Final Jeopardy: Science & Industry (6-26-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (6/26/2014), in the category “Science & Industry” was:
In 1891 this European said, “Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses.”
2x champ Jennifer Blanton has won $38,400 so far. Today she tries for a third win against these two players: Patti Youngblood, from Copper Canyon, TX; and Ari Voukydis, from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1: Ari found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Cairo” under the $1,000 clue. It was the second from last clue left. Jennifer could have gotten it but when she had the chance, she went to the $200 clue and Ari answered it. He was in second place with $2,800, $6,000 less than Jennifer’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
The Citadel, one of Cairo’s top landmarks, is a 12th century fortress built by this Muslim warrior. show
Jennifer finished in the lead with $9,200. Ari was second with $4,800 and Patti was last with $1,000.
Round 2: Patti found the first Daily Double in “Lakes & Rivers” under the $800 clue. She was in third place with $1,400, $7,800 behind Jennifer’s lead. She bet $1,200, and she was RIGHT.
At Paducah, Kentucky, the Tennessee River meets this other one named for a state. show
Jennifer found the last Daily Double in “Dough Nation” under the $1,600 clue. In the lead with $18,400, she had a hefty $10,000 lead over Ari in second place. She bet $500 and she was RIGHT.
Venezuela uses this monetary unit named for a 19th century national hero. show
Jennifer finished in the lead with an unbeatable $19,300. Ari was next with $8,800 and Patti was in third place with $3,000.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“According to the Austrian countess Bertha von Suttner, Alfred Nobel, as early as their first meeting in Paris in 1876, had expressed his wish to produce material or a machine which would have such a devastating effect that war from then on, would be impossible. The point about deterrence later appeared among Nobel’s ideas. In 1891, he commented on his dynamite factories by saying to the countess: ‘Perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops.’ Nobel did not live long enough to experience the First World War and to see how wrong his conception was.” (Alfred Nobel’s Thoughts about War and Peace)
Patti wrote down “Carnegie.” She lost her $2,500 bet and finished with $500.
Ari wrote down “Who is this handsome gentlemen” with an arrow pointing upward at himself. He lost $2,700 and wound up with $6,100.
Jennifer didn’t write anything down beyond “Who is”. She didn’t do any damage with her $700 bet though, and won this match with $18,600. Her 3-day total is $57,000.
2 years ago:: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Novel Titles”
The title of this scandalous novel set in 1930s Paris symbolizes “the disease of civilization.” show
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Ok, I just watched the show on the link Jacob posted. 3 observations:
1. I got the triple stumper about branding irons :).
2. Someone who shall remain nameless (Eric 🙂 commented about Canadians not knowing geography. Well, the three American contestants stayed away from the Cairo category till the very last when they had no other choice.
3. I’m glad Patti lost. She was being too verbose and with an air of affectation when naming the category. I mean, get on with the game. Don’t slow everyone down, including the viewer.
4th observation: 3.30 am, I should get back to revising for the exams :).
Not “naming the category”. I meant, choosing the clue.
so it wasn’t just me who thought that!
Yeah, Patti might be a very nice old lady, but she was pretty slow in picking the next clue. Even watching in the audience, I picked that up, and felt that Jennifer’s mom also felt she was moving a bit too slowly.
Ari and his wife were cool though.
I have that Stephanopoulos category from that match over on the weekly recap, Jesse. (the link is right under Fool and Foolish songs on the last sidebar)
The way Ari said Putin was very funny!
They should have similar age (maybe region?) games.
Jesse, since you were in the audience then, were there some quiet murmurs of the judgements on Friday’s game: the equatorial zone and Jennifer’s answer of trees?
Yeah, Ari is a great guy and quite the joker. There were laughs when he responded to the Putin question that way and at Alex’s response too.
As for similar ages, Trebek answered an audience question during one of the commercial breaks to the effect of “Do you think that you’d be a good contestant on Jeopardy yourself?” with the response of “If I was playing against my peers, that is people who are of my age”, or something like that, which got a huge laugh from the audience.
I don’t remember any murmurs from the audience over those responses, though there might have been.
JESSE: not that you needed it for your DD, but is there a clock for responses? Alex commented on Jennifer answering at the last (nano) second, and will sometimes tell players to hurry. Sometimes it seemed like they timed Roger Craig with a sundial. To the home viewer, the timing seems outdated at best (bars in front of players) or even capricious. If there is a clock, can it be seen by the players?
