Final Jeopardy: Science Words (2-1-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/1/2021) in the category “Science Words” was:
This word used to denote an irreversible dispersion of energy was coined in the 1860s to sound a bit like “energy”
6x champ Zach Newkirk, an attorney from Alexandria, VA, has won $124,871 so far. In Game 7, he is up against: Allie Sibole, a biomedical engineer from Fort Collins, CO; and Steve Crupi, a retired police dept. info supervisor from Las Vegas, NV.
Round 1 Categories: A Category of 2 Cities – Video Games – The 20th Century – National Geographic America the Beautiful – Carpet – “D_M”
Steve got the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “A Category of 2 Cities” under the $600 clue on the third pick of the round. He was in the lead with $400. Allie had zero and Zach was at negative $200. Steve opted for a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.
It’s about 800 miles from South Africa’s executive capital of Pretoria to this legislative capital on the southwest coast. show
Zach finished in the lead with $6,400. Allie was second with $4,000 and Steve was last with $3,600. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: The 1971 Emmy Awards – Famous Americans – Archaeology – That Title Has a Title – Mixed Bag – It’s from the Greek for…
Zach found the first Daily Double in “Famous Americans” under the $1,600 clue on the 8th pick. He was in the lead with $8,800 now, $1,200 more than Allie in second place. He bet $3,500 and took a chance that it might be a Smith but that was WRONG.
His work on game theory earned him the 1994 Nobel Prize, which he shared with John C. Harsanyi & Reinhard Selten. show
Allie got the last Daily Double in “The Title Has a Title” under the $2,000 clue on the 12th pick. In the lead with $7,600, she had $2,300 more than Zach in second place. She bet $5,000 and guessed “The Last Samurai”. That was WRONG.
DD3: James Clavell set “Tai-Pan” in China; this 1975 novel of his is set in Japan in 1600. show
Zach finished in the lead with $9,700. Steve was next with $6,000 and Allie was in third place with $3,400. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS ENTROPY?
The Etymology Dictionary confirms that German physicist Rudolph Clausius coined the word “entropy” in 1865. They include a quote from “The Scientific Style of of Josiah Willard Gibbs” that says Clausius “invented the word entropy as a suitable name for what he had been calling “the transformational content of the body.” Watch the video for a better explanation of what it means than I can give you.
Allie got it right. She didn’t bet anything so she finished with the $3,400 she started with.
Steve got it, too. He bet $4,000 and finished with $10,000.
Zach came up with synergy. He lost his $2,301 bet and finished with $7,399. That made Steve Crupi the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
VIDEO GAMES ($1000) In 2020 it was time to find some “New Horizons” & build your own island paradise with this Nintendo Switch game
THAT TITLE HAS A TITLE ($1600) This story by Hans Christian Andersen served as an inspiration for the movie “Frozen”
2 years ago: ALL of the players got this FJ in “19th Century Novels”
Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author “knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood show
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In 1975, my parents and sister were visiting my wife and me in LA, and we went to one of the first tapings of “Phyllis” (starring Cloris Leachman, who died last week). Valerie Harper was sitting right behind us. My sister asked her for an autograph, and she declined, saying she didn’t want to be the center of attention and distract from the show.
Had Steve not answered the $1600 Emmys question right before that, then it was a lock game for Zach.
Yeah, entropy, a state of randomness. How brilliant.
Zach played well for six games and still he is prepared for the toc. Still though I am surprised that no one knew pokemon or animal crossing in the video games category. As a huge fan of Pokemon myself, I.have.pretty much watched the series. Also VJ have you played animal.crossing or any of the pokemon games on the game boy? It wasn’t allie’s day unfortunately
No, Lou, I personally have never played Pokemon but my daughter had a Pikachu gameboy some years ago. As for Animal Crossing, I hear about it mostly every day. I bought my granddaughter her own Switch. The first thing she showed me this morning was a sheep named Wendy that came to her island. lol. I mean baa 🐑
VJ, you forgot Steve’s hometown, he is from Las Vegas, Nevada. Speaking of today’s winner Steve, it was a difficult game material. Allie was doing well she had 9,200 but then she lost all of that to drop all the way down to 600. We’ll hope for a better material tomorrow and we will see Zach in the next TOC along with Brian