Final Jeopardy: 9-17 to 9-21-18
Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of September 17 through September 21, 2018, the week that Alex Trebek went from the beard, to a goatee, then to the mustache. By Thursday, he was back to the clean-shaven look.
Mon, Sept 17 – Correct answers: 1
20TH CENTURY NOVELS: “I’ve killed my brother” is said near the end of this 1952 book with a biblical title & a plot echoing a biblical story show
Tue, Sept 18 – Correct answers: 3
ANIMAL CHARACTERS: Items bought by this predator: iron bird seed, an iron carrot, earthquake pills & dehydrated boulders show
Wed, Sept 19 – Correct answers: 2
18TH CENTURY AMERICANS: In a famous 1775 speech, he said, “Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!” show
Thu, Sept 20 – Correct answers: 0
FOLKLORE: In legend, he called all the animals together but only 12 came, including a rat & a dragon show
Fri, Sept 21 – Correct answers: 0
COLOR ETYMOLOGY: This word for a gem & a shade of blue derives from the name of a Eurasian country from which gems came to W. Europe show
Remember the 3 straight triple solves from last week? Things were different this week. Tuesday’s clue was the only one everyone got. Two players got Wednesday’s FJ and the last 2 games of the week went completely south. Thursday’s clue got our vote for the hardest one of the week because it just was.
Kyle Jones was already a 3x winner when he came back on Monday. He went on to win 4 more games, joining Josh Hill and Ryan Fenster on the ToC list as a 7x champ. Rob Salerno will be the returning champ on Monday after he ran away with Friday’s game.
Here are highlights from Kyle Jones’ streak on Jeopardy!:
And by legend, The Jade Emperor was not Buddha or vice versa. Just one story said TJE summoned the animals, another one that Buddha did it. 2 different people, one real, one fictional. Yet since the legend existed I agree that they would have had to accept TJE as well. They really screwed that one up.
@John, yeah, well, I’m not gonna debate the thing. I’ll just clarify that on the recap.
imo, the players were much more likely to have heard of the Jade Emperor legend.
Right VJ, Thursday’s clue was the hardest. There are several legends and the clue was poorly written (ambiguous) if you will. It never even gave the possibility that there is more than one “legend”. I was not surprised about the triple whiff. The moment I had read the clue I said “No way that anyone gets this” and was right. Only after the answer was revealed they showed “The Jade Emperor” in parenthesis . And Buddha was not the Jade Emperor or vice versa.
An unfair clue, either on purpose or the writers were just off THEIR game, as sometimes is the case. A real shame, this is all they do, get paid for it and as I understand it, even Alex is reviewing the clue and makes suggestions to change some wording. Just to tough a FJ from several angles.
@John, they didn’t show the Jade Emperor in parentheses — Alex just said it was Buddha.
I put the Jade Emperor in myself because I believe they would have had to accept it as a correct response.
I see. Didn’t see the show myself that day, I thought they put it in as an alternative acceptable answer.