There’s the clock on the podium, which I believe is 5 seconds. They give you a little more leeway for Daily Doubles, but from what I tended to see, it’s at Alex’s (or the judges’) discretion.
Crazy. I’m sure that I could ask a dozen more questions, but at this point , you’ve been nothing but sporting. Thanks again. But before you go, I don’t know if you read what I wrote before about New Yorkers, but basically:
New Yorkers understand that they are part of something larger than themselves: not just their religion, or even their region. They know how to give back, and just as importantly, they do. They don’t ask for your respect, they earn it.
Didn’t see that comment until just now, eric, but thanks for that. New Yorkers have some stereotypes about them, and more often than not some of them are true. That happens to be one of them, at least in my opinion.
Wow. You’re funny when you get riled up. But your logic is flawed: just because Americans aren’t good in geography (or avoid a subject), doesn’t mean that by being a little better that Canadians are good at it. (Ha, ha!).
And ok, Miss sleep deprivation, isn’t Jennifer the female Roger Craig (a human rain delay)?
Eric and Nomi -Today’s jeopardy episode is now on YouTube. It appears that it was put up about 30 or 40 minutes ago. Evidently the individual was told not to put it up until later in the evening which makes sense. So now you can watch it.
Thanks! And don’t forget about William!
Thanks. Bill definitely did not intend to forget you.
People were complaining online yesterday that it was on youtube before airing on tv in their areas. I would imagine the tv stations were upset too. This way everybody is happy. It clearly states “uploaded by jeopardy.”
Just watched. Thanks again. Were you checking for it earlier, or just found it now?
Thanks, Jacob. Watching it now.
Speaking of Science and Industry I often wonder how is it that Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein who were geniuses lost money in the stock market. This is one reason I believe that people who are specialized in a particular field do not necessarily perform well on Jeopardy because they’re too busy focusing on research in their own field.
I was always baffled that Newton who discovered how gravity worked did not understand that if stock prices go up they will come down some time. Oh no! He got greedy and put all of his money in and lost it all.
Einstein took his Nobel Prize money, put it in the stock market and lost it all in the stock market crash of 1929.
Eric, I guess you would say they were doing a Roger Craig.
Lmao. Maybe Roger Craig was doing a Newton-Einstein!! Now you must go on the show, hit on a DD, and say I’m going Newton-Einstein: true daily double. Even if you have five times the next amount. That would truly be priceless. You would be a Legend: probably the coolest thing that you will ever do on t.v.
Jacob, I think through this chaos, we have found order: your (spare time) calling.
LOL – that made me laugh about Newton!
Good. You more than deserve a laugh.
the old thing with the wiz professor in (blank) who can’t tie his own shoe laces…
It was a real nice chat today between some of us and Jesse who was a contestant on Jeopardy yesterday. It would be great if some of you could visit yesterday’s recap and read some of his very interesting comments about his experience on the show. It was amazing to find out that he attended the same high school that I attended in New York.
It is a small world after all.
No winners on fj today. It is a fascinating story about how Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize. The way the story goes in business is that he supposedly read his own obituary which was printed by mistake in the newspaper criticizing him for inventing dynamite.
After reading the obituary, so goes the story, he vowed to do some good for society. Hence, the Nobel Peace Prize.
Lol. I wondered what you meant earlier by “actual” death.
Your homeboy was very good-natured and accommodating. I’m glad you got a chance to reconnect with your base.
After what Jesse said about people in L.A. being on call makes me think that Ari was a seat-filler.
We need to check and see how many of the supporting cast for the Julia show (sorry Julia, you were good, but really now) were seat-fillers from L.A.
We need to fuel Tom Clark.
3/20. They wouldn’t have time to act the first two days (weeks of taping). There are other suspects, but I don’t want my leanings to show.
Now you are going to think that about everyone from L.A.
I know. I was thinking about throwing anyone from the area out as a possible tout, but then I thought of that pretty guy who lives by Jesus, Mariel and Joe and The Great One. I’m conflicted: mental muck.
You know, you have to wonder if they feel as if they need to have a cross-representation of people from different places: like the All-star game in baseball. Every year, there would be this guy from like the Astros or something who was hitting .273 with 8 homers and who would just sit on the bench for the whole game. Who gave Julia the hardest time: a librarian from New Haven and an Irishman (they are very smart people, at least they have big heads) from near Boston.
