Final Jeopardy: Highest-Paid Athletes (9-25-20)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (9/25/2020) in the category “Highest-Paid Athletes” was:
On Forbes’ 2020 list of the 100 highest-paid athletes, at age 50 this active individual sportsman is the oldest
New champ, Sameer Gandhi, a writer from Pasadena, CA, won $22,200 yesterday. In Game 2, he goes up against: Julissa Castillo, an operations manager from Los Angeles, CA; and Alyssa Weinberger, a media rights assistant from Los Angeles, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Traveling on the Interstate – Guys Named Doug – WJPY Classical Radio – Sounds Like a Boat Part – Heard on a TV Drama – Coif Suppressant
Julissa found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Interstate” under the $800 clue, with 7 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $4,400, $1,200 more than Alyssa in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
I-10 is nearly a mile high east of Tucson but below sea level in this city founded by de Bienville in 1718. show
Julissa finished in the lead with $8,000. Alyssa was second with $3,200 and Sameer was last with $1,200. Two clues in “WJPY Classical Radio” went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Plays – All Things Belgian – Flick of Seagulls – 1920 – Ice Cream – Double “E” for Thee
Julissa found the first Daily Double in “Plays” under the $1,200 clue on the 11th pick. She was in the lead with $9,600 now, twice as much as Sameer in second place, who benefited by a reversal at this point (see below). Julissa bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
Bradley Cooper used no makeup or prosthetics in the role of John Merrick in a Broadway revival of this play. show
Sameer got the last Daily Double in “All Things Belgian” under the $2,000 clue, with 2 whole categories clues left after it. In second place with $9,200, he had $2,800 less than Julissa’s lead. He bet $2,000 and he was RIGHT.
Sint-Niklaas, Belgium has a museum of this Flemish cartographer, who around 1569 devised a way to depict a 3D globe on a 2D map. show
Sameer finished in the lead with $15,200. Julissa was next with $13,200 and Alyssa was in third place with $4,800. 3 clues went uncovered in “1920”.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS PHIL MICKELSON?
Four golfers made Forbes’ 2020 Highest Paid Athletes list: Tiger Woods (age 44, #8), Rory McIlroy (age 31, #14), Phil Mickelson (age 50, #25) and Jordan Speith (age 27, #52). Golfweek says: “Meanwhile, Mickelson’s on-course earnings were minimal — he pulled in ‘just’ $800,000 on the season, but hauled in a whopping $40 million in endorsements … and has made an incredible $750 million in endorsements through the years.”
First clue mentioning Phil from 2001: HEY, SPORT! ($400) In Nov. 2000 Phil Mickelson caught this Tiger by the tail, winning the Tour Championship PGA tournament by 2 strokes
Alyssa thought it was Jagr. She lost her $4,700 bet and finished with $100.
Julissa wrote down “Phil” and ran out of time in the middle of her “M”. She lost $13,199 had $1.00 left.
Sameer wrote down “Mr. Magoo”. (Love it!!) That didn’t cost him a penny. He won the game with his pre-FJ! score of $15,200 and has a 2-day total of $37,400.
Reversal: DOUBLE “E” FOR THEE ($400) To suddenly swerve in a different direction. Sameer said “careen” but they wanted “veer”. The judges gave him a thumbs up on that later and he got $800.
A triple stumper from each round:
WJPY CLASSICAL RADIO ($1000) Time to liven up your commute with the overture to this 1866 Smetana opera about a young woman’s marriage prospects
PLAYS ($1000) The musical “Hello, Dolly!” was based on this 1954 Thornton Wilder play that also featured Dolly Levi
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “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
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I see it now! JPY=Jeopardy
Thanks for that. I love classical music, but it’s interesting to see how some contestants will avoid such categories as long as they can.
Does anyone know the significance of the “WJPY Classical Radio” category. I live in Canada and have never heard of it, but a Google search of “WJPY” turns up practically nothing. Surely an active radio station would at least have a basic website.
They must have made up those call letters then, Gerald. What they stand for, I could not begin to guess.
WJPY Classical Radio used to be in Seaford, Delaware. It’s now called WSUX (AM) Radio.
Wow, Richard, thanks for sharing that!
