Final Jeopardy: Scientists (1-2-20)

Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/2/2020) in the category “Scientists” was:

About 100 years before Darwin, this naturalist put orangutans & humans in a group with the Latin name “Homo”

5x champ Karen Farrell, a political consultant from Woodbridge, VA, has now won $94,802. In Game 6, she takes on these two players: Kevin Hendricks, a hospital IT analyst from Columbus, OH; and Brit Husmann, a law student from Oakland, CA.

Round 1 Categories: Where’s the Flower? – Tools of the Kitchen – White House Hunters – Change One Letter – New York City Museums – Elton Juan?

Karen found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Change One Letter” under the $1,000 clue, with 7 clues to go after it. She was in the lead with $5,400, $200 more than Brit in second place. She bet $2,000 and she was RIGHT.

A word meaning to try hard tries hard & changes a letter to take one long step. show

WHAT ARE STRIVE & STRIDE?

Karen finished in the lead with $8,200. Brit was second with $6,000 and Kevin was last with $2,400.

Round 2 Categories: On the Bookshelf – Creatures of the Deep? – The Golden Globe Awards – That’s Heresy! – Places – “K”-9, -10 & -11

Kevin found the first Daily Double in “Creatures of the Deep?” under the $1,200 clue on the very first pick. The scores were the same as above. He made it a true Daily Double and he was RIGHT.

This U.S. Army officer with a summit named for him in the Rockies was killed in action in the War of 1812. show

WHO IS ZEBULON PIKE?

3 clues later, Kevin landed on the last Daily Double in “Places” under the $1,600 clue. In third place with $6,000, he had $2,200 less than Karen’s lead. He made it a true Daily Double again and thought it was India. That was WRONG.

Home to its 2 most sacred cities, the Hejaz is a region in this country. show

WHAT IS SAUDI ARABIA?

Karen finished in the lead with $18,200. Brit was next with $10,400 and Kevin was in third place with $2,000.

Only ONE of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.

WHO IS LINNAEUS?

In 1735 Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician, published “Systema Naturae”, in which he classified every species he knew in a highly organized manner. From “Nested Hierarchies, the Order of Nature”: “Linnaeus’ classification was important in many ways, not the least of which was how he classified humans. He named humans Homo sapiens, and placed us in the genus Homo. He also placed orangutans and chimpanzees, the two apes known at the time, in the genus Homo. And he placed Homo in a family, which he dubbed Primates. Primates also included two other genera, simians and lemurs. Although Linnaeus believed that humans were special beings in God’s creation, he slotted our species into his system as if it were any other.”

From 2005: “BI”OLOGY ($1200) When you identify a bird as Cinclus mexicanus, you’re using this system of nomenclature that Linnaeus helped developed

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Kevin wrote down Lemarck. He lost his $1,987 bet and finished with $13.

Brit went with Spencer. She lost her $10,250 bet, leaving her with $150.

Karen got it right. She added $2,601 to win the game with $20,801. Her 6-day total is $115,603.

A triple stumper from each round:

NEW YORK CITY MUSEUMS ($1000) This last name is paired with Cooper in the name of a national design museum

ON THE BOOKSHELF ($800) In the title of a bestseller by Gail Honeyman, this woman “is Completely Fine”

More clues on Page 2

2 years ago: Only ONE of the players got this FJ in “Cars”

When it was introduced in 1953, this car model’s emblem had a checkered flag & a red flag with a fleur-de-lis. show

WHAT IS A CORVETTE?

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