Hmmmmm
Yeah, Ari was a local alternate. He showed up at the studio after the rest of us had arrived via shuttle from the hotel.
He had apparently been an alternate contestant before and didn’t get on, so this time the contestant coordinators had to make sure he was on an episode this day of taping. Dunno how long ago his first chance of being on the show was, but I think I remember his or a contestant coordinator saying that it was months ago.
Man, I’m dying to know if you knew this final when you were in the audience?
Because you may think that you want a softball question, but if you have two people to leap, you probably don’t.
Oh, and man, if you’re a friend of Jennifer’s now, please tell her that she is a lovely woman, but doll collections kind of freak dudes out. Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
you know what? I don’t believe Trebek never heard of Madame Alexander dolls. They are totes famous.
Trebek’s a hockey fan and those dolls are freaky.
I figured it out at the last second, and confirmed it when Alex mentioned the person now being a lot more known for peace. I had an inkling that Nobel was the answer after thinking on it for the better part of the Think! music, and would’ve probably put it down if I was taking that question, assuming I had enough time between when I figured it out and time running out.
Otherwise, I would’ve pulled an Ari and did a self-referencing answer.
OK Eric, you pushed me to it —
5/26/2005 – You’re a Doll $800 Ironically, the Madame Alexander doll based on this Tolstoy heroine wore a dress with a long train.
2/14/1990 – Toys & Games $500: Madame Alexander is famous for making this type of toy. (a guy got this right).
MA dolls were around long before Trebek was even born. She even made dolls of the Dionne Quints.
Jennifer is on Jboard, which I just joined today. She was also on another forum that I used to frequent, before it was shut down a month ago, Television Without Pity. On Jboard (and TWoP), she goes by Tigershark. So you can tell her yourself if you want!
Jesse, also wondering when they tell you in which episode you’ll be? Of course, there has been a lot of theories regarding Julia, one of which would have the stronger contestants split against her, or even held back a bit.
Not that answering the question will, in any way, imply your belief in such theories.
The way they determine which contestants are competing when is with a set of flash cards with your names on them, drawn by a contestant coordinator whose job it is to do so. People who are returning and have to go on an episode that day have a star on the back of their cards, and they’re shuffled face down, two are drawn, and those two go to the coordinator to draw for podium position. We had no idea which episode of the day we would be competing in, until the cards are drawn.
Johnny Gilbert announces before the taping of each episode when it’ll air, and they give everyone in the audience postcards with the Clue Crew stating the date range of when the episodes that they are watching tape will air.
Collusion between contestants to purposefully lose to someone, or for a game show to throw weaker contestants at someone in order to boost their winnings, would be a violation of federal law enacted after the Quiz show scandals of the 60s, and cause people to get in trouble with Sullivan Compliance, the company that Jeopardy and Sony keep on the premises to make sure that doesn’t happen. If they do catch someone doing this, the FBI can be called in to investigate or issue arrests.
Jesse: sounds like you might have been just a game too early!
About Jennifer, I wasn’t trying to be mean. Some women just don’t know. It’s like the 25 pillows on the bed. Could just be me. A lot of things are, probably.
If you think a little game theory is fun, figure what you should do if Jennifer @10.6, Alana @8, you @6. That’s where I advocate the zero bet.
Regarding the contestants, the only control is who gets to be in the room initially. Interesting. Less drama than some had hoped for, but that’s good.
Seriously, thanks for coming out here. One of the girls here, a student and aspiring contestant, was really happy to read what you wrote.
That is one thing I have noticed about New Yorkers, they know how to give back.
Stuy (and New York City) pride!
Sala AD din was the name, know in the west as saladin.but not salah al din, alex!
in general, so much for deterrence. it has to be REALLY a world wide threat (nuclear holocaust) and even there we came very close a couple of times.
that’s why the dp or other ridiculous sentences will never work as a deterrent. the only thing that works is education. that is where parents and teachers fail often big time. ah well, sorry that i did digress. but if a nobel can be wrong……….unfortunately our -“the best in the world”- legal system is not helping much either to make things better, leave alone the 80+ senators who pass the bills into law and think they have a grip on reality.not to mention all the lobbyists who have 80% of the HoR in their pockets (and the reps do it gladly) to advance the cause of their “interest area”…
the u.s. are really blessed, to still be there with all the “leaders” we have.
that goes for other countries too. but sometimes i really,really wonder wher we will end up in say, just 30,40 years?? i don’t envy the young generation today either…..
that was my mistake – that’s what I thought Trebek said but you’re right — he said AD-Din
I guess people pronounce names differently. I’m a Muslim and we pronounce his name Salah-ud-din (Sultan Salah-ud-din Ayyubi in full). Suffice to say, I got the DD :). Didn’t get the first one (Americana, Eric :), but did get the second one because somewhere I had read of Simon Bolivar.
