Final Jeopardy: Mythological Creatures (1-1-21)

The Final Jeopardy question (2/6/2017) in the category “Mythological Names” was:

With depths of up to 30,000′, ocean trenches make up a zone named for this brother of Poseidon & his domain.

6x champ Lisa Schlitt was up to $139,100 when this game originally aired. Her opponents were: Matt Kellison, from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; and Jill Rausch, from Phoenix, AZ.

I don’t see how I can improve on THE ORIGINAL RECAP OF TODAY’S GAME that I did back in 2017.

The format is pretty much the same as the one I’m working with these days, except that the list of TRIPLE STUMPERS was posted separately.

Just for fun, though, I decided to try to make anagrams out of the Daily Double answers today. I’ve always wondered how the clue writers go about putting the anagram categories together and whether you can do it with random clues. As it turned out, I didn’t have to scrap the idea for this particular set of Daily Doubles:

A FICTIONAL DEATH: In 1991 John Updike won his second Pulitzer for this aptly titled final novel about Harry Angstrom
BRAT TRIES BAT

BROADWAY SHOWS IN LATIN: “Mea Domina Bella”
FAMILY YARD

CLASSICAL MUSIC: Gustav Holst finished this work by writing “Mercury” in 1916
TENTH LEAPS

Here’s hoping everyone has a fine New Year’s Day and this year is kinder to all of us than last year was.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! Today is the last game of the Around the World with Alex series and there will be big changes coming up for Jeopardy! in 2021. Next Monday, we’re going to be viewing the final 5 episodes that Alex taped. It’s going to be bittersweet, I’m sure. Maybe more bitter than sweet. We’ll be glad to get back to new games, but next week will be the last time the “new” games will be the same.