Final Jeopardy: Sports Halls of Fame (9-14-18)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/14/2018) in the category “Sports Hall of Fame” was:
Posthumously, Axel Paulsen was among the first group of inductees into the World Hall of Fame for this in 1976
2x champ Kyle Jones, a music teacher from Aurora,, CO, has now won $38,000. In Game 3, he is up against: Riley Westmoreland, a college admission officer from Birmingham, AL; and Andrew Lundy, a digital journalist from Burlington, Ontario.
Round 1 Categories: TV Guide Magazine 65th Anniversary – Multi-Word Capital Cities – Nonfiction – Foreign Phrasebook – Sweet Somethings – Can You Hear Me?
Andrew found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Multi-Word Capital Cities” under the $800 clue on the 4th pick of the round. He and Kyle were tied for the lead with $600. Riley had yet to ring in. Andrew bet the $1,000 allowance and he was RIGHT.
Developed by King Norodom, this capital city lies at the confluence of the Mekong, Bassac & Tonle Sap Rivers. show
Kyle finished in the lead with $8,600. Andrew was second with $4,800 and Riley was last with $2,000.
Round 2 Categories: 1973: the Groovy & Not-So-Groovy – Live Entertainment – Double Animal Names – Mark Twain Really Said It – Offbeat Museums – In Ovation
Andrew found the first Daily Double in “1973” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick. He was in second place with $5,600 now, $3,000 less than Kyle’s lead. He bet $3,000 and thought it was Eisenhower. That was WRONG.
His death on Jan. 22, 2 days after Nixon’s second inauguration, left no living ex-U.S. Presidents. show
Kyle found the last Daily Double in “Live Entertainment” under the $1,600 clue on the 14th pick. In the lead with $11,000, he had $4,800 more than Andrew in second place. He bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.
Dizzy Gillespie & Diana Krall are among those who have played at this musical event first held in Northern California in 1958. show
Kyle finished in the lead with $20,800 and Andrew was next with $10,200. Riley was out of the game at this point, in the red for $400.
Only ONE of contestants left in Final Jeopardy! got it right.
Axel Paulsen was a Norwegian figure skater and speed skater, who is considered one of the pioneers in the sport. He introduced the jump that is known as the “axel” in Vienna in 1882, which is a required element in today’s skating routines. Paulsen was among the first class of inductees in the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1976, along with many other notables such as Peggy Fleming and Sonja Henie.
Mental Floss explains the differences and difficulty involved in doing an axel, a double axel and a triple axel.
Andrew wrote down “Formula 1 Racing. He lost his $200 bet and finished with $10,000.
Kyle got it right. He didn’t bet anything, of course, and won the game with the $20,800 he already had. His 3-day total is $58,800.
A triple stumper from each round:
FOREIGN PHRASEBOOK ($600) Puzzled Germans say “Ich verstehe nur bahnof”, “All I understand is” this place
MARK TWAIN REALLY SAID IT ($2000) Of this Devil’s Dictionary author, Mark Twain wrote: “For every laugh, there are five blushes & ten shudders”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Film Adaptations”
In a 2011 slate.com survey of movie credits, of the top 25 most adapted writers, this novelist is the only one living. show
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Wowie, the premiere week ended with 3 Triple Solves, a Triple Stumper, and a dismissal leaving only two players. This season is off to a rollercoaster start, I hope the following weeks will be interesting because next week is the draft lottery for the J! All-Star Game.
Stay safe, everyone as while you prepared for the damage of Florence, we are experiencing right now Ompong. I hope it will not be Ondoy 2009 or Yolanda 2013 again.
Stay safe, John Christian.
Those boys couldn’t give her a break.
Yeah, and in the words of William Weyser, Riley Westmoreland is DISMISSED.
Jeopardy can’t have champions, teen, college and teachers tournaments in one season. It has happened twice so they can’t do it again.
Exactly.
Can you tell Rudy Iraheta to stop commenting about someone winning $25,000 adding to their score on all your Jeopardy! videos on your youtube channel, William Weyser?
Richard, I know that what Rudy’s doing is annoying you, but I actually like adding $25,000 to the player’s winnings, knowing that none of this is on any actual show, but yes, I will tell Rudy to stop doing that, if it’ll make you feel better.
There was still exactly ONE living US President when LBJ died – Richard M. Nixon. Was the exposed answer really “…left no living U.S. Presidents”? I would think it was “…left no living EX-U.S. PRESIDENTS.”
yes, Thomas, it was ex-U.S.Presidents. Thanks for catching that! It’s fixed.
Formula one racing? That’s not even an Olympic sport. I guess Andrew must not have watched figure skating or heard of midori ito. Also it’s a shame riley didn’t build enough rhythm in today’s game. This reminds me of one of hunter Appler’s games back in 2016 where a female contestant from Canada was eliminated after she was in the red. Also VJ, what is your favorite figure skater in the Olympics? Michelle Kwan perhaps? I really hope kyle can win his fourth game next week
@Lou
When I was still in Austria, we had Emmerich Danzer as World champion for 3 years in a row, from 1966-1968, he was also European champion 1965-1968 (4 years in a row).
Wolfgang Schwarz won gold at the Olympics 1968 in Grenoble and was 2. at the World Championships in 1967 and 1968. So it was Austria 1 and 2. Was a big deal.Trixie Schuba was World Champion in 1971,1972 and won the Olympics in 1972, next to several more female skaters who placed 2. in W.Ch.s and Olympics in the sixties and seventies. Figure skating was almost becoming more popular than alpine skiing for awhile.
Everybody knew the jumps like the Axel, Lutz, Salchow….And as European recognizing the name Axel Paulsen as Scandinavian made me get it right away, though he was way earlier. Well, at least I got one right this week.
Today figure skating is not that popular anymore in Austria, instead World Cup skiing.
Another rabbit clue today. The clue writers like your family, Rhonda!
LINK: 9 more clues from this match
By the way riley made too many incorrect guesses today and how could she not know about shen yun? It’s been playing in the palace theater in Connecticut for years now. I thought contestants were able to expand their knowledge of certain subjects on music, history and so forth. I mean if she doesn’t know an answer she shouldn’t keep guessing. This could risk a contestant to lose more money and not make it to final jeopardy.
Lol, VJ, 2 in a row for lapin clues.! I wonder if JJ caught that one!
Congratulations to Kyle for his win- a runaway to boot- but unfortunately for him and fortunately for Kate not enough to knock her off the ToC list . Rick missed HIS chance on Monday when he should/could have bet 4K or at least 1.801. A 4th win is needed, Kyle is trailing Kate by exactly 3K.
Andrew obviously did not make the connection that Paulsen invented the jump named after his first name. He also missed the “Scandinavian” connection and went with motor sport instead.