I have seen that spelling, Nomi. Oh well, I only put it in the other way before because I thought that was Trebek said and that made it an acceptable alternative.
wikipedia has ad-Din and then in the sidebar for his full name they have: Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ayyūb
Brainiac, Canadians are horrible at geography. Ha, ha! I’m sure that you’ll know the major rivers when you have to.
Wondering if you’re old enough to play the read it “somewhere” card.
Also making sure you read that post by Jesse. Maybe you should move to L.A.: UCLA is a great school!
Oops, sorry just saw your post.
Well, I was right about Jennifer not getting this one. At least Zeppelin was better than nothing. Nomi and Jacob are both confirmed brains (at least today, haha). Still not sure that V.J. isn’t A.I. (although I’ve never heard her sing).
NOMI: Jesse (from yesterday) was nice enough to stop by today. His story of getting on the show is definitely worth the read (see yesterday’s FJ: World Leaders). Don’t feel the need to read how much of an idiot I was, though: gripping analysis with the wrong number. Ha, ha!
Two shots at a winner tomorrow. I really like my chances.
Eric, I did read it and enjoyed it immensely, even the part about the $40 sushi :).
Go to the Indian buffet. (Not you, Nomi, keep winning). Not bad, and fast. Sushi can sometimes take a while. I’m kind of wondering if, at least partly, he didn’t want to go back. There had to be mixed emotions.
Yeah, there were mixed emotions, but I did want to go back because of some of the people I met in the green room before we got on stage and were sitting in the audience together.
Hell, I even auditioned in New York back in May of last year with another potential contestant who was also in town to compete at the same time. I saw her in the shuttle from the hotel to the studios and thought that she looked familiar, and asked if she had auditioned at the same place I did on the same day (May 1st). Turned out it was the same person. However, she didn’t get to compete that day, she returned the next day and will be on next week. Ask me her name then.
Met some really nice people over there, including the Navy flight surgeon Lieutenant, Sunil Hari, coming up tomorrow. Saw him at breakfast in the hotel, noticed he was paying with a breakfast voucher that they gave contestants, same as me, and then I struck up a conversation with him after we finished eating. He was real nice and his wife is a sweetheart.
Met a couple other people in the lobby as we were waiting for the shuttle, and stuck up a couple of conversations in the shuttle and the green room. Talked with Alison, the returning champion, on the shuttle about her job at the Cleveland Clinic without ever knowing she was the returning champion until a contestant coordinator announced her in the green room. We were all just relieved not to see Arthur Chu at the hotel lobby/shuttle/green room, since his episodes were still airing then and he only lost the day after my episode aired. The head contestant coordinator also hinted at Julia’s streak mentioning a female contestant that won 20 games, even more than Chu would, who hadn’t aired yet.
Met Chris Guillo, the guy from Philly two days ago and Chrissie from New Jersey from Monday’s show the same way in the lobby. Chris, despite his betting woes, is a really nice guy who has a very friendly wife as well, who I met at dinner afterwards and breakfast the next day.
Ari and James, the two LA alternates, were cool as well, after I met them and their families when they showed up in the Green Room.
I blew $40 on salmon teriyaki and sashimi because I was hungry and I really like Japanese food, which I heard was really good in LA. It was something I really wanted, and would fill me up. Might not have been quick, but I ate it fast enough and still enjoyed it. Wanted to drown my disappointment in not winning in some delicious food that I enjoy eating. Not much more than that.
Nice. I feel bad now about harshing them for not providing lunch. As a viewer, I really wanted to go back, but there was less time for that. Hence, the idea for the hotdog cart.
Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Wasn’t allowed in the commissary, so I had to make due with whatever I could find within the time limit and that I wanted to eat. Settled on the sushi place.
Dunno if I would’ve gone for a hot dog if a cart was available. I’m too used to New York street cart dogs, and now halal food carts and other street food, but I dunno about your West Coast versions of street food. Woulda tried something from a food truck though, since you guys are kinda famous for it over there… Dunno what you guys would’ve tried to stick on a dog to sell it…