Final Jeopardy: Scientific Names (1-17-22)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/17/2022) in the category “Scientific Names” was:
The 1905 paper that gave this its name also referred to it as “Dynamosaurus imperiosus”
33x champ Amy Schneider, an engineering manager from Oakland, CA has now won $1,111,800. In Game 34, she takes on these two players: Frances Garrison, a high school English teacher from Hemet, CA; and Jorge Quinoes, a front-end web developer from Boston, MA.
Round 1 Categories: The Lake Show – A Member of the Bands – Weights & Measures – “Pre”Fixes – Arthur Conan Doyle Characters – Holmes & Watson
Amy found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “llustrators under the $600 clue on the 13th pick of the round. She was in the lead with $1,800, $200 more than Frances in second place. She made it a true Daily Double and guessed inch. That was WRONG.
This unit of measure also means to come to understand show
Amy finished in the lead with $5,400. Jorge was second with $1,600 and Frances was last with $1,000. All clues were uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: 20th Century America – Palaces – International Food & Drink – Illustrators – Documentaries – 6-Letter Words
Amy found the first Daily Double in “Palaces” under the $1,200 clue with 13 clues left after it. She was in the lead with $16,400 now, $11,400 more than Frances in second place. Amy bet $4,000 and she was RIGHT.
The Doge’s Palace in Venice is connected to a prison complex by this fateful bridge built around 1600 show
Jorge got the last Daily Double in “Illustrators” under the $1,600 clue with 5 clues left after it. In third place with $4,400, he had $19,200 less than Amy in first place. Jorge bet $4,000 and couldn’t come up with a response so he was WRONG.
British surgeon & artist Henry Vandyke Carter was the man behind the illustrations for this classic 1850s textbook show
Amy finished in the lead with a runaway $26,800. Frances was second with $7,800 and Jorge was last with $400. All clues were uncovered.
ALL of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHAT IS TYRANNOSAURUS REX (T. REX)?
According to RedOrbit.com, in 2013, the Natural History Museum in London took dinosaur fossilized remains out of storage. It came to light that Dynamosaurus imperiosus, the name given to the creature the fossils came from, was a misnomer. The museum’s dinosaur expert, Henry Fairfield Osborn, originally gave the dinosaur the Dynomosaurus handle but he came to realize that it was a partial skeleton when Barnum Brown, assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History, recovered another skeleton in Wyoming.
Osborn realized that somehow the fossils from the Dynamosaurus skeleton intermingled with the remains of the second dinosaur and the two skeletons belonged to the same creature. Osborn decided to identify all the remains as Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. T. rex’s full name is also a combination of Greek and Latin. It means “terrible lizard king.”
An old clue from 1996: A IS FOR… ($100) Albertosaurus, a dinosaur that resembled this “king”, its relative
Jorge bet it all and doubled his score to $800.
Frances bet $5,000, bringing her up to $12,800.
Amy bet $10,000 and won the game with $36,800. Amy Schneider’s 34-day total is $1,148,600.
A triple stumper from each round:
HOLMES & WATSON ($600) This heavyweight boxing champ of the 1970s & ’80s was nicknamed the Easton Assassin
DOCUMENTARIES ($2000) “Bombshell” is about this Austrian-born actress whose credits also include developing a communication system during WWII
2 years ago: TWO of the players got this FJ in “The Bible”
This book of the Bible ends with “fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys” show
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Anybody catch the mistake Ken Jennings made on the Sherlock Holmes/Irene Adler clue?
Mispronounced LaStrade
Link to Jeopardy’s Box Scores for this game
Lou, I hate to disappoint you but I have never seen that movie. I agree with you about the buzzer. Both ladies were pretty quick on the buzzer but Amy was just too fast for Frances. I thought Frances was good though. Like you I want to see Amy continue to win.
Do you realize what you’re saying when you write “NO clues went UNcovered”? That all clues remained hidden.
I other words, you are saying the exact opposite of what you mean. What you ought to say is “ALL clues were uncovered” or “NO clues remained hidden.”
Okay, Doug, we’re fine with changing it. Idk why, but it makes sense to me either way.
@Judy, Thanks for pointing out that typo. It’s fixed.
I don’t see what’s wrong with it either, sounds perfectly correct to me as well.
Only a typo, I’m sure but the 33rd game is followed by the 34th, right?
Well at least we got a triple solve to start off Martin Luther King’s day. Still was not surprised Jorge missed that daily double about that medical drama that has been on the air for 18 years. Francis and Amy were pretty fast on the buzzer today. Speaking of the t rex, the Land before Time had featured that dinosaur as the terrible lizard king still though it brought back great memories for me from watching that movie. @rhonda and @Jacob do you both remember Land Before Time? 1 out of 3 daily doubles isn’t bad. Keep the wins going Amy!
Lou, I remember taking my son to see that movie when it came out but I don’t actually remember the movie itself.