Final Jeopardy: 2-11-19 to 2-15-19
Here are the Final Jeopardy questions and answers for the week of February 11 through February 15, 2019.
Mon, Feb 11 – Correct answers: 3
PRIMETIME TV: “Complications” was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018 show
Tue, Feb 12 – Correct answers: 3
ISLANDS: 650 miles off the U.S., it was the site of a 1609 shipwreck of colonists bound for Jamestown that may have inspired “The Tempest” show
Wed, Feb 13 – Correct answers: 0
POETS: He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem show
Thu, Feb 14 – Correct answers: 1
COLORFUL GEOGRAPHY: Named for a soldier killed in 1846 at the start of a war, it was in the news again as a port of entry to the U.S. In 2018
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Fri, Feb 15 – Correct answers: 0
19TH CENTURY INVENTORS: He spent his life improving a plant-based substance he described as a “vegetable leather” or “elastic metal” show
The week began with two FJ’s that everyone knew hands down. The rest of the week didn’t go that well at all. There was only one correct answer for the rest of the week. Out of those three, Friday’s was the hardest in my opinion. On Wednesday, the last-mentioned cat name would having meaning to anyone who had ever heard of the Jellicle Cats or the Rum Tum Tugger. You had the “colorful” hint in the category name on Thursday. Granted that colorful has another connotation but on Jeopardy!, one should realize it is meant literally. I can’t point to anything in Friday’s clue that would have helped the contestants.
Bif Reiser returned for his 4th game on Monday but lost to Eric R. Backes. He won 3 more games, and was the only one to get Final Jeopardy! on Thursday. Eric’s luck ran out on Friday when he was defeated by Amanda Holm.
Top 15 Daily Payouts of Season 35: Eric had the top payout of the week and it was also the top payout of the season, almost a month after Anneke Garcia had achieved that distinction.
Here’s the Romantic Comedies category from the Valentine’s Day game:
The irony – or coincidence – in Tuesday’s FJ: Brownsville, TX was named after Major Jacob Brown. There is a Brownsville in TN, named after Major General Jacob Jennings Brown. He, however, died already in 1828, having fought e.g. in the war of 1812. Major Jacob Brown on the other hand died in the Mexican-American war after he was seriously wounded. Brownsville, TN, however is no border town. Just another red herring for the players, if they even knew that 2 towns in different states were named after a Major and a Major General
with (practically) the same name…..
well, if you knew that before I mentioned it on the recap, you didn’t say anything about it.
Also, as I mentioned, I read about Brownsville, TX when I lived in New Jersey. Here is one such article in the NYT from 1982
@VJ
I didn’t. I came across it when I googled the history of Brownsville, TX and all of a sudden there were 2 Jacob Browns .. One a Major (Am-Mex war) and one from the 1812 war, named Jacob Jennings Brown, a Major General after whom Brownsville TN is named, but he died some 18 years earlier in 1828, having fought in the war of 1812. A real coincidence! Found out just by chance.
Friday’s FJ clue was absolutely nasty. No possibility of deducing, no nothing. Unless you are a descendant of Charles Goodyear…….no way really!!! It almost looked as if the clue was “tailored” for a TS.