Final Jeopardy: Winter Sports (2-17-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (2/17/2021) in the category “Winter Sports” was:
The specific skill that gave this sport its name was eliminated from intl. competition after the 1990 world championships
2x champ Phil Hoffman, a graduate student orig. from Mountain Lakes, NJ, has now won $37,390. In Game 3, he takes on these two players: Andy West, a medical information officer from Fishersville, VA; and Natalie Walsh, a naturopathic doctor orig. from Okemos, MI.
Round 1 Categories: Mammals – Catholicism – U.S. Cities – Snap – “Crack”le – Pop
Phil found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “U.S. Cities” under the $800 clue, with 7 clues to go after it. He was in third place with $200, $4,400 less than Andy’s lead. He bet the $1,000 and thought it was Milwaukee. That was WRONG.
Named for a Native American game, it’s Wisconsin’s largest city on the Mississippi. show
Andy finished in the lead with $6,200. Natalie was second with $3,200 and Phil was last with $600. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: The Novel’s Narrator – Documentaries – Run It Up the Flagpole – ’80s Talk – European History – Left Behind on the Moon
Phil found the first Daily Double in “Left Behind on the Moon” under the $2,000 clue, with 5 clues to go after it. He was in third place with $5,800 now, $8,000 less than Andy’s lead. He bravely bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.
A feather & a hammer dropped by an astronaut in 1971, confirming a theory of this man 4 centuries before. show
Natalie got the last Daily Double in “Flagpole” under the $1,200 clue, with 2 clues left after it. In second place with $11,200, she had $2,600 less than Andy’s lead. She bet $4,000 and came up with shillelagh. That was WRONG.
In a nod to its Irish settlers, Montserrat’s flag shows a woman in green holding one of these musical instruments. show
Andy finished in the lead with $13,800. Phil was next with $12,800 and Natalie was in third place with $8,800. No clues went uncovered.
NONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS FIGURE SKATING?
From No More Figures in Figure Skating (NYT 6/9/1988) “The International Skating Union voted yesterday to drop compulsory figures from men’s and women’s singles in international figure-skating starting in July 1990. The figures will also be reduced in dance programs. The decision by the union, which is made up of 36 national associations…on a vote of 27-4. The United States, Canada, Britain and New Zealand dissented.” The article also explained that “the share of the free-skating, or long program, will go up to 70 percent from 50” in 1990.
An old clue from 2014: FACTS ABOUT FIGURES ($600) Compulsory figures were eliminated from competition in this winter Olympic sport in the 1990s
Natalie was going for “target” something. She lost her $8,793 bet and finished with $7.00.
Phil went with curling. That cost him $12,795 and left him with $5.00.
Andy thought it was skeleton. He bet $11,801 and won the game with his remaining $1,999. Andy West is the new Jeopardy! champ.
Reversal: ($400) It’s the ecclesiastical jurisdiction & territory administered by an archbishop – Ken rejected Andy’s “see” response”; Phil got what they were after with archdiocese. The judges soon saw that “see” was also correct and adjusted Andy’s score accordingly.
2 triple stumpers:
THE NOVEL’S NARRATOR ($1600) 5-year-old Jack, in this bestseller by Emma Donoghue
RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE ($2000) St. Pierre & Miquelon’s flag depicts the ship of this man who claimed the islands for France in 1535
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “Poets”
He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem show
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Bravo, Phil!
Excellent two time champion. Courageous strategy
Logging this late, but I had “What is figure skating” immediately.
This is my place of birth and was so thrilled to see this on Jeopardy last night
One of many things I learned from my Catholic wife were the holy days of obligation.
Got the FJ with seconds to go once I remembered that compulsories were removed from figure skating around that time. That was a really tough final, though.
Was rooting for Natalie because I have a young friend who recently became a naturopathic doctor. Perhaps it would have ended differently had she known the Irish harp is a symbol.
Hard to believe not one player from 2 years ago knew TS Eliot wrote the poem about the cats with the funny names that became such a hit show.
The Irish in me loved her answer to that DD though. 😁
I misread the clue because I thought it was an entire sport banned. But why do 3rd placers always feel the need to bet almost everything? Stay put, it’s your only chance of winning.
I wish Natalie wagered less and won.
I didn’t have much of an idea as to the type of sport in the final category, and obviously none of the contestants did either.
Now I’ll have to find something besides Santeria for my Friday clip
I don’t practice Santeria
I don’t got no crystal ball
Well I had a million dollars
but I’d spend it all
It seems that the contestants don’t even watch the Olympics since there are a lot of figure skaters like Michelle Kwan and Midori Ito. I think you know that they competed previously right VJ? even if Andy scored 1999 he could make a comeback tomorrow.
$1,999 is the lowest winning score in regular-play since June 26, 2018.
Tough FJ as we got a triple stumper.
I thought the first Daily Double was very obscure, and I live not too far from La Crosse.
Today was a low win despite that triple FJ! making Andy wins the game with a dollar short than the player who finished receives second place prize. It’s actually the first time that the player who won the game with less than the second place prize. With $1,999 it’s like a good year that you party like it’s 1999 and we’ll see if Andy can try to it tomorrow.
There surely have been many winners with less than $2000, not just this one. Jeopardy historians and archivists must have this info handy.
It’s the first time this season at any rate.