Isn’t WJPY just the writers trying to be clever using a short abbreviated version of “Jeopardy?” JPY=JEOPARDY. That’s what I thought given the silliness of the clues. The contestants didn’t seem to like the category and I don’t blame them.
Btw, I agree with Cece about Sameer. I hope he wins again Monday.
Amazing, Jacob! I never would have thought of that.
“… given the silliness of the clues.”—made more silly with my bf’s response of The Battered Wife for the Smetana opera.
🤣🤣🤣 Too funny, Cece!!
I was annoyed when they refused Sameer’s “careen” response; I’m glad they reversed it. Happy he won—I was rooting for him.
I was rooting for Sameer, too, Cece. And, of course, he absolutely won my heart with that Mr. Magoo response. I said “Oh, Sameer, you’ve done it again!” (Magoo’s famous line).
Is careen and veer the same thing.
@Richard, they’re not exactly the same thing. Careen is generally used in a wilder sense of swerving then veer. I don’t use either word much, if at all, in my spoken vocabulary. Instead of careen, I would say “came (or went) flying at” and instead of “veer” I would just say “swerved”
There’s something very endearing about Sameer.OK, I gotta confess, the Mr. Magoo’s’ reference was lost on me, lol.
The first time I heard about Mr. Magoo was a few years ago when I read the saddest book ever (Borrowed Time), in which a guy who was turning blind from AIDS referred to himself as Mr.Magoo. So I looked that character up.
Magoo has always been one of my favorite cartoon characters. The actor who did Magoo’s voice was Jim Backus. I love his voice. Also loved the character he played on Gilligan’s Island, Thurston Howell, III, the millionaire.
I thought today’s FJ was particularly difficult. There was absolutely nothing in the way of a hint to at least guide the players in the right direction of an answer, as there usually is in FJ. I actually came up with it after some time but I’m a sports fan and relatively knowledgeable about golf. I’m impressed that it came to Julissa albeit too late. I think they could have given the players golf as a hint, or maybe even just say something about the fact that he’s left handed, and it still would have been a challenging question.
I thought it was a very difficult clue as well, but I think the fact that you got the correct answer, and that one contestant did as well, albeit too late, shows that there were sufficient hints. “Individual” rules out all team sports, leaving you with tennis, golf, boxing, and a few others (that actually make national news consistently). But among individual sports, golf is the only one I can think of that a 50-year-old can continue to compete on a level basis with 20-year-olds.
That’s as far as I got, but Phil seemed obvious as soon as I saw the answer.
I agree, JP. I figured it was a golfer based on the age. Alas, the only two golfers I could name off the top of my head before today’s show are Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer so I had zero chance of getting that.
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A golf junkie like me knew that one in a heartbeat. Also knew that Mickelson makes more $$ than any golfer not named Woods. Mostly from endorsements. Last I heard he was making a good $40-50M a year. Just turned 50 in June and can also play on the Champions (senior) tour.
I hope the material becomes easier, and we get a 3 or more Time Champion, in the future.
I hope it’s safe to travel for future Jeopardy! contestants.
They didn’t accept Phil when Julissa completed it. Completing it would have won her the game. I got $10K in Triple Stumper money and got FJ! and would have won the game from the fourth podium, for the second time in the last 10 shows.
We all bow down in worship at your incredible intellect.
I’m right there with you. Decent players tonight, who knew many I didn’t (especially those pesky TV dramas, of which I knew one), but they left a LOT on the table. Bartered Bride; The Matchmaker; deem; meek; Merlin; hatch; Antwerp; St Louis; Supreme Court. And FJ also a pushover for this diehard sports fan. The GOATs would have lapped those up like a cat drinking milk from a saucer.
The World’s Fair TS was the one that surprised me the most.
VJ, I thought of you on that “All Things Belgian” DD!
lol, Rhonda, I thought of that old pick of mine, too. Too late, clue writers!!!
We end this week with another triple stumper.
Would you accept just Phil?
Ichiro might be the only athlete whose first name would be an acceptable response. Maybe Shaq?
Well. I can see that none of the players are golf enthusiasts since they missed out on Phil mickelson. But as I checked Jaromir Jagr plays hockey and not golf. He had a strong 22 game season but his contract was terminated in 2018. Not sure what Alyssa was thinking choosing him. But I loved that Doc magoo response. VJ have you watched or played golf previously? Nbc still airs the game on that network.