study statistics, the more you realize that they can be manipulated. To me, mathematics is no more true than water is electricity.
Sure, the guy blew the game and he would get an F in game theory, but it’s not like he ruined his life.
I gave the guy a big hand just for knowing the answer. The clue seemed weird to me with no “this” in it and no fill in the blank in “An HD Odyssey.”
I assumed he held some $$ back so he could still be around for FJ if he was wrong. But I guess it’s a good example of what good will that do you…
But it still could have worked for him if Jennifer had not been in the lead and he was up against Alison and her nutty bets!
In that case, he should’ve held back at least half of the difference between the other two, or the complete difference and not bet. But then, it would be the same outcome as not betting anything on the DD (in which case, he would have more money).
Alas, however, his math and strategy skills are probably on par with my poetry skills.
I was very excited about this question. The recording is by the Houston Symphony with conductor, Hans Graff and images by NASA.
See VJ, I was right earlier about the quote thing. LMHO