Final Jeopardy: Western Hemisphere Geography (1-16-20)
Here are 9 triple stumpers from the 1/16/2020 Jeopardy! game:
“P”ICTURE THIS ($600) In 1948 at age 42, he was Major League Baseball’s oldest rookie ever (image)
WEATHER ($200) In 1937 a search party was sent for one of the goalies when a soccer game was stopped in England due to this weather condition
5-LETTER WORDS ($600) The Carabao is a popular variety of this tropical fruit (image)
COINAGE ($200) Made of this lightweight metal, Japan’s 1-yen coin weighs only a gram and can float on water
($1000) In 2019 the U.S. Mint issued quarters with a “W” mint mark for the first time, indicating they were minted at this N.Y. location
PARK CITY ($1000) The San Diego Zoo is just part of this vast park named for a conquistador
ROCK OPERAS ($1200) The title of this 1973 rock opera by The Who is partly drawn from an incorrect understanding of schizophrenia
STATES’ COMMON SURNAMES ($2000) This 7-letter last name of 2 U.S. Presidents is particularly common in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin & both Dakotas
MYTH IN MODERN LITERATURE ($1600) The title character of Margaret Atwood’s “The Penelopiad” tells the story of running this kingdom while waiting for Odysseus to get back
Answers to the Sneak Peek clues — NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS:
($400) South-of-the-Border dog breed (1967)
($800) Narrow-edged cutter at the front of the jaw (1975)
($1200) It’s a system of sending message using flags (1946)
($1600) French word for cherry that’s also a shade of red (1926)
($2000) “sweet melody” music maker struck with handheld hammers (1949)
ANSWERS: show
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Where’s the rage from Jeopardy fans? The final Jeopardy question was totally misleading. Panama City is in Panama which is Central America or to the crazy liberal people North America. But not South America!
Stuart, idk where you are getting South America from???
The category was Western Hemisphere Geography and the clue specified Central America
VJ is correct. It was a straightforward question for the Final.
Related to nerves: Are players allowed to have a bottle/cup of water at the podium? I assume yes, but I don’t know for sure.
Not during game play. Bottled water is provided during commercials. However, they also remind you that bathroom breaks only come at the end of the episode.
So Priscilla becomes the second player this season as well as the first player of 2020 to not participate in Final J! What a bummer! How could this game be as hard as it is?
Also, I was so concerned that Veronica would be the only player to play Final J!. Oh well, these things do happen quite often so no big deal about it.
I don’t see what’s so shocking about it. We see a lot of games where one player can’t get a toehold in the game and it happened to two players today. It looked to me like Priscilla was having buzzer trouble and the frustration and pressure just unnerved her.
Too many triple stumpers today and yesterday. That does not bode well for Veronica if she makes it to the ToC.
Shanu missed all 3 DDs resulted a skunking. Just like what Porter from the 2016 Teen Tournament did.
”DARN THOSE DAILY DOUBLES!” That’s all I have to say.
Negative 5400? Wow, I’ve never seen such an embarrassing score since Kristen Sausville’s second jeopardy game where both of her opponents ended up with negative scores back in March 2015. That was a lot of bad guessing. I wish that they had done better.
Gee. That game sure wasn’t nice to Shanu & Priscilla.
This game had it’s ups and downs.
No, it wasn’t.