Final Jeopardy: Bodies of Water (11-27-14)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/27/2014), in the category “Bodies of Water” was:
First encountered in 1648 by a man born in Russia, it was eventually named after a man born in Denmark.
New champ Aggie Lee who won $15,800 in yesterday’s game. Today she takes on these two players: David Greisman, from Columbia, MD; and Michelle Chick, from Livonia, MI.
Round 1: Aggie found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Which Cabinet Department” under the $1,000 clue. She was in third place with $1,800, $3,400 less than David’s lead. She bet $1,600 and she was RIGHT.
The Office of Natural Resources Revenue. show
David finished in the lead with $6,000. Michelle was second with $4,400 and Aggie was last with $3,400.
Round 2: Michelle found the first Daily Double in “World History” under the $1,600 clue. She was in second place with $5,600, $1,200 less than David’s lead. She bet $1,000 and took a guess with Melbourne. That was WRONG.
On Jan. 26, 1808, George Johnston of Australia’s New South Wales Corps led a mutiny vs. this governor & arrested him. show
Michelle found the last Daily Double in “Female Book Characters” under the $1,600 clue. She was still in second place with $5,800, $2,200 less than David’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
The first part of “Les Miserables” is called “Fantine”; the second part is named for her. show
Aggie finished in the lead with $12,600. Michelle was next with $11,000 and David was in third place with $7,600.
Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
“Semyon Deznyov was the Russian explorer who discovered the Bering Strait. But his discovery did not become widely known until after the time of Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in the service of Russian Tsar Peter the Great. In 1728 Vitus Bering discovered the strait that bears his name, a body of water just 53 miles (85 kilometers) wide at its narrowest point, that separates the Asian and North American land masses. But Bering was not the first European to pass through the Bering Strait.” (Russipedia: Semyon Deznyov)
David got it right. He bet $4,000 and finished with $11,600.
Michelle wrote down the Caspian Sea. That cost her $4,000 and she finished with $7,000.
Aggie wrote down river, apparently hoping the name of one would come to her. It didn’t and she lost her $9,401 bet. She wound up in third place with $3,199, and so, David Greisman is our 4th new champion in this champ-a-day week.
A very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. May you have a fine dinner and room for dessert.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Religious Symbols”
The rooster atop many church weather vanes is there to remind us of a story involving this apostle. show
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Way back when in Jeopardyland, when a person could only stay on to become a five day champion, a man, forgot his name, was on Friday, his last day as champion.
Back then, if the five day champion won Final Jeopardy on Friday, there were three brand new people on Monday. This guy bet to tie with the second place contestant doubling her score. They both won, which meant she got to return on Monday as a champion.
Alex complimented him on his gentlemanly bet. He could have easily bet enough to win it all.
I’ve never liked the win by a dollar bets. If you are confident in your ability to answer correctly, then bet enough not to rub it in someone’s face.
Yes, I read the statistics on betting to win. The problem with that is it doesn’t take into account actually having knowledge of the topic.
@Marilyn and John – right, I fixed the number in the recap. Nobody is betting to tie anymore. The word is that ties are no longer allowed and the players know it before going into the game. I will mention it in the howdies and recap posts this weekend. They are going to have tiebreakers from now on.
hm, a little unfair, don’t you think? i guess they want to save money….
well, there is something to be said for ONE champion. when you win the downhill at the olympics and someone else has the exact same time, meaning you have to share the gold medal…i would not be 100% happy. but this is also – if not primarily- for money, so i couldn’t care less if another player gets the same amount as i do. 1 buck more or less, as long as i am coming back? who cares? i wouldn’t.
what does alex always say? BOO HISS….
so you HAVE to play to win or at least overtake the nearest player if possible? make it or break it…i bet most viewers will find it more exciting. like the circus games in rome… thumbs up or down!
Well, I’m not so sure it’s about the money so much as it is the response to the recent wave of players deliberately betting to tie in the wake of all that publicity surrounding Chu and how he learned on The Final Wager that the extra dollar can work against you and so on….
Going for an intentional tie was never the spirit of the game and as has been pointed out by others, it costs someone else a chance to play.
aggie wagered actually 9.401, so she was NOT playing for a tie. just saw the show.
aggie played for a tie this time, at least a sensible bet. BUT ONLY ONE GOT IT RIGHT??? and the guy who was last after the regular game. seriously, how much easier can it get?
very early today, vj!! i guess the turkey is waiting….!?
p.s. if you stay in the northern hemisphere how many choices (obvious one) are there? the barents sea and the bering sea/strait. i have to ask again: where do they find those people?? and it even borders on alaska, so you don’t even have the “out of the usa” excuse…
well, david will be happy, even though he won before thanksgiving.
one more time to all of you: HAPPY GOBBLE DAY!
i wonder if they would have accepted “bering sea”. probably not. the sea was known well before the strait.
btw, very nice summary about dezhnyov, vj!!!
funny, in the headline – i checked out your link at russipedia – they spelled the name correctly with the “h” after the “z” and in the article they left it out…..Deznyov, at least they didn’t spell it Dezhnev, as it is mostly done in the west.
correction. they only left out the “h” the first time, afterwards they got it right.just a slip of the pen, i guess.
Then you know I didn’t write the summary — it comes from that page I linked to. (That’s why it’s in quotes)
still a nice summary and a great job FINDING it. you get my compliment, like it or not….:):)
I appreciate the compliment. Just want to make sure you realize I didn’t write that part. 🙂
Alex read Aggie’s bet wrong. She actually bet $9401, so she wasn’t playing for a tie.
yeah, i corrected that already after i saw the show. i was going with the written summary, saying originally 9.400 (at least that’s what i saw), so that would have been for a tie. the 9.401 would have been for the win, but alas……
i hope you don’t mind my asking, marilyn: since i am originally from austria (vienna), where does your name come from. looks german or swiss, maybe even austrian??? and it was probably spelled with an “umlaut” “o”?
You are right. Instead of “oe”, it was o with an umlaut. Also, it used to be preceded by Von and followed by Baumer. It is German. My husbands grandfather “shortened” it. I married the name almost 50 years ago.
so german nobility, that’s what the “von” indicates. do you speak (still) any german?
i apologize for being so nosy and apprteciate your answer! just if you DO speak german i might make a comment that just you would understand !
beste gruesse aus maui
john (eigentlich ” johann ” , i anglicized the first name…)
We speak no German.