Final Jeopardy: Scientists (11-3-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/3/2014), in the category “Scientists” was:
Accepting his 1922 Nobel prize in Stockholm, he spoke of the “intellectual solidarity” in the Scandinavian countries.
Current champ Ryan Alley has a 3-day total of $56,800. Today he takes on these two players: Casey LaPlante, from Enfield, CT; and Conor Sullivan, from Hingham, MA.
Round 1: Ryan found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “The Art of Death” under the $800 clue. He was in the lead with $4,200, $3,000 more than Conor in second place. He bet $2,200 and came up with John Paul Jones. That was WRONG.
Daniel Maclise painted the death of this naval commander 60 years after his heroic passing. show
Conor finished in the lead with $2,600. Ryan was second with $1,600 and Casey was last with $1,000.
Round 2: Conor found the first Daily Double in “Around Africa” under the $1,200 clue. He was in the lead with $3,800, $2,400 more than Casey in second place. He bet $2,000 and said Niger and Nigeria. That was WRONG.
Gazing from space at Victoria Falls, we’re looking at the border of these two nations that start with the same letter. show
Casey found the last Daily Double in “C.I.A. Directors” under the $1,600 clue with a minute to go and one more clue left on the board. She was in the lead with $7,000, $400 more than Conor in second place. She bet $500 and guessed Reagan. That was WRONG.
Appointed by Gerald Ford, he’s the only man to serve as both C.I.A. Director & U.S. President. show
Conor finished in the lead with $6,600. Casey was next with $6,500 and Ryan was in the hole for $2,400 so he was out of this game that was just chock full of bad guesses and triple stumpers.
NEITHER contestant got Final Jeopardy! right.
Bohr won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics for “”for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them.” Here is an excerpt from his speech that includes the part mentioned in the clue:
“A Danish scientist, however, on finding himself in Stockholm on such an occasion as this, cannot confine his thoughts to the international character of science but must also dwell in an equal degree on the intellectual solidarity that exists in these Scandinavian countries, of which we are all – and, especially in the domain of science – fully and perfectly aware.”
Casey thought it was Einstein, who won the same prize in 1921. She lost $1,500 and finished with $5,000.
Conor came up with Einstein, too. He lost $4,400 and finished with $2,200. That made Casey LaPlante the new Jeopardy champ.
Casey LaPlante is a high school media specialist who talked about her precocious 3-year old during the chat.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Broadway Musicals”
Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it’s now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. show
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I also found the contestant’s performances to be quite weak last night. Another FJ with no correct responses. Has anyone found there to be a lot of this occurring this season?
Petraeus is a name that’s been hard to escape in recent times too, probably a more recognizable name that JF Dulles’ brother Allen which was in the top box in the category.
Interesting that five clues were left in the first round, but they cleared the board in DJ! Not often a three time champ doesn’t play in FJ! on the day they lose, either.
I don’t normally like to criticize J players but this game was horrible. Not knowing that George H. W. Bush was a CIA Director and U. S. President baffles me. Even worse, not recognizing Leon Panetta’s picture was inexcusable. This was current events.
I could go on and on but I’m still speechless. Far too many triple stumpers on easy clues. Maybe the show was taped after they had lunch. I’ll just chalk this one up to another mystery of life for me.
I’m all for cutting them some slack on the FJ — they were only off one year.
But, sorry guys, no slack on nobody knowing ptomaine. LOL!
I can’t cut them any slack for not knowing the correct answer on Final Jeopardy. First of all to my knowledge Einstein never lived in a Scandinavian country. So why would he mention anything about Scandinavian countries?
In 1921 when he won the Nobel Prize in Physics he was certainly not residing in any Scandinavian country. Furthermore the returning champion did not even qualify to play in Final Jeopardy. So given the fact that there were only two contestants remaining to compete in Final Jeopardy this was a horrible game.
I think this game was played after lunch. That’s the only rational explanation I can offer.
I am pretty sure Ryan said on Twitter that Friday’s game was the last of the day, so this one would have been the first of the next taping day. Maybe their brains were still half asleep.
yeah he did — “Getting ready for my #jeopardy rematch against Allison @JeopardyMermaid! This was the last show of the day, and we were getting tired.”
His twitter handle is @RyanAlley.
Today he tweeted: “That word I said… was ‘phthisis'” Thank goodness he clarified that because it sounded like he said fiss-sis. LOL.
And you know I just had to look that up — the word has never been an answer but it has been in a clue:
ALEX’ HONKY-TONK SALOON $400: Doc? Doc Holliday? Now, you’re the one that’s the medico, but I think you got pulmonary phthisis, or this… I’ll shut up & pour.
(link to correct pronunciation)
einstein was german, then he and his family moved to italy, then einstein studied and lived in switzerland, emigrated to the u.s. 1933, when the nazi era began. no connection with any scandinavian country whatsoever.in switzerland het met his future wife, as far as i remember.
my original, first post says it all. best to forget today ever happened (as far as j is concerned….)
weird bets in fj, each player missed a dd and not one of them got fj right. niels bohr was just the first person to develop an atom model……
so much for our optimistic predictions in the CotD talk.
and we have a new champ with a blistering 5 K, a strange bet and a wrong answer. one of the darker days in j’s history. and the strange bets indicate to me that neither player was confident with the fj category. i like to believe that in a college tournament all 3 players would have been right.
as a final pun: not exactly einstein-esque performances. and what was with the bets in fj?? either there is some math i don’t know of (?) or they (the players) just pulled a number out of, er, a hat or whatever…