Final Jeopardy: Days of the Week (11-25-15)
The Final Jeopardy question (11/25/2015) in the category “Days of the Week” was:
To the Ancient Greeks, this day of the week was Hemera Aphrodites.
New champ Julie Adair won $20,000 in yesterday’s game. Today she is up against these two players: Saadia Mather, from Playa Del Rey, CA; and Ricky Hudson, from New York, NY.
Round 1: The Daily Double went uncovered when 3 clues ($600, $800 & $1,000) were left on the board in “Notable Names”.
Ricky finished in the lead with $4,200. Julie was second with $3,600 and Saadia was last with $2,000.
Round 2: Julie found the first Daily Double in “Within the Fictional Planet” under the $1,600 clue. She was in third place with $5,200, $4,600 less than Ricky’s lead. She bet $3,000 and drew a blank so she was WRONG.
Insolence in the “Doctor Who” planet. show
The last Daily Double also stayed on the board under the last two clues in “U.S. Mountains”.
Ricky finished in the lead with a runaway $13,800. Saadia was next with $5,200 and Julie was in third place with $4,600.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS FRIDAY?
This video was picked just in case you want to learn the days of the week in Modern Greek. As for the ancients, “The Greeks named the days [of the] week after the sun, the moon and the five known planets, which were in turn named after the gods Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Cronus. The Greeks called the days of the week the Theon hemerai “days of the Gods…” (Simple to Remember)
From 1999: LANGUAGES ($400) This language developed in 4 phases: Ancient, Hellenistic, Byzantine & Modern
Julie thought it was Saturday. She lost her $4,400 bet and finished with $200.
Saadia got it right. Her $4,001 bet brought her score up to $9,201.
Ricky also got it. His $3,399 bet brought his winnings up to $17,199. And he’ll be the returning champ on Thanksgiving Day.
During the chat, Alex Trebek mentioned that Ricky played high school football for 4 years and asked him if he would want his teenage boys to participate in the sport (when and if he has them) because of fear of injuries, specifically concussions. Ricky hasn’t made a definite decision about that yet.
2 years ago:: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Government Programs”
Over 8,000 people have been saved from harm by this program authorized in a 1970 law, but we’re not allowed to name any. show
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Very surprising that no one knew Harry Truman or Spartacus.
@rhonda, Alex Jacob tweeted “Spartacus feels like one of those clues that would have been gotten if there were a TOC-caliber player on stage #jeopardy.” I’d heartily disagree though. Just because of that 1960 movie, any Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov or Jean Simmons fan would get it, and a whole slew of senior citizens, TOC-caliber or not. LOL.
Wow, I am with you VJ for exactly those two reasons, and I am definitely not TOC caliber lol.
Funny… wasn’t generation gap the answer to another clue on there yesterday? They did a remake of Spartacus in mini-series form about 10 years ago with mixed reactions. To me, Kirk Douglas will always be Spartacus just like Guy Williams is forever Zorro. 🙂
THe Area 52 for Area 51 miss on the last clue of DJ! in US Mountains turned the game into a lock.
Not often a game where only one Daily Double is played. 38/56 here.
I guess the triple stumpers were the reason we didn’t see the two other DDs. Other than that, the game didn’t seem to be going too slow. #unhappy