Final Jeopardy: Physics (4-15-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (4/15/2021) in the category “Physics” was:
Modern formulations of Newton’s 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that’s measured in newtons.
New champ Patrick Hume, a project manager orig. from Stoneham, MA., won $24,401 yesterday. In Game 2, the challengers are: Mark Dorosin, a civil rights lawyer from Carrboro, NC; and Lindsay Wilcox, a teacher from Louisville, KY.
Round 1 Categories: Head for the Light – Auction – The President’s Airport – This Is How We Duet – It’s Friday Night – & I Feel All Right
Patrick found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “& I Feel Alright” under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $3,000, $1,000 more than Mark in second place. He bet $1,500 and he was RIGHT.
This chemical compound can make things explode, but not your heart, where it eases pain acting as a vasodilator. show
Patrick finished in the lead with $8,100. Lindsay was second with $3,400 and Mark was last with $3,000. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Historic Weapons – Doing Movies & TV – Burned Books – Gems & Jewelry – Capital “C” – Money Slang
Lindsay found the first Daily Double in “Gems and Jewelry” under the $1,200 clue with 5 clues left after it. She was in third place with $6,600 now, $13,100 less than Patrick’s lead. She bet $4,000 and she answered with “onyx.” That was WRONG.
The most prized of these flashy gems are the black ones, the actual colors can vary, from New South Wales, Australia. show
Lindsay got the last Daily Double as well in “Capital ‘C’” under the $1,200 clue, with one clue left after it. In third place with $5,800, she had $14,300 less than Patrick’s lead. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.
This capital lies on the banks of the world’s longest river. show
Patrick finished in the lead with a runaway $22,100. Mark was next with $10,200 and Lindsay was in third place with $7,800. No clues went uncovered.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS FORCE?
I came across the above video using football to explain Newton’s second law of motion and I thought that would be great to put up as we are nearing Aaron Rodgers’ last day of hosting. Newton’s law of universal gravitation is the other one that uses F for “force” in an equation and, in this video, Michel van Biezen can explain that to you a whole lot better than I can.
A clue from 2/28/2019: TRIOS ($800) The law of inertia, F=ma, & the law of action & reaction
Lindsay got it right. She bet $2,401 and finished with $10,201.
Mark didn’t write anything down in time. That cost him $10,000 and left him with $200.
Patrick got it, also. He bet nothing and won the game with $22,100. His 2-day total is $46,501.
A triple stumper from each round:
THE PRESIDENT’S AIRPORT ($1000) Generally speaking, Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport was renamed in 2014 to honor this man
BURNED BOOKS ($20) This poet’s manuscript of “Conversation at Midnight” burned at both ends in a hotel fire & she rewrote it from memory
2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Celebrities”
This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982 show
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Jeopardy continues to feed the host the incorrect accentuation of Simon Bolivar. The aacent on Bolivar is on the second syllable “li” NOT the last .
I’ve always pronounced it (mostly in my head) with the stress on the final syllable, but sure enough there is an accent on the ‘i’ in his last name.
Interestingly, Wikipedia provides pronunciations for both Spanish and English, and does not show an accent on the ‘i’ for the English pronunciations. I’ve never seen that before – where a Spanish word/name has an explicit accent but the proscribed English translation ignores it. It’s almost like English speakers got it wrong for so many years that linguists just gave up and said “OK, go ahead and pronounce it wrong if you speak English. I guess that’s fine.”
The final category was just too easy. Actually, it took me a couple of seconds to come up with ‘Force’.
I bet Brad Rutter is angry and disappointed that he was passed over as a guest host in favor of Buzzy Cohen.
Highly doubtful
He could have been asked and turned it down…
Lindsay should have bet everything on her second Daily Double. That would have been her only chance to win.
Well Patrick played a great game today without betting anything since he already had a big win. Lindsay couldn’t even keep up with him, but I am glad that Patrick and Lindsay got FJ since I took college physics a long time ago and learned about force in general. there is a general formula for calculating force which is F = ma. force can cause an object with mass to change its velocity (which includes to begin moving from a state of rest), i.e., to accelerate. Force can also be described intuitively as a push or a pull.
Thanks for the additional info, Lou, though that formula is already in the recap (the old clue).
Y’know, I can’t recall ever having a class in physics! That FJ! just made me crave some Fig Newtons