Jeopardy All-Stars: Teams Buzzy, Colby, Brad, Game 2 (2-22-19)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/22/2019) in the category “Women in U.S. History” was:
In 1901 this activist was jailed for inspiring the assassination of William McKinley, but the charge was later dropped
Well, hallelujah. On the third day of the 2019 Jeopardy All-Stars Tournament, we have a regular game with all 3 rounds. It is also the game that will determine which of these teams will advance to the finals: Team Brad ($49,800), Team Buzzy ($26,200) or Team Colby ($0). Those are the scores from yesterday that will be added to today’s final scores.
Today’s lineup:
• Team Buzzy: Jeopardy: Jennifer Giles; DJ: Alex Jacob; FJ: Buzzy Cohen
• Team Colby: Jeopardy: Alan Lin; DJ: Pam Mueller; FJ: Colby Burnett
• Team Brad: Jeopardy: David Madden; DJ: Brad Rutter; FJ; Larissa Kelly
Round 1 Categories: TV by the Numbers – The 1920s – Foreign-Sounding Food – State Facts – Things in Museums – Anagrams of Each Other
Jennifer found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “State Facts” under the $800 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,400. No one else had buzzed in yet. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
In 1999, in a nod to this facility named for a President, Brevard County, Florida added 321 as an area code. show
Alan finished in the lead with $5,000. Jennifer was second with $4,000 and David was last with $3,800.
Round 2 Categories: In Memoriam 2018 – Physiology – Poetry Fill-in – That’s a Mouthful! – The Arctic – Let’s “C” Some Dancing
Alex found the first Daily Double in “The Arctic” under the $1,600 clue on the 7th pick. He was in the lead with $8,000 at this point, $1,800 more than Pam in second place. He bet $100 and he was WRONG because his time ran out before he gave the right response.
Going from Alaska, this Scandinavian completed the first trip through the Northwest Passage in 1906. show
5 clues later, Alex found the last Daily Double in “Physiology” under the $1,200 clue. In the lead with $10,300 now, he had $4,100 more than Pam in second place. He bet $100 again (not what we came to see, Alex!) and this time, he was RIGHT and well within the time limit.
The dura mater is the outermost of these layers of protective membranes that surround the brain & the spinal cord. show
Alex finished in the lead with $16,800. Pam was next with $11,000 and Brad was in third place with $4,200.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
The Library of Congress has a timeline of how anarchist and political activist Emma Goldman landed in jail several days after Leon Czolgosz shot President McKinley on conspiracy charges, simply because he told the police that she inspired him to kill the President. Goldman was not the only one tossed in the clink. Here is the text of a 9/23/1901 article reporting that 9 Chicago men were freed the day before Goldman was. When she heard of it she said: “I guess they’ll have to let me go now. It has been shown that the men named as conspirators with me did not conspire; and I fancy they would have trouble trying to show I conspired all by myself.”
Stuff Nobody Cares About: This site has a list of “7 Amazing, Little Known Facts Surrounding President McKinley’s Assassination.” It doesn’t say anything about Emma Goldman but No. 3 talks about what was happening to anyone who said something bad about McKinley after the shooting.
Larissa got it right. She bet it all, giving her team $8,400 to add to yesterday’s $49,800. Team Brad’s 2-day total: $58,200.
Colby got it right, too. He bet $10,800, to finish with $21,800, and that was Team Colby’s 2-day total.
Buzzy wrote down “Anthony.” He bet and lost it all. So Team Buzzy’s 2-day total depended on yesterday’s final score: $26,200.
Team Brad goes to the finals!
Two triple stumpers from the first round:
TV BY THE NUMBERS ($1000) Bruce Boxleitner starred on this sci-fi series set in the 23rd century aboard the title space station
THINGS IN MUSEUMS ($1000) Made of pale blue & white jasperware, the Pegasus Vase was given to the British Museum in 1786 by this English potter who made it
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “17th Century Germans”
Astronomer who began his epitaph, “I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of earth” show
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Dr. Larissa Kelly has been so brilliantly impressive in this special JEOPARDY! series. Very clever team variation on this wonderful venerable television quiz program. I am also really looking forward to seeing Ken Jennings and Julia Collins compete next week.
What is the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center? — or What is KSC? for short –were the only correct responses to that clue, not What is Cape Kennedy? It took concerted effort to successfully champion that new countdown-style area code 3-2-1 with the telephone company, but they did accede to showing some wit in the end. (New POTUS left out earlier in error was, of course, LBJ.)
I think their argument would be that while the name officially changed, the old name is still used and accepted by the majority of the population, and so the contestant demonstrated that they knew which facility they were asking about, which is the actual object of the clue, not its official name.
I could imagine a question where they ask about a certain Olympian and friend of the Kardashians, and accepting either Bruce or Kaitlyn Jenner, as both names refer to the same person. It’s not an exact analogy but the same principle.
Maybe a better example is when they accept “AntHony & Cleopatra” for the Shakespeare play, even though the actual name has no ‘h’, as the alternative is in common usage.
Cape Kennedy, used to designate the landform from late November 1963 when new POTUS redesignated it, reverted to its 16th century Spanish name in 1973. Many Floridians disliked the name Cape Kennedy, named after the assaasinated 35th POTUS. While symbolically used to refer to NASA’s main launching base, it should not have been accepted as correct for 1999.
Was the answer ruled correct about aspirin’s drug name wrong?
Here is the clue, Mastowe — ($800) I get to say “aspirin”; you get to say this “acid”, its other name
Alex Jacob gave the right answer (see wikipedia) after Pam only gave the part starting with “s”
Kind of fitting that TREASON and SENATOR are anagrams…..how often do senators vote along the party line instead of voting their conscience….or simply common sense.
Wow! I really liked this game with the line-ups changing every round and the peek at FJ strategies. Way cooler than the chat!
@Lou, I guess Buzzy meant Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested and convicted of voting in the 1872 presidential election. It says here that McKinley invited Anthony to the White House to celebrate her 80th birthday the year before he was assassinated.
LINK: 11 more clues from the game
Tougher clues but the scores are good enough for the wild card spots just like with the teen and teachers tournament. Also VJ what was Buzzy thinking with the Anthony response though? Next week we will see how the other teams do. But still Alex bet smart with the 100 dollars in double jeopardy since he is not a big risk taker from what I can gather. But we know Roger Craig bets excessively at times.
Alex is a big risk taker, when it is smart to be. In his initial run in which he won 7 games, he had 4 true daily doubles, with bets of $8,600, $9,200, $10,200, and $12,600, and in the ToC final, he had a $15,200 true daily double. In all those cases, there was someone close behind him and he was confident in the category (he got them all correct).
I think in today’s game, he knew they were sitting in a good spot after the first game. Even though they were behind, they were in a good position for a wild card spot, so it would not behoove them to task any big risks in today’s match.
I am surprised that Brad added only 400 in DJ after the J total was 3.800. Not that it mattered, but was he so convinced they had an unbeatable lead??????
Way, way, tougher clues today, compared to the first match, in my opinion, like those old, obscure TV shows no one knew.
And I’ve never seen Alex and Brad repeatedly stumped like that.
I learned a lot from the match, including the Final Jeopardy clue.
Finalists:
Team Brad: $58,200
Wild Cards:
Team Buzzy: $26,200
Team Colby: $21,800
Team Buzzy with $26,200 has clinched a spot in the Wild-Card Match, while Team Colby with $21,800 is on the bubble. Will it be enough? We’ll have to wait until Wednesday to find out.