Celebrity Jeopardy Final: Applied Geometry (12-6-23)

In the last quarterfinal of the 2023 Celebrity Jeopardy! Championship, the celebrity contestants are: actress & director Kyra Sedgwick, playing for Food Bank for NYC; journalist & podcast host Mo Rocca, playing for the Inner-City Scholarship Fund; and comedian & social justice advocate Amanda Seales, playing for Grantmakers for Girls of Color.

The Final Jeopardy clue in the category “Applied Geometry” was:

Thomas Hales proved hexagonal structures are the most compact way to fill a plane, a centuries-old theory based on the behavior of these

Jeopardy! Categories: Road Trip “I Spy” – Shakespeare Play By Initials – Threesomes – Hairstyles Of The Rich & Famous – I Want My “M” TV

Mo found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Road Trip ‘I Spy'” under the $500 clue on the 11th pick of the round. He was in the lead with $1,500, $1,100 more than Kyra in second place. He bet $800 and he was RIGHT.

I spy… the “American Gothic” house, the future birthplace of James T. Kirk & the “Field of Dreams” movie site. show

WHAT IS IOWA?

Mo finished in the lead with $3,600. Kyra was second with $1,600 and Amanda was last with $1,500. All clues were shown.

Double Jeopardy! Categories: The Eyes Have It – Pizza At The Movies – Literary Tourism – The Moon – Also A Taylor Swift Song – “OO”! “OO”! I Know!

Amanda found the first Daily Double in “Literary Tourism” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick. She was in second place with $2,100 now, $1,500 less than Mo’s lead. Amanda bet $600 but drew a blank so she was WRONG.

Scotland’s remote island of Jura is famous for 2 things: a whisky distillery & the farmhouse where George Orwell wrote this classic show

WHAT IS 1984?

Kyra got the last Daily Double in “The Eyes Have It” under the $400 clue on the 10th pick of the round. In second place with $3,000, she had $1,400 less than Mo’s lead. Kyra bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

Get to a doctor pronto if this layer of tissue that processes light detaches from the back of your eye show

WHAT IS THE RETINA?

Mo finished in the lead with $9,000. Amanda was next with $3,900 and Kyra was in third place with $2,200. All clues were shown.

Triple Jeopardy! Categories: The Harlem Renaissance – Chorus Lines – Spelled Rong On Purpose – Welcome To The White House – Celebrity Tell-Alls – A Change Of “Pace”

Mo found the first Triple Jeopardy! Daily Double in “Chorus Lines” under the $600 clue on the 3rd pick of the round. He was in the lead with $9,600 now, $5,700 more than Amanda in second place. He bet $6,000 and he was RIGHT.

“I like to be in America, okay by me in America, everything free in America, for a small fee in America” show

WHAT IS “WEST SIDE STORY”?

Amanda found the next Daily Double in “The Harlem Renaissance” under the $900 clue on the 20th pick of the round. She was in second place with $8,100, $14,400 behind Mo’s lead. Amanda bet $1,000 and she was RIGHT.

Historians cite this event that began in 1929 as one of the main reasons for the demise of the Harlem Renaissance show

WHAT IS THE DEPRESSION?

Mo found the last Daily Double in “Spelled Rong On Purpose” under the $1,200 clue, with 6 clues to go after it. He was in the lead with $24,000, $15,200 more than Amanda in second place. Mo bet $5,000 and he was RIGHT.

To create buzz this tech company used to attach fuzzy pink mustaches to its vehicles; they certainly got Uber’s attention show

WHAT IS LYFT?

Mo finished in the lead with $33,200 and Amanda was next with $11,800. Kyra was in third place with $1,000. All clues were shown.

Only ONE of the celebrities got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHAT WHAT ARE BEES?

Per Wikipedia: “The honeycomb conjecture states that a regular hexagonal grid or honeycomb has the least total perimeter of any subdivision of the plane into regions of equal area.” The conjecture has been around since 36 B.C. at least, but was fully proven in 1999 by mathematician Thomas C. Hales.

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Kyra came up with Pothagriom (Pythagorean??). She bet the whole $500 and finished with nothing.

Amanda got it right. She added $500 and finished with $12,300.

Mo went with “(bathroom) tiles”, losing $8,000. He had $25,200 left to advance to the Semifinals. Kyra and Amanda each won $30,000 for their charities.

A triple stumper from each round:

Round 1: THREESOMES ($500) According to the carol, it’s what “my true love gave to me” on the third day of Christmas; I just hope he wasn’t regifting

Round 2: “OO”! “OO”! I KNOW! ($1000) Typically played on the piano, this musical style with a rhyming name was popularized in Chicago honky-tonks in the 1920s

Round 3: CELEBRITY TELL-ALLS ($1200) “Greenlights”: His father brought a dead cockatiel back to life by giving it mouth-to-mouth

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