Final Jeopardy: Cable Networks (2-4-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/4/2021) in the category “CABLE NETWORKS” was:
In March 1979 Tip O’Neill & then-Representative Al Gore were the first politicians to speak on this new cable channel
New champ Nicole Kozdron, an attorney originally from Elyria, OH, won $18,700 yesterday. In Game 2, her challengers are: Stuart Crane, a product line manager from Kalispell, MT; and Gina Damico, an author originally from Syracuse, NY.
Round 1 Categories: Autobiographies – 30 Something – “Ru” Serious – Pop Culture – Now Listen to Me – Man’s Plain
Nicole found the first Daily Double in “Autobiographies” under the $800 clue, with 6 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $6,000 now, $2,600 more than Stuart in second place. She bet $1,500 and she was RIGHT.
Chapters in his 1965 autobiography include “Harlemite”, “Saved” & “Mecca” show
Nicole finished in the lead with $7,500. Stuart was second with $6,200 and Gina was last with $800. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: History across the Ages – Questionable Verbs – Poetry – Cornerstones – Science “D”ictionary – Musicals by Song Lyrics
Gina found the first Daily Double in “Musical by Song Lyrics” under the $1,600 clue on the 11th pick. She was in third place with $2,000 now, $11,400 less than Stuart’s lead. She made it a true Daily Double and she was RIGHT.
“They chained me and left me for dead, just for stealing a mouthful of bread” show
Stuart got the last Daily Double in “Poetry” under the $800 clue, with the last 3 clues in the same category still to go. In the lead with $17,800, he had $6,700 more than Nicole in second place. He was not about to risk his lead on a category he already indicated he didn’t like and jokingly said he’d bet a negative $2,000. He actually bet a positive $1,000 and wouldn’t you know it? He was RIGHT.
Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about these “vast birds of the sea” who famously show up in an English poem show
Stuart finished in the lead with $18,800. Nicole was next with $10,700 and Gina was in third place with $8,000. No clues went uncovered.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS C-SPAN?
From C-SPAN’s Our History page: “C-SPAN began with only four employees: Brian Lamb, Jana Dabrowski Fay, Don Houle and Brian Lockman. Those four transmitted the first television feed from the U.S. House of Representatives to C-SPAN viewers on March 19, 1979, the first day the House allowed television coverage of its floor debates. That televised congressional session began with a one-minute speech by then-Congressman Al Gore and reached just 3 million American cable and satellite homes.”
From 2008: GRAVE MATTERS ($400) This famous trick question is the title of C-SPAN’s book on presidential gravesites
Gina bet $7,995. That brought her up to $15,995.
Nicole bet $10,600. She finished with $21,300.
Stuart bet $3,000. That was more than “barely” enough to win. With $21,800, Stuart is the new Jeopardy! champ.
A triple stumper from each round:
30 SOMETHING ($1000) Render unto us the name of this Caesar whose reign ended in 37 A.D. & was followed by Caligula’s
POETRY ($2000) This Whitman work in 52 sections is often described as “The Great American Poem”
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “Female Singers”
In the 1990s this New York native had 8 of her first 10 Billboard Top 40 hits reach No. 1 show
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Funny moment: When Stuart said he was going to bet -$2000 on the Poetry DD.
Annoying moment 1: When Nicole bet only $1500 on DD round 1 and then smiled smugly as if she had achieved something huge by adding $1500 to her total. It was early in the game and she could and should have gone big here to put the others on the back foot.
Annoying moment 2: Stuart could also have bet more than just $1000 even though it was only poetry because actually it was a clue near the top of the board. Usually those are easy DD’s.
Oh, I don’t know if Stuart should have bet more just because the DD was in the second row. There’s always the chance of getting a clue you just don’t know, and that could be disastrous in a weak category, esp that late in the game. What if the clue was
Whitman poem that asks, “Do I contradict myself?”
The answer is the same as the $2000 triple stumper in that category today so Stuart would not have known it.
btw, I was not particularly taken with Patrick Stewart’s reading of #116 (the other TS in the Poetry category) so I linked to my favorite reading. It’s beautiful – “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds”
VJ, you convinced me with that Whitman example. I also thought of “Leaves of Grass”, and I guess most people would do the same when Whitman is mentioned.
Therefore, I rescind Annoying moment 2.
Great to see a triple solve by the players and all the daily doubles nailed. I haven’t watched much of C span, but I prefer CNN and abc. Also VJ, what tv channels have you seen.previously? Maybe stu can definitely build a streak here
I could be wrong, but I think Stuart Crane is the 1st contestant from Montana to win on “Jeopardy!” since Keith Suta, a writer from Bozeman, Montana, who won $15,000, way back in 2006.
Actually, it is since 2007, not 2006, when Vic Sawyer, a snowcoach driver and hotel manager from Yellowstone National Park, Montana.
Can’t think of his name right now, but there was a really smart guy 2-3 years ago, a young grad student who won several times and also (I think) made the ToC, and I’m thinking he was from Montana.