Final Jeopardy: Statues (1-22-21)
Here are 5 more triple stumpers from the 1/22/2021 Jeopardy! game:
SECRETARIES OF STATE ($200) This Secretary for James Monroe succeeded his boss in the big job
DISASTROUS TEAMS? ($600) WNBA: One day in 1990 in Phoenix this climbed to 122
COLLECTING ($1000) This term for a collector of seashells can also refer to a scientist who studies them
PLANE SPOKEN ($400) This “Alert!” it described a plunderer or a part of a plane’s wing
($800) This alphanumeric U.S. plane began flights over the USSR in July 1956
Sneak Peek clues — 9-LETTER WORDS:
($200) B or C, but not A or E
($400) Varieties of this citrus fruit include Murcott & Dancy
($600) It’s a customary code of proper behavior or formalities in society
($800) To take the water out of something
($1000) This chemical that makes chili peppers hot is used in pepper sprays & topical painkillers
ANSWERS: 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.