Final Jeopardy: Statues (1-22-21)
Today’s Final Jeopardy question (1/22/2021) in the category “Statues” was:
Statues honoring this man who was killed in 1779 can be found in Waimea, Kauai & in Whitby, England
3x champ Brian Chang, an attorney from Chicago, IL, has now won $50,502. In Game 4, he is up against: Maggie Houska, a prospect researcher from Chanhassen, MN; and Jack Weller, a law student from Stanford, CA.
Round 1 Categories: Secretaries of State – 9-Letter Words – Extreme Lakes – Disastrous Teams? – the British Pantry – Collecting
Brian found the Jeopardy! round Daily Double in “Disastrous Teams?” under the $1,000 clue, with 3 clues left after it. He was in a tie with Jack for the lead. They both had $4,800, twice as much as Maggie in second place. He bet $1,000 and he was RIGHT.
SEC: In 2015 an oyster harvest was interrupted by one of these algal blooms. show
Brian finished in the lead with $6,000. Jack was second with $4,800 and Maggie was last with $2,800. No clues went uncovered.
Round 2 Categories: Dungeons & Dragons – 5 “E” – Have You Heard My Third? – Lit-Pourri – Plane Spoken – Bruce Willis Movie Quotes
Jack found the first Daily Double in “Lit-Pourri” under the $1,200 clue, with a dozen clues left after it. He was in third place with $7,600 now, $6,000 less than Brian’s lead. He bet $4,000 and he was RIGHT.
2020 saw the release of “The Mirror & the Light”, the end of Hilary Mantel’s trilogy about this advisor to Henry VIII. show
3 clues later, Jack landed on the last Daily Double in “Dungeons & Dragons” under the $1,200 clue. In second place with $13,200, he had $400 less than Brian’s lead. He bet $4,000 again and he was RIGHT again.
In 1513, accused of being part of a conspiracy Niccolo Machiavelli was thrown into a dungeon in this city. show
Brian and Jack finished in a tie for the lead with $18,800 each. Maggie was next with $10,000.
TWO of the contestants got Final Jeopardy! right.
WHO IS CAPTAIN JAMES COOK?
Whitby, England has more than a statue honoring Captain Cook. As Cook’s home port, it has a whole museum. The National Park Service has an article about Cook Landing Site in Hawaii, where Captain James Cook first established peaceful contact with the Hawaiian Islands. The article further explains the circumstances surrounding Cook’s 2/14/1779 death at what is now in Kealakekua State Historical Park. About a century later, Mark Twain visited the site where Cook perished. In Chapter 71 of “Roughing It”, Twain opined: “Small blame should attach to the natives for the killing of Cook. They treated him well. In return, he abused them. He and his men inflicted bodily injury upon many of them at different times, and killed at least three of them before they offered any proportionate retaliation.”
Last year, thousands signed a petition calling for the removal of all Hawaiian monuments honoring James Cook. Other places considering removing his memorials include Anchorage, Alaska and the Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.
Maggie thought it was Crispus Attucks (who died 9 years earlier during the Boston Massacre). She bet and lost it all.
Jack got it right. He bet it all and finished with $37,600.
Brian got it, too and he also doubled up to $37,600l Tie-breaker time. The first to buzz in with the correct response to this clue wins the game:
HISTORY: In October 1961 Stalin’s body was removed from display in this other man’s tomb
Brian buzzed in first and correctly responded: WHO IS LENIN? That made Brian Chang a 4x champ with total winnings of $88,102.
Two triple stumpers from the last round:
LIT-POURRI ($2,000) Ken Follett says his most popular book is this novel about the building of a cathedral in 12th century England
BRUCE WILLIS MOVIE QUOTES ($2000) “Scientists. I’m supposed to report in to them. They’ll want to know they sent me to the wrong time.”
2 years ago: NONE of the players got this FJ in “TV Personalities”
In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show show
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For ‘e’ Words, ‘equip’ was the correct answer. Do you think ‘endow’ would have been accepted? “Endow” was the first thing that popped into my mind.
Albert, sorry it took so long for me to get around to looking this up, but better late than never…
endow is listed as a synonym for equip on thesaurus.com so that looks like a definite yes to me.
Final two questions were easy.
Well, perhaps the first final question wasn’t all that easy since none of the contestants got it right.
I was not aware of the tie breaker rules in Jeopardy. It has been a while. This is wrong! Jeopardy used to have co-champions! That other contestant should have received his winnings. This comes off as cheap to me. I won’t be watching the show any longer. This is not right.
Denise, the show really had no choice in putting a stop to co-champs. Back in 2014, the contestants were flagrantly creating co-champs with the leader deliberately betting so second place would tie if s/he went all in. It was never the spirit of the game and it cost others a chance to play.
I can’t even say they ruined it for future players because if they allowed it to continue, I’m sure future players would have kept doing it. They thought it was quite clever and it was talked about openly online.
I have trouble believing it would have ever been the case that all players did it. If nothing else, there’s Christina McTighe, Jonathan Marcus, and a few others who bet all or nearly from all from the lead.
And, I have to believe Emma Boettcher would have still bet the extra dollar to get rid of James.
But, it is true that it may have remained much more common than before.
Never said “all” players would have done it. All players weren’t doing it when it was happening but it was happening far too frequently.
If it had been allowed to continue, for all we know, James and Emma may never have been in the same game because of co-champs.
This was an inherent flaw in the game which never presented a problem until the contestants began exploiting it in recent years. Actually, this was exactly why the tie breaker was introduced. Please continue to watch the Jeopardy game as it has an excellent format to be sure.
I am not sure I would say it was an inherent flaw. I tend to agree with Ken Jennings that the arguments in favor of betting to tie were really not that strong. But, if too many people believed in it, that is a problem.
I didn’t get the final question right, but I did beat the two tied contestants with ‘Lenin’.
On early episodes of Season 31, ties were still allowed in regular-play, but were prohibited after the 2014 Tournament of Champions.
Brian is looking good to get that fifth win. I have a feeling that He is playing like Alex Jacob for some reason. A possibility of another streaker is in the works.
So we end the week with a tiebreaker clue and Brian won the tiebreaker making him a 4x champ. When was the last time we had a tiebreaker clue?
This is the third regular-game ever to end in a tiebreaker since the rules were changed in late 2014. The only other 2 were: March 2018 (Laura McLean won her 2nd game, beating challenger Sarah Norris). & July 2019 (Roey Hadar, the returning champion, was defeated by challenger Nathan Kaplan, after Roey choose to bet $0 in a lock-tie situation while in the lead).
You can see the recaps of those games if you click on the tiebreaker tag, Kevin.
Before that, I labeled a bunch of games bet-to-tie because that’s what led to the show ending co